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Hours after Karen Brocklebank's son posted pictures online late last month of his forearm marred with a series of self-inflicted cuts and a threat to kill himself on his 13th birthday, she sat in an uncomfortable emergency room chair, sleepless and in despair.
The Columbia family had spent more than a year in therapy sessions for treatment of Noah's depression. They pleaded with his Howard County school and the parents of his bullies to intervene. But it wasn't until that night in the hospital that Brocklebank came up with an idea that seemed to work like nothing before.
Brocklebank went online and created a website, LettersforNoah.com, and a Facebook page to ask for help in showing her son that he matters and that life after middle school does get better. Soon, the envelopes and packages overwhelmed the tiny Simpsonville post office box that Brocklebank secured.
When his 13th birthday arrived Friday, Noah read a new batch of letters, screened by his parents, from his favorite teachers, cousins, friends and strangers from Baltimore and as far away as Alaska, Ireland, Japan and Australia — 2,000 in all.
Word spread swiftly online with thousands of hits to the website and nearly 12,000 likes on Facebook. And among the letters received in less than two weeks were gifts: manuscripts for a collection of children's books; an offer for flying lessons; a hat with the logo of the Pittsburgh Steelers, Noah's favorite team; gift cards; and origami creations.
There was a letter from one of Noah's favorite elementary school teachers: "I remember you fondly — humorous, smart, creative, fun to be around. … Life gets real good! But you have to get past the hard parts to reach the best parts."
A brightly colored card was postmarked in California with photographs of caterpillars and a message: "I remember how it felt to be bullied and to have a good friend suddenly avoid me. It does get better. People grow up. … Your family loves you and people that have never met you care."
And an aloha from another Noah in Hawaii read, "Please keep your head up. You are obviously the love of your mother's life."
Mental health experts see both benefits and risks in Brocklebank's decision to reveal her son's struggles and identity. Brocklebank acknowledges that her choice to speak publicly is controversial, but it wasn't without deliberation.
Brocklebank said she wants to teach her son that mental illness is nothing to be ashamed of. And she wanted to harness the power of social media, rather than allow her son to be a victim of it. His bullying and exclusion began on XBox Live, an online feature that allows multiple players to compete and communicate online, and he posted his suicide message on Instagram, where his peers have already seen it.
Brocklebank said she and her husband, David, felt desperate and powerless, disappointed with the response of Noah's school and the parents of the bullies, and fearful that they had done too little too late. They said Noah was called names and purposely left out of games and that boys tried to convince other students not to be his friend.
Always on Noah's parents' minds were high-profile stories of teens who took their own lives, such as Grace McComas, the 15-year-old Glenelg High School sophomore who committed suicide last Easter after severe cyber-bullying.
"My heart has been in a vice," Brocklebank said. "You feel so helpless and angry, and it's just the loneliest place to be."
Christina Calamaro, professor at the University of Maryland School of Nursing, said a parent needs to evaluate the long-term consequences of documenting a child's most personal details online, especially a fragile child's.
"There is always a dark side of social media," she said.
Continuing professional mental health treatment is paramount, Calamaro said. She also said parents should empower children who are bullied and perhaps unplug them from online outlets.
Ashley Womble, online communications manager for the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, said Noah may be living in a world different from the one previous generations encountered as adolescents, but the barbs, whether posted online or written on a bathroom wall, are the same.
Womble also said social media can save lives, and Brocklebank has attempted to tap into that potential. Other online movements aimed at assuring teens that life can get better have drawn huge followings.
"Connectedness is one of the very prominent protective factors for suicide prevention," Womble said. "If you have a community of people who love you and give you encouragement, feeling connected and having a sense of community can really help."
Sameer Hinduja, co-director of the Cyberbullying Research Center at Florida Atlantic University, also sees significant value in soliciting outside support and embracing social media. Hinduja said that receiving messages from other youths is one of the most powerful outcomes of Brocklebank's project, which he called innovative.
"This son will remember these letters for the rest of his life, and I am sure, in part, they will save this son's life," Hinduja said. "I think what the mother is doing is fantastic."
Like school districts throughout the region, the Howard County public school system has anti-bullying policies. Rebecca Amani-Dove, spokeswoman for the district, would not comment on Noah's situation or the school's response, but said "student safety and security is the top priority of the school system."
Amani-Dove said school authorities respond to all reported bullying and cyber-bullying cases involving students by investigating the situation and providing social and emotional health services as necessary. The district also offers prevention and intervention programs as well as professional development for faculty, coaches, bus drivers and other staff. And students participate in activities, including International Day of Peace, No Name-Calling Week and Kindness Week.
Resources and outreach activities are also extended to parents, who are sent the brochure "What parents need to know about bully prevention in Howard County public schools," Amani-Dove said.
Hpward County Executive Ken Ulman has focused on bullying, facilitating an open forum last May with Ravens running back Ray Rice and partnering with the schools and the Howard County Bar Foundation to show a screening of the documentary "Bully."
And in December, Ulman asked the School Safety Task Force to review bullying policies and procedures to find ways to strengthen them, including the creation of mobile applications to make reporting episodes of bullying easier. A report is due in March.
Brocklebank said Noah's school gave her a bullying incident form to fill out, organized meetings between her son and his bullies, and asked the boys that were picking on him to sign contracts pledging to stop.
Still, she said, the harassment continued and she wanted authorities to do more. For example, Brocklebank said, Noah sat alone in the cafeteria for two months and often skipped lunch.
The situation came to a head when Noah, who only recently received his parents' permission to open an Instagram account, uploaded the pictures showing tiny cuts on his arm and a caption with his suicide threat on Jan. 26. He blocked his mother from seeing the post.
Noah's friends and his friends' parents called the Brocklebanks to alert them while someone else who saw the post called 911 the following day. Brocklebank said police arrived and handcuffed Noah and took him in the cruiser to a local emergency room, where he was admitted for an eight-day stay. His outpatient therapy is continuing, and he is being treated with medication for his depression, according to his mother.
Brocklebank said she had scheduled an emergency meeting with Noah's therapist, but once the 911 call was made, police took over the situation.
Howard police spokeswoman Sherry Llewellyn said officers are required to handcuff and transport individuals once police are notified that a person is a danger to himself.
Noah said he posted the Instagram messages because he wanted to "yell at the world" and let everyone know how blue he was feeling about the name-calling at school and the way other kids purposely left him out.
Every day he was in the hospital, Brocklebank said, she brought a handful of the letters with her. The family is still working with Noah on what she calls "safety goals," such as diverting negative thoughts by listening to music or talking to his parents when he feels sad. One of his friends has created an anti-bullying blog to show Noah support, Brocklebank said. A friend of a friend in Texas built the Letters for Noah website for the family, she said.
Noah's plan when he goes back to school Monday is to ignore the bullies.
"It's crazy how the world has shown me the light and how amazing it is and to ignore the bad parts," the seventh-grader said. "I still have depression, but I don't feel as extremely depressed as I was."
As for his mother, she said she is trying to "pay it forward" by finding a way for other teens to feel as loved as Noah has.
"I am speechless," Brocklebank said. "It is so humbling. It definitely restores my faith in humanity. It's overwhelming."


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The reason oil is too expensive is that the current price encourages seeking out new oil that is expensive to produce. That is not the same as the reason oil is expensive.
The US Senate defeated a windfall profits tax measure that would have taxed oil companies on the high price of oil. It was defeated on a cloture vote: 51 to 43, a majority supported the closing of debate. It is getting close and one can guess that in November, this will be a deciding factor in some senate races and is already an issue in the presidential race: http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/06/10/america/NA-POL-US-Congress-Oil-Profits.php.
