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On the Passing of Stars

2012 TCM Classic Film Festival Opening Night Gala - Red Carpet

Movie lovers of all generations are still reeling from the deaths of Carrie Fisher and her mother, Debbie Reynolds, within a day of each other. Photos, memes and personal testimonies flooded the Internet as an expression of collective shock and grief.

Fisher’s character in Star Wars (1977) and Reynolds’s participation in Singin’ in the Rain (1952) dominated the references to their careers, not surprising since Princess Leia and an energetic Reynolds hoofing alongside Gene Kelly and Donald O’Connor are iconic in popular culture. Coincidentally, both Fisher and Reynolds were 19 when hired to appear in their most famous roles. Common cultural consensus has deemed those roles significant in retrospect, but in the context of their lives, their most interesting work lay ahead of them.

While making the original trio of Star Wars movies, Fisher rewrote some of her own lines. The extent of her contributions has been exaggerated, but this experience marks the beginning of her career as a much-sought-after script doctor and a memoirist. Script doctors are uncredited writers often hired to add dimension to a character or punch up the dialogue with humor or distinction. This phase of her life was jumpstarted when Steven Spielberg hired her to rework the dialogue for Julia Roberts, who played Tinkerbell in Hook (1991). How much she contributed is known only to Spielberg, because she accepted another rewrite job before Hook was completed. Other films that took advantage of Fisher’s talent for witticisms included Sister Act (1992), where she was brought onboard at star Whoopi Goldberg’s request.

Fisher also doctored So I Married an Axe Murderer (1993), The Mirror Has Two Faces (1996) and The Out of Towners (1999), among many others. The only Adam Sandler comedy I can stomach is The Wedding Singer (1998). I wonder if it is because Fisher was hired to “write the girl’s part to make it balanced,” as quoted in Peter Sciretta’s wonderful overview of her script doctor career (http://www.slashfilm.com/carrie-fisher-script-doctor/). I was surprised to discover that Fisher contributed to several blockbuster action films, including Lethal Weapon 3 (1992) and the underrated Last Action Hero (1993) She was hired to give the mother/son relationship in that film some warmth and depth. As Sciretta quotes Fisher from an interview: “I write good love scenes and I write good women.” Perhaps Fisher’s legacy as the action-oriented, independent, smart-mouthed Princess Leia can also be found in the female characters she shaped while employed as a script doctor.

Though Singin’ in the Rain launched her to stardom, it was not really Debbie Reynolds’s movie. It belongs to Gene Kelly and Donald O’Connor. Instead, a series of romantic comedies produced during the 1950s constructed and cemented her star image as the spunky, resourceful heroine. Her domain was not the glamour, sexuality or sophistication of the other female archetypes of that decade; her characters won the hearts of the leading men with her youthful vitality and energetic spirit. Reynolds proved adept at physical comedy, and she could roll out a one-liner with the timing of a vaudevillian, then cap it off with a calculated expression or gesture. My favorite comedies from this era include The Mating Game (1959) and Susan Slept Here (1954). The latter stars Dick Powell as a middle-aged screenwriter who rescues and falls for Reynolds, a 17-year-old delinquent girl. Many of today’s cultural watchdogs, who don’t understand the way star image works, would likely be offended by the premise, but this romantic comedy by Frank Tashlin has a quirky charm.

However, I prefer the films in which Reynolds tweaks or bends her star image. In A Catered Affair (1956), a family drama by Paddy Chayefsky set in working-class New York, she costars as the daughter of Bette Davis and Ernest Borgnine. Her spunk and energy are contained by the gritty realism of the milieu, and the truth of her circumstances. In the raucous comedy Goodbye Charlie (1964), Reynolds stars as Tony Curtis’s best male friend, a skirt-chasing chauvinist who is reincarnated as a woman. Directed by Vincente Minnelli, Goodbye Charlie has been dismissed by film critics and historians alike. But, movies tossed into the dustbin of history sometimes offer unexpected moments of delight and discovery. Reynolds is genuinely funny playing a dirty dog of a man trapped inside a woman’s body. The film calls out certain masculine types and behaviors through Reynolds’ use of vocal inflections and stereotypical male gestures. Small wonder that male critics then and now are unusually harsh in their criticisms.

Reynolds had more skill and range than given credit as evidenced in her role in the Divorce American Style (1967), a comedy in which the funny moments reveal ideas about marriage that are not so funny. Reynolds and Dick Van Dyke play an upper middle-class couple whose 17-year marriage has become strained by boredom and familiarity and by their reliance on the creature comforts of suburban life. Van Dyke and Reynolds seem an odd pairing on the surface, but their skillful timing as comic performers serves a scene in which the two go into their bedroom and angrily prepare for bed. They slam drawers, slide closet doors back and forth, brush their teeth and hang up clothes with perfect precision and coordination—without uttering a word to each other. Through this display of domestic choreography, their broken marriage is distilled in one scene. Divorce American Style was influenced by the Italian films, Divorce, Italian Style (1962) and Marriage—Italian Style (1964). FilmStruck offers both Italian films for your streaming pleasure, though, sadly, Divorce American Style is not available. Here’s hoping FilmStruck will add the film because it reflects the era’s probing of the foibles and strengths of modern marriage.

The deaths of Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds turned out to be the final and most brutal blow in a year that seemed to take more than its share of cultural icons. Gene Wilder’s passing left a hole in the hearts of those who knew his comedies so well they can recite key lines (“It’s Franken-steen!). Prince and David Bowie were legends in the music industry, but both explored film as a medium of expression. Anyone growing up as a television junkie in the 1960s and 1970s felt a pang of sadness at the loss of Patty Duke (The Patty Duke Show), Hugh O’Brian (The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp), Dan Haggerty (Grizzly Adams), Abe Vigoda (Barney Miller), Doris Roberts (Soap; later, Everybody Loves Raymond), Florence Henderson (The Brady Bunch), Alan Thicke (Growing Pains), and Robert Vaughan (The Man from U.N.C.L.E.). Character actors who were beloved because they appeared in so many favorites will be missed, such as Alan Rickman, George Kennedy and Ken Howard. The most devastating loss in terms of historic significance were the directors who died in 2016: Jacques Rivette, Jan Nemec, Alexandre Astruc, Abbas Kiarostami, Hector Babenco, Andrzej Wajda, Guy Hamilton, Arthur Hiller, Etore Scola, Michael Cimino and Curtis Hanson. All of these names grace my film history texts.

Perhaps it is an exaggeration that 2016 took an unusually wicked toll on our artists and stars. But, I understand this sentiment because the passing of legendary figures creates a sense of loss not easily defined. Stars and their characters mean something to us: They symbolize an idea, value or ideal that is important to us– Princess Leia’s independence, Debbie Reynold’s spunky tenacity, Gene Wilder’s lovable eccentricity. In addition, their films or television shows are touchstones in our childhoods; we mourn the stars because their work made an impact on our lives. And, these touchstone moments unite us as a culture, as a group—no small feat in a country that is so divided by politics, race and class.

Susan Doll

24 Responses On the Passing of Stars
Posted By AL : January 2, 2017 2:40 am

Thanks again, Susan.
I thought I’d mention (again)that when I was 15 yrs old, I was the vice-president of “The Only Official Debbie Reynolds Fan Club”. Because of my exalted status Debbie invited me to spend the day with her at MGM. It was the last week of December 1955. She was shooting THE CATERED AFFAIR. I was met at the gate by her mom (Maxine), and as we began walking to the sound stage where Debbie was filming I told her how thrilled I was to be there and she said “Oh yeah? Well take a good look, Al, ’cause it’s all over but the funeral”.
She was shooting a very dramatic scene with mediocre NY actress Joan Camden, who just could not produce the real tears required for the scene. After 28 “takes”, Debbie took charge by gently recounting that she had the same problem in the final scene of SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN and that Gene Kelly had a tried-and-true solution: a piece of raw onion rubbed directly on the eyeball. Voila!It worked! Take 29 and off to lunch…
Debbie said “I know a shortcut” and led us into another sound stage where the Ballroom set was being assembled for THE SWAN. As we walked diagonally across the set, I recognized the magnificent floor–it had been created for the Wilkes foyer in GONE WITH THE WIND. It was constructed so that it could be disassembled–like puzzle pieces. It has been used in countless MGM films. I tread where Gable had tread!
We got to the commissary; we sat next to Mike Todd Who spoke to Deb about the New Years Eve party they were having with Liz. To the right, sitting together were Anne Francis and Jeffrey Hunter; next table Jeanne Crain–Deb took me all around and introduced me to every one of these Stars–and they ALL seemed to be there! Deb sat on Walter Pigeon’s lap while he signed my autograph book. The incredibly sultry Ann Sheridan said “Lemme get this straight: you’re the president of HER fan club and you want MY autograph?” Needless to say it all became a giddy, profound Blur. Imagine.
After lunch we went to another stage for Debbie’s next scene. As soon as we walked in the door I felt an intense “Presence”. I turned and locked eyeballs with a glaring, hostile, intimidating Bette Davis! She was the only person Deb did NOT introduce me to. She explained that they had a Hell of a time getting BD to allow my visit to this set.
anywayz: The scene was shot in ONE take–ala BD’s haughty decision. Then Eddie Fisher appeared and I had my picture taken with America’s Sweethearts! As they were leaving, Deb assigned a PR guy to be my Guide touring the Backlots, saying to him “Be sure and show Al the Tarzan lake”.
There’s more to be told about this Monumental experience but I’ll stop for now. This actually happened. I was 15 years old…

Posted By Susan Doll : January 2, 2017 9:46 am

Al: What an amazing experience. I am sure that, like me, all of the Streamliners readers are envious.

