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Jonathan R. Yarowsky, Esq.
Dear Mr. Yarowsky:
This letter responds to your request, on behalf of your client, Media Rating Council ("MRC"), for a business review letter from the Department of Justice ("the Department") pursuant to our Business Review Procedure, 28 C.F.R. § 50.6. You have requested a statement of the Department's current antitrust enforcement intentions with respect to MRC's proposed change to its procedures for auditing and accrediting replacements for certain audience measurement products ("AMPs"). AMPs, which are designed and sold by rating services, measure the size and demographics of an audience for a particular medium. Those AMPs that are widely used and form the basis for setting the financial value of advertising are referred to as Currency AMPs. The proposed change in procedures would encourage but not require rating services to disclose certain data, submit to an independent audit, and obtain accreditation prior to commercialization of a replacement product for a MRC-accredited Currency AMP.
MRC's Organizational Structure and Mission. Based on your representations and the information you have provided to us, we understand that MRC is a non-profit industry association with a diverse membership consisting of buyers and sellers of advertising, including television and radio broadcasters, cable-casters, print organizations, Internet organizations, advertising agencies, and industry trade associations. Membership in MRC is not available to ratings services. As users of AMPs, MRC's members have a common interest in the accuracy and reliability of such products.
MRC's Current Audit and Accreditation Procedures. MRC has evaluated and accredited various AMPs since 1964. It is the only organization that provides this service to the marketplace. MRC's mission is to maintain industry confidence in audience and media research by ensuring that AMPs are valid, reliable and effective. To carry out its mission, MRC establishes minimum standards for the evaluation and accreditation of AMPs.
It is our understanding that the accreditation process is divided into two stages: an audit phase and the accreditation decision. The purpose of the audit stage, which consumes the majority of the expense associated with the accreditation process,(1) is to assess the methodology utilized by an AMP to measure an audience's size, demographics, and other characteristics. During the audit stage, the rating service applies for accreditation, discloses its product's methodology as well as the data supporting the methodology ("impact data"), consults with an independent auditor to set the scope of the audit,(2) and submits to an independent audit by a certified public accounting firm. The independent auditor prepares a report that is given to the MRC Audit Committee(3) which reviews it and makes a recommendation on accreditation to the MRC Board of Directors.(4)
During the second stage, MRC makes its accreditation decisions via a vote by the MRC Board of Directors on the Audit Committee's recommendation. You have represented that each of MRC's 101 members has a seat on the Board of Directors and that the maximum number of votes any one commonly-owned block of member companies can have is five.(5) You have further indicated that a majority vote of the members is required for accreditation.
Importance of Accreditation to Commercial Success of a Replacement Currency AMP. You have represented that MRC accreditation is not critical to the success of an AMP and that only five rating services provide MRC-accredited Currency AMPs today. MRC's members can and do use AMPs that are unaccredited. There are Currency AMPs that are not MRC accredited as well as other measurement products for each medium that are widely utilized despite their lack of accreditation. Accreditation may be even less critical to commercial success where a rating service chooses to replace its Currency AMP because of the wide use of its existing product.
MRC's Proposed Rule Change and Representations Regarding the Change. You propose to add the following language to MRC's Voluntary Code of Conduct ("VCOC"):
The MRC prefers that a Participating Measurement Service seeking to replace an accredited currency measurement product with a new currency measurement product (both products provided by the same Participating Measurement Service) uses best efforts to obtain accreditation of the new product prior to its commercialization. At a minimum, disclosure of impact data as required by MRC Minimum Standards, completion of an MRC audit and MRC committee review prior to commercialization of a replacement currency product is required by the Code.(6)
You have represented that, with the exception of this provision, MRC's draft VCOC memorializes MRC's practices and procedures used since 1964 for auditing and accrediting AMPs. It is our understanding that MRC will vote to ratify the VCOC, including the provision that is the subject of this letter, upon completion of the Department's business review process. In keeping with the Department's business review procedures, this letter does not apply to any of MRC's ongoing practices.
On its face, and as confirmed by you, the above-quoted language would apply only to rating services that propose a new AMP to replace their own existing Currency AMP. Further, although the language of the new provision presented above might appear to mandate completion of the audit prior to the commercialization of a replacement for a Currency AMP, you represent that participation in MRC's audit and accreditation process, including compliance with the proposed language, is entirely voluntary and may be undertaken by a rating service at any time, including after a replacement of a Currency AMP has been commercialized. You further represent that: (a) if such accreditation is not sought prior to commercialization there would be no repercussions on the already accredited product or on the proposed replacement AMP if accreditation is sought at some later time; (b) a rating service that does not seek accreditation prior to commercialization but does so at some later point need not withdraw the product from the market at any point prior to or during the audit and accreditation process; and (c) the proposed change would encourage but not require a rating service to keep its already accredited Currency AMP on the market until the new Currency AMP has been accredited by the MRC.
Evaluation of the Effect of the Rule Change on Replacements for Currency AMPs. In general, MRC's audit and accreditation process appears to provide rating services and their users, including MRC members, with a useful mechanism for increasing confidence in AMPs. Completion of an audit means that an independent third party has reviewed the methodology of an AMP to ensure that it is valid, accurate and effective. By accrediting those AMPs whose methodology appears to be valid, MRC is providing valuable, unbiased information to the marketplace. Such transparency increases user confidence in the accuracy and reliability of AMPs, thereby enhancing their value as audience measurement tools.
MRC appears to have legitimate reasons for encouraging rating services that propose new AMPs to replace ones that are widely relied upon in calculating the price of advertising to undergo an audit prior to commercializing such products. MRC's members understandably wish to reduce the confusion and uncertainty among users (buyers and sellers of advertising) that a rating service's unilateral decision to replace a Currency AMP with an unknown and untested one might cause. Reducing this uncertainty may smooth the transition from one Currency AMP to its replacement.
Although these concerns appear legitimate, the Department has not considered whether they would justify the adoption of a mandatory requirement that proposed replacements of Currency AMPs be audited pre-commercialization as a pre-condition for their use by MRC members, or that such AMPs could never qualify for MRC accreditation unless audited prior to commercialization. Here, as discussed above, MRC's members will remain free to use unaccredited Currency AMP products, and MRC accreditation does not appear to be critical to the success of a rating service's replacement for its Currency AMP. In addition, to the extent a rating service wished to seek MRC accreditation after commercializing a replacement of a Currency AMP, you have represented that it would not suffer prejudice by virtue of having commercialized its product prior to securing accreditation.
