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Shmeisani, 118 Abdulhameed Sharaf St.P.O.Box 950533 Amman 11195 Jordan , 11194 Amman, Jordan – Show map
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The closed rooftop pool of Regency Palace offers 360-degree views of Amman. The hotel is centrally located close to the business district of Shmeisani.
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Featuring modern accommodations, Prime Hotel is located in Shmeisani. Free WiFi access is available in the rooms. Each room here will provide you with a flat-screen TV, air conditioning and a minibar....
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Situated at the Fifth Circle in the heart of Amman, Crystal Suites offers modern rooms with air conditioning and a flat-screen TV. Facilities include a 24-hour reception.
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This hotel's great if you just want to relax. You'll get a good nights' sleep (which you might not if you chose a hotel in central Amman). The staff are very friendly and helpful.
We had a car and soon realised that driving into the centre of Amman was not viable. It's a myriad of tiny streets (than even our sat nav) couldn't cope with. So if you want to see Amman, then choose a more central hotel.
The hotel is cozy ,clean and the staff is friendly and their response to any request is fast.
I didn't like that we have to send the cloths to the laundry and also the breakfast very basic.
The exterior and interior design of the hotels, the staff were always available to help out with our tour seeking questions, breakfast was amazing with variety of breakfast choices. We were more than pleased with our stay.
The room sound proofing could improve as we can hear people walking along the corridors. Other than this everything was great.
Quiet Location Good WiFI Modern Look Clean
Parking was only 4 spots Breakfast could have more variety Lack of Service in Breakfast area
Fairly good hotel.
Lack of shower/bathroom preparations and they didn't add new after we finished them.
Really good value for money, discrete and helpful staff, calmness, simple tuneful interior, excellent air-condition, properly white sheets and towels
The leather of the armchairs in the lobby needs cleaning. For turning on the TV there, I always need the assistance of the staff (but it can be that the problem is mine :))
Reception: Early check in and friendly. Cleanliness of room. Good breakfast.
Comfort and good staff for three stares hotel, good location, fast wifi
Small room, no coffee machine, poor shower gel qualities
Neat, compact, cosy, comfortable room with good, clean furnishings. Neat bathroom and clean laundry. Friendly, welcoming and helpful staff. Hearty breakfast. Free Wi-fi in the room. Location in a nice locality.
Delay in serving dinner in the restaurant one night. There seemed to be some minor leak in the bathroom, probably from the wash basin outlet.
Smoking scent
Good location, friendly staff.
Bad smell because they were recently paint something.
Checked in very early without any extra charges.
Breakfast is good compared to other Jordan Hotels (not just pita bread)
Bit expensive for the facilities offered Not really a hotel for tourists who want to visit the downtown Amman
Clean , free wifi , location , comfort , breakfast
Room size , price , parking just for 4 gest
Cleanliness, Free Wi-Fi
No water heater & complimentary tea/coffee in the room. No swimming pool or spa facility
the A/C in my room were noisy, and the room is little bit small but its fine at all.
deserve higher than three stars. clean, good breakfast. clean and comfort, quiet place.
value for money, location far away from attractive places and need a car for any location.
The place were very small with no facilities .it,s the place for sleep only. With the same rate I can get a better hotel. I wonder how the rate is 8????
hotel is fairly new build. Rooms, lobby and restaurant is well decorated and clean. Staff is trying to their best for you demands. Hotel is close to the Amman`s commerce area Shemesani and down town. Next to the hotel there are lots of car rental services, a big chain supermarket (safeway) and other shops for your daily needs.
Sound isolation is not good enough so you can easily hear the sound of your neighbour showering in the midlle of the night or flush.
While i was eating breakfast, i heard comments from the chief (sarcastically) that the breakfast finishes at 10:00 and not starts at 10:00 ! because my brother came at 9:58 .... and the team was preparing to collect the items from the tables.
We were very impressed with housekeeping, especially Raed. He was very helpful, quick and efficient in cleaning the rooms. WiFi was excellent and the breakfast buffet too. Staff very friendly and professional.
The mold in the shower needs to be cleaned out and maintained on a regular basis. Prices were too high and need to be reviewed because it is a good hotel. Lower prices can bring more customers.