There is not really a good reason not to capture the portion of the profits that are made on domestically produced oil since the only use for them is to reinvest in oil exploration which is becoming fruitless. But, capturing the profits does not do anything about the price of oil except to push it up a little faster since the oil exploration is not yet entirely fruitless. But, oil exploration is pointless now and for this reason it needs to be strongly discouraged. The way to discourage oil exploration is to reduce the price of oil rather than to stomp on a bunch of profit brushfires. While prices are high, some one somewhere will be exploring and finding oil that is expensive to produce even if we (in the US) manage to keep that from happening here through tax policy. Then everyone will be able to buy just as much oil as they can afford and the cancer of expensive oil will metastasize right back here where we might have stamped out incentives to find expensive oil. But, if the price of oil is reduced below the cost of producing expensive oil, then only cheap oil will be pumped from the ground and no one anywhere will bother to explore for expensive oil.
We can tell that oil is too expensive when people are working to be able to get to work or when people who have retired are choosing between heat and food. The promise of oil has been broken and it is time to give it up as a bad job. So, we need to make sure that people can get to work and keep warm while having something to eat. And, we need a good portion of the remaining cheap oil to get through to a point where these things can be done without using any oil. How do we ensure that we get that cheap oil at a price that reflects what it costs to produce rather than the scarcity of oil compared to how we use it now? We need to be sure that we are not using oil any faster than the remaining cheap oil can be pulled from the ground. If we try to go faster than that, we'll encourage people to look for more expensive oil since oil will seem scarce and thus worthy of investment.
Our policy should be focused on keeping oil inexpensive and to do that we need to aggressively phase out the use of oil. There are some sectors where we can't do this such as aviation, but in most we can move rapidly, and, more importantly, we can move rapidly enough overall. If the US alone, were to cut its per capita consumption to seven gallons a week down from nine, (think carpools and second small cars) we'd cut world consumption by about 6%. Dropping another weekly half gallon a year for fourteen years would cut world consumption by 25%. That is surely enough to keep the world on the cheap oil supplies out to 2025 or so since these supplies will be extended a bit by the reduced demand.
How to implement this policy? We might try simply restricting imports by a quarter or so. This would surely drop the world price of oil below $20/barrel. But, the domestic price of oil would likely be pretty high, $400/barrel or so, and this would encourage all sorts of foolishness in terms of looking for expensive oil domestically. We don't want to encourage that.
We could try imposing a tax, say $380/barrel, and that should solve the problem of encouraging exploration for expensive oil domestically and abroad, but is might be destabilizing for the government since the revenue would cover much more government spending than current taxes and we were warned by the chairman of the Federal Reserve at the beginning of the current administration that paying our national debt would be a bad thing. Also, since domestic oil prices would be even higher than now, we will have failed on the getting to work and keeping warm and eating portion of our problem.
Usually, when we have something serious to undertake, we ration. If we can get gasoline down to about $0.60/gallon by being careful how we use it, then our shared sense of accomplishment should help us do the rest of the transition down to using no gasoline at all. We have an existing rationing plan http://www.osti.gov/energycitations/product.biblio.jsp?osti_id=6307185 and it includes a white market in rations. This means that rations can be sold/traded, placing the cost of (rationing imposed) scarcity on the rations slips rather than the fuel. Getting to work or staying warm end up costing less though you might be making a choice on how to convert either of those two within a few years.
Just now, such an effort is doable, but if we wait for expensive oil to gain a greater share of the world total production, then controlling prices by controlling demand will be more difficult since there will be a floor price for much more of the production. In that situation, we will need to reduce our oil consumption probably just as much, but we won't gain the benefit of getting the cheap oil at a low price.
The core reason oil is too expensive is that the current price encourages exploration for expensive oil. Oil is useful when it is cheap to produce and cheap to buy, but it becomes harmful when it is expensive to buy, and even more harmful when it is expensive to produce since this places a price floor that no amount of consumption control can break. It is crucial not to spend resources on exploring for expensive oil. At present, only the US, as a single market entity, has the power to force only cheap oil to be produced and to end exploration for expensive oil. Others could, in combination, have a similar effect, but may not have the existing coordinated plan in place and thus may not be able to take such action before too much expensive (to produce) oil is on the market. The US should implement rationing as soon as possible to drive down the price of oil below $20/barrel and encourage other countries to also restrain demand. A window of perhaps 20 years of $20/barrel oil might be achieved through managed demand, plenty of time to manage a transition away from oil at low cost.
Friday, June 13, 2008
Oil is too expensive
The reason oil is too expensive is that the current price encourages seeking out new oil that is expensive to produce. That is not the same as the reason oil is expensive.
Posted by Chris Dudley at 9:02 PM
24 comments:
- popmonkey said...
a very interesting point of view that is unfortunately totally unrealistic because the consumer is way too uninformed to understand what's going on. expensive oil is a constant reminder to conserve, develop alternatives, and thus pressure politicians. the moment the prices go down people will say that peak oilers were wrong again, get back to buying SUVs and the cycle starts again.
and rationing at the level that would be needed will just cause strikes and riots and push prices up anyway. there's no way that rationing + low price at the pump can coincide in a market economy.
- June 14, 2008 at 11:59 AM
- Chris Dudley said...
I would think that the thing that keeps the SUV use down would be the fact that you can't get all that far on 7 gallons per person per week with a SUV per family. You might work it out as a shared vehicle. Smaller cars would extend the range of single or low occupancy trips.
Now, it is possible to buy rations with the sort of white market that the DOE envisions, so you might think you could go farther, but those white market rations are likely to be bid up to over $400/barrel equvilent. Once you go over your ration, things get very expensive (this is a market after all) and you also have an oportunitiy cost of not being able to sell rations you didn't use.
Again, it is a market, it is just that it works more like tiered electric rates to very stongly encourage conservation and transition.
- June 15, 2008 at 8:14 AM
- popmonkey said...
i can totally see it working after some period of turmoil. but that period might last a long time, 5 years?
i guess i just don't see america going to a gasoline rationing existence as the norm anytime soon. not without troop deployment...
nor do i see any politicians brave enough to even suggest such a thing. not without martial law...
i may be totally wrong - and the idea is certainly intriguing...
- June 16, 2008 at 12:56 PM
- Chris Dudley said...
I don't think we've had martial law when we have rationed in the past. The nice thing is that turmoil is avoided. We know for sure what our track off of oil will be, and we know what it will cost.
- June 18, 2008 at 6:56 PM
- richard said...
Chris your mistaken and dreaming if you think society would put up with your idea - wake up we live in a free market driven economy - we are capitalists and to implement your idealistic views would involve much more sever forms of socialism
get a grip mate
- June 21, 2008 at 8:54 PM
- Shaun Chamberlin said...
Hi Chris, I am the Development Director for TEQs (Tradable Energy Quotas) and I found your post via the Oil Drum.
TEQs is essentially the tradable rationing scheme you advocate, but expanded to encompass all energy use within the national economy.
This addresses popmonkey's points to some extent as it means that the scheme operates to smooth gas prices - if there is shortage gas prices go up, which means demand for gas (and thus TEQs permits) falls. As demand for permits falls the price falls, so the total cost to the consumer (fuel + permits) is stabilised to some degree.
The default alternative, where gas is simply 'rationed by price' is getting very unpopular very quickly. The reason rationing has a bad name is because people associate it with shortage, but of course it is a response to shortage, not the cause. A public education/marketing campaign could address this.
With regard to Richard's point that this is unrealistic, I imagine the US will be some way behind, but this scheme is already being taken very seriously here in the UK, as you can see here on our site.
To be honest, I think some form of rationing is not only sensible but inevitable as peak oil bites, and we are looking at half the current global production in a couple of decades time. The earlier it is introduced the better.
Chris, I'd be interested to know your thoughts on the TEQs scheme design - do come join the discussions in our forum at www.teqs.net
All the best.