In light of these circumstances, MRC's proposal to encourage completion of an audit prior to commercialization seems unlikely to discourage competition among rating services to introduce new or innovative AMPs. The proposed rule would not apply at all to rating services seeking to introduce entirely new AMPs. And to the extent a rating service offering an existing Currency AMP wished to introduce an innovative replacement, it would have the option of doing so with or without having received prior MRC accreditation. Such a rating service might well conclude that shifting the timing of the audit to occur prior to commercialization would have commercial advantages. Even if it viewed the burdens of a pre-commercialization audit (in terms of delayed revenues and/or actual cost of the audit) as too great, a rating service would not be deterred from making product improvements simply to avoid an audit, given the options of seeking accreditation following commercialization or not seeking accreditation at all.
The Department's Current Antitrust Enforcement Intention. For the foregoing reasons, the Department does not believe that MRC's proposed provision regarding a precommercialization audit of replacements for Currency AMPs warrants antitrust concern. Therefore, the Department has no present intention to take antitrust enforcement action against the conduct that you have described. This letter expresses the Department's current enforcement intention and is predicated on the accuracy of the information and representations that you have presented to us. In accordance with its normal practice, the Department reserves the right to bring an enforcement action in the future if the actual operation of the proposed conduct proves to be anticompetitive in purpose or effect.
This statement is made in accordance with the Department's Business Review Procedure, 28 C.F.R. § 50.6. Pursuant to its terms, your business review request and this letter will be made publicly available immediately, and any supporting data will be made publicly available within thirty days of the date of this letter, unless you request that any part of the material be withheld in accordance with Paragraph 10(c) of the Business Review Procedure.
1. You have represented that, although the costs and times can vary depending on the complexity of the methodology under review, the average audit costs between $100,000 and $200,000 and usually takes three to six months to complete. An audit of a simplistic AMP can cost as little as $35,000 and take only a few months, whereas an audit of a product with a more sophisticated methodology, involving complex data gathering processes, can cost over $1 million and take well over six months.
2. The scope of the audit depends not only on the methodological approach of the rating service, but also on MRC's Minimum Standards. See MRC's November 2, 2006 submission. These minimum standards vary depending on the audience attribute, e.g., audience size, demographics, and on the medium in which the attributes are being measured, e.g., television, newspapers, or a website.
3. The Audit Committee consists of MRC members who have an interest in the relevant industry sector, such as television, radio, print, the Internet or out-of-home. There is no limit to the number of MRC members who can participate on the Committee.
4. If the Audit Committee recommends against accreditation and requests continued review of the AMP, then the auditor, MRC staff, and the rating service work together to address the AMP's compliance with MRC standards. This process can take considerable time, depending on the number of issues in the audit report. Once these issues are resolved, the Audit Committee then reviews the revised audit report, prepares its recommendation on accreditation and submits the recommendation for a vote by the MRC Board of Directors. If a measurement product is denied accreditation, it is always free to seek accreditation again at a later date. See MRC's September 7, 2007 submission.
5. See MRC Member Voting Controls, provided in MRC's May 24, 2007 submission.


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The entrance to the digital world
Campus Party is recognized as the largest gathering of technology, creativity, entertainment and digital culture network in the world. An annual event held since 1997 and meets for seven days to thousands of participants with their computers from all over Spain and other nations to share concerns, exchange experiences and all kinds of activities related to the computer, communications and new technologies.
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The event was born in 1997, before the constitution of the Association E3 Futura, in the town of Mollina, Malaga, Spain. Since its beginning, is a general event and education, and brings together different platforms and collective computing world, summoning them to create a conducive meeting point for exchange of ideas and knowledge.
Historically, Campus Party has had a great power of public call for an unconditional support from the public and private institutions, and an extraordinary impact on the media that, year after year guarantee with their presence aroused interest in society.
The 250 youths who attended the first Campus Party, have grown to the 8973 who met in the last edition, held last July at the Feria de Valencia, last hosted the event since 2005. Today, the E3 Futura Association is sponsoring the event, falling on the organization of the company Futura Networks.
The dramatic changes in content available to users (who come with their own computers and technological devices) several content areas, which cover subjects ranging from digital creativity to robotics, including development of software, modding or video games, among others.
"We have managed to convey the enthusiasm of the participants in Campus Party to internationally recognized professional. Thanks to your input, we have enhanced the content areas and become a reality the motto that drives us: We unite talent. Creamos futuro. We create the future. More than 100 communities linked by technology, we have chosen as a meeting place and forum for exchange of experiences and knowledge, "says Belinda Galiano, president of the Association E3Futura.
The workshops, lectures, demos, competitions and other planned activities, give Campus Party training consistency and content that make it a benchmark event. And, more importantly, maintaining the participatory and collaborative spirit that has always characterized the event, demonstrating that the knowledge grows when shared.
Countless public and private companies have actively participated in and supported from its inception Campus Party: institutional sponsors as the Spanish Ministries of Science and Technology, Industry, Tourism and Trade, the Youth Institute, the Generalitat Valenciana, the City Council Valencia, etc., technology and telecommunications companies like Telefonica, HP, Cisco Systems, Microsoft, IBM, Fujitsu, Intel, Sun, etc., private companies like Coca-Cola, Accenture, Nokia, Xbox, PlayStation, BBVA, Intel, Iberdrola , Lycos, Electronic Arts, Vivendi Universal, and so on.
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Oswego, runner-up to Neuqua Valley the last five years at the Joliet Steelmen Invitational, took home the team championship on Sept. 9 in Channahon behind individual winner Grace Pagone.
Oswego, which last won the meet in 2011, scored 30 points to 50 for Lincoln-Way Central and 73 for Neuqua Valley.
"We knew we were a lot better this year, and we had a great race," Oswego coach Eric Simon said. "It was nice to get over the hump in that particular meet."
Pagone, second at Joliet last year, took first in 18:23.0. Teammate Isabelle Christiansen was third in 18:32, freshman Ella Hale was seventh in 19:04, Caitlin Guist was eighth in 19:05 and Jaycie Simon was 11th in 19:07.
Oswego is back in action this week at the Peoria Notre Dame Invitational.
"Our first meet up in Wisconsin we ran well, and we backed it up with a strong performance at Joliet," Simon said. "It shows we're headed in the right direction."
Oswego East boys
In the 3A boys race at the First to the Finish Invitational on Sept. 9 in Peoria, Oswego East junior Matt Blanco was seventh and the highest finishing non-senior in a personal-record 14:55.4.
"I was more happy with breaking 15:00 because place is always a goal, but a time goal is better," Blanco said. "I like the course because I think it's fast. I'm usually not the first up front so (top 10) was a new experience but I liked it. I liked racing up there."