Location Cleanliness Friendly staff
Apart of the fact that my stay was comfortable and pleasant at the Misk, the personnel and the manager did everything to help me out with some issue I had with the rental car. This issue was resolved in the best possible manner. Travelling and staying almost every week in another hotel I can ensure that the service at the Misk is better than the service offered often in 5 star hotels.
-very cozy hotel -friendly staff -great rooms -great value for money
breakfast,requiring more varieties
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Why Don't Pigs Make Cheese?
It's a fair enough question. All the other barnyard friends — cows, sheep and goats — give milk that is made into cheese. But why not the pig? From the ubiquitous image of a mama pig nursing her piglets, we know they have milk.
I always thought perhaps they just didn't give enough milk. That's only part of it...
Anne Saxelby, owner of a fantastic cheese-shop here in NYC, sends an e-newsletter always stuffed with tasty nuggets of information, and this morning's gave the real low-down on why we don't eat pig's cheese. It's because they're slop-eaters.
"The main reason that farmers of yore didn't make pig cheese stems from the simple fact that pigs, like us, are omnivores. Sure they eat slop and garbage of the vegetable variety, but given the chance, they'll tear into a chunk of meat faster that you can say "That's All Folks!" alla Porky. All of our other beloved milkers are herbivores, ruminants to be exact, meaning that they feed off of grass and transmit all that photosynthesized sunshine-y goodness right into their milk, creating an indelible flavor of fresh green pasture. It could be be argued (and I've never tried it so I don't know, but I have my suspicions) that cheese made from the milk of slop eaters wouldn't be so tasty."
She goes on to acknowledge the less-than-voluptuous size of the average pig's teats as another discouraging roadblock to milking a pig, in addition to their "somewhat nasty" dispositions.
Now that's making more sense. Still, I thought there must be someone out there making pig cheese just to say they tried, but not much came up in my research. I don't think I'll be the one to try it.
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Hmmm... food for thought.
It might also be noted that when cows are actually fed grass (rather than corn) their milk is vastly superior in both flavor and taste.
This post cracks me up. I've never wondered about milking pigs, but it seems like the kind of "city girl" question I would ask. Can you imagine trying to milk a grumpy sow? I'm seriously chuckling in my cubicle.
Interesting discussion! I love pork and it's yummy cured meat by-products but I don't think we need to make cheese from porcine milk. There's lots of other great cheese out there already that I haven't tried yet.
Like Squirrely, I can't see a pig being very happy about being milked either.
The food argument makes perfect sense to me since I know that human mothers often have to modify their diets to make their milk appealing to their babies.
cool! My 5 year old asked me this very question last week!
I have been told that there is a pig dairy that makes pig cheese down in Texas. Googling doesn't bring up a web page for them, not using the terms I tried at least.
I have milked our pigs on occasion, just as I've done for our sheep, to get a little milk for an orphan. But it is much easier to graft the orphan piglet onto a mother as quickly as possible. Fortunately the sows are very good about taking on one more mouth to feed.
With a minimal amount of training a sow will stand for milking. I do this because pulling a teat to see how much milk I get is a test for how close a sow is to farrowing, that is to say having her litter of piglets. The color, consistency and volume all tell me how long until I'll see piglets popping. This is the same as with cows, sheep and goats - they all need training to stand for milking.
The pig milk tastes fine and some of our sows would put a holstein or porn star to shame with their, er, cleavage. They bag up most impressively. Still, milking 14 to 16 teats on a regular basis (clean, sanitize, pre-milk, milk, drain, dry) would be more of a chore than I want to take on. Hope, our youngest daughter, thinks we should open a pig dairy. I think not.
As to the grass fed issue, our pigs are grass fed, just like cows which is part of what makes them taste so good. They get well over 90% of their food from pasture in the warm months and hay in the winter. They also get whey, left over from making cheese, which provides them with lycine to complement the proteins in grass. The remaining 3% of our pig's diet is a mix of what ever is available from pumpkins, beets and turnips from our farm to the occasional treat of boiled barley from a local brew pub and bread from a local bakery. We don't feed commercial hog feed or any other grains. Over 97% of their diet is pasture/hay and whey - I have been told by chefs that it is the whey which gives their fat the sweet flavor and the grasses & herbs that gives it the 'nutty' flavor. While they may not be as efficient at digesting grass as a ruminant, they do thrive on the diet. I often have people tell me that "pig's can't eat grass" but I refrain from telling the pigs. :)
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hmm, i never thought about it, but pig cheese does sound disgusting for some reason.