- June 22, 2008 at 11:32 AM
- Chris Dudley said...
Welcome. I've come to like TEQs to some extent but I've found that breaking through on the idea of tradable rations seems to work best now by quoting the US Department of Energy and saying that is our rationing plan. I think that once we get a taste of what we can accomplish with gas rationing, it will be natural to step towards carbon rationing.
David Fleming persuaded me that TEQs end up as price in anything other than direct energy purchases since it is unlikely that the carbon emissions cost of a tomato will be charged at the supermarket if the TEQs really are tradable. That was a disappointment to me because I'd hoped that tracking carbon use down to the tomato would really get everyone's creativity engaged. So, I am thinking now that TEQs should be suplemented by disclosure of carbon use involved in consumer goods.
I am not opposed to separate treatment for different sources of carbon dioxide. Gasoline rationing fits with other economic concerns while a moratorium on new coal plants seems to be gaining traction. Targeting plants to shut down might be a next step. There is nothing special about putting all fossil fuels together if we can reduce each seperately. Increased reliance on gas, as George Monbiot suggests, may even be a good thing if we can use methane to store renewable energy such as wind. The infrastructure can be reused....
TEQs don't really separate sources of emissions as worthy of individual policy decisions. When I was in West Virginia this weekend, I spoke with some anti-coal mining folks; I can see the case for ending the use of coal even if carbon capture and sequestration works. TEQs don't really decide these issues and that can be a problem just like cap-and-trade which still dumps mercury on someone somewhere even if it is less overall.
But, there are definite advantages of TEQs over cap-and-trade at the producer level or a carbon tax.
- June 24, 2008 at 12:25 AM
- Chris Dudley said...
Welcome. I think you need to study political theory a little more closely. Rationing is not socialism. And, as you can see, since we are discussing tradable rations, it is certainly a market.
The claim here is that expensive to produce oil is bad and we need a market method to avoid developing these non-resources. It is quite obvious that expensive to produce oil is bad. To function well, an economy needs to devote as little effort as possible to obtaining energy. This has been the promise of oil in the past but now this is no longer possible for geological reasons.
The question we face then is what market mechanism will work to avoid pointless investment in expensive to produce oil?
Taxes might work but they put too much revenue into the hands of government. Rationing does the job more effectively since it keeps the market and cash flow largely private.
Hope that helps.
- June 25, 2008 at 9:13 AM
- Cyril R said...
There are positives and negatives about pretty much every policy instrument, but I think the idea of very restrictive rationing, as effective as it could be, is an utter political and social loser. The point at which there will be enough momentum for large scale implementation of a rationing programme, will be when there's chaos and conflict roaming about. That is to say, it will likely be too late.
- July 3, 2008 at 9:35 AM
- Chris Dudley said...
Welcome back!
As I linked in the post, we have a standby gasoline rationing plan. So, it would not take all that much to implement. We have a history of rationing at difficult times so I think your social/political objections have to be set against the perception that high oil prices are actually a problem. We are rationing by price now that supply is tight in any case.
One thing that I have found out since I wrote the post is that while the Economic Regulatory Administration which is responsible for the rationing plan is required to exist in law: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/42/usc_sec_42_00007136----000-.html
it has not been active for some time. Ray Madden, at the Inspector General's Office at the Department of Energy does not know how long this mandated portion of the government has been missing but he did send me a link to a Congressional Budget Office study of a proposal to eliminate the DoE in the eighties. Perhaps the ball has been dropped for that long. He is going to look in the DoE library to see if there is more information.
In any case, there is a need to appoint an adminsitrator so that the plan can be brought up-to-date. The White Market portion of the plan, foe example, discusses a ration rights checking account set up. But one might want to use a debit card these days.
- July 10, 2008 at 10:25 AM
Interesting ideas, but it will take some real shifts in public attitude to accept. Gasoline being $10/gallon might get people started, with oil at $300/bbl this would mean the domestic oil companies losing 7mbd*($300-$20)= $2 billion per day. How are they (and their investors) going to deal with that?
- July 10, 2008 at 10:35 AM
- Cyril R said...
Well since we're talking serious and unrealistic policy, how about only a vanilla tax on gas? No exceptions. Easy. All petroleum derivatives costs ten cents more per gallon, escalating @ 50% nominally per year. Effective immediately. By 2020 that's around 13 bucks per gallon extra.
This would be an aggressive tax, but not so aggressive as to kill domestic industries that heavily rely on oil such as transportation, because it still gives several years for such industries to make the transition to electric transportation and efficiency and conservation. They will know what's coming make the necessary investments.
- July 16, 2008 at 6:08 AM
- Chris Dudley said...
Al Gore wants a carbon tax with tax shifting, replacing payroll tax while Hansen likes cap and share where the revenue would be distributed to people directly. I've supported a carbon tax in the past, but in this case, I am arguing for the fastest means to discourage exploring for more oil. This is not how a phased in tax would work since it takes a while to curb prices and may only curb them down to $60/barrel since depletion still makes oil scarce in the future.
There are problems with carbon taxes as well beyond being poor tools for price manipulation. In Gore's version, he destabilizes Social Security funding while in Hansen's version we get too much revenue flowing through the system as I mentioned in the original post.
It is worth remembering that the first big cut in consumption is the easy one. We can just change behaviors: heat with electricity rather than oil (a savings in money now), drive less and perhaps with a smaller used car, and carpool. The subsequent cuts require new technology and come at a slower pace. But it does run in about your proposed timescale.
That link to the law concerning the Economic Regulatory Administration does not seem to be working so I'll try again.
- July 17, 2008 at 12:48 PM
- Cyril R said...
Perfect combustion of a gallon of gasoline emits almost 9 kilograms of CO2 so a carbon tax would work just as well. It's also more equitable as it closes the coal to liquids loophole as well as coal fired generation and other coal uses.
With a carbon tax of 10 USD/metric ton to start with, that adds 9 cents USD per gallon right now. Escalating similarly that's more than 11 USD per gallon around 2020.
This should push the market nicely, don't you think?
I think the straight carbon tax is more feasible than rationing. I'll admit rationing would be more effective, but if we can't get it off the ground it has no effect at all... the disadvantages of carbon taxing are not a huge problem IMHO.
- July 21, 2008 at 4:32 AM
- Cyril R said...
Chris, what do you think of Al Gore's plan to "tax what we burn, not what we earn"?
This seems like an excellent idea. The income taxes will be lowered by the same revenue gained from carbon taxes. As the carbon tax increases over time, income taxes decrease. This will greatly help solving both greenhouse gas and peak oil issues, while not hurting the people.
- July 26, 2008 at 4:56 AM
- Chris Dudley said...
A problem with tax shifting is that it may undercut a stable funding structure. Currently, social security is payed for by future beneficiaries. Making it dependent on a sin tax that, if successful, will generate no revenue ASAP does not seem prudent.
Again, my aim is to terminate investment in new oil production because the easy oil is gone. The way to assure that through unilateral action is to cut consumption significantly now. A phased in tax is basically just price support that won't drive the price of oil down globally.
I don't see much wrong with our rationing plan aside from the need to have a functioning office to run it.
- August 11, 2008 at 8:34 AM
- Cyril R said...
A phased in tax is basically just price support that won't drive the price of oil down globally.
It won't have to do that precisely, because such a tax would discourage demand for oil and encourage non-oil alternatives. Which will be effective enough if the tax is high enough. It's also the mass psychological effect: an increasingly strict tax that doesn't go away, ever. That means certainty of high cost of oil in the future, which will encourage investment in alternatives even more. This is one of the reasons I think there must be long term certainty of increasing taxes. With future demand essentially destroyed, there will not be much reason to invest in new (expensive) oil exploration in the first place.
