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November 16, 2012, Nošovice – More than 20 freelancers left for the Travný area in Beskydy Mountains to plant fir trees, oak trees and yews. Truck racer Karel Loprais, alpinist Libor Uher, Governor Deputy Daniel Havlík and Member of Parliament Kateřina Konečná were among them. They were all invited to plant trees by Radegast. The company, together with the Czech Association of Nature Preservation Salamander, started a project aimed at returning original and rare trees back to Beskydy woods. Thanks to Radegast, more than 5000 new trees, valued at more than 100 thousand CZK (about 5,000.00 USD) will be planted in Beskydy during this fall and next spring.
Equipped with a hoe and seedlings, Karel Loprais, six-time winner of the Rallye Dakar truck race, departed for the difficult Beskydy terrain as well. "It is our duty to preserve the beautiful nature of our beloved Beskydy Mountains. We must appreciate having it here. I did not think a minute about doing this, and immediately took off to plant some trees." Alpinist Libor Uher also participated in the project together with Karlem Loprais, Moravia-Silesia Region Governor Deputy Daniel Havlík, Member of Parliament Kateřina Konečná and Senator Eva Richtrová.
It was Radegast who invited some of the important personalities of the North Moravia region to plant trees. "We were very pleased to see that our request to help Beskydy Mountains did not go unanswered, and we were able to create a group of more than 20 people. The money is important; however, in this case we needed some work to be done that required a trip to a hard terrain and the use of one's own muscles. I am sure all of our participants were very happy they did this," Radegast brand marketing manager Karel Kraus said.
They planted dozens of trees started under special conditions in the area of the first zone of the Natural Preserve Beskydy. CANP Salamander will plant other trees thanks to Radegast support. "This year, we plan to plant trees on three mountains: Smrk, Travn and Lysa. Our effort is to recover the original composition of the woods in the rare parts of Beskydy that were changed by forestry in the past and that resulted in elimination of some of the original trees," Vojtěch Bajer, chairman of the association said, and added that the structure of Beskydy woods was drastically changed during the past two centuries. Spruces replaced fir and oak tree woods. The original species of trees were thus reduced by 63%.
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- One of the most modern Czech breweries, Radegast has produced beer since 1970.
- Radegast brewery is a part of Plzeňský Prazdroj Co. since 1999.
- With its total sale of nearly 9.9 million hectolitres during the calendar year of 2011 (including licensed productions abroad) and with exports to more than 50 countries worldwide, Plzeňský Prazdroj Inc. is the preeminent beer producer in the region and the biggest exporter of Czech beer.
- Plzeňský Prazdroj Inc. is a member of SABMiller plc. group. Pilsner Urquell is the international flagship brand of the SABMiller brand portfolio.
- SABMiller plc. is one of the world's biggest beer brewing companies with beer brewing activities or distribution in more than 60 countries across six continents. The SABMiller portfolio includes important international brands such as Grolsch, Miller Genuine Draft, Peroni Nastro Azzurro, and Pilsner Urquell, as well as almost 200 successful regional and national brands.
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In early 2012, they refactored the search engine code they had with Apache open source frameworks such as HBase, Hadoop and Data Nucleus. They created a skeleton of the new search engine, and again looked to raise money to pay more programmers to finish it. This time they chose KickStarter to fund the project and offered rewards based on the project's initial completion to those who are interested in funding it.
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Welcome to the Official Star Wars Blog! My name is Ashley Eckstein and I am the voice of Ahsoka Tano on Star Wars The Clone Wars and the founder of Her Universe, the first Star Wars merchandise line made exclusively for female fans!
Many of you may know me and many of you may not, so let me explain why I am here. As an actress, I was fortunate enough to land the role of a lifetime when I was cast as the voice of Ahsoka in The Clone Wars. I have been a life-long Star Wars fan, and to have the opportunity to help originate a character like Ahsoka is an honor and privilege that I do not take lightly!