Humans are omnivores and our breast milk is supposedly delicious. Is it just that pigs are omnivores or that they eat slop? I would imagine that the slop's taste does not translate into their milk since grass isn't particularly tasty to humans yet grass-fed cows give the best milk.
milk a pig? how about a cat?
"could you milk me greg?"
sorry, i think milk is gross.
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Actually, what an animal eats has a direct effect on the taste of their milk. This is why when the cows get into the wild onions the milk tastes so bad.
What i don't get is this:
Many people find the taste of meat to be delicious. Arguably, ALL people find the taste of grass unappealing (hence we don't eat grass). How, then can one conclude that a meat-eating animal will have bad tasting milk, while a grass-eating animal will have good tasting milk BECAUSE it eats grass?
Is it like "opposites day"? If it tasted good before, it will be bad once digested by an animal, and if it tasted bad before it'll be awesome once pre-digested???
thanks for the info, walter! with all of press about horrible, factory-like farms, it's wonderful and refreshing to hear from a farmer who is truly an expert and demonstrates a passionate knowledge about their craft. hats off! we need more like you!
walter is very cool - thanks for all the info. wish i lived in vermont!
This doesn't make much sense to me...
Traditionally, cows ate grass, but current factory farming practices have turned cows into cannibalistic omnivores. Most of the milk consumed in this country comes from cows that have been fed everything from bovine blood to chicken waste and any other cheap "disposable" by-product of the factory farming industry. Yet people still seem to love it.
I can't imagine that pig slop contains anything more objectionable than what's being fed to cows these days.
Jems, thanks for asking... that was my first thought. Although the food will affect the taste of the milk, I don't think that being an omnivore automatically means that the milk will be bad.
I'm going to guess the problem is efficiency: too much labor (as Walter pointed out) for too little product. Could it matter that pigs' short legs might make milking a bit of a pain for a person? Goats are low to the ground, too, but then again, goat milk is not mass-processed to as wide an extent as cow milk is (or is it?)
Or possibly it's just cultural... the Mongols milked mares, after all.
Walter, thanks for the informative post!
@whytephoenix: there is still a tradition of mare's cheese in mongolia. also yak cheese in tibet!
>>All of our other beloved milkers are herbivores, ruminants to be exact, meaning that they feed off of grass and transmit all that photosynthesized sunshine-y goodness right into their milk, creating an indelible flavor of fresh green pasture. It could be be argued (and I've never tried it so I don't know, but I have my suspicions) that cheese made from the milk of slop eaters wouldn't be so tasty<<
So, wouldn't their fat and meat build up the same "yucky" flavors? What about goats, won't they eat anything that doesn't move fast enough? I'm not sure this preson knows what they are talking about. Plus, any pigs in captivity could have their diet controlled.


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dren and adults decide whether to pursue (and for how long) any particular topic that interests them.
No curriculum currently exists to inspire teachers and students to explore the relationship between past climate change, human evolution, and the long-term influence of environment on species survival, adaptation, and mitigation strategies. The following recommendations represent components of a broad effort to redress this deficiency:
Develop opportunities that bring educators and scientists together, and that build new partnerships among research institutions, museums, science centers, and national scientific and education organizations, in order to further the development of national and state science standards. There is a critical need to substantially improve the set of tools teachers and students have that promote science education and to create real opportunities for overcoming roadblocks to learning about evolution (NRC, 1998, 2008). The interplay between climate and human evolution can form a new, prominent cornerstone in efforts to prepare educators to teach, and students to learn, the basic concepts of evolution and the nature of science. Conferences and workshops would offer an initial step toward stimulating an open dialogue with K-12 educators and scientists. The Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History, for example, plans to convene a national conference of educators and scientists to discuss and define the issues that promote students' and the general public's understanding of science, focused especially on the processes of climate change and evolution. Such events would aim to create productive partnerships with education and scientific organizations such as the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA), the National Association of Biology Teachers (NABT), the American Institute for Biological Sciences (AIBS), the National Center for Science Education (NCSE), the National Science Education Leadership Association (NSELA), the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
Establish a National/International Educator Institute as a long-term effort that employs climate–evolution research to enhance professional educator development. This idea, initiated as part of the Smithsonian's Human Origins Initiative, is to offer a multiday institute for educators focused on human evolution and environmental change research and on strategies for improving the comprehension of science. The audience for this institute will include school-based educators, staff from informal science education institutions (e.g., museums, science centers), and outreach staff affiliated with science research organizations. The aim is for this institute to be a "trainer of trainers" model in which participants make a commitment to return to their institutions and communities to offer training, programs, and resources to their colleagues, local schools, and audiences.