Posted By Doug : January 2, 2017 11:26 am

I’m grateful to Al for sharing, and I appreciate hearing of Fisher’s work as a writer/script doctor; she had a talent for expressing herself well in both the written word and acting.
I enjoyed “Goodbye Charlie” but had no idea that it was a Vincente Minnelli film-I thought it was more like a Blake Edwards effort-I checked IMDB and Edwards did cover the same ground in “Switch” with Ellen Barkin.
I appreciate Fisher’s seeking out off beat roles in her career-”Under The Rainbow”, “The Blues Brothers”, “Amazon Women on the Moon”-she could have played it safe and done only prestige
films, star studded dramas which garner Oscar noms…but I think that would have bored her.

Posted By lisa : January 2, 2017 11:35 am

Great piece centered on two great American female performers that will be greatly missed. I agree that the loss feels personal to us because of, not only, the characters DR and CF portrayed, but how we felt we knew them.
I also agree that The Wedding Singer is the best Sandler vehicle.
Al: What a rare and enviable experience! Sounds like you should write a memoir!

Posted By Steve Burrus : January 2, 2017 11:51 am

Sue I am sure/cer tain thatr most obituaries on Debbie Fisher only note her signature role of “Princess Leia” in the Star Wars movie trilogy but I think her many abilities as a writer were stronger talents than acting. And Al that was an amazing story of yours’!

Posted By Steve Burrus : January 2, 2017 11:58 am

Al just curious, did you see E rnest Borgnine anywhere on that set? A “pre-McHale’s Navy” Borgnine.

Posted By Cary : January 2, 2017 2:24 pm

Thanks so much for this wonderful piece! I especially appreciate your emphasis on Fisher’s oft-overlooked screenwriting talents. 2016 was rough. Here’s hoping for a happier 2017.

Posted By Donald : January 2, 2017 2:26 pm

Another Debbie Reynolds film worth checking out is “The Gazebo,” something of a comedy noir written by Carl Reiner. I “met” her at the press junket for “Mother.” She was “on” from the get-go. She breezed into the conference room for her a.m. roundtable interviews singing, “Good Morning,” and then with pitch-perfect timing, stopped herself and said, “Wait, we alredy made that movie.” She came fully-loaded with anecdotes and bits, no doubt, from her nightclub act, including jokes about her ex-husbands. After growing up with her films, from “The Rat Race” “My Six Loves” and “Molly Brown,” it was a thrill to bask in her Old Hollywood legend.

Posted By Lauren : January 2, 2017 2:58 pm

Now I know why I love The Wedding Singer, despite my hatred of Adam Sandler. As a Star Wars nerd, I always loved Leia’s sass and bravery. She was the only principal character who didn’t haul ass when things got tough, and who wasn’t afraid to look Vader in the face and give him guff. I also loved her performance in When Harry Met Sally. Debbie was a musical legend. They will both be missed. Thank you for this post.

Posted By LD : January 2, 2017 4:10 pm

Carrie and Debbie did an interview on Oprah 6 years ago. They sang a duet and Carrie’s voice was very impressive, inherited from both parents, no doubt. Both were intelligent and off the charts multi-talented. Thanks to all that have shared their memories.

Every year when TCM runs “TCM Remembers”, there is at least one person who has passed on that I didn’t have a clue about. This year it was Robert Vaughn. Now, all the Magnificent Seven (8 counting Wallach) are gone but never to be forgotten.

Posted By Kate : January 2, 2017 5:49 pm

A note of thanks for such good ‘inside skinny’ on Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds. We’ve been listening to interviews and just watched Wishful Drinking last night. What a talented family! A sad loss for all of us. Thank again for the great stories… what a treat.

Posted By Ed Husayko : January 2, 2017 6:40 pm

Great column Suzi Doll! Did you know Debbie Reynolds was almost cast as Judy in Rebel Without a Cause? I love Natalie Wood, but never cared for her in Rebel.

Posted By AL : January 2, 2017 7:48 pm

Susan, Steve, Doug, Lisa–thank you for your lovely responses to my recount. It was abbreviated–I always try to be concise. (I didn’t mention that I was also the vice-president of the Marlon Brando fan club and a member of the Piper Laurie fan club!).
LISA: Others have suggested that I write a Memoir. Now that I’ve segued from Old to Elderly, I realize more-and-more that I was Blessed with a very interesting life, a fact that I am very grateful for.
STEVE: alas, Borgnine wasn’t filming that day–but I’ll never forget how awed I was by his performance in MARTY, which I saw when it was first done on early LIVE TV! I was just a child, but he impressed the Hell out of me!

Posted By robbushblog : January 2, 2017 9:17 pm

What made this double-passing so sad and tragic was the suddenness of the two deaths – one right after the other. It is heartbreaking to hear how Debbie just wanted to be with her daughter and some 15 minutes later or so suffered a fatal stroke. I spent my New Year’s night watching each actress’s most iconic movie. It seems like practically yesterday that we saw the return of Princess Leia in THE FORCE AWAKENS. I’m almost certain that the box office grosses for ROGUE ONE might have been affected by Carrie’s death as well. 2016 was a rough year, but the double-loss of Debbie and Carrie was one heckuva double-whammy way to end it.

Posted By Sue Sue Applegate : January 2, 2017 10:03 pm

Lovely article, Susan Doll!
And thanks to Al for sharing his lovely story about Debbie Reynolds.

Posted By Maryann : January 3, 2017 3:54 am

My favorite Debbie films were when she was paired with Glenn Ford: The Gazebo and It Started With Kiss. They had great chemistry together.

Posted By kingrat : January 3, 2017 6:48 pm

Great article, Susan, and wonderful memories from AL.

For anyone not familiar with Robert Vaughn, his performance in THE YOUNG PHILADELPHIANS is outstanding. That’s a good way to get acquainted with his work.

Doris Roberts fans shouldn’t miss her brief turn as phony faith healer Dorelda Doremus (real name: Irma Perlmutter) in MARY HARTMAN, MARY HARTMAN.

Posted By AL : January 4, 2017 7:14 pm

Doris Roberts first blew-my-mind in A NEW LEAF.

Posted By Ruth Connell : January 5, 2017 3:13 am

I’ve been a fan of Debbie’s since I was a young girl. She has always been one of my all time favorite actresses. In your lineup of filims paying tribute to Debbie, Please remember the one with her signature song. Tammy And The Batchelor. Also a very good filim wich you have never played that I know of is Say One For Me.!

Posted By George : January 5, 2017 2:59 pm

Carrie Fisher is also in the next Star Wars movie, due Dec. 15, 2017. It will be her final film appearance.

Posted By George : January 5, 2017 3:07 pm

Rather, it will be Fisher’s last movie unless she’s resurrected via CGI, like Peter Cushing and Fisher’s 1977 self in ROGUE ONE.

Posted By KathleenSampley : January 15, 2017 3:57 pm

I whole heartedly agree with the performance of Robert Vaughn in the young Philadelphians to get an idea of how wonderful and actor he was. I believe that is my favorite role for him.

Posted By swac44 : January 18, 2017 8:09 pm

This post makes me want to revisit Postcards From the Edge, written by Fisher and directed by Mike Nichols, based on her semi-autobiographical novel, with Meryl Streep and Shirley MacLaine handling the daughter/mother dynamic. I remember watching it when it came out and wondering how much of it was pulled from real life. Obviously there’s some exaggeration, but I’m guessing there are also some revealed truths as well.

Posted By George : February 19, 2017 10:04 pm

Another one gone: film critic/documentary maker Richard Schickel, at 84.

His documentary series about directors, “The Men Who Made the Movies” (PBS 1973), turned me into a serious film buff in junior high.

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The coming free society will be rational; residents will live on the basis of reality and reason rather than myth. We will recognize government for what it is and therefore reject it on rational grounds; we will think in rational, economic terms predominantly. I can be sure of this, because a free society will not come into being until everyone does think predominantly in rational, economic terms; as long as society wallows in myth, it will not throw off the curse of government.

That said, will superstition play in it any part at all? Will there be any place for religion, for example? In my opinion, not much, but the very nature of freedom absolutely requires that everyone be left free to believe anything he wishes, be it ever so absurd. Perhaps that is one of the contradictions with which we shall have to grapple. But yes, of course there will be such a place. Perhaps it would be a cold and mechanistic society without it.

People will be free -- of course! -- to believe that the scientific method and all that it has brought mankind by way of medicine, knowledge, exploration, pleasure, culture, leisure and wealth in any of its multiple forms, is a curse to be discarded in favor of primitive living and a return to nature. Should they wish to act on that belief, good luck to them! Nobody has any business forcing them to conform to any beliefs but their own, any more than we have obligation to bail them out when their babies die for want of medical care, and they have no business forcing the rest of us to abandon our preference for civilization. They will need to acquire proper title to the land they want to occupy, but then they'll have a perfect right to be left in peace.

So I got to thinking, what would America have been like, if the European settlers had all been rational market anarchists? In particular, what would have happened to the "Indian" tribes that were occupying North America and living thus, close to Nature and completely unaware of any other way?

The encounter, and the four centuries that followed, is both monumental and tragic. When Leif Ericson stayed a while in Newfoundland, his party had a bad encounter with native Americans, who must have been scared and astonished, but they didn't stay. The great and apparently more friendly encounters were in or around 1497, by Cabot and Columbus.