Oswego East (407) and Yorkville (492) were 12th and 17th. Yorkville senior Zach Price was 58th (15:45.1). Oswego East's Luke Wentz was 78th in 15:55.1, Heriberto Alvarez was 83rd in 15:56.4, Brad Wiggins was 118th in 16:11.2 and Chris Luz was 131th in 16:18.1 among scoring runners.
Yorkville finished a strong second to defending 3A champion Naperville North 83-109 in the girls portion of the race.
Junior Emily Eberhardt was 12th (17:45.4 for 3.0 miles) with Alyssa Edwards (18:00.5), junior Olivia Borowiak (18:01.1) and freshman Helena Kleronomos (18:04.6) 17th, 18th and 19th and junior Nicole Greyer (18:42.2) 43rd.


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Dale Carnegie Course empowers you to move far beyond your comfort zone as you reach for and attain ambitious goals.
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Rob Sweedler got his first taste for music improvisation as a member of the Bow-Dacious String Band in 2005.
He went on to study classical and jazz piano at the Lawrence University Conservatory of Music in Appleton, WI, where he received his B.A. in Music in 2012.
Since then, Rob has lived in Urbana where he plays in jazz combos and other groups in the area. Rob has a passion for helping both kids and adults play music with other people. His other musical interests include jazz improvisation, accompanying and synthesizers.
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"Hollywood is run by Jews; it is owned by Jews--and they should have a greater sensitivity about the issue of people who are suffering. Because...we have seen...the greaseball, we've seen the Chink, we've seen the slit-eyed dangerous Jap, we have seen the wily Filipino, we've seen everything but we never saw the kike. Because they knew perfectly well, that that is where you draw the [line]."Coming out of Hollywood, controlled and ran by vengeful Jews, it's no surprise the movie, "The Imitation Game" uses deceits to keep alive the narrative that all Germans are bastards.
Marlon Brando on Larry King Live
Hollywood is in a fix! The Jewniverse is tying itself in knots, not knowing whether to award the Oscar to the movie about a psychotic American who liked to blow Muslim's heads into pulp or to award it to this movie about those nasty Nazis.
Hollywood scores another hit on the captive American mind. Bring the hate, Comradeski!
US Muslims threatened after 'American Sniper'
Number of Holocaust™ hits on GOOGLE....over 50 MILLION.
Number of hits when using Soviet Gulag, the REAL Holocaust of the 20th Century...235,000.
Frau Ursula Haverbeck Declares Victory: "We can now dismiss Auschwitz!"
"According to official statements, Auschwitz is no longer considered the scene of the most wicked crime in history – the alleged murder of six million Jews. So the question arises: where did this crime take place? Where is the scene of the German's crime? This is the burning question of the six million. Where are they?"
"The Nuremberg judges never visited Auschwitz. And they even never asked for a forensic report. They took judicial notice of Soviet document USSR-008 stating that 4,000,000 died at Auschwitz camp.


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India Under-19 255 for 7 (Kauli 63, Tamay 56, Pervez 63) Pakistan Under-19 (Yo Mahesh 4-44, Chawla 4-50)
India Under-19 profited from three crucial half-centuries to reach 255 for 7 in their first innings on the first day of the four-day match against Pakistan Under-19 at the Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium.
Put in to bat by Pakistan U-19 captain Mohammad Ibrahim, India U-19 slipped to 95 for 3 before a 110-run fourth-wicket stand between Virat Kauli (63) and Tanmay Srivastava (55) lent stability to their first innings.
At the top of the order, opener Pervez Aziz held the innings together with 63 off 112 balls with 10 fours. Kauli smashed eight boundaries in his 121-ball knock while Tanmay struck two fours and a six off 137 balls before handing a catch back to new-ball bowler Mohammad Naved, who finished with 2 for 38.
Nayyar Abbas captured 2 for 57 while his fellow left-arm slow bowler Imad Wasim took 1 for 36. The Indian Under-19 side will play another four-day match at Peshawar from September 13 before clashing against Pakistan Under-19 in four one-day matches.


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Just two months later I would start subscribing to Entertainment Weekly, a magazine I still get to this day, and at least some of that mystery would be gone. With Entertainment Weekly came an interest in box office, pre-release announcements, and various sorts of inside baseball. With the Internet and sites like Ain't It Cool News came pre-release speculation, reviews of test screenings, and other such forbidden fruit. And over the last 10-15 years we've seen not just an increase in pre-release information but the transformation of the mainstream entertainment media into a bastion of the kind of news that once only mattered to hardcore film nerds like myself. When I was growing up, I was the only one who knew the weekly box office, the end-of-year Oscar buzz, and the various behind-the-scenes deals. I embraced the knowledge and I can only blame myself for what I lost in the bargain. But only in the last four years, arguably due to the rise of Deadline Hollywood, we've seen the normalization of utter gossip, pure speculation or rumor reported as news, denounced as mistruths, and then re-reported again as confirmed fact. In the last four years, we've watched as seemingly mainstream news sites acting like slobbering fanboys while discussing the latest genre film (just compare the coverage of The Dark Knight to The Dark Knight Rises). I am surely a part of the problem. Even if I don't play the gossip game, I still read sites like The Playlist and I still glance at Deadline Hollywood from time to time. I still post genre-friendly trailers and posters as if they are 'news events' worthy of commentary. Sure I genuinely like analyzing trailers and I'm damn-good at analyzing box office (been doing it for twenty years), but I can only plead 'no contest'.
Maybe that poster above is my 'Rosebud', a sign of a lost childhood innocence that I can't get back, in an industry that works overtime to deny me that rush of discovery because I arguably asked for it. Yes Warner Bros. pulled a glorious fast one on everyone 4.5 years ago when they snuck a traditional Dark Knight trailer onto 35mm prints of I Am Legend without anyone knowing in advance, but we'll never see anything like that again. It was the last gasp of surprise, any kind of surprise really, before the Internet exploded into information saturation. That poster above is a testament to a time when we movie fans didn't know everything in advance, couldn't accurately predict when a trailer was going to debut, and weren't able to piece together an entire film just from studio-released clips. No one knew about the existence of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze until that poster popped up in a theater lobby just three months before it was to be released. You can't imagine how exciting that discovery was for a ten-year old fan back in December 1990. If you're remotely younger than me you probably can't begin to imagine because it's not something you ever got to experience.
So, what was the last bit of movie marketing that surprised you? A trailer you didn't expect, a poster you didn't know about, or even a movie that you didn't know anything about until you caught the trailer in a theater? Feel free to share below.
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North Korea Ends Peace Pact With South As UN Sanctions Fuel Propaganda.