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Just figured out how to deposit my check with my phone.
Too excited right now.
Getting my nails done tomorrow and my eyebrows and now I saved myself a trip to the bank.
Can't wait to smoke out after that final too. And probably fuck.
Good day tomorrow hopefully.
I'm sitting across from one of the managers. And I want to kick this bitch in her face. I can't STAND her.
Stupid bitch -_-
Wahh I can't answer private ima text you right now
Whatever they just better not try to put a nigga on courtesy fuck all that noise.
i'm sick of you little girl and boy groups
all you do is annoy me
so i have been sent here to destroy you
Let me tell you if he would've abandoned my mother when I was born I'd still have the same fucked up view about him. Staying and financially taking care of your family is one thing sir. Being a complete jackass in every other form makes you the person I can stand the least.
I switched schools to save you some money in your pockets. But you have the nerve to complain that I ask for too much money. And by too much money I mean 4.50 on Monday's and Friday's so I can go to school. Jeeeeez I'm such a big spender. Oh wait I'm sorry are you upset because I borrowed an extra 5 because I had to go to school and an interview and I didn't want to be hungry.
Wow I am so inconsiderate I must be the worst daughter in the world and since I borrowed an extra 5 cash I guess I should be exiled farther than the living room now right ?
I mean it's not like I'm saving you $8,000 a year now. So why not get mad about 5 dollars and call me a faggot. God damn it what would you call me if you really knew I was gay. Maybe you wouldn't talk to me, and that would be a much deserved upgrade to how you treat me now. Dick
i get one stupid thought in my head of a what if and now here i am
this is dumb
stupid brain
ima going to have an ice cream and read my book and wallow
goodbye !
especially when the night before I was talking about bitches with them. It makes no sense.
I don't want the dick man.
I want to strap a bitch down.
Why can't I just strap a bitch down and be happy man.
Nah instead I just have mad dicks just tryna find their way inside me.
Sorry papi I prefer the plastic version of your junk while attached to a bad bitch.
Granted it's in Brooklyn and it's in a supermarket but whatever I don't care.
Everyone is telling me that's too much traveling for a minimum wage job and whatever.
And it is it honestly is but no supermarkets around me are hiring and every other place wants 6 months to a year cashier experience which I don't have and I am not going to get that anywhere but a supermarket lol.
I spent all last spring and summer looking for a job in NY and got nothing I went back to BGT and worked and came back in December. Also been looking for work since then and nothing. I have gone to work force one and everything and still nothing. I had nothing left to do but end up in Brooklyn and I am not going to turn the job down due to the commute.
When I want to go uptown to go smoke and hang out and I decide to take the train it takes me an hour and I don't complain so an hour and 20 mins to work where I am going to make my own money shouldn't make me complain.
But I will complain for a second right now I start Wednesday at 8am I need to fix my sleeping patterns.
I've seen this movie like a million time but this time I finally understand the title. At the end I was always confused as to who were the & people he helped and whatever.
But it goes back to a merchant in Venice. A pound of flesh for the debt owed. Tim owes his debt of seven pounds of flesh for the seven people he killed.
This movie is really hitting me for the first time, I guess my eyes were more open this time.
I have to psychological analyze a character from a movie. I picked Tim Thomas from Seven Pounds.
Just finished the movie and I swear this paper is going to drag me into depression man. That movie always does that to me. Great movie though, I just always find myself balling throughout it.
Dirk needs to stop being bitch. I really wish Perkins could've decked him and not get in trouble.
I like eating pussy way too much to fuck around with furry cooch.
all this back and forth arguing on my dash is dumb
can ya at least fight about something I would care about.
like who has better nudes and ya just keep posting back and forth. throw a video in there too
Just make it nasty
It runs in my family.
The last time I felt like this I went through some real scary shit.
I don't want to go back to that. Maybe I should get this checked out.
I hate Brooklyn.
Everything that has to do with Brooklyn.