In 2008, when I entered the Star Wars Universe with The Clone Wars movie, I was embraced by Star Wars fans from all over the world. At that moment I knew that I had a responsibility to be the best Star Wars representative I could be. I quickly discovered that as a female fan, I was not alone. In fact, close to half of all Star Wars fans are women and girls. Realizing that I only had one Star Wars shirt in my closet that was actually made for a girl, I started my company, Her Universe, to provide female fans an equal opportunity to show off their Star Wars pride in style. I also wanted to create a community for fangirls, a safe place to be a girl AND a Star Wars fan! Star Wars is not just for boys and it's not just for girls, it's a story for everyone! Star Wars is universal!
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I'll be kicking things off with my first post tomorrow from Course of the Force where I'll be co-hosting the Olympic-style, lightsaber relay race with Chris Hardwick, Alison Haislip and Alex Albrecht from Santa Monica, CA down to San Diego Comic-Con benefitting the Make A Wish Foundation.
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After listening to Hurley I was a little disapointed that there weren't many guitar solos. Only one, in Smart Girls, and it was really good. So why don't they do more? The Green album was the same deal.
Here is a list of weezer's best solo's in my opinion:
1. Devotion - I don't think the song is great but the solo is amazing, the best
2. Say it ain't so - i think everyone can agree with this one
3. Tired of Sex- insanely awesome!
4. Pink Triangle- strangest and darkest guitar solo I ever heard
5. Lets Sew our pants together - their old style was so great
6. Theif You've taken all that was me - if you haven't heard it look it up
also Maladroit has some sick solo's!
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In the world of film programming, the noun thrown around most freely, besides "movie," is, in fact, "programmer." And the programmer's job can mean one thing at one festival but translate to a radically different thing at another.
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For example: Make 'em laugh! In response to festival audience surveys crying out for lighter fare, the (flatly labeled) Comedy Focus will showcase comedies dark and light from around the world. This must be the year for it: The new edition of the New York Film Festival has likewise amped up its comic quotient, in what appears to be an intuitive global course correction after 9/11, the Iraq invasion and its desperate geopolitical aftermath.
"There's a tendency for film festivals to shy away from comedies, but there's always the question of comedies traveling well, because they're culturally specific," says Plauche. "We're aware that the overriding themes at a festival tend to be political issues, social issues, economic issues, darker stories. But there's more to the human condition than that."
Vivian Teng, the festival's managing director, puts it more bluntly: "When our audiences say they want some lighter films, we want to make sure we're delivering on what they crave."
So where do the films come from, and how do the festival programmers find them in the first place? Several answers to those questions. The chief programmers screen and trade opinions on hundreds of open submissions, via online link or DVD screener. They attend festivals on the world circuit, from Berlin (a huge public festival in the spirit of Toronto's) to Cannes (the world's most prestigious private festival, meaning Jane and John Doe cannot buy tickets at a box office for any of the attractions) to niche festivals such as the True/False documentary festival held each year in Columbia, Mo.
That last one, True/False, is where Chicago festival programmer Alex Kopecky, the competitions coordinator and overseer of the Docufest sidebar, traveled recently. He also went to Toronto's Hot Docs competition in April, and two films he caught there — "Trucker and the Fox" from Iran and "The Exhibition" from Canada — will receive their U.S. premieres in the Chicago festival.
Kopecky and company shoot for 20 documentaries per festival. That's 10 U.S. premieres in search of distributors, and 10 titles making the rounds on the international festival circuit, most with distribution in place.
"I have my own taste," Kopecky says, "which of course I prefer, but we're trying to do programming with as much range and diversity as possible. So when we succeed, we're not just pleasing a single audience, but pleasing a lot of different audiences, with a lot of different expectations."
Unlike her full-time festival colleagues, programmer Penny Bartlett, born in Edinburgh to a Scottish father and an American mother, is a five-month seasonal Chicago employee, running the festival's short film slate and the horror-intensive After Dark sidebar. The rest of the year, Bartlett programs shorts for the Palm Springs film festival and New York's Tribeca festival. If she had her druthers, Bartlett says, cautiously, "I might push the late-night selection to include more experimental fare." But the beauty of programming several different evenings of short films, she says, is ability to mix it up. Don't like the abstract, non-narrative dreamscape? No worries: It's 11 minutes along, and there's a totally different film coming right behind it.
