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Literati Bookstore is thrilled to welcome national bestseller John U. Bacon to the historic Hill Auditorium on the campus of the University of Michigan as he launches his latest book, Overtime: Jim Harbaugh and the Michigan Wolverines at the Crossroads of College Football. Following an introduction by Sam Webb and Ira Weintraub of WTKA's The Michigan Insider, John will give a book talk and answer audience questions.
The event is general admission, free and open to the public, but getting a free ticket secures your admission. You can also get a free ticket plus pre-order a signed copy of Overtime for the price of the book plus tax–those paid, pre-ordered copies will be picked up at the event. A book signing will follow the event, and guests will be released by row to join the signing line. Guests must have a copy of Overtime they wish to have signed to join the signing line. Guests with pre-signed copies may join the signing line to have those copies personalized.
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About Overtime: For the past year, John U. Bacon has received unprecedented access to Jim Harbaugh's University of Michigan football team: coaches, players, and staffers, in closed-door meetings, locker rooms, meals, and classes. Overtime captures this storied program at the crossroads, as the sport's winningest team battles to reclaim its former glory. But what if the price of success today comes at the cost of your soul? Do you pay it, or compete without compromising?
Overtime delivers a riveting and revealing insider's account of the Harbaugh era, a deeply reported human portrait of a big-time college football program.
In the spirit of HBO's Hardknocks, Overtime follows the Wolverine coaches, players, and staffers through the 2018 season, including Harbaugh, offensive stars Shea Patterson and Karan Higdon, NFL-ready defensive standouts Rashan Gary, Devin Bush Jr., and Chase Winovich, second-stringers striving to find their place on the team, and their parents' reactions to it all. Bacon met with them every week during a season that saw the Wolverines ride a ten-game winning streak to #4 in the nation, then take a beating at the hands of arch-rival Ohio State, led by controversial coach Urban Meyer, Harbaugh's foil. Overtime also previews the crucial 2019 campaign ahead.
Above all, this is a human story. In Overtime we not only discover what these public figures are like behind the scenes, we learn what the experience means to them as they go through it – the trials, the triumphs, and the unexpected answers to a central question: Is it worth it?
John U. Bacon is the author of the national bestseller The Great Halifax Explosion and four bestselling books about college football, including Three and Out, Fourth and Long, Endzone, and Bo's Lasting Lessons, co-authored with Michigan coach Bo Schembechler. A former feature writer for the Detroit News, his writing has been recognized three times in The Best American Sports Writing series. He appears often on NPR and national television, including ESPN's 2019 documentary series on college football. He has taught at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism and the University of Michigan. A popular public speaker, he lives in Ann Arbor with his wife and son.
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Open-mic storytelling competitions. Open to anyone with a five-minute story to share on the night's theme. Come tell a story, or just enjoy the show!
6:30pm Doors Open | 7:30pm Stories Begin
*Tickets for this event are available one week before the show, at 3pm ET.
*Seating is not guaranteed and is available on a first-come, first-served basis. Please be sure to arrive at least 10 minutes before the show. Admission is not guaranteed for late arrivals. All sales final.
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NEIGHBORHOODS: Prepare a five-minute story about communities.Nosy grandma two doors down, kids on the stoop, block parties and other local flavors. The guy at the corner store, the church down the road, the playground down the block. Keeping up with the Joneses, glass houses, cups of sugar, banging on the ceiling, parking spot battles or the girl-next door.
Daughters of Memory: Paintings and Poems on the Nine Muses is an interdisciplinary show of works by Cindy Sowers exploring the elusive sources for the ancient figures of the Muses, as well as the appropriation of these figures by different artists through the ages.
Reception for the Artist: September 6, approximately 4:30pm. Refreshments will be served.
Cindy Sowers received her B.A. from Oakland University, her M.A. from University of Michigan in Comparative Literature, and her Ph.D. also from the University of Michigan in Comparative Literature. During her Masters program in 1973, she started teaching at the Residential College in the First Year Seminar and French programs. Her dissertation, The Shared Structure of Craft and Song: A Study of Homer's Narrative Art, revealed passions for narrative and visual analysis comparatively understood that would characterize her teaching thereafter. She participated in an interdisciplinary group composed of Residential College humanities and fine arts faculty who together constructed the Arts and Ideas in the Humanities concentration. Cindy's recent course offerings have included critical approaches to the literature and visual arts of classic modernism, postmodernism, Shakespeare and Rome, the heritage of Greece, the psychoanalytic interpretation of the arts, and many others. She combines analyses of literary texts, visual arts, and philosophy to hone in on the animating spirit of a cultural moment and space. She has presented at the Royal Shakespeare Company's 2006 U-M residency, as part of the RC Faculty Colloquium, for the LSA Comparative Literature and the Colloquium on Critical Theory sponsored by the LSA Department of English Language and Literature, and at the Residential College's 50th Anniversary celebration. She has received the Ford Foundation Fellowship, the Rackham Prize twice, the U-M Excellence in Teaching Award, the Matthews Underclass Teaching Award, and is a member of the Medieval Academy of America. Cindy retires from her position as a Senior Lecturer and Lecturer IV, having served in the Residential College for 46 years. She has an active art practice, and her work will be displayed in the RC Art Gallery in a fall 2019 exhibition. She also maintains a personal website, cynthiasowers.rc.lsa.umich.edu, where she publishes essays, poetry, and visual artwork.
jessica Care moore, an internationally renowned poet, playwright, performance artist, and producer from Detroit, will preview her newest work: "We Want Our Bodies Back." Moore first came to national prominence when she won the "It's Showtime at the Apollo" competition a record breaking five times in a row. She is the 2013 Alain Locke Award Recipient from the Detroit Institute of Arts, and her poetry has been heard at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, and the London Institute of Contemporary Arts. She is the CEO of Moore Black Press, Executive Producer of Black WOMEN Rock!, and founder of the literacy-driven Jess Care Moore Foundation.
This event includes a book signing and books will be for sale.
ONE PAUSE POETRY SALON is (literally) a greenhouse for poetry and poets, nurturing an appreciation for written art in all languages and encouraging experiments in creative writing.
We meet every Weds in the greenhouse at Argus Farm Stop on Liberty St. The poems we read each time are unified by form (haiku, sonnet, spoken word), poet, time / place (Tang Dynasty, English Romanticism, New York in the 70s) or theme / mood (springtime, poems with cats, protest poems). We discuss the poems and play writing games together, with time for snacks and socializing in between.
Members are encouraged to share their own poems or poems they like – they may or may not relate to the theme of the evening. This is not primarily a workshop – we may hold special workshop nights, but mostly we listen to and talk about poems for the sake of inspiring new writing.
Whether you are a published poet or encountering poetry for the first time, we invite you to join us!
$5 suggested donation for food, drinks and printing costs.
8-10 p.m., Argus Farm Stop greenhouse, 325 W. Liberty. $5 suggested donation. onepausepoetry.org, 707-1284.
Literati Bookstore is thrilled to welcome Randall Munroe to Rackham Auditorium in downtown Ann Arbor in support of his latest book, How to: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems. The program will feature a presentation, conversation, and Q&A. A book signing will follow. Detailed instructions for the book signing to come.
Tickets are general admission and include a hardcover copy of How to, to be picked up at the venue the evening of the event. Literati will have additional copies of Randall Munroe's previous titles available for purchase. Parking in downtown Ann Arbor on Friday evenings can be difficult. Surface spots are sparse, but a detailed map of available (and walkable) parking structures can be found here.
For any task you might want to do, there's a right way, a wrong way, and a way so monumentally complex, excessive, and inadvisable that no one would ever try it. How To is a guide to the third kind of approach. It's full of highly impractical advice for everything from landing a plane to digging a hole.
Bestselling author and cartoonist Randall Munroe explains how to predict the weather by analyzing the pixels of your Facebook photos. He teaches you how to tell if you're a baby boomer or a 90's kid by measuring the radioactivity of your teeth. He offers tips for taking a selfie with a telescope, crossing a river by boiling it, and powering your house by destroying the fabric of space-time. And if you want to get rid of the book once you're done with it, he walks you through your options for proper disposal, including dissolving it in the ocean, converting it to a vapor, using tectonic plates to subduct it into the Earth's mantle, or launching it into the Sun.
By exploring the most complicated ways to do simple tasks, Munroe doesn't just make things difficult for himself and his readers. As he did so brilliantly in What If?, Munroe invites us to explore the most absurd reaches of the possible. Full of clever infographics and amusing illustrations, How To is a delightfully mind-bending way to better understand the science and technology underlying the things we do every day.
