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- In Theaters: October 14, 2011
Starring Sean Bridgers, Pollyanna McIntosh, Angela Bettis, Marcia Bennett
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Based on the bestselling novel by Jack Ketchum and directed by Lucky McKee, "The Woman" is all about torture and dirty little secrets. A country lawyer tries to domesticate the last remaining member of a violent clan but in the process puts his own family in harms way.Starring Pollyanna McIntosh, Sean Bridgers and Angela Bettis, the film prompted furious debates and walkouts during its world premiere in the Park City at Midnight program at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival. Reports surfaced of people becoming sick while watching the graphic scenes and one irate Sundance audience member went so far as to say "The Woman" "ought to be confiscated, burned. There"s no value in showing this to anyone." Whether a "wonderfully bizarre tale" or an "inhumane degradation of women"" you"ll have to decide for yourself.
When a successful country lawyer captures and attempts to "civilize" the last remaining member of a violent clan that has roamed the Northeast coast for decades, he puts the lives of his family in jeopardy.
Directors: Lucky McKee
Genres: Horror, Thriller, Drama, Crime
Year: 2011
Runtime: 101 /
MPAA Rating: R
Awards: 13
Nominations: 3
Writers: Jack Ketchum, Lucky McKee
Producers: Russell Dinstein, Josh Garrell, Elaine Marie Gibson, Robert D. Krzykowski, Alexander Langerman, Frank Olsen, Lluis Fe Perez, Albert Podell, Arrien Schiltkamp, Loren Semmens, Robert Tonino, Andrew van den Houten
Musicians: Sean Spillane
Cinematographers: Alex Vendler
Editors: Zach Passero
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I still haven't found a very convenient way to listen to Audible books. I don't want to go out and buy a new phone or a new mp3 player just so that it will work with Audible's unnecessary restrictions. Burning to CD's is a bad option because at a minimum of 14+ cd's per book, its just wasteful. CDRW's are out because the cd player in my car can't read them. Audible's software players are decent, but they are only supported on the desktop (I don't want to listen to books on my desktop) and specific devices. I tried it for a while on a Pocket PC device that I had access to through work, and while it was fine for in the car it was too large and bulky to take running with me. So finally I started burning the books to a set of CDRW's (which I repeatedly use just for this purpose), then I rip each of those cd's one by one, and finally I move the resulting mp3's onto my phone (for in the car) or my mp3 player (for when I go running). Pain. In. The. Butt.
So recently I tried Audible Air, Audible's java player app for mobile phones. It isn't supported on my phone, unfortunately. So I emailed them and got a very detailed and polite response about why Audible Air won't work on my phone (the device manufacturer has to update the firmware so that it can understand the DRM blah blah blah). BS!
Then I saw a post on Boing Boing about how Amazon (Amazon purchased Audible early this year) said that it would not remove the DRM from Audible's audio books unless customers complained enough. So, if you're an Audible customer (or would like to be in the future), I hope you'll take a moment to email them and share your frustration about DRM. Here is the email I sent to email@example.com:
I hope you'll also pass along these comments about your DRM, so that things can change. I read that Amazon plans to keep the Audible DRM unless customers complain enough. Well, here is my argument against DRM: You said - "The encryption is required by the publishers to insure the security of their book files..." While this may have been true at one time, I believe this statement is now incorrect. Random House nows allows its online retailers to sell audio books without DRM (see the following letter from Random House: http://craphound.com/DRMLetter22108.pdf). According to one well known author/blogger (Cory Doctorow, http://www.boingboing.net/2008/02/21/random-house-audio-a.html) who ran into this problem, it is Audible itself who is placing this restriction. Even authors who WANT their books to be without DRM cannot do so if they desire to distribute their books through Audible (there is a well known author/blogger who has had this problem in the past). Random House is smart enough to know that pirated copies of audio books, just like music, will exist no matter what. Amazon and Audible are smart enough to know this as well, or at least they should be. Right now, even with your DRM, I could (if I wanted to, which I don't) burn a copy of a book to a CDRW, rip the cd's to mp3's, and distribute those mp3s illegally. I could even merge them together into one large mp3 if I wanted. DRM doesn't stop the kind of people who do this - all it does it inconvenience good customers who just want to listen to good audio books on their devices or in their cars without having to burn 22 cds. As it is now, in order to listen to books the way I want to, I have to burn to a CDRW, rip the cd's to mp3's and manually copy those mp3's onto my SD card for my mobile device. Talk about a painful process. All so that Audible and publishers can accomplish what? Nothing. Then there's the issue of Audible wasting time and money struggling to keep ahead of software applications that can convert from .aa to .mp3. Even more time and money is wasted trying to "support" x device. You would already support my device if you just gave me mp3s instead of a DRM mess. What keeps me from buying more audio books from Audible? What keeps me from buying a Kindle from Amazon? DRM, and only DRM. I already canceled my Audible membership once out of frustration over this. I signed up again after Amazon bought Audible hoping that things would change. I hope I'm not wrong, and I hope it happens sooner than later.

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It's time for a spa getaway with her best gals, Lilly and Poppybecause there's just something about lying under a pile of sweet-smelling papaya plaster that can help a girl figure things out. Like the fact that life isn't about living up to a perfect ideal, and that with God's grace, the beauty of it may just be in the flaws after all.
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With 2880x1800 pixels jammed into a 15in/38cm screen at 220ppi, there's no laptop screen quite like the Mac Pro's Retina display: its letter definition is almost as good as a printed page. Right now most apps aren't optimised and can look smudgy, but that's set to change. When it does, you'll never want to go back.
With a quad-core i7 Ivy Bridge processor, a decent graphics cad and SSD storage, the Retina Pro tears through photo and video editing tasks and runs most games at its native resolution with simply gorgeous results. For other desktop apps it's as quick as almost any PC.
There's just two USB3.0 ports and no Ethernet. A pair of fast Thunderbolt ports pick up the slack - plug in an Ethernet or Firewire adapter, or an external hard drive for blazing back up. Another USB would have been nice; still, a full-size HDMI port is a rare, and welcome, capitulation from Apple.
Screen and innards aside, this is one gorgeous machine. Its tapered corners and DVD drive-less flanks give it a max height of just 18mm, and at 2kg it's slighter than its 13in/33cm MacBook Pro cousin. If you need a 15in/38cm workspace, the Retina is the least cumbersome way to get it.