This year the festival appears to be enjoying an uptick in overall quality, mixing hot titles from Cannes (including the Palme d'Or winner, "Blue is the Warmest Color") with Toronto winner "12 Years a Slave" (a few days in advance of its commerical run), plus all the movies most people haven't yet come to know. The festival begins this year with "The Immigrant," an artful, atmospheric period melodrama from writer-director James Gray. In some recent editions of the festival, the opening night formula appeared to be: lousy, borderline-unreleasable movie, but with a familiar movie star attached. (To wit: "Motherhood," starring Uma Thurman, or "Stand Up Guys" with Al Pacino, Alan Arkin and Christopher Walken.) "The Immigrant" is different. It competed for this year's Palme in Cannes, and although none of the movie's stars (Marion Cotillard, Joaquin Phoenix, Jeremy Renner) will be coming to Chicago on its behalf, Gray will be hitting the red carpet.
"We're an audience festival and a directors' festival," says Kutza. "And that's why we're always going to have more directors than stars." Depending on the conversation, Kutza will tell you that, or he'll characterize Chicago's festival as "the best of the big international festivals plus a sprinkling of Hollywood." Whatever it is, however it's described, he believes "this is one of our strongest lineups ever, and I'm not even giving you the hype." And the process of curating 135 features and 55 shorts has long ceased to be a solo act.
Go to chicagofilmfestival.com for more information on the 49th Chicago International Film Festival, or call 312-222-FILM. The festival's home base, the AMC River East 21, is located at 322 E. Illinois St.
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I haven't done a blog in a while, so I thought I'd write about an issue within WWE that's been a concern of mine and many others for quite some time. Recently I've noticed a great deal of talk about WWE's tag-team division – or lack thereof. I've seen several proposed 'answers' to the decline of the division as well as suggestions as to
Surely the idea of announcing a match a year in advance would be to give it the biggest build in the history of the WWE. The prospect of a year long feud is an exciting, yet brave one. Keeping the audience's interest in a feud for twelve months is a difficult task and from April 4 2011, I knew that WWE would struggle with this task.
Up until about a week ago, I'd pretty
It's usually about a month before the Royal Rumble event that we begin to see the 'Royal Rumble in Numbers' videos and by this point we know it off by heart. This year has been no different. Last year's emphasis was on the fact that the Rumble would for the first time have forty participants. This year's highlights that 'for the first time ever, every WWE superstar is eligible to enter
We've seen it time and time again; WWE introduces big guys presented as 'monsters' but somewhere down the line they lose their credibility. The Big Show debuted in the WWF as a dominant Giant. He went on to win the WWF Championship before becoming this comic-value character who came to the ring as 'Showkishi', 'The Big Showbowski' or 'The Showster'.


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JR: You're off this weekend to catch perch and I'm off with my son to New York to catch a show. You'll be drinkin' beer and downin' brats, and we'll be quaffing bordeaux and savoring foie gras.
Hard to know who will have more fun.
But in the end, I'll bet we both pass a lot of gas.
See. We have so much in common. Next it will be politics.
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Just pulling your chain 'ol buddy. I really wanted to point out to you that you really aren't much different than those folks you so despise.
I think if people would come to this realization perhaps we wouldn't have things like shutdowns and debt ceiling disasters to contend with.
But, instead we continue to get "if they would just all shut up and listen to me it would all be perfect".
I know, I'm being too idealistic again but shucks, a guy can dream can't he ??? Especially if he's sitting on a boat and the fish aren't cooperating...
Do a me a favor while I'm gone, Sven. Go hug a Tea Party Guy. Really feel the love. Better yet, give 'ol Puke a long embrace. (singing Kumbaya is optional)
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Golly, JR. You're so touchy these days. I hardly know what to say to you. You just fly off the handle at any little thing.
How soon can you leave and "go fishing"?
I have a whole government to fix and I just can't deal with your moodiness right now.
