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Not one but two holiday giveaways from Kikay si Maria!
First up: Kikay Si Maria x Asian Vogue Shop
If you love shoes and think about how magical they are, share your thoughts and get a chance to win 1,000 pesos worth of gift certificates from Asian Vogue Shop.
The second part of her giveaway is a collaboration between Kikay Si Maria and Erika Jjang. The prize packages are as follows:
Package A: Suesh Portable 3-way LED Lighted Mirror worth Php 8,000
Package B: Red Jhelli contact lenses, Elswear bangs/apparel, RK Manila accessories plus a surprise gift from Elicina Philippines. :)
So what are you waiting for? Join their giveaways now!
There are so many giveaways and some of them are ending on Christmas day! Check out more giveaways from local bloggers
Sugar Sugar's Christmas giveaway
Prizes include:
- Benefit Posietint (Full Size)
- Paul & Joe Travel (Brush) Bag
- Paul & Joe Light Cream Foundation S in 30 (Deluxe Sample Size)
- Paul & Joe Light Cleansing Milk N (Deluxe Sample Size)
- My Beauty Diary Bird's Nest and Japanese Cherry Blossom Mask.
- Will include a bunch of samples too
How awesome is that? :) Also, check out her reviews. She's got Etude House product reviews too! And so much more, actually. Why do you think I keep coming back to her blog? ;) Click the link above for the details on how to join her wonderful giveaway.
The lovely Bec San Diego of My Gorgeous Pink Cheeks also has an on-going giveaway which I know some of my friends would really love because there are NARS products included! There will be three winners. One will get the NARS products, another will get the IWhite set and another will get a set of Nivea lip care products (perfect for those with chapped lips!)
Bec is holding a giveaway on her blog because it's on its second year (and counting!) so please drop by and congratulate her for that ;)
And lastly, check out Mich Bugante's Christmas giveaway. I saw Mich's blog because I was looking for posts about coral lippies. I love her outfit posts so I kept coming back for more posts on her blog. Anyway, prizes from Mich include a bunch of Nivea lip care products, a Forever 21 GC, an ArtBlanc notebook (something I really want!), Tony Moly nail lacquers and a hand spray from Snoe.
Good luck to all of you who will join these giveaways! :) Hope you girls win! These are really wonderful giveaways to these ladies that I follow on the internet. Good luck and happy holidays ♥
Ever heard of Wish Trend? They're a Korean company who wants to bring skin care, makeup and fashion accessories to anyone in the whole world. They have products from brands that I've never heard of in Manila like Roju Kiss, Liz K, Ciracle. They sometimes have deals (which I want to avail one of these days) where you see sets being sold for less than 30 USD. One thing I love about their site is that they feature blind tests. Blind tests are product tests which have bloggers as participants and they do not know the brands of the products they are testing. Kim Tan from Test and Share was the one who first told me about Wish Trend and their blind tests.
Right now Wish Trend is conducting a giveaway for its fans and customers. You just need to fill up a survey and they will count it as an entry. They will draw 3 winners of Namzia pouches and Liz K veiling cream. The Namzia pouch is really cute! I am sure you'd want to check it out!
For more details, check out Wish Trend's blog entry and fill up the survey form. It won't take much of your time. And who knows? You might win the Wish Box ;)
If you like ELF products, check out this giveaway by clicking the link above. It helps if you have a Facebook and Twitter account so you could easily follow the instructions.
Prizes include the following:
ELF Brightening Eye Liner in Black
ELF Brightening Eye Liner in Ash
ELF Liquid Eye Liner in Coffee
ELF Super Glossy Lip Shine SPF15 in Angel
ELF Super Glossy Lip Shine SPF15 in Mauve Luxe
ELF Blush, Bronzing & Blending Brush
ELF Brightening Eye Color in Blue Moon
ELF Brightening Eye Color in Ethereal
Good luck to everyone who will join! :)
Thanks to Chic Sassy Mom for having a really cool giveaway for her readers/followers. In cooperation with Skin Food Philippines, Chic Sassy Mom will have Skin Food's Gold Kiwi trial kits available to her readers. (If you're following me on my Facebook page, you would've seen this by now.) Isn't that fabulous or what? No purchase required even! (I got my own voucher in my email inbox already actually.) And if you're a blogger, she's got a little giveaway for us too. ;) It's really simple:
Mandatory Entries: + 5 Raffle EntriesIf you got a little confused, just head on to her blog post about the Skin Food bloggers giveaway and join by December 14. It's just a couple of days away but it won't take a lot of time to post a little something, right? ;) So hurry up and click the link above or, this link for details and clarifications you might have. Have fun and enjoy the treats from Skin Food! PS: This is only for bloggers residing in the Philippines. :)
- Make a blog post about the SkinFood Gold Kiwi Gift Sets giveaway.
- Share your blog post entry on your personal/fan FB page status with mention to @Chic & Sassy Homemaker.
- Please leave a comment on this post that you're joining.
If you're a fan of Missha products, check out this giveaway from Frozen Blossoms. Click the link above to get the details. She's giving away mili lip palettes, sheet masks and trial sizes of various Missha products. I think I've shared this on my Facebook page before but I'd like to post about it again so you could see more pre-holiday giveaways from the bloggers that I follow these days.
As with most bloggers I follow, they talk a lot about Korean skin care and makeup products. Check out Senzy's blog and learn more about them. She also talks about other non-Korean brands so watch out for her posts which also act as reviews. ;)
One of the local bloggers, Chic Sassy Mom is having a giveaway to her subscribers. If you are a fan of Skin Food, check out their Gold Kiwi line through the trial kits that they are giving away through Chic Sassy Mom's blog. Just follow the simple instructions and you will receive your voucher from her.
Chic Sassy Mom talks about a lot of skin care and makeup products as well as food! If you like all three, then it's time to check out her blog.
Please note that this giveaway is open to Philippine residents, 13 years old and up, with valid email address, and access to Skin Food branches. Last day to register is December 23, 2011.
Whoa~! This is a really cool giveaway because aside from having Human Nature products, there are also Bare Minerals products. Nice~!
I just learned about this from some of the folks here on Tumblr and also on Facebook. In any case, My Kiss & Makeup is an interesting makeup blog. Definitely something to read and look forward to on my Blogger dashboard. :D (Yeah, I also have a blogger account but that's for blogs I follow, as well as my other blogs.)


