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"Freedom" – what a pleasant word!
If freedom is defined by a state's non-participation in economic processes, as the Heritage Foundation suggests, then Haiti today would win first prize, as after the earthquake, it has no government at all.
Last week the Heritage Foundation published the 2010 Index of Economic Freedom. According to that rating, Hong Kong is the world's freest economy, it is much freer than the USA. Armenia is freer than Brazil, Estonia is much freer than Germany, and Kazakhstan is freer than India. Russian economy is not free, Tajikistan outstrips it.
It is interesting that the authors of the 2010 Index, while supposing a direct connection between the level of "economic freedom" in a country and its wellbeing, do not care about the countries' real achievements. When reading the list one can see that there is no correlation between the countries' positions in the rating and their economic progress. It is impossible to say that all the "free" economies prosper, while "non-free" countries are on the decline. But the contrary cannot be stated either. For example, the rating of Latvia, which faces bankruptcy, is far higher than India, which develops dynamically. On the other hand, Japan and Germany outstrip impoverished Armenia only by 1 or 2 points (those three countries are the rating leaders).
If to consider the 2010 Index more carefully, it is getting clear that its authors used a strange system of factors. Evidently, the liberal ideologists believe that the economic freedom is the lack of the state control and of its interference in the economic processes. But, at the same time, there is such a factor as "protection of the property rights". I wonder how a state will protect those rights with interfering in nothing. And what does the freedom have to do with it?
Protection of somebody else's property from my encroachments is limitation of my freedom. For example, I like my neighbour's cap. I take the cap from him and put it on. So I act as a free man, who is not limited by any state rules. If my neighbour protests, this is his problem. He is also a free man, and can fight with me, run away or take a cap from anyone who is weaker than he is.
Is it cynical? Not at all. Thomas Hobbes, a founder of the modern political philosophy, whose works fundamentally influenced the formation of the liberal thought, described the freedom in such a way. It was quite clear to the classics of liberalism that laws limited freedom, that the power of law and the freedom of persons, including the economic players, contradict each other, but the development of society requires balance between these factors and freedom has to be limited if we want to preserve it. However, modern liberal thinkers are not interested in those details.
Meanwhile, the freedom itself may be a terrible phenomenon. If to return to the initial thesis and to declare a state's non-participation in economic processes to be the freedom criterion, then today the maximum of potential freedom is in Haiti, which, after the earthquake, has no government at all. But the economic life continues to exist. The stolen humanitarian aid can be sold perfectly according to the market laws for the price that buyers can offer, to those who have money or some barter resources. Therefore, those, who do not have enough money or the resources, can die of starvation unless they have guns by means of which the people can solve their problems.
True, here is a question that is unpleasant for liberal thinkers: what is of more importance – the property rights or the human rights? The theorists believe that those two things automatically imply each other, so one should not discuss those subjects. But the practitioners have their own problems – for example, they should decide if it is permissible to open fire on starving people trying to ransack food depots. If to allow them to pilfer the food, which they cannot afford to buy, what about the property right? And would their killing be a violation of human rights?
Haiti's experience visually illustrates an old, but unpopular fact: the bourgeois standards and rules are effective only in a well-established bourgeois society, because they are created only for this kind of society. In the same way, the football rules are good for football, but they are bad for hockey.
The rules themselves do not create the society. The rules are being formed simultaneously with the society, but it is impossible to build the social relations system if only to proclaim the rules and values or to pass the laws. It is extremely naïve to think that if you introduce in your country the official standards inherent in the developed bourgeois society, like the Western society, you can create a European democracy. The situation would be completely different – the rules would not be effective. At best, they will be ignored.
The rules of the respectable bourgeois society are ineffective in the earthquake-destroyed Haiti, and they would be ineffective in a peripheral capitalist society, which the modern Russia is, as well. They were ineffective in Western Europe about three hundred years ago, when the bourgeois system was imposed on the people through violence, repressions, revolutions and dictatorships. The societies were always and everywhere modernized in such a way.
Only when the people were trained against their will to a certain system, when the resistance of opponents was suppressed and alternative standards, rules and values were abolished, when the government intimidated everybody – then the foundations of the freedom in the respectable bourgeois society were laid down.
Maybe, it is not necessary to repeat this way for such a long time. Three hundred years is a too long period for our rapid life. For example, fifty years may be enough. But the question is if it makes sense to repeat that way in the first place.
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Bob Olson doesn't have a crystal ball about the timing of new hotels, but he may have something even better – 35 years of hard-won experience in the construction and development business.
Since 1979, when he started R.D. Olson Construction, Olson has been through every recession, every construction boom and every bust. He learned to see the telltale signs of recovery when everyone else was looking the other way.
So in 2010, as the hotel industry retreated into survival mode, Olson landed his first new project since cutting his pipeline in 2006 in advance of the recession. It was a Courtyard by Marriott in Oceanside.
"Truth be told, a lot of people thought it was the wrong move," Olson said. But hotels have a 2 1/2-year lead time, and "I thought the economy would turn."
In 2012, when the industry was just beginning to ramp up again, Olson completed four hotels, followed by seven in 2013. It was the beginning of an industry rush. Altogether, 20 hotel projects are in the pipeline in Orange County and 42 in Los Angeles, according to STR, a hotel industry research firm. That is the most local hotels underway since 2009.
Current projects on the drawing board include:
• The new Grand Wilshire Hotel in Los Angeles. A mixed-use office, retail and hotel project, the 73-story, 900-room development is being touted as the largest building west of the Mississippi River.
• In Anaheim, 14 hotels are in various stages of planning and construction. A 120-suite Springhill Suites by Marriott opened March 1.
• Olson is putting finishing touches on the eight-story, 210-room Courtyard by Marriott in the Irvine Spectrum, due to open in June.
• Olson plans to break ground in June on the eight-story, 250-room Pacific City Hotel in Huntington Beach. It should open in 2016.
• Olson was just selected to build the Lido House Hotel, a boutique property on the site of the former Newport Beach civic center that's in the early stages of planning.