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Three big claims will add an extra pounds 216m to the budget, if London Underground agrees to pay out. A tunnelling project at London Bridge, run by Costain and Taylor Woodrow, is expected to top pounds 150m - double its original value.
Two south London station projects, at Southwark and Bermondsey, will add pounds 80m to the total project bill and builders Drake and Scull are looking to charge Tube bosses pounds 100m for a project originally priced at pounds 40m.
The cost of the JLE has already risen from the original pounds 1.9bn estimate because of changes to tunnelling techniques following the collapse of the Heathrow rail link tunnel and additional work needed at the Westminster and Canary Wharf stations. Ministers have made it clear that no more money is available.
According to Contract Journal, a trade magazine, builders blame frequent design changes, poor co-ordination and London Underground's "adversial management style" for the size of the claims.
One contract to build part of the new Westminster station has already seen London Underground and contractors Balfour Beatty/Amec clash over the cost over-runs. One source said the problem was that money was no longer being paid regularly.
"JLE management is questioning every claim the contractors make in minute detail," he said.
The poor relations have threatened to delay the project, set to start running in September 1998. London Underground will face penalties if Canary Wharf is not open on time. Builders are offering close to pounds 1,000 a week in bonuses and overtime payments to key workers under pressure from London Underground managers to avoid further delays.
The extension is considered the most important rail project in Europe, linking the site of the Millennium Dome to the centre of the capital and putting Canary Wharf just 12 minutes from Waterloo.
London Underground saysthe service will begin as planned. Executives point out that trains are being run on the Stratford to North Greenwich loop to evaluate the cab systems and signalling.
Mike Smith, the JLE's project manager, said there was enough slack in the budget to cover all the claims.
"The pounds 2.6bn will account for all the contractors' costs. With construction projects there are always claims that are far higher than contractors expect to get. And I would say that there is an element of that with these reports."
A spokesman for London Underground said: "With a project of this scope and complexity there are bound to be claims from contractors. Some have already been resolved and others are being submitted. Those that are being submitted are being examined to see whether they are justified or not."
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Kevin DrumMar. 11, 2017 1:09 AM
Earlier this week I noted that one-tenth of the Republican health care bill is taken up with a provision that denies Medicaid coverage to lottery winners. I figured it was just Republicans being Republicans, ever watchful for some poor person who's gaming the system and getting something they don't deserve. But no. The Rude Pundit point out—very rudely!—that the real reason is more prosaic. Here's a snippet from a CBO report released a couple of years ago:
It turns out that Republicans aren't just being dicks. They're also playing the CBO scoring game. Half a billion dollars may not be much over ten years, but it's better than nothing. And if you can help your CBO score and stick it to some poor schmoe who won the lottery—well, that's just a win-win, isn't it?
OK, BUT SERIOUSLY FOLKS: This isn't quite the real story, though it's true that Republicans really are sort of obsessed with making sure no poor person ever gets a penny more than they deserve. Michigan was the trendsetter here. After the great midterm landslide of 2010 gave Republicans total control of the state, they passed a law requiring state agencies to automatically cross-check lottery winners with people receiving welfare benefits. The result was a lovely report about the "truly needy":
Now, you may be thinking that this is pointless since Medicaid has an income test, and lottery winnings count as income. So if you win the lottery, you don't qualify for Medicaid anyway.
But no! Not anymore, anyway. For complicated reasons—explained here in unbelievable detail if you really want to torture yourself—Democrats were forced to change the Medicaid rules in Obamacare so that lottery winnings counted as income only in the month they were received. That means you'd be ineligible for Medicaid that month, but then you'd go right back on Medicaid the next month even though you had this huge pile of lottery cash available to you.
Fixing this rank injustice became a hobbyhorse of Rep. Joe Pitts (R–Penn.), who introduced multiple bills designed to change Obamacare's rule. Pitts retired last year, but no matter: other Republicans are now selflessly carrying on his work. And the complexity of this rule explains why lotteries take up six pages in their bill. It's not just a matter of kicking lottery winners off the Medicaid rolls. Republicans have to define in detail how lottery income is handled. Lots of detail:
A State shall...include such winnings or income...as income received in the month in which such winnings or income (as applicable) is received if the amount of such winnings or income is less than $80,000....over a period of 2 months if the amount of such winnings or income (as applicable) is greater than or equal to $80,000 but less than $90,000....over a period of 3 months if the amount of such winnings or income (as applicable) is greater than or equal to $90,000 but less than $100,000....over a period of 3 months plus 1 additional month for each increment of $10,000 of such winnings or income (as applicable) received, not to exceed a period of 120 months (for winnings or income of $1,260,000 or more), if the amount of such winnings or income is greater than or equal to $100,000.
So now you know. Republicans are fixated on lotteries and Medicaid because (a) poor people are getting away with something, and (b) the income reporting rule for lotteries was changed by the hated Obamacare. The CBO score is useful not because of the amount of money involved—which really is peanuts—but because it demonstrates that the rule affects the federal budget. That means it can be changed in a reconciliation bill. Which is what Republicans are trying to pass.
All clear now?
Kevin DrumMar. 10, 2017 4:24 PM
It's true: I got a new camera on Wednesday. It's a Lumix FZ2500, which is absurdly expensive for a guy who spends 90 percent of his time taking pictures of cats. But then I thought: Don't my readers deserve the best? Of course they do. Check out Hilbert with the new optics:
Majestic, isn't he? And notice the nicely blurred background. That's called bokeh, and it's what every photographer aspires to in portraits of either humans or cats. Here's Hopper:
Most small digital cameras have small sensors and, therefore, small lenses. This is handy if you want a huge zoom length, but it comes at the expense of both quality and bokeh. Small sensors produce mediocre quality images, while small lenses produce very little bokeh. Just about everything is sharp from a few feet out to infinity. Feline Cannonball can explain the optical principle if you ask nicely. This is why, for example, the new iPhone 7 has a mode that produces a blurred background in software. It's basically a hack to reproduce the bokeh you'd get from a bigger camera. Here's Hilbert again:
In my youth, I had a 35mm camera, a darkroom, and a big bag full of lenses. They produced glorious bokeh. Today I'm just not willing to do that. So that gives me a choice: a small camera that's inexpensive, has awesome zoom capability, but produces so-so images and no bokeh. Alternatively, I could buy a DSLR, which would cost a fortune and produce great images, but would have very little zoom capability. In the end, I chose a middle ground: a fixed-lens camera with a 1" sensor. It's bigger and more expensive than my old camera, but still fairly small and has a pretty good zoom (24-480mm equivalent), which is plenty adequate for my needs. The bokeh it produces isn't as good as a full-size DSLR, but it's way better than my old Canon. Here's Hopper again:
The Lumix also has a bunch of other features I wanted. Its autofocus is way faster than my old camera. It has an articulating LCD screen, a must for cat blogging. It has a very convenient set of controls—much better than the Canon—including a manual focus ring. (Finally! Sometimes autofocus just doesn't work, and the Canon was all but impossible to focus manually.) The Lumix has a good burst mode, which helps to catch just the right moment. You can also shoot 4K video and extract pretty good images from it, which makes it possible to really catch the right moment. I'm a little unsure of how good the metering is, but that may be only because I haven't played around with it enough. I wonder if face-recognition mode works on a cat?