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"The Irish tunes called up something in her. She felt them in her veins; a deep place moved her to tears. It wasn't sadness, not entirely. It was more complicated than that; everything at once - joy, pain, hope.""You're too young to give in to disappointment. The joy will come again, and when it does it will be all the better because of what you've suffered.""Kate shifted through the past, what might or might not have been, seeking a reference point, a place to say: This is the beginning. A spot on the map: You are here. Or where here. Or might be here. You belong."
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Well Said: Loss & Joy
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It sounds beautiful! Have to check on the book =)ReplyDelete
I assume this takes place in Ireland? Very cool- I will have to check this one out. I look forward to your review!ReplyDelete
I looooove it! Seriously, had a warm fuzzy feeling just from reading it. Lovely writing style. Awesome teaser!ReplyDelete
WOW! I can't wait to get my hands on that book! I'm so glad you're enjoying it!ReplyDelete
Awww, lovely, I so want to read this oneReplyDelete
Sounds like a lovely read. Wonderful! Kellie xxReplyDelete
I love these, especially the first one. I know that feeling--so amazing. Glad you're loving that book!ReplyDelete
My Teaser is from The Husband TreeReplyDelete
Sounds like a great book from this teaser. THanks for sharingReplyDelete
Come read my teaser from Noah by Jacquelyn Frank
Just these teasers have enchanted me! Thanks for this amazing seeming recommendation!ReplyDelete
this book is in my list of must reads!ReplyDelete
All great teasers!ReplyDelete
Is it just me or is clothes line seem calming and if a different era?ReplyDelete
I love all three of them! Nice choices.ReplyDelete
Here's mine.
I've heard so much about this book! Great teasers!ReplyDelete
I've been intrigued by this one ever since I first saw it. I'm a knitter; I LOVE the cover; and all of the reviews I've read have been positive. Reminds me to put it on my GoodReads wishlist! Thanks for the teasers! Here is my Teaser: http://jewelknits.blogspot.com/2010/10/teaser-tuesdays-october-12-2010.htmlReplyDelete
Julie @ Knitting and Sundries
I especially love the first quote. It's just beautiful. (Boo)ReplyDelete
i agree with carol, i like the 2nd one also :DReplyDelete
Lovely teaser!! I'm a bit lace obsessed after I took a writing class at monastery where the groundskeeper -- a nun -- made lace for the chapel. I forget what she told me, but it took her something like 20 hours to do a few inches? It was, needless to say, a serious labor of love.ReplyDelete
My teaser -- not nearly as poignant as yours!
I'm so glad you're enjoying your giveaway win! I really liked this one too. Looking forward to your review. =O)ReplyDelete
Wow! I can see why you're enjoying it so much! Two teasers in and I'm already curious....happy reading!ReplyDelete
A must read, thanks for sharing.ReplyDelete
Oh, great teaser!!ReplyDelete
Here is my TEASER for today.
This one is new to me. What is this new read??? curious and have to google it now.ReplyDelete
thanks for the heads up on this one.
Three lovely teasers! I'll have to write this one down. My teaser is here:http://triciareads.blogspot.com/2010/10/teaser-tuesday_12.htmlReplyDelete
Lovely teasers. I have never heard of this book, but it sounds good!ReplyDelete
Great teaser, Juju! I have heard this is a good book. Can't wait for your review!ReplyDelete
Happy Tuesday!
Love the teasers! I'll definitely be on the lookout for your review of this one. I love the cover, it reminds me of summer (only 7 more months haha).ReplyDelete
it's always good to know you belong. great teaser!ReplyDelete
Great teaser!! I actually identify with that first one (and I get choked up when I hear bagpipe music, too -- I'm part Scottish). :)ReplyDelete
and.... um... BOO!!!!!!
Another great book to add to my list! Thanks :)ReplyDelete
I love that teaser
These teasers are so lovely. I can't wait for your review :)ReplyDelete
I was already enticed by your earlier mention, but now I'm definitely going to put it on my list to read for my reviews over at Chick Lit Reviews. Thank you! :o)ReplyDelete
Intriguing teaser, as per usual Ju... I can completely dig "rooting" issues...ReplyDelete
Sounds like a book I'd enjoy - like a good book club book. I better check it out. Intriguing teasers.ReplyDelete
Great teasers!ReplyDelete
pretty cover :)ReplyDelete
Chelley, Cheryl, Jenny, Kim, Lori, Elizabeth, Tricia, Aisle, Isa, Tribute, GMR, Faye, Jewel, Andrea, Briz, Kaye, Freda, BookishSnob, Kellie, Blod, Gina, and Darlyn: Thank you so much for popping by :) I loved your comments and links :)ReplyDelete
Mary: Ooooo it would make an awesome book club read. I hope you use it and I can't wait to hear what you think :)
Cherry: *giggle*
1stDaughter: Oooo I think you'll love it :)
Jo: Then you should totally read this :)
Carrie: Isn't that the truth :)
Lizzy: How funny :) It makes me think of Spring :)
Michelle: Ooo I did I did! I'm SO glad I won this. Thanks again :)
Audra: You took a class at a monastery? How very cool is that. I'm becoming a huge fan of lace my self. Such an intricate beautiful feminine art form. I love lace on just about anything. Thanks for stopping by :)
Aths: It's fantastic! :)
Cleverly: Totally. I love it.
Meredith: Me too. I love bittersweet emotions.
Dazzling: Yeah! For warm & fuzzies :)
the title alone makes this sound like a beautiful read.ReplyDelete
This definitely sounds like something I would like. I think I need to remember to pick this up next time I am at the library. Thanks!ReplyDelete
vv: Ahhh it does doesn't it? So does it feel like Summer or Spring to you?ReplyDelete
Sandy: Yeah! Enjoy! I hope it inspires tons of good words :)
There is something really beautiful about the cover. All three teasers are great, my favorite is the second one. Thank you for posting, Juju. =)ReplyDelete
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Mattel, mid 1960s Skediddler. Includes tough to find blue "pusher".
Hard to find version of Snoopy as the WWI flying ace in his Sopwith Camel.