Brooklyn buses
Brooklyn trains
Brooklyn projects.
The amount of time it takes to get I brooklyn.
BROOklYN CRACKHEADS.
That is all.
My dads at work and my mom is in Boston for a week.
Me and my brother are alone this weekend since my dad works.
I'm over here cleaning up the living for because my boo thang is coming over. On top of that I'm washing clothes and cleaning the rest of the house. And I'm about to put some food to cook so that my boo thang can come over and find a hot meal.
I always say I'm not no ones maid and I'm not fit to be a housewife. But honestly he Dominican in me sneaks up on me and makes me be all domestic smh.
Anyway the clothes are done.
Some Chipotle.
Some vagina on the side.
Some titties for dessert.
I feel so helpless. In sitting here crying my eyes out telling my best friend my stupid problems. She has bigger fish to fry. Deciding what school she wants to go to and loans and all that shit. And I'm sitting here venting like an idiot.
I'm the worst friend ever :(
If asking you to show me your tits on Skype is Wrong, then I don't wanna be right.
Okay I lied this is my last one.
Baby oil. It's fine at first. But when it gets so much that I feel like I'm covered in it it's no longer fun. Only slippery substance I see should be coming out of her.
This is my last one I swear.
Two dicks in one mouth. Hmmmm
Don't front the only pleasure you're getting is from rubbing your dick against his because we all know all you're getting from her are bite marks.
When there is a threesome scene and one of the girls isn't getting attention and just sits there looking fucking lost.
Stop playing dumb. Spread them legs and play with that pussy. Acting like this is your first fuck and shit.


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Israeli PM Ariel Sharon, dies at 85
Ariel Sharon, the hard-charging Israeli general and prime minister who was admired and hated for his battlefield exploits and ambitions to reshape the Middle East, died Saturday, eight years after a stroke left him in a coma from which he never awoke. He was 85.
As one of Israel's most famous soldiers, Sharon was known for bold tactics and an occasional refusal to obey orders. As a politician he became known as "the bulldozer," a man contemptuous of his critics while also capable of getting things done.
He led his country into a divisive war in Lebanon in 1982 and was branded as indirectly responsible for the massacre of hundreds of Palestinians at the Sabra and Chatilla refugee camps outside Beirut when his troops allowed allied Lebanese militias into the camps. Yet ultimately he transformed himself into a prime minister and statesman.
Sharon's son Gilad announced the death on Saturday afternoon. Sharon's health had taken a downturn over the past week and a half as a number of bodily organs, including his kidneys, stopped functioning.
"He has gone. He went when he decided to go," Gilad Sharon said outside the hospital where his father had been treated in recent years.
The life and career of the man widely known by his nickname "Arik" will be remembered for its three distinct stages: his eventful and controversial time in uniform, his years as a vociferous political operator who helped create Israel's settlement movement and mastermind of the Lebanon invasion, then his successful term as a pragmatist prime minister, capped by a dramatic withdrawal from the Gaza Strip and curtailed at the height of his popularity by his sudden stroke.
The Gaza pullout culminated a gradual abandonment of the hard-line policies for which he was known. In the tumultuous summer of 2005, he pulled all of Israel's settlers and soldiers out of the seaside strip, having played a key role in putting them there in the first place. "The fate of Netzarim is the fate of Tel Aviv," Sharon had famously said, referring to a Gaza settlement, just three years earlier.
Characteristically, the move was unilateral; Sharon was dubious that much good could come of talks with the Palestinians.
Sharon painted his "disengagement" plan as a step to reduce friction between Israelis and Palestinians. It was accompanied by construction of a massive separation barrier in the West Bank. While presented as security measures, they also represented an admission of sorts that continued control of the fast-growing Palestinian population could threaten Israel's Jewish and democratic character.
A few months later he left the hawkish Likud party, which he helped found, and created the centrist Kadima as a vehicle for himself, planning to lead it to a third election victory. But a few months later — 77 years old, and considerably overweight — he suffered two strokes. The second one, in 2006, left him comatose in a Jerusalem hospital. His deputy, Ehud Olmert, became prime minister and led Kadima to victory in the election.
Olmert eulogized him in a statement. "His entire life, Arik stood at the front line of fire in the place where the fate of the state of Israel was determined," Olmert said. He said Sharon's life was "soaked in courage, human warmth, vision and leadership at the critical moments when the state of Israel needed all these."