And of course, it's not just for cat blogging. This morning the furballs were next door looking unusually excited about a bush. I have a feeling our lizard might have been over there. However, our squirrel showed up a couple of minutes later and he was in a tizzy. Do you think there happened to be a pine cone buried under that bush too?
Kevin DrumMar. 10, 2017 3:42 PM
Over at EPI, Elise Gould has a roundup of how wages are doing, and for the most part the news is unsurprising. The good news is that wages for ordinary folks were fairly robust last year. The bad news is that the bottom 50 percent has seen no gains since 2000 and income inequality continues to increase. There's a ton of good data in her report, which you should take a look at if you want to take a deep dive into working wages.
However, I want to highlight two of her charts that are just plain peculiar. Here's the first one:
It's no surprise that the 95th percentile is rising faster than everyone else, but the last two years have been breathtaking. According to Gould's data, men at the top have seen their wages go up 17 percent. Women at the top have done well too, but nothing like this. What's going on?
Here's the second oddball chart:
Look at that yellow line at the bottom. The very worst performance has been among men with some college. They've done worse than high school grads and worse even than high school dropouts. Their absolute wages are still higher than the high school crowd, but they're losing ground. Once again, there's a similar dynamic among women, though nowhere near as stark.
I have no insights to offer about either of these. They just seemed peculiar enough to share.
Kevin DrumMar. 10, 2017 3:14 PM
Daniel Mügge and Lukas Linsi had a pretty interesting chart in the Washington Post yesterday. Here it is:
According to the United States, our trade deficit with Mexico is $63 billion and steady. According to Mexico, it's $122 billion and climbing. That's quite a discrepancy.
The weirdest part of this is that apparently no one quite knows what's going on. The discrepancy in the official figures was fairly modest until 2007, but since then it's widened considerably. The US and Mexico disagree about the correct figure by a factor of two these days.
The authors go through a few possible explanations, but none of them really do the job. They also note that this kind of discrepancy is common, though the US-Mexico disagreement is larger than most. Our trade deficit with China, for example, is either $388 billion (US figures) or $260 billion (Chinese figures). Other country pairs show the same discrepancies.
There's no real lesson to take from this since we don't know the cause. The authors suggest only that you take official trade figures with a grain of salt. They're not quite as precise as you might hope.
Kevin DrumMar. 10, 2017 2:49 PM
A reader emailed this morning asking for a really basic primer on Obamacare and the repeal effort. Judging from some of the stuff I've read, this sounds like a good idea. What follows is really basic, so skip it if you already know this stuff.
Most of us get our health insurance either from our employer or from Medicare. Neither Obamacare nor the Republican health care bill affect either one except in a few minor ways. They deal solely with two other parts of the health insurance market: Medicaid and individual insurance. Everything you hear about exchanges, premium increases, death spirals, and so forth applies to individual insurance only, which is a tiny piece of the entire market. It's the little yellow box on the far right:
Yesterday the New York Times ran a piece saying that recent premium increases had affected "only" 3 percent of Americans. Technically that's true, but it's pretty misleading. That's half the individual market.
The main goal of Obamacare was to reduce the number of people who are uninsured. It did this two ways. First, it expanded Medicaid, which now covers about 10 million more people than before. Second, it set up the exchanges, where private insurers could sell individual coverage. This also covered about 10 million additional people. Altogether, Obamacare has substantially reduced the number of Americans who lack health insurance:
This isn't to say that Obamacare has been perfect. Insurers misjudged pricing early on, which led to large premium increases last year as they finally caught up. The individual mandate wasn't strong enough, so lots of young, healthy people have avoided insurance altogether, which makes the total pool covered by the exchanges older and sicker than originally predicted. As a result, several insurers have left the market, and there are lots of counties where only one insurance company is still selling in the exchanges.
Medicaid is simple: Obamacare simply allocates more money to cover more people. However, states can decline the expansion, and many red states have.
The exchanges are a little more complex and rest on three pillars. First, no one can be turned down for insurance because of pre-existing conditions. However, this means the number of sick people in the insurance pool will increase, and that needs to be balanced with healthy people. So the second part of Obamacare is the individual mandate, which requires everyone to buy insurance. If they don't, they have to pay a tax penalty. But you can't very well require poor people to buy something they can't afford, so the third part of Obamacare is subsidies, which help reduce the cost of insurance for the poor and working poor.
Basically, by some modest taxes on the rich along with some taxes on corporations. Here's the CBO's latest estimate:
Overall, Obamacare helps the deficit because its taxes are a bit higher than its outlays, which have been less than projected. The Republican bill has no revenue sources yet. We don't know how much it would cost, but whatever it is, the number will go straight onto the deficit.
This is tricky. Democrats can filibuster any repeal bill, and Republicans don't have 60 votes in the Senate to overcome a filibuster. That means they have to repeal Obamacare via reconciliation, which requires only a simple majority in the Senate.
But there's a big problem with reconciliation: it can be used only on things that directly affect the federal budget. Subsidies affect the budget, so Republicans can repeal the subsidies. Medicaid expansion affects the budget, so they can repeal that. The individual mandate affects the budget, so they can repeal that.