- August 13, 2008 at 9:30 AM
- Chris Dudley said...
A high enough tax, say $30/gallon, would be impoverishing. It seems to me that if we want to have a large effect now, you would need to start with a high tax while, with rationing, we can do the easy 20% reduction first and see the price come down so that we have less pain in the wallet. Then, we need only do the further reductions incrementally, keeping ahead of depletion, until we are off of oil.
Again, what is the incentive to get entirely off of oil with a tax?
- August 26, 2008 at 3:02 PM
- Cyril R said...
Again, what is the incentive to get entirely off of oil with a tax?
The guarantee that a tax will be there in the future and will only get higher will ensure the brunt of investments will be diverted from oil while still giving companies and consumers time to adapt. Time they will need, because investments that have been made have inherent inertia. While getting off of oil is urgent, it is not something we have to do in a year or two. The capital destruction will be severe. And then there's the risk of civil conflict.
It's important not to trivialize the (risk of) economic damage and even social turmoil that radical short term measures entail. Oil is so pervasive in the economy, it's not just the consumer, it's all sorts of companies that run serious risks of being destroyed by rationing meausures.
Surely you don't want a large number of US companies to go bankrupt? Or risk nation wide social uproar, even civil war?
I don't think the tax will be impoverishing because it's a long term (about a decade) strategic price signal. It's like knowing for sure that oil will be very expensive over the next decade. People and companies will adjust their investments and behaviour (like moving close to work, not buying an ICE car, not investing in oil based chemical feedstock plants etc.) You don't want to do that in a year or two, it takes time.
- September 4, 2008 at 4:12 AM
- Cyril R said...
Also Chris, I get the feeling the whole issue is a typical case of penny wise pound foolish. All the investment in expensive oil combined is only a tiny fraction of total global investments. Why try to save a penny if it comes at a significant risk of loosing a pound? No one would participate in that lottery!
- September 4, 2008 at 4:19 AM
- Chris Dudley said...
I think you have missed my point. I also anticipate a decade or so transition. I just do the easy 20% first rather than impoverishing people over the next decade. Things are more gradual after the first 20%. While the US has had civil unrest in response to taxes, a revolution in fact, this has not been a problem with rationing.
Again, the tax does not end oil use.
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Dominating the marketplace these days are detergent bars. They look and act like soap but are, in fact, detergent concoctions. Soap is like a snake with an alkali head. Alkali loves water and oils hate water. Put them together and you get something new ... soap! It loves water and it hates water. When you add water to soap it goes: love water, hate water, love water, hate water, love water, hate water; then it foams. Soap molecules are found throughout nature, in yucca, soap nuts, soapwort, etc, and are made by our own bodies to help digest fats.
The most widely used detergent is sodium lauryl (laureth) sulfate. It is in everything from detergent bars to shampoo to car wash. SLS is made by taking a chain of carbons from petroleum (or vegetable oil source if it is a premium ingredient) and adding water loving sulfur to one end and water hating sodium to another. Love water/hate water all over again. Detergents are useful because they make long lasting foam even in cold or hard water (compared with true soap products). They are cheap and abundant, and most are petroleum sourced.
Now detergents are pretty cool, and are often confused with soap products but chemically they are very, very different. Soap may be found in nature but detergents are not naturally occurring. Is it wise to make a long term chemical experiment of yourself and your children? The Precautionary Principal says, "Prove something is safe before we release onto and into our bodies, our soils, our food and our water." Rather than today's, "We think it is safe but you have to prove it is not before we will stop making it."
What is the dilution percentage of Liquid Sunshine for washing dishes by hand, especially with hard water?The best way to do dishes with Liquid Sunshine is to put it right onto a damp sponge and use directly on your dishes.
Is the rosemary extract in the pet shampoo organic? Was it grown with pesticides? What method was used to extract it? Vermont Soap Works just switched from a strictly natural to a certified organic rosemary extract. These are oleoresins, and come to Vermont SoapWorks as a thick green paste. This is the antioxidant preservative - about 1/10 of 1% is used.
I have a daughter with celiac disease who just had a baby. Do you offer any mild fragrance-free soaps that do but contain any wheat, rye, barley or oats? Please advise - the baby's skin is dry and needs a soap with some natural oil in it, but none of the other items listed above.Vermont Soap Works' Butter Bar fits the bill here. No scents or grains and super mild for dry skin. The Baby Bar has a little bit of lavender oil, if barely scented soap is ok, this will fit the bill. Laundry residues sometimes cause dry skin too. Try using Liquid Sunshine Cleaner concentrate for laundry.
My husband has dry, red, itchy skin (inner thigh area). He was told it was yeast infection due to heat and sweat and was given Nyastatin. It has not worked. In fact, he still has dry itchy skin and it's 20 degrees. Which soaps can we start out with? I know that the soap may not help at all, but would like to try something. Anything other than sitting around listening to the doctor say, "There's nothing we can do about it. All you can do is keep using the medication."Ouch! That sounds painful. Let's assume the diagnosis was correct, and this is yeast, or something yeastlike (like malesthesia furfur, which is fairly common - kind of like dandruff.) Blue Bar (double strength tea tree oil with peppermint) might be just the ticket. Wash affected area 3-4 times daily, leaving the soap on for a couple of minutes before rinsing it off. If the Blue Bar is going to work, you should see improvement in 4 days or less. If nothing really happens after 4 days, try lightly spraying vinegar on the affected area throughout the day and night. Some people do not like vinegar on their skin so watch for reactions. Rinse off with soap and water if a vinegar reaction occurs.
If your products are USDA Certified organic, why don't you have that circle green and white logo that accompanies that distinction on the products?In the US, there are 3 levels of organic. 100% Organic (self-explanatory), 95% Organic (These can be labeled Organic - the remaining 5% has to be natural, but not certified organic); and Made With Organic. In the US, soap is always a "Made With Organic" product. When Vermont Soapworks sells soap in Europe, their products are almost all 95% to 100% Certified Organic.
What's the difference? In Europe, alkali, the processing aid that is used to convert organic oils to organic soap, is not counted as an ingredient. In the US it IS. Since soap products use up to 16% alkali by weight, they always fall into the Made With category stateside. Only the products in the 95% or 100% organic content category are allowed to sport the nifty USDA logo on them. This does make it harder to separate Vermont Soapworks from the muck and the mire of ordinary wannabe fake organic products.
Does the vegetable glycerin in the foaming soaps come from wheat, barley, rye, oats or soy?Glycerin is a component of natural oils (triglycerides). Your own cell walls contain it. Vermont Soap Works sources their vegetable glycerin from palm oil, which is a typical source for high quality vegetable glycerin these days. Glycerin is purified and standardized (USP pharmaceutical grade is what they use) and does not contain gluten. Because it is made from vegetable oil, grain cops are rarely, if ever, used in its production currently.
You say that "chemical/synthetic free" means, among other things, no alcohols. But alcohol is a very effective sanitizing agent that can be produced in an ordinary American kitchen using generally available utensils. So why do you exclude alcohol?
Vermont SoapWorks avoids the use of alcohol in their products because so many people are topical alcohol sensitive, and most do not know it. Alcohol is used as an emulsifier in lotions - holds the water and oil based portions of the formula together. It works well for this, but alcohol can have the unfortunate side effect of drying one's skin as one is attempting to moisturize! The end result is that the individual feels GREAT when they apply lotion, but they need to re-up every 15 minutes or their skin dries out. Good news for the marketers of the product, but bad news for the consumer.
Alcohol and sugar are also used to make high end transparent soaps. The advantage is there is not free alkali in the soap (which makes your skin dry and irritated). However, alcohol-sensitive people will experience dry, irritated skin from the alcohol instead!