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January 8, 2014
(Tacoma) 7PM
Clay Antieau: Know Your Grasses
Grasses are critical to
many fields of science and practice, including wetland identification and
delineation, ecosystem restoration, erosion control, and interpretation of
natural history. Beautiful and diverse, grasses are globally important in
many ways—fundamental to the past and future survival of humans. In this
presentation, Clay explores the grass language and distinguishing
characteristics of the grass family. Featuring invasive grasses, rare
grasses, and ornamental grasses, Clay will describe the remarkable
adaptiveness of grasses as well as their habitat affinities, restoration
roles, and associated conservation challenges.
Clay Antieau M.S.,
Ph.C. is a horticulturist, botanist, and environmental scientist who
enthusiastically combines these disciplines to offer unique abilities and
perspectives in environmental education and science communication. He
currently works for the City of Seattle as an environmental permit
specialist. Clay's a recognized local authority and educator in Northwest
flora and has taught courses in plant identification, wetland science,
restoration science, and related subjects at the University of Washington
and numerous technical and community colleges around Washington. He's been
teaching grass identification for more than 20 years.
January 13, 2014
(Olympia) 7PM
Joe Arnett: Rare Plants - Endemics, Disjuncts, and Peripheral Species
Why is this plant
growing here? Is it a native? How did it get here? Are there more of these
plants nearby? What are our conservation priorities for this plant? These
are the kinds of questions often facing Joe Arnett, rare plant botanist for
the Washington Natural Heritage Program. Joe will discuss selection of the
plant species regarded to be conservation priorities in Washington,
considering the different ways that they are distributed on the landscape.
Aspects of distribution include evaluation of risk, genetics, and dispersal
Joe Arnett has been the
rare plant botanist for the Washington Natural Heritage Program since 2005
and has formally studied the plants of Washington since 1982. He is an
at-large member of the State Board of the Washington Native Plant Society.
February 10, 2014
(Olympia) 7PM
Matt Vander Haegen: Ecological Integrity Monitoring (EIM) of WDFW
Wildlife Areas
The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) manages close to 1
million acres of land ranging from coastal marshes to arid
sagebrush-steppe. Join WDFW biologists Matt Vander Haegen and John Pierce
as they describe a new and innovative project aimed at monitoring the
ecological integrity of these lands into an uncertain future. The Ecological
Integrity Monitoring (EIM) Project is using a multitude of data sources at
various scales, from satellite imagery in computer applications to citizen
science volunteers collecting field data with GPS and smart phones, to track
our valuable resources. Scatter Creek Wildlife Area near Littlerock is one
of our pilot areas for the project where volunteers are monitoring our rare
oak-woodland and prairie communities. The presentation will outline the
goals of the project, introduce you to the methods used by staff and citizen
scientists in collecting data in the field, and share the project's vision
for incorporating citizen science as a key element of the overall project.
You'll also learn how you can put your botany skills to work while enjoying
time in the field by joining the citizen science volunteers, students, and
mentors who participate in the project.
Matt Vander Haegen is a senior research scientist with WDFW and a member of
the graduate faculty at the University of Washington. His research focuses
on the effects of human land use on wildlife populations and habitat and has
included such diverse species as shrubsteppe birds, western gray squirrels
(our largest native tree squirrel!) and western pond turtles. John Pierce
is Chief Scientist for WDFW's Wildlife Program and directs the Program's
efforts at managing abundance and distribution data of wildlife species,
researching ecological relationships and limiting factors of priority
wildlife species, monitoring wildlife health, and analysis of spatial data.
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February 12, 2014
(Tacoma) 7PM
Donovan Tracy: Photographing the Wildflowers of Mount Rainier National Park
Virtually in our backyard, Mount Rainier National Park has long been
considered one of the best places on earth to view and photograph
wildflowers. Photographer Donovan Tracy has developed his skills through
hundreds of days in the field and will share what he's learned photographing
at Mt. Rainier Park. Techniques covered in his presentation are suited both
for novice photographers to serious amateur photographers who desire to more
thoroughly study and photograph plants in their natural environment. Some of
the topics covered will be light and exposure, composition, considerations
for a plant study, and close-up photography. Donovan will also review one of
the wildflower hikes that he has featured on his web site.
Donovan is the co-author with David Giblin, collection manager of the UW
Herbarium, of the Burke Museum's "Alpine Flowers of Mt. Rainier", a field
guide first published in 2011. His web site, www.flowersofrainier, includes
photographs and descriptions of 235 species of flowering plants within Mount
Rainier National Park.
March 10, 2014
(Olympia) 7PM
Sarah Hamman: Burning for Butterflies: Using fire as a restoration tool for
rare species habitat
For two decades, a growing collaborative effort has been aimed at restoring
rare prairie habitat in the Puget Lowlands. A large part of this effort has
involved restoring one of the most important native processes to this
landscape: fire. The South Sound prescribed fire program has steadily
expanded over the years, both in capacity and in knowledge about this
restoration tool. In this talk, Sarah Hamman will discuss the evolution of
the fire program and how it's being used today to strategically restore
habitat for a wide suite of prairie species, including fire sensitive
Sarah Hamman is the Restoration Ecologist for the Center for Natural Lands
Management, a conservation non-profit based out of Washington and
California. Her work is aimed at restoring rare species habitat in PNW
prairies using rigorous science and careful conservation planning. Sarah
holds a B.A. in Biology from Wittenberg University and a Ph.D. in Ecology
from Colorado State University. Most of her training and experience has been
in ecosystem ecology, with a focus on fire effects on forest and grassland
soils. She has also studied climate change impacts on Minnesota tallgrass
prairies, wolf behavior and demographics in Yellowstone, fire effects on
invasive species in Sequoia National Park, and restoration techniques for
endangered species in central Florida rangelands. Sarah is also an adjunct
professor at The Evergreen State College, where she teaches Fire Science and
Society and Restoration Ecology for the MES program.
March 12, 2014 (Tacoma)
Susan McDougall: Trees Live Here – Visiting America's Arboretums
Based upon her visits to 33 of the country's arboretums, Susan McDougall
will present a photographic and textual exploration of these special
"places for trees." Besides introducing a selection of these arboretums, her
talk will give special emphasis to the work being done by modern arboretums
to present their native trees and other plants in ecosystem settings.