But there's something missing here: the pre-existing conditions provision. That affects only insurance companies. It has no effect on the federal budget, so the pre-existing conditions ban can't be repealed. Besides, the ban is extremely popular, so it would be political suicide to repeal it. This is a big problem: if insurers are required to insure everyone, even people with expensive pre-existing conditions, they'll go bankrupt unless healthy people also sign up. But with skimpy subsidies and no individual mandate, the number of healthy people is going to plummet. This is going to leave insurers with a pool of people whose premiums are far lower than the cost of their medical care, and that in turn means insurers will lose tons of money. It's a disaster waiting to happen.
Your guess is as good as mine. One option is that they just bull ahead without worrying about the consequences, and the individual market will implode. Another is that a few Republican senators see reason, and the repeal effort fails. A third possibility is that the repeal bill passes, and then Republicans count on Democrats helping them out with subsequent bills to fix things, because Democrats don't want to see the entire individual market go up in smoke. Finally, a fourth option—which is very unlikely—is that Republicans increase the subsidies and tighten up the mandate, which will keep the individual market in decent shape.
Kevin DrumMar. 10, 2017 12:11 PM
The American economy added 235,000 new jobs last month, 90,000 of which were needed to keep up with population growth. This means that net job growth clocked in at 145,000 jobs—nearly all of it in the private sector. The headline unemployment rate stayed steady at 4.7 percent. That's not bad, and behind the scenes the news was even more positive. The labor force participation rate ticked up to 63 percent; the number of unemployed dropped by 107,000; 176,000 people joined the labor force; and the ranks of the employed went up by nearly half a million.
But how about wages? Hourly earnings of production and nonsupervisory employees went up at an annual rate of about 2.3 percent. That's about even with the inflation rate last month, which means the real increase was close to zero. That's disappointing given recent signs that wages were starting to make gains.
Kevin DrumMar. 9, 2017 11:26 PM
I got a new camera yesterday. You all know what that means, don't you? Lotsa photos! More on that tomorrow, but in the meantime, enjoy the Great Lizard Hunt of 2017, courtesy of the new camera's burst mode.
Kevin DrumMar. 9, 2017 9:14 PM
Seriously, folks, WTF is going on with the State Department?
Secretary of State Tillerson about to embark on first major trip to Asia in the midst of North Korean crisis. Not bringing any reporters. — Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) March 9, 2017
Secretary of State Tillerson about to embark on first major trip to Asia in the midst of North Korean crisis. Not bringing any reporters.
The press is not happy:
D.C. bureau chiefs from major news organizations, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, the wire services, Fox News and CNN sent a letter to the State Department earlier this week protesting Secretary of State Rex Tillerson's decision to ditch reporters on his upcoming trip to Asia. ...."Not only does this situation leave the public narrative of the meetings up to the Chinese foreign ministry as well as Korea's and Japan's, but it gives the American people no window whatsoever into the views and actions of the nation's leaders."
D.C. bureau chiefs from major news organizations, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, the wire services, Fox News and CNN sent a letter to the State Department earlier this week protesting Secretary of State Rex Tillerson's decision to ditch reporters on his upcoming trip to Asia.
...."Not only does this situation leave the public narrative of the meetings up to the Chinese foreign ministry as well as Korea's and Japan's, but it gives the American people no window whatsoever into the views and actions of the nation's leaders."
The American public will get the official narrative, and that's it. The odds are also slim that Tillerson himself will have anything to say about his meetings. He literally hasn't spoken with the press in—what? Weeks? Months? Since the day he was confirmed? A few reporters have gotten desperate to find out what's going on. Here's NBC's Andrea Mitchell several days ago trying to get a few words out of Tillerson:
Here she is trying again a few days later:
Tillerson has fired a big chunk of his management staff. He has no deputy. He won't talk to the press and he won't take them along on foreign trips. He failed to show up for the annual release of the human rights report. He's apparently happy to accept a budget that slashes both the State Department and foreign aid by more than a third. He doesn't get invited to President Trump's meetings with foreign leaders. Hell, the State Department doesn't even know they're happening:
Wowwowwow. State Dep't Acting Spox Mark Toner had zero idea the Mexican foreign minister was in Washington. DoS totally cut out. (!!!) pic.twitter.com/zYclfJIq6q — Ankit Panda (@nktpnd) March 10, 2017
Wowwowwow. State Dep't Acting Spox Mark Toner had zero idea the Mexican foreign minister was in Washington. DoS totally cut out. (!!!) pic.twitter.com/zYclfJIq6q
The entire State Department is completely adrift. If it were Trump pulling a stunt like this, we'd chalk it up to some kind of bizarre revenge fantasy festering in his brain. But why is Tillerson doing this? Is he under orders from the White House? Is he too scared to talk to reporters? What the hell is going on here?
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell in an interview this morning about the border wall:
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Brookings has done an analysis of RepubliCare and estimates that it will reduce coverage by at least 15 million people compared to Obamacare, and probably more. Their estimate is based on previous CBO forecasts of the effects of provisions that are in the Republican bill.
My own guess is closer to 20 million. I figure I might as well put my money where my mouth is, so here's how I think the CBO forecast will turn out:
I'm actually being generous here since this forecast assumes the individual insurance market won't implode completely. Will CBO have the guts to make a forecast like this? We'll see next week.
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Stricken Banks' CEOs Risk Ouster in EU Deal on Crisis Plans
Jim Brunsden and Ben MoshinskyEuropean Union lawmakers and national officials reached a tentative agreement on plans to give regulators the power to fire executives of ailing banks.
Regulators would be handed sweeping powers to parachute in "temporary administrators" in a last-ditch bid to bring a bank back from the brink of collapse, according to a document obtained by Bloomberg News.
Authorities would have discretion to fire individuals or the "management body of the institution, in its entirety" when there is "a significant deterioration" in the bank's financial situation and other steps have failed to turn the situation around, according to the document. Such action could also be taken when the bank has been guilty of "serious violations of law, regulations or bylaws, or serious administrative irregularities."
The measures are a component of the EU's blueprint for tackling failing banks and taking taxpayers off the hook for bail-outs. The draft law, proposed last year by EU financial services chief Michel Barnier, would also empower regulators to impose losses on senior creditors and require nations to create so-called resolution funds that could stabilize crisis-hit lenders.
A tentative deal on the bank-management replacement plan was struck by European Parliament lawmakers and Lithuania, which holds the rotating presidency of the EU, at a meeting earlier this month. The provisional accord on manager replacement requires confirmation at a subsequent negotiation meeting.
