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Drunken Tomato-Basil Rigatoni by Mom De Cuisine
A rich and saucy one pot pasta dish ready in 30 minutes.
What if a new year isn't about new beginnings? In my life as a Navy wife, my kids' as Navy brats, and my husband as a Naval officer, new beginnings rarely come in the form of a New year. Rather, new beginnings and major changes are directly related to a new move, a new job, new friends, new house in this ever fluctuating lifestyle.
This year, welcoming a new year welcomes the end. The last time we will ring in the New Year in Spain and our last year over seas. But life isn't just measured in beginnings and endings; starting lines and finished races. Life is what happens in-between markers–what we make of our day-to-day.
My husband has taught me many things, but the most important being to always live in the moment, be the best you can be, and love all that is important with all that you have. And that is the way we spend most in-between-in the moments, being the best we can, with all that we have.
With that mantra, rather than lamenting a new beginning, celebrating an ending, we have resolved to continue to live each moment to its fullest. Loving even the hard parts. Drinking it all in as a pound of rigatoni does rich sauce making life soul satisfying.
A few months ago, my husband and I were talking to a couple who didn't have children. We mentioned that we almost never make it to midnight anymore on New Years Eve. Incredulously they wondered why not, why not make the effort on what is supposed to be the most magical night of the year. Simple. The most magical night of the year actually isn't at the stroke of midnight, it's a few hours later in the morning. At five a.m., when our children wake up, creep into our room and gently nudge us, bringing us back to the realist reality. Breakfast.
So cheers. Cheers to drinking up all that life has to offer, at the end of a journey, at the beginning of a new year, and always at five am.
Drunken Tomato-Basil Rigatoni Recipe
Serves 4-5
Prep time 5 minutes
Cook time 30 minutes
Total time 35 minutes
Meal type Lunch, Main Dish
Misc Child Friendly, Freezable, Gourmet, Serve Hot
Occasion Birthday Party, Casual Party, Formal Party, Halloween, Valentines day
- 1 tablespoon Olive Oil
- 1 tablespoon Unsalted Butter
- 1 Large Onion (chopped)
- 3 cloves Garlic (chopped)
- 2 tablespoons Tomato Paste
- 2 tablespoons Dried Basil
- 1/2 cup Dry Red Wine
- 28fl oz Canned Tomato Sauce
- 2 cups Beef Stock
- 2 tablespoons Balsamic Vinegar
- 2lb Dried Rigatoni
- 2 tablespoons Freshly Grated Parmesan (plus more to serve)
- 2 tablespoons Fresh Basil (chopped)
- Salt/Pepper (to taste)
1lb Lean Ground Beef
1 tablespoon Red Pepper Flakes
Brown Aromatics
Step 1
In a heavy bottomed pot or dutch oven, heat oil and butter over medium-high heat. Sauté onions 3-4 minutes, or until they soften. Add garlic and sauté one minute more.
Brown Beef
Step 2
Add the ground beef and break up with a wooden spoon. Cook until browned and slightly crispy
Drunken Tomato-Basil Sauce
Step 3
Add the dried basil, tomato paste, and red pepper flakes, if using. Cook 1-2 minutes or until fragrant.
Step 4
Add red wine, tomato sauce, beef stock and balsamic vinegar.
Step 5
Bring sauce to a boil, then reduce heat and simmer for 10 minutes.
Drunken Tomato-Basil Rigatoni
Step 6
Add the rigatoni, and cover with a tight fitting lid. Cook over medium-low heat for 7-8 minutes or until the rigatoni is al dente.
Step 7
Stir in the parmesan cheese until melted. Adjust salt and pepper. Fold in fresh basil.
To Serve
Step 8
Serve with additional parmesan if desired.
Pasta can be frozen for up to three months. To reheat, add a bit of stock and simmer on medium heat until heated through.
The written and photographic in this article are reference and redaction from momdecuisine.net


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Feeling: HAIRSAY
For the most part, everyone has a certain aspect of themselves they wish they could alter.
It may be the nose. The bum (wanting it to be more bulbous or less so). The pointy chin.
My most major affliction? (Aside from the physique bullying, of course). My hair.
I've spent eons on it. Products claiming themselves as miracle workers, volumising wonders, split end eradicators. But alas, aside from minimal improvements, I've been unsuccessful in attaining the ointment that results in luscious locks.
I mean, my hair isn't that bad. My hairline is horrid, split ends form as soon as I've stepped out from scissoring a trim and the longer it gets the more it leans out (i.e, extremely thin), but it's not all horrendous. It does grow (though at a rate on par with waiting for a customer service rep on the phone at IRD), it does do up, and on occassion I actually even manage to nail the tousled-bed-head look (other times it just appears I haven't bothered). (Which, let's be honest, I probably havent).
I've spent unthinkable amounts on hair extensions since the tender age of fifteen. I've been blonde, brunette, auburn, honey, caramel, verging black (never again; not a good look with blonde eyebrows), platinum (also never again; cheers for the heads up on how that looked friends and fam) and every shade in between. Pixie, bob, lob, shoulders, ribs, waist, repeat; all the chops to change to find the "do" for me. Unfortunately, I get bored easy and as soon as it's grown to a lengthy length I start again with an almost crew cut.
Funnily enough as a kid, my hair was rather lustrous. I remember one time being in the bath with my cousin and my aunty shampooing my golden tresses and she remarked, "You have such lovely thick hair". I stormed off home to Deb and told her of the insult, and she laughed. "It's a compliment Poppy," she insisted. "Thick hair doesn't mean it's stupid."
When I was 19 I went through the usually pre-adult funk of a little self loathing. I'm so selfish, I reprimanded myself, as I sat cross legged on the limited floor space of my Auckland apartment. What can I do to kickstart the change to being a better person?
Like a sign from above (or more, an extremely fate-placed FB update) a guy friend of mine had shared a status about shaving his hair off to raise money for Leukaemia. That's me, I deduced. Without a second thought (as I would probably have never shared it) I signed up and shaved.
Cue, bald Pop.
Well not entirely bald, more a number 3 or so. But definitely a hell of a lot less hair.
The first two months were fantastic. It was so easy, this no hair, and all for a good cause! I was proud of myself (though I must admit I did down a few ciders before the chop then collected some clumps in a snap lock bag for sentimental purposes afterwards) for lobbing off the locks that while not be in the best condition, were still my crowning glory.
But then began the regrowing period.