Randall Munroe is the author of the #1 New York Times bestsellers What If? and Thing Explainer, the science question-and-answer blog What If, and the popular webcomic xkcd. A former NASA roboticist, he left the agency in 2006 to draw comics on the internet full-time. He lives in Massachusetts.
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Do writers have to write every day? Is writer's block real? Can you write a book in your spare time? In this workshop, Bethany Neal and Alex Kourvo look at the top ten myths of a writer's lifestyle, and get real about what it takes to make writing your career.
This is part of the monthly Emerging Writers Workshops, which offer support, learning, and advice for local authors. Each month, two weeks after the workshop, there is a meet-up where the instructors will read samples of your work and offer advice and assistance in a casual, supportive atmosphere.
Do you have a completed manuscript? Consider submitting it to the library's imprint Fifth Avenue Press.
We welcome Rachel Dewoskin back to our store in support of her new novel, Banshee, which Cheryl Strayed calls "Sexy and sad, dark and funny, ruthless and kind, this is Rachel Dewoskin's ferociously feminist masterpiece," as part of our ongoing Fiction at Literati series. Free and open to the public. A book signing to follow.
About the book:Samantha Baxter has a full, sane life–creative job, lovely family, and all the trappings of middle-age happiness. But when she gets a diagnosis that terrifies her, a lifetime of polite pleasing and putting others first ignites in her a surprising, pure rage. Maybe Sam will survive the surgery, and maybe not, but either way, she'll spend the next three weeks burning her life down: sleeping with a student her daughter's age, speaking every truth she's ever swallowed, and refusing to apologize for her wildest, most essential self.
Rachel DeWoskin is the author of Someday We Will Fly (Penguin, 2019); Blind (Penguin, 2014); Big Girl Small (FSG, 2011); Repeat After Me (The Overlook Press, 2009); and Foreign Babes in Beijing (WW Norton, 2005). She is on the core fiction faculty at the University of Chicago, and is an affiliated faculty member of the Centers for East Asian Studies and Jewish Studies.
We welcome Jeff Kass back to Literati for a reading from his new poetry collection, Teacher/Pizza Guy, as part of our ongoing Poetry at Literati series. Free and open to the public, book signing to follow.
About the book: Explores the emotional and physical labor necessary to work nights as a pizza delivery driver and days as a high school English teacher.
Jeff Kass teaches tenth-grade English and creative writing at Pioneer High School in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He is the founder of the Literary Arts Program at Ann Arbor's teen center, The Neutral Zone, where he was program director for twenty years. He is also the author of the award-winning short story collection Knuckleheads, the poetry collection My Beautiful Hook-Nosed Beauty Queen Strut Wave, and the thriller Takedown. He lives in Ann Arbor with the author Karen Smyte and their children, Sam and Julius.
As a published young-adult and romance author, Lara Zielin was always asking what her characters wanted and what would make them happy. Her life changed forever when she began to ask those same questions about herself.
At the start of 2018, Lara began a book she unimaginatively titled Lara's Life to test whether writing about the life she wanted to have could actually help it come to pass.
Every day she wrote about herself like a character in the third person, and wrote about the things she wanted to have happen to this person. After a year of doing this, her life was markedly different.
Come hear Lara talk about the process of third-person writing and the reasons why writing about yourself this way can change cognitive patterns and lead to breakthroughs. Lara will explain how you can begin to put pen to paper in this way yourself, and she'll give you prompts and writing tips for your own story.
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Every UFC Fight – From World Titles to Prelims – Exclusively Live
BT Sport to Produce Original Weekly Primetime Programming
The Ultimate Fighting Championship® (UFC®) has signed a landmark three-year broadcast deal with BT Sport for its British and Irish television rights. How to watch BT Sport.
The three-year partnership will allow fans to watch more than 30 live broadcasts from around the globe on the BT Sport channels, plus taped programming such as the long-running The Ultimate Fighter® reality show. It will also include originally-produced programs with exclusive access for the UK and Irish audience, resulting in up to 400 hours of UFC action on TV.
Garry Cook, Executive Vice President and Managing Director of UFC EMEA, said "The keys to success for UFC, in broadcast terms, are to identify strategic partners who are committed to building the business together beyond just airing non-European premium live content. UFC athletes are the most committed and dedicated in the world of sport and this new relationship will help people gain a more in depth understanding of the sport and our brand."
Simon Green, Head of BT Sport, said "We're delighted to have signed this agreement with UFC. We've said BT Sport will offer a wide range of sports that appeal to different audiences and we know that UFC has a huge, committed fanbase in the UK and Ireland and we hope they will be excited about our plans to develop the coverage of the sport."
UFC adds to prestigious roster of elite sports being shown on the BT Sport channels including Barclays Premier League football, FA Cup, Aviva Premiership Rugby Union and the WTA tour.
Cook added: "This agreement is a landmark step in UFC's development in the UK as it will increase our exposure to a much wider and more mainstream sporting audience. It means that the UK joins the USA, Canada, Australia and Brazil as one of our largest TV broadcast markets.
"BT Sport certainly shares our vision for the premium quality broadcast of elite performance sport for our UK audience and we're very excited about the strategic partnership we've entered into. We look forward to working alongside them and showing a wider fanbase how exciting and engaging the UFC is."
BT will begin airing UFC programming this summer, and live event programming will start on 3rd August.
For more information please visit ufc.com or www.btsport.com.
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One of the few commercial local farms that remains of Guilford's agricultural heritage, Bishop's Orchards continues a tradition that dates back over 140 years to the original 52-acre farm that the family's great-great-grandfather Walter purchased in 1871. As each generation has built on the successes of our forebears, the farm has continued to change and grow.
Innovation and adaptation to changing conditions and markets have been one of our hallmarks. Throughout our evolution from a small general farm peddling ice, milk, fruits and vegetables door-to-door to the residents of the shoreline communities to a wholesale grower of fruits and vegetables supplying the produce markets of New York and New England, currently we are now a thriving retail market as well. Our goal has remained the same through all the years to provide our customers with the freshest, best-quality farm products possible, grown with integrity and concern for our environment.
The mix of crops and varieties of fruits we grow has changed over the years. Advances in agricultural science have inspired changes to how we farm. Smaller, more efficient, easier to manage trees have replaced the sprawling old apple trees of the past. Fields that once grew large crops of lettuce, cabbage and beans destined for wholesale markets now produce a more diverse mix of vegetable, berry and flower crops for our farm market, Pick-Your-Own and CSA.
Through it all, Bishop's Orchards continues to fill us with pride as a family to be working the land as generations of Bishops and dedicated employees who preceded us.
Whether you are enjoying purchasing our own farm-fresh products at our farm market or a more direct farm experience at our Pick-Your-Own or CSA, we look forward to serving you.
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The Apple iPhone 5 isn't likely to put in an appearance at the 2012 Worldwide Developers Conference, planned for June 11. What Apple instead plans to show off is an update to iCloud, the Wall Street Journal reported May 14.
iCloud users currently can store sets of images in the cloud, which can be synced to photos on various Apple devices. The next version of iCloud, reports the Journal, citing people familiar with the matter, will allow users to share sets of photos with other iCloud users, who will be able to comment on them. It's Apple with a touch of Facebook, it would seem.
The report adds that Apple additionally is working on a feature that will allow users to sync videos via iCloud, as well as "Notes" and "Reminders"two features that currently must be accessed by launching apps.
Apple introduced its free iCloud services at last year's WWDC.
Today it is a real hassle and very frustrating to keep all your information and content up-to-date across all your devices. iCloud keeps your important information and content up-to-date across all your devices. … and because its integrated into our apps you dont even need to think about itit all just works, the late Steve Jobs said in a statement at the time, two months before resigning from his CEO position due to illness.
Apple added in the June 6, 2011, statement that it was ready to "ramp iCloud in its three data centers, including the third recently completed in Maiden, N.C." In anticipation of high demand for iCloud, it added, it had invested more than $500 million in the Maiden data center.
This April, Greenpeace lumped Apple with Amazon and Microsoft in a report on cloud solutions, calling out the trio for powering their clouds with "dirty utilities." The accusation provoked a response from the usually tight-lipped Apple, which came to the defense of its operation in Maiden. The "greening" of Applewhich led to better environmental standards through the industrywas instigated by Jobs.
"Our data center in North Carolina will draw about 20 megawatts at full capacity, and we are on track to supply more than 60 percent of that power on-site from renewable sources including a solar farm and fuel cell installation, which will each be the largest of their kind in the country," Kristin Huguet, an Apple spokesperson, told NPR in a statement. "We believe this industry-leading project will make Maiden the greenest data center ever built, and it will be joined next year by our new facility in Oregon running on 100 percent renewable energy."