This kind of building frenzy typically has marked a peak in the past, with the industry soon after finding itself with a glut of rooms.
Jan Freitag, a senior executive at STR, cited a quote by the late hotel developer John Q. Hammons about the industry's tendency to rationalize why there isn't an oversupply: "The industry isn't overbuilt, it's underdemolished."
But even with all the construction underway, hotel demand nationwide appears to be ahead of supply for the next year or two, Freitag said.
STR data show new-room supply is expected to increase 1.2 percent this year and 1.6 percent in 2015. The supply average over the past 25 years is 1.9 percent.
By STR's count, U.S. room demand is expected to continue to outstrip supply, increasing 2.3 percent this year and 2.1 percent in 2015.
"If the American economy grows and GDP grows and unemployment declines, room demand is going to continue to increase," Freitag said.
Alan X. Reay, an Irvine hotel consultant and broker, noted the industry fell far behind demand over the past five years. He said there also are some built-in market constraints in Southern California, including lack of available land and financing, as well as regulatory hurdles.
With hotel values increasing – Atlas reported a 37.6 percent increase in the total dollar volume of Southern California sales last year – and the average hotel property now 30 years old, Reay said, there is also more interest in tearing down properties and rebuilding from the ground up, which will replace existing rooms.
Kory Kramer of Irvine-based Pacific Hospitality Group, which is in a joint venture with Olson to develop and operate the Pacific City Hotel, thinks a distinction needs to be made between four-diamond luxury hotels like the one in Huntington Beach and select service properties like Courtyards by Marriott and Residence Inns. Select service properties provide limited service and include extended-stay and all-suite hotels.
The Pacific City Hotel, a project that was eight years in the making, will cater to a different business and leisure clientele that demands first-class service and amenities.
Every room will have an ocean view and the latest in Wi-Fi and television technology. The hotel will feature a top-of-the-line spa and fitness center, an outdoor courtyard with water features and fire pits, one of the largest ballrooms in Orange County, which will open out to an oceanfront event lawn, and a rooftop restaurant and bar overlooking the ocean.
It will be part of Pacific Hospitality's Meritage Collection of upscale properties, which includes the Estancia La Jolla Hotel & Spa, the Balboa Bay Resort, the Bacara Resort & Spa in Santa Barbara and The Meritage Resort and Spa in Napa.
Because few coastal sites are left to be developed, Kramer said, Pacific City is the only four-diamond luxury, ocean-view hotel project currently planned on the California coast.
"It's the preeminent principle of real estate – it's all about location," Kramer said.
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"When people talk about the sexual "revolution," they can make the changes in sexual mores seem more intentional than they were, more like a strategically planned uprising with a neat manifesto. In some ways, it was: the feminist movement did call for, and then achieve, greater sexual freedom for women, and access to birth control and abortion as rights. But unintended consequences, and particularly economic forces, have played perhaps an even bigger role in arranging the new sexual landscape…"
Basically, she argues that, sure, women get to have more sex without stigma now. But the types of sex, and the conditions of having sex, are still determined by forces beyond their control (men, capitalism, etc.). The article also makes the point that sexual freedom has been far more damaging to lower economic classes than to the middle and upper class.
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It's great that women can feel free to have sex when they choose, it just still doesn't seem that women are on the same sexual footing as men. Unfortunately, too much sexual freedom isn't a problem we've come close to having yet.


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Some people were actually dumb enough to paypal him money or give him MS points codes for a title shot simply because they wanted to platinum it, only to have him disconnect his ethernet cable once the fight started and walk away with the points/money AND his stupid imaginary title. Other times he'd actually fight the person who paid him for a round or two, before headbutting them until he got disqualified and kept the belt.
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Rasmussen College Director Comments on Technology Bubble on WOFL
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Amy Kaufeldt: All right, Mike. Thanks. iPhones, HTC phones, BlackBerrys, there is a whole bunch more out there. Are there too many? We have so many different types of gadgets that do practically the same thing. Is that going to hurt us in the long run? You remember back in the 1990s, the Internet business boomed big time, but not too long after, the bubble burst.
So could that happen for technology? Here with us this morning to dive into that issue is Rasmussen College Technology expert, Hap Aziz. Thanks so much. Good to see you, Hap. Thanks for coming back.
Hap Aziz: Thanks, Amy.
Amy Kaufeldt: All right. We all remember the 1990s. The internet bubble, and when it burst, it wasn't pretty. A lot of people lost their jobs.
Hap Aziz:That's right. Actually, the Internet bubble burst on March 10th of 2000, so almost 11 years ago.
Amy Kaufeldt: Wow.
Hap Aziz: Part of it is understanding what happened with the run-up, how the bubble inflated. A lot of it was built on business models that said we wanted to expand quickly, not necessarily selling any product. One famous example is Pets.com. They had the sock puppet commercial on the Super Bowl, I think it's Super Bowl XXXIV. They tried to sell pets products. They were selling at a loss. They spent roughly 20 times the money on marketing than they did actually on bringing in revenue. But every time they sold something, they took a loss, because they were trying to build mind share. That is something that companies today are trying not to do, which is spend more money than they bring in.
Amy Kaufeldt: So we basically, you feel like we have learned our lesson from the Internet bubble, because it wasn't that long ago. Perhaps that won't happen with technology?
Hap Aziz: We like to think that. There are some companies today that are driving the technology boom that survived the i\Internet bubble back then. Google, Amazon, they are a couple of examples. Google does a lot of technology acquisition and it also drives the Android operating system. They are very careful now when they vet businesses to see which they should buy, which they should pass on. Also, companies are looking at generating actual revenue. Facebook, I just read, its valuation is now close to $75 billion with a "b".
Amy Kaufeldt: That is amazing.
Hap Aziz: They have a revenue of right now around $2 billion. So rather than losing money hand-over-fist, companies are trying to actually have a business model that sees them bring in revenue.