Vermont Soap Works does support the use of ethanol or essential oils for sanitizing wipes and sprays, and methanol (rubbing alcohol) for surface disinfecting (such as toilet seats).
Vermont Soap Organics produces USDA Approved, Certified Organic alternatives to the often irritating chemical and detergent based personal care products now in general use. They manufacture handmade cold process bar soaps for sensitive skin, liquid soaps for skin and cleaning, the first truly organic shower gels, numerous organic nontoxic cleaners and much more.
At Vermont Soap Organics, they take oils, which make you greasy, and turn them into soap, which make you clean. This process is called saponification (making soap). Soap is fascinating stuff - it is actually a salt that foams. This crystalline nature of soap allows it to be made clear as glass when boiled in alcohol with sugars. Now a salt is what you get when you mix an acid and a base together. Think of it like a child's seesaw. Oil and alkali must be in balance to make the perfect bar of soap.
Any unsaponified oils are called "free fatty acids," and they add to the moisturizing effect of high quality soaps. Use too much and the soap will not lather, and it will have a shortened shelf life. Excess alkali, or "free alkali" is harsh and drying to sensitive skin. About 25% of people are estimated to get a dry skin reaction to free alkali in soap. At Vermont Soap Organics, they formulate for a little bit of oil and no measurable free alkali. This is part of the reason why the handmade soap is so mild. Here's a light version of how the chemistry of soap plays out:
When you mix oils, alkali and water, they chemically react and turn into soap and glycerin. At Vermont Soap Works, they stir the glycerin back in to add to the moisturizing qualities of the final product.
Where does alkali come from?In the old days, rainwater was filtered through hardwood ashes (coconut husk and plantain ashes in Africa and South Pacific, oak and maple in New England) to make a Potassium Hydroxide solution. Bar soaps are made from Sodium Hydroxide. This is what you get when you run electricity through salt water. Modern day Potassium Hydroxide is made from a similar process.
What makes it lather?Soap is very unusual, acting like a snake with two heads. The oily head hates water and the alkali head loves water. When you mix soap and water, this love/hate relationship causes soap to lather.
Is glycerin good for my skin?Yes! Glycerin is in fact more valuable by weight than soap. Milled soaps remove their glycerin by adding salt to their batch. Most glycerin in turn is used as a stabilizer in Food and Cosmetics production, as well as an inhibitor in cigarette paper, which allows it to burn more evenly. With glycerin removed, the end result is a soap that dries your skin. That's because glycerin, mixed with a little oil and water left in the soap, creates a hand-lotion-in-soap effect. This allows them to create a bar that cleans and removes oils, while also soothing sensitive skin.
What about the glycerin clear bars?True transparent soap is made by boiling the soap base in alcohol and sugars. Heat and pressure may also be used. Pluses are a high glycerin content and mild pH. Negatives are a bar that dissolves quickly, and often contains artificial colors, fragrances, and alcohol which can dry your skin. Propylene glycol (antifreeze) and Triethanolalmine (TEA) are used to make the "melt and pour" soap base of many so called vegetable glycerin. Not quite natural!
What does "French Milled" mean?One of the early uses for stainless steel was to run soap base between 2 rollers. They began experimenting with running hot and cold water through the rollers. French Milled soap was born! Advantage is a milder, longer lasting bar. These higher quality bar soaps are not milder than handmade soaps.
What is the alternative? Vermont Soap Organics! You should be using natural handmade or "poured" soaps. These traditional, poured and cured processed soaps last nearly twice as long as most mass market bars. The soap is mixed in small batches and poured into wooden molds. The end result is an opaque premium bath and body bar that is mild enough for the most sensitive skin. Many sufferers of dermatitis can find relief from these types of soaps.
What does "Natural" mean at Vermont Soap Organics? It means no artificial colors and fragrances and no testing on animals. It means using Rosemary extract as a preservative, not a chemically-derived formula. Natural is about better choices and the responsibility inherent in those choices: organic before pesticides; botanicals before artificial colors and fragrances; vegetable-based before animal-based; and reusable before disposable. Natural is about big-picture thinking. It's about socially responsible business, looking at how they source, formulate and package and reuse or safely dispose of what's left. It's about the relationship between producer and consumer and the planet that we share. Natural cannot be codified like the ten commandments. It is about staying as close to the original form as possible. Natural is about developing an integrated long-term view of everything that they do.
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Vermont Soap Organics produces USDA Approved, Certified Organic alternatives to the often irritating, chemical and detergent based personal care products now in general use. We manufacture handmade cold process bar soaps for sensitive skin, liquid soaps for skin and cleaning, the first truly organic shower gels, numerous organic nontoxic cleaners and much more.
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3 states that may decide the election
With less than a month until Election Day, the primary battlefields for the presidential campaign can be found in just three states: Ohio, Florida and Virginia.
In these big three, home to a combined 60 electoral votes, President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney are spending both the most money and the most time. Over the past two weeks, the candidates and their allies have aired the most TV ads in Ohio, Florida and Virginia, in that order. And over the same period, Obama and Romney have held more than three times as many campaign events in the Big Three than they have in the other six swing states combined.
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The logic behind the candidates homing in on the trio is simple: The way Republicans see it, Romney will have a much steeper climb winning the presidency without taking back all three from the Democratic column. And in the eyes of Obama's team, they can all but ensure a second term if they win just one of the battlegrounds.
"There are nine states where the campaign is happening, but these are the three where, in all caps, it's really happening," said Republican strategist Bruce Haynes.
Obama's high command is convinced that without a sweep of Virginia, Florida and Ohio, Romney can't make up the difference further west to reach the needed 270 electoral votes.
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"Romney needs an inside straight, he has to have all three," said Obama campaign manager Jim Messina.
A second senior Obama official, looking at swing-state leads turning into swing-state ties since the first debate, said the electoral ramifications of the trio "is something that gives me a certain level of optimism."
"One guy has to pitch a perfect game and then still win elsewhere, and the other just needs one of them plus some combination of other states — or gets two [of the big three] and it's over."
That's to say that, assuming Romney carries North Carolina and loses New Hampshire, even if he sweeps the big three he'd still need to capture another Obama 2008 state to get to 270. And, conversely, Obama could take just one of the top trio and still likely win reelection if he's able to hang on in Wisconsin and one of the three remaining battlegrounds: Iowa, Colorado and Nevada.
( Also on POLITICO: Battleground Poll: Mitt more likable)
But Romney officials, while acknowledging that the Big Three are important, believe that they can still win if they lose one of them. And the good news for Romney is that it increasingly appears that Florida, the biggest of the three, is moving their way.
Rich Beeson, Romney's political director, noted that a combination of North Carolina, Nevada, Colorado, Iowa, Virginia, New Hampshire and Florida would get them to 273 electoral votes. "And that doesn't even include Wisconsin," said Beeson, referring to the newest swing state to come on the board.
But it's clear that Republicans would rather not have to run such a gantlet, where winning only two of the big three would create such little margin for error.
( Also on POLITICO: Dem analysis: Ground game is key)
"There's a way to do it by winning other swing states and still not winning all three but it makes just the math harder," said Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio), Romney's debate prep partner and a decades-long veteran of Ohio's political wars.


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I have a second Ancestor Anniversary today, this time it is the birthday of Elizabeth Rose born in 1775 probably at Eythrope Park Farm at Upper Winchendon, Buckinghamshire. She is the daughter of William Rose and Mary Read and Elizabeth is the granddaughter of my 6 x great grandfather Cozens Read.
Elizabeth is one of 7 children and married her cousin Robert May in 1800 at Waddesdon, Buckinghamshire. Robert is the son of Richard May and Jane Read. Jane is the sister of Elizabeth's mother Mary.