What else to expect at WWDC? The rumors include hopes of an Apple TV, new MacBook Pros and the introduction of iOS 6.
Analysts with Piper Jaffray would also add new iMacs and iPods to that list.
"We believe that MacBook, iMac and potentially MacBook Air lines could all be refreshed during the June quarter, which we believe would result in a re-acceleration of Mac sales," they wrote in a May 14 research note. "We note Apple blogs have speculated that MacBooks may be updated with a slimmer body style. Also, Intel's most-recent generation of processors, Ivy Bridge, is set to be introduced during the quarter."
The firm expects Apple to sell 6.3 million iPods during the June quarter and 4.5 million Macs.


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A Family Affair
by ReShonda Tate Billingsley
Publication Date: Jul 30, 2013
List Price: $16.00
Format: Paperback, 336 pages
Classification: Fiction
Imprint: Gallery Books
Publisher: Simon & Schuster, Inc.
Parent Company: KKR & Co. Inc.
Read an Excerpt from A Family Affair
Award-winning author ReShonda Tate Billingsley, whose bestselling fiction "tackles some of life's toughest situations" (The Florida Times-Union), unravels the secrets in a mother's past that turn her daughter's life upside down—by revealing the family she never knew existed. Her dream of studying dance at Juilliard is within reach, but Olivia Dawson turns down the opportunity, choosing instead to stay with her ailing mother in the Houston projects where they barely make ends meet. Lorraine Dawson is Olivia's whole world, and now Olivia insists on being there for her. But when Lorraine learns Olivia is sacrificing college for her sake, her heartache triggers a series of shattering events that results in Olivia discovering her father, a man she was told had died years ago. But he is alive and well—and he's the powerful CEO of one of the country's richest corporations.
With her best friend urging her to claim a much-deserved chunk of Bernard Wells's fortune, Olivia seeks out his Los Angeles mansion. But it's not money she wants—it's answers: Why did he abandon Lorraine when Olivia was three years old? Why did they suffer in poverty while he gave his "real" wife and son a life of luxury? Opening up the past, however, is more complicated than Olivia—or Bernard—expected, and the pain of yesterday's sins must be confronted before true healing and a bright tomorrow can begin.
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Relationship With Female Colleague: Must He Marry Her?
Praise be to Allah
We have mentioned in many fatwas (verdicts) that unrestrained mixing, which is not controlled by the guidelines enjoined by shariah (Islamic law) such as proper hijab (dress code for Muslim women) and proper etiquette of interaction, is haram. We have also stated that it is haram to work and study in mixed places. We are saddened by the fact that there are muftis (scho;ars) who take this matter lightly and approve of this chaotic situation in schools and workplaces. It is as if they are living in another world, where they do not see the effects of haram mixing such as heartbreak, loss of sanity and destruction of religious commitment.
This has been discussed in the answer to question no. 1200.
No one is safe from these effects. Chaste women have fallen into the foul swamp of mixing and been affected by its filth, ugliness and stench. The same may be said about righteous young men who used to obey Allah – how they were and what they have become.
Allah has created in men an inclination towards females, and He has created in women an inclination towards men. But Allah has not permitted relationships between those who are not mahrams (those may not marry one another Islamically) to one another, except through marriage. Hence in shariah there are many rulings which block the way to immorality. It is haram to look at a non-mahram woman, and it is haram to shake hands with her, or be alone with her. It is haram for a woman to travel on her own, and there are other rulings which prevent the shaytan (devil) from making the Muslim fall into the sin of zina (fornication/adultery).
You say "there was a haram relationship with her" but we do not know what this means. It may be interpreted in two ways:
1. Zina – Allah forbid.
2. Becoming friends and being alone with her, but without zina.
If the first meaning is what happened, then they have committed a grave sin. Allah has ruled that the unmarried man and woman who commit zina are to be given one hundred lashes, and that those who are married and commit this sin should be stoned to death. The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) has told us that the zani (fornicator/adulterer) has lost his faith, and in a dream he saw men and women who had committed zina in an oven in the Fire of Hell.
One of the rulings that applies to those who commit zina is that it is haram for the zani to marry the zaniyah, and it is haram for her to marry him, because marriage of the zani and zaniyah is haram, unless they have repented sincerely from the grave sin that they have committed.
If they repent sincerely, and the woman observes an 'iddah (waiting period) of one menstrual cycle, then it is permissible for them to marry, and we ask Allah to forgive them and bless them.
For more information please see the answers to questions no. 14381, 85335, 96460, 87894.
If the second meaning is what happened – as is usually the case in such relationships, especially when he wants to marry her – then there is no reason why he should not marry her in the sense that the marriage contract will not be invalid, but it may be disallowed because she is not religiously committed or of good character, and she is not qualified to be a wife who will help him to protect his religious commitment and raise his children. But we cannot say this in your son's case. If she is negligent then he is the same, and every fault that we think is present in her is to be found in him too.
If Islam tells him to look for a pure, righteous woman, then it enjoins her likewise. Allah says (interpretation of the meaning):
"Bad statements are for bad people (or bad women for bad men) and bad people for bad statements (or bad men for bad women). Good statements are for good people (or good women for good men) and good people for good statements (or good men for good women)."
[al-Noor 24:26]
"And marry those among you who are single (i.e. a man who has no wife and the woman who has no husband) and (also marry) the Salihoon (pious, fit and capable ones) of your (male) slaves and maid‑servants (female slaves)."
[al-Noor 24:32]
But let us be realistic, and fair. When comparing between them, do not look at how your son used to be, rather look at how he is now.
Then you will see that each of them has become attached to the other and they both want to get married, and the best way to set them straight and put an end to the evil in their relationship, is for them to get married. Ibn Majah (1847) narrated that Ibn 'Abbas said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said: "There is nothing like marriage for two who love one another." Classed as saheeh by al-Albani in Saheeh Ibn Majah.
Perhaps this will be a good opportunity to encourage them to repent and set their affairs straight, before they get married.
Getting married with the intention of getting divorced is haram. It is not permissible for a Muslim to have this intention before getting married.
See the answers to questions no. 27104 and 91961.
We are with you and we urge you to fear Allah in such matters. If this was your daughter, would you be happy for someone to marry her with this intention?!
Is it befitting for you to think of your son's interests, and look for what is good for him, even if it is at the expense of other people?
It was narrated that 'Abd-Allah ibn 'Amr ibn al-'As (may Allah be pleased with him) said: We were with the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) on a journey and he said: "Whoever would like to move away from Hell and enter Paradise, let him reach his end when he is believing in Allah and the Last Day, and let him treat people the way he likes to be treated." Narrated by Muslim, no. 1844.
And Allah knows best.


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Apply a small amount of hair moisturizer to the palm of your hand and distribute it evenly through the mid-lengths and the ends. Moisturizer will help your hair to maintain good condition and protect your strands from heat as you style.
Apply styling mousse to damp hair, using your palm as a measuring guide, and evenly distribute it along the hair shaft. Styling mousse will add hold and can help achieve better results.
Using the corner of your comb and standing in front of a mirror find the middle of your left eye and then drag the comb straight up slowly until you reach your hairline and then continue back in a straight manner to achieve an even left part. A side part is great for longer face shapes because it creates the illusion of width.
It is always a good idea to work in sections. This will help to make your hair styling quicker, easier to follow and more orderly. Comb your hair out and place your hair up into four equal sections, two in front and two in back, starting from ear to ear.
A small radial brush is used on shorter hair types to add more body or in longer hair types to create curl. When selecting a radial brush, always use one with a pure bristle as this will not tear or damage the hair.
Starting at the nape/back of the hair, place your brush on top of the section and blow-dryer down starting from the roots and using tension as you go. Next, place the blow-dryer underneath the hair and continue to blow-dry the ends out. Make sure to follow the brush with the blow-dryer in an outwards direction. If you like fuller flicks, hold the ends out and roll them up into the brush and apply the heat for longer.
To blow-dry the sides, take out your first sections from the front and clip the rest of the hair up. Place your brush on top of the section, and starting from the roots, blow-dry down using tension as you go. Next, place the blow-dryer underneath the hair and continue to blow-dry the ends out. Continue this step until the hair is dry.
Working in sections, place your brush at the roots of your hair and then using a blow-dryer on low heat, drag your brush through to the ends styling towards the left.
Working in sections, place your brush at the roots of your hair and then using a blow-dryer on low heat, drag your brush through to the ends styling towards the right.