Lehman Collapse
Talks are continuing on the bank resolution law, which requires approval by the parliament and by national governments to take effect. EU leaders last week renewed calls for a deal on the legislation by the end of this year.
The negotiations "are making good progress on all fronts, and we are confident of getting a political deal on the draft law by the end of the year," Chantal Hughes, a spokeswoman for Barnier, said in a telephone interview.
A spokesman for Lithuania's EU presidency declined to comment and Gunnar Hoekmark, the EU parliament legislator leading work on the plans, declined to comment.
The financial crisis that followed the 2008 collapse of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. saw a wave of top management departures at stricken banks.
RBS Chief
Fred Goodwin, the former chief executive officer of Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc resigned in 2008 after the U.K. injected 20 billion pounds ($32 billion) of taxpayer money into the lender to prevent its collapse. Adam Applegarth, the former chief executive officer of Northern Rock Plc, quit in 2007, prior to the company's' nationalization in February 2008.
The planned EU powers would allow regulators to send in managers even before a bank has failed. Such steps could be taken as an early intervention measure in a bid to turn the company around, and so stave off more extreme regulator-imposed steps like forced creditor writedowns or the breaking up of the firm.
Regulators "may, based on what is proportionate in the circumstances," appoint a temporary administrator either to replace a stricken bank's management or to work alongside the existing team, according to the document. Such appointees wouldn't normally be in place for more than one year. Their powers would have to be "in conformity with the applicable company law," including on treatment of shareholders.
No Justification
"There's no justification for parachuting in special managers at an early intervention stage," Gilbey Strub, head of resolution and crisis management at the Association for Financial Markets in Europe, said in an e-mail.
"It could confuse the market and disrupt the bank's execution of its recovery plan," she said. Once a bank has failed, and the regulators have been called in, then it's "a different story."
AFME represents international lenders including Deutsche Bank AG, HSBC Holdings Plc and UniCredit SpA.
Under the draft plans, the powers of supervisor-appointed bosses would be boosted once a bank has breached its minimum capital requirements and needs to be either rescued or wound down.
Special Managers
In such cases regulator-appointed "special managers" would have "all the powers of the shareholders, senior management and the management body of the institution," according to the document.
Powers available to a special manager at this stage include deciding on capital raising and takeovers, and reorganizing the bank's ownership structure, according to the document.
The practice of regulators parachuting managers into banks that are getting into trouble has "historical roots" in France and Italy, according to a European Commission study published last year. As many as twenty special administrators or managers had been appointed in France in the previous eight years, according to the commission's data.


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I have been waiting for someone to compare the duo's boxcars to Daigle and Chyzowski.
- Black Dog said...
Deano - oh God yeah. Or Stefan. Or Van Riemsdyck who hasn't really lit the world on fire yet.
It could happen. All of these guys were accepted as the cream of the crop. Sometimes they just don't do much as pros. Heck it took Dan Cleary how long before the light went on? - 5/09/2010 7:19 PM
- macaotim said...
Three things:
1. What are your dreams like when you haven't been hitting the bong?
2. I hope we pick Seguin, he turns out to be a star and everyone else in the first round has fair to middling AHL careers.
3. How's the dog? Did you get those marrow bones yet? - 5/10/2010 9:07 AM
- Black Dog said...
Tim to answer your questions in order.
1. no idea, I've never been in that situation
2. That actually would be the best case really.
3. Hanging in there, he had a very good weekend, we have the arthritis under control so he can get around at least slightly. He's losing weight like a bastard though.
He had roast beef last night.
- Halfwise said...
Had to take my wife's cat to the vet, the long last trip, not too long ago.
The last month is the hardest month, and the last day the hardest day.
We walk out after, knowing we have a debt to pay and no one to take the payment.
Glad to hear you are paying in advance. Roast beef AND bacon. Then something smelly to roll in, if that is how Ben rolls...
That is weird. The word verification for this post is "catsy" - 5/10/2010 8:47 PM
- Kish said...
"... in the forget your skates dream..."
(it's a good life if you don't weaken, by the Hip)
I still have this dream every couple of months. Really gets to me, frustrating and I'm scared I'll get cut or miss my chance. - 5/11/2010 11:44 AM
- uni said...
Van Riemsdyk was lighting the world on fire in extremely limited and sheltered minutes for 20 games or so. Then he fell into an elevator shaft the rest of the season.
Still 35 points is nothing to sneeze at for a rookie. He's not anywhere close to being dubbed a Daigle or Bonsignore.
Odd, first verification word was "bring", then on refresh the second word was "gismsbk". - 5/11/2010 1:05 PM
- Woodguy said...
The best dreams I have ever had was when I was wearing the 21mg nicotine patch in an effort to quit smoking.
The dreams were ludicrously detailed, highly entertaining, remarkably vivid and I actually woke up laughing a few times.
If you are already addicted to nicotine, I highly recommend sleeping with a patch on. - 5/11/2010 1:50 PM
- Black Dog said...
lol Woodguy.
uni - I would not say that he is a bust but he's behind a lot of the guys picked there and about the past few years
which is ok as long as he keeps trending up - 5/11/2010 2:27 PM
- Black Dog said...
No kidding Kish? I'll have to give it a listen.
Sorry to hear that Halfwise.
And yes he does roll that way, so to speak. Well put. - 5/11/2010 2:31 PM
- uni said...
Every single dream I've been able to remember has involved being pursued by something malevolent.
Save for one, which involved a line of girls in bikinis, water in buckets, and coat hangers.
I don't know what that says about my psyche, but I've already resolved to go quietly when the men with in the white coats come for me. - 5/11/2010 10:41 PM
- Baroque said...
Most of my most vivid and memorable dreams were when I was much younger.
Although recently I had a dream that involved fudge brownies, a Zach Parise trade, and a power play clicking along at 42 percent. :) - 5/12/2010 6:58 AM


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Heidelberg, not the one in Germany!
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Hee hee hee. Nice one.
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Thursday, July 12, 2012
Kitchen Idea: Open Shelves
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- AnonymousJuly 12, 2012 at 12:54 AM
Shelves look pretty but they take a lot of dust. I have four shelves in my small kitchen with mugs, glasses, scale, ... on it but takes a lot of dust and now i'm washing everything that's standing on the shelves every week and i'm tired to do it so when we our ging to re do our kitchen next year i will take cabinets with doors. But i ADMIT SHELVES LOOK AMAZING!