Amy Kaufeldt: Do we have too many gadgets that all do the same thing? I know we talked about this, with iPads, just a week or two ago. Do we have too many gadgets?
Hap Aziz: We have a great selection of gadgets. I think right now, the cell phone usage in the United States is at 62 million, 34%, 35% of those folks have smart phones and they are downloading applications. What we are seeing is a selection of gadgets that gives the consumer a lot of choice, which is good. We are seeing some gadgets take off, like the iPhone for example or Motorola's Droid devices. Some gadgets don't take off. But what's happening is when those gadgets don't sell, companies are learning and producing gadgets that people actually want. Right now, I wouldn't say that there is a glut of gadgets or too many used. Those gadgets like cell phones and tablets are actually being put to use by people.
Amy Kaufeldt: All right. It is survival of the fittest.
Hap Aziz: It is.
Amy Kaufeldt: All right. Hap Aziz, good to see you, as always, from Rasmussen College.
Hap Aziz: Thank you.
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CBSNews.com General Manager to Become Huffington Post's CEO
Posted on October 2, 2007The New York Times is reporting that Betsy Morgan is leaving her job as the general manager of CBSNews.com to the be the CEO of the Huffington Post. The Huffington Post, aka HuffPo, is the 5th ranked blog on Technorati.
Jeff Jarvis says, "Betsy will turn Arianna's blogging phenom into a real media business." Besty Morgan's bio on CBSNews.com can be found here. The Huffington Post has been morphing itself into more of a general news this year. When they first started they focused primarily on politics. The progressive political angle persists today but the HuffPo also has categories for business, entertainment and "living now" in addition to their political and media news sections.Ms. Morgan will switch from running the Web site for a prominent traditional media organization to running a news Web site that is just over two years old.
"Getting somebody like this to come to our site says a boatload about where the industry is going," said Kenneth Lerer, who has been acting as the chief executive of The Huffington Post and will move up to chairman. He founded the site along with Arianna Huffington, the political commentator.
Ms. Morgan, who is 38 and has an M.B.A. from Harvard, worked in business development at CBS before taking the top post at CBSNews.com in 2005. She said she saw her new role as a business position and not as a journalism position, and added, "It was an opportunity too good to pass up."
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Lisle, IL, United States, 2011/09/21 - The Dogs Love Running! pet care franchise launches another great new location serving the Naperville, Bolingbrook, and Plainfield, Illinois areas - DogsLoveRunning.com.
Dogs in Naperville, Bolingbrook, and Plainfield, Illinois have something new to bark about: Dogs Love Running!, the nations most exciting home-based pet franchise, has opened a new location with owners Scott and Sandy Patton.
As of September, 2011, the Pattons will be offering dog running and walking services as well as providing pet sitting for all types of pets in the Naperville, Bolingbrook, and Plainfield areas. And, for a limited time, theyre offering a free trial so you can check them out with absolutely no cost to you.
Dogs Love Running! is the only dog walking franchise in the nation that specializes in dog running and pet exercise. As life-long pet owners and runners ourselves, we have experienced the benefits of proper exercise for both us as well as our pets, says Sandy Patton, the new co-owner.
By offering customers the unique and valuable service of actually running with their dogs, the Pattons can give clients pets a way to burn off excess energy. With high-mileage runs of up to an hour in length, even the most energetic dogs will come back tired and happy.
Its hard to find a veterinarian or dog trainer who wouldnt agree that giving your dog the proper amount of exercise is one of the best things you can do for your four-legged friend. But with crazy work schedules, long commutes, endless family activities, and the hectic events of life the way it is today, we realize that not everyone can provide their dog with a regular walking or running routine. Thats where we can help, Scott adds.
Sandy states that our visits can last 15, 30, 45, or 60 minutes so its easy for a client to find just the right amount of time for their particular situation. If you need a quick pet sitting bathroom break, we can do that. If you need an hour of hard-core running, we can do that, too.
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Corbett swings budget ax at schools, colleges
Proposes slashing $866 million from current spendingMarch 8, 2011 9:30 PM
HARRISBURG -- Making good on his promise not to raise taxes, Gov. Tom Corbett this morning released a $27.3 billion budget, slashing $866 million out of current spending through cuts in virtually every spending area.
The cuts bring spending back to 2008-09 levels.
Public schools, state-related universities and the Department of Community and Economic Development took the biggest hits.
The budget reduces basic education funding from $5.8 billion to $5.3 billion. It provides for school choice vouchers, while asking districts to negotiate with unions to freeze teachers' salaries and to eliminate salary bumps for those who earn master's degrees.
DCED funding, meanwhile, would be slashed from $337.9 million to $223.6 million under the Corbett plan. Lawmakers are expected to put up a fight to have funding restored to that department, which has been a pass-through for what has become known as "walking-around-money" -- grants for legislators' pet projects.
Support for the four state-related universities, which include the University of Pittsburgh, was halved in the budget proposal. It calls for Pitt to get $80.2 million. This year's budget provides Pitt with $160.5 million in state money plus $7.5 million in federal stimulus funds.
Penn State would see a similar cut, from the current year's $334 million down to $165 million.
Within minutes of Mr. Corbett's budget address to the Legislature, officials with Penn State characterized the governor's proposed cuts as "devastating" and warned they would "spell catastrophic change for students and (the) state."
Penn State President Graham Spanier scheduled a news conference tomorrow to discuss what the university described as "the Commonwealth's apparent push toward privatization of public higher education, which will force a significant tax on all tuition-paying families of in-state students" attending Pennsylvania's public universities.
"A funding gap this large is going to fundamentally change the way we operate, from the number of students we can educate, to the tuition we must charge, to the programs we offer and the services we can provide, to the number of employees and the research we undertake," Mr. Spanier said.
At Pitt, Chancellor Mark Nordenberg called the proposed cuts "stunningly deep" and warned of a possible substantial increase in the in-state tuition paid by tens of thousands of students.
He said Pitt not only faces loss of 50 percent of its general fund appropriation, or $80 million, but also the elimination of $17 million in state aid to support programs in the health sciences, including the medical school, dental school, Western Psychiatric Institute and the Center for Public Health and Practice.