To blow-dry the crown/top sections, take a section of hair no bigger than the diameter of the brush and blow-dry the hair placing the brush under the section of hair. With your blow-dryer in front of the brush, follow the brush in an upwards direction at the roots and an outwards position at the ends for volume and softness. Continue until the section is dry.
When blow-drying your bangs to the side, section your hair up and clip your hair back to leave only your bangs out. Remember to make sure that your bangs are damp to make blow-drying more effective. Next, take your brush and place it underneath the hair and then blow-dry starting from the roots, adding tension to the hair as you go. Slowly pull your section down to the ends and continue until dry.
Using wax and your fingers grab the mid-lengths of your hair and then drag it out and upwards for a full and messy result. Remember not to overdo the wax or your result will be a flat and greasy style.
Apply a small amount of wax to your fingertips, and then starting about halfway down the hair shaft, pinch and drag the hair in a downward motion before flicking the ends out. Remember not to apply too much wax as it will weigh your hair down.
To finish the look, apply wax to your fingertips, making sure to smooth the wax over all of your fingers, then simply pinch the wax onto the ends of your hair, applying as much or as little as needed.
Apply wax to your fingertips then drag through your bangs, sweeping the hair to the right as you go. Pinching the ends will create soft texture.
Apply a very small amount of smoothing shine to the palms of your hands and then run it through the mid-lengths and ends of your hair. Be careful not to add any to the roots or a large amount to any section of the hair as smoothing shine can be very heavy on the hair, weighing it down and making it appear oily.
To finish, apply a minimal amount of hairspray from an arms length distance to the top, sides and back. Take care not to use too much or you will end up with a white, flaky residue which looks like dandruff.


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In response to a congressional inquiry regarding a Navy purchase of expensive biofuels, Secretary Ray Mabus made numerous claims that are either factually incorrect or misleading regarding federal energy policy and the nation's oil reserves.
Mabus was responding to concerns raised by Reps. Doug Lamborn (R-CO) and Mike Conaway (R-TX) regarding a Navy purchase of 450,000 gallons of biofuels – the largest-ever federal purchase of such fuel – at $15 per gallon. That is more than three times the price of conventional diesel fuel.
The company providing the fuel, Solazyme, is advised by an energy consultant who helped write the alternative energy portion of president's stimulus package.
"The math is clear," Mabus told Lamborn in a letter dated March 23. "Opening up every possible source of oil available to us still would not provide enough to supply all our needs."
That statement is categorically untrue. The United States has 1.4 trillion barrels of recoverable oil, more than the proven reserves (note: reserves, not recoverable resources) of any other nation, and more than the entire non-North American world combined, according to a study by the Institute for Energy Research.
It is true that the U.S. has only two percent of the world's oil reserves, a statistic that Mabus cited in his letter in highly misleading fashion. But that measure only accounts for oil that is recoverable at current prices and under current law. In other words, if all government-owned land were open to oil development, that two percent figure would skyrocket.
What's more, Lamborn did not suggest that all of the military's energy should be met using oil. The issue is how best to determine what mix of energy sources should be used. The Obama administration apparently believes that bureaucrats, not market forces, are best suited to make that decision, despite evidence that the market is better suited to the task.
Mabus also touted one of the White House's favorite talking points on energy production. "President Obama's 'All of the Above' energy strategy clearly advocates increasing domestic oil production as much as possible," Mabus wrote. "In fact, domestic oil production has risen and foreign oil imports have declined in each of the last three years."
But as Scribe has reported, oil production on federal lands – lands over which the president has authority – is at a nine-year low. The increase in oil production that Mabus cites is due primarily to activity on privately-owned land.
As for oil imports, the decline Mabus cites is primarily attributable to decreases in domestic demand brought on by the economic downturn, and policies put in place by Obama's predecessor, George W. Bush, according to independent energy analysts.
Mabus went on to cite the potential price shocks that result from changes in global oil prices, claiming, "every dollar increase in the price of a barrel of oil costs the Navy an additional $30 million."
But unless oil prices rise so rapidly that the per-gallon cost of fuel reaches $15 – the price paid for the biofuels that spurred Lamborn's letter – even these price shocks cannot cost the Navy as much, per gallon of fuel, as the biofuel purchase in question.
Indeed, Mabus insisted, "a competitively priced and domestically produced liquid fuel that can be dropped in as a replacement to diesel or aviation gas can give us greater energy independence." But Lamborn's issue is precisely that the biofuels the Navy purchased are not "competitively priced." They are many times the price of conventional fuel.
Mabus attempted to deflect that obvious point by noting that alternative energy remains expensive because "we have not provided the type or level of incentives for alternative fuels that we provide the oil industry to encourage exploration and production."
Again, this claim is untrue. Most of the incentives enjoyed by the oil industry are enjoyed by a multitude of other businesses. They include standard tax write-offs for operating expenses, and tax breaks offered to all manufacturing or natural resource extraction companies. Alternative energy sources, meanwhile, enjoy specific and targeted subsidies aimed at benefitting certain technologies, industries, or companies.
The level of benefits afforded the oil industry is in fact below that given to the alternative energy sector. Tax breaks for oil companies – again, the primary source of federal support – pales in comparison to tax breaks given to alternative energy companies, as a recent Congressional Budget Office report pointed out.
Those facts aside, "every American would be better served by getting rid of all energy subsidies," Heritage energy policy expert Jack Spencer told Scribe. "The fact is that the federal government doesn't need to waste taxpayer money to bring new energy technologies on line."
Spencer noted that if Mabus is correct and oil prices skyrocket to unaffordable levels, market forces would naturally offer a foothold for biofuels and other renewables without making the purchase of economically uncompetitive fuel sources necessary.
The Navy's biofuel purchase, and Mabus's defense of it, is part of an ongoing mission "that needlessly bleeds scarce resources away from core missions to advance a political agenda is untenable," Spencer noted in a report on the effort.
"The White House is pushing the idea that the alternative energy industry would get the kick start it needs if the military will just commit to using them," Spencer added. "But the assumptions behind this argument are flawed, and the strategy would increase demands on the military budget while harming national security."
Here is the full text of Mabus's letter:


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News From The SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION
Just as Social Security is an American cornerstone, baseball is America's pastime.
Baseball is an annual rite of summer and a game that is known for its numbers. Joe DiMaggio's 56-game hitting streak, Cal Ripken's record 2,632 consecutive games played, and Hank Aaron's 755 career home runs all tell stories greater than the numbers themselves. Mention any one of these numbers to a baseball fan and you're sure to call to mind memories and stories.
Social Security's numbers tell stories too. The first lump sum Social Security payment of 17 cents was made to Ernest Ackerman in 1937. The first monthly Social Security check of $22.54 went to Ida May Fuller in January of 1940. This year, about 55 million Americans will receive $760 billion in Social Security benefits. The average monthly benefit for a retired worker in 2012 is $1,229.
An estimated 159 million workers are covered under Social Security- that's 94 percent of the workforce. Fifty percent of workers have no private pension coverage and 31 percent have no savings set aside specifically for retirement. These and other numbers make it easy to appreciate the value of Social Security.
Ninety percent of Americans age 65 and older receive Social Security benefits. And among the unmarried, 41 percent rely on Social Security benefits for 90 percent of their income.
Social Security is more than just retirement benefits. Disabled workers and their dependents account for 19 percent of the total benefits paid, while survivor's benefits account for 12 percent. Almost one in four of today's 20-year olds will become disabled before reaching age 67, and the majority of these workers have no long-term disability insurance besides their Social Security coverage. About one in eight of today's 20-year olds will die before reaching age 67.
Baseball and Social Security: America's pastime and America's retirement program. Both have long and storied histories and associations with statistics.
Learn more about Social Security by visiting www.socialsecurity.gov.


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With all the press the Los Angeles Lakers have gotten recently, you'd think they were destined for the Finals.
The Lakers drive to the playoffs are the talk of SportsCenter. The comeback against the Hornets dominated the internets and even garnered a late night talk show interview for the one and only Kobe Bryant.
"It's about time we started playing defense," Kobe Bryant said of the "season changing" comeback over the almost-worst-in-West Hornets on Wednesday night. The Lakers rallied from a 17-point fourth quarter deficit to win.
OMG! Really? Only a playoff-caliber team could do that!
Except that the Suns rallied from a 19-point deficit to beat the Hornets earlier this season. Let's not forget the Hornets are terrible this year.
Well, maybe the playoff-caliber statement is beating playoff-bound Atlanta at home last Sunday? The Lakers led most of the game and closed out a 1-point win at home.
OMG! Really? Atlanta is 10 games over .500! Only a playoff-caliber team could do that!
Except that the Suns had just put a pasting on the Hawks two nights earlier in Phoenix.