Always partial to a bit of curl (blast you, tendency to eat crusts as a child) the first few centimetres decided to spring back in pube-like coils. The obsession with my hair reignited; the purchase of headbands, hats, headscarves and head halos went into abundance. As soon as the stands surpassed the three centimetre mark, the straighteners were back in action.
One night I was out in Ponsonby for a rage and was languishing in The Longroom. A chap came over and spun a bit of a yarn and commented, "You know, you'd be quite pretty if you had long hair." In my tipsy (ok, quite intoxicated) state, I barraged past the bastard and ran – yes, jogged along in my ankle supported wedges – all the way home (it was only 2km, but at 2am with a stomach full of Scrumpy it seems a far greater distance). I was supremely gutted.
The next morning however, I got all fired-up-feminist. To hell with that wanker! I was going to embrace my short shorn self.
The straighteners went to the back of my cupboard (well, makeshift clothes rack. Inner city apartments don't loan much space for storage). The adornments were shoved in a drawer (once again, actually placed with the straighteners. But "gently folded into a box and placed until some shoes" doesn't allude the same determined state). My hair stuck up in mouse brown corkscrews. And I loved it.
And then something amazing happened. The curls unclamped and it starting growing straight. It was soft, downy, virgin hair with a significant sheen and a natural way of falling that appeared as though it had been styled.
I resolved to stay with this do forever. No dye, no heated appliances, just a slight snippet of stray strands every six weeks. I was au naturale baby, and it was going to stay this way.
Two weeks later I got asked to so a modelling assignment. They chopped all the growth to a side-shorn pixie, bleached it pure platinum and pastel pink and chemically curled the crap out of it. This rocks! I enthused. I'm going to keep it this way forever!
I was over the pixie shortly afterwards, deciding long locks were the go for upcoming summer. The next few months were a blur of bobby pins, growth serums and (I'll admit it) a bit of hair gel in desperate times, until at last the tangled tips started dancing on my shoulders. Thus, the sign to return to my teenage obsession with Superior Hair and a truckload transacted on top grade extensions.
I hit a gold mine in finding four lots of clip-in ponytails on TradeMe one afternoon, and the quad for a fickle fifty huck became my most loved possessions. Twisted up in topknots, parted in plaits, barricaded into buns; I never left the house without one of the hunks of hair securely planted on my head.
Until the evening I got dolled up after a few red wines and didn't slot in the required 75+ hair clips.
I was at the majestic Mud (for those of you not from Cambridge and thus not acquainted with the Masonic, imagine the grottiest, seediest pub with its entire patronage in the far throes of intoxication and doing despicable things, then multiple it by 10.2. It's the end-of-night go to for all) and dancing alongside one of my male soft-spots (i.e, unrequited crush). A particularly head-banging song blasted out and I proceeded to shake my skull, when an odd sensation of light-headedness overcame me. I'm not talking a faint spell, no; rather, in my haste to head out I had not done the necessary testing to ensure my bun was anchored to my cranium, and in one particularly powerful pump of the neck it had lost grip and flung across the floor.
I looked around horrified, but no one had witnessed my hair shed. I stealthily retrieved the hedgehog-like mound and planted it onto my head.
The smart, sober thing to do would've been to hot foot it to the bathroom, reattach -firmly – the bun, and then emerge as though I had just trotted off for a tipsy tinkle. But being in my somewhat tiddlywink state, I decided to stay put and continue to bop.
The object of my affections noticed me clamping my head. "What's up?" He asked. "My hair fell out," I answered.
He was puzzled. "Why don't you just tie it back up? Here, I'll do it for you."
"Oh no, my hair tie hasn't come out," I enthusiastically explained. "My fake hair has."
I've only ever seen such a bewildered expression on one other occassion, when I informed my Dementia-ridden Nanna that no, I was not a roast chicken and I'd appreciate it if she stopped prodding me with her fork. The guy's facials literally read dub-tee-eff for a moment before he outstretched his palms for some pins and aided me to latch the bun back on.
Fast forward two years to last December. My real hair had finally grown to a notable length and extensions were only used on occassion to bulk it up a bit. Jason and I had just returned from an exploration around South East Asia, and six weeks of back packer hostel shampoo had wrecked havoc on my hair.
On day two of return I went to the hairdressers and demanded she lob the lot off.
Cue pixie cut #2, and the whole cycle starting again.
I've finally passed the Donald-Trump-like do of growing out the pixie, and am currently at fasten-on-or-fix-in extension stage again as I wait for the growth to garner. While I was in India it was constantly one big brassy birds nest. I thought I'd gone to be all about the inner beauty and would stay that way but no; the day after return I foraged around and found my four ponytails in my wardrobe. Whilst rather matted, worse for wear and remebling hunks of dreadlocks, I've taken to affixing them on in an effort to volumise.
Securely this time.
Hair hair to Deb for the inspo.

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Haggadah and history : a panorama in facsimile of five centuries of the printed Haggadah from the collections of Harvard University and the Jewish Theological Seminary of America / by Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi.
By: Yerushalmi, Yosef Hayim.Material type: TextPublisher: Philadelphia : Jewish Publication Society of America, [1974]Edition: 1st ed.Description: 494 p. : facsims. ; 31 cm.ISBN: 0827600461; 9780827600461.Subject(s): Haggadah -- Illustrations | Harvard University. Library | Jewish Theological Seminary of America. LibraryDDC classification: 296.4/37 LOC classification: BM675.P4 | Z95
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|BM675.P4 Z95 (Browse shelf)
Bibliography: p. 489-492.
Includes index.
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Hello and HAPPY (almost) Thanksgiving!
You've heard me mention it, but we are in full swing creating some fun and tasty recipes over on PastaChips.com. We have been in the kitchen a ton making a bunch of new recipes and with the big day tomorrow, I wanted to share this fun and easy appetizers that can be made from your Thanksgiving leftovers that will be great as you're entertaining family and friends this weekend as you watch football and head out shopping. This is our Thanksgiving Leftover App. You can find the recipe PastaChips.com.
I know we're going to be making these for sure!