Susan McDougall's life-long love of trees and gardens finds expression in
her new book, "Trees Live Here." With a background in mathematics and
geophysics, she worked as a software engineer before retiring to pursue
interests in writing and photography. She has written two books on Pacific
northwest natural history and co-authored the first complete flora of Mount
Adams. Her photographs have been published in several books and are often
used for non-profit educational purposes. Her book will be on sale at
the meeting.
here to see see some of Susan's arboretum pictures.
April 9, 2014 (Tacoma) 7PM
Elysia Mbuja: Pierce College Oak Woodland Restoration: Learning, teaching,
and partnerships
In an effort to restore a Garry oak woodland ecosystem near Pierce College
and Fort Steilacoom Park, educators and multigenerational students have
become involved in environmental stewardship. Elysia Mbuja, Assistant
Professor at Pierce College, will discuss how the restoration project began
5 years ago, the progression of the project, how strategies have changed,
and about the challenges that are yet to be solved. The logistics of
partnering with an elementary school will also be discussed.
Professor Mbuja received a Bachelor of Science in biology (1999) and a
Master in Education in Curriculum & Instruction from Arizona State
University(2000). She taught high school biology and chemistry in Kenya for
the US Peace Corps (2000-2002). Upon returning from Kenya, Elysia started
teaching biology at Pierce College (2004) and earned a Master in Biology
from University of Nebraska Kearney (2009). Elysia has been involved in the
Garry oak ecosystem restoration project on the Pierce College campus since
its inception and is currently the volunteer coordinator and a member of the
site planning and approval committee.
April 14, 2014
(Olympia) 7PM
Steve Herman: Shrubsteppe, The
Richest Of Our Paupers
Shrubsteppe is a community that once carpeted a majority of the surface of
what came to be the state of Washington. So rich in life that it would make
a mature redwood forest look like the inside of a burial crypt, it is now
reduced to an impoverishment of its former distribution. First described and
most studied by our state's preeminent plant ecologist, Rexford Daubenmire,
remnants of it still exist. Little known and widely abused, shrubsteppe
needs a makeover in terms of what is known of its botanical and zoological
value; it deserves much more respect than it currently enjoys.
Dr. Steven Herman fell in love with this landscape, after hearing a lecture
by Professor Daubenmire in 1974 and soon thereafter bought 80 acres of it in
Southeastern Oregon were he installed the infrastructure for a field
station. Now protected from sundry insults for 30 years, it stands out
clearly, healthy in a sea of the infirm, on a Google map search.
As a professor at Evergreen, Steve taught "The Natural History and
Conservation of Shrubsteppe," taking students into the field to study
shrubsteppe for weeks at a time. Now a professor Emeritus at Evergreen, he
continues to teach summer courses at the college. In this presentation he
will tell stories related to his shrubsteppe experiences. But perhaps his
highest goal will be to convince you (in part through his beautiful
photographs) that this is a landscape of great beauty and natural history
interest, worthy of your attention and that of land managers across the
American West, - a landscape of elegance and poetic beauty.
Dr. Herman is Professor Emeritus (Biology), at The Evergreen State College
as well as Founder and Emeritus Curator of Evergreen's Museum of Natural
History. He has authored or co-authored nearly 40 papers. Recognized as
Environmental Scientist of the Year in 1984 by the Washington
Environmental Council and Conservationist of the Year in 1995 by the Seattle
Audubon, he has served as Board member for many environmental
organizations. He is currently working on manuscripts regarding Upland
Sandpipers in Oregon, densities of shrubsteppe birds in southeastern Oregon,
and spring-migrating shorebird use of Willapa Bay and Grays Harbor.
May 12,
2014 (Olympia) 7PM
Adam Martin: The Lost Flowers - Historic Changes in Salish prairies
Ecological amnesia occurs when a landscape or ecosystem has become so
altered that there is no historic conception of the processes, interactions,
or species which once composed these places. The remaining native prairies
along the Salish sea likely resemble little the vast prairies which greeted
the first European explorers. By the early-1800s these prairies had begun to
be rapidly settled by Europeans, and this settlement has continued
constantly until today. Well before Washington became a state, indigenous
management practices which helped maintain flower-filled prairies were
quickly halted with the arrival of new settlers hungry for land. Intensive
grazing and agriculture, as well as new plant species, began fragmenting
and altering prairies. These rapid changes dramatically shifted how the
remaining prairies were structured and who dominated them.
This talk
will explore how we can use historic records, phylogenies, ecological
theory, and what we currently know about these endangered ecosystems to
piece together what we may have forgotten. It will also address how we
might change current prairie management to better restore the historic
variability that must have greeted the Europeans who first set eyes on this
vast sea of flowers.
R. Adam
Martin received his BA and BS in natural history and ecology from The
Evergreen State College. He has worked as a prairie restorationist at the
Center for Natural Lands Management since 2011, where he has done extensive
work reintroducing Golden paintbrush, looking for horned larks, and
monitoring the response of plant and bird communities to restoration. He
also has done extensive work since 2006 on monitoring large mammals along
the I-90 corridor using snow tracking and remote cameras, and teaches
wildlife tracking in his little free time when he is not birding or
photographing plants.
May 14, 2014 (Tacoma)
Dennis Paulson: Birds and Native Plants
Everyone knows that birds come to feeders full of seeds. There are a lot of
seed-eating birds! But birds relate to our native plants in many more ways
than that, both positive and negative, and Dennis Paulson will tell you how
in an illustrated lecture.
Dennis Paulson, recently retired from being Director of the Slater Museum of
Natural History, University of Puget Sound, has been a professional
biologist and naturalist all of his adult life. He began studying natural
history as a boy and is a world expert on dragonflies and shorebirds. He is
the author of nine books, including "Shorebirds of North America" and
"Dragonflies and Damselflies of the West", as well as 90 scientific papers
on birds and dragonflies.
Meeting Locations:
Washington State Capitol Museum Coach House
211 21st Avenue SW
Olympia, WA 98501
Directions to the Washington State Capital Museum: From Interstate 5 in Olympia, take Exit 105, following the "State
Capital/City Center" route. Go through a tunnel, (get in the left hand lane)
and turn left on Capital Way. Follow the brown and white "State Capital
Museum" signs to 21st Avenue. Turn right on 21st
Avenue and proceed two blocks. The museum is on the left in a stucco
mansion. We meet in the carriage house in back of the mansion.
