FILE – In this April 23, 2003 file photo, Vidal Sassoon poses in his Beverly Hills, Calif., home.  Sassoon, whose 1960s wash-and-wear cuts freed women from endless teasing and hairspray died Wednesday, May 9, 2012, at his home. He was 84. Sassoon was born to Sephardic Jewish parents in Hammersmith, London. In 1948, at the age of 20, he joined the Haganah (which shortly afterwards became the Israeli Defence Forces) and fought in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, which began after Israel achieved statehood. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, file)

Los Angeles Where to buy windows 7 key, CA – Hairstylist Vidal Sassoon, who undid the beehive with his wash-and-wear cuts and went on to become an international name in hair care, died Wednesday. He was 84.

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Sassoon died at his home on Mulholland Drive in Los Angeles, police spokesman Kevin Maiberger said. Officers were summoned to the home at about 10:30 a.m., where they found Sassoon dead with his family. They determined that he died of natural causes, and there will be no further police investigation, Maiberger said.

When Sassoon picked up his shears in the 1950s, styled hair was typically curled, teased, piled high and shellacked into place. Then came the 1960s, and Sassoon’s creative cuts, which required little styling and fell into place perfectly every time, fit right in with the fledgling women’s liberation movement.

“My idea was to cut shape into the hair, to use it like fabric and take away everything that was superfluous,” Sassoon said in 1993 in the Los Angeles Times, which first reported his death Wednesday. “Women were going back to work, they were assuming their own power. They didn’t have time to sit under the dryer anymore.”

His wash-and-wear styles included the bob, the Five-Point cut and the “Greek Goddess,” a short, tousled perm — inspired by the “Afro-marvelous-looking women” he said he saw in New York’s Harlem.

Sassoon opened his first salon in his native London in 1954 but said he didn’t perfect his cut-is-everything approach until the mid-‘60s. Once the wash-and-wear concept hit, though, it hit big and many women retired their curlers for good.

His shaped cuts were an integral part of the “look” of Mary Quant, the superstar British fashion designer who popularized the miniskirt.

He also often worked in the 1960s with American designer Rudi Gernreich, who became a household name in 1964 with his much-publicized (but seldom-worn) topless bathing suit.

“While Mr. Gernreich has dressed his mannequins to look like little girls,” The New York Times wrote after viewing Gernreich’s collection for fall 1965, “Vidal Sassoon has cut their hair to look like little boys with eye-level bangs in front, short crop in back. For really big evenings, a pin-on curl is added at the cheek.”

In 1966, he did a curly look inspired by 1920s film star Clara Bow for the designer Ungaro. He got more headlines when he was flown to Hollywood from London, at a reputed cost of $5,000, to create Mia Farrow’s pixie cut for the 1968 film “Rosemary’s Baby.”

Sassoon opened more salons in England and expanded to the United States before also developing a line of shampoos and styling products bearing his name. His advertising slogan was “If you don’t look good, we don’t look good.”

The hairdresser also established Vidal Sassoon Academies to teach aspiring stylists how to envision haircuts based on a client’s bone structure. In 2006 there were academies in England, the United States and Canada, with additional locations planned in Germany and China.

“Whether long or short, hair should be carved to a woman’s bone structure,” he told the Los Angeles Times in 1967. “Actually short hair is a state of mind … not a state of age.”

Sassoon’s hair-care mantra: “To sculpt a head of hair with scissors is an art form. It’s in pursuit of art.”

He wrote three books. The first was an autobiography, “Sorry I Kept You Waiting, Madam,” published in 1968. “A Year of Beauty and Health,” which he wrote with his second wife, Beverly Office 2010 Key, was published in 1979. In 1984 he released “Cutting Hair the Vidal Sassoon Way.”

He sold his business interests in the early 1980s to devote himself to philanthropy. The Boys Clubs of America and the Performing Arts Council of the Music Center of Los Angeles were among the causes he supported through his Vidal Sassoon Foundation. He later became active in post-Hurricane Katrina charities in New Orleans.

He had moved to Los Angeles in the early 1970s in search of a chemist to formulate his hair-care products and had decided to make the city his home.

A veteran of Israel’s 1948 War of Independence, Sassoon also had a lifelong commitment to eradicating anti-Semitism. In 1982, he established the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Growing up very poor in London, Sassoon said that when he was 14, his mother declared he was to become a hairdresser. After traveling to Palestine and serving in the Israeli war, he returned home to fulfill her dream.