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JUDAS PRIEST – Sin After Sin
Posted by Metal Misfit
Judas Priest – Sin After Sin [Remastered] (2001, Sony Music/Legacy Recordings)
Original Release: 1977, Columbia Records
1. "Sinner" … 6:45
2. "Diamonds and Rust" … 3:27
3. "Starbreaker" … 4:49
4. "Last Rose of Summer" … 5:38
5. "Let Us Prey/Call For The Priest" … 6:12
6. "Raw Deal" … 6:00
7. "Here Come the Tears" … 4:37
8. "Dissident Aggressor" … 3:06
9. "Race With The Devil" … 3:06
10. "Jawbreaker" (Live) … 4:02
Rob Halford – Vocals
K.K. Downing – Guitar
Glenn Tipton – Guitar, Piano
Ian Hill – Bass
Simon Phillips – Drums
Producer: Roger Glover and Judas Priest
Sin After Sin is Priest's first major-label album. It is also one of the first Priest albums I had in my collection so I've always had a soft spot for it. I remember listening to this one a lot while I was on my own in Virginia attending a community college. Heck, I remember "Last Rose of Summer" playing in my car during that winter while I pulled into a Wendy's drive-thru. Funny how the most random stuff sticks with you through the years, isn't it?
By this point, the band was already starting to perfect their sound. "Sinner" and "Starbreaker" (what a cool title) are early Priest classics and I've always loved their cover of Joan Baez's "Diamonds and Rust". It wasn't until many years later that I heard the original and I think it's a pretty awful song. It's amazing that Priest was able to work their magic with it. They totally made it their own.
The rest of the album is very good featuring Priest straddling the line between the early stages of heavy metal and what we would now call classic rock. The only stinker is "Last Rose of Summer". Looking back at all the things the band has done since then, it just seems like a really weird song for them to record. They are no strangers to tossing a ballad or two our way even to this day, but this one is a very strange '70s trippy number. "Here Come the Tears" is much more in line with the standard Priest ballad format but also features some great sorrowful wailing from Halford. I love his performance on this song. Then you've got fan favorite and early metal classic "Dissident Aggressor" which is pretty heavy even in this day and age, so I cannot even begin to imagine what this song must have sounded like to virgin ears!
All told, this is a classic release and essential for any fan of Priest and heavy metal in general. The seeds were being sown for the future and this album doesn't get the recognition it deserves.
Highlights: "Sinner", "Diamonds and Rust", "Starbreaker", "Here Come the Tears", "Dissident Aggressor"
Posted on January 15, 2010, in Judas Priest and tagged Classic Metal, Classic Rock, Glenn Tipton, Hard Rock, Heavy Metal, Judas Priest, K.K. Downing, Metal, Music, NWOBHM, Rob Halford, Rock, Rock 'N' Roll. Bookmark the permalink. 4 Comments.
metalodyssey | January 16, 2010 at 12:10 pm
You brought to Metal light a true Priest classic… you are so right calling "Sin After Sin" essential. Cool breakdown/review too. Metal Music aside… the album artwork is incredible – Old School and creepy!
In Metal – Stone
I agree this is a great cover!
one of my all time JP faves.
I love Last Rose of Summer – very non-typical metal ballad.


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The benchmark BSE Sensex staged a strong comeback in early trade on Friday, gaining over 250 points on widespread buying by participants in rate-sensitive realty, auto and banking stocks.
The 30-share BSE Sensex was trading higher by 253.38 points, or 0.68%, at 37,418.54.
All the sectoral indices, led by realty, auto, banking, healthcare, infrastructure, power, oil and gas, PSU and metal, recovered up to 1%.
The 30-share BSE Sensex had lost 441.42 points in the previous two sessions. The NSE Nifty reclaimed the 11,300 mark, by rising 70.55 points, or 0.62%, to 11,315.25.
Major gainers were Kotak Bank, ONGC, Axis Bank, HDFC, Yes Bank, RIL, TCS, M&M, Sun Pharma, Power Grid, Vedanta, Tata Motors, Adani Ports, Maruti Suzuki, SBI, NTPC, Coal India, Bajaj Auto, HDFC Bank and Tata Steel, rising up to 2%.


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My daughter shared this marvelous quote on Instagram today.
I needed it.
I have been in a drought. Wondering where all the blessings have gone and if, perhaps, I haven't been obedient, causing God to leave me to my own devices.
Yet, I know in my spirit that is just not true. He will never leave us nor forsake us. He leaves the 99 to go after the 1.
So, while I haven't run from God or thumbed my nose at His requests, I have doubted myself, tremendously, lately. Wondered at my Call. Questioned if I have purpose. Realizing, maybe, this is what "mid-life crisis" looks like!
Then He sends whispers.
Oh how I love His whispers in the silence.
He opens my eyes to see the battle... then he points me to the places He IS working, though small, it provides a pin-prick of light. I remember Hebrews 11 and the hall of faith and the fact that,
...faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. (Hebrews 11:1)
and suddenly, I can't help but keep walking forward!
Perhaps, like me, you are staring at the whole MID-LIFE and changing dynamics phase too... or maybe you are a young mom, trying to figure out how on earth you are going to get the floor mopped today when you can't even stay on top of the dishes... it is all a season, I promise!
I think, if I am learning anything through all of the struggles this year, it is that, Faith walks forward with hope in spite of what the eyes can't see!
Recently, I had the awesome opportunity to review Grumpy Mom Takes a Holiday by Valerie Woerner. I believe it to be the mom's guide to more peaceful Christ-centered living!
|Grumpy Mom Takes a Holiday: Say Goodbye to Stressed, Tired, and Anxious, and Say Hello to Renewed Joy in Motherhood
I may not be corralling littles anymore, but the dower spirit in this transition of my life reminds me of those early days of parenting when Grumpy Mom made regular appearances and this book reminded me of the importance of sending her out the door! Mrs. Woerner talks to her readers as friends; sharing her strategies, firmly rooted in scripture, for keeping one's head, finding peace, and being a more joy-filled mama in the moment. She is REAL, not Pinterest Perfect, the exact dose of what we moms really need!
The entire book feels like a coffee shop hang-out meets women's Bible study as she doesn't just suggest what a mom should be doing in hopes of compliance, but rather, she unpacks what Scripture says about our attitudes and inner-drive to become more like Christ. Her self-sacrifice of her own shortcomings and challenges as she shares how Scripture and personal revelation have driven her to send 'Grumpy Mom' packing reveals a greater Source for growth and a new and better attitude as Moms.
Her use of The Message translation would be my biggest complaint. I believe The Message may be refrenced as a secondary source for occasional clarity, however, I argue it's validity as "the Bible" and would prefer other translations and commentaries which do more to promote proper Scriptural understanding.