Tacoma Nature
1919 South Tyler Street
Tacoma, WA 98405
Directions to the Tacoma Nature Center: From Interstate 5, take State
Highway 16 towards Gig Harbor. Look for the 19th Street EAST,
exit and take it, which puts you onto South 19th Street. Travel
to the first light, turn right on South Tyler, and then left into the first
driveway at the Tacoma Nature Center.
General Meeting Information
South Sound Chapter presentations are held on the
second Monday and Wednesday of the month (October through May, in Olympia and
Tacoma, respectively):
All meetings are open to the public and most are free of
charge. Refreshments are typically provided by WNPS
volunteers. We hope you'll join us for an evening of camaraderie and education
about the world of native plants as well as the habitats that they create and
Outside of field trips and holiday gatherings,
most meetings start at 7:00 pm. These "meetings" consist of a quick
preview of activity announcements, but are mostly grounded in
presentations that last 45 minutes to over an hour. Our topics are
geared to attract and speak to neophytes and amateurs, as well as
"dyed-in-the-wool" or otherwise committed botanists. We may be biased,
but we think our presentations are top of the line!
Members and the public are invited to attend all presentations. For
more information about our programs, please contact the
Chapter Chair.
We hope to see all of you at the meetings!!!


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Take Cover(Or, What's With European Car And Fords?)For those accustomed to something more along the lines of a red Ferrari or black BMW, this month's cover of european car might be something of a shock. It shouldn't be. The Ford Motor Company is celebrating 100 years of business, and one of the BIG parties is taking place this August at Laguna Seca. Ford is sharing the spotlight with another anniversary of sorts, as this will be the 30th edition of the Monterey Historic Automobile Races. Ford at the Historics? Here is what Steve Earle had to say:
"Ford's racing heritage is so diverse that it gets lost in everyday traffic with so many cars produced, and on the road it is easy to overlook the athlete in the company...like riding a bicycle down the street and not realizing you just passed Lance Armstrong. Ford has real muscle, past present and future."
The three Fords featured on the cover, plus two additional significant European Fords, are a perfect testament to Ford's century of automobile manufacturing and to the people who were inspired to build them.
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The Lotus Cortina was the brainchild of Ford of Britain's public affairs chief, Walter Hayes. He went on to take part in the founding of the Ford Advanced Vehicle Operation (FAVO), which was later responsible for such efforts as the GT40 and the Escort RS. The Lotus Cortina was conceived and developed rapidly, as anyone who owned one and had the rear suspension collapse will tell you.


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The Department of Defense has launched the National Resource Directory, a collaborative effort between the departments of Defense, Labor and Veterans Affairs. Dr. Linda Davis is Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Military Community and Family Policy, she'll tell us what the directory does and why it is important! See the directory.Click to hear the interview.


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Asheville police said one of their officers shot and killed a suspect while responding to a burglary Sunday morning.
Officers said they responded to a report of a burglary at a home in the Camelot subdivision along King Arthur place at 7:27 a.m.
Police said officers arrived at the scene to find a suspect fleeing from the residence with a handgun. Police said a chase ensued and officers said the suspect pointed the gun at them and at some point discharged one shot, it's not clear if it was aimed at police.
Police identified the suspect as 19-year-old Alexander Jamar Marion, of Asheville.
Officers said Marion made into a wooded area and through to New Leicester Highway.
Police said he eventually emerged from the wooded area, where he encountered officers. According to police, Marion refused to comply with officers' commands and was shot and killed.
A friend of Marion, who didn't want to be identified, said he was a football star at A.C. Reynolds. That friend also happened to be at a stoplight on Leicester Highway when the shooting occurred. He said he saw Marion put his hands up when officers ordered him to, but he said the officers fired anyway.
"I see a whole bunch of cops chasing after and see him come out of the bushes down by the light, and saw him put his hands up," said the friend. "And then in maybe two seconds I heard a bang."
Police said Marion was taken to the hospital where he later died. They said they recovered gun during the investigation.
Per protocol, the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation is investigating the shooting and the officer involved was placed on administrative leave pending the investigation's outcome.
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5 Players the Dallas Cowboys Should Call About Leading Into NFL Trade Deadline
2013 NFL Trade Deadline: 5 Players the Dallas Cowboys Should Call About
The NFL trade deadline is upon us, and unlike most seasons, there is actual hope big deals may be made. Already this season Eugene Monroe, Levi Brown, and Trent Richardson have been traded.
The NFL recently moved the trade deadline back to Week 8 to help make the it something that people actually pay attention to again, and it has worked because there are several teams who have already seen their playoff hopes die, while others realize they are just a piece or two away shy of being a real contender.
Combine those two things with the fact that looking back at this week's action and it is hard pressed to not begin singing U2's Sunday Bloody Sunday to yourself. There were more season ending injuries in Week 7 than I can remember in recent history, so there are holes on many contenders' rosters.
There are several teams that are no longer in the hunt that have veterans in the final year of their contract. Their only real value to their team would be in draft pick compensation in a trade.
The Dallas Cowboys are one of those teams that are in need of some help. Their defensive line has been decimated by injuries, as has the running back position. Another position the Cowboys have been looking to improve every year for the past several years is the secondary.
So here are the five players the Dallas Cowboys should be picking up the phone and trying to make a deal for.
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5. Maurice Jones-Drew
Let's face it, the only accomplishment the Jacksonville Jaguars have any real chance of achieving this season is being the worst team in NFL history. Maurice Jones-Drew has been an absolute workhorse his entire career with the Jags for a team that has not been a real contender in a decade. The Dallas Cowboys have the often injured DeMarco Murray currently banged up at running back. MJD could be a real asset to the Cowboys, and the Jags kinda owe it to MJD to trade him to a contender.
4. Jairus Byrd
Jairus Byrd has had an interesting year. He got the franchise tag, threatened to holdout, and has yet to be fully healthy. Regardless he is an All-Pro potential safety which is a position the Dallas CowboysDallas Cowboys could use help with. If Byrd is granted free agency after this season as expected, the Buffalo Bills would likely be awarded a third round compensation pick. If the Cowboys are willing to offer up a third round pick, they might be able to get Byrd from the Bills.
3. Jared Allen
Monday night it became clear that Jared Allen is being greatly misused. Not based on scheme or playing time, but based on a premier talent later in his career on a terrible team. The Minnesota Vikings are going nowhere this season, and Jared Allen reaches free agency after the year. A veteran player like Allen can make an impact on a contending team, and getting a draft pick for him is about as much value as he is ever going to be for the Vikings moving forward.