This is of such significance I cannot find words adequate to describe it. If the timeline in Spencer Wells' Journey of Man is correct, these two branches of our species had not met for 30,000 years--yet there they were, face to face and knowing they were fundamentally alike. The much-overused term "awesome" hardly suffices for such an encounter. That long ago, migrants from Africa had parted company, one group continued Northeast towards Siberia and spent thousands of years living as herders with reindeer, eventually crossing into Alaska when the sea was frozen and moving into America, North and South. About 20,000 years earlier yet another group had made the same trip from the Pacific Rim. But those who turned West towards Europe found a kinder climate and became us, or most of us. Five centuries ago, descendants of those Westbound migrants met their Eastbound brethren. Talk about historic!

The skills developed by the veterans of Siberian ice were amazing, and they were honed by life in more recent millennia in America with its temperate seasons. No longer herders, they reverted to hunting and gathering, and of course knew very intimately how close was mankind to all the rest of nature. They had (and despite all that governments did to them, their descendants still have) an understanding of, and respect for, the natural world which modern man has forgotten. For one small example, I understand that when killing an animal for food, they apologize to it. Meaningless? Useless? Perhaps. But it seems to show more reverence for life than herding cattle into a mechanized slaughterhouse.

As nomads, they needed to make some decisions communally. Members could always leave and go solo, but if they stayed in the group, there were some matters with only a binary answer: Shall we strike camp and move today, or next week?, etc. The time-honored way to settle such questions was that of consensus. The "Chief" is a moderator, not a dictator. Decisions are made only when all agree. In this, they are far superior to all that European man developed, ever since history was first written down.

Some 20,000 years after that Great Division, somewhere between the Caspian and the Himalayas, the Westbound migrants discovered fixed agriculture--evidently, in or near what is now Lebanon. This discovery was the most significant of all human history, and you'll have noticed that it happened after the Eastbounders were long gone. They missed out on it. That's why they reached North America as hunter-gatherers, instead of as farmers. That's why those 400 years of interaction were so tragic. The difference was a fact, but the tragedy could and should have been avoided.

Very close in time to that discovery, 10,000 years ago, two other vastly important things took place: government was born, and writing began – see my “Origins" for remarks about the former. Once governments appeared, they didn't go away, and fixed-agricultural man has been awash in the blood they spilled ever since. Part of the wealth mankind produced extra to what was needed to live on (the "agricultural surplus") was stolen by them and used for nefarious purposes like pampering their leaders and making war on their rivals. That is the nature of government--but it results not from the surplus itself, but from the theft of the surplus. Mankind's problem for the last 10,000 years has not been that we got more civilized, but that we were cursed with government. As detailed in my Denial of Liberty, but for government we would have become far more civilized, very much faster.

Back, then, to our original question; How would European settlers of this continent have handled the "Indian" problem if they had been anarchists, if theirs had been a free society?

After a means of communication had been established, the matter of land ownership would have arisen. The newcomers wanted land, the natives apparently had land. So a deal could have been struck, for the newcomers had a few things the natives valued. However, the natives didn't have an understanding of land ownership! To them, the land was just "there," to be used by any and all who wished to hunt and gather, it was what we'd call a kind of "commons." Commons work fine, until the demand for grazing land exceeds the supply available. Then, there is chaos and discord, which can be resolved only by exclusive ownership--property rights. So the first lesson our landed anarchists would have had to teach the natives would have had to be the Tragedy of the Commons (without access, of course, to Hardin's 1968 essay) and the concept of ownership. But given a few patient years and good linguistic progress on all sides, the job would have been done, and bargains would have been struck. The price of land, once the natives understood that they would be excluded from what they sold to the settlers, might have been rather high, but it would have been paid. The natives, accordingly, would have gained wealth which they valued more than the land, the use of which they gave up. Such is the free-market subjective theory of value, without which wealth generation is not possible.

After a while--a few generations, possibly--I believe most natives would have found the bargains very satisfactory, and would have eagerly learned the science of fixed agriculture as fast as the European farmers were able to teach them. But if a few did not--if they preferred life on the open range so much they would not sell at any price--then, as we saw above, a free society would have left them in peace.

The process of communication and negotiation would have been repeated by new immigrants, as they arrived and pressed Westward, for "Indians" were of course not a single tribe but nearly 100, each with its own language. But since the immigrants would (by the premise here) all have been market anarchists, no force would have been used--only persuasion and exchange. Most importantly, there would have been no white man's government, to make treaties and then break them at will. The free, anarchist society would have operated a justice industry as effective in settling natives' grievances as much as those of the newcomers.

Accordingly, the tragedy--by which armed government agents herded and slaughtered native Americans like sheep, or worse--would not have taken place. There would still have been the tragedy of death from infection by diseases to which the natives had no immunity, but that was not then understood, so the Europeans cannot be blamed. There would have been no armed agents, no government, no deliberate slaughter, and no grievance the free-market courts could not have settled.

Some may feel this is optimistic, so I'll throw in another reason why I believe something like that would have replaced the actual, bloody history of the actual American Genocide: Native society is intrinsically anarchist, or close to it. The adjustments they would have had to make, in the four centuries after Columbus arrived, would have been relatively slight. Above, I noted that they were used to making group decisions only by consensus--so they were already at least halfway there. This may have been what drew Russell Means, who led the American Indian Movement's occupation at Wounded Knee in 1973, and who later occupied the Bureau of Indian Affairs in D.C., to seek the Libertarian Party's nomination for President in 1988. I met him at that convention in Seattle, and voted for him. What we needed most, I thought, was media exposure, and his flamboyant style was almost guaranteed to draw some. He was eloquent and did well—joking, for example, that when elected, he would establish a "Bureau of Caucasian Affairs"--but lost to Ron Paul, who got very little media attention. I knew Russell would have needed a crash course in free-market economics, but he was highly intelligent and willing to learn, and there were plenty ready to teach.

That's not to say I embrace the "Indian" worldview generally, or even understand it--I don't. (Take a look; do you?) It just says that there is a natural affinity between the "Indian" way of doing things and the anarchist way of people who have the advantage of 10,000 extra years of civilization. We anarchists stand for laissez faire: let us be, live and let live. So do they. We would have got along just fine.

Russell died this week, too young at 72, of cancer. Before going he promised that in the next life he will return as lightning: “When lightning zaps the White House, they'll know it's me.” Hurry back, friend.

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Jim Davies is a retired businessman in New Hampshire who led the development of an on-line school of liberty in 2006, and who wrote A Vision of Liberty" , "Transition to Liberty" and, in 2010, "Denial of Liberty" and "To FREEDOM from Fascism, America!" He started The Zero Government Blog in the same year.
In 2012 Jim launched http://TinyURL.com/QuitGov , to help lead government workers to an honest life.
In 2013 he wrote his fifth book, a concise and rational introduction to the Christian religion called "Which Church (if any)?" and in 2016, an unraveling of the great paradox of "income tax law" with "How Government Silenced Irwin Schiff."

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Jim:  Excellent -- one of your very best!  Indeed, Russell Means will be sorely missed.  Let's see that lightning soon...

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Thank you, Alex!

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I also thought this was an excellent essay, but the following did jump out at me:

"However, the natives didn't have an understanding of land ownership! To them, the land was just "there," to be used by any and all who wished to hunt and gather, it was what we'd call a kind of "commons." Commons work fine, until the demand for grazing land exceeds the supply available. Then, there is chaos and discord, which can be resolved only by exclusive ownership--property rights. So the first lesson our landed anarchists would have had to teach the natives would have had to be the Tragedy of the Commons (without access, of course, to Hardin's 1968 essay) and the concept of ownership. But given a few patient years and good linguistic progress on all sides, the job would have been done, and bargains would have been struck."

I don't see that the Europeans had the answer and needed to teach it to the Native Americans. If the Native Americans had flawed ideas of land ownership, so did the Europeans. I think the learning process would have been a two-way street and the end result would have been somewhere in the middle, where longer-term control of land would be tied to occupancy and use and not perpetual title and arbitrarily large claims. Unused land would come back into the commons and used land would become private only while being used. In this way the two systems could merge and coexist. The non-Native Americans on the planet still haven't incorporated much if any of the Native American common-sense understandings based on the very reasonable question "How can one own the Earth?" One has the right to control the parts of the Earth hs is occupying and utilizing and transforming into resources, but it is quite a(n il)logical leap to think one can actually own large swaths of the planet to the exclusion of everyone else based on… well, based on what, besides force?

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As things actually happened, Tzo, of course you're quite right; the incoming Europeans did not have the answer.

However my stated premise was "what would America have been like, if the European settlers had all been rational market anarchists?"

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I had a similar objection. If you read Rothbard's history, actually there was quite a lot of land buying (from Indians) that did work well (particularly, the Quakers). And the Indians did understand land ownership, though in a collective sense. For example, the Crow certainly did contest the Sioux taking over their hunting grounds. And while there may be some problems with collective ownership of land, there are problems with ALL forms of ownership of land. It's just up to people to deal intelligently with those problems, voluntarily.

"The coming free society will be rational; residents will live on the basis of reality and reason rather than myth."

This statement appears to be a myth itself. "The coming free society" sounds like a religious notion. There will never be such a thing. Societies cannot be free; only individuals can be, to varying degrees. And we have that already. I think there will never be a warm and fuzzy golden age as Molyneux posits; humans will always be as they are now, dominating or attempting to dominate others, or resisting or attempting to resist domination by others. The general scene can certainly get better or worse, but I think it's a mistake to look for some golden age. Humans ain't got it in them, and any attempt for it would inevitably turn into another tyranny.

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Sorry, Paul, I know that I am no doubt making you look bad, here at STR, but I had to give you a "Like this" once more. Honest, folks, we are not in collusion, it's Paul's fault, he keeps saying things that I agree with.