Grumpy Mom does do well to remind us that it isn't the stream of blessings we are to focus on, but rather, the blesser Himself who can transform our hearts and lives. HE equips us to send Grumpy, stressed, tired, anxious Mom packing and find joy enough for each day in life and motherhood.
Are you in a drought or relaxing by a bubbling brook right now? What has God been ministering to your heart lately?
I received a complimentary copy of this book from Tyndale House for my review. This review is my opinion alone.
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Say you had two fixed, non-identical objects rotating around one axis at different speeds relative to one another, and they can be coupled together by friction (like how a clutch in a car works). How would I calculate the frictional force required for them to stick together instantaneously?
For example:
Object A and B are two solid cylinders rotating about a single axis (imagine how they would rotate if they were rolling) Object A is rotating at 10000 RPM, and object B is rotating at 1000 RPM; Object B has a larger radius, is made of a denser material, and has more mass and a larger moment of inertia. The two object come into contact with each other (picture the clutch of a car).
If the frictional force is sufficient, they should "stick" and the angular momentum should be conserved (I1ω1+I2ω2=Inetω); but if it isn't, they should slip.
What would be the frictional force required to "stick" the two objects together instantaneously?


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- Step by Step Photos
- US Imperial Measurement written in English Language
- Intermediate Level
- Sewing Pattern
Who doesn't want to bring their horse inside? Easily done with a plush horse! Make it one-of-a-kind. Released June 2015.
-Detailed step by step instructions -Photos that accompany each step -Full size pattern pieces -Tips for the best results -Options for some steps that can be done in a couple different manners -List of vendors for items such as the safety bolted eyes I use
Prints on standard 8.5" x 11" printer paper. Some pieces need to be joined with tape to create the full size template.
You will need to download the digital file which will be available immediately after purchase and then print what pages you would like.
I am also available via e-mail for any questions you may have along the way...I stand behind my products and will help you through any steps the best I can.
Intermediate - Advanced (choosing fabrics other than canvas will make it easier to sew)
Your completed horse will be approximately 12" from hoof to ear and 12" from nose to rump
This is my original design/pattern, designed by me with a trusty pencil, big eraser and paper. Originally created in 2013 and after many tweaks and edits to the design it became what you see here in 2015.
The pattern/tutorial is copyright protected. It cannot be shared, sold, redistributed, copied, etc, in any manner in whole or in part. A full copyright statement is in the tutorial.
You may make horses from this pattern for sale on a small 'home crafter' scale. I request that credit be given to Rustic Horseshoe for the design on any horses that are sold. This is detailed in the tutorial.
I fully appreciate your honesty and adherence to my copyright and terms, I have put a lot of hard work in to not only the creation of my design, but the creation of this tutorial/pattern.
Materials you need at home:
- 1/2 yard canvas, cotton or minky fabric
- 1/2 skein yarn
- 1 pair 18mm safety bolted eyes
- 10 oz fiber filling
- Sewing machine
- Scissors
- this is not a comprehensive list, just the basics needed


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AceShowbiz - "Star Trek: Discovery" treated fans to a lot of news during its panel at the 2019 San Diego Comic-Con. During "Star Trek" panel on Saturday, July 19 in Hall H, the CBS All Access series revealed that newcomer David Ajala ("Supergirl") had joined the cast for the upcoming third season.
Ajala is set to take on the role of Cleveland "Book" Booker. The character is described as "smart and capable" with "a natural charisma and devil-may-care attitude that tends to get him into trouble as often as it gets him out."
Additionally, "Star Trek: Discovery" unveiled a slew of first-look photos which featured Ajala's Book. In one of the pics, he is seen walking through in what seems like a crater along with Sonequa Martin-Green's Commander Michael Burnham. Another photo, meanwhile, sees Burnham lying on the ground in her gear.
The third season of "Star Trek: Discovery" is promised to be different from any other Trek series ever as it will be set further in the future as it jumped 900 years in the future in its shocking season 2's finale. However, executive producer Alex Kurtzman revealed that it would honor the canon by bringing things which fans would recognize as well as new things. "Don't worry," he said. "It's still 'Star Trek' and it will always be 'Star Trek' the way Gene Roddenberry wanted it."
Meanwhile, Martin-Green teased that at the start of the season, instead of landing on the safe haven world of Terralysium like they planned, she and Book would ended up in somewhere else which none of them was familiar with. Ajala further added that "there are big problems on the other side of that wormhole."
Also starring Michelle Yeoh as Philippa Georgious, Doug Jones as Commander Saru, Anthony Rapp as Lt. Cmdr Paul Stamets, Mary Wiseman as Ensign Sylvia Tilly and Wilson Cruz as Dr. Hugh Culber, "Star Trek: Discovery" is expected to premiere in 2020. The first two season of the series are available to stream now on CBS All Access.


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What to Watch and Bet NBA and NHL Playoffs for Saturday June 1st 2013Friday, May 31st, 2013
The calendar moves to June and on the 1st are three monster playoff games from the NHL and NBA which will satisfy the appetite of betters worldwide. We have a game six in the NBA Eastern conference finals and the Western and Eastern conference finals face off from the NHL.
Bet the NBA and NHL Playoffs at Oddsmaker sportsbook, where bettors can now Claim their Free 100% Bonus up to $1000. Sign up today and get into the excitement of watching and wagering on both the NBA and NHL postseason all the way to the NBA Finals starting June 6th and the Stanley Cup Finals scheduled for later this month!
The action gets underway on Saturday June 1st from the NHL Western conference finals as the defending Stanley Cup Champions LA Kings will travel for game one of their series against the Chicago Blackhawks. The Kings and Blackhawks get started from Chicago at 5PM Eastern Time and you can catch all of the action on the NBC Sports Network.
The current odds available for wagering at Oddsmaker, where the bonuses are the best in the business have the home team Chicago Blackhawks the -150 betting odds favorite with the goal over under coming in at five goals. Those who wager on the puck line with the Chicago Blackhawks and lays the -1 ½ goals will get back +195 odds. Bettors who take the +1 ½ goal head start with the LA Kings will lay -235 odds for a puck line bet.
The Eastern conference finals get underway with game one at 8PM Eastern Time over NBC TV as the Boston Bruins hit the road to take on the Pittsburgh Penguins. The game one odds from this best of seven NHL playoff series have the home club Pittsburgh Penguins favored by -170 odds with the return on the road underdog Boston Bruins at +150 odds. The goal total is lined at 5 ½ goals A puck line bet on the Pittsburgh Penguins and laying the -1 ½ goals will get back +175 odds. Those who choose to take the +1 ½ goal head start with the Boston Bruins will lay -235 odds for their puck line wager.