Let's step back and take a wider view.
It is ridiculous to compare the vaunted Los Angeles Lakers to the horrific Phoenix Suns who, for much of this season, trotted out a starting lineup of former BACKUPS to three guys in the Lakers' lineup (Dragic/Nash, Gortat/Howard, Brown/Bryant).
Surely the Lakers, boasting multiple league MVPs and future Hall of Famers, have been vastly more successful than the 21-40 Phoenix Suns.
Let's see here.
Games decided by 3 points or less:
- Lakers 4-4
- Suns 5-5
Games vs. West playoff teams (West top 8)
- Lakers 6-17
- Suns 6-15
Games vs. West top 5 (Spurs, Thunder, Clippers, Grizzlies, Nuggets)
- Lakers 2-13
- Suns 5-9
And the Lakers are vastly better than the Suns how?
In fact, the Phoenix Suns just beat the Lakers a couple weeks ago in the nationally-covered "return of Nash" game, where the Suns executed what's apparently now called a "Laker-esque" 13-point fourth quarter rally.
The Phoenix Suns are 21-40 and fighting for the best draft position they can get.
The Los Angeles Lakers are 31-31 and fighting for the 7th or 8th seed in the West with an aging team destined to face a team they have no chance to beat. (Sounds like recent Suns seasons, right?)
Sucks to be both teams, no matter what Laker fans might want to believe. The Lakers are going nowhere, and those two unprotected first-round picks (2013 and 2015) are looking better and better.
If the Lakers miss out on the playoffs this season, the Suns get their lottery pick (likely #14 overall). If the Lakers squeak into the playoffs long enough to get swept, the Suns get Miami's first-round pick which is likely about #28 overall. Not a huge difference in a bland draft, but that's 14 more players off the board before the Suns get to pick from the barrel.
But the Suns never planned on getting a lottery pick this season from the Lakers. Their best hope was always a really good pick in 2015.
Still, it's fun to watch the Lakers squirm.
Though it's getting old watching them preen after getting "signature" wins that don't even measure up to what the lowly Suns have accomplished so far.


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As you returned home from the market and unloaded your sack of produce, have you ever simply admired the satisfying bounty? Enjoyed the color, texture, and aroma as cantaloupe, broccoli, carrots, tomatoes, lettuce, cherries, apricots, avocado, strawberries and more passed through your hands? But now, what to do with each item … how best to keep it fresh and tasty until you're ready to eat it?
The Postharvest Technology Center offers free copies of an 8.5" x 11" full color poster that shows which produce items should go in your refrigerator, which items should never go in the refrigerator, and finally, which items should be ripened at room temperature and then placed in the refrigerator.
"'Storing Fresh Fruits and Vegetable for Better Taste' is a handy tool to keep on your refrigerator," said Beth Mitcham, center director. "Where you store your produce can have a profound effect both on how good it tastes, and how long you can keep it at an optimal state until you're ready to serve it to your family."
Produce marketing researchers have noted that with the current recession, shoppers are feeling guiltier than ever when they end up having to toss out fruits or veggies 'gone bad.'
"It's like a double guilt," explained Dr. Roberta Cook, "not only has the shopper with the best of intentions not eaten the food they know is healthiest for them, but they have also wasted their money. Following the handling recommendations for each produce item can really improve the consumer's experience on several levels."
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China's banks disbursed the most loans in any month in four years in January, a surge that suggests the world's second-biggest economy may not be cooling as much as some fear.
Chinese banks lent 1.32 trillion yuan ($217.6 billion) worth of new yuan loans in January, beating a 1.1 trillion yuan forecast and nearly three times December's level, the People's Bank of China said in a statement on Saturday on its website.
It is usual for loans to spike in January when banks try to lend as much as they can to grab market share, but last month's surge was still the largest since January 2010.
Saturday's figures may assuage those who worry about China's hazy economic outlook following recent data that showed conflicting trends. Distortions to the data as a result of January's Lunar New Year holiday is part of the problem, and some analysts believe it won't be till April before they get finally get some clarity on what is happening.
Some economists cautioned against reading too much into the latest figures.
"The bigger picture is that bank loan growth has been effectively flat since the middle of 2013," Capital Economics said in a note, adding that broader credit growth is at its lowest in nearly one and a half years. "We think that tight monetary conditions are probably here to stay."
Total social financing, a broad measure of liquidity and credit in the economy, was 2.58 trillion yuan in January, double the previous month's figure due to the surge in bank loans.
Compared to a year ago, Capital Economics said growth in total social financing had eased to 17.4 percent in January, the lowest in about a year-and-a-half and down from December's 17.8 percent.
The broad M2 money supply was up 13.2 percent last month from a year earlier, in line with a Reuters poll forecast of a 13.2 percent rise.
Outstanding yuan loans were up 14.3 percent from a year earlier versus forecasts for growth of 13.9 percent.
Bank lending is a centerpiece in China's monetary policy as banks lend at the government's behest, and are told how much to lend and when to lend.
January's lending surge aside, China's central bank has consistently signalled in recent months that it wants to temper credit growth to slow a rapid rise in debt levels across the economy.
It has focused in particular on keeping short-term interest rates elevated to force banks to stop lending to speculators or high-risk borrowers.
Analysts polled by Reuters in January said they expect China's economy to grow 7.4 percent this year, an enviable performance for a major economy, but still the worst for China in 14 years. The economy grew 7.7 percent last year.
A series of surveys that showed Chinese factories and service firms suffered a marked fall in business in January and had heightened worries about an unexpectedly sharp economic cooling. But the disappointing trend was countered this week by a surprisingly strong trade report that showed import growth at a six-month high, a performance that baffled some analysts.


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Anantha Krishnan P is a highly talented and dedicated individual whose exceptional skills have made a significant impact on Kaar Tech. Since joining the company in 2019, he has taken on various roles, demonstrating his versatility and expertise in multiple domains. His unwavering dedication to producing high-quality content and conducting thorough market research has been instrumental in the accomplishment of numerous significant projects across regions. With his keen analytical abilities, and capacity to understand complex business dynamics he is all set to develop and execute strategies to enhance Kaar Tech's brand image, visibility, and credibility.
Learning something new right from the management level people to executives got me inspired every single day at Kaar Tech. In comparison to my previous organizations, I see myself excelling a lot in technical knowledge as well as communication. Kaar Tech gave me my very first opportunity to travel onsite and win a million-dollar deal post which the curve grew exponentially with continuous learning. Thank you, Kaar Tech, for letting me enjoy, relish and improve myself in every moment of my job!
I've been working at Kaar Tech for more than a decade now, and genuinely feel like I'm bound with no words to elaborate my journey as a Kaarian. As an Admin Assistant, the thrive to provide a comfortable working environment to all our employees motivates me to work efficiently each and every day. One prime learning I got from Kaar Tech is when it comes to learning enough is never enough.
Being the Admin Manager I strongly disagree that the duty of admin is to only take care of the organization's assets. I strongly believe and make sure to care of our employees who we consider as the greatest assets of Kaar Tech. I feel secure to work at Kaar Tech because of my great management team who encourage me to be myself.
My career's evolution at Kaar Tech is truly unexplainable, the amount of exposure, knowledge, freedom, and opportunities I got made me evolve from being a Travel Executive to HR Operations Lead and now as an SAP SuccessFactors Consultant. The positive work environment, personal motivation from directors, friendly managers, and family-like peers played a huge role in developing me both personally and professionally with an easy move on strategy.
4+ years in Kaar Tech and it's still looking fresh. Obviously, I did start my career at a fantabulous place and the opportunities to learn is multi-fold in short span of time. Whenever I think about Kaar Tech I'm reminded of a place that reflects family much more than a corporate culture. Inside Kaar Tech there is something unique which encourages me to continue and puts away each and every struggle by spending quality time in understanding the scenario, developing empathy and deciding to head ahead with a broader perspective.
Kaar has become an integral part of my family and held various roles and performed multiple responsibilities. I've been awarded multiple opportunities to exhibit my talents beyond my abilities. The trust they have shown, the kind of encouragement, and the kind words you can hear from management and peers are the things that drive me to achieve whatever I have now and even beyond.
Everyone has different perceptions of Kaar Tech, but for me, Kaar Tech is the giver. Giver- because Kaar tech gives each and every employee an opportunity to grow, earn, and gain a lot of knowledge and experience to prove each themselves. The best thing I find here is the work culture on how people care and support each other while also challenging them to grow with the company. Leaders here appreciate and recognize their team's work which motivates me to work more effectively. Kaar Tech is a Great Place to work indeed.