For seven years the U.N. sanctions against North Korea have not deterred Pyongyang's ambitions for nuclear weapons capable of reaching the United States, but in a way may have helped the Kim family through their propaganda to increase anti-U.S. sentiment and draw attention away from the failed government. The question on everyone's mind is whether the new sanction passed on Thursday for North Korea's latest nuclear test will end up any different than in the past. Since 2006, North Korea has conducted long range weapons test and underground nuclear test with the latest one being Feb. 12, even though several penalties from the U.N. and national sanctions from Washington, Tokyo, and others have been passed in order to curb their nuclear ambitions. According to analysts, the problem with sanctions is that outsiders are underestimating North Korea's ability to survive even though the sanctions are meant to make life difficult for the country which is already dealing with poverty, suffered through a famine, and lost its Soviet supporter but still manages to get the upper hand. While the state media has yet to announce the sanctions, North Korean citizens share the same attitude as their leader by defying and dismissing past sanctions which only helps to strengthen the regime.
The U.N. resolution passed on Thursday will target the ruling class of North Korea through banning nations from exporting expensive jewelry, yachts, luxury automobiles and race cars to the North plus imposes new travel sanctions requiring countries to expel agents working in certain North Korean companies, according to the Associated Press. The U.N. believes that these sanctions will send a powerful message to North Korea, but some believe that they may also play into Kim Jong Un's hands, according to Ahn Chan-il a political scientist at the World Institute for North Korea Studies in Seoul, as the outside chooses to punish North Korea that would allow Kim to build a powerful image like his father Kim Jong Il. The U.N. Security Council issued the resolution in direct reaction of Pyongyang conducting nuclear and missile testing which they considered a threat to international peace and stability. North Korea called the measure a double standard blaming the U.S. for the sanction and after the vote that passed the sanction North Korea states that they were canceling a hotline and a nonaggression pact with rival South Korea which has ended the armistice set about by the Korean War. Unfortunately the sanctions are not a perfect punishment as not only will the leadership pay but the average North Korean who is already facing economic difficulties which is pushing the country to a us against the world mentality.
Unfortunately, the only foreseeable problem is China, North Korea's economic lifeline, which provides almost all the oil for the country as well as a generous amount of food aid. Their dependency has increased as the sanctions have with 95 percent of the products an estimated $3.5 billion imported to North Korean being from China in 2012 according to the International Trade Centre. The fact that Beijing is now supporting the new sanction could be a sign of growing frustration with its neighbor and ally, but the likelihood that China would dramatically change course by enforcing the U.N. resolution even though in the past it has not is relatively slim according to Marcus Noland, a North Korean watcher at the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington, said in an institute blog post. China has in the past been wary of putting pressure on Pyongyang for fear the government would collapses causing North Koreans to come into China leading to a loss of buffer against U.S. allied South Korea according to the Associated Press.


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The Adeje council's department of local economic development and employment, with councillor Manuel Luis Méndez Martín at the helm, is developing a new local initiative, ImPyme Adeje, which will work to increase local business visibility online. The project is part of the AdejeImpulsa branch and directed specifically at small and medium businesses in the borough. Letters, in Spanish and English, are currently being sent to local businesses outlining in more detail the advantages of the project.
Councillor Méndez explains that "helping the local commercial sector and offering them the essential tools to enter or improve their presence in the digital world as well as assisting those who need it in manipulating new technologies to their advantage are just some of the objectives of this project. Overall our aim is that Adeje's small and medium businesses can be a vanguard in the Canarian, Spanish and European commercial sectors".
ImPyme Adeje is already underway in Zone 1 (the town centre, La Postura, Los Olivos, El Galeón and Las Torres) and will begin to operate in the tourist zones of Costa Adeje and Zones 2, 3 and 4 both tourist and residential The Crea Solutions company, contracted by the council to work on the project, have a team of 6 people (taken from the job seekers list) who will be visiting local businesses asking them to fill in questionnaires, and helping them with geo location of their company.
This is, in effect, a free service for local businesses and will be taking place over the next 5 months. It will assist you place your company on Google Maps and create your own page in Google My Business. The team will also work to solve any current issues you may have online to help increase your digital presence.
With the help of the team you can, for free, geo-locate your company and they can also help you create a virtual presence online. You will be invited to participate in the ImPyme Adeje project, fill in a questionnaire and include your business data in what is to be a growing local business network,
"Collecting this data is essential if we are to create a detailed and relevant business map, which will indicate the volume of enterprises we have in Adeje which in turn allows the council to offer a more personalised service to businesses, a service which more exactly meets their needs, with staff training, help and commercial assessments", said councillor Méndez.
Zone 2
Tijoco Alto, La Concepción, Taucho, La Quinta, Las Moraditas, Tijoco Bajo, La Hoya, Las Cancelas, Armeñime, Los Menores, Las Rosas, Fañabé, Miraverde, El Madroñal, Playas de Fañabé Alto, Sector 4, Ifonche and intersecting areas.
Zone 3
From the beginning of Barranco de Troya to Barranco de Erques, limited by the lower part of the TF1 including Mar azul, Callao Salvaje, Playa Paraíso, El Puertito, parts of La Caleta, parts of the Barranco del Inglés, La Caleta, La Enramada, La Herradura, Urb. El Beril, Mirador del Duque, Jardines del Duque, Playas del Duque, Fañabé Bajo, Torviscas Bajo, San Eugenio Bajo, Playa de Las Américas, Sector 0 in intersecting areas.
Zone 4
From the upper part of the TF1 with the Barranco de Troya to the edge of Miraverde, including Sector 1, San Eugenio Alto, Torviscas Alto, Roque del Conde y intersecting areas.
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Faith - posted on 12/26/2009 ( 95 moms have responded )
Hey I have been thinking about starting to try and potty train my son, he is now a year and 6 months?? I am a first time mom..
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Faith - posted on 12/26/2009 ( 95 moms have responded )
Hey I have been thinking about starting to try and potty train my son, he is now a year and 6 months?? I am a first time mom..
Thank you all
Chelsea - posted on 01/09/2010
My daughter is now 19 months. For Christmas i bought her a potty. She loves it. I didn't think it'd be easy to potty train her. However, as soon asd she got the potty out she loved it! everytime myself or my fiance go to the bathroom, she comes running in and sits on her potty, She's went in it once.
My advice as a first time mom, just take your son or daughter into the bathroom with you and explain what a potty is for. Get them use to the potty.
Erin - posted on 01/07/2010
I am working on this myself, he goes and sits on it everyday at some point with his book but that's fully dressed and he knows that whatever you do in the bathroom you should shut the door for :) and he'll go any time I go into the bathroom, I'm a single mom and there's no guy in the house for him to follow after. So i'm slowly trying to come up with ways to make this work. We have started asking if he has to potty and sitting him on it in the morning and before meals and snacks and before bath and nap and bed times.