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So, now you're a segregationist, Sven ? "My kind of people" ? That sounds like Selma in the fifties, Sven. And they call me devolved. I supppose you'll have me sitting in the back of the bus (or train)on my one way trip to Texas. That's so progressive of you...
And just why is it you hate those Tea Party folks so much ?
I thought they were supposed to be the backward ones.
Keep typing, Sven. Your true colors are showing.
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No, JR. I only want to ship you off to Texas, where you will be happy with your kind of people. Why? Because I know what's best for you...and all of America, for that matter.
Now go play with the fishes, and be at one with the Universe, knowing we will take care of everything here while you're gone.
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Your idea of love must be some kind of tough love, Sven. You want to ship me off to a camp and have me exterminated. Go figure.
Your idea of compassion is to silence the voices of those who disagree with you. Thanks, but I'll pass on your brand of compassion.
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JR: What makes you think I'm not writing under both user names?
If being a "nutjob" means being sensitive and caring to all, then count me in as a nutjob. I even care deeply about you, JR. That's why we liberals are known as bleeding heart, dewy-eyed, idealists.
Enjoy your fishing trip. Catch a bunch. Have a few beers. Think loving thoughts.
Peace, brother.
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What gives me the right to go fishing ? Are you for real ?
Sven, sorry to inform you but you have been replaced as Journal nutjob by agitprop.
I'll take my marching orders from the Declaration and state my fishing is prompted by my personal "pursuit of happiness".
As for my vote, I vote for the person whom I feel is best suited for the job. Sometimes it means "None of the Above"
I don't belong to any tea party but I believe they have as much right to blabber on as you do. So blabber away. I'd suggest you practice in front of a mirror a little longer though so you can get a little better at it. Your blabber is still quite incoherent.
As for me, I'm going fishing.
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JReader and Avoice: I somehow knew one of you reactionary "independent thinkers" would hit on the 5M figure and go on to "fish" for some other result in the historic presidential elections of '08 and '12. Bush & Cheney are war-mongering criminals, plain and simple. This is a democratic republic, not a Republican democracy! Say what you will about membership in political parties, but you most certainly vote Republican/Tea, don't you? (No, I'm going to stop asking tag-questions; they just take the "focus" away from the real issue.) And here is the real issue: What gives you the right to go fishing during a Republican-caused government shutdown? May the "tyranny of the majority" be with you!
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What party are you speaking of ? I'm not stupid enough to belong to any political party. I am joining a fishing party this weekend and for your benefit I promise to bring up how we plan on paying for Bush's war. Hopefully that will allow you to better rationalize Obama's unending spending spree. A word of caution though, the "Blame Bush" mantra doesn't work on the independent thinkers I fish with.
I think a better option would be for you to take your little ADHD pill so you can better focus on the here and now. Last count debt was 16.9 trillion. How is your guy Obama going to make it go away or even go down ? He got his tax hikes to a point where we've seen record revenue collection and despite this he's still running 700 billion in the red.
Remember, he promised a balanced budget by his second term ? How's he going to make it happen ?
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One can easily see why agitprop and others excelled in their liberal speakcing studies but probably failed any math classes. The total vote in the 2012 elction was 129.215million votes of whcih President Obama reeceived 65.917million votes(51.01%0 and the rest of the candidates received 63.298million votes(48.99%) which means Presdient Obama won by only 2.619 million votes over the other candidates. Seems the IRS keeps picking the wrong people to audit - should start checking those who have high marks in liberal speech classes.
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Bean Soup, JReader! As the article that begins this thread says, "Figures don't lie." That, of course, depends on who's cooking them. Why haven't you and your party paid for the Bush/Cheney wars? As taxpayers, we can't be that selective, can we? The people can't (and I can't personally) pick and choose which "charitable" wars they want to fund. Pay up and your anti-Obama figures will change dramatically. Gut the Pentagon budget instead of human and social services, and the figures are reduced exponentially. Do a word-problem with "defense" $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$! Oh, you of short memory! Who won the election by 5,000,000 votes? Gonna argue with that figure? If figures don't lie, The Journal sure does. Keep studyin'.