2. Vinny Curry
Vinny Curry is being wasted by the Philadelphia Eagles. He does not fit the 3-4 scheme and has been incredibly efficient in the rare four man fronts the Eagles have rolled out. It may be a long shot the Eagles would deal Curry to a division rival, but given all the defensive line injuries the Dallas Cowboys have suffered, he would make for a great addition.
1. Jared Odrick
Jared Odrick has been largely a disappointment for the Miami Dolphins. He can play both inside and outside on a 4-3, and being part of a rotation might make allow for greater success. The Dolphins are in the unfortunate position of sitting right on the wall between contender and non-contender, and dealing Odrick might be a sign they are conceding this season. However, a couple of late round picks might be able to get him.


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Click below for a copy of the report detailing the failures the first time around.
Get a copy of Monday's Register to learn what comes next in the effort to hire a permanent police chief.
Brown will continue to lead Sandusky police chief search
Click below for a copy of the report detailing the failures the first time around.
The commission needs to read and understand the city charter to eliminate future missteps.
yeah, all three lines of it.
The commission needs to read and understand the city charter to eliminate future missteps.
The charter needs to be re-written into a clarified document that makes sense when read. Something so vague and misunderstood as how it is written (which is what this man indicated) should be changed. No wonder this committee had problems. It's pretty evident from this report.
Nice thorough report
Too many crooked pages
Please fix the feeder
Apparently "abject failure" looks good on a resume these days. Who knew?
When Nuesse first got fired (wasn't that in 2008?) I predicted the case would still be going on in 2012. Isn't that when it was finally resolved --- the joke 6th District Court of Appeals agreed with the rent-a-judges that she should stay fired?
I'm predicting now that Sandusky will be lucky to have a permanent police chief by 2015!
Julie, this is probably one time when I will disagree with you only because I don't think they will let it go that far. I believe you will see a new chief by mid 2013, only because they almost half to after all of this.
If not, you will see Lang stay until Orzech gets his degree. Then he will get the promotion from within. If that happens, someone better start explaining why they wasted all this time, money and effort for nothing.
Having read this report, it is very obvious that the allegations made by Cole and Poole were unfounded and unnecessary. The committee and Mr. Brown did NOTHING wrong in their efforts to select the next chief of police. I think they owe Mr. Brown and the committee a HUGE apology for making such a big deal out of nothing.
However, I think this committee better get moving on chosing someone quickly and expeditiously to give to Ms Ard for making a decision. I would just LOVE to know how many applications actually came in from Perkins after all this innuendo from the two commissioners and their "flack". It would certainly be interesting to know if any of that was true?
I think that is something that should be revealed to the public. The SR is so hot to let the public know things, let us know the answer to that question, please.
As far as the rest of this goes, it seems that the "charter" needs some major overhauling in the verbage to which it states exactly what we need. Apparently that seems to be part of the problem if you take the time to read the entire text on this site. Too "iffy". No wonder the committee was confused.
Just take the names of those who are still working that fit the bill, ditch the rest, vet them and send them on to Ms Ard. That shouldn't be too difficult or take too long.
I wish them the best of luck. I do think that Ms Cole and Mr Poole have some explaining to do about their actions, however. Obviously from the report, their complaints and comments were totally without merit or foundation. Accusing a fellow commissioner in public like that without proof is beyond rude. It smacks of something much deeper. They could have asked him in private, not embarrassed him in public. That is something that bothers me right down to my toes.
Maybe the accuser(s) need to be asked some questions in public.
exactly right. And they should have their answers ready and available
How hard really is this? Five people on the committee, hand each one ten applications with a copy of the charter. Throw in the middle the ones that don't meet the criteria, FIRST. Go from there.
This reeks lack of leadership.
It's frankly NOT that hard. The problem? The people on the committee don't seem to KNOW which meet the criteria, and which do not. That's what started this whole mess in the first place!
Actually that ISN'T the problem. The problem is if you read the advertisement and the charter, the don't match. When you see what they advertised for and what the criteria is stated in the charter they are two different items. When you have a "wish list" added to what a mininimum exists it creates conflict. That is the problem. No wonder they are confused.
Again, wired.. No leadership. If one fails to plan, then one plans to fail.
Ok, I have to ask....what does that mean? Do you think they planned to fail? Because I know that isn't the case. Have you READ the report??? The investigation paperwork? The charter (which is a joke). ?
Aaaaaaand...you just helped to make my point. Why didn't the ad and the charter match? If the committee had had a clue as to what it was doing, there wouldn't have been a conflict between the two. If the committee was confused (as is apparent), it could have asked the Law Director for clarification and again, there wouldn't have been a conflict. This hiring process was botched from the start, and it just went downhill from there.
Sam, we have to look no further than the HR department for the Ad. I would LOVE to know who authorized it. It didn't come from the committee so who did put it in?
Again, the law director who should know this stuff, surely didn't do much in clarifying any discrepency in this matter did he? Since that is his JOB, why was he not doing it? Do any of the people who criticise this REALLY expect ordinary citizens to understand all of this without it being explained at least ONCE by the person who SHOULD know what is going on? I would hope not. It makes no matter whether it was "botched" or not.
They now have 40 new names with which to add to the others they had. They should have no problem going quickly through them. Take out all the ones that are NOT working and are not above the rank of Lt. and proceed. Heck, I can do that in less than five days by myself. There is no reason why they cannot be done in short order.
I think everyone is making far too much of continuing the process. What IS maddening is to find that nothing came of the allegations. That I find truly upsetting. Just more of an example that the lies that go on fly think and fast and come from within our own commissioners. They owe Mr. Brown a BIG apology and the two owe an explanation as to WHY they did it.
ok,Sam....you want to win and be right so badly....you can win this one. Have it your way. but read below
It isn't lack of leadership. If you see the actual AD and see the charter you will understand the problem. The HR department should be SHOT. Whoever got the idea to add the junk at the bottom is nuts. Just put in what the charter says and leave it at that. Don't add the rest that isn't in the charter. Talk about confusing. Talk about a government job.
And don't believe all you read. I happen to know they got FORTY new applicants right now. Yes, FORTY.