It will be game six of the Eastern conference finals between the Miami Heat and Indiana Pacers. Miami goes up 3-2 after a 90-79 home victory against the Pacers as a -7 ½ point betting favorite. The betting odds from game six have the road team Miami Heat favored by -3 points with an over under line of 183 ½ points.


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Category: 60 Minutes Australia YouTube channel
People with a history of Domestic Violence convictions will be barred from entry to Australia
This is a start. If someone had been charged with Domestic Violence in the past, then they will be barred from coming to Australia.
Click on this link to visit the France 24 website to view their article titled "Australia to bar visitors with domestic violence convictions".


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Aromatherapy is the art and science of using essential oils, hydrosols, and aromatic extracts to restore or maintain wellness of mind, body, and spirit. This course is designed to give students a foundation in the holistic and therapeutic modality of aromatherapy. Introduction to Aromatic Therapies does not require a prerequisite and is recommended for those considering a career path in aromatic therapies as well as those interested in expanding their general education for home and personal use.
This course starts Thursday, May 23rd, 8am-10am CDT and runs for eight weeks, ending on July 18th (no class July 4th). Lessons are presented in two hour increments in a live video classroom. You'll be able to join the class from your smartphone or tablet via an app or from your desktop/laptop equipped with a webcam and microphone. Students will have access to recorded lessons that are uploaded in a day or two following the live class. It is not mandatory to attend live classes.
Required Text for Module One: Authentic Aromatherapy: Essential Oils and Blends for Health, Beauty, and Home by Sharon Falsetto, ISBN 978-1510706484.
Each week you'll have access to a new lesson, which includes:
- A live video presentation, recorded for later review
- Reading assignments
- A lesson activity to get you working with aromatics
- Resource links from the video presentation
Course Outline:
- Origins of Aromatherapy - a look at the history of aromatics from ancient to modern times.
- Types of Aromatics - explore the variety of aromatic extracts including essential oils, absolutes, CO2 extracts, hydrosols, and how they're produced.
- Quality, Purity, and Ethics in Sourcing - what consumers will want to know when sourcing aromatic extracts.
- Basic Essential Oil Chemistry - an exploration in the compounds that make up these volatile aromatics.
- Routes of Absorption - a look at the science behind topical, inhaled, and internal dose forms.
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Plaintiff to Judge in Tech Hiring Lawsuit: No Settlement, Please
Plaintiff to Judge in Tech Hiring Lawsuit: No Settlement, Please
Silicon Valley companies involved in salary collusion offer millions, but plaintiffs want billions.
When a company like Apple wants to settle a lawsuit for millions, you kindly say "no thanks," and ask for a "b" instead of an "m."
That's the philosophy being touted by Michael Devine, one of four named plaintiffs currently suing Apple, Google, Intel, and Adobe for conspiring to keep tech talent salaries artificially low.
The trial is set to start later this month, but Apple and Co. want to settle up now, to the tune of $324 million dollars. The settlement was negotiated by the plaintiff's attorneys, but Devine sent a letter to the judge last weekend, in which he asked her to reject the settlement.
Devine's logic: The 64,000-strong Class lost an estimated $3 billion in wages during this period of collusion. In a successful antitrust lawsuit, the damages number could triple to $9 billion. $324 million versus, at minimum, $3 billion? Now you can see why Devine "wants a chance at real justice."
And shouldn't Devine and the Class get it? It would be one thing to settle that highway rear-end lawsuit for car repair money, leaving behind that neck injury you may or may not have been milking. It's another to settle with some of the world's largest corporations who just spent the last some-odd years actively deflating your worth as a worker, along with tens of thousands of others.
Devine has set up a website for his cause, called Tech Worker Justice. So far it's just a simple Wordpress page outlining his initial settlement rejection moves.
Penny for your thoughts? Drop 'em in the comments.
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He's gonna look back and regret this. Greed
Look the first thing the judge will look at is if it actually harms the tech industry.
If these companies have decided together that they won't pay more than X for workers, that's sort of their business. I mean when they collude on behalf of workers to demand that their workers receive A coverage and Y cost.; no one complains. The point is, it also means that any company not colluding is free to you know, offer more to lure talent away from the big companies.
That's sort of the way salaries work. Artificially low is a relative term. Also the collusion must be proven, many people base their rates off what their nearest competitor is doing, much like a grocery store. Nothing in their actions prevents any of the workers from you know going to work for someone else.
When you start asking for billions you officially made it cheaper for these companies to keep the case bouncing through the legal system til your grandkids are collecting social security.
The settlement is based on cost to defend and risk of losing. The offer to settle is not admission of fault per say. When you demand billions the cost versus risk equation changes and out comes the battalions of lawyers and they will go for the full fight. Personally I think this grandstanding by Devine and after all the noise has gone quite there will be a settlement.
You guys really should read the context of his rejection.
"The 64,000-strong Class lost an estimated $3 billion in wages during this period of collusion."
If these companies did in fact devalue the efforts of a large number of employees, in collusion with one another, they should most definitely be forced to pay. Do you have ANY idea how un-ethical this is?
Maybe it is all BS, maybe they should just take the money and run, but if the claims are legit, which is at least partially the case, this is kind of a big deal, and should not go unpunished.
If there was an
Not entirely true. You see if Apple, Google and co all agreed they would always hire people at a certain salary that is a conspiracy to keep price of employment low. They also agreed that they would not offer jobs to people who were already hired by a different company so that competition for employees would not drive the price up.
For example employee A wants 50'000 $ a year, but company A would rather not pay that. Neither would any other company. So they get together and agree to a price ceiling for worker pay. This is artificial deflation, essentially the worker is forced to accept a salary he would otherwise never have because all the companies have come together and decided that they simply would not hire anyone at that price.
The same as artificial inflation where a product is purposefully kept scarce so that prices rise or certain companies have made a deal to never sell anything under a certain price. Both illegal practices.
If this is true then yes they essentially made a monopolistic move to drive down worker costs violating workers rights to a fair salary, pretty similar if a bunch of companies for example water and power suddenly decided that they'd really like 2$ per glass and if you can't pay it you can go to another company that also wants 2$ per glass.
Monopolies are illegal, unless you literally are the pioneer in that industry.