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What perspective are you trying to portray ? That Obama knows how to exercise fiscal restraint ?
He is the most costly president in our history based on the debt he has incurred during his presidency. You can choose what ever perspective you wish and nothing will change that fact.
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Thank you for being embarrassed for me, Puke. But all my observations appear to be true, of you and of your take on the "issues." Say, did you used to work at the Renaissance Festival? (Puke&Snot) Are you then a Renaissance man, a person of wide interests who is an expert in several fields? If so, you should know better. I asked you a simple question: Are you a member of the party that has gutted the Voting Rights Act and the Civil Rights Act? It was not a rhetorical question. How about this: Do you vote Republican or Democratic? If you identify with the Republicans, you are complicit in their regressive, undemocratic, and downright harmful agenda. Don't lecture me on facts that you just happen to disagree with! Here, hear! I got it: Are you a Repugnant? And, if so, what kind or breed? Keep studyin'.
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Well...yes, I can see where "movement" and "flushed" would be appropriate words to be used in the context of the TP party.
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You are embarrassing yourself agitprop. Come back if you ever stumble upon a clue. Maybe you can start by Google searching who promoted and who filibustered the Civil Right Act. I'm sure you won't find what you would expect.
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Integrity: Are you of the party that has gutted the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act? If so, you're part of the ongoing REPUBLICAN RUSE, and are engaged in Un-American activities.
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The elites, establishment republicans and RINO's who tried to co-opt the movement have been flushed from the Tea Party. Sorry Auntydem, try to keep up, or quit doing selective research.
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A 2012 study funded by the National Cancer Institute of the National Institute of Health found that Freedomworks and Americans for Prosperity were once a single organization called Citizens for a Sound Economy. CSE was founded in 1984 by David and Charles Koch when tobacco companies began to invest in third party groups to fight excise taxes on cigarettes, as well as health studies finding a link between cancer and secondhand cigarette smoke.
In 2002, the Kochs and tobacco-backed CSE designed and made public the first Tea Party Movement website under the web address usteaparty dot com. In September 2011 the U.S. Tea Party site was taken offline. According to the DNS registry, the web address is now owned by Freedomworks.
The "grassroots" movement was created by billionaires and large corporations with little interest in fighting for the rights of the common person, but instead using the common person to fight for their own agenda.
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Name the lobbyist or government political elite organization that the Tea Party movement is associated with. They are a grass roots organization started by people who are sick of our overarching, overreaching federal government.
I am not a member, and I have never attended any of their events, but I do know that they are the exact opposite of what you think, and have been told they are.
People are starting to wake up to the fact that our country is being controlled by the elite political class, with not a nickel's worth of difference between the progressive democrats and the establishment republicans. LOSERS ALL!
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My comment also applies to the Tea Party. They are owned by lobbyists, too.
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Middleclass, are you a closet Tea Party Patriot? I think you just articulated their platform.
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Voting out all the incumbents will do no good since the same lobbyists and party insiders will still be in Washington like they have been for decades. Most of our legislators are merely puppets to their party leaders and are bought and paid for by lobbyists.
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Zorro, you fail to understand, well, pretty much everything, but in this case, you don't get the fact that you don't pay interest on percentage of increase, you pay interest on the raw dollars. Reagan was a long ways from the financial tipping point. Unfortunately, this president has found it and we won't have to wait for our grandkids, we are all screwed now.
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JR-what is the point of your word problem other than to prove me right? I clearly asked in my post which of the previous 5 presidents had increased the greatest percentage. So thanks for confirming the facts I posted anyway
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ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece's finance minister says he believes Greece's battered economy will begin to recover starting next year, with the country's massive unemployment rate starting to fall from the end of 2014 onwards.
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Norquist pledge can send us over the cliff
If those who signed it believe compromise is heresy, we will end up with no budget deal.
The Republicans who signed the no-tax increase pledge -- the one put together by anti-tax strategist Grover Norquist -- have no room to maneuver when it comes to compromising to avoid the fiscal cliff.