He said Pitt also stands to lose $9 million in biomedical research support from the tobacco settlement fund on top of more than $7.5 million in federal stimulus funding that expires this year.
Noting that Pitt attracts $800 million annually in research that supports 28,000 jobs directly or indirectly, he said the proposed budget was a "puzzling retreat" from the governor's own agenda of job creation.
Mr. Nordenberg said the governor's cuts target a sector "that helped shield this region from the starkest effects of the recession."
The Corbett budget also cuts funding in half for the State System of Higher Education, which includes California, Clarion, Edinboro, Indiana, Slippery Rock and nine other universities. Funding is budgeted at $233 million, down from $465 million.
While introducing his budget today, Mr. Corbett said:
"To the people of Pennsylvania, the taxpayers who sent us here, I want to say something you haven't heard often enough from this building: We get the picture. It's your money."
He asked public school employees to accept wage freezes and said he would be looking for salary roll backs and freezes for state employees, as well as increasing their contributions to healthcare benefits.
The budget calls for eliminating 1,500 state jobs. Acting Budget Secretary Charles Zogby said that 500 of the jobs would include positions at New Castle Youth Development Center as well as forensic psychiatry jobs at state hospitals in Torrance and Norristown. In New Castle, the plan is to consolidate two treatment units into one, which could result in roughly 100 job cuts.
The state hospitals, meanwhile, could lose about 400 forensic psychiatrists. Those jobs would be contracted out to private companies. Mr. Zogby said many of those 400 could likely find work with the private companies.
Meanwhile, Mr. Corbett wants to hire 230 more state troopers, to boost ranks in advance of significant anticipated trooper retirements in coming years.
Environmental protection funding would decrease from $147 million to $140 million, even as more and more energy companies are introducing chemicals into the ground as they drill for natural gas.
His budget is counting on $65 million out of the oil and gas lease fund. It is unclear how much of that would come from royalties -- fees for gas produced from wells already operating on state land.
Current permit fees and fines on gas drillers are not set to rise. That permit process is being reviewed to see how to reduce the current application backlog.
And in his speech, Mr. Corbett reiterated his opposition to taxing the gas that comes from the Marcellus Shale, saying the state should try to make itself the center of the drilling boom for Marcellus and the underlying Utica Shale.
Meanwhile, the budget proposes to increase welfare funding by $607.7 million and health funding by $61.5 million. Military and Veterans Affairs, meanwhile, gets a $19.6 million boost, while state police get a $10 million increase and the Department of Revenue gets $8 million more.
The Corbett budget maintains $60 million in film production tax credits, the same level as in the current budget. Film industry officials had said that as many as four productions would have considered leaving the state if the tax credit program had ended.
The state's research and development tax credit for businesses would rise by $15 million, for a total of $55 million.
Most line items, though, were decreased in an effort to hold the line on taxes.
"Central to maintaining fiscal discipline is recognizing that our citizens know best how to spend their own money and refraining from imposing any additional tax burdens," according to a budget summary handed out to reporters this morning.
Some programs would get no funding at all, if Mr. Corbett has his way. Those include the Science is Elementary Program introduced by former Gov. Ed Rendell, teachers' professional development for the arts, flood control projects, regional cancer institutes, poison control centers and programs for people with diabetes, lupus and epilepsy.
In a letter accompanying the summary Mr. Corbett said he aimed to protect public safety, maintain human services and reduce the size of government.
The budget, he wrote, "was crafted with honesty and restraint. Many historic programs that were not critical, [not] essential or did not have a statewide impact have been proposed for elimination. What remains is a more limited but vigorous government."
Democrats have cautioned that a budget with so many cuts merely transfers the tax burden to the local level. School districts, they've said, will have to raise property taxes to compensate for state funding losses.
Mr. Corbett wants to mitigate those concerns by requiring local referenda whenever school budgets seek to raise property taxes above the rate of inflation. State law already requires that, but loopholes allow districts to skirt the requirement too often, according to budget documents.
Administration officials also cautioned that the state's economic recovery is still underway. While current revenue receipts have come in $243 million ahead of estimates, they expect that surplus to be only $78 million by the June 30 end of the fiscal year.
Acting Budget Secretary Charles Zogby said the spending plan meets essential needs without overburdening taxpayers.
"A lot of people did not think it could be done without new taxes, without new fees," Mr. Zogby said. "The governor has put together a very reasoned manageable budget today."
Bill Schackner contributed. Harrisburg Bureau Chief Tracie Mauriello: 717-787-2141 or email@example.com . Laura Olson: 717-787-4254 or firstname.lastname@example.com . First Published March 8, 2011 4:30 PM


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Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free. Ronald Reagan.
Obama keeps chipping away at our Constitution, weakening our Nation by his blatant and total disregards for the laws of our land. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has further enforced Obama law upon our Country stating that the Obama Administration does not and will not consider Congress when making decisions on waging war. This dictator shows evidence of a narcistic personality disorder!
In a nutshell, Panetta says Obama doesn't have the responsibility to inform Congress concerning acts of war, but probably would inform Congress about war decisions just as a courtesy. Obama and team just took our Congress out of the picture and trashed our Constitution. This is a violation of our War Powers Act, which is self- evident when Obama placed our troops in harm's way in Libya; he intentionally bi-passed Congress once again acting as a defiant dictator.
Recently the Obama Administration attacked our religious freedom with the Government's contraception mandate. In an effort to cover up his autocratic leadership and not ruffle the feathers of Americans, he quickly disguised the mandate as a women's right issue. Obama is trying to make us compromise and relinquish our religious freedom as handed down by our forefathers many years ago.
We're quickly being forced into submission by Obama and no one seems to be looking out for our Nation. Democrats and Republicans have refused to stand up to this dictator; there only response in three years is an occasional 3-ring circus with a bunch of slack jawed clowns performing for the ring master (Obama.)