Danielle - posted on 01/01/2010
My daughter is also 18 months old, and we stared a few months ago, well actually she started by herself,lol
i didnt want her to have a potty so shehas a ladder that has a seat attached and goes straight ontop of the toilet ( just a personal preference). She has always told me wen she is doing a poo or a wee and tried to take off her nappy. Im just taking it slow but she i really good at home with it! i still leave a nappy on her though. The funniest thing is i NEVER let her watch me go to the toilet and i always had the door closed and she does the same thing,lol....she climbs onto the toilet and askes me to "shut door please"and then will say "open door please"and she will b sitting on the toilet going "poo yuck", because she has done a poo..bahahah, its sooo cute :)..
But yeah you just have to wait till he is ready, and he'll let you know when that is. Whether its now or in 6 months time doesnt really matter, just so long as you encourage him. Also reward charts work really well. Or for just starting out maybe a little treat everytime he uses the potty? My sis in-law gave her daughter a lolly pop each time she went to the toilet. Within a week she was toilet trained without hardly any accidents. But eah child is different.
Erika - posted on 12/27/2009
i am a first time mom too and i have a daughter who is 18 mths old too, and we bought her a potty for xmas. our daughter doctor told us that it would be fine to introduce her to it, being that she is a little more advanced then other kids at her age, plus since she has been a year at least she tells us when she is pee pee and poo poo. so we will see how it goes. but the doctor also said not to pressure her and she will let us know when she is ready. hope this helps
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We have a potty, but aren't going to start until the weather warms up and I can let Lexi run around in a Pull-Up or Padded Panties. There are just too many clothes to contend with in the winter months.
Selina - posted on 01/12/2010
although i do understand all this my daughter sits on the potty she loves to she does do wee wee's on it so I think it could be an idea a try
Mandy - posted on 01/12/2010
i'm a mom of 3 and although I have heard of children being potty trained before age two it is not common. I think your little one will be more likely to have accidents which can be defeating to young child. My fist 2 children were 100% potty trained at 2 1/2 with maybe 1-2 accidents. Children are not able to control their bladders until closer to 2-3yrs so before then they will still go during the night. So you will still need to buy pull-ups (which are expensive) or diapers for nighttime use......
Chrissie - posted on 01/12/2010
My son now 19 months old (June 08) is tappin at his nappy when he has had a wee & goes & hides in a corner 2 hav a poo, but i don't think he is ready 4 potty trainin & is not at the stage when he can let us know b4 he wets/dirtys them. Gonna try in the early summer (may) when its warmer outside so he can wonder round wiv no nappy & then try 2 get him 2 sit on potty when he starts 2 show signs of needin 2 go. This way it also helps any unwanted carpet stains & he should be old enough 2 understand better. x
Selina - posted on 01/12/2010
my daughter who is 18 months is showing signs of being ready for potty training and tells you when she has had a "wee wee" and "poo poo", she always wants to come to the toilet with you and sit on it when u have fininshed and asks for "paper for wipe". I am also a first time mum and cant decide if it is to early, altough I might give it ago.
Elizabeth - posted on 01/11/2010
Just my opinion but after seeing all the posts and how i feel they are not ready....no need to pressure unless the child is very advanced to where they are telling u when they go and introducing it im sure wouldnt hurt but my Dr. said at this age alot of babys may learn to due number 1&2 even a few times but will soon stop and go back to going in the diaper so she felt there just to young!! hope this helps. Liz
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I think it depends on the child. My daughter (now 6) was not interested in the potty like my 18 month old is. She was actually scared of it. My 18 mo. is interested in the mechanics of it all. He gestured for me to put him on the (adult) toilet, he also wanted me to let him sit solo (though he'd fall in). I'll get him a step ladder, potty combo (http://www.bonnybabies.com/boyontrainer....) like my daughter had and follow his lead. Again, if the child is interested, follow their lead. If you can tell when they are going to the bathroom, take them in but don't ever force it or be upset if they don't make it or are not interested. The more you push the more they'll resist.
Erica - posted on 01/10/2010
my daughter is 18 months and she got a potty for christmas. we aren't pushing her, but she knows when she's pooping and peeing and will tell us, so we 'officially' started potty training today. and lo and behold- a poop! lol. i've got 5 younger brothers and sisters and all of the boys took longer than the girls and my friend has a son who is 4 weeks older than my daughter and he's not ready for potty training yet. i think it really depends on the kid and you just have to follow your child's cues.
it can definitely be done at this age as long as you're ready to be consistent with a child who is ready to learn. good luck!!
Erin - posted on 01/10/2010
my little girl had to watch me today and when she did she said go potty and I put her on her potty and she did a poopy and pepe and I said good girl now tell me next time I am so proud of her next we will teach her to pull at her pants when she needs to go
she is 18 months
Tommyka - posted on 01/10/2010
Hello i am a first time mommy but i have plenty of younger sibiling but my daughter is 19 months and today is our 4th day in big girl panties fulltime w/ only 2 accidents! I put her pull up on for bedtime but for her nap she sleeps in panties and when she wakes i take her to the pot! she is familiar w/ her urges so she tells me when she has to go or just goes, if i noticed she is preoccupied i'd ask her then she'll say yes or no and i react accordingly! wh are currently trying to master her pulling her clothes up and down on her own! I am so proud of her!
Cassandra - posted on 01/10/2010
We bought Scarlett (18 months) a potty for Xmas. She sits on it (with her nappy on) and goes wees and poos. There should be No pressure on your infant though! Just introduce the potty to the lounge room, let the 18 month old know what it is for and maybe when you change her, before you put her nappy on, show her the potty and say for wee wee or poo poo. Happy potty training. x
Dionne - posted on 01/09/2010
I am thinking about it! I got him a potty chair for Christmas because our pediatrician has been strongly encouraging it. SO far he points at it, says pee pee, then he pees on the floor beside it! lol Oh well just try to have fun with it
Mary - posted on 01/09/2010
my little girl has just turned 19 months this week and has more or less trained herself this week, i had left the potty in the bathroom and now she knows when she needs to go she goes in and stands beside it and shouts until someone helps her sit on it and away she goes. so pround of her, her older brother was 2yrs 2 months, and i had waited till the summer time cause it was easier with the washing of clothes and easier for him.
Kristie - posted on 01/08/2010
We just bought our seat too, just starting to talk about it.