I have only so far found one child from the marriage of Elizabeth Rose to Robert May and so there is a fair bit more searching to do!!


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The European Banking Authority (EBA) published today its tenth report on risks and vulnerabilities in the EU banking sector. The report is accompanied by the 2017 EU-wide transparency exercise, which provides key data in a comparable and accessible format for 132 banks across the EU. The data shows further resilience in the EU banking sector amid a benign macroeconomic and financial environment, with an additional strengthening of the capital position, an improvement of asset quality and a slight increase of profitability. However, further progress on NPLs is needed whilst the long-term sustainability of prevailing business models remains a challenge. The importance of robust data management and IT and operational resilience is also a priority.
The European Banking Authority (EBA) announced today that it will publish data for its fourth annual EU-wide transparency exercise in December 2017 together with the Risk Assessment Report (RAR). Nearly 600000 data points in total on more than 130 banks will be released, covering all key balance sheet items. The transparency exercise is part of the EBA's efforts to foster market discipline, improve the understanding of the EU banking system and ensures both a detailed snap shot and consistent time series.


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Campbell Scott Willis was the first baby born at Clark Memorial Hospital in New Albany, Ind. He is the son of Courtney and Carden Willis, of Turners Station. He was born at 4:42 a.m. Tuesday, Jan. 1, 2013. Campbell weighed 11 lbs. 14 ounces, and was 22 inches long. Campbell Scott is also welcomed by a brother Clark Willis, 2.
John Mark and Leslie Chilton of Campbellsburg announce the birth of their daughter, Sarah Kate Chilton born Nov. 6, 2012, at Baptist Hospital East. She weighed 7 pounds, 11 ounces, and was 20 inches long.
She has two siblings Noah and Hannah.
Grandparents are Stephen and Becky Smith and Larry and Darlene Chilton.
Great-grandparents are Myrtle Smith and Roger and Virginia Powell..
Grandparents are Earl Wayne and Sandra Perry, Pendleton; Danny and Dianna Liter, Madison, Indiana; and Steve Abney, Campbellsburg.
Camden James announces the birth of his brother, Luke Mathan James, born November 8, 2012. He weighed 9 pounds 2 ounces and was 21 inches long.
Parents are Jerry and Tracy James.
Grandparents are Doug and Darlene Tipton, Terry and Robbie James and Fred and Donna Feltner.
Great-grandparents are Harold and Edna Tipton, L.T. and Willie Belle James and Don and Martha King
Stephanie Miles Ucan and Marcos Corchado-Castaneda of Carrollton announce the birth of their son, Denver Alexander Souix Corchado, born, Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2012, at Norton Hospital in Louisville. He weighed 8 pounds, 15 ounces, and was 20.5 inches long.
Marcos Alejandro Corchado 20, of Torreon, Mexico, helped welcome his little brother home.
Maternal grandparents are Phyllis and Larry Sculley of Port Royal and Tommy and Denise Miles of Owenton. Maternal great grandparents are James Dempsey of Carrollton, and Irene Duncan of Amelia, Ohio.
Amber and Wayne Powell announce the birth of their daughter, Rose Lynn Powell born Aug. 30, 2012, at St. Josephs East Women's Hospital in Lexington. She weighed 6 pounds, 7 ounces and was 19 inches long.
Rebecca Holdredge and Bobby Dewitt, St. Louis, Mo., announce the birth of their daughter, Eleanor Gray Dewitt, born Thursday, Oct. 4, 2012 at Missouri Baptist Hospital, St. Louis, Mo. She weighed 7 pounds 2 ounces and was 20 1/2 inches long.
Grandparents are Ellen and Wayne Holdredge, St. Louis, Mo., and Marty Dewitt, Eminence, and the late Roy Dewitt.
Nathan Garriott and Chelsea Galloway of Campbellsburg announce the birth of their daughter, Nola Rae Garriott born Aug. 23, 2012, at Baptist Hospital East She weighed 6 pounds 11 ounces and was 20 ½ inches long.
Grandparents are Robert Galloway and Kim Dawson, Larry Garriott and Kathy Hentges.
Great-grandparents are Janice Wonders and Joe and Betsy Peters.
Kristan and Daniel Wright, Eminence would like to announce the birth of their daughter, Josephine Danielle Wright, born August 22, 2012 at Baptist Hospital Northeast.
She weighed 6 pounds, 1 ounce and was 19 inches long.
Grandparents are Judith and Chris Shaw, Pleasureville and Gerald Wright, Pendleton.
Great-grandparents are Minnie Eddins and the late Roy Eddins; JoAnn Singleton and the late Jullian Shaw; Brandley Wright and the late Geraldine Wright.
Madalyn Marie Atchison announces the birth of her sister, Emily Grace Atchison, born Aug. 6, 2012, at Baptist Hospital East. She weighed 6 pounds, 9 ounces, and was 20 inches long.
Parents are Kyle and Amanda Atchison.
Grandparents are Sheila Atchison, New Castle; Raymond Atchison, Eminence; Bobby Rankin, Defoe; Sandy Jones and Roy Lockridge, Bagdad.
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Internet favorite Norman The Scooter Dog surfaced at the Super Bowl and made a whole new legion of fans on Vine, Twitter's new micro-video app. SFGate caught up with him in a New Orleans park here:
Thanks for making Norman The Scooter Dog an editor's pick, @vineapp! vine.co/v/b1PPwg6JtTA
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Norman is a Briard, a French herding dog, who lives in Georgie with his trainer, Karen Cobb, and her family. He also rides a bike, skateboard and surfboard. See more scooting below, or check out his web site here.


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This is tip #41 of 101 digital imaging tips that I plan to post here over the next few months. Stay tuned.
Today's tip: People in pictures help with stock photo sales.
Today's tip: People in pictures help with stock photo sales.
The picture immediately above is nice enough, but the picture that opens this post is much more a "lifestyle" image, and "lifestyle" images sell better than beautiful scenic shots.
Even when a person is very small, or even tiny in a photo, that person adds a sense of scale to the image. Whenever possible, try to include a person in the scene.
And speaking of stock sales, I know someone who makes $3,000 a month in stock sales on iStock Photo. The key to making money in stock is to have many, many pictures uploaded and available.
If you want some tips on selling sock photos, check out this book: Taking Stock: Make money in microstock creating photos that sell.
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DETROIT – Wells Fargo Financial Michigan, Inc., (NYSE: WFC), a multi-trillion-dollar financial services company, subjected an employee to discrimination by failing to promote her because of her age and race, the U. S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today.
According to the EEOC's lawsuit (Case No. 2:10CV13517), filed in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, Wells Fargo Financial Michigan subjected Sylvia Bumphus-Passmore, a black employee at the company's Sterling Heights, Mich., location, to unlawful age and race discrimination by passing her over for promotions to a loan processor position in favor of young white women. When the discriminatory promotions occurred, Bumphus-Passmore had more than 25 years of experience in the banking industry and significantly more experience than the five young white women selected for the positions.
Age and race discrimination violate the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The EEOC filed suit after first attempting to reach a pre-litigation settlement. The EEOC seeks injunctive relief enjoining the company from engaging in discriminatory employment practices, as well as monetary relief on behalf of Bumphus-Passmore.
Race discrimination remains the most frequently filed charge with the EEOC. In fiscal year 2009, the EEOC received 22,778 age discrimination charge filings, the second-highest level ever, accounting for 24 percent of its private sector caseload. The EEOC's age discrimination charge data is available on its web site at http://www.eeoc.gov/eeoc/statistics/enforcement/adea.cfm.
The EEOC is the government agency responsible for enforcing federal anti-discrimination laws in the workplace. Further information about the EEOC is available at www.eeoc.gov.