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Thanks for making it unmistakably clear, Paul: you and I are on radically different paths. I wish we could find common ground, for we do share much in common; but other STR members must recognize that with regard to the future of freedom, your present opinion and mine are irreconcilably opposed.
The phrase "the coming free society" I have often used, and intend to keep on using. It springs from a reasoned expectation that the government era will end, rather soon; not of its own volition of course, but from action that freedom seekers take. I have described one promising form of that action quite often, here in STRticles, for example this. You are evidently not taking that action; if all were to join you in that neglect, of course a free society will not result - the prophecy would be self-fulfilling.
I mean you no disrespect, for you are clearly sincere by your own light. But you have said in your own words, here: "there will never be such a thing. Societies cannot be free..." Paul, you are dead wrong.
If (arguendo) you were right, you'd be saying that freedom is incompatible with human nature. That is just what government people believe.  In fact, your comment says almost exactly that: "humans will always be as they are now, dominating or attempting to dominate others..." That being so, I am at a loss to understand what on Earth you are doing here, on Strike the Root.
A free society is one in which individuals can enjoy their natural right to freedom in actual practice, ie without the artificial, external constraint of government. It will follow the dissolution of its converse, a ruled society. That dissolution will follow a successful and completed striking of its root. That is, as I understand it, what members are supposed to be here for.
So please: lead, follow, or get out of the way.

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Well, I think you are at least somewhat misreading my post. After all, I did say "The general scene can certainly get better or worse." And it's usually worth pushing for "better", if you can find an effective way to do so.

I just think we will never get to the point where we can say, "Ah, the birdies are singing in the trees, the flowers are blooming, and we have achieved complete liberty. We never have to worry about it again!" There will be no garden of Eden, sorry. You will never be able to retire the old battle rifle or turn it into a plowshare. There will always be a struggle of some sort.

Your contention looks a bit like the "new Soviet man" that was expected to appear and signal the end result of communism. Nope, it won't be like that either.

To be honest, I wouldn't even like to achieve paradise on Earth. Humans need a struggle, just to remain human. Utopia has always seemed a bit creepy to me.

I'm not leading, following, or getting out of the way. I'm writing and doing as I please. If others get something out of it or dislike it, it's all the same to me. I have no use for "leaders".

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Good, Paul, those are some steps in the right direction. BTW by "Leader" I did not mean "Ruler." A leader is someone whom people choose to follow. The fact that one notorious ruler called himself a "Leader" (no, two - I forgot that Italian fellow) doesn't mean he was telling the truth. I feel sure I read somewhere recently that the etymologies of the two words are quite different.
Nor will struggle be absent from the coming free society; as far as the eye can see and the mind imagine, there will always be knowledge to prise loose, discoveries to make, dangers to overcome and construction to accomplish. Everest would still have been waiting to be climbed, even if government had never polluted the Earth ten millennia ago.
But struggle against fellow humans, yes; that will be vastly reduced because the primary cause of conflict - rulers - will be absent. How much will still occur is hard to guess, but since the motive to steal etc will be so much less, I would expect to see considerably less than the present measure of the kind of crime that does actual harm to real people. To guard against it, yes: guns will remain useful.
There's neither need nor expectation on my part of any change to human nature; just a removal of the prime cause of discord. You might care to look over my 2009 STRticle Human Nature, to check the extent, if any, of disagreement between us on that. There are also several chapters of my A Vision of Liberty shown on STR via TakeLifeBack.com/oto/p2.htm  Certainly, it includes singing birdies and blooming flowers, but its chapter on "Justice" for instance will confirm it is rooted in reality.
Another excellent portrayal of a free society is given in Wes Bertrand's Complete Liberty.

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Afterthought: while Human Nature is worth a read, there's a shorter way to reach the same conclusion, based as always on the self-ownership axiom.
Only three possibilities exist: humans are intrincically good, or evil, or capable of both.
The first of those is impossible because self-ownership rights are actually violated, by government mostly but also by individual aggressors.
The second is also impossible because a large majority of all the people we know almost never trample on others' self-ownership rights; even most government agents are kindly in their personal capacities.
So the truth is the third: humans are capable of doing both good and evil things. We can debate how the mix is composed; my take is that we are basically good but do evil things when holding power over other people. Hence, when the opportunity to hold such power is drastically reduced (government and its  agents are abolished) there remains only the exercise of personal power deliberately grabbed - ie, individual aggression.

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I watched the tribute to Russell Means from infowars.com on youtube yesterday and he made what I thought was an interesting point about the US Government's "land purchases" of Louisiana and Alaska.  What the Feds purchased was some land around New Orleans from Napoleon and 5 or so ports along the West Coast from the Tsar along with exclusive rights to negotiate with the Indians in those territories called Louisiana and Alaska.  I remember being taught in propaganda history class in the government schools how great these land deals were, even explaining how many pennies per acre they went for.  That a third party could sell someone else's home is a bizarre understanding of property rights, yet rarely challenged by "advanced peoples"; all the while blaming any disputes over this arrangement on the "ignorant savages".
The idea of open ranges and equal access to watering holes was also common among early settlers that was changed by politically connected "land barons" and the invention of barbed wire.  So I don't think that this would have been too difficult for the different cultures to work out.
I liked your mention of the invention of writing in this context.  It made me wonder if maybe that was a mixed blessing as the tradition of customary and natural law wasn't almost immediately undermined by the elite who started writing down "The Law" and thus became the first "Lawmakers".

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I don't think you can discuss the American Indian without seeing the Gestalt of the Indian Nations. Some were blood letters, capturing eachother making them slaves. They also were a violent people just as the European. How can you focus only on a select part without observing the whole system. What would it have been like? Probably just like it is not. Screwed up. Greed has a massive grip on all nations. Note. This is an observation and not a criticism.

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Good point, Glock; perfection is elusive.
Not sure though that evil has its root in "nations" - though it's there that it gets ugliest. Seems to me to come from any situation where A is handed power over B. I explored the subject in the context of the Russian Revolution, here.

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Greed has a massive grip on most individuals, not all nations, my friend. And, we cannot paint all American Indians with the same brush, just as we cannot paint all Europeans, or all Americans, or all U.S. citizens, with the same brush.

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Take a look at this. Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary, 11th Edition says: "See greed defined for kids »"

    Student Dictionary

    Main Entry: greed
    Function: noun
    : selfish desire for food, money, or possessions over and above one's needs

Now, my question boils down to, "Who gets to decide what you, and I, need?" Need is defined by the authors of the Macmillan Dictionary as, "verb▸if you need something, you must have it because it is necessary". I agree.

That means what we NEED is enough air, water, food and shelter (includes clothing) to maintain life; anything beyond that is WANT, which is synonymous with "greed", according to above dictionaries.

Therefore, using this yardstick, you [Glock27] are absolutely right, every man, woman and child on planet Earth is greedy.

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Greetings Suverans 2
I think basically all human beings are inflicted with a degree of greed; it’s like Dexter’s “Dark Rider”, it arises when the need arises, although greed can be tinny up to being huge. Tinny means having dinner at a friend’s house and you maybe eat a little bit more than you should according to the rules of etiquette, or we keep the ink pen from work—you know, the simple little thing we know we shouldn’t do but we know no one will ever notice. I don’t believe I have to elaborate on the huge ones or the ones in-between. Every word, every idea, every philosophy every everything has some wiggle room.
Human beings are not perfect creations, that’s why it puzzles me as to why God would hand over his ideology into the hands of such fallible creature as man. A force which creates an entire universe with the aide of no one suddenly needs the help of pathetic creatures as man to write down the words he wants mankind to comprehend and obey. It is my understanding that God quit communicating with man over 4000 years ago. Did man bore him to death and It just walked away. There’s more to this than what’s being provided. The other question is; did God really even talk to man to begin with? Well. That’s it in a nut shell I guess. More than what you wanted to read, I’m sure

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P.S. Suverans2
I don’t need salt on my hamburger, but it sure makes it taste better; I don’t need and nor do I need seven hand guns and four long rifles nor do I need to attend a combat firearms class to get an enhanced CPL permit that lets me carry where I cannot presently carry. I do this for safety of myself, wife, grandchildren, and other people whom I believe I have a moral and ethical obligation to. Need is more subjective than it is objective. Do NFL quarterbacks need to make the money they do. I think they have a right to obtain as much as they can. It’s like other businesses. I just bought a book for $30.00. I didn’t need it but I wanted it because I try to hunt deer and this guy is a Natural Biologist who has studied deer and their lives for 30 years. He knows more about deer than many people do and the book is a first edition. Other dealers were selling the book for $60.00 to $130, $140. Maybe I can convince my wife I needed it, but she will disagree, so need is subjective rather than objective. Need is an individual thing Ergo. The end. Oh! What's it have to do with Strike the Root?

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Enjoyed that Jim, thanks. As I read, I thought of the scene with Josey Wales and Ten Bears agreeing to live with one another in the movie "The Outlaw Josey Wales."

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There's a very interesting interview about Russell Means out today on LRC, with Doug Casey.

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Yes it was interesting. I know nothing about Russell but he sounds like my kind of guy. Man of action. Wish I had that kind of energy remaining in my deterioating idea.

The maggot is truely an organism that is constantly on the hunt with its mush heads to dig up more artificial, unnecessary, corrupt, non-authentic, disingenuious , anal idea to continue to smother anyones efforts at trying to be a free, independnt, self-owning person. The idea of the Indian reservations becoming business centers of the U.S. is a brilliant, genius idea and I am certain that there is someone out there in the world whom can get this idea through their heads. Once this happend the states would pee their paints and do everything in their power to become like the reservations., r do something to stop them from achieving the goals. Here in Michigan it took a hell of an effort to get a cacino developed in Detroit. There are clearly ways and means to accomplish this.