Andrea - posted on 01/08/2010
I have an 18 month old, I have a four year old too and my little one has been going potty on her little potty for about a month and a half now, so It's not too early. I geuss it's just a matter of weither or not their ready. As long as you put the effort into it he'll do it in no time. My little one will be out of diapers soon so try it and see what happens you'll be fine and after awhile they love to go potty on the potty it makes them happy that they did something like big kids : )
Brittney - posted on 01/08/2010
we have a potty that we have our daughter sit on for 1-2 minutes every morning (we sing songs so she stays put). so far, she's only actually peed in it a few times, but just want her to get used to sitting on it. we clap and praise her when she does pee. she also likes to "help" when i am using the bathroom.
Jenny - posted on 01/08/2010
I have already started trying to potty train my son and I think it is a good idea.
Victoria - posted on 01/08/2010
I am going to go along with most of ther other Mom's on this one, your child will let you know what he is and isn't ready to do. My 18 month old has had her potty in the bathroom since August and sometimes she goes when I go, sometimes she goes before her bath and sometimes she takes it apart and plays with it. She does tell me after she has pee'd or poo'd, espicially if she wants her diaper changed but I don't think she is at the point where she can tell before she has to pee that she has to pee.
Funny story, my son started potty training himself at 13 months and by 18 was using the potty reguraly. He copied his dog outside one day by taking off his diaper and peeing on a tree, for whatever reason he thought it was the greatest thing ever, it took the next 5 months to get him to do it in the potty instead of the back yard but by 2 he was in pull-ups at night and big boy pants during the day. (I am saving this story for his first girlfriend :-)
Good luck!
Heather - posted on 01/08/2010
my son is 19 months old, we bought him a potty for xmas, he loves it. we keep it in our bathroon where he has always followed us. he knows what potty, pee pee, and poo poo means. he has already gone pee pee on it. he loves it. he thinks its really cool to be like mommy and daddy! I am so proud. i dont think its ever to early if your child is interested.
Linsie - posted on 01/08/2010
I am a first time mother, and we are working with our son on potty training. He dosnt say potty, poop or pee, but he does say bath... he loves to take a bath. So we are working with him, and asking if he needs to go potty... he will say bath and run to the bathroom... we set him on the toilet and he has gone quite a few times. If he goes poop on the toilet, we do the potty dance, clap and he flushes the toilet. We wash our hands and he gets a yogurt covered raisin. We have a jar in the bathroom with the raisins, they are his potty treat. It is starting to work. hope this helps.
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I am starting to take it slowly with my daughter. She shows interest and tells me when she has done something so she is showing signs. I have a 3 1/2 year old son also and it took a very long time to train him. He was done just before his 3rd birthday. You could try and if you are not successful then stop and try again later. As long as you familiarise him with the potty or toilet then that's a start. Really they just do it when they are ready. I tried for ages with my first and when he was ready he was done in a day. I know it's hard to believe but it's true! Good luck!
Rebecca - posted on 01/07/2010
My daughter the same age, she is now wanting to sit on the potty herself. She hasnt done anything on it yet, but she goes through all the motions of sitting a bit, wiping and then flushing. We have both the little potty and a seat she can put on the big potty. She now tells us by taking of her pants and diaper when she has gone potty in it, so I think its just a matter of timing now. If your child is showing the interest it cant hurt to try. Sometimes a potty song helps too with clapping and stuff for them to do.
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Jenilee - posted on 01/06/2010
I so second that....
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Thanks for posting that. I hear from countless people that it depends on the child. I don't think you can force a child to be ready. I have goals, but I am prepared for them to be flattened! :o)
Jenilee - posted on 01/06/2010
To be honest my son was the hardest to potty train. He was three when he finally decided that he was going to coperate with the potty thing and about 2 mths after we started it was done....Now my daughter was done before was was 2 1/2. Just depends on ther willing ness to do it.....Jenilee
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I am a teacher and had my son on Jun 10, 2008. I am planning on TRYING in June of this year. Ideally, he would be potty trained by Sept. of this year. However, I have heard that the average age of a boy to be potty trained is 2 and 1/2 years. Our schedule does not always work. Good luck and send me any tips!!!!
Cheryl - posted on 01/06/2010
We bought a potty for my daughter for Christmas, and until today we'd just use it a ploy. We'd say go pee pee on the potty, and she'd just go and sit on it with her clothes on and pretend to go. Today I noticed that after 2 hours at the mall (where she drank a full 8 oz of milk in her sippy cup), her diaper was dry. So I just wanted to try, I took her pants and diaper off, and sat her on the potty, and said go pee pee. Litterally 2 seconds later, we heard the music the potty makes when they pee in it. I looked at my husband and we looked at her and then in the potty. Yup! She pee pee'd in the Potty the first time we put her on it. We're so Happy and Proud of her!! We started Cheering and Dancing, to make her feel good about it. Then later today we got home from my husbands hockey game, and before I brought her up to bed we put her on it just to see if this afternoon was a coincidense. But, she pee pee'd again soon after we put her on it!!! We're soo happy!! We're not going to pressure her or force her to do it right now, cause I still feel it's young. But, she's interested and she's doing well with it, so we're definitly encouraging it and giving her lots of love and praise for it!!! :D
Try it!! Like us, you may be surprised!!
Bianca - posted on 01/06/2010
I am in the same situation. My son is 18 1/2 months now; I bought him a potty when he turned one. I started at that time, and it was going well, I was out of school for almost a month, when he went back to daycare though, they wouldn't help, and still aren't until he turns 20 months. I would love for my son to be potty trained now, but I also know he can't quite tell me when he has to actually go, only if I sit him on it myself and he will go. Am I rushing?
Joan - posted on 01/06/2010
here's some tips for u:-
1. take off the diapers and keep bringing kids to toilet on every 5 minutes. in the toilte mummy have to explain to the kids that this is the place for pee pee and also poo poo.
2. dunt ever try on potty first, later u have to train again to the toilet bowl.
i use these tips on my 18months gal and its worked! good luck...
Erica - posted on 01/05/2010
My daughter is asking to go to the potty on her own and she goes everytime both number 1 and number 2. Of course right now at night I don't wake her up to go to the potty but it does save you 2 years of buying more diapers and training pants the earlier you start. Diapers are not cheap. I have been successful with pull ups and diapers and she is excited to be going to the potty. It's so cute when she runs up to me and says mommy I have to go potty. I think it is better to start early to save money and to help them. It prevents diaper rash and infections that come from the diaper being on too long and of course cost wise we already know. My mom had both my sister and I potty trained at age 2 and the longer you wait the more trouble it is for them more than it is you.
Nicola - posted on 01/05/2010
my son is 18.1/2 mths i got him a potty when he was about 17.1/2 mths , he sits on it but doesnt do any think in it, but thats fine as he will get used to sitting on it.x
Myrtis - posted on 01/05/2010
Before you start, you should remember that boys are notoriously slower at potty training.
I have three sons and I don't really do anything in earnest until they are old enough to tell me they are interested.