Norquist is the real force behind the Republican Party's strategy when it comes to the talks to avoid the cliff. He has made it clear to anyone who signed the pledge, and that's pretty much every Republican, that they will be embarrassed and shamed out of their "impure" thoughts. They will be forced to get back in line, or risk being outed as closet Democrats who favor bigger government and higher taxes.
In other words, those who signed an allegiance to Norquist have no choice but to send us over the cliff. They are duty-bound to do so, frankly, regardless of whether they like it. They took the pledge; they have to swallow the cliff medicine.
Unless the pledge is broken by those who signed it, there won't be enough votes to put through a package to avoid the cliff.
Put aside for a moment the issue of whether you hate President Obama or like him. I know, I know -- that's virtually an impossibility these days. But accept the view that the president will not accept any deal that does not have tax increases.
Then accept that Norquist, who is by far the most powerful ideological force behind the Republican Party, will not allow those who signed the pledge to get out of it without a promise that they'll be fired by their constituents.
Assuming these two factors, there will be no choice. We will have to get the onerous austerity package -- the one that was created to give us Spain-like budget cuts and tax increases -- even though we are nowhere as profligate and anti-tax as the Spanish had been before their forced cliff jump.
Now, I am sure many of you say, "Wait, why doesn't the president have to give? Why doesn't he have to surrender to Grover Norquist, too, in order to get a deal done? Why doesn't he have to bend his will?"
Don't laugh, but when I pulled up with Norquist, an old acquaintance from college, he marveled at how obtuse the president was not to see that we need to prevent tax increases. He appears to believe that, if the president were to sign the no-tax-increase pledge and then go with the program cuts wanted by the Republicans, there will be no deficit and the U.S. will grow to the sky.
That's my summary of Norquist's view, whether Norquist thinks that's accurate or not. You can't help but draw that conclusion.
Here's the issue with our obstinate president. He campaigned and won on a pledge to raise taxes and cut spending. Norquist didn't campaign. He didn't win. The president is all hung up on his pledge -- the one that the voters agreed with.
The fact is, again, regardless of whether you like him, the president has said he will be willing to cut spending. He awaits the Republican anti-spending plan. If they propose one, I think he will agree with some of it, provided that the Republicans agree to some tax increases. It is called "compromise" where the president comes from.
Where Norquist comes from, it is called "heresy." No compromise is allowed. That, to me, is why the only hope for a deal is to have the pledge broken in favor of avoiding the fiscal cliff. Norquist doesn't care about the consequences of the cliff; he cares about exacting the consequences of violating the pledge.
I think we have to stop obfuscating. If you think the no tax-increase-pledge must be upheld, then you can't believe in compromise. If you can't believe in compromise -- which, in this case, would mean tax increases and spending cuts -- then enjoy the cliff jump, because it simply must occur.
I'll have more on what that world looks like later in the day. But let's just say that, if you like stocks going higher, you want the pledge broken. If you want them lower, then go with the pledge.
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This "fiscal cliff" is not a sham, nor smoke and mirrors..It's real, VERY REAL.
And some are "hung up" on Fast and Furious and Benghazi...That's your "smoke and mirrors."
We have had some children and young parents(about 6) get killed around here in car crashes over the last couple months...
Do you think I am real concerned about 1 Ambassador, and 2-3 Contracted Security people dying in Benghazi...?
They should not have been in Libya ANYWAY....It was an Ego trip for all of them..
Sweet Geezus.....Earlier comment I had Clinton trying to kill Obama, that has since been corrected and now reads Osama, as in bin Laden...I need more coffee.
And about these Wars.....THOSE THAT PROFIT from them, should have to FUND them, with their own money and FAMILY members....If so, all wars would stop in a matter of days.
The days of Kings and Knights marching at the front..Disappeared eons ago.
Better now to go over the fiscal cliff
look at it this way the national deficit is about 1.8 trillion and as more and more baby boomers retire and minimum wage slum workers replace them the deficit is only going to grow bigger.