Best regards, Davy - AnonymousJuly 12, 2012 at 12:56 AM
By the way it would be nice to see some pictures off your house (Not?).
Have a nice day and keep on blogging cause every single time I visit this blog it makes me happy!
Again regards Davy - AnonymousJuly 12, 2012 at 1:05 AM
GREAT! And your right with you rule but i'm a freak when it's about cleaning XD
ReplyDelete Wenn man eine Einbauküche in der Wohnung hat, erübrigt sich die Frage nach offenen Regalen ja leider meist, aber in der ersten Küche hatte ich die Oberschränke (damals aus Kostengründen) durch ein großes Regalbrett ersetzt. Jetzt steht immerhin ein kleines Sideboard in der Küche, auf dem man Sachen dekorieren und umstellen kann. Das Beispiel mit den Brettern gefällt mir sehr gut!
Herzlich, MonaI do have open shelves in my kitchen. 2 long white ones. I really love the way they look and it was the perfect solution for our temporary space (low effort, low cost), but seriously, I'm with Davy here. I HATE dust and dusting. Over time, it has taken the whole joy out of my sleek open shelves. Therefore, sadly, I wouldn't do open shelving again in the future. Maybe just one to display my favorite kitchen items, but that's it. The ones I have now span the length of my kitchen and hold pretty much everything (and the colour scheme of "everything" on those shelves is white, glass, metallic and wood - so to me, they look so nice to look at!) but it's so much work to take everything down and wipe down the shelves, wash out my glass bowls and vases that I don't use frequently so they look shiny again, uggh. I get crazy just thinking about it. It's a good thing they look nice ;)
Xx.I'm a big fan of open shelves in kitchens, whether they are big or small. It's just such a lovely way to show off all that beautiful kitchenware. It's such a shame to keep all that in closed cupboards.
There is so much storage space in our kitchen so open shelves are really not necessary. But there is one small shelve where I keep my Tivoli radio, 1-2 small bowls and usually one fresh flower from the garden in a vase.


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This piece is by a former assistant secretary of the U.S. Department of Education. I discovered it on the website for a new organization, A Broader, Bolder Approach for Education @ http://www.boldapproach.org. I trust the perspectives of a number of the original co-signers, so I added my name to the list. Maybe their effort will help bring some common sense back into the picture.
Get bolder in effort to lift all children's education
by Susan B. Neuman
Detroit Free Press
July 31, 2008
Six years after the passage of the federal No Child Left Behind law, there is frustratingly little evidence that it will close the achievement gap between low-income, minority children and their middle-class peers. Despite the heroic attempts of many dedicated educators, NCLB-inspired school reforms, like so many others before, have failed and will continue to fail to change the trajectory of our disadvantaged children.
As President George W. Bush's assistant secretary for elementary and secondary education during NCLB's passage and initial implementation, I began my journey believing that raising standards would be enough to help low-income children succeed. I have learned that closing the achievement gap requires much more. The failure is not a result of the president's espoused "soft bigotry of low expectations," but because many children grow up in circumstances that make them highly vulnerable.
Schools educate middle-class children well but struggle to function as remedial, clinical institutions. Once a child starts falling behind in school, catching up is mostly a pipe dream.
In their 1995 book "Meaningful Differences," Betty Hart and Todd Risley calculated it would take approximately 41 hours of extra intervention per week to raise language scores of poor children to those of their well-off counterparts by age four -- and that's before starting preschool!
The impetus for change built into NCLB was to effectively "shame" schools into improvement. We now see that the shame game is flawed.
Schools fail not because they lack resources, or quality teachers. School influences are overwhelmed because so many children are molded by highly vulnerable and dysfunctional environments. The rhetoric of leaving no child behind has trumped reality.
A child born poor will likely stay poor, likely live in an unsafe neighborhood, landscaped with little hope, with more security bars than quality day care or after school programs. This highly vulnerable community will have higher proportions of very young children, higher rates of single parenting, and fewer educated adults. The child will likely find dilapidated schools, abandoned playgrounds, and teachers, though earnest, ready to throw in the towel. The child will drop further behind, with increasingly narrow options.
Shaming schools has become the cure to everything but the common cold, distracting attention from the devastating effects of poverty. We need to move beyond touting school reform as the magical elixir. It is important, but we need to mobilize other institutions to help solve this problem.
I've now joined with a group of national experts, from diverse backgrounds, areas of expertise and political beliefs, calling for a "broader, bolder approach" to education. Our proposals (at www.boldapproach.com) certainly include improving schools, but tie changes in classrooms to changes in the world outside.
For example, as a researcher and government official, I've seen highly successful early childhood programs where teachers focus relentlessly on prevention, effectively changing the odds for poor children. But such programs are too rare.
A broader, bolder approach must also ensure routine pediatric, dental, hearing and vision care for all infants, toddlers and schoolchildren. Many of the most intractable problems faced by young children and their parents can be traced to maternal health-related behaviors. Programs such as the nurse-family partnership project have shown stunning effects on young mothers' ability to care for their infant's nutritional, health and social needs.*
I've also seen hospital and health center services that show low-income parents and children the pleasures of looking at books together. They demonstrate that pediatricians' literacy-promoting interventions can dramatically improve the language of young children.
A broader, bolder approach also needs high-quality out-of-school support. Disadvantaged students often lose ground after school and during summers.
All this suggests that perhaps schools don't have exclusive rights to education.
If we are to take seriously the prospect of really leaving no child behind, we need to support education whether delivered in K-12 schools, in clinics, child-care centers, community-based organizations, libraries, church basements or storefronts. By using the science of what we know works, we can help millions of children growing up in highly vulnerable circumstances to achieve a more promising future.
SUSAN B. NEUMAN is a professor in educational studies specializing in early literacy development at the University of Michigan. Write to her in care of the Free Press Editorial Page, 615 W. Lafayette, Detroit, MI 48226 or at firstname.lastname@example.com.
*You can find more information about the Nurse-Family Partnership project @ www.nursefamilypartnership.org. The California locations do not include Alameda County (only Fresno, Kern, Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, Sacramento, San Diego and San Luis Obispo counties). Primary supporters are the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation, Google, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, the Picower Foundation, and Ronald McDonald House Charities.