Someone needs to work on a plan to get rid of the BIA, Ira, BTAFE. DEPT OF EDUCATION,AND ETC. There must be ways of doing this. Politiclly I am weak and lack any knowledge.

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The plan is already in place, Glock. The BIA, DEA etc etc will collapse like punctured balloons the day nobody will work for them any longer. Read E-Day and cheer up!

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Cheers Jim

You never noted my comparison of Uncle to Jabba the Hutt of star wars. There is no government, just one big fat maggot leading all the mush for brains legislators and other menions around by their noses telling them what to say. An artcle you wrote I agreed to because you were beginning to sound like a preacher ready to hit the road for a revival. I am all for that. Finding ways to infect Jabba with a virus that will make all the mush heads useless. (especially since revivals were emotional and playing on the heart strings of the masses--it's just a matter of finding the preachers because all the jabber jabber here is not really going anywhere. It does give me a place to have a little fun and vent a bit.)
My point was streatching to attack Jabba since it is not a person then the self-ownership does not exist or apply for Jabba and the maggot has no rights natural or otherwise. I believe Ron Paul and Rand Paul (RINO) libertarian in disguise as a republican, are wrecking all the havoc they can on the maggot and its minions. They are the virus I am talking about. Despite Pugsleys admonition against H.B. to not get involved I think he did exactly as he knew he needed to do.
So now, would not sabatoge be proper since the maggot has no self-ownership and is void of the Natural Rights and Natural Laws. That's the picture I am getting. Yes, the maggot would twist his little tail, suck on his water pipe and puff out some silly, nonsensical, moronic order to go quell the unwashed masses, especially the preachers. I have a strong feeling that you have the cloth for this endeavor.

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Cheers Jim,

I think you have followed the rabbit down the rabbit hole on E-Day. Before this can happen you are going to have to hold an old fashioned revivle to prepare the people for the coming E-Day. I do not believe we will see a WWIII but rather a "Road Warrior" Scene and Jabba the Hutt will wiggle Its little tail, suck on Its water pipe (hooka) and puff out orders to his military structure to come and shut up all the preachers first and indefinitely inter all members of the revivals into the FEMA camps. Jabba teh Hutt must be infected with a virus internally before it falls. A start is needed and you can be the leading preacher at the revivals. lol

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Russell had balls. Giant ones.


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Usually we show you handmade String Art projects made on a board or framed. Sometimes, we also bring you DIY String Art nailed on the wall. A house or a shop or café wall. However, today we want to show you a wonderful piece of art, a on-site installation made with strings and threads nailed on reinforced concreted walls.

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This is Prism, an installation made by the artist Ines Esnal and brings a colorful and and optical illusion to the lobby of a residential building at 205 Water Street, Dumbo (Brooklyn, New York).

Here you could see more images by Cameron R Neilson.

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Have you enjoyed it? Maybe it’s a big project to make by yourself, but we encourage you to take the basic idea of this installation and make something similar on a wall in your home, on a living-room roof corner or maybe in your porch or balcony.

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Monday, August 27, 2012

Prep for Stem Cells

Liam's frozen stem cells are just sitting here frozen in a tank. This is all crazy foreign to me!

They are loading Liam up with medications now, he's pretty dozy from them. They said many kids do get nauseous, they have given him more anti-nausea medicine than he's ever had all at once before. He's  suspicious about what is going on, so he's hugging onto teddy and being very quiet. We thought Liam was sleeping until Troy tried to turn off the volume of the tv and he up and yelled "Dad!".

Try explaining a stem cell rescue to a 4 year old, I can hardly understand it myself. They are giving you stem cells, to make you feel better, but the stem cells might make you feel sick, um, ok

They don't thaw the stem cells until the very last minute. When they give the stem cells to him, it's done through his central line, like a blood transfusion, and only takes a few minutes. It's all the prep and checks that take time.

If you want to read more, this link is to the Mayo website. In Liam's case, the chemo has killed off all his stem cells. Stem Cell Rescue

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Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Conan O'Brien rejects moving 'The Tonight Show'

LOS ANGELES – Conan O'Brien says he's rejecting NBC's attempt to move "The Tonight Show" to a post-midnight slot to accommodate Jay Leno's return to late-night. In a statement Tuesday, O'Brien says that NBC has given him a scant seven months to try to establish himself as host of "Tonight."

NBC wants to move "The Jay Leno Show" out of prime-time and to the 11:35 p.m. EST daily slot, bumping "Tonight" to 12:05 p.m. EST.

O'Brien said he hoped he and NBC could resolve the issue quickly so he could do a show of which he and his crew could be proud — "for a company that values our work" — raising the possibility he might go to another network. But he said he has no such offer.

This whole thing is a mess. Everything was fine until NBC tried to please both parties. They should have let Leno stay on at The Tonight Show where he was kicking the shit out of Letterman in the ratings game. They did the dumbest thing firing Jay, and now Letterman is head to head with Conan the clown. Leno is the one that brings in the viewers, so they should fire Conan and put Leno back where he belongs. I’m not a big fan of late night TV, but if I do watch it, I watch Leno, not Letterman or Conan.

Now they’ll probably stick Leno behind Conan. It seems they’re doing everything to please the Clown and not the veteran. In my opinion anyway, NBC doesn’t have much to offer, and if they get rid of Leno, they won’t have anything worth watching.

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Jabong brightens up Diwali with chance to win iPhones, iPads, DSLRs, TVs, international holidays and more

India’s leading online fashion e-retailer expects festive sales to double this season New Delhi, Oct. 26, 2015: This Diwali, India’s lea...

India’s leading online fashion e-retailer expects festive sales to double this season

New Delhi, Oct. 26, 2015: This Diwali, India’s leading online fashion retailer Jabong is giving away Apple iPhones, iPads, TV sets and DSLRs among a host of other prizes during the Jabong Super Style Fest, slated from October 27 to November 8, 2015.

 Elaborating on offers this Diwali, Jabong’s Interim CEO and Group CFO of Global Fashion Group, Mr. Nils Chrestin, said, “Besides a whole lot of deals on our super-stylish apparel, footwear, jewellery and accessories, Jabong is making this Diwali special by giving its customers a chance to win a plethora of amazing daily and weekly prizes ranging from travel vouchers to attractive cash backs, as well as a chance to win iPhones, iPads, television set and DSLR cameras. As grand prize, Jabong is also offering five lucky couples international holiday packages.”

 On November 9, Jabong ( http://www.jabong.com ) is also planning a big bang on Dhanteras by giving away 101 prizes to mark the auspicious number in Indian tradition. The Jabong Super Style Fest will be supported with a 360-degree marketing campaign, and the fashion e-retailer expects sales to double this Diwali.

 “Our Diwali fest also comes at an opportune time when our Indian consumers enter the holiday and the wedding season. So we have also launched our Formals store, where buyers can choose from a wide variety of latest trends, styles and ways to wear formals across occasions. Our chic and trendy collections cater to all age groups,” Mr Chrestin added.

 During the Durga Puja festivities, Jabong registered a jump of 150% in its ethnic and casual wear categories in eastern India. Earlier, Jabong witnessed a 300% surge in sales within a month of launching British high-street fashion brands TOPSHOP and TOPMAN. Its latest Autumn Winter collection of Alia Bhatt for Jabong has also witnessed a phenomenal success in recent months. Recently, between October 22 and October 24, Jabong also brought back its Super Weekend, which offered customers its Bestseller inventory of international labels like Vero Moda, ONLY and Jack & Jones from 15000 product catalogues and over three lakh pieces.

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Jabong is one of the five fashion ecommerce companies operating within Global Fashion Group (GFG), the world’s leading fashion group for emerging markets that operates in 28 countries. As India’s leading online fashion destination, Jabong is a one-stop shop that offers footwear, apparel, jewellery and accessories to meet the fashion needs of the style conscious men, women and kids. From home grown to exclusive international brands to designer labels, Jabong brings to its customers the latest trends across the globe. Jabong has launched several leading global fashion brands in the Indian market including TOPSHOP, TOPMAN, Dorothy Perkins, Miss Selfridge, River Island, Sisters' Point, Burton, G Star Raw, Miss Bennett London, Tom Tailor and Bugatti Shoes. Jabong offers prompt and efficient customer service through innovative features like Favshop, Shop the Look and Ask a Friend apart from services like express delivery, 15-days return policy, and open box delivery. Its “Be You” ad campaign highlights individuality and emphasises the freedom to be a leader and follow own sense of style. Jabong was voted as the leading consumer brand among all online fashion retailers in India according to a July 2015 report by Nielsen.

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Cure Blackheads with Honey and Flour

Blackheads are unpleasant, when are clearly visible on your nose, especially if there is a lot of them. Is there anything you can do about this issue? The answer is positive, so read further and find out what you have to do! There are numerous cheap and fast ways to get rid of blackheads on your nose, without the need of being afraid of the chemicals or harmful substances in cosmetic products. Practically, you can choose from a number of home remedies, but we have chosen the best one from the long list: the mixture of flour and honey.

This home remedy based on flour and honey for blackhead elimination purposes is prepared in the form of mask. But before talking about the way to prepare it, it is important to keep in mind that preventing blackheads’ appearance is a lot easier, unlike their elimination. This is the reason why you need to know the reason why blackheads appear on your nose, not only their treatment. And if there is anything you can do about the cause(s), take action!