Here's a solution to the problem: Appoint whoever the committee wants to hire as interim-chief. Then, have the person apply and be hired as chief. If they are acting as interim-chief, they have a job and will qualify.
Jim Lang was not active when he was hired (someone correct me if I am wrong).
The report said they could have given Ms Ard the ONE they had and it would have been legal....but NO....they didn't do that because there are certain people in this town who yell and scream and cry every time about "it says one to three" (I could name names here). This would be OVER now had they done so.
The report is wrong. If you re-read the report the attorney re-wrote the Charter.
The charter was taken right out of the paperwork of the city. How do you figure it was re written? The report ISN"T wrong, DG. I think you are terribly mistaken here.
How do you figure it was wrong? Do you have some celestial knowledge that none of us is privilege to? Please tell us what you know that we do not know. But keep in mind that the charter was NOT re written, it was followed exactly as it is from the city charter.
I don't have any interest in critiquing the report because it served its purpose. But, yepper, he did re-write the Charter. Page 5, 3rd paragraph, last 3 lines of the pdf. He even highlights his re-write in quotes, lol. "name or names". The text he uses is "...it is also stated, in paragraph two, that the "name or names" of qualified individuals are to be certified to the City manager ( which seems to imply that a single qualifed person could be referred to the City Manager )."
The Charter doesn't say "name or names". Reference the Charter in the same pdf, Exhibit "B", page 2, 1st paragraph, line 2. "...Board shall certify to the City Manager the names of not more than three (3) applicants who are eligible..." It says, "names" not "name or names".
He may say that he was paraphrasing but "name or names" was definitely a re-write. lol
I will look it over, but for now.....if you say so. But when I read the Charter it did say name or names. I believe I said that to you once before and you said it had to have three.
But if you say so. I will look it up though. I think you are mistaken.
Lang was Chief Park Ranger for Erie Metro-Parks.
almost half to?
Why is the SR trying to divide this city over this matter and create such a problem over this? Its as if they are punishing the city, the commission and the police department? Is it to get "even" with all three in one felled cutting? It appears that is the agenda of the day.
Printing "slanted" stories isn't the right thing to do, and half truths isn't right either. When one is the ONLY news source, the public would expect there to be an unbiased and totally unobstructed resource of CLEAR information coming from that news source, not what we have been getting of late from our paper. I just don't understand this. It is being used to take "pot shots" at particular people, using half truths and short sighted stories and coming dangerously close to printing (shall I say lies) to obtain an end.
People can read. If they take the time to read the report written by the man who did the investigation, they will see that Ms Cole and Mr Poole' allegations were "unfounded" and that the committee did nothing wrong.
There was NONE of the wrong doing that either of these two commissioners accused the commissioner or the committee of doing. Of that, both Poole and Cole should truly be ashamed. But the Register would have you believe that is not the case and the extension is because of some wrong doing by the committee. WRONG.
Take the time to READ the report. The committee members were on track and trying hard to fit candidates to the process and fit it to the charter. It seems strange that the SR quotes Deidra Cole and Sharon Johnson as their "references"...one working for the SR and the other who sides with the SR on points of interest and whom the SR sides with against the committee. How fair is that, how objective?
No, this has become a grudge, a vendetta...not fair reporting. For some reason, it has stopped being objective and become subjective and something for which Matt Westerhold and his immediate staff should not be proud. You cannot call this "reporting" when it becomes subjective in nature and no longer tells the truth about an issue, but only one sided.
For whatever reason the SR is doing what they are doing, shame on them. Being the only source of news gives you a grave and great responsibility and seeing it misused is dishearting and upsetting. I thought the SR a much more fair and impartial paper than this.
What happened? Can you not give the fair opinion on this? Can you not be objective, open, honest and fair about this one? What has over shadowed the objectivity so badly that the paper would take this type of stand? Is it bitterness, jealously, worry or worse?
I just expected better. Remember, people outside this area read this paper. You are also an embassador to the outside world and you are giving a bad view of what Sandusky looks like to the outside world.
I just said something about perception to those in Huron. I will say the same to you. Stop giving the perception that we are a bunch of small children with petty problems that cannot be solved reasonably. Stop making things worse by stirring them up. Stop printing things that are half truths or lies, just print facts.
And start working WITH people, not against them. Everything isn't a major headline. Even a quiet sunset can be a great sight. It doesn't need an explosion to go with it.
I read the report, wired. The committee did not follow the charter. Nor did the person who put the ad out to whatever resources they used. The charter was not followed in either case. That's not to mention promises of jobs by naysayers that couldn't produce.. Either way, it's FUBAR. Back to square one. Leadership has got to be the key.


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In the tradition of The Devil in the White City comes a spell-binding tale of madness and murder in a nineteenth century American dynasty
On June 3, 1873, a portly, fashionably dressed, middle-aged man calls the Sturtevant House and asks to see the tenant on the second floor. The bellman goes up and presents the visitor's card to the guest in room 267, returns promptly, and escorts the visitor upstairs. Before the bellman even reaches the lobby, four shots are fired in rapid succession.
Eighteen-year-old Frank Walworth descends the staircase and approaches the hotel clerk. He calmly inquires the location of the nearest police precinct and adds, "I have killed my father in my room, and I am going to surrender myself to the police."
So begins the fall of the Walworths, a Saratoga family that rose to prominence as part of the splendor of New York's aristocracy. In a single generation that appearance of stability and firm moral direction would be altered beyond recognition, replaced by the greed, corruption, and madness that had been festering in the family for decades.
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There was a woman who lived alone in a house with fifty- five rooms. It was dark in the house. She kept the curtains drawn by day, and most of the rooms she never entered after nightfall.
The house stood at the north end of Broadway, the celebrated main thoroughfare of the city of Saratoga Springs, New York. It was built in 1815 and acquired the name Pine Grove from the stand of pines that loomed over it. Back then its site was an outlying corner of a village just beginning to grow into a national showcase. The house grew larger along with the village.