“I thought I’d be a soccer player but my mother said I should be a hairdresser, and, as often happens, the mother got her way,” he told the AP in 2007.

He told the Chicago Tribune in 2004 that he was proud to have entered the field.

“Hairdressers are a wonderful breed,” he said. “You work one-on-one with another human being and the object is to make them feel so much better and to look at themselves with a twinkle in their eye. Work on their bone structure, the color, the cut, whatever Office Project Key, but when you’ve finished, you have an enormous sense of satisfaction.”

Married four times, Sassoon had four children with his second wife, Beverly, a sometime film and television actress, usually billed as Beverly Adams.

None of the children went into the family business. The eldest, Catya, an actress and model, died in her sleep on New Year’s Day 2002 of an accidental overdose.

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The bank’s standard variable home loan rate was cut to 7.05 per cent.

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ANZ chief executive Australia Philip Chronican said the RBA’s decision to reduce the cash rate had impacted domestic funding sources, giving ANZ the scope to reduce its lending rates.

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Sharpton didn’t get his facts right. The Crown Heights riots occurred after young black New Yorker Gavin Cato was hit by a car driven by an Orthodox Jew. Sharpton spoke at the funeral. Here’s what he said:

“Talk about how Oppenheimer in South Africa sends diamonds straight to Tel Aviv and deals with the diamond merchants right here in Crown Heights. The issue is not anti-Semitism; the issue is apartheid …. All we want to say is what Jesus said: If you offend one of these little ones, you got to pay for it. No compromise, no meetings, no coffee klatsch, no skinnin’ and grinnin’.”

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Later, Sharpton said, “If the Jews want to get it on, tell them to pin their yarmulkes back and come over to my house.” The riots resulted in the murder of an Orthodox Jew Tattoo Kits Supplies, Yankel Rosenbaum. As Rosenbaum’s brother wrote, “Based on everything we have seen and read Professional Tattoo Kits, Sharpton never called upon the rioters to stop their anti-Semitism-inspired violence. He never called on the rioters to go home. To the contrary, he stirred them up. And three days of anti-Semitic violence became the Crown Heights riots.”

This is the Al Sharpton leading the charge on the Trayvon Martin case – a racist extraordinaire, a charlatan, and a liar. And this is the Al Sharpton hired by Phil Griffin to lend gravitas to MSNBC’s evening lineup.

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"There is a flexibility problem, there is a militancy problem and above all else there is a productivity problem in our workplaces right now.

"The Fair Work Act has a role in that and we will put responsible, careful reforms in place."

The latest Australian Bureau of Statistics figures show there were 241,500 working days lost in the year ended December 2011 because of industrial action, compared with 126,600 in the previous year.

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Today, Slate’sstaff and contributors reveal how they’re voting in next week’s presidential election. This continues a tradition we began in 2000 and repeated in 2004. It will come as little surprise to many of our readers—and certainly as no surprise to Sarah “Media Elite” Palin—that Barack Obama won Slate in a landslide. In capturing 55 of our 57 votes, with 1 to McCain and 1 to Libertarian Bob Barr, Obama won an even bigger Slate majority than Al Gore in 2000 (29 of 37 votes) or John Kerry in 2004 (46 of 52 votes). Incidentally Discount Chloe Dresses, this is a voluntary project: Our staff and contributors can reveal how they voted, but they are not required to.

My two predecessors as Slate’s editor, Michael Kinsley and Jacob Weisberg, each wrote articles explaining why we reveal our votes. I don’t have anything to add to their eloquent arguments, so please read Kinsley’s 2000 piece here (mentally subbing “McCain” for “Bush” and “Obama” for “Gore”), and Weisberg’s 2004 piece here (”McCain” for “Bush” and “Obama” for “Kerry”).

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Why did Obama win the swing state of Slate? Like Mike and Jacob before me, I don’t think a candidate’s Slate victory reflects a bias that has corrupted the magazine during the campaign. There are obvious reasons why Slate would lean heavily toward Obama: Most of our staff and contributors live in extremely Democratic cities on the East and West Coast. (It’s worth noting that our lone McCain voter, Deputy Managing Editor Rachael Larimore, lives in Ohio.) Slate’svoters tend to skew young Cheap Karen Millen Dresses, and all polls show younger voters favoring the Democrat. Also, a significant number of former Slate contributors, among them Austan Goolsbee, Jason Furman Replica White Herve leger, and Phil Carter, are now advising Obama. It’s understandable that our affection for them and respect for their views may be accruing to Obama. (He’s taking Jason and Austan’s advice on the economy? Then he must be pretty smart.) And, finally Discount Chanel Dresses, we are journalists Cheap DKNY Clothing, and, to quote Kinsley:

No doubt it is true that most journalists vote Democratic, just as most business executives (including most media owners) vote Republican, though neither tendency is as pronounced as their respective critics believe. This is a natural result of the sort of people who are attracted to various careers. It is not the product of any conspiracy. There is no Liberal Central Committee drafting young liberals into journalism against their will or blackballing young conservatives. And there is nothing that can be done to change this disparity Buy Christian Audigier Clothes, unless conservative press critics would like to see the media institute a political quota system, favoring conservatives over better-qualified liberals (affirmative action for opponents of affirmative action).

But—for the millionth time!—an opinion is not a bias! The fact that reporters tend to be liberal says nothing one way or another about their tendency to be biased. It does suggest that when political bias does creep in, it is more likely to tilt liberal than conservative. But there are so many other pressures and prejudices built into the news—including occasional overcompensation for fear of appearing biased—that raw political bias plays a fairly small role. …Of course it is not easy to persuade folks of this, and many will never believe it. No doubt it is easier just to keep your political opinions secret and imply that you don’t have any. But that absurdity or dishonesty itself undermines your credibility. Or it ought to.

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He didn’t get the attention he deserved for it, but President Obama was very cleverly fusing liberal principles with an appeal to the basic conservative values of “Old Europe” when Herve Leger sale, in his 100th-day press conference, he used Winston Churchill to justify his opposition to water-boarding and other “enhanced methods.” He told his audience that, even at a time when London was being “bombed to smithereens” and the British government held hundreds of Nazi agents in an internment center, there was a prime-ministerial view that torture was never permissible.

It would be reassuring to think that somebody close to Obama had handed him a copy of a little-known book called Camp 020: MI5 and the Nazi Spies. This was published by the British Public Record Office in 2000 and describes the workings of Latchmere House Discount Hale Bob Dresses, an extraordinary British prison on Ham Common in the London suburb of Richmond, which housed as many as 400 of Hitler’s operatives during World War II. Its commanding officer was a man named Col. Robin Stephens, and though he wore a monocle and presented every aspect of a frigid military martinet (and was known and feared by the nickname “Tin-Eye”), he was a dedicated advocate of the nonviolent approach to his long-term guests. To phrase it crisply—as he did—his view was and remained: “Violence is taboo, for not only does it produce answers to please, but it lowers the standard of information.”

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To give you some of the flavor of this prohibition, I ask you to consider the case of the German agent codenamed “TATE,” who was parachuted into England in September 1940 Discount White Herve leger, at a time when almost all of continental Europe was under Hitler’s control and when neither the United States nor the Soviet Union had entered the war against Germany. * Taken to Camp 020, TATE stubbornly maintained that he was a Danish refugee. An external interrogator unused to the rules of Ham Common was exasperated by this initial stubbornness and “followed TATE to his cell at the close of that first interrogation and, in flagrant violation of the Commandant’s rigid rule that no physical violence should ever be used at Ham Discount BCBG Dresses, struck the agent on the head. The incident led, on immediate representations by the Commandant, to the instant recall of [the offending officer] from the camp.” One blow to the head at a time when undefended British cities were being blitzed every night, and the brute was out of there for good.

Nor is this all. TATE was then put to the inconvenience of intensive questioning, which included the distinct suggestion that he had been betrayed by a close Nazi friend. He ended up making a full confession, leading his captors to the place where he had concealed his transmitter, and then using it to send false intelligence back to Germany. The British wartime records conclude that “skilful direction of his activities and reports provided not only opportunity for deception of the enemy, but gained advance information leading to the detection of other agents and their neutralization.”

The parallels here are not always as exact as one might like. Espionage agents were not protected by the Geneva Conventions Cheap Bandage dresses, and the existence of the camp did not even have to be reported to the Red Cross (which of course in some ways makes the restraint more remarkable). But by the same token, espionage agents were not usually responsible for “ticking bomb” scenarios. Still, the need for timely information and intelligence was then a matter of national survival, and the temptation to cut corners must have been intense.