That being said, it is a good idea to introduce the subject, so if you're thinking that you want to use a potty they you could let him choose one at the store and let him play with it. You could buy a book on the subject and let him read it or put stickers on it or whatever.
But I would absolutely wait until the summer to really start because it takes time and there are going to be lots of accidents and more clothes in winter means more clothes to wash every time there is an accident, also it means that you are putting extra obstacles in his way by there being more clothes to get off before performing.
I wait until they are 3 years old, this is controversial, but I find it goes much faster that way because they are old enough to really understand and talk to you, also they are big enough to go on a real toilet, I never use potties because I think they just make more things for you to clean and yet another thing to transition out of when they are grown out of it (or you're tired of hauling it around everywhere you go).
Well, there are my two cents. Good luck, just remember this is a process. :)
Melinda - posted on 01/05/2010
If they tell you when they peed or pooped, bring you a diaper to be changed or ask to be changed these are all signs they are ready. Every child is different. My oldest was over 3 before he potty-trained despite my best efforts. My daughter was 16 months when she surprised me by using the potty chair by herself. I didn't expect it so soon since it took my oldest son so long. My youngest is 18 months now and I am just starting to train him since he tells me when he has gone and lays down to be changed. I got a lot of slack from family and friends for not pushing my oldest son to train sooner but the simple fact is they are not going to do it until they are ready and trying to force it may just delay it. Look for the signs and take it one step at a time. Best of luck!
Nina - posted on 01/05/2010
im not going to start potty training my son befor he is 2 and my docter told me not to force him it may take kids till there 4 i sure hope not but will see
Sandra - posted on 01/04/2010
Mine is 18 months and I ahve started already a few weeks ago but only happened 4 times :) they told me he is too little
Kelly - posted on 01/04/2010
That's great! does he know what the potty is now? My daughter is the same age and she gets on it and grunts,,nothing yet but its a start!
Lindsey - posted on 01/04/2010
I started potty training my first son around 1 1/2 yrs. He showed a lot of interest in sitting on the potty. When he turned 2 we really started potty training. We took him the store and had him pick out big boy undies and a potty seat. I took a small candy jar and placed m&ms in it. It was his favorite at the time. I took him to sit on the potty about every 15-20 min. Each time he sat on the potty he recieved 1 m&m, if he went in the potty, he recieved 2 m&ms. We had many accidents, but did not like the way dirty undies felt, so he learned pretty fast. The main thing is have patience and you have to be consistant. Its good to read potty books and show them potty videos too,so they see others learning to go potty as well. And it helps to take them with you to the potty.
Catherine - posted on 01/04/2010
We bought our 18 month old daughter a potty chair for xmas also. However she is more interested in taking it apart to hear it talk then sit on it. We thought she would be ready because she squats down anytime she goes #2 but guess she's just not ready yet. Will keep it in the bathroom and try to get her to try it. Fingers crossed.
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Hi, I am also a first time mum, with an 18 month old boy, we started potty training about a month ago after i read "Early start Potty Training" by Linda Sonna. Great book, made me wish I had bought a potty even earlier ! Dylan has learned lots of important concepts by playing with the potty, watching DVD's and reading potty books, following me into the toilet and watching other babies have thier nappies changed. He does his poo in the toilet everyday now, he tells me he needs to go by patting his thigh (he doesnt speak yet!) - soon I will start training him to pee too. He is still too young to manage getting his clothes off by himself so complete potty training is still a while away, but I am glad he has learned the concept so early.
Samantha - posted on 01/03/2010
We bought my daughter a pottty for Xmas and the ladies at her daycare said that I should try right away so I did after her nap on Xmas day. She woke up dry so I asked.. Gotta go pee pee baby and she said yeah so we went and sat on it and sure enough she went and when she was done she said all done. Now granted I know she's not ready to go by herself but every hour I ask her and we go sit.. The last really wet diaper she's has was when we were at the mall for like 3 hours. But we've even move her to pull ups and she's doing great.. Just gotta stick with it and they will catch on.. Good luck!!
Gail - posted on 01/03/2010
My daughter is 18 1/2 months and fully day trained. We started her about 4 months ago and has not had more than 1 accident a week for the past month. She has even had naps without accidents. We won't venture into night training for a while because we don't want to have to take her out of her crib yet. I don't regret training my kids early - they don't do the stubborn thing where they refuse to go. My best friend is going through that with her 23 month old.
Meaghan - posted on 01/03/2010
its a good age to try. My first daughter was fully trained by 28 months, I think it was partly beacuse I started early.
Allyson - posted on 01/03/2010
i dont think an 18 month old can grasp the concept of going to the toilet. my girls were 3 and 2 and a half when they went to the toilet and they were toilet tained within 3 weeks. so i am going to wait for my 18 month old son to turn 2 and a half before attempting toilet training. he is only now realising when he has done a poo so i dont want to confuse him. it all depends on ur child, they will let u know when they are ready.
Brittany - posted on 01/03/2010
we havent really started with our 19 month old daughter yet. she watches us go and tells us after she's done a poo. she can take her pants and nappy off but i think thats just coz she likes to be nakey! they say the longer u wait the quicker and easier it is so im happy to do that! we are also having another baby due 6 weeks before second birthday so we need to get her into a 'big bed'. we dont want to introduce too much too soon. Bed, Potty and a brother or sister is too much. potty can wait. plus also she does talk alot, she also still bites on books and puts things in her mouth. i dnt think shes ready.
i think like most parts of parenting so far, it doesnt matter how many children you have, u just 'know' when and how to do things! good luck with it and like the others have said- dont push him. if your asking now coz your not sure than i'd say he's not ready yet...
all the best!
Nadine - posted on 01/03/2010
i am a first time mom aswell my daughter also 18 months old has been going potty on the chair since she was a year old shes yet to be fully potty trained she always tells me after shes already gone but over the last 6 months shes shown slowly more and more signs of being closer to being potty trained at first it was just to introduce her and then she would sit on it when we would then we would then she would knock on the bathroom door when she had to go then now she points and says potty usually too late but atleast shes getting it the doctor seemed to be impressed this being this early so follow your son but introducing it wont hurt just dont force it will be in his own time we didnt force her just introduced it really early
Tannia - posted on 01/03/2010
I started potty training my son at 14 months. I started by letting him accompany me in the bathroom. Babies find new things to be kind of fun and like trying to do things on their own. After a week, I bought him his own potty and just took off his diaper, sat him on the potty and let him go. Not all babies will go right away but if you take you baby to the potty every hour or every two hours, eventually he will use it and get used to it. The harder part is teaching him how to take off his pants and diapers on his own. We are still working on that part.
