I personally have begun to bake my own breads, rolls and cookies and have tried to shop with a list using what is on sale on the online circular.
I've also had my family begin to unplug appliances when not in use.
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I have started cleaning with vinegar, baking soda, ammonia, etc. I also watch how much laundry soap I use and unplug things. I go around to the stores that have discount racks during the week for veggies. I make more homemade things, casseroles and things that stretch. I go thrift store shopping. I use a brita filter jug thing instead of buying bottled water. We have no more luxuries, shoot to us a luxury is being able to have meat at dinner time!! And mac & cheese and ramen noodles are our "go to" meals LOL It doesnt help a chick totaled my other car so to save gas I stay home until I start work!
Check out this website www.hillbillyhousewife.com
I have started cleaning with vinegar, baking soda, ammonia, etc. I also watch how much laundry soap I use and unplug things. I go around to the stores that have discount racks during the week for veggies. I make more homemade things, casseroles and things that stretch. I go thrift store shopping. I use a brita filter jug thing instead of buying bottled water. We have no more luxuries, shoot to us a luxury is being able to have meat at dinner time!! And mac & cheese and ramen noodles are our "go to" meals LOL It doesnt help a chick totaled my other car so to save gas I stay home until I start work!
Can someone tell me why the writers of Hollywood are striking?
darkestsit
Some of them make over 500k a year. I am a struggling father at 22 who works full time and goes to school full time. I make 600$ a month...and they are complaining? Simple greed. They live a life of luxury and want more. I could live happily on a thousand dollars a month.
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There are alot of writers in Hollywood. Very few of them actually make that much money. The 2007 Writers Guild of America strike is a strike by the Writers Guild of America, East (WGAE) and the Writers Guild of America, West (WGAW) that started on November 5, 2007. The WGAE and WGAW are two labor unions that represent film, television and radio writers working in the United States.
The strike is against the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP), a trade organization that represents the interests of American film and television producers. Over 12,000 writers are affected by the strike.
The Writers Guild has indicated their industrial action would be a "marathon." AMPTP negotiator Nick Counter has indicated that negotiations would not resume as long as strike action continues, stating, "We're not going to negotiate with a gun to our headsâthat's just stupid."
After a three-week period of no negotiations between the parties, talks resumed on November 26, 2007 at an undisclosed location. As of November 28, talks are still in progress. The media blackout that began on November 26, 2007 was ended by the WGA due to the rollback offered by the AMPTP and the press releases released on their company websites on November 29, 2007.
The last such strike was the 1988 Writers Guild of America strike; it lasted 22 weeks, costing the American entertainment industry an estimated 500 million dollars.
Every three years, the Writers Guilds negotiate a new basic contract with the AMPTP by which its members are employed. This contract is called the Minimum Basic Agreement (MBA). In the 2007 negotiations over the MBA, an impasse was reached, and the WGA membership voted to give its board authorization to call a strike, which it did on Friday, November 2, with the strike beginning the subsequent Monday, November 5, 2007.
Among the many proposals from both sides regarding the new contract, there are several key issues of contention including DVD residuals, union jurisdiction over animation and reality programs, and perhaps most importantly, "new media", such as the Internet.
WGA members claim that a writer's residuals, or profits made from subsequent airings or purchases of a program, are a necessary part of a writer's income that is typically relied upon during periods of unemployment that are common in the writing industry. The WGA has requested a doubling of the residual rate for DVD sales, which would result in a residual of approximately eight cents (up from four cents) per DVD sold.[12]
In negotiations, the AMPTP has refused to consider changing the formula. Their rationale has been that DVD sales are necessary to offset rising production and marketing costs.[13] They have further insisted that the current DVD formula be applied to residuals in new media (see below).
The WGA has said via press release that the DVD proposal was completely removed by the WGA from the table on November 4, 2007, the night before the strike began. However, WGAW President Patric M. Verrone later wrote that the membership exhibited "significant disappointment and even anger" when they learned of this, and as the removal was contingent on further concessions by the AMPTP (which did not happen), "all bets are off" on the withdrawal of the DVD proposal.
Currently, the WGA has no arrangement with the companies regarding the use of content online, and two models of Internet distribution are currently being negotiated. The first is "digital sell-through" (also known as "Internet sales"). In digital sell-through, the consumer purchases a copy of the program and downloads it to a local storage device for subsequent viewing at their convenience. Examples include movies and television shows purchased through the iTunes Store and Amazon Unbox. In the second model, "streaming video", the consumer watches a program in real time as it is transmitted to their computer but is usually not saved. Current examples of this model include advertising-supported television programs streamed free to the audience, such as those available at NBC.com, ABC.com, FOX.com, CBS.com and thedailyshow.com.
In either case, the program may be viewed directly on a computer or it may be viewed on a traditional television via media distribution devices (e.g. Tivo). The convenience of both these technologies lowers the barriers to entry into the digital distribution marketplace making it more accessible to mainstream consumers.
It is widely expected[weasel words] that new media will eventually supplant both DVD in the home video market and television in the broadcasting market as the primary means for distribution[citation needed]. As in the mid-1980s, the companies have argued that new media represents an unproven and untested market and have asked for additional time for study. However, feeling resentment from the 20-year-old home video deal and unwilling to make similar concessions in a so-called "new market" yet again, WGA members have been adamant that whatever deal they make for new media, it cannot resemble the DVD formula.