Apparently, the Gates Foundation will be getting on board, too. Patty Stonesifer, their outgoing CEO, reported on Gates Keepers (http://gateskeepers.civiblog.org/blog/_archives/2008/8/21/3848785.html) that they "...recently joined an effort...to expand the Nurse Family Partnership."


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MILF you sound perfectly reasonable and can completely understand you wanting a bit of time to yourself in the morning too.
It's more than reasonable to say that you're not ready to receive guests until 11am.
I don't know, there's something about the phrase 'having some time just us' that sounds unwelcoming... but no issue at all with the actual reality of saying no visitors until 11am when we're all washed and decent.
Ok, thatnks for anwering that. Just wondering.
How old is he? Do you think there is any question he could be suffering from dementia of is it typical of him. Hs he always been difficult?
"Does he want to see the children opening their presents?"
He sees him opening the presents he gives him as he keeps them at his house for when we see him (whether it be xmas day or boxing day).
I agree with the Christmas is a family time thing and that it means the whole extended family not just us 3 - but on one day a year i want to have a laze in my pjs, opening presents and playing with toys etc just us 3. i dont mean we are having the whole morning to ourselves, but so we can have an hour or 2 with our son (he doesnt wake up until 8/9
), before im waiting on guests, getting drinks, cooking dinner etc.
He's being an idiot and if he wants to cut his nose off to spite his face let him.
If I were you I would say from now on xmas eve and morning is strictly alone time for you and dh and dd and xmas afternoon and boxing day it is open house, come at a time that suits. I would refuse to juggle any times. A simple this is where we will be and when. Come if you want to
I agree with your FIL that he needs to "rethink his family".
He needs to think about the fact that he is actually not the only person in the family and that compromise doesn't mean always getting his own way.
You may have a point there. The whole " family time" thing might sound pretty rejecting to him, as he is on his own and be a bit of a red rag.
Doesn't excuse his behaviour, but might go a little way to understand his hurt.
Does he want to see the children opening their presents? Is that it? And if so could there be some flexibilty on that?
You need a strict rotation over the holidays, it worked for us, but we didn't have to factor in any divorcees and everyone just got along fine.
So, year 1 - I do Christmas, Mil did Boxing Day, my Mum did New years day. All family and hangers on invited to everything.
Year 2 - you move it a day - Mum did Christmas, I did Boxing Day, Mil did NY Day
It is much easier to say "this is the way it is, you are welcome to come, if not, see you such and such a day"
We also bring the neighbours in of an evening.
I just would not put up with petulance, foot stomping and such behaviour. On the other hand as I perceive Christmas as a family time the whole 'alone time as a family' does not compute with me at all.
More the merrier.
He is behaving like a child
The only thing I wonder (i always think it is worth bearing in mind) is whether he has some kind of cognitive problems ie early dementia) that are making him unreasonable and illogical
Of course, many many people are a PITA without any medical explanation.
Let him have his rethink about family , the way he's going he will end up totally alone all year . What a sad man . You and your OH ,and the rest of the family seem to have been more than accommodating so I wouldn't worry about it and definitely wouldn't start pandering to him .
He's being an idiot, ignore him! You've bent over backwards to accommodate him. He shouldn't have such a long list of people he doesn't want to spend time with.
I think your FIL sounds like a petulant child who wants the world and his ex wife to dance to his tune.
FIL made a comment to OH at the weekend saying that he is having a 'rethink' about family because he was left alone on xmas day. Im getting really fed up of this, its the same every christmas, we can never do it right. This is the back story:
Arguments started the first xmas after Lo was born (2011). At the time we were living in a flat and didnt really have the room to host christmas, so we thought we would go to either my parents (MIL would come to my parents because FIL wont have her round for xmas since they split up) or FIL for xmas day and then go to the other's to stay over xmas day night and boxing day. That way everyone got to see LO on his first xmas and we would do it the opposite way round for 2012 (we expected to have a house after this).
we tossed a coin to decide whose parents we were going to go to and FIL won. You would think he would be happy with this, but as soon as it was decided he started making more demands - he wanted us to stay xmas eve and stay until LO's bedtime xmas day so my parents wouldnt get a chance to see him etc. OH said no, because i wanted to spend an hour or so of xmas morning by ourselves as family time (because i wouldnt get a chance to see LO otherwise as everybody else would be stealing him all day ;) ). He thought i was being selfish suggesting this and was making it hard work for OH because he would have to rush to his and then rush to my mum and dads sigh (we got to his at 10 and left at 5 so we had plenty of time at his!). HE then started being all martyr ish and was saying no go to my parents for xmas and he would have us next year. OH said no we were going to his and it would be exactly the same situation the following year.
In january 2012 i had a career change and we had enough money to afford a deposit on a house earlier then expected. This mean that we could host xmas ourselves, but i was a bit nervous of rocking the boat since we had said we would do the opposite of what we had done the year before! However, unfortunately my dad was diagnosed with cancer and had to have an operation, at the end of last year. because of all this extra pressure, i asked if my mum and dad would prefer to come to ours soo they didnt have to worry about it (especially since MIL was coming and SIL and BIL wanted to pop in too) and they said yes.
So we started a new system. We would host christmas dinner - alternate my parents and MIL with FIL (And BIL and SIL if they want to come too) , but after christmas dinner whoever wants to come and see LO can do so. We would then spend boxing day with the people we didnt spend xmas dinner with.
FIL refused to agree to come after xmas dinner (even though BIL and SIL came later on) saying he didnt want to see MIL or my parents (??!!). AGAIN he asked if he could come in the morning and OH explained again that we wanted time with just us has a family. He then went into sulk. Eventually we agreed he could come at 11. He said this was too late and refused to come.
BIL and SIL also decided to go to BIL's parent's house for christmas because they had never gone to them in the 7 years they have been dating (because of the same issues with FIL, but SIL gave into his demands). they invited FIL too but he said no he would rather spend it by himself.
He also had a gf at the time (split up now) and she invited him to come to her ex's for xmas (they get on well) or they could go away on holiday together. he refused both of these. He also got invited around to his neighbours for xmas and said no.
So aibu in thinking that 1.i over thinked xmas too much to make it as fair as possible and 2. FIL is bu for blaming us for him being alone for xmas??