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Socceroos set new benchmark: Postecoglou
Heartbroken but intensely proud, Ange Postecoglou says his Socceroos have set a benchmark that can help them become a feared attacking force in world football.
But that doesn't ease the pain of defeat to the Netherlands and a World Cup campaign ended at the group stage.
"It's a heartbreaker mate," said Postecoglou after the Socceroos mostly dominated the Dutch, but lost 3-2 in a World Cup classic in Porto Alegre.
The defeat, and Chile's subsequent triumph against Spain, consigns Australia to departing Brazil after their final group match against also-ousted Spain on Monday (Tuesday AEST).
Talisman Tim Cahill, who struck an all-time screamer of a goal, will miss that game through suspension.
He copped his second yellow card of the tournament, yet ends his World Cup career after scoring a dazzling volley many were calling the goal of the tournament.
"At home in my garden I score like that every day but this is what's it's all about," Cahill said.
"Football is all about these moments. And what better place to do it that in the home of football in Brazil."
Cahill's mercurial moment came as the unfancied Australians, the lowest-ranked nation in Brazil, almost pulled off one of the great World Cup heists, dominating and leading 2-1 against the team that had thrashed reigning champions Spain 5-1.
"We did everything we needed to do today bar win the game," Postecoglou said after the thriller on Wednesday (Thursday AEST).
"That has got to be our benchmark moving forward."
Postecoglou refused to blame goalkeeper Mat Ryan for a gaffe which gifted the Dutch the match-winning goal; nor Mathew Leckie for failing to nod in a close-range header seconds earlier.
"It's nobody's fault. We win as a team, we lose as a team," he said.
Postecoglou said the inspired display, coming after a tournament-opening 1-3 loss to Chile, evidenced his mission to make the Socceroos a serious player in the world game was on track.
"People were saying we weren't going to score a goal and we would just try and survive," he said.
"In both games we have taken it to the opposition.
"I firmly believe that we have only just started on this journey.
"The goal is to come back in four year's time, that they fear us before we get on the pitch as much as they fear us on the pitch now.
"There is no doubt now both Chile and the Dutch know they have been in a game and respect the way we have gone about our football."
Winning respect is one thing; winning games is another.
"We don't want to come to World Cups as outsiders," Postecoglou said.
"We don't want to come to World Cups defending for our lives.
"This is our third World Cup in a row and our fourth overall. Every time we come here, we should be getting stronger.
"And I don't want to be in this position in four year's time, where people are writing us off."
Dutch coach Louis van Gaal certainly won't be, heaping praise on Postecoglou and the "fanatical" approach of the Australians.
"Australia is a tough game, a tough team to play against, well organised," van Gaal said.
"This coach (Postecoglou) is really good. He allows his team to play an attacking game."
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Cement Driver Fired Driver Because of Neck Impairment, Federal Agency Charged
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – A Rio Rancho, N.M., cement plant will pay $80,000 and furnish other relief to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today.
In its lawsuit (EEOC v. Roadrunner Redi-Mix Inc., CIV No. 1:11-00873 JCH/WPL), the EEOC alleged Roadrunner Redi-Mix violated federal law by subjecting Eliud Tafoya, a cement driver with a neck impairment, to disability discrimination, by failing to provide him with a reasonable accommodation. Specifically, Tafoya requested to be exempt from cleaning the inside of the concrete barrel of his truck once a year, or in the alternative, to use the jackhammer, which was used to remove the excess concrete, in a downward motion, as opposed to the typical upward, overhead motion.
The EEOC complaint said that Tafoya safely performed his job duties for two and a half years of employment, and it wasn't until he requested that reasonable accommodation that he was immediately sent home on unpaid leave and eventually terminated.
Such alleged conduct violates the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). The EEOC filed suit in U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico after first attempting to reach a pre-litigation settlement through its conciliation process.
As part of the two-and-one-half-year consent decree settling the suit, signed by Judge Judith Herrera, Roadrunner agreed to pay Tafoya $80,000 in monetary relief. The decree also enjoins Roadrunner Redi-Mix from engaging in further disability discrimination and requires the company to implement discrimination policies and procedures, provide training to its managers and employees, and monitor and investigate discrimination complaints.
"The EEOC will continue to diligently enforce federal law to ensure that people with disabilities are free from harassment or discrimination in the workplace," said Mary Jo O'Neill, the EEOC's regional attorney for its Phoenix District Office.
Christina Vigil, the EEOC trial attorney who handled the case, said, "We are pleased with the relief provided by the consent decree, which provides satisfactory relief for Mr. Tafoya and significant protections for the employees of Roadrunner Redi-Mix."
Deputy District Director Elizabeth Cadle of the EEOC's Phoenix District added, "This lawsuit was filed under the new Americans with Disabilities Act Amendments Act (ADAAA), which emphasizes affording broad coverage to individuals with a disability. Employers must remain cognizant of the new changes to federal law."
The EEOC enforces federal laws prohibiting employment discrimination. Further information about the EEOC is available on its web site at www.eeoc.gov.


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Tuesday, July 19, 2011
from Plastics as Design Form by Thelma R. Newman, Chilton Book Co., Philadelphia, 1972 "Extruded rigid urethane foam that foams and sets instantly like shaving cream from an aerosol can, if it were rigid, could create this labyrinth of an environment. (Courtesy, Chemstrand Co. and Michael Lax)"
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- dispo said...
Beautiful. We need giant shaving cream cans ("if it were rigid" of course).
- July 22, 2011 at 4:45 PM
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Presenter Melissa P. Esquibel combines her 25+ years of experience in information technology with a background in training, technical writing and business risk analysis. Her goal is to move beyond email and help you understand Outlook's amazing workflow benefits.
You'll discover how to get more out of Outlook than you ever dreamed possible. This is your hands-on road map to Outlook that can send your productivity skyrocketing.
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Microsoft Email: Outlook Training Tip #1
Road Map to Outlook
We're going to start with a few shortcuts and tips for moving around in Outlook quickly and smoothly. I'm a big fan of the keyboard shortcut. Sure, I use the mouse, too. However, if I can find a keyboard shortcut that lets me keep my hands on the keyboard—instead of taking my eyes off the screen, moving my hand to the mouse, refocusing on the screen, navigating, clicking, repositioning my hand on the keyboard and refocusing on the screen—I'm going to try to incorporate it into the way I work. Most of us don't even realize how much time we waste using the mouse when we could just stay on the keyboard.
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After that, we'll explore how to tame the mess that is our inbox by using automatic color coding and folder filing in a "set-it and forget-it way" that basically lets Outlook sort our mail for us!
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Look in the Go drop-down menu. Here is where you can click to navigate to each of Outlook's components.
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Another great shortcut is the F9 key. Many of us click with our mouse up to that Send/Receive button during the day to check new mail coming in or to make sure an email we've just composed gets out right away. Instead of doing that, just hit the F9 key! You'll see the exchange happening right before your eyes!
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Ever have one of those great light bulb thoughts? An idea for a new project or product? My girlfriend in Houston is a songwriter. Every time a great lyric line pops in her head, she grabs a sticky note to write it down. When the muse visits her in the car, by the time she gets home, her steering wheel and dash are dotted with sticky notes she's written at stoplights and stop signs.
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This is really more of a philosophical question, and the title is somewhat rhetorical:
Exotic spheres are a feature of smooth manifold theory, where certain spheres can have more than one differentiable structure. In a generalised smooth space, say for definiteness a diffeological space, its trivial to construct different diffelogies on the space.
Are then exotic spheres really just an artifact of using the wrong smooth technology?
I guess what I'm getting is that the surprise was that there were manifolds with more than one smooth structure, one could argue that this was a first pointer that we should work in a category where the manifolds could be given different smooth structures, since the natural & usual one couldn't maintain uniqueness of smooth structure for certain manifolds.