All you have to do is apply the prepared mask on your clean face (remember, it is crucial that prior to mask application, your face is clean!) because it will enter your pores, open them and eliminate blackheads. The mask will be washed off your face with warm water. This honey and flour-based mask will also eliminate deposited fat on your nose.

Can honey help you get rid of blackheads?
Let us now take a look at what honey can do, and if it can really help you eliminate unwanted blackheads from your nose. Honey is like a natural antibiotic and helps in the elimination of dirt from the facial skin, by opening the pores. This is how it plays a significant role in eliminating blackheads as well. Honey is important for hydrating and tightening the pores.
Not all of the blackheads are deeply deposited into your facial skin. Some of them may only be on the surface, but honey can easily peel this dirt as well, resulting in blackhead elimination. It moisturizes and nourishes the skin, so that the skin can maintain its natural shine as much as possible.
Honey is well-known for its antibacterial, antiseptic and antioxidant properties as well. These properties are all responsible for killing unwanted germs, including visible blackheads on your nose.

How to prepare and use honey and flour-based mask for blackhead elimination?
For preparing this mask you will need:
â€¢ 1 tablespoon of flour;
â€¢ Â½ teaspoon of honey
â€¢ and 1 teaspoon of warm water.

Mix all three ingredients and if needed, you can add more warm water. Thus, you will obtain a sticky mixture. Once done, you need to apply the mask on your face and leave it until it gets partially or totally dry. Ideally, the mask will become dry in 10 minutes. Finally, you wash down the mask from your face with warm water.

Tips and precautions
â€¢ It is important that you initially test the prepared mask on a portion of your skin, before applying the mask on your whole face. If you don’t suffer from any facial irritation or infection, or don’t encounter any side effects, like skin burning or excessive dryness, you may proceed with applying the mask on your entire face.
â€¢ In terms of honey, it is important that you always use organic and pure honey, so that you prevent skin irritations. If you want to achieve the best results, sticky and thick honey is the key.
â€¢ It is also important to keep in mind that the best honey has anti-microbial properties.

If you respect these tips, precautions and indications to prepare and use the flour and honey-based mask, you will definitely be very happy about your final results!

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What one should expect at a hen party

Before people get started with life drawing or even attend a hen party life drawing session, there are so many questions they ask themselves about the whole process. As far as hen parties are concerned, the most important thing is to understand the basics or know what to expect. Basically, in most hen parties, one should expect a naked person. The person may either be a male or female model and their age will range from 20 years to 65 years. Since a hen party is mostly about drawing, the male or female model may pose naked at the center of the room.
The artists on the other hand will be sitting or standing in a circle surrounding the model. Most artists in hen parties carry sketch pads and easels among many other drawing materials. The atmosphere in the room is always tranquil and quiet and the artists will be chilled out with many hen do ideas hitting their minds. Typically, classes start with warm poses for a period of 30 minutes. For new artists and the rest, they will start by practicing with some quick poses. It is actually the model who makes those poses and will hold poses for about 5 minutes. During the 5-minute pose period, an artist must do a quick sketch of the model.
The poses will get longer and can last up to one hour. The model may be allowed to hold difficult poses and these are held for just 5 minutes. Where a model is required to do a long, difficult pose, the model will either sit or lie down. Although hen parties are more about drawing naked male or female models, there are also many hen do games the artists perform after drawing. One should also expect a teacher at the hen party. The teacher is there to help artists with any difficulties they may be facing.

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Helping Teachers Make a Difference in the Lives of Their Students

The Less-Stressful Evaluation – Standard 3: Know Your Stuff

Hello again,

I’m continuing the in my series of the Less Stressful Evaluation:

Here we go with State Standard for Teachers number 3: Understanding and Organizing Subject Matter for Student Learning

Here are the subcategories:

3.1 Demonstrating knowledge of subject matter, academic content standards, and curriculum frameworks.

Just know your stuff. Find out what standards have to be learned by the students and make sure your lesson plans are pointing in that direction. When I first started, there were no state standards, or at least they weren’t as important as they are now. I had to ask my principal, “What am I supposed to teach?” Times have changed a lot since then. I’m glad.

3.2 Applying knowledge of student development and proficiencies to ensure student understanding of subject matter

Find out about how your students learn. Not all students learn the same way. This is what they teach you in college. Use that information to design your lessons, so you can reach more of your students. Some students in your class have learning disabilities. Make sure you can identify them and give them the necessary support to ensure that they have access to the content.

3. 3 Organizing curriculum to facilitate student understanding of the subject matter

Just don’t wing it. This standard keeps teachers from just showing up without a lesson plan. There are teachers out there, believe it or not, who don’t lesson plan. They come into class, and tell the students, “Read pages 50-53 in your book; do the questions in the back, and don’t bother me.” This is a sub plan, not a lesson plan for a teacher who wants to make their class in any way remarkable.

3.4 Utilizing instructional strategies that are appropriate to the subject matter

You can’t teach a history lesson the same way you teach a math lesson. In history class, you can make use of stories to get your message across. In math, you may need to use a lot of guided practice. This standard just tells the teacher to modify their instructional strategies to match the content. This is an easy one.

3.5 Using and adapting resources, technologies, and standards-aligned instructional materials, including adopted materials, to make subject matter accessible to all students

I think the key word here is “adapting.” As teachers, we are all given the basic resources – textbooks, overhead projectors, LCD projectors, computers, workbooks, etc. You as a teacher have to evaluate which resource is going to work best for your students. Try to use as many different resources as you can, and then you can determine which resources work best in getting your subject matter across.

3.6 Addressing the needs of English learners and students with special needs to provide equitable access to the content

This is one that is close to my heart. I have a close connection with students who are English learners and students with special needs. More and more, as school budgets continue shrinking, these students will be included in the general education classes. They won’t be pulled out of your rooms and placed in specialized classes anymore. It will be the responsibility of the teacher to make their lessons accessible to all students, including these students with special needs. I have to admit, it makes it a little difficult to teach a class with different learning levels, but again, I never said teaching was easy. Often times, you’ll have an aide who will provide extra support to these students, but sometimes you won’t. Your lesson plan has to have a component that addresses the needs of these students. Does that mean that you water down the lesson? No. You just teach it in a way that is easier to access. There are many techniques that you can use to do this. What are these techniques, Sam?

That’s for another post.

Next time we’ll talk about standard number 4: Planning Instruction and Designing Learning Experiences for All Students.

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Monthly Archives: June 2015
Ranch Dressing Themed Resturant to Open in St. Louis

Everyone in America loves ranch dressing, at least that is what Jim Hayden is hoping. Hayden will open an all-ranch dressing eatery in St. Louis at the end of this month. The restaurant, aptly named Twisted RAnCH, will add ranch flavorings to some of the most iconic dishes from around the world. They will also be serving up a plethora of in-house made ranch dressings, including a teriyaki take on the quintessential salad liquid.

Entrees will also get a healthy dose of the tangy salad dressing, and the bar will also have ranch dressing on tap. While ranch is certainly a perfectly acceptable choice for salads, whether or not it will translate to an entire menu remains to be seen. The eatery will be the first of its kind, but it does have plenty of predecessors in the food “themed” restaurant categories.

Guy Fieri, for example, opened a series of eateries called Johnny Garlic’s, YouTube had a video that a food establishment focused on infusing garlic in everything from its french fries to its steaks, and its desserts. The owner of the ranch-loving restaurant, is banking on nation’s fondness for the creamy salad dressing, and their love of good food, for the business’ success.

What Does it Mean to Officially Ban Trans Fat

Trans fat has been in the news for over a decade with scientists and food experts trying to decide how dangerous it really is for human consumption. Finally, the FDA announced that they declare it a threat to public health. Conscientious companies have already begun removing trans fats from their products, but the official deadline is June 2018.

New York placed a ban in 2006 followed by California in 2008, and since 2003 the Center for Disease Control and Prevention has found a decrease of usage up to 80 percent leaving 20 percent still including trans fats in their products.

Since 2006, trans fat has also been required to be listed on the labels of all foods, so it is still smart to check the labels when buying food. Food lovers at Boraie Development have learned that there are six foods are prime candidates for containing partially hydrogenated oils, the primary sources of trans fats.

1. Frozen pizza
2. Savory snacks such as crackers and microwave popcorn
3. Canned frosting
4. Packaged pie
5. Coffee creamer
6. Margarine

Trans fats became popular in the 1940s when people were concerned about saturated fats, but the steep drop in cholesterol since 2003 reveals how dangerous it is to consume trans fats. The FDA includes palm oil in the ban because of its similar properties especially the ability to clog arteries.

The genius of Bernardo Chua

Bernardo “Bernie” Chua is not your average business person. He is much more than that. The talents and skills that he has have helped make him a very wealth individual and an inspiring figure to many.

Bernardo Chua (follow on twitter: @ogbernie) found a way to better distribute products from Organo Gold. These products include things such as coffee, tea, soap, toothpaste, and other health aids and are featured on Chua’s Organo Gold Blog. The products are adored by people all around the world, but not everyone had access to them until Chua came along with his better ways of getting those products delivered to the masses.

Currently, there are 13 countries that this business is open to. These include the United States, Canada, Germany, the UK, and Mexico. Linkedin shows that many of the largest markets in the world are open for business with Organo Gold, and this is part of what has helped it scale up its growth in a big way.

It is estimated by ZoomInfo that by this year there will be some one million distributors of the Organo Gold products and that revenue from those sales could reach $800 million. That is up considerably from the $35 million in revenue that was generated in 2010. In those five short years word has spread about the company and Bernardo Chua and has helped it to sharpen its image and its pitch to consumers. It has meant that more people can now take part in the great products offered by the company, and the people are loving it.