Obama is taking absolute control of our lives and finances, we the people have lost our voice. Obama was meticulous in his strategy to take over our Country. First, he took the wind out of our sales by increasing our National Deficit approximately 5 trillion dollars since 2009. We lost our Triple A credit rating increased our debt ceiling and lost millions of jobs, homes and businesses.
He refused to secure our borders and gave the illegal aliens a free ride by enforcing an illegal law upon us giving millions of illegal aliens a "ger out of jail" free card. They are taking our money, our jobs and depriving our kids of their rights.
Obama has taken control of our businesses, stopped business growth creating a Nation of joblessness, bondage and extreme poverty. The poor are growing poorer, the African Americans, Hispanics and our youth are being devoured by this dictator.
Obama is a dictator, we have slipped quickly into a Nation dependent upon his Administration; he has weakened our Military, supported the Muslim Brotherhood, financed terrorists in Egypt, Libya and other Middle East Countries with our money.
In 2012, he is orchestrating a war on women, minority groups, the poor and our youth because they are the only ones who can give him another 4 year term.
He is intimidating them via fear tactics, class warfare and racism because they are the most vulnerable and frankly the ones he perceives as the weakest. As inflation continues to increase and gas prices keep rising, this group of people quickly will fall into the hands of this evil dictator.
Obama has started another mini housing bubble encouraging credit card companies to loan money to those not qualified; this will be another huge burden dropped at the feet of the taxpayer. By stopping deportation of illegal aliens he is increasing our debt and redistributing our money once again.
His class warfare tactics against the wealthy is nothing more than a redistribution of wealth – it has nothing to do with fair share. Obama wants a centralized socialistic Government and he has come a long way in attaining this type Government in a very short period of time.
He wants state controlled markets, Government owned healthcare, control of the wealthy, increased civil rights laws, green energy and most of all he wants a centralized Government that will control our every move from the cradle to the grave.
Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have. Ronald Reagan
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By Jeremy Greenfield, Editorial Director, Digital Book World, @JDGsaid
A decade ago, it would have been unthinkable for an author to self-publish their own work and distribute it to half a dozen of the leading bookstores.
Today, tens of thousands of people are doing it. How things have changed.
One of the people responsible for this revolution in publishing is Mark Coker, the founder and CEO of Smashwords, a Los Gatos, Calif.-based e-bookseller and distributor for agents, publishers and indie authors (those who self-publish). As of this week, Smashwords is distributing 121,000 e-books by 42,000 authors, agents and small publishers to the Nook, Kobo, Apple, Sony, Diesel and Smashwords e-bookstores as well as through Baker & Taylor, which operates the Blio e-reading app. That's about as many books as a typical Barnes & Noble location can hold at one time.
Coker's journey to the world of e-books reads like many others: He and his wife were working on a novel set within the soap opera world. Despite interest from the traditional publishing world, including representation by top agents, Coker was unable to get his book published. Test readers loved the book, but the book wouldn't sell because, as some rejecting publishers put it, soap opera fans weren't book readers.
"I found it frustrating that the whims of a publisher could stand between our book and those who would want to read it," he writes on the Smashwords website.
And so, four years ago, Smashwords was born. The company has been profitable for the past two years and has 13 employees, a number that will grow in 2012.
Coker, 46, has long been an entrepreneur and start-up investor. In 1993, he founded Dovetail Public Relations, a communications firm based in Silicon Valley that specializes in representing start-ups; the company still operates today and Coker is still the owner although he doesn't run the day-to-day operations. In 1999, Coker launched BestCalls.com, which gave retail investors access to company earnings conference calls; it was acquired by Shareholder.com in 2002. He is on the advisory board of GetQuik, a restaurant technology vendor, and is an investor in and former advisor to Flat World Knowledge, an open-source textbook company.
A graduate of the University of California at Berkeley's Haas School of Business where he achieved his bachelor's of science degree in marketing, Coker has also spent some time at IBM as an assembly line worker.
We spoke with Coker about whether agency pricing is good for the book industry as a whole, the biggest challenge facing indie authors today and the two dangerous questions authors are asking publishers.
Related: Learn more about discoverability at the first-ever Digital Book World: Discoverability and Marketing Conference, Sept. 24-25, 2012 in New York
Jeremy Greenfield: Smashwords is now working with over 100,000 titles from about 40,000 authors and publishers. Yet you only have 13 employees right now. How is Smashwords going to expand?
Mark Coker: The level of [e-book] uploads has increased dramatically over the last year. In April, we had our first month of over 9,000 new titles added to Smashwords. We've been increasing every month. By the end of the year, we'll be doing more than 10,000 new titles every single month, and that's a super-conservative estimate. We now have four years experience doing this and our growth is organic, driven by word of mouth. We don't do any marketing.
We're expanding our vetting team. Our vetting team opens up and manually looks at every single book uploaded to Smashwords to check that the book meets formatting requirements of retailers, to make sure that it's legal content and to make sure it's original content. They're looking to enforce all the requirements of the Smashwords style guide. We're at three or four people currently.
We'll continue to add to our vetting team, to our support team and to our technical team throughout the year.
JG: You said that you've been profitable for two years now. Can you give an indication of just how profitable?
MC: Growth has been fantastic. We're selling millions of dollars worth of books every year. Our profitability is healthy and growing. We monitor our profitability very carefully because we're completely self-funded.
We're a private company, so we don't disclose specific profitability or revenue numbers.
We are a corporation and I'm the majority shareholder. The other equity holders are employees. We're preparing to do a stock option plan for all of our employees.
JG: You're someone who has been around Silicon Valley for a while. You know what can happen to a company when it gets an investment – it can help fuel growth and take the company to the next level. Are you currently seeking investors?
MC: No. Currently, we don't need it. We have the finances to fund everything that is on our road-map. Outside funding would help us achieve some of these road-map objectives quicker, but I don't feel like it's holding us back.