And these companies are the only ones in America hiring tech people? anything preventy Digisoft interactive from offering $60,000? Nope.
You see monopolies don't exist in the labour market really. So long as they're not paying below minimum wage a company can pay what ever they want... including minimum wage to anyone they want. Of course the worker is free to you know reject the offered salary and try another company. That's how the labour market works. if there are more people of a particular skill set in an area than there are jobs that require someone of that skillset.. the employer has the power because let me tell you, the pay you turn away is the the pay the guy next in line for the interview will jump for joy at.
When the inverse is true the situation is reversed. Now silicon valley may very well be in a situation where there is an over-saturation of tech based employees so it's not uncommon in any industry for their to be some standard as to what a particular skillset is worth.
Remember, guys, greed is bad... unless it's not a corporation being greedy.
Key word is estimated. Lawyers for the plaintiffs will always go for the maximum possible damages, its their job. Its an extraordinarily rare event, in a defended case, for for plaintiffs to get the damages they are looking for. As general rule of thumb, a won case will get 75% of the damages asked for. A realistic award would be $2.25 billion, however Apple's lawyers estimate of the win/loose on the case would reduce the figure they offer.
Of course they have to then prove that the companies would have paid them more without collusion. Good luck with that. also that figure works out to just about $50,000 per person.
Uhm... 50,000 is not worth hanging an albatross of that size over your head..not in that field because I can assure you, every one of those 64,000 will find it very, very difficult to be hired by any company, they will also find their positions becoming very uncomfortable. Kiss any upward mobility goodbye.
So each employee that's part of the class action suit would get
Besides the part where people should be paid properly for their expertise, these companies need something harsher to make it something not worth doing. Somehow I doubt the people behind the decision to do it won't get jail time so an absurdly high fine seems like the next best thing.
I wonder if the people that are part of the class action lawsuit will have a harder time getting a job in their industry as a result of this. If so, then getting
EDIT: Where the fuck was I getting those numbers from!?
A deal they made with google. Also digisoft might not have the funds for that seeing as it might be a far smaller company. Who also can't compete with the bigger guys because they buy up all the talent and will turn against Digi when it starts poaching employees.
I am just saying that if an industry comes together to make price deals with one another it is bad. This leads to monopolies and poor worker conditions as end prices go up but labour compensation goes down.
If you actually look at the story basically what the workers are saying is that over the years they lost out on 50 grand per person. That's a pretty low sum per person. Now if this was just 5 guys trying to get 3 billion dollars I might have immediately called bullshit. However 50'000 doesn't sound unreasonable.
Companies not raising salaries to match inflation. Other businesses refusing applications. Overall agreements of worker fees. Sounds pretty plausible and also deliciously illegal in a free market that is built on competition.
really isn't there a number of worker recourse options for this sort of thing? I mean isn't the definition of a "Union" price collusion among the workers imposed upon the companies?
Don't see anything wrong with this and don't think it's greed.
This is 64.000 people who've all had their wages kept artificially low and have been denied opportunities for better jobs at competitors. All people who have many expenses that haven't been kept artificially low.
This has been going on since 2005 until, at least, 2009. 5 years, at least 64.000 people and a settlement of 324 million. That's 1k a year per person. Doesn't sound so large now does it?
Especially once you start reading some of the e-mail correspondence that's out there right now between these companies (and quite a few others not being sued). 1k a year per person isn't going to cover that...
And you're okay with this? What these companies stand accused of is absolutely illegal. It's just like how companies are not allowed to collude directly on prices. Preventing collusion is how you ensure competition rather than monopoly/oligarchy. There is strong evidence that the companies colluded not only on new hiring salaries, but on not trying to poach employees. The latter of those especially is something that would have pushed up wages, or at least benefits packages, as employers tried to get and hold the best talent. I can give you that not every single company participated, but the ones that could most afford increased salaries all seemed to and there was a lot of incentive to do so in the forms of 1. Paying Less and 2. Not Irking the Bigger Fish.
Maybe the guy is greedy, but that doesn't make his point less valid, and the first thing the Judge is going to look at is the applicable laws. That will be the last thing they look at because that's all that matters. The Judiciary is supposed to be impartial, and that means to all aspects outside of the legality of what is presented.
So basically the employees are still being payed more than say what another company might be paying hmm? Which again turns the argument back to.. what harm is it doing? This more sounds like a bunch of employees mad that rival companies aren't trying to lure them away with more money than they're already being paid.
Companies that raise salaries to match inflation are usually also engaging in a good deal of staff cutting.
Remember labour is a rather funny thing. Collusion doesn't really affect the market as much as you'd think . If a bunch of companies decide they will only pay X and X is patently unfair then no one will take the job...people will just change to the most lucrative career they are qualified for. if they feel said career will deliver X+1.
A factory without workers is a very, very expensive loss for the owners. HEnce the power of unions. but this.. is not a union action is it?
And have they prevented competition? Is there anything stopping Macr0Digitronics Incorporated from setting their salary at $60,000. Nope. Nothing. See it's only anti-competitive if it prevents other people from accessing the market. In this case the market is workers. Nothing is preventing another company from hiring workers at a higher rate if they can afford it. So this is obviously not hurting competition. And if the rate is such that other companies cannot afford to pay more well then they are obviously being paid quite well.. better than workers at all those other companies that can't afford 50K Salaries.
True and again... when dealing with anti-competition one has to look at who the competition is. Google and Apple aren't competing against their employees are they? No they're competing against CompuGlobalHypermEgaTech i.e other companies. NOw has them agreeing on a given pay scale hurt the ability of CompuGlobalHyperMegaTech to hire employees. Well if the pay is so low then any non-colluded company should easily be able to offer more and lure workers away from said colluding companies...ironically it would be anti-competition if they kept the salaries higher than other companies could afford. Of course the workers would never complain about that sort of anti-competitive nature would they?
See at the end of the day this is not collusion but collaboration and companies collaborate all the time. That's how standards come about because a bunch of companies came together and said Okay we can all agree that this should be X. thusly the standard will be that this should be X. They do this for salaries all the time., in every industry. There is some agreement in what a person of a particular combination of skillsets should be paid.. based on the value of said skillsets to the business. If they agree that for A given Position A that a person meeting the baseline requirements interms of skill and training should be payed Y. Now naturally said payscale is flexible. if their skillsets are +10 like say the person is also multi-lingual, has more experience in the field etc... then the scale goes up accordingly. Though it is the employer that gets to decide how much that difference is worth.