To trim $1 trillion over 10 years or 100 billion a year (even this does not start right away but in a couple of years) is not going to put a dent in the national deficit it will grow by this amount or more each year
We are so doomed folks looking only two years out the deficit will hit $2.5 trillion and only get worse.
The policticians are not telling you the truth. The Federal Reserve is having to buy US debt just to keep the country afloat. And those mafia guys are not going to do it forever.
Big problem we have is People like you MG.....You and Ilk are still screaming, Marxist, Socialist, 57 Donkeys and Leech class..
And on the other side, we have the 47%,people that hate the Rich, blame all their problems on the Elite, can't or won't get a job...And are yelling gimmee,gimmee,gimmee..And are tree huggers.
I wouldn't want to sit down at that Poker table, would you ??
BUT, we have re-elected this President, so we have to move on, and use some sense in doing so.
I would rather take a pledge from lawmakers that any new war is coming with a war tax in exact amount of the war chest and for the duration. If you compare to the family budget the "rain-day funds" are put aside when the sun shines (and that was in 2000) and not when heavy rains are on us.
This way or that we will have to pay for the war we approved as a whole to profit few.
America was attacked during the Bush Administration. While I lament for those killed in the 9/11 crashes, no one can deny that paper and button pushing FREAKS took us administratively over and drove us to today's brink of ruin. The BELL TOLLS, it tolls for connivers and jivers who didn't want to really work for a living but assumed themselves worthy of the perks AND for those who made wages and salaries for their working life and now condemn those who do now. Time for change has passed. Time for CORRECTION is here. ZERO tolerance for the Norquist thugs and the GOP Adverse Agenda.
Geezus christ, You all want to get partisan about this right out of the GATE...
You accuse Obama as a "my way or the highway" President about his policies...
YES, we know for a FACT, that is not the case with Boehner and the little boys,plus the TP'ers.
Sure we know that to be true, Right?.....YOU WANT TO PUT US RIGHT BACK to square one..
That is STUPID..
Funny, it was okay with Conservatives and Republicans, when "little Bushy" said, " I've got Political Capital" after being elected instead of appointed by SCOTUS...yeah you remember that don't you ??
Then he spent it and us, on the rest of TWO WARS...For absolutely NO REASONS..
Neither Bush 1 or Bushy 2 knew anything about fighting Wars in the MiddleEast, that was obvious.
The second time around was the kid, trying to SAVE FACE for his Daddy..They both were bunglers.
At least Clinton kept us out of almost WW3..which is about what this is now...He tried getting Osama a couple times....Damn near got him once...And they were doing it on the "sneak" as we should have....We DO NOT need to kill (or get them killed) 100s of thousands and 1000s of our own...
To get ONE or TWO people....Serves no useful purpose and everyone hates us for it.
Clinton knew that...And was one hell of a lot smarter or Political, when he made the deals with Republicans and they all stepped across for the "Good Times" we had.
Along comes Bush....We get "blown up" because of Bush Family ties to the ME and the Saudis, and "no controls" on Israel; It was a vendetta from the beaten down al Kaida and bin Laden...We knew it was coming.....And it has put us where we are today..So give this President a break.
Final consumption sales tax only - no item or person exempt – When a family goes into a grocery store and buys $100 in groceries and the clerk adds $5 for local tax, $7 for county, $15 for state tax, $35 for federal tax and $45 to pay off the federal debt, the crap will come out of the American peoples head about the cost of government.
Then give the American people the right to directly decide what they are willing to buy through government, (by pass congress). Socialism, liberalism, high government spending will end. In 4 years the American people will reduce government spending by 35% and increase the productivity of our tax dollars by 400%
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Thirteen years ago Intuitive Surgical's da Vinci robot was hailed as a revolution in the operating room, triggering a hot IPO and an even hotter stock. At its peak, the stock traded at nearly $600, versus around $500 now.
But with first quarter earnings reported Thursday, critics were scrutinizing the numbers for any signs of weakness.
First quarter revenue, reported after Thursday's market close, beat on the top and bottom lines, but there was a hitch: Procedure growth of 18 percent trailed analyst expectations of around 21 percent.