Those who want to make some money for themselves have the option to take part in the company’s compensation program. By doing so, these individuals will be getting their own piece in the success of the company. It is not too often that one may find a company that wishes to share in its successes in such a way, but this is the case with Organo Gold.

There are a total of seven different ways that one can get into the business of Organo Gold and follow in the vision of Bernardo Chua. Some of these are as simple as recruiting other members into the fold. When one does this, they are actually earning a little for those efforts as well. There is no better feeling than that. Everyone likes it when they are rewarded for their efforts, and this is a simple and straightforward way to make that happen.

Organo Gold is changing lives, and it can change yours if you let it. Watch Bernardo Chua explain the benefits in this youtube video below.

Pizza Hut’s new Hot Dog Stuffed Pizza

Starting June 18, Pizza Hut is serving their new hot-dog stuffed pizza in the U.S. Pizza Hut’s new pie will offer a crust that doubles as a hot dog. It has been around for eight years but not in the US. It was first offered in South Korea, then the UK and lastly to Canada. Now we can enjoy this new but odd treat. This news release was recently reported at

The Pizza comes with mustard or ketchup dribbled on the crust said Gravity4. Or served as a dipping sauce. The outside stuffed crust is not cheese but hot dogs circling the pie. This may become a big hit with the younger pizza lovers. It is perfect to serve after a ball game or birthday parties.

I will give it a try and I am sure it will be a hit with the kids. I’ll reserve my opinion until after my taste test. If its a hit in other countries it surly will be a hit here.

Qnet: Envisioning Your Success

QNet is a company that markets a variety of products through their network of distributors. The company has been in business since 1998 and that means it’s a solid enterprise. When it comes to credibility, Qnet has an established history of ensuring customer satisfaction and well being of their distributors. Credibility of a company is very important, and the company is legally registered. The company maintains more than 25 offices worldwide and has sales representatives in more than 100 countries. Qnet is considered one of the top direct marketing companies in Asia.

As a Network Marketing company, Qnet has a large group of independent distributors promoting and marketing their products to the consumers and sharing the profits with the distributors. That is how Qnet survives and independent distributors earn an income. It is important to keep in mind that not all products sell well for the same distributors. The products they promote are Health and Wellness Products, Vacation and Holiday packages, Gold and Silver numismatics, Collectible items like watches, rare coins, jewelry, Telecommunication services, and Education products.

Through their direct selling method, Qnet is able to provide effective training, business skills development and jobs to developing countries where jobs are scarce. The direct selling model has been designed to teach people who have no business knowledge the proper skills and attitudes that are necessary for regular employment. Although gender does not exist in the direct selling business model, network marketing is a great option for women. Sales representatives are rewarded according to their effort, and many earn a substantial income. Independent sales representatives enjoy great compensations and the flexibility of time Qnet offers.

To start join QNET, you need to purchase their start-up package and follow the instructions as outlined in their information guide. Once the first step is completed, you become an independent sales representative, also referred to as a distributor. Once you have become a distributor, the company assigns you a virtual office, and you are free to market the various products they offer and run your business.

Qnet is a reliable network marketing company that provides the necessary tools and training to help their distributors succeed. But before you submit your application or enrollment form, you still need to make sure that you understand what they are offering. It is always advisable to read these instructions carefully to ensure that you understand the terms and conditions, and what is expected of you.

NBC Now Has A Sports Bar

By now almost everyone has heard of the grandiose ESPN bars that are all around the country, and now it seems that another TV station is making their own bar and grill. The NBC Bar and Grill is opening in Orlando, Florida right outside the Universal Studios resort near where my buddy Jaime Garcia Dias lives. According to an article found on reddit and written by, the sports bar will have over 100 beers available for customers to have and it will also kettle cook all of their food. This will make things interesting, as there also will be dozens of very large screen televisions for people to watch their favorite sporting events at. The ESPN bar which is in Anaheim right outside of the Disneyland Resort is always packed, no matter what day of the week it is or what time of year.

This could be good for NBC, because not only does it promote a place where people can gather to eat, drink, and watch sports, but it also makes their company look appealing and it is a great way to advertise too. For example, people who have a great experience at this bar may remember that next time they are flipping through channels on the television and are deciding which station to watch the latest game on. Way to go NBC, and next time I am in the Orlando area I will surely check out this new grill.

Chefs Are Banding Together to Take Striped Bass Off Menus

Overfishing has been a concern of environmentalists for decades, and they have targeted both consumers and fishermen to stop buying, selling, and eating fish that are in danger of becoming extinct as per the Skout app. This latest push to help save an endangered fish is coming from a somewhat unusual source, New York City chefs.

Chef Kerry Heffernan, whose most recent restaurant is Grand Banks is leading the movement to convince his fellow chefs to stop serving striped bass at their restaurants. Catches of the striped bass are down 85% by both recreational and commercial fisheries. Reproduction is also down significantly, putting this majestic creature in danger of becoming extinct if something is not done to preserve it. Heffernan says that he realized something needed to be done when he was able to win the Manhattan Cup, a New York City inshore catch-and-release fishing tournament with a relatively small 18-inch striped bass in the fly fishing devision. He has long been an advocate of conservation and decided it was time to do something about the fish.

Along with several other chefs in the New York area, including Tom Colicchio, Floyd Cardoz, Harold Dieterle,and Dave Pasternack, Heffernan has taken striped bass off his menu and has replaced it with similar fish that are in less danger of going extinct. He has also started a campaign to create awareness of the problem, and is using the hashtag #saveourstripers on social media.


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UI7 ▾ Version 7.0.6 (1.7.569/1.7.1089) ▾ April. 14, 2015