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...Futures were having a nice morning till around 5:45AM, when almost $1.4B printed in DAX and ESTOXX futures - knocking the DAX off almost 2%, and taking US futures down 50bp. No headlines associated, but no recovery when Germany's Factory Orders printed better (despite bearish chatter). We "Hear" that a heavy buyer of DAX futures between 7800 and 7850 on Monday got stopped out at 7800, and lighter single stock volumes could not support the weight. There was nothing in Credit or FX to correspond to the move.
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A short course - How to Bind and Trim Your mSR Heli
The new E-flite mSR ultra micro helicopter is truly something different and exciting for RC hobbyists. It is a hot rod for sure, but actually the flight characteristics make it pretty easy for most people to learn to fly in short order. However, the first experience with this little heli can be a bit surprising if you are not prepared for it. There are some simple steps to take when you get ready to fly it. Many people are considering the BNF version, and I have heard some people asking how difficult it is to bind and set up in their DSM2 transmitter. The settings are easy and straightforward. Follow along and we will show you how.
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At this point your heli is ready for high-performance action. Take it easy until you are familiar with the control response—this little heli is quick to respond, but having the trims set up makes it very easy to progress without running into anything in the living room.
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Although 30,000 of the approximately 49,000 comments on the National Institutes of Health's draft guidelines on human embryonic stem-cell research opposed any federal funding of such research, those responses were "deemed not responsive to the question put forth," according to the acting director of NIH.
"We did not ask them whether to fund such funding, but how it should be funded," said Dr. Raynard S. Kington in a telephone briefing with the media July 6.
But Richard M. Doerflinger, associate director of the U.S. bishops' Secretariat of Pro-Life Activities, said it was "disingenuous (for Kington) to say that comments criticizing the guidelines overall were to be ignored."
"Common Ground" keeps bustin' out everywhere.
Cardinal Rigali had criticized the guidelines when they were proposed in draft, saying in part:
In most respects these draft guidelines reflect the policy approved but never implemented by the Clinton administration in 2000. However, the Clinton policy was limited to embryos that had been frozen, to ensure that parents had time to consider the decision to donate them for research; the new guidelines are broader in allowing destruction of newly created embryos that were never frozen, increasing the prospects for a rushed and biased consent process.
Despite supporters' constant claim that this agenda involves only embryos that "would otherwise be discarded," the guidelines provide that the option of donating embryonic children for destructive research will be offered to parents alongside all other options, including those allowing the embryos to live. For the first time, federal tax dollars will be used to encourage destruction of living embryonic human beings for stem cell research – including human beings who otherwise would have survived and been born.
The US Bishops then joined with the National Committee for a Human Life Amendment in encouraging people to contact NIH with their concerns about the guidelines during a mandatory comment period. About 10,000 of the 30,000 comments rejected came through that effort.
Initial reaction from the USCCB pro-life office indicates that the final guidelines appear consistent with the draft but include a few changes for the worse.
Doerflinger told the Catholic Key this afternoon that one example is in the area of consent. Previously, parents of unused IVF embryos had to be told of all options for their embryos before giving consent for their use in embryo-destructive research. Now parents only need to be told about options available at the particular clinic. So if that clinic is not involved in embryo adoption or otherwise bringing unused embryos to term, the parents don't need to be told about those options.
Another area of concern is the use of foreign-derived embryos where consent is murkier.
Expect an official statement from Cardinal Rigali sometime tomorrow. We'll post it as soon as it arrives.


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This skirt of this dress is cut on bias, hence the beautiful flow. The inset is framed by piping. Learn how to make your own piping in the related technique, so you can create a piping that matches the fabric of the inset. Or make a statement with contrasting inset and piping colors.
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Mar 11, 2011, 02.19 PMby FabricUiPhoneApp
This seems like a nice way to get started using piping…for those people who don't particularly care to use it on jackets, which much harder to make than dresses.
Mar 10, 2011, 10.35 PMby turtlegirl00
This is adorable! i can't wait to try it! may be beyond my skill set, but i am going to attempt it.
Mar 10, 2011, 06.05 PMby sewinl0ve
Nice model choice, that color looks fantastic on her!
Mar 10, 2011, 03.59 PMby treacle-toes
Lovely dress. Cute model!
Nov 26, 2008, 03.00 PMby lolipopsayhi
totally cute i love the asian feel to it bravo!!!!!!!!!! ooo also the model is amazing and the picture is breathtakingly fresh!!!!
Oct 12, 2007, 04.33 AMby violent-violet
Has anyone tried leaving out the lining and was the fit still okay? (Benedikta?) I'm not experienced in lining garments but I love this dress! I might change the sleeves to puff sleeves for added cuteness, though :)
Oct 11, 2007, 04.37 AMby marmota-b
Wow! Thanks so much for this pattern – it's in some aspects, especially the top, very similar to a dress I have in mind and really want to have! It would be hard to alter from a basic pattern, but from this one I think it will be very easy! That's so great. :-)
Oct 9, 2007, 06.02 PMby zenchaos
wow. great job :)
Oct 9, 2007, 05.13 PMby benedikta
Hi Littleladyluxe and Zora,
The reason why we started with size 36 on most patterns is, because Burda patterns, due to the fact that their sizing has not changed since their beginning, are in general very small. So far we were mostly approached about the fact that we did not size up enough and that in general the size range would run too small. Do the two of you measure a Burda size 32? How far are you off of 36? We are about to begin production of plus sizes.At this occasion I think it makes sense to revise the smaller sizes as well, so that we cover the entire size range with a variety of patterns. Maybe one of you two wants to start a thread in the forums and see how others feel about the sizing and we can make sure to take it into consideration with our next collection. Looking forward for your feedback.
Oct 9, 2007, 07.38 AMby littleladyluxe
Thanks Elainemay, i'll definitely use your how-to. An extra half-hour downsizing is definitely worthwhile, i completely agree :)
Oct 9, 2007, 06.50 AMby elainemay
hi zora— as i mentioned, you might have a look at the how-to i made- i'm pretty sure that the resulting downsized pattern that you'll get if you use this method is fairly identical to what you'd have if the pattern were actually printed in 32. in any case, if this were a vogue or mccall's pattern or in a burda issue, chances are that it also wouldn't start in 32 (or even 34), and it certainly wouldn't be FREE :) given that the patterns can't be made to fit any and everyone who would possibly want to make them, i find it's well worth the extra half hour of work to size the pattern down, as i'm already (incredibly!) getting a huge selection of beautiful, stylish patterns for download completely for free. i'm actually impressed that the burdastyle patterns are pretty "fair" in their size distribution, having some that go all the way down to 32 and some that go all the way up to 50- something for (almost) everyone :)
Oct 9, 2007, 06.49 AMby assya63
Very smart, thank you for this model. I can't wait to make this dress. I am excited
Oct 9, 2007, 05.40 AMby elainemay
hi littleladyluxe- i've had no problems altering burda patterns from 36 down to 32, and keeping the right proportions- i have a how-to on the method that you can check out. if a 32 normally fits you, this procedure is easier and more accurate than trying to alter the bust, hips, shoulders, etc. separately down to your measurements. given that there don't seem to be a lot of pieces in this dress, it shouldn't be difficult.
Oct 9, 2007, 05.33 AMby littleladyluxe
I adore this dress! I know you can't please everyone, but i'm a size 32 and very few of these items are small enough for me. I'm fairly good at altering patterns but a dress like this needs to fit properly and i'm disappointed :( Out of interest, how do you decide on the range of sizes when releasing a download pattern? On a more positive note, i really do love this site!
Oct 8, 2007, 01.39 PMby mirela
Gorgeous details!
Oct 8, 2007, 11.08 AMby zahra
looks grt.. cant wait to try it..
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