Much in the same way you decide if the price difference between your standard white bread and the artisan wholewheat 100% organic bread is equitable to your needs. Always remember a worker is free toask whatever he wants but just like any seller it makes no sense to sell higher than the market is wants to pay. That's why no one sells apples for $80 a piece.
It doesn't matter what they could have done differently to look for better payment. It's not about them.
From what I can tell this is about the companies, how they allegedly agreed behind the scenes to not hire anyone above a certain rate to control the work environment and ultimately become anti-competitive.
I can see how a case can be made based on that, yes?
Greed is bad, I completely agree, but this isn't one man gunning for $3 billion, folks. He is gunning for $3 billion to be split among 64,000 some-odd jilted tech workers. And this money is supposed to represent years and years of mistreatment, not a few fiscal quarters.
Let's assume for a moment that whatever money is received is split evenly among the 64,000...
$325 million: Less than $5,100 per person.
$3 billion: $46,875 per person.
Keep in mind that whatever money John Q. Tech Worker gets from this settlement is taxable income, because it represents lost wages (I am not 100 percent sure on this fact, but I think that's how it would work). So $5,100 could really be about $4,000; $47k would be $38k or so, depending on what tax bracket he or she is in.
Also, legal fees. If we're using the 33% contingency fee model? $325 million could end up as $220 million, give or take. $220 million among 64,000 workers is $3,450 pre-tax. Also not 100% on this because I don't know the finer points of this specific legal agreement.
Those calling this greed: Don't. It's not greed, it's straight-up lost compensation. You wouldn't call it greed if it was 64,000 Walmart employees doing the same thing about lost overtime wages, would you?
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It isn't so much that they are the only tech companies hiring, they are the biggest and most profitable. They hire a huge percentage of the talent, simply because they are so big, and the smaller companies just can't make up the difference.
And it isn't that the salaries were low as such, it's that the companies are being accused of specifically colluding with one another to keep them low. It's the collusion aspect that makes this a lawsuit. If the laws of natural supply and demand dictated that a sysop would get,say, $60k a year, that's all well and good. That's what the market says a sysop is worth, nothing to see here, move along. When the largest companies that hire sysops all get together and agree to pay only $60k a year, that's where the problem starts. Now those huge companies, the leaders in the industry, have basically set, as a group, what a sysop is worth. It effectively becomes a multi-company monopoly, like what happened with the various e-book publishers and Amazon. The publishers colluded to set prices, and that just isn't cricket.
And you cut the legs off your own argument. They are the biggest and most profitable....meaning they are paying better than the others. Smaller or id sized companies being unable to really match means that well you're getting paid better yes?
The depth of this collusion is basically more or less an agreement to 'not bribe each others' employees to jump ship.'
This is like Walmart or a grocery store suing shoppers for not paying $20 a piece for their apples apples.
THis is how labour markets work.. me thinks that this is just more sour grapes that these companies have together said. We won't pay more than X for Skillset Y. THe workers are free to get jobs elsewhere but since the best they can get elsewhere is X-1 or X-2 well then what are you going to do? X isn't an unfair price and if someone else values your Skillset at X+1 and has a position open the workers are free to take it...nothing stops another company from offering X+1 and nothing stops a worker from applying for said position (well unless the employment is on contract for a set period of time). So again, how is the practice unfair to the workers. The actions of these companies has not limited the options of the workers or the abilities of competing companies. So it is neither exploitation nor is it anti-competitive.
I think this is how most(including myself) see it.
Except that from what I'm reading, X+1 is never an option because the corporations that can afford X+1 have decided that they'll never go beyond |X|.
*Warning: I'm doing my best to not sound like an ass-hat but no matter what I type I end up sounding like... an ass-hat.
Which basically boils down to.. the workers think they're worth more than they're being paid... the companies have decided they won't pay more than X...that's perfectly legal. Rule of economics... no one wants to pay what something is worth. People ideally want to ay less than the perceived value. Hence why Sales are such a big thing.
What you have here is a side effect of a saturated labour market. See when a given skillset is both important and scarce pretty much those with the skillset name their price...where the skillset is either common or not as vital.. then the employer has room. If it's not scarce well they likely have 30 more applicants interested in the position.. one of whom probably has overdue rent and would like to stop living off one cup of ramen a day. That will jump at the prospect of being paid.
If it's not vital they company will do without divide the responsibilities of the position among various existing positions.
As said. in the case of this claim... it will be very hard for them to prove the practice is anti competitive or exploitative.
hopefully they will suceed and get their 3 billions compensated. Keeping wages artificially low is very bad for everyone but people that do it.
There is a laughable amount for people saying that what this guy is doing is a bad idea. He's standing up for worker's rights and fair pay, if any collusion between corporations can be proved, then I hope they all suffer the full extent of this huge lawsuit.
Or they are being paid way under what they would have been paid had these deals not been going on. You see just getting paid isn't hard. I could get paid for flipping burgers. Getting paid enough is a different matter.
Why even have a minimum wage if companies should decide what you earn? Why even have anti-trust and monopoly laws to prevent companies from colluding and inflating prices whilst deflating worker compensation. Why have all that when you think the companies should be able to decide your wages?
I do hope you have never in your life worked for minimum wage but always agreed to sign a contract for whatever the company wanted to pay you because otherwise your position is a bit hypocrite.
Now onto why this is not good. We are essentially a free market system. This involves businesses competing with each other for the best product. Not colluding together to drive out all other competition whilst still driving down production costs and purchase cost up.
We don't allow Nintendo to do backdoor deals with retailers about the pricing of Wii's and artificial scarcity. We don't allow Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft to agree that a retail worker will never earn more than X amount of dollars. We can set in place a minimum, but not a maximum. We can't allow them to agree that anyone wanting to work in an industry like this which takes at least 4 years of dedication just to get a degree and many more years to get actually good at your job to have an artificial cap.
If we say yes why not stop pretending any of our other regulations have merit. Let's just revert back to industrial era poverty where you either worked or starved. Hungry people are after all much happier to work for those 2 pennies you pay them. Heck have the kids help out. After all a company should get to decide your salary right? Especially when you think that you'd be worth a pretty decent one yourself because who cares about those beneath you?
If they are being paid under.. well then again. There's no anti-trust issue since any company not in the collusion is free to offer them more. So again. There's no anti-trust or price fixing issue.