Spies, unlike prisoners of war, were liable to the death penalty, and the knowledge that they could be executed (only after a trial, of course) was sometimes used to break down recalcitrant Nazis. A grand total of 16 of Hitler’s agents were actually sentenced to capital punishment during the course of the war, most of them at the end of a rope but one rather grandly shot in the Tower of London. Fourteen of the victims came from Camp 020, where the book records that there was a considerable debate among the officers over the usefulness of the death penalty. (A glance at some of the mug shots of the Hitlerites in these pages tempts one, no doubt quite irrationally, to wish there had been slightly less clemency.)

I noticed that one of the CIA torture memos mentioned the denial of solid food as a tactic against our prisoners. At Camp 020, not even this was used as a means of interrogation, but it was once employed to break a hunger strike organized by a certain Herr Krag, “a Nazi fanatic from Schleswig-Holstein.” Participants in this camp revolt were “confined to their cells and provided with glucose and milk. Frustration set in within seventy-two hours.” I think one could face the jury of world opinion with a reasonably clear conscience on that.

As Col. Stephens wrote, following the words quoted above about how “violence is taboo” and that it “lowers the standard of information”:

There is no room for a percentage assessment of reliability. If information is correct, it is accepted and recorded; if it is doubtful, it should be rejected in toto.

In other words, it is precisely because the situation was so urgent, so desperate, and so grave that no amateurish or stupid methods could be permitted to taint the source. Col. Stephens Buy Christian Audigier Clothing, who was entirely devoted to breaking his prisoners and destroying the Nazis, eventually persuaded many important detainees to work for him and began to receive interested inquiries “from the FBI and the North West Mounted Police, from the Director of Security in India to the Resistance Movements of de Gaulle, the Belgians and the Dutch.” It would be nice to think that even now, American intelligence might take a leaf from his ruthless and yet humane book.

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Rick Santorum with daughter Sarah Maria and wife Karen

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Rick Santorum won the Alabama and Mississippi primaries on Tuesday. In his victory speech, he thanked his family, including the home-schooled children who have been traveling with him for at least a part of his nine-month campaign for the nomination. How many vacation days is a home-schooled child allowed to take?

The same number as a student at public school Replica BCBG Dresses, in many states. It’s not clear which state’s home-school laws apply to the Santorum family—they live in Virginia but have at times claimed Pennsylvania as their legal residence. The Home School Legal Defense Association typically counsels parents to follow the laws of the state where they reside most of the time, which means the Santorums would be required to give their children the same number of days of instruction as are given in Virginia public schools—usually 180. Pennsylvania law allows a bit more flexibility: Parents can choose between a minimum number of school days (180, like in Virginia) or a minimum number of teaching hours (900 for younger students and 990 for older ones).

These requirements are nearly impossible to enforce. Pennsylvania law asks parents to submit an annual education plan that documents how they will meet the statutory minimums, but they have no mechanism to ensure that the plan is carried out. (Virginia, like most other states, doesn’t even have this requirement.) The state can’t enter your home unless it already has reason to believe you’ve violated the law, or there’s an emergency inside the house. The laws also don’t define exactly what constitutes a day of instruction, and one can imagine arguments for including a wide range of activities, from museum visits or baseball games to stumping for your dad.

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In Virginia, families can sidestep even the modest requirements described above. Any children who are excused from compulsory education based on religious convictions are exempt from the home-school regulatory scheme, which means their parents can design their instructional schedule with complete freedom. There are no statistics on the percentage of Virginia home-schoolers who take advantage of this exception, but it appears to be quite common. (The Santorums haven’t disclosed whether they rely on the religious exemption.)

Virginia and Pennsylvania rely largely on standardized tests to ensure that home-schooled students are keeping up with their peers. In Pennsylvania Herve Leger gown sale, there’s no minimum passing score, but an education or psychology professional has to certify—based on the test scores Buy DKNY Clothes, an interview, and other educational records—that “an appropriate education is occurring.” Virginia waives the professional certification if the student places above the 23rd percentile, and parents who home-school under the religious-convictions exception are exempt from this requirement as well.

Pennsylvania and Virginia have relatively strict home-school regulations. Ten states (Alaska, Connecticut, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Missouri, New Jersey Buy Chloe Dresses, Oklahoma, and Texas) don’t even require parents to inform the state if they decide to keep their kids at home. Some of those states, like Alaska, have virtually no regulations at all (PDF): There is no minimum number of instruction days. Students don’t have to take tests, and their parents aren’t required to keep any kind of records. But whatever the rules Cheap Herve Leger v neck, home-schooled kids often end up successful: They outscore public school kids on standardized exams Replica DKNY Clothing, on average.  

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