I personally feel that the idiosyncratic feature of Kaar Tech lies in breaking enterprises free from the shackles of traditional enterprise operations. Being a part of a team with the same synergy and learning without restrictions inspires my productivity. One piece of advice I'd like to share with everyone is too," Be the best version of yourself" and when opportunities knock" See the message and not the messenger".
Ex-Senior Public Relations Official of a Foreign Embassy in Chennai. 28+ years of combined work experience. B.Com with 2 PG Diplomas in Public Relations & Computer Applications. Joined Kaar in 2015. Heading CEOs Office (India & US) and Administering Kaar Arakattalai/CSR activities since 2015. Jovial, easily approachable & always looking for avenues to help people around me. Fun loving, work-savvy, singer, religious, story-writer, ex-actor and social worker for 30+ years. Married. Spouse-Home Maker. Elder daughter-MBA/working – Younger one – B.Com 1Y
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Great and secured feeling since my joining @ Kaar as this is my first Corporate Company and the pleasure of working for a legend like Maran multiplies my joy
The wonderful governance against all odds by our super-talented Senior Management / Mezzanine Team and their leadership skills are exemplary
All employees stood as one family and supported our Company when it faced the greatest challenge of its history (financial crisis triggered by oil price slump in 2017-19). This bravado by Kaarians and their unconditional unity….truly fascinate me
The challenging tasks assigned to me by CEO and the Top Management motivate me a lot. Also the fact that I act as a tool and a connecting bridge between the poor & needy students and Kaar Arakattalai and getting them educational scholarships fascinate me a lot.
My life mantra 'believing in my ability and performing my role to perfection within my capacity' motivates me & help me to stay focussed, always.
(a) Do what your conscience tells you……always and believe in your ability
(b) Only your deeds, performed in a honest and dedicated way, will bring you laurels and nothing else.
Kaar Tech flooded me with immense exposure to improvise my learning curve in different streams of Marketing. The amount of trust the organization bestowed on me makes me feel extremely responsible in every work I do. The guidance and humble attitude I received from the people of senior management always leveled up my curiosity to learn more.
Its been a fantastic Journey with Kaartech from Past 5 Years and still continuing. Joined as a Senior Consultant and was posted to Kuwait to begin with. From then on, there has been no looking back. Was placed as Project Manager at multiple customers in KSA. I am currently the Regional Head of PMO for Mena North and West.
My exposure in Kaartech streches accross all over GCC under most of the leaders of kaartech. This has given immense experience on the allignment towards organisation objectives.
I'm thankful to all the Leadership fertinity, naming only few Maran, Selva, Rajkumar and Shahinsha for the trust and believing in me. This gives a lot a confidence to drive bigger role and Contribute to our organisation
Working in kaartech has given me a vast range of experiences & knowledge which is perhaps the best take away from this company apart from the timely appreciation and oppertunities which comes. I am very glad to contribute in journey of kaar & am a happy and true Kaarian.
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In our new website we have planned to create a new landing page called the "Humans of Kaar Tech". In which we have planned to portray our employees. So, for this initiative we thought that your presence would play a major role. Kindly let me know your availability to discuss on this.
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The very first thing I noticed upon entering Kaar Tech is the spirit of Motivation from all four directions. My passion for working on the career step ahead for people made me land in Kaar. The most remarkable experience of my life ties in with Kaar Tech who cherished each accomplished task with awards and recognitions. Over my experience, for decades one piece of advice I'd like to share is to wait patiently cause the time will come for each one of us to succeed!
I am a passionate HR professional/Talent specialist specializing identifying right talent to suitable jobs. I do have an eye and ear for recognizing talent when I see it.
While everyone's situation is unique, one of the common theme is to create boundaries in your life that only you can determine. I try to strike a balance between spending time for professional responsibilities and equally spending time with my family, engaging with my daughter, and in spare time i do some craft work,
Very good organization to work for SAP aspirants/consultants, who wish to elevate their professional career to greater heights. Transparent management, support systems and endless opportunities within the organization makes it appropriate for professionals at any stage of their career.
People Centric approach, Transparency & Candidness in Communication at its core makes Kaar Tech prominent
The entire tenure with Kaar Tech has given me a lot of fond memories, I vividly recall the early days of my journey, joining as a graduate just out of university and gradually evolving myself as a seasoned professional. More than a decade later I have witnessed myself growing along with the organization both professionally and personally.
A proud Kaarian to say this!!!
My Passion towards work with Never Give Up attitude
Dedication & Commitment
Believe in your abilities, Be Committed, and trust in the principles that are at the core of Kaar Tech and one can see themselves scaling heights in the organization
I feel that Kaar Tech is one big family. We get to bond with our fellow colleagues beyond work. The seniors are always available to support and help in case of any roadblocks or challenges. I'm lucky to be able to work with managers who are empathetic and understanding. Kaar Tech has the sort of work culture that any organization should stick to. They've given me ample opportunities and avenues to grow along with my peers who always motivate me which in turn helps to bring out the best in me.


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With the debt ceiling agreement almost a certainty this past Sunday evening, the expectation was the markets and the economy would rebound briskly the following day. After all, weren't we all bombarded for weeks with the message that if the debt ceiling were not raised, the economic sky would fall in? The economy would tank? Economic Armageddon was coming? So, if we raised the debt ceiling, the markets would rebound, right?
On Monday the stock market at first did rebound on the news of the imminent debt deal, but only briefly and modestly. It quickly turned around within hours on Monday, declining sharply by the end of the day. Why? The debt deal was in the bag by Monday. The recalcitrant House and Teapublicans voted for it. Only the formality of the Senate voting on Tuesday remained. Why wouldn't the markets, falling most of the previous week, snap back with the conclusion of the debt deal?
Instead, the markets slumped badly by the close of business on Monday, not because of the debt deal, but in response to a report late that morning showing the July US manufacturing activity index had fallen to 50.9 percent in July from 55.3 percent in June – the largest collapse in years and to the lowest level since June 2009, which was the trough of the recent recession. Fifty percent for the manufacturing index represents no growth. That's stagnation. Even more serious in the report, future orders for manufactured goods fell to 49.2 percent – a clear contraction – the first such since June 2009, as well. In other words, in terms of manufacturing at least, the economy now was right back where it was two years ago.
No wonder the stock market shuddered on Monday, notwithstanding all the "good news" about the debt deal. The performance of the real economy was far more important and "real" than all the huff and puff about debt ceilings and defaults by the US government. The alleged "good news" of the debt agreement was overwhelmed by the undisputable "real news" that the real economy was heading for a relapse.
And it was not just the US economy. Not reported by the US press on Monday was that the US manufacturing index's nearly 5 percentage points drop was being echoed at the same time by a decline in global manufacturing – in Europe, UK, Asia, even China. All reportedly had begun to slip.
On Tuesday, the debt ceiling deal was voted up by the Senate and signed by Obama into law. But the New York Stock Exchange fell by another 265 points and the NASDAQ by a whopping 75. Wait a minute! The debt deal was officially done, wasn't it? No chance of a reversal. So, why did the markets finally respond so negatively? The "real" reason was a further report on Tuesday. Consumer spending – representing 70 percent of the economy – fell by 0.2 percent, the first drop since September 2009.
In the face of this evidence of imminent contraction of the US economy, Congress voted to cut deficits in the amount of $1 trillion for certain, with another minimum $1.2 trillion in spending reductions due before the year end. Granted, much of that $2.2 trillion will be spread over ten years. But there will be about $30 billion in immediate cuts this year from the initial $1 trillion deficit reduction. Most of that will come from education, and still more, and bigger, first year spending cuts before year end.
The second round of $1.2 trillion in cuts will likely equal at least another $50 billion to $100 billion in the short term, most of that from Medicare-Medicaid and a lesser, token amount from defense, this writer predicts. That's about $100 billion in total federal government spending cuts impacting the economy this coming year. Add to that the $38 billion in cuts in spending enacted last spring in revisions to the 2011 budget, plus another $100 billion spending cuts forecasted by state and local governments the coming first year, and what you get is around $250 billion in spending reductions for the coming year.
But this $250 billion's impact must be "multiplied" to get its true, final economic effect. Economists estimate the "multiplier" from government spending at about 1.5. That means for every $1 cut in government spending, about $1.5 dollars are taken out of the economy. The first year of cuts are therefore $375 billion to $400 billion in terms of their economic effect. Ironically, that's about equal to the spending increase from Obama's 2009 initial stimulus package. In other words, we are about to extract from the economy – now showing multiple signs of weakening badly – the original spending stimulus of 2009!