New media is widely seen by most WGA writers as the central issue for the strike. Writer-director Craig Mazin (Scary Movie 3) has dubbed new media "the One Issue" that matters.
This sentiment was further articulated by a self-described "skeptic", writer Howard Gould, at a meeting of the full WGA membership the night before the strike date was announced. He said, to a standing ovation:
Soon, when computers and your TV are connected, that's how we're all going to watch. Okay? Those residuals are going to go from what they are towards zero if we don't make a stand now. ... This is such a big issue that if they see us roll over on this without making a stand- three years from now, they're gon
There are alot of writers in Hollywood. Very few of them actually make that much money. The 2007 Writers Guild of America strike is a strike by the Writers Guild of America, East (WGAE) and the Writers Guild of America, West (WGAW) that started on November 5, 2007. The WGAE and WGAW are two labor unions that represent film, television and radio writers working in the United States.
The strike is against the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP), a trade organization that represents the interests of American film and television producers. Over 12,000 writers are affected by the strike.
The Writers Guild has indicated their industrial action would be a "marathon." AMPTP negotiator Nick Counter has indicated that negotiations would not resume as long as strike action continues, stating, "We're not going to negotiate with a gun to our headsâthat's just stupid."
After a three-week period of no negotiations between the parties, talks resumed on November 26, 2007 at an undisclosed location. As of November 28, talks are still in progress. The media blackout that began on November 26, 2007 was ended by the WGA due to the rollback offered by the AMPTP and the press releases released on their company websites on November 29, 2007.
The last such strike was the 1988 Writers Guild of America strike; it lasted 22 weeks, costing the American entertainment industry an estimated 500 million dollars.
Every three years, the Writers Guilds negotiate a new basic contract with the AMPTP by which its members are employed. This contract is called the Minimum Basic Agreement (MBA). In the 2007 negotiations over the MBA, an impasse was reached, and the WGA membership voted to give its board authorization to call a strike, which it did on Friday, November 2, with the strike beginning the subsequent Monday, November 5, 2007.
Among the many proposals from both sides regarding the new contract, there are several key issues of contention including DVD residuals, union jurisdiction over animation and reality programs, and perhaps most importantly, "new media", such as the Internet.
WGA members claim that a writer's residuals, or profits made from subsequent airings or purchases of a program, are a necessary part of a writer's income that is typically relied upon during periods of unemployment that are common in the writing industry. The WGA has requested a doubling of the residual rate for DVD sales, which would result in a residual of approximately eight cents (up from four cents) per DVD sold.[12]
In negotiations, the AMPTP has refused to consider changing the formula. Their rationale has been that DVD sales are necessary to offset rising production and marketing costs.[13] They have further insisted that the current DVD formula be applied to residuals in new media (see below).
The WGA has said via press release that the DVD proposal was completely removed by the WGA from the table on November 4, 2007, the night before the strike began. However, WGAW President Patric M. Verrone later wrote that the membership exhibited "significant disappointment and even anger" when they learned of this, and as the removal was contingent on further concessions by the AMPTP (which did not happen), "all bets are off" on the withdrawal of the DVD proposal.
Currently, the WGA has no arrangement with the companies regarding the use of content online, and two models of Internet distribution are currently being negotiated. The first is "digital sell-through" (also known as "Internet sales"). In digital sell-through, the consumer purchases a copy of the program and downloads it to a local storage device for subsequent viewing at their convenience. Examples include movies and television shows purchased through the iTunes Store and Amazon Unbox. In the second model, "streaming video", the consumer watches a program in real time as it is transmitted to their computer but is usually not saved. Current examples of this model include advertising-supported television programs streamed free to the audience, such as those available at NBC.com, ABC.com, FOX.com, CBS.com and thedailyshow.com.
In either case, the program may be viewed directly on a computer or it may be viewed on a traditional television via media distribution devices (e.g. Tivo). The convenience of both these technologies lowers the barriers to entry into the digital distribution marketplace making it more accessible to mainstream consumers.
It is widely expected[weasel words] that new media will eventually supplant both DVD in the home video market and television in the broadcasting market as the primary means for distribution[citation needed]. As in the mid-1980s, the companies have argued that new media represents an unproven and untested market and have asked for additional time for study. However, feeling resentment from the 20-year-old home video deal and unwilling to make similar concessions in a so-called "new market" yet again, WGA members have been adamant that whatever deal they make for new media, it cannot resemble the DVD formula.
New media is widely seen by most WGA writers as the central issue for the strike. Writer-director Craig Mazin (Scary Movie 3) has dubbed new media "the One Issue" that matters.
This sentiment was further articulated by a self-described "skeptic", writer Howard Gould, at a meeting of the full WGA membership the night before the strike date was announced. He said, to a standing ovation:
Soon, when computers and your TV are connected, that's how we're all going to watch. Okay? Those residuals are going to go from what they are towards zero if we don't make a stand now. ... This is such a big issue that if they see us roll over on this without making a stand- three years from now, they're gon
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