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In a few minutes about fifty young men, whom I learned were all of those of the tribe who had arrived at maturity during the last year, appeared in a beautiful group, their graceful limbs entirely denuded, but without exception covered with clay of different colours from head to foot—some white, some red, some yellow, and others blue and green, each one carrying his shield of bull's hide on his left arm, and his bow in his left hand, and his medicine bag in the right.
In this plight they followed Nu-mohk-múck-a-nah into the Medicine Lodge in "Indian file," and taking their positions around the sides of the lodge, each one hung his bow and quiver, shield and medicine bag over him as he reclined upon the floor of the wigwam.
Nu-mohk-múck-a-nah then called into the Medicine Lodge the principal medicine man of the tribe, whom he appointed O-kee-pa-ka-see-ka (Keeper or Conductor of the Ceremonies), by passing into his hand the large pipe which he had so carefully brought with him, "which had been saved in the big canoe with him," and on which it will appear the whole of these mysteries hung.
Nu-mohk-múck-a-nah then took leave of him by shaking hands with him, and left the Medicine Lodge, saying that he would return to the West, where he lived, and be back again in just a year to reopen the Medicine Lodge. He then passed through the village, shaking hands with the chiefs, and in a few moments was seen disappearing over the hills from whence he came the day previous. …
Here is the proper place to relate the manner in which I gained admission to this sacred temple … [which had] a double door, with an intervening passage and an armed sentinel at each end, positively denying all access except by permission of the Conductor of the Ceremonies, and strictly guarding it against the approach or gaze of women, who, I was told, had never been allowed to catch the slightest glance of its interior. … Luckily for me, I had completed a portrait the day before, of the renowned doctor or "mystery man," to whom the superintendence of the ceremonies had just been committed, and whose vanity had been so much excited by the painting that he had mounted on to a wigwam with it, holding it up by the corners and haranguing the villagers, claiming that "he must be the greatest man among the Mandans, because I had painted his portrait before I had painted the great chief; and that I was the greatest 'medicine' of the whites, and a great chief, because I could make so perfect a duplicate of him that it set all the women and children laughing!"
This man, then, in charge of the Medicine Lodge, seeing me with one of my men and Mr. Kipp, the fur trader, standing in front of the door, came out, and passing his arm through mine, politely led me into the lodge, and allowing my hired man and Mr. Kipp, with one of the clerks of his establishment, to follow. We took our seats, and were allowed to resume them on the three following days, occupying them most of the time from sunrise to sundown. …
The Conductor or Master of the Ceremonies then took his position, reclining on the ground near the fire, in the centre of the lodge, with the medicine pipe in his hand, and commenced crying, and continued to cry to the Great Spirit, while he guarded the young candidates who were reclining around the sides of the lodge, and for four days and four nights were not allowed to eat, drink, or to sleep.
By such denial great lassitude, and even emaciation, was produced, preparing the young men for the tortures which they afterwards went through.
The Medicine Lodge … presented the most strange and picturesque appearance. Its sides were curiously decorated with willow-boughs and aromatic herbs, and its floor (covered also with willow-boughs) with a curious arrangement of buffalo and human skulls.
There were also four articles of veneration and importance lying on the ground, which were sacks, containing each some three or four gallons of water. These seemed to be objects of great superstitious regard, and had been made with much labour and ingenuity, being constructed of the skins of the buffalo's neck, and sewed together in the forms of large tortoises lying on their backs, each having a sort of tail made of raven's quills, and a stick like a drumstick lying on it, with which, as will be seen in a subsequent part of the ceremony, the musicians beat upon the sacks as instruments of music for their strange dances.
By the sides of these sacks, which they called Eeh-tee-ka (drums), there were two other articles of equal importance, which they called Eeh-na-de (rattles), made of dried undressed skins, shaped into the form of gourd-shells, which they also used, as will be seen, as another part of the music for their dances.
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Congratulations!!! to Richard Price - THE most deserving by far! This is exactly the type of giving person, one affecting the whole community on a daily basis, who deserves this award! Marsha Harmon and Dee Thompson are always at the forefront of so many daily activities which help make this town a wonderful place! Perfectly presented awards to truly giving-of-themselves persons! Thank you to you all.
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agreed....they might simply be a bit dim....or they might be unkind...might be the ethical thing to find out before reporting them
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Not quite sure if I should be happy or cry. Bought a MTM pair of Latin Pants about 2 months ago and usually only wear it to comps, but decided to put it on for pratice today. Realized that, while for Waltz it's still OK, if I put on the strap thingi to keep the trousers down, the slide down when dancing Jive. So, I need to get them taken in. But then I only have one comp next term and will be home with the lovely cooking skills of my mom over summer. So not sure, if I should just not use the strap thingis during the next comp and wait how the trousers fit after the summer or get them taken in now and then end up with them being too tight after summer. lol. I think I should just eat more
Depending on how they are made and where the problem is, you might just be able to move the hook and bar/button for the meantime and move it back later if you expand.
That might work, but would create unsighty 'pull' lines I suppose. Actually, i just tried it and the pull is negligible. So, that might not be a bad idea at all. I think I might just be able to add a second button & hook and then could switch. My belly seems a bit weird. When I leave it relaxed (eg off the dance-floor) the trousers still seem fine, but when I make them tighter to fit when I tighten my muscles, it would probably look like they are way too tight. Oh well, first world problems
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As do I. Suprisingly, this time around, my questionaire was online, and contained all the info from my last investigation. It took me about 15 minutes to click "ok" on most of it, update what was needed, and hit send. Thank goodness! These things used to take hours....
DS was at his father's house roughly 20 hours when he broke his $600 cell phone. Honest to goodness. Every time the boy goes there, something major goes wrong and it always costs me money. I know it's just stress which makes the boy clumsy/less cautious, but grumble. Grumble. Fortunately, I have insurance on the phone. But there's still a deductible. Grumble.
um, no. these folks have no sense of humor. Neither do the polygraph folks, for that matter. Biggest issue is the fact that I own foreign property, my husband owns stock in foreign corporations, I travel to other countries for not-work-related reasons, and I drive a Corvette. The investigators always struggle with these areas of the questionnaire.
So, so glad to have people like you in positions of responsibility to protect smart alecks like me. And what the heck does a Corvette have to do with anything? *rhetorical* You have a good job. You buy a sports car (I hope it's candy apple red. lol) You have earned that dang Corvette. just sayin.