As others have pointed out, that magnitude of spending contraction will result in 1.5 million to 2 million more jobs lost. That's also about all the jobs created since the trough of the recession in June 2009. In other words, the job market will be thrown back two years as well.
With the debt ceiling deal, the US Congress and the president have crossed the bridge into the parched desert of "austerity." This is an historic juncture, shifting from stimulus to grow the economy out of recession, to austerity to thrust it back into recession! But the politicians of both parties are due for a rude surprise. Deficit cutting and austerity will result in worsening deficits and more debt – not reductions in deficits. An economy cannot cut its way out of a deficit and recession any more than a company can cut its way back to long-run profitability. It can only grow its way out by generating more revenue. For a company, that means selling more products and sales revenue; for the economy, that means creating more jobs and raising tax revenue.
Austerity solutions are a dead end. If anyone believes austerity solutions are the answer to recovery, they should simply look at Greece, Ireland, and the rest of the periphery of the eurozone. Imposing austerity there has resulted in a further deepening recession, falling tax revenues and still worsening deficits and debt. Ditto for the conservatives in the United Kingdom, whose recent deficit cutting is now thrusting that economy back into recession. The same is inevitable for the US if it continues toward austerity, deficit and spending reductions as a way to recovery. To employ a metaphor, austerity is like trying to win a race by shooting yourself in the foot at the starting block.
Nevertheless, it appears more austerity is on the agenda in the US – the next round in the 2012 budget negotiations due by October 1 and further in the December cuts that will be mandated by the so-called Bipartisan Committee; and following that, still more cuts, this writer predicts, in 2012, as the recession wipes out a good part of the prior spending cuts.
More cuts will follow because, despite the deficit cutting, the US budget deficit will now actually worsen and not improve. As the economy slides, tax revenues will fall below those officially projected, generating a call for even more cuts from those who believe deficit and debt reduction will restore business confidence and, therefore, investment and recovery.
All the talk about restoring business confidence is, in other words, simply a "confidence game." Collapsing business confidence is a consequence not of deficit cutting, but of consumers being unable to afford to buy their products. Want to change business confidence? Help consumers buy their products and see how fast that confidence returns. Adding two million more to the total jobless will only reduce consumers' income further, exacerbate the decline in consumption already underway and result, in turn, in a further deterioration of business confidence.
The past few days, the US economy has been dealt several severe blows in the reports on manufacturing decline and consumers retreat – a "one-two punch." Over time, the realization will grow that the deficit cuts – $1 trillion now and another $1.2 trillion in a couple months – will do great harm to the economy. The cuts represent another major "body blow" to the economy that is already rapidly weakening. The markets know this. "Business confidence" knows this. Apparently, only the politicians don't.
And more is yet to come. On Friday, the jobs report for July is due for release. July and August employment reports will show even more clearly the serious extent of the economic slide now underway. The coming jobs reports could prove a "knock-out" blow to the economy. The "big money" investors are already betting on that outcome. Dump your stocks and stuff your closet with bonds! The recent debt ceiling debate, in retrospect, appears as just the opening act, with the amateurs (Congress and Obama) flailing at each other, until finally exhausted and calling it a draw, returning to their respective corners to catch their breath. The "main event" is yet to come.
In early 2009, Obama implemented his economic stimulus and recovery plan. The Congress and US Treasury spent $2 trillion and the Federal Reserve more than $9 trillion to bail out the banks. What we got was the weakest and most lopsided recovery since 1940. After a brief twelve months, the economy sagged again in last summer 2010, followed by $600 billion more Fed stimulus, and $350 billion more tax stimulus at year end 2010, which included $250 billion in Bush tax cut extensions. The result? The economy slowed again, even more quickly, to less than 1.0 percent growth in GDP the first six months of 2011. The current third quarter, July-September 2011, will likely prove worse. Stepping into that ring are Congress and Obama. Double-dip recession will be their joint legacy. And if the banking system implodes in Europe, the outcomes will be even worse … much worse.
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On Thursday, May 30, 2013 the EPA held a listening session webinar on potential issues with managing and recycling CRTs. This webinar was an opportunity for stakeholders to identify concerns about CRT management, including whether stockpiling is occurring, and to identify potential solutions to any problems identified.
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With new technologies such as Liquid Crystal Display (LCD), Light Emitting Diode (LED) and plasma screens, the demand for new CRTs has dropped dramatically. EPA has heard that this has resulted in a glut of used CRTs and CRT glass accumulation. For example, a report by TransparentPlanet* estimates that about 660 million pounds are being stockpiled nationally. CRT stockpiles are not an immediate environmental concern as long as they are being managed according to the RCRA regulations. However, there is a risk that a collapse of viable CRT recycling options may lead to mismanagement of CRTs and CRT glass. CRT glass contains lead and, if mismanaged through inappropriate storage, recycling or disposal, can cause significant environmental harm.
(For more information on how EPA currently regulates recycling of used CRTs and CRT glass under the RCRA regulations, including EPA's response to Frequently Asked Questions, go to www.epa.gov/osw/hazard/recycling/electron/)
Karen Pollard is EPA's Electronics Recycling Expert in the Office of Resource Conservation and Recovery. She was a key participant in the Presidential Interagency Task Force to develop the National Strategy for Electronics Stewardship. Prior to the National Strategy, she led a multi-stakeholder process to develop a voluntary consensus standard that includes sound environmental and human health best practices for electronics recyclers. She also helped to implement a third-party certification program for the standard. Prior to coming to electronics, Karen led the national site-specific risk assessment program for hazardous waste combustors and prior to that she regulated new chemicals before they came on the market. Before she came to EPA she was a horticulturist at the United States Botanic Gardens in Washington DC. Karen holds a B.S. from Virginia Tech.
Amanda Kohler has been a rule writer in EPA's Office of Resource Conservation and Recovery for over six years. She has worked on several rulemakings with a focus on hazardous waste recycling and is currently leading development of the Revision to the Export Provisions of the Cathode Ray Tube (CRT) Rule. Additionally, she has led efforts to assist states and EPA regions with implementation of RCRA rules and is also involved in efforts to use hazardous waste data to find opportunities to increase hazardous waste recycling. She holds an M.S. in Environmental Science and Policy from Johns Hopkins University and a B.S. in Environmental Science from the State University of New York at Albany. |


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There is sound science that says there is likely to be big trouble, even in supplying Austin's current population with enough water.
First of three.
I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown
And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed.
And on the pedestal these words appear:
`My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings:
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!'
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away".— Percy Bysshe Shelley, Ozymandias
The threat of drought haunts Austin
AUSTIN, Texas — I have lived in Austin almost 60 years. Ten years ago if someone had asked me whether Austin could survive a drought like that which it is now experiencing, I would have answered "yes" without much reflection.
If somebody asks me the same question today, I will say that Austin MIGHT be able to pull through the next five or 10 years, but only with luck, and with the help of a much different lifestyle that will necessarily require strict water rationing and conservation. The rest of this essay is intended to explain the reasons behind my change of opinion.
The Highland Lakes are water reservoirs created by building dams along the Colorado River. The Lower Colorado River Authority started managing these Highland Lake reservoirs in 1942, originally to tame flooding, to supply irrigation water, and to provide electrical power.
Since that time, water sales have become only a small part of LCRA business compared to managing other kinds of electrical power generation. During the same time, the importance of the Highland Lakes in providing a dependable water supply to urban areas, especially Austin, has become of critical importance.
The Texas "drought of record" of the 1950s, particularly 1954-56, has officially been adopted as a state benchmark to deal with water planning in our perpetually water-deficient state. This extreme experience and its data are used today to argue that Austin could probably survive almost any drought or extended water shortage. If Austin got through those dry times, it can probably get through anything.
Today, however, Lakes Buchanan, Inks, LBJ, and Travis are only 38% full. Although Austin itself still gets moderate rain, and even experienced severe flooding recently, almost all of Austin's water comes as runoff from intermittent rainstorms in the much drier part of Texas north and west of Austin.
Those weather patterns now seem to be changing. Higher summer temperatures increase evaporation. As the earth's surface warms, the air and ground get drier, more rainwater evaporates, and plants stay dormant less of the year. These factors among others have greatly decreased the tributary inflows into Austin's upstream Highland Lake reservoirs.
There is sound science that says there is likely be big trouble, even in supplying Austin's current population with enough water. Historically, Texas has always faced drought, even much more severe than the drought of record seen in our recent history. The analysis of Texas tree rings tells us we should normally expect a "drought of record" or worse every hundred years or so.