"A hybrid of pulp and Poe . . . . [O'Brien's] saga of this prominent 1800s family of Saratogians has enough moments of melodramatic excess—religious fanaticism! inherited insanity! parricide!––to rival the most extravagant Gothic novels of the day. . . He combines an enthusiast's zeal for the potboiler and the penny press and a memoirist's almost melancholy fascination for the varnished-away traces of the past. O'Brien elaborates the denouement of the Walworth world with the same humor and insight that he applies to the particular mid-1800s knack for a sort of 'inflated, poeticized, oratorically cadenced language' that was a mirror of how the Warworths regarded themselves. . . . Red Smith wrote that to get to Saratoga Springs from New York City, 'you drive north for about 175 miles, turn left on Union Avenue and go back 100 years.' In his felicitous cultural history, O'Brien neatly pulls off the time-travel trick with no need to gas up the tank."--Eric Banks, The Chicago Tribune
"Geoffrey O'Brien's eloquent The Fall of the House of Walworth vividly resurrects the idiosyncratic and ultimately tragic malcontents who for four generations lived at Pine Grove. . . . Mr. O'Brien writes that Clara's mother and grandmother 'almost succeeded in sweeping from the house all traces of quarrels and ravings, of murder and of judicial punishment that killed the soul if not the body . . . [but] pieces of what had been left out were eventually to be found hidden in diaries, scrapbooks, letters.' These fragments, cast up like the shards from a wreck, Mr. O'Brien puts to brilliant use in reconstructing the tangled tale of the grand but dysfunctional Walworth dynasty."--Edward J. Renehan, Jr., The Wall Street Journal
"O'Brien salts his story of Walworth's arrest and murder trial with an anatomy of the Walworth family's bizarre cast of characters and the history of Saratoga Springs and its notoriety as a spa destination. But it is the sordid details of the marriage of Mansfield and his wife Ellen that had tongues wagging in 19th century New York that gives this history the spark of a modern-day suspense novel.... Readers will quickly turn pages in anticipation of the verdict in Frank's trial. O'Brien's cinematic prose is laced with society gossip, history and scandal. It's a perfect end-of-summer read."--Carol Memmott, USA Today
"Delicious and deceptively intricate. . . . Just as Madame Bovary is both a romance novel and a lucid critique of one, Geoffrey O'Brien's vivid and multilayered book, with its many Gothic touches and its remarkable reconstruction of family history, is an immeasurably more sophisticated example of precisely the kind of sensational crime fiction and fantasy he has set out to understand."--Christopher Benfey, The New York Review of Books
"O'Brien actually gets the proportions of his story, and just about everything else, dead right. . . . A century from now, if editors still exist, they'll be getting pitches for books that promise to reassemble the lives of O.J. Simpson or Bernard Madoff—long-forgotten characters whose discovery has excited some hopeful writer. That aspirant author would be well advised to turn to The Fall of the House of Walworth—a first-rate book about a second-degree murder—for lessons in how to do it."--Thomas Mallon, The New York Times Book Review
"Exquisitely written, by turns sad, surprising, and suspenseful, the book illuminates the rapidly changing world of 19th-century America, with its visions of virtue, codes of honor, class conflicts, and culture of aspiration."--Glenn C. Altschuler, The Boston Globe
"O'Brien is the ideal author for this project: knowledgeable about 19th-century history, a subtle critic of the family's legal and literary texts, and so entranced by the seamy details, he occasionally and joyfully eats the ormolu scenery.... The Fall of the House of Walworth is a gripping, Poe-inspired story that is a pleasing mix of highbrow literary taste and lowbrow sensationalism. O'Brien is at his best narrating the trial and wallowing in the muck of Mansfield's writing; but he has integrated these highlights into a coherent, entertaining narrative with admirable skill."--Emily Barton, The Los Angeles Times
"Exhaustively researched and well-written .... O'Brien uses the murder as a springboard to dive into larger questions of America's social legacy, in particular the rise of Saratoga Springs as one of the country's preeminent resorts of the rich and famous. In doing so, he unveils with almost Poe-like intensity the decline of the Walworth dynasty, which had become a prominent presence in that moneyed, horsey playground."--Brooks Peters, The Huffington Post
"O'Brien's first true crime book, and a dandy one it is.... Because O'Brien is a writer of considerably more wit and cultural capaciousness than is often the case in the genre, the tale of a Saratoga 'first family's' turbulent journey through murder involves madness, marital war (involving as a referee a Walworth brother in Buffalo), literature, religious conflict and the apparently limitless but short-lived social ingenuity of American society and a mansion's decay considerably more protracted than the end of the House of Usher. A very satisfying specimen of its genre."--Jeff Simon, Buffalo News, Editor's Choice
"It's those evocative empty spaces, where O'Brien invites us to speculate on such mysteries as the possible vein of insanity running through the Walworth line, that give this book its remarkable eeriness. Like Frank's daughter, Clara, the last of the Walworths, sequestered in the clan's half-derelict Saratoga mansion in the book's opening sentences, we, too, are permitted to roam these forsaken rooms on our own recognizance."--Laura Miller, Salon.com
"The subject of this book is not so simple as good fighting evil; it's more like respectability duking it out with discord. The Fall of the House of Walworth is about the conflict between the parts of us that wants to compose hymns and the part that wants to commit murder. That's typical American ground, and what makes this volume as instructive as it is entertaining."--Carolyn See, BookWorld
"In his first foray into the realm of true crime, Geoffrey O'Brien--one of our finest culture critics and a master of elegant prose--has fashioned a stunning work of real-life American Gothic, a story whose sheer haunting power more than justifies its allusive title. The book spins a darkly gripping tale of ambition, pride and madness that ultimately attains to the level of tragedy. Anyone who still believes that the true crime genre is incapable of producing works of high literary merit will be obliged to think otherwise after reading this thrilling book."--Harold Schechter, author of Deranged and Killer Colt
A Tale of Madness and Murder in Gilded Age America
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FACTS, well at least you admitted to what we know about leftist. Leftist don't read nothing but the title of the article or book and they go off spewing what their masters tell them too. You guys have an agenda. You are more interested in consolidating power and ruling over the ignorant and poor. Folks like me don�t have an agenda just the pursuit of truth. Knowledge and truth will make you free and freedom is the greatness of America. So, as long as you continue to troll on WCN plan on being called out for the false misrepresentations of data and wordsmithing for gain instead of logical discussion and conclusion.
The article was clear on exemption, waiver, preferential treatment or whatever you call it. Wealthy Federal Employees do not have to meet the same or pay the same standard as equivalent private sector employees. Not that difficult to comprehend if you used your brain instead of being a puppet for the political elitists.
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