Procedure growth is a critical metric—one closely watched by investors looking for any sign that the mounting controversy and legal issues over injuries and deaths allegedly related to da Vinci procedures are affecting the company's growth.
Sales growth in recent quarters has slowed, but at 23 percent in each of the last two quarters is robust by most standards. Driving gains in recent quarters, in part, has been increasing use of the da Vinci for hysterectomies and other gynecological procedures.
"We are pleased with our first quarter revenue and earnings growth. Despite a concerted effort by vocal critics of robotic surgery, support remains strong among patients, surgeons and hospitals," CEO Gary Guthart said in the company's earnings release. "Da Vinci Surgery has clinically proven benefits in offering a minimally invasive option to a broader group of patients than traditional technologies."
But as more reports of complications have come to light, the da Vinci debate is heating up.
In late February, the FDA launched a probe calling for voluntary information from hospitals and surgeons using the da Vinci, in an effort to determine "if the rise in reports may be a true reflection of problems." Speaking at an investor meeting in early March, the company said, "The relationship we have with the FDA has been a long and very strong relationship."
In mid-March the American Congress of Obstetricians and and Gynecologists issued a statement, warning that "studies show there is a learning curve with new surgical technologies, during which there is an increased complication rate."And five days later, the Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine weighed in with an advisory citing an "increasing number of reports of patient complications associated with robot-assisted surgery."
In a statement to CNBC, Intuitive said: "In any definitive treatment for complex disease, such as surgery of the cancerous prostate, heart, or other major organs there are risks of complications. Robotic surgery has proven benefits in reducing the risk and complications associated with open surgical procedures thereby extending the benefits of minimally invasive surgery to a broader population of patients. Overall, adverse event rates are very low. Da Vinci surgery has been shown to be safer than the open surgery alternatives in numerous independent large scale, peer reviewed studies."
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I have been a player since age eight, now nearing fifty with many years playing off and on. My wife found it fitting to gift to me for our ten year anniversary. I can't say enough about the quality and production of an artist inspired Strat. I played an Ibanez copy Les Paul in my youth and kept it forever. The feel and sound of this instrument drew me out of a long, long quietness to explore and exercise my desire to rip, riff and roar a bit. The Texas special pickups are beefy and the feel of the oval neck and Pau Ferro board are superb (never was a fan of solid maples, maybe just me). The left bridge tremolo I am getting used to. I just LOVE this critter. I say at least check it out. I am impressed and love exploring what it and I can do.
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Customers finally start coming back to the Diner and Heath threatens to explode as he deals with Bianca's revelation about her affair with Zac.
Casey deals with the news and Zac faces his troubles. Photo highlights for episodes 5946 - 5950.
Zac and Hannah's strained relationship could be on the mend and Zac's parenting skills are put to the test when Evie plays up at school. Heath struggles to deal with Bianca's...
Zac begs Bianca to come back to work in this exclusive sneak peek.
Ricky finally reveals the truth to Brax, see how he responds in this exclusive sneak peek!
Old wounds come to light this week. Photo highlights for episodes 5941 - 5945
Uncle Brax meets Harley and Heath explodes over Bianca's revelation of an affair.
For one of these brothers, their life has been a lie...is blood all that holds Brax, Heath and Casey together?
Brax says he realizes sometimes the past should be left behind, but does Ricky really agree? Watch this exclusive sneak peek.
Irene comes to check on the new baby and see how Bianca and Heath are settling in, in this exclusive sneak peek.
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Thursday, July 28th, 2011 Stories in The Daily Standard
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CELINA - Celina residents may get another chance to vote on the city's income tax rate. Resident Richard Crider on Wednesday morning delivered an initiative petition to the city auditor's office to get an issue on the November . . .
ST. MARYS - A local optometrist awaiting trial for allegedly raping a woman in 2009 was charged Wednesday with rape and sexual molestation of a child. Douglas Jay Wine, who turns 52 years old today, was arrested Wednesday morni . . .
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