One of the great things about being self-funded is that we're completely independent and not subject to the whims of any outside investor. We don't have to worry about an investor peeking over our shoulder or asking us to justify what we're doing. We can focus on doing what we need to do for the long term interests of our authors, shareholders and publishers.
I've been working in Silicon Valley for 20 years, and very rarely do I hear that a CEO loves their venture-capital (VC) backing. Sometimes the VC's interests are not aligned with our own.
JG: How so?
MC: A VC might ask us to start charging authors. We're not here to do that. We're not here to get blood from a turnip. We're here to earn our small margins and put more money in the pockets of authors and publishers.
There are already companies out there that are, for lack of a better word, parasites. They provide these services for a fee. We provide our services for free and that's our way of taking a risk on authors. We take a commission on the books we sell – and it's a small commission – 10% of the retail price.
JG: Speaking of your authors, what's the biggest challenge facing indie authors who want to publish and distribute e-books today?
MC: The biggest challenge is self-restraint. Publishing tools, like Smashwords make it fast, free and easy for any writer anywhere in the world to publish. But we don't make it easy to write a great book. Many writers, intoxicated by the freedom to self-publish, will often release their book before it's ready to be released.
The biggest challenge faced by self-published authors, it's not marketing, it's not discoverability, it's adopting the best practices of the very best publishers. It's about becoming a professional publisher.
If you look at the resources we make available to our authors, most notably the latest e-book that I published, The Secrets to Ebook Publishing Success, we're very focused of elevating the best practices of indie authors, helping to educate them and inspire them through the example of the success of other indie authors. We want to inspire them to up their game.
JG: So, not to cannibalize your sales, but what is the secret to e-book publishing success?
MC: I identified 28 best practices for indie authors. The best thing an indie author can do is write a book that markets itself.
JG: That's hard work. What if you don't have a great book on your hands?
MC: If your book is out there, not selling, getting poor reviews, take an honest look at it. Why is it not selling?
Typically there are a variety of factors. Maybe the cover image is poor or it's poorly edited or you're not marketing it properly.
Readers have always determined what books become best-sellers. It's all about reader word-of-mouth. Influencers like Oprah are amplifiers, but they're still a measure of word of mouth.
One of the magical things about books is that if we read a book that we love, a book that touches our soul, that book becomes an extension of who we are, we wear that book on our sleeves. If that book touched us, we want to share that book with everyone we know and love.
What marketing will do is get you your first readers. But, ultimately, the success of your book is determined not by that initial group of readers but how they react to the book.
In order to achieve virality, that book needs to resonate with every reader. And so every book will have a different viral multiplier. For some books, that first reader becomes one more reader or two readers. For most books, that first reader either becomes the last reader, or, on average, they only manage to convince a half a reader to read the book.
If you've got a book where one reader becomes two readers or four readers before it dies off, then that book can be actively marketed. If you convince a few more readers, each of them will convince a few more.
JG: It all sounds so easy when you break it down like that.
MC: Take J.K. Rowling's [Harry Potter] books. She didn't need a publisher. If she gave her first book to 20 kids in the UK, I guarantee it still would have been a best-seller.
Very few books exhibit that kind of virality, maybe one in 10,000.
Most authors are not writing a book that has that extreme viral potential, which means that the average author needs to focus on viral catalysts, things that can help increase the virality of the book.
I imagine a book is an object and attached to the object you have dials and levers and things you can tweak and turn and twist, things that can increase the availability, discoverability, accessibility, enjoyability to readers.
JG: What's on the dials?
Price. If you price your book too high, you're limiting the accessibility to that book. It's not affordable.
Your e-book cover image. That's the first impression you make to an e-book buyer. A good cover image makes a promise to a reader: This is the book you're looking for. If the cover image doesn't make the right promise, it limits your virality.
The book description. If the book description doesn't adequately sell the book, then that reduces your virality.
An author or publisher has dozens, possibly hundreds of tiny tweaks they can do around the edges that in aggregate increase the availability, accessibility, discoverability and enjoyment of that book.
This is what publishers do.
JG: As you were saying before, indie authors have to learn to act like publishers.
MC: Great publishers know how to package that book and distribute that book and market that book with the right messages to the right audience. When you break it down, it's all the great things that publishers have always done. They do it better for some books than others.
Indie authors need to learn to think like a publisher. There's a lot of expertise that goes into connecting books with readers.
The exciting thing is that in the indie e-book world the rate of information sharing is unprecedented. An indie author can log on to Kindle Boards or mobile read or any online forum or Facebook and they can ask questions and share information – and you see this happening every day. Authors are reporting on their experiments, what's working, what's not working. So you've got all of this information sharing that is just raising the standards of knowledge.
Most of the innovation in publishing now is occurring among these indie authors because they don't have the luxury of multi-hundred-thousand dollar marketing budgets. So, indie authors are forced to do things that don't require money, to think creatively, to take risks.
It's the indie authors who pioneered low pricing for e-books. It's indie authors who pioneered the use of "free" as a promotional tool and a platform tool.
When I look at the books coming in to Smashwords today, the e-book cover images are so much better than they were four years ago. Self published authors are becoming better publishers.
JG: Should the established publishers be worried about this? At the Digital Book World Conference in January, we learned that indie authors took an estimated $100 million from publishers last year – sounds like a lot, but it's a very small percentage of the overall trade book business.
MC: Authors are starting to ask two very dangerous questions from the standpoint of publishers:
What can the publisher do that I can't do for myself? They're saying, "I can publish myself and distribute myself and hire my own editors." The distribution of e-books is now open to all.
And, will it actually harm my ability to reach readers if I work with a large publisher? They're saying, "That large publisher is going to price my book too high, so they're going to price me out of the market. If my publisher insists on pricing my book $9.99 and higher, I'm going to get beat by all the other authors who are priced lower."
In publishers' favor, every single book is a unique product, and price isn't the only consideration for consumers.
But these questions set up publishers to be in a precarious situation.
The secret is now out on how to become a professional publisher. That knowledge is now freely available on main street.
JG: That hasn't stopped publishers from continuing to do what they've always done: publish and sell great books and make money doing it.