COnsidering in america many employers ignore the minimum wages. All those people who have 'tips' as a necessary make up of their salary...yeah they are being paid at or slightly under minimum wage. America I learned is one of the few countries where Tips are 'customary' as opposed to you know. Earned with exceptional and pleasant service.
Again, this is no different than a bunch of market shoppers deciding that nope... $10 is too much to pay for one apple. Have I and my neighbors colludied to fix the price of apples? Should the Apple Vendor then take us to court for all the money he lost because he had to sell his apples at less than $10. If that happened it would be a laugh riot. This is the same thing. The maker consumers have decided together what they will pay for a service/good. which in this case is labour with a certain skillset.
Nothing they've done prevents people of the skillset from you know, going on to companies that offer them more, and nothing they've done prevents another company from offering to pay more. Again,. They've done nothing illegal or harmful. If no other non-colluded company can pay more than what the colluded companies are.. well then they're obviously being paid better than most others in their field. and if no other non-colluded company is offering more.. maybe.. maybe the industry as a whole doesn't see that skillset as being worth more...which again..is like asking people to buy an apple for $10. You're free to sell it for whatever you ant but don't be surprised if your buyers pass you by because they don't consider the apples worth that much.
I've worked at hourly wages, I've worked and minimum wage, I've worked at contracted salary and on commission. This doesn't make my stance hypocritical. It makes my stance informed. See I've been in and about the labour market enough to see and understand how things work. If I am offered less than I know I'm worth I am free to not take it. but I always know that the pay I scoff at is the pay the next guy will happily accept. This is how things work when there are more workers than jobs in an industry. You can refuse the pay or you know...do without running water for a while.
Free market cuts both ways. Again you've yet to state how these actions are driving competition out. Secondly business collaborate all the time. It's necessary for any industry to function. This is why for any industry there are always standards and practices. How were these standards arrived at? Collaboration between the various industry stakeholders.
Actually Microsoft is free to decide what they want to pay a retail worker. And if they sony and Nintendo all agree that is perfectly legal. If the workers are feeling under paid...they go somewhere else. See in no way has the options of the worker or other companies been reduced. And actually there's nothing wrong with the artificial scarcity thing.. I mean come on the Digital Media industry is founded on artificial scarcity. It's a base principle.
The reason a minimum exists is to actually prevent abuse. because of the reality that there will always be more workers than jobs in any system, if it were not for the minimum then the free market system would drive wages down to levels where the worker puts in a days work and cannot buy so much as a loaf of bread with what they earned.
There is no set maximum but their is an implicit maximum. The more specialized and vital your skillset is, the higher the wage you can expect again dependent on how many people seek that skillset and how many people have it. If there are only 10 dentists in a country those dentists may charge whatever they want. If there are 5000 dentists .. well then that's a different story. Why do you think teaching salaries increase as you go up the education ladder. Compare the salary of a grade school teacher to a university professor lecturing the Bachelor's or Doctorate program. It's a more advanced skillset and there are fewer people with said skillset.
Again it boils down to. Is it anti-trust? Have these companies acted in away to limit the options of their competitors? Nope. CompuGlobalOptiTech is is free to decide and offer their own salaries whether it be lower or higher than the accused companies. (ironically it would be Antitrust if those colluding companies had set the wages so high that no other company could match them and thusly could never get the talent they need but of course the workers would never complain about such anti-trust tactics would they?).
Does it limit the freedoms of the workers? Nope, a worker is not a slave, they always have a choice to refuse the salary or to hunt for a better offer from other companies. If they can't find a better offer then one might say it's because the players colluded but one would have to prove that said players would have been inclined to pay significantly more otherwise.
A buyer is never going to pay more than a good or service is worth to them. So even if me and the other shoppers had not agreed to boycott the guy selling apples for $15 a piece that doesn't mean that any of us were going to spend $15 for an apple anyway.
Spoken like a true middle-class American W.A.S.P. Listen, until you've had to figure how to buy a month's worth of food with nothing more than $15 (without food stamps or other such government assistance) then you can talk about the plight about the down-trodden worker. When you can say you've put in a 12 hour shift running on nothing but a cup of hot water and a packet of ketchup, then you can talk.
For many people this is a reality. I can complain all I want but I know that there's always someone out there...who is in a worse position than me who's not too proud to work for minimum wage. Now if this instance were truly violating worker's rights than this would be a labour union issue.
Maybe I'm alone in this, but I don't think it's greed. A settlement of that size is nothing to sneeze at and will take care of any monetary problems you could possibly have for the rest of your life. I think he's actually trying to expose a crime and see it punished. Is that so hard to believe?
$3bil / 64,000 (number of plaintiffs in the class action suit) = $55 grand a piece. which is about a year's salary for most people in that bracket. Keep in mind after that you'd likely find it pretty hard to keep your existing job or find a new one in the industry.
That is again assuming they win...or that the case is concluded any time in the next 20 years.
If they lose well they will find it very hard to keep their jobs and very hard to find new jobs. Employers look into these things. The higher your salary the deeper those background checks. Ever notice any job application has to include the last place of employment...you don't think they call and do a little digging as to why you left?


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"Every generous act of giving, with every perfect gift, is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change." - Epistle of St. James Chapter 1, Verse 17
This verse was in the reading of the Mass tonight, I've been thinking about it alot ever since I read how influential it was in the catholic medieval tradition in Jaroslav Pelikan's third volume on the Christian Tradition.
I was thinking about going to the Latin mass and the way the priest opened up the tabernacle and how every eye was fixed on the inside. Then I realized how the Sacrifice of the Mass is tied to the Immutability of God.
I was reminded of Bp. N.T. Wright's book where he talks about the parousia of Christ, the second advent/second coming, and how it really seems to mean in Greek the idea of something that is already a reality being revealed. It's as if something was already there (the Kingdom of God) and suddenly everyone realizes the hidden reality.
I was thinking that the sacrifice of the mass is like that. At the consecration we are given a glimpse into the window of the changeless nature of Christ's eternal self-giving love. Christ's Spirit which is present within our souls in an invisible matter, is suddenly joined by Christ's body and blood in a real physical manner for a few moments. It's as if when the tabernacle is opened, we see through it as a window into the scene of the Crucifixion, we offer our sorrow for our sins, and the sacrifice of worship, as St. John and the Blessed Virgin did at the foot of the cross.
God's immutability and simplicity of nature are a mystery, and the beatific vision always reminds me of a beautiful painting which we'll all enjoy in perfect satisfaction forever. And the promise is from "the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change"
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