That was before climate change. The climate scientists have been predicting for decades that a lot of the American Southwest including West Texas, which is the major source of Austin's water, would gradually face serious water deficiency. There might even be as much total rainfall as before, but if it falls on warmer, dryer soil, more water will be absorbed or evaporate before the water reaches the tributaries. In light of what has been predicted, we seem to be seeing climate change from burning fossil fuels change the Texas agricultural economy within a single generation.
The business-friendly Texas Republicans are trying to convince the rest of the country to move to Texas.
If you ask the business-friendly Texas Republicans, those politicians who effectively run the state of Texas, one of their top goals is to try to convince the rest of the United States to move to Texas. Texas Governor Rick Perry travels the county irritating other governors by suggesting that everyone needs to come to Texas, the big state where everything is cheaper. If the scientists say there isn't going to be enough water to do that, then we need to hire new scientists.
Let us now take a closer look at the current drought situation and see what our Texas politicians are saying. There is a disconnect.
How bad is it?
According to NBC Dallas-Ft. Worth, "Federal officials have designated portions of 11 drought-ridden Western and Central states as primary natural disaster areas, highlighting the financial strain the lack of rain is likely to bring to farmers in those regions." [See map above.]
California has gotten a huge amount of recent drought publicity, mostly because of its large population and its importance as a national breadbasket, with both these needs competing for the same water. The scope of the federal declaration is the big red area covering the Southwest on the map above, making it clear that the current drought should be seen as a cross-country mega-drought. Climate experts are saying that it likely signifies a "dust-bowlification" of the American Southwest.
How bad is it in Texas? Lake Meredith, the river-fed water reservoir that once supplied most of Lubbock's municipal water, has gotten too dry to use, forcing the city of 230,000 to rely on increasingly distant groundwater sources. The Texas Panhandle is now in worse shape than it was in the 1950s. Most Texas ranchers who have not already gone broke are losing money. Now California ranchers are actually shipping cattle to Texas, apparently based on the theory that the Texas drought is a different drought!
Some of California's herd will be headed to Texas, which is recovering from its own severe drought. That state's herd of five million head of cattle has shrunk over the past few years by a quarter, said Jason Cleere, a rancher and beef cattle specialist with Texas AgriLife Extension at Texas A&M University. But as the drought has eased in most of Texas, the herd is being rebuilt, creating a market for California's ranchers looking to sell. "There's a lot of room for more cows to come into our state, and for ranchers to add some back," Cleere said.
Texas politicians mostly deny man-made climate change is happening to Texas
Texas politicians, starting with Gov. Rick Perry at the top, but also including most of the Republicans who run the state, seek to reward the business interests who fund their political campaigns. In Texas, where there are no limits on campaign contributions, the top contributors to Texas politicians typically tend to be home builders and various land development interests. For example the late Bob Perry, a home builder who was the top Texas political contributor, had recently given over $10 million.
Texas is a state where it is impossible to bribe a politician, just so long as you call it a campaign contribution.
As they say, Texas is a state where it is impossible to bribe a politician, just so long as you call it a campaign contribution. The home builders hope to profit by persuading politicians to attract or create new (low wage) jobs, and new business investments, which of course would expand the market for new homes. All this while opposing any limits or regulations on growth, and while expecting local taxes on current residents to provide the roads — and now water — needed for development.
Whenever climate science, environmental considerations, or legal reform get in the way of making money on land development, the Texas bankers, developers, and land speculators know how to play to win. Since the Texas constitution was written mainly by and for the landed gentry of Texas after the Civil War, this legacy means that Texas landowners have "property rights" — meaning the right to develop almost anything in the untaxed, unincorporated suburban areas outside a central city.
There is the prospect of making billions of dollars from suburban sprawl land development surrounding the major metropolitan areas where most Texans now live. Natural limits to growth? Any limits on land development come as bad news and have always been strongly opposed by the well-organized, well-funded Texas growth lobby. The big money in Texas is largely made through selling and developing raw land for ever-expanding rings of suburban sprawl growth that surround its big metropolitan areas.
Austin is now in the midst of a highly profitable Austin-area growth boom, Climate change denial prevails through most state agencies (although the state climatologist believes that climate change is real). The politicians who make the rules outrank the scientists no matter how good the science, or how urgent the scientific warnings.
In Texas, climate science is considered subversive because it tells the politicians stuff they would rather deny. When Gov. Rick Perry was running for president he made his climate change denial very clear. Perry considers global warming a scientific hoax.
In accord with climate science denial, a new special report by Texas Comptroller Susan Combs warns of severe Texas water shortages to come due to population growth while never mentioning either global warming or climate change! Her 23-page report titled "Texas Water Report: Going Deeper for the Solution," is available online. This report has a map of Texas surface reservoirs showing that many reservoirs in the west half of Texas are severely depleted. "According to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ), 46 of the state's public water systems were at risk of running out of water within 180 days as of Jan. 8, 2014." (Page 8)
Evidence of pervasive climate change denial is to be seen even in mainstream Texas media.
Evidence of pervasive climate change denial is to be seen even in mainstream Texas media. For example, a front page October 6, 2013, Austin American-Statesman article said that if current trends continued, then Austin's Highland lakes reservoirs could go completely dry in three years, perhaps toward the end of 2016. This article tells its readers that Austin is a city in serious water trouble, while never mentioning that the probable cause of the drought severity is global warming and climate change!
Water is for fighting
If there is one misguided Texas water planning policy that should win a blue ribbon for bad planning, it is probably the fact that there are two completely different bodies of law that apply to surface water and underground water. Surface water is in short supply, tightly regulated, and mostly already fully allocated to users. Underground water, on the other hand, is governed by "right of capture" law which holds that any property owner has the right to pump whatever they can from beneath the land they own.
The reality is that it is all the same water. In a world that makes sense, all of this water needs to be regulated by the same law, or else some deep pocket water-hustlers are liable to come along and try to steal all the ground water.
Nate Blakeslee recently wrote an article in Texas Monthly describing the needless water wars that are arising as a result of these policies. Corporate water lobbyists like Forestar are trying to obtain the legal right to drain the most easily tapped aquifers, and to pipe this water to supply private developer interests around Austin.
The rule of capture has been the law of the land for more than one hundred years, and it worked well enough when Texas was a rural state with plenty of surface water to go around. But rural interests realized they needed protection when population growth forced cities to begin coveting groundwater in nearby counties. Rather than declare groundwater a public good—anathema in a state that celebrates property rights—the Legislature began encouraging the creation of groundwater conservation districts composed of locally elected boards. These districts, which proliferated in the eighties and nineties, were empowered to limit pumping to prevent aquifers from being drained, finally putting a curb on the rule of capture, at least in theory. Landowners who in the past pumped huge volumes from their wells were generally allowed to continue doing so, even if it caused their neighbors' wells to dry up. In fact, most districts are reluctant to deny any permit request from locals; they see their mission as chiefly to prevent massive water grabs by nearby cities. The problem is that districts are finding it increasingly hard to say no to anyone.
Since Texas has been abnormally dry in the last few years, especially 2011, various acute shortages have been cropping up. That is a political problem; the Texas public want their officials to do something that doesn't cost too much to make such problems go away.
Gov. Rick Perry responded to the drought problem by successfully promoting Proposition 6 in November 2013; it was a band-aid approach rather than a policy that deals with the Texas water crisis in depth. Instead, Proposition 6 is more like a $2 billion line of credit on a loan for a few reservoirs and water pipelines to take poorly regulated ground water from rural areas and transfer it to urban areas, where it can be sold at a higher price.
The same pattern of rural areas being sacrificed to the needs of urban areas can be seen in this unified appeal from County Judges who regard these water transfers as a fight for local community survival.
Depriving the Lower Colorado River basin of fresh water … will lead to the devastation of our state's second largest bay and estuary system, sound a death knell for agriculture in the coastal plains and destroy the largest riverine ecosystem in our state…The environment, ecosystem and agriculture of our great state are worth saving, and we should all share in the sacrifices necessary to save these treasures.
Next week: In "Can Austin survive the current Texas drought?, Part 2," we will continue by taking a close look at the transportation planning being done in the Austin area, and how this planning is related to the water issue. We will conclude with a review of the best and latest climate science. How long can we afford to do little about the current trends?
[Roger Baker is a long time transportation-oriented environmental activist, an amateur energy-oriented economist, an amateur scientist and science writer, and a founding member of and an advisor to the Association for the Study of Peak Oil-USA. He is active in the Green Party and the ACLU, and is a director of the Save Our Springs Alliance and the Save Barton Creek Association in Austin. Mostly he enjoys being an irreverent policy wonk and writing irreverent wonkish articles for The Rag Blog. Read more articles by Roger Baker on The Rag Blog.]


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