Last Updated: Apr 14, 2015 04:13PM PDT
Release Notes – Vera UI7 - Version 7.06
Build: 1.7.569 (VeraLite & Vera3)
Build: 1.7.1089 (VeraEdge)
New Feature
H.264 Support for fluid video playback
1-Way Audio for Vera VistaCams
The camera presets are in UI7
Device integration
Linear LB60Z-1 - Light Bulb Integration
WO15Z-1 - In Wall Receptacle Integration
Express Controls EzMultiPli Integration
WS15Z-1 - In Wall 15a Light Switch Integration
WD500Z-1 - In Wall 500 watt Dimmer integration
WD1000Z-1 - In Wall 1000 watt Dimmer Integration
Nest Thermostat support (plugin & wizard)
"Add User" button should be restricted for Advanced Users
"AM/PM" not displayed correctly in "Add Scene" - Nexus tablet
"Auto" mode for thermostats
"Cameras" menu shouldn't be restricted for users : "Basic User"
"Every X seconds" missing from Schedule Interval
"Generic Device" can be selected in "Step 2: Device Actions"
"Show password" in section "Change camera current username/password to" doesn't have any functionality
"Undefined" displayed in popup when store USB logs enabled
(Customer issue) - UI7 Advanced Variables display issues
(Customer issue) Cannot turn blinking led from Viscam PT
(Customer Issue) Change category type for Linear Garage door opener
(Customer issue) Devices with more than one slider
(Customer Issue) NaN in command for thermostats for Secure SRT321 thermostat
(Customer Issue) Secure SRT321 thermostat cannot be controlled from UI7
(Customer Issue) The switch between the units doesn't work properly remotely
(Customer Issue) Device options configuration parameters constant pop-up messages
(Customer Issue) LuaUPnP flooded with sunrise/sunset messages
(FORUM REPORTED) Cannot open device simulator
*Quota limit reached* email received after 21 emails even though Notification limit is set to 0
386_Modify_room for one element of 3en1 don't involve for the others
406_Pb_Wifi_Parameter display
458_ paired devices display with unknown name
470_impossible to play a movie with Chrome 39 and IE11
479_keypad_add_user - Bad confirmation popup when adding user
490_Wizard -install_Siren_The button Quitter is present on step1-2-3
491_Wizard_install_Sirene_the menu_Reset_Usine is absent
513_Error_Message when user filled Validation Code even it is correct
523_Pb_ Installation wizard for supported devices
524_chevron buttonon Red House card does not return the list of warnings of x devices
525_Pb_install_HAB_Spinner displays, no accces to HAB.
526 - Siren installation wizard - Bad icon in Step 3
528_keypad_Pb displays when user delete_Pin_Code. All codes desappear. a refresh is requisite
533 - HAB install wizard - Phone number accept more than 9 numbers
534_Pb_when user create a rule with sign<> with 3in1 light the name token displays
535_By default _any event is ticked in rule when user has selected sensor as trigger
540_Suppress RFID = error msg in dashbord and keypad menu
546_in predefined mode, when user check notify someone spinner displays indefinitely
A scene with duplicate name can be saved
Activate / Deactivate button scenes doesn't work properly
Add more restrictions in section "Signup Now"->'Emergency Contacts"
'Add pin codes' two buttons with the same name and different functionality
Add restrictions in section "Z-Wave Settings"->"Repair"
Add restrictions in Z-Wave Settings page
Advaced user doesn't have access to see default wirelles password
Aeon dimmer added as binary light
After adding billing information the address field wasn't auto-filled
Bad alignment, wrong cursor and missing tool-tip on other users notification table
Basic User can edit House Modes
Battery removed, but not alert received by users (or sometimes some few days later)
Button "Restore Defaults" shouldn't be displayed for CO sensors in Create New Scene
Button "Rstore Defaults" shouldn't be displayed for door locks in Create New Scene
Button take snapshot from devices Page doesn't work
Buttons "Heal without stress test" and "Heal with stress test" are not displayed all the time
Camera Bosch IP 2000 isn't recognized using auto-detect
Camera SD is detected as security sensor
Can create a scene with a schedule once set from a date in the past
Cannot go back or forward in a recorded video
Can't change value for thermostat in Edit Modes Page
Change message displayed when pin already exists
Clock not working properly in IE10, Chrome and Safari
Plug your Energy Metering Smart switch into a 110 Volt Receptable
Unable to change state Off/Heat for Danfoss thermostat
cmh_Reset.all fails if LuaUPnP is stuck in deadlock
Count Up timer from "Firmware" page never stops
Create another pnp in KitDevice for AEON DSC25
Current setpoint displayed on thermostat icon in step 2 (create a new scene)
Customers cannot login with usernames containing upper case letter.
Danfoss Radiator should be preset to Heat
Danfoss Radiator shouldn't contain states: OFF/Heat/Cool/Auto in Edit Modes
'Del' button inconsistecy, Device Settings Page
Delay message isn't proper in edit modes page
Delay module popup should appear only when 'Home' mode is changed
Device list is updated with new device added only after menu tabs are changed
Device list isn't updated with new device added on unit
Device notifications page overlap
Device status overlaps battery icon in List view
Devices - camera play button
Devices buttons are not aligned on Dashboard page
Door locks shouldn't have 'Wakeup interval (seconds):'
Duplicate trigger once with the same date and time can be created
Error message displayed although all fields are filled in SW
Escape curl arguments that start with @
Event selection for On OFF device doesn't work
Filter "Failed devices" - not working
Flash player detection doesn't work properly in IE10
For Appliance Module in scene summary the content isn't correct for ''Whenever the Appliance Module is turned on'' event selected
FUT/OBS Inconsistency between the info displayed on the web UI and the info displayed by the cust care
FUT/OBS Problem time for an HAB in 1.7.800
Garage door appears in Camera settings under 'Turn on the lights:' section
ghost device appear when dissociate device
Glass Break Sensor displayed as a motion sensor
Graphical inconsistencies on devices cpanel notifications
Hardware issue with the Zwave 500 keyfob
Hash tag is not updated for "Insteon Settings" page
HEM should not be displayed in step 2 (select device actions) in Create New Scene
HEM shouldn't have "On/Off" buttons
Improve error message "Contact field Phone conditions not met. Field required:yes and max length:20"
Improve error message "Field State conditions not met. Field required: yes and max length:2"
Improve template for alert type "Camera sent image"
Improve template for alert type "Camera sent video"
Inconsistency - Add Device Wizard for users : Basic User
Inconsistency between field restriction and error popup message for 'Energy used' field
Inconsistency between the buttons from the dashboard and the buttons from control part for the Linear garage door should have
Inconsistency for "add favorite" between app and web version
Inconsistency for "my modes"
Inconsistency for "Take snapshot" icon in step 2 (select device actions) - Create New Scene
Inconsistency for Add keyfob instructions
Inconsistency for Basic User restrictions
Inconsistency for button "Take a snapshot" between web and app versions
Inconsistency for change thermostat setpoint by clicking on value
Inconsistency for General Status Card between web and app version
Inconsistency for house modes label in Scenes, Step3
Inconsistency for last/first name in SW
Inconsistency for 'revert changes' button from Net&wifi page
Inconsistency for time format when adding weekly restrictions
Inconsistency for tooltips "activate scene" and "deactivate scene"
Inconsistency in Add Device Wizard for "Garage Door Opener"
Inconsistency in Add Device Wizard for Linear WD500Z-1
Inconsistency in Help note content, Device Settings Page
Inconsistency in list of notifications added on a device
Inconsistency in notifications limits
Inconsistency in Unit Settings for Basic Users
Inconsistency on Keypad add pin code page
Inconsistency on View by List Page
Inside temperature for thermostats is not displayed on the icon on "Devices"->"View by List"
Invalid camera URL in Devices for cameras
Invalid characters for Dimmer accessory RF9542 name
Issue - dimmers in "Step 2: Device Actions"
Issue for sensors that can be armed/bypass in Device Actions (Create New Scene)
Issue related to commands attached to the slider control
Issue when 2 different messages are displayed at the same time in device cpanel
issue when changing modes
Issue with "Schedule"->"Once"
Issue with sensors (motion, d/w, smoke, flood)
Issue with the 2G : HABs 47100093 and 47100610
Issues in message displayed when Vera 3 is set "through a wi-fi access point"
Issues in section "Enroll Now"
Issues in Support Portal STG when window is resized
Kwikset doorlock Pin codes deleted and readed appear as inactive
Layout for "Devices view by List" is the same with the layout for "Devices view by Type" - Nexus Tablet
Light sensor and temperature sensor for philio psm02-2 device has the zwave icon
Linear LB60Z-1 Led Bulb added as binary light
Live streaming isn't working on IE 11 for Camera sercomm 8110
Lua should be restarted after device is deleted
Message "Please wait 3-5 minutes for camera firmware upgrade" still displayed after firmware upgrade was done
Method VerifyDeviceMac() always return false
Missing images from "Add Device" wizard for "Vision ZD2102"
Missing space bettwen Group ID and Currently values and buttons : Del / View.
Missing token - Security card
Motion sensor state should be ARMED/BYPASSED
Name of the wifi network
No alert is sent to Alarm Relay when unit is disconnected
No device message is missing from Scene Action Step
Notification Email value 'Sent' increase event thought Notification limit is reached
Notifications not working
Phone Number - State number is not changed according to State
Phone number validated ok but error message displayed
Port is not saved correctly when a camera is added manually with Other IP camera
Portal - Login Alignment Issues
Power Up State Variables aren't conform requirements
Preset Mode doesn't function properly (Default/Custom changes)
Preset Mode doesn't function properly (Device state buttons)
'Recover Password' Page error message for incorect old password not proper
Refresh needed to update page info after email validation
Restriction lenght message for device name appears even thought device name has the correct length
Room assignment for multi sensor devices
Scene doesn’t support 2 scene geofence with different status but with the same geofence as reference
Scene Run button on a green round font
Scene with Location trigger don't run
Secure Srt 321 is detected as thermostat
Security card isn't updated properly
Sensors reporting as not being seen by the HAB whereas they can trigger alerts
'Show pin codes in clear' checkbox doesn't function properly
sliders don't work with touch screen
SmartSwitch device cattegory is different than web
Spinning icon displayed on house modes after a mode is selected
Sprint 5 - Energy Module (Nothing Appears)
Sprint 5 - Setup Wizard (Confirm Workflow)
Sprint 5 - Setup Wizard (Confirm Your Information Screen)
stack corruption detected
State field validation not obvious
Status "Unlocked" always displayed after button "Control" is pressed - Kwikset Push Button Lever Lock
Streaming FLV is filling the controller memory
Success message shown as error
Support type 2 user can't validate his email address
Support user created with end user account type
Text corrections
The actual of battery is not displayed after "Battery level goes below"
The control tab doesn't show for Keypad
The Evolve T100R thermostat will not configure properly (shop).
The shortcut "View failed devices" from "Current Status" card - not working
The wizard for WPS VistaCam 700 displayed as "Unknown Model"
Themostat appears 2 times when is selected once as action in a manual scene
There is no edit or delete button for action in scenes Step 2
Timezone can't be edited
Typo in "ACCOUNTS"->"DETAILS" - Support Portal STG
Typo in "Device Trigger" (Create new scene)
Typo in Add Device Wizard for "Kwikset Door Lock"
Typo in create end user request
Typo in section "Billing" from "Accounts"->"Details" - Support Portal STG
Unable to change settings in Z-Wave Settings->Repair
Unable to change temperature from device arrow buttons. Blocked by VUI-1902
Unable to edit or delete a device action in "Step 2: Device Actions"
Unit Name is not saved in Setup Wizard - Basic User
'Unlocked Door Locks' label isn't shown in My shortcuts section
Update name for dimmer accessory in Add devices wizard
Upgrade on remote never end due to bad url for script
User can slide from scenes step 1 to Menu
Value "100%" split on 3 rows for dimmers
Variable "KWH" not displayed for HEM
Vera edge Z-Wave reset doesn't change HomeID
Video Recorded Size isn't fullscreen
Weather widget not displayed
When adding Insteon PLM the port is always: "false"
When you want to add the second trigger button "Next Step" should be disabled
wifi networks not showing
Wireless Setup wizard for VistaCam 700 opens add device wizard for VistaCam SD
Wrong buttons for Siren
Wrong icon displayed for Danfoss Radiator in "Select a device..." (Create New Scene)
Wrong icon for thermostat in Create New Scene
Wrong icons displayed for installed apps in "Select a device..." (Create New Scene)
Wrong info in "Unpair your device" wizard - Yale Touchscreen Deadbolt Lock
Wrong message after the upgrade is started
Wrong message displayed when name of the pin code is already used
Wrong message displayed when pin code has less than 4 digits
Wrong order for "Interval Schedule" options
Wrong position for scene 'run error icon'
Wrong position for word "Inside" - thermostat in device actions - create new scene
Wrong steps in Unpair Wizard for Linear WD1000Z-1
Wrong steps in Unpair Wizard for Linear WD500Z-1
Wrong Timer selector for Before Sunrise/Before Sunset/After Sunrise/ After Sunset comparing to web app
Wrong wizard for Linear WO15Z-1
You can add opposite actions for the same device in Create New Scene - Immediately
You can't add 2 triggers type "Schedule - Once" in the same scene

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