Alyssa - posted on 01/03/2010
It totally depends on the child! I have a 3 1/2 year old that refuses to go to the potty! If you push it too fast like I did...they will not go into the potty. I had my son 80% potty trained...then all of a sudden he didn't want to use the big boy potty. The child has to understand the concept of what it is and what it is used for. My 18 month old son is no where close to potty training. He is a preemie, it may take him longer.
Sue - posted on 01/03/2010
My daughter has been using a potty since November, we bought one when she kept telling us she had been to the toilet and patting her nappy and attempting to take it off every time she did anything! We introduced it by having it in the room, getting her to sit on it and saying wee wee in the potty, then we removed the nappy and kept getting her to sit and saying that you wee wee in the potty, the first time we caught anything she was made a huge fuss of and given a jelly baby as a treat - bingo! Within about a fortnight she wasnt havent accidents and telling us she needed the potty! She has nappies on for about a week before christmas because we had builders in and when we tried again there were no problems. Her twin though, a girl, is only now happy to sit on the potty and do anything, she screamed when we took the nappy off and got relly upset when she had accidents so we put her back in the nappies for a while.
I think you should go with your child, and start if they are showing signs of awareness of the their bodily functions, all are different, my sister in law's son was still having accidents at nearly four, she was panicking about him starting school and then it just clicked for no apparent reason! They all get there in the end x
Kelly - posted on 01/03/2010
My daughter is 18 months and has been training since 15 months. She showed interest, so we tried it, and she is now fully day trained and wakes up from her naps dry most times. Woohoo. She knows when she needs to go and will say "potty". She needs help with the clothing, but is otherwise very good!
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Quite some time ago, I came across the Skull-A-Day blog but didn't exactly delve into the site. Like most internet meandering, I probably glanced at a few pictures, read a headline or two, judged it and moved on. But last week at Chapters I picked up a copy of "Skulls" by Noah Scalin: a collection of his skull-a-day art endeavours and I remembered the site. It's a great little book but it only scratches the surface of the material at Skull-A-Day, which now includes user submissions as well as Noah's own work. It's a wonderful reminder that creative efforts can come in any form. Even peach pits. And push pins. And leaves. You name it: Noah probably made a skull out of it.
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Ahoy! This is another image from the paper. I was about to upload it a few days ago but I thought the original pen and ink looked a bit bland so I added some colour and texture in Photoshop.
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It's back to brunette for Demi Lovato! The star has made some drastic hair color changes this year—from red to blonde to everything in between—and on last night's The X Factor, Lovato debuted a deep brown shade. This makes for her eighth hair change this year (including recent bangs), and Lovato joins Drew Barrymore, who also just traded in summery blonde in favor of a darker fall hue. So, tell us: Do you like Demi's new color? Plus, catch Lovato on The X Factor, live tonight at 8 p.m. EST on FOX.
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A manor is far more than just another large country estate. It's also the birthplace of dynasties. The manor system has existed in many societies under many different names. All of them, however, have depended on the premise of an elite upper-class controlling the lion's share of political power and natural resources while the rest of the population works on the estates owned by that upper class. The manor system's pattern of amassed private wealth at the cost of others is partly mirrored today by the large divide in influence and income between America's 1% and the general population. Whether one calls it a manor, a plantation, or a corporation, history suggests that a wealthy class facilitates democracy as much as it corrupts it.
History reveals that wealthy private estates in some form or another have served as the economic backbone of ancient Rome, feudal Britain, the slave-era American South, and the early stages of just about every other democratic state in history. Every civilization with agriculture and written laws has inevitably created the stability that leads to large tracts of private wealth. That wealth in many ways both helps and harms the democratic process.
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The succeeding Roman Republic actually lost much of its democratic heritage to the people who ran the manors of its day. The Roman manor, now called a villa, but in ancient Latin called a latifundium (lets call them lats, for short), was the corporate oligarchy of its day. In the early Roman Republic, well-connected senators and military generals were granted massive estates along with a large slave-bound underclass of laborers to produce food and manufactured goods for them. Roman owners of lats had the same control of capital and natural resources that a modern day CEO or Halliburton-backed U.S. representative has today.
Rome's early republic eventually dissolved into a universal empire due to lats gaining a disproportionate amount of power. Conquest of lands in Gaul (modern day southern France), opened up land and resources that were divvied up among a select few in the Roman world. These few were essentially Julius Caesar, a mere trust-fund baby at the time, and his military generals, who gained unprecedented amounts of resources and enslaved labor from conquered populations almost overnight. From massive estates in Gaul, and elsewhere, corruption of public institutions by private wealth, an end as much sought out by public servants as private backers, eroded the ability of public institutions to operate as intended.
Eventually, lats gained so much wealth and so much distrust of the very government that they largely ran, that wealthy land owners began raising their own private armies to defend themselves from one another. Regionalism, personal connections and family ties disfigured economic opportunity and civic concerns in the same way that they do today. But in Rome this situation blew up into the end of their democratic state. An alliance of several lat-owned private armies are what allowed Julius Caesar to eventually rise up and flip Rome's weak republic into an authoritarian empire.
The manor system also long outlasted the Romans. The only real order in the post-Roman dark ages (aside from the Catholic Church, the pop-culture of its day) came from feudal estates, from which we derive the term 'manor system.' They were quite literally fortified lats, owned by the descendants of the military leaders of the many Germanic tribes that invaded the Roman Empire at the end of its days. The upper classes were known as "nobles" instead of senators or generals, and the underclass were known as "serfs" instead of slaves. Otherwise there is fundamentally no difference. The most successful of them went on to be the monarchs of Medieval Europe. Centuries on, many members of England's nobility would go on to set up manors of their own, known as "plantations" in the American south.
The English nobles who settled America were also often second-born children (The first born inherited all of a family's land so as to prevent estates from fragmenting among siblings). America, they thought, was a haven for them to form a stable democracy. But what they meant was a classic Greco-Roman style democracy, where the wealthy landowner was essentially king of his estate and an enslaved underclass provided all of the labor. Thomas Jefferson, an aristocrat of this era, clearly had this perception. Jefferson, a man who among many other things studied architecture, was a large influencer over why modern day Washington DC's civic buildings are built in the Greco-Roman fashion. Jefferson also grew up on a massive estate where he could participate in government and pursue higher learning while a slave underclass served his basic daily needs.
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Jobless Americans are facing a cliff when it comes to their unemployment benefits. As a new report from the National Employment Law Project notes, due to Congress phasing out federal unemployment benefits that were implemented as a response to the Great Recession, U.S. workers who lose their jobs from the first week of July forward will only be eligible to receive 27 weeks of benefits at the state level, not the extended benefits that have been available for the last several years:
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