MC: Publishers are starting to adapt. They're starting to experiment with prices and promotions. They're starting to experiment with the long tail. That's good.
In order for big publishers to survive, they need to completely change their mindset. Back when they had an oligopolistic hold on publishing, they controlled access to distribution. So, they adopted a culture of "no." they were the sole arbiters, they were the ones who determined which writers graduated to become published authors. They were the gatekeepers at the pearly gates of publishing heaven.
That's all changing now.
Rather than say "no" to 99.5% of everything coming in their door, they need to find a way to say "yes" to these authors. Rather than asking them "what can you do for me," publishers need to twist that around and focus on what they can do for authors.
Great publishers already do this.
When I look at the future of publishing, we all become service providers for authors. The authors are in control. The power has shifted from publishers to authors. Anyone who doesn't believe that and honor that is going to go out of business.
JG: You talked a little about price and you've written on the Smashwords blog about how agency pricing actually keeps e-book prices down for the entire bookselling ecosystem. With the Department of Justice e-book price-fixing lawsuit and Microsoft hooking up with Barnes & Noble, things are set to change in a big way. Do you see any of the recent developments hurting or helping indie authors?
MC: If large publishers start dropping their prices aggressively and precipitously, then that would increase competition for indie authors, but I don't see that happening.
The large publishers are trying to maintain prices of $9.99 and up for their e-books but I know there are some exceptions to that. Indie authors have already moved down to $2.99. So, in the marketplace, that creates an incredible pricing advantage for the indie author. If they can offer a book that's equal or better quality content, the $2.99 book wins.
If publishers start dropping their books to $2.99, it means readers will have more of a choice of quality content and indie authors won't have as much of a pricing advantage.
JG: Why won't they just do that?
MC: I don't see that happening because it doesn't work with the expenses and balance sheets of bigger publishers. If they were to lower prices precipitously, they'd have to change their compensation model for authors, they would reduce their margins and reduce their profitability. Ultimately, there is a limit to how many books consumers can read and there are already too many books out there.
When you look at the economics here, the indies have an incredible advantage. Many of the best authors from the biggest publishers are fighting strong financial incentives to leave their publishers.
Publishers are paying between 12.5% and 17% of list price to authors for e-books.
Contrast that with what self-published authors are earning. They're earning 60% of list if they're working with a distributor like Smashwords and 70% of list if they're working directly with the retailer.
Because the indie author is earning 60% to 70% or more of the list price, it allows them to compete on price but still earn more per unit sold than they would if they were working with a publisher.
The other economic driver that works to the disadvantage of large publishers, because they're trying to maintain higher prices, many of their authors are selling fewer units than they would if their books were priced at $2.99 or $3.99.
[Editor's Note: We did not discuss print titles during our interview. It should go without saying that print distribution can play a part in authors' decisions on how to publish.]
JG: It looks like soon retailers will have that control over pricing. Do you think that the Department of Justice is making a mistake with its lawsuit against publishers?
MC: Yes. I think their lawsuit is well-intentioned but ill-conceived and ill-executed. When I look back to the situation in late 2009 and early 2010, you had six publishers drowning in a swimming pool, scared about the future, scared that Amazon controlled 90% of the e-book market, scared that the rise of e-books could post a potential threat to their print business, scared that they were losing control over the direction of the market.
On the edge of the pool you had Steve Jobs and Jeff Bezos each reaching out their hands, offering to pull the publishers out of the water. Five of the six reached for Steve Jobs because he offered them a model that satisfied their concerns on multiple levels. One of those publishers got out of the pool with Jeff Bezos. I don't think there was any collusion in that. They wanted to see a strong white knight counterbalance to what they viewed as Amazon's dominance in this emerging category.
According to the evidence that I read from the DoJ, it does appear that some publishers did some stupid things. They may have met and talked about things that they shouldn't have talked about. They may have done things that give the appearance of collusion.
The unfortunate result of all of this is that you've got these five big publishers under scrutiny. You've got three who folded – they've basically sold their souls for the next few years and they've agreed to onerous restrictions that are going to slow them down and make them less efficient at the very time that these publishers need to become faster and more nimble.
The three publishers that settled are going to be at a disadvantage. And that saddens me. I don't want any big publishers to go away. I want them to be successful. It's not the future I want to see.
JG: What are you reading and on what platform?
MC: I don't have time to read.
One of the last e-books I read was The Art of War on my iPhone four or five months ago. I only get to read when I'm on vacation. And most of my recent vacations have been focused on writing, not reading.
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I have sagging skin and drooping eyes. I have always looked young, but in the last year old age has hit hard.
Lifestyle Lift Vs Facelift for Sagging Skin and Droopy Eyes?
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Lifestyle Lift vs real facelift
Your droopy eyes need eyelid surgery, not a facelift or Lifestyle lift. A facelift will deal with your loose skin. The LS lift is only a mini lift with mini results that last a mini length of time but with all of the scars of a real facelift.
Look online at all the unhappy LS patients, their stories are very telling.
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Lifestyle lift vs. Facelift see a facelift specialist
A lifestyle lift and facelift do not address saggy eyes. This is typically done via eyelid surgery or a brow lift. A consultation by someone who specializes in facial Plastic Surgery will be able to describe the appropriate procedures for your concerns.
Lifestyle Lift vs. Real Facelift - Will Either One Fix My Droopy Eyelids?
The loose skin around the eyelid is corrected by a surgery known as a Blepheroplasty. The upper eyelids are normally corrected by an excision of an ellipse of skin and muscle above the crease in the upper eyelid. The lower eyelid is a much more complicated surgery requiring a Board Certified plastic surgeon or facial plastic surgeon with extensive experience in the use of a muscle sling.
A real facelift undermines the skin, loosens it, repositions it upward, and resects the excess with minimal to no tension. The lifestyle lift is a mini facelift with short-lived results, but due to tension may have excessive scaring.
At this point, it is appropriate for you to seek out one or more Board Certified plastic surgeon(s) in your neighborhood for a face to face consultation.
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Full face/neck lift for comprehensive, long lasting facial rejuvenation.
The lifestyle lift is a mini lift type of procedure and will not give comprehensive rejuvenation as a full face/neck lift. It is important to have facial/neck skin and muscle laxity tightened up and fat removed both above and below the platysmal muscle in the neck. This will give a comprehensive long lasting facial rejuvenation, and not a mini one-hour lunchtime procedure.
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Face Lift and Eyelid surgery
Dear Maleficent,
you ask a very good question about the extent of surgery and what would be appropriate for you. This really only can be answered with a proper consultation- so you know what can be done to achieve excellent results and that you understand what the risks and the benefits of the surgery are.
The dilemma is that you want a good result with long lasting effects and with the minimum of downtime...... this also means you want effective surgery which most often requires more downtime.
The online reviews are helpful in your early investigation but the word of mouth is the most powerful in understanding and trusting the individual who is going to perform your surgery.
With Warm Regards,
Trevor M Born MD
Lifestyle Lift vs Facelift for Aging Face
I love nothing better than to get questions about the "lifestyle lift." Imagine this: you're young, in your 30's, with good skin tone and a radiant, attractive face with no signs of aging. Then you're a great candidate for the "lifestyle lift." This surgery is for patients that don't need surgery.
So if you have jowls, descent of cheek tissue, excess skin of the face and neck and the other signs of aging then a facelift with SMAS elevation is the surgery for you. The "lifestyle lift " is done by surgeons that don't know how to evaluate patients or do real facial rejuvenation. Don't waste your money on sham surgery.
Aim for full facial rejuvenation, not a marketing slogan
Having been hit hard by "old age" this year will make a catchy solution like "lifestyle lift" seem very attractive, however you should analyze the individual components of your dissatisfaction before consulting with a surgeon. Dividing the face into three zones: upper, middle and lower, including the neck is a way to separate the component procedures which may be useful.
If your brows are low, giving you a tired or sad appearance, you may benefit from a brow lift +/- an upper eyelid lift. The midface includes the lower eyelids, cheeks and upper lip. Endoscopic midcheek lifts and lower eyelid lifts compete with silicone cheek implants and fillers. Saggy skin around the lower face and neck may be partially corrected by a mini lift, however it is uncertain how long the results are maintained..
In addition to repositioning facial fat, restoring volume, redraping redundant skin, the external texture and color of the skin should be included to yield a full facial rejuvenation. Find a surgeon who has experience with multiple techniques and with whom you can communicate well. Good luck.
LifeStyle Lift, Facelift, and Aging
The question is really, what has happened recently to cause such rapid aging? It could be stress, malnutrition, environmental change, relationship or job issues. The surgical procedures are solutions to the results of a problem that will continue to act on your tissues unless you address them directly. May I suggest you seek assistance of a coach to help empower you with this. Drooping skin around the brow and orbital structures is commonly associated with unwanted appearances. A good surgeon will give you options to consider as what would best "fit" your needs.
Lifestyle lift vs facelift
In comparing the Lifestyle Lift vs facelifts, you may be interested to know that the Lifestyle Lift recently settled a major lawsuit from the attorney general of New York over a practice of filing false testimonials. So if you factor out the good stories as possibly being made up, there are only the disappointments left. Your decision is too important to be swayed by advertizing and the promise of a cheaper alternative delivering the same long-term results.
Lid problems need a lid solution
Droopy lids are created by:
- Extra tissue (skin, muscle, fat) in the upper lids
- A sag of the eyebrows
- Or a combination of 1. and 2.
There is no form of "face-lift" either mini or maxi that corrects the lids unless it includes a forehead procedure.
You need careful evaluation and the right treatment to correct your issues.
These answers are for educational purposes and should not be relied upon as a substitute for medical advice you may receive from your physician. If you have a medical emergency, please call 911. These answers do not constitute or initiate a patient/doctor relationship.


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Tuesday, November 22, 2011
Variations On A Gag #1—The Comedian As Sanitarium Patient
This is especially true, I think, where as here, the players are not at the top of their games. Great work tends to transcend its source material, and even if it's still identifiably the work of its creator, largely becomes something unique. Merely good work, on the other hand, especially when done in a hurry for money, tends to reveal its creator's default tendencies.
In this case, Charlie Chaplin, Roscoe Arbuckle and the Three Stooges all check themselves in as patients in a sanitarium and in each case, you can see them race for the tried and true. Chaplin leans on repetition and rhythm, Arbuckle on pratfalls and cross-dressing, the Stooges on destructive ineptitude. All did better work, but none more typical.
Charles Chaplin in The Cure (1917).
Roscoe Arbuckle and Buster Keaton in Good Night, Nurse (1918).
The Three Stooges in Monkey Businessmen (1946) (in two parts).
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- Who Am Us Anyway? said...
"Back home, where his dear wife is waiting ..." Mr. Who turned Ms. Who onto Charlie Chaplin, Fatty Arbuckle, Buster Keaton, and YES, finally, the Stooges ... Hey Porcupine, trace that wire!
Gentlemen: the Gymnasium!
Nothing but a quack? That means duck!
Miss Shapely! Miss Shapely! Where's that stupid guard?
He's in the laboratory with the new doctors!
- November 26, 2011 at 1:06 AM
- Mythical Monkey said...
Wow, that's the ultimate compliment -- the Three Stooges are definitely a love 'em or hate 'em act (me, I love them). I'd say follow up with A Plumbing We Will Go, but quitting while you're ahead is also a solid choice.
- November 26, 2011 at 9:19 AM
- Who Am Us Anyway? said...
The fact that even as a grown man my idea of "contributing" to a film blog continues to be to blearily shout out (often inaccurately I'm sure) the stray lines I remember from my favorite Stooges bits is … troubling. In penance, I offer this heavily researched factoid: Miss Shapely is played by none other than the late, great … Jean Willes, ladies and gentlemen, Jean Willes!
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