Domestically, Sharon became the latest in a long line of Israeli prime ministers whose terms were marred by corruption probes.
He was accused of improper fundraising and accepting bribes, allegedly paid to one of his sons, from a prominent real-estate developer, but never charged. His oldest son, Omri, however, later served seven months in prison for fraud convicted to campaign fundraising for his father.
Sharon, who lived on a ranch in southern Israel, was widowed twice. His second wife was the sister of his first, who died in a car accident.
He is survived by two sons. A third died as a child in a firearms accident in 1967.
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So, I've got 14 pages of my January Comics Challenge done already, I'm thinking of making this into a little Zine when it's done.
This is an autobiographical story about my Dad when I was growing up. It gets better! These intro pages seem a bit gloomy but… well, the story is about change. I hope I kept it cheery enough.
I'll post the next ones when they are done. Also, if anyone in real life knows my Dad, for obvious reasons, please don't show him this (although I'm not sure he'd ever figure this website out as it is not for internet dating). Cheers!
PS: I like to write big panels of text, sorry not sorry.
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Mind the language! I saw a few things that made me wonder about this...he torqued the tranny bolts with an offset wrench that wasn't parallel to the torque wrench...no mention of that in the video. I also saw an interesting type of 27mm nut for the swing arm nuts...it had an opening on the side to use an allen wrench to hold the pin in place.


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If you are looking for an unbiased view, you are not going to find it here. Depending on the perspective and your capacity to absorb opinions, the perspective could belong to just one man or shared by many. Having stated that let me begin.
A month ago (if my memory has not failed me completely), I watched Barfi! The story of a mute and deaf man with an inclination for love and recklessness seemed to work wonders with the audience. But what began as an earnest movie progressed in a different manner altogether. I was beginning to see Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin; mannerisms too many to ignore. As the movie went on, there were scenes from The Notebook and probably many other classics. No doubt the audience cheered and even burst into fits of laughter now and then. Why wouldn't they? After all, it was Charlie Chaplin in desi action. By the time the movie had ended, it was pretty clear the movie would set the box office registers ringing. But do all the fame and glory have to come at the cost of plagiarism and blatant imitation of classics?
Director Anurag Basu knew how to woo the audience with Barfi!, but failed to tone it down. Perhaps subtlety is not Basu's cup of tea. The worst news came in the form of the Academy Awards Best Foreign Language Film. The film is yet to be sent as the official entry. As expected, there were bashings on social media networks, accusing the film makers of letting down the face of Indian Cinema and requesting a revoke on the decision. On a personal note, I do not think the movie deserves to be selected as an official entry. But a disturbing thought lingers. For a long time, we have taken a comfortable and less controversial designation – The Spectator. We have watched and applauded for hordes of movies that have either been inspired or ripped off from Hollywood flicks. When the Indian audience turned their eyes towards Hollywood, the less-fortunate directors got their movie transcripts from the Japanese, Swahili, Korean and even Mexican cinema.
This reminds me of a yesteryear popular song with lyrics that goes something like this…
Naanga cycle yeriye vandhaaka
Neenga motorbike than paarpeenga
Naanga motorbike la vanthaaka
Neenga maruthi ku maaruveenga
Naanga jeans pantu than potaaka
Neenga baggi panta than paarpeenga
Naanga baggi panta than potaaka
Neenga veatiya than theduveenga
Loosely translated, the chunk of lyrics reflects the relationship between the audience with an ever-growing knowledge and the hapless film makers who have resorted to search every unexplored corner of foreign cinema for seeking inexcusable inspiration.
Does imitation or inspiration determine movie's worth? Maybe, maybe not. For instance, one of the most successful and popular movie of all times in Tamil Cinema is Basha. Starring none other than Rajnikanth, the darling of the masses, the movie went on to become a cult, with thousands of youngsters still mouthing its dialogues. For the ardent fans of the movie, here's the major glitch. The movie was inspired from a Hindi movie titled Hum, which in turn was inspired from Samrajyam, a Malayalam flick starring Mammooty. The Hindi film starred Amitabh Bachchan, and ironically Rajnikanth himself in one of the fiddle roles. The list does not stop with Basha. Over a dozen of the Superstar's massive hits were either inspired or directly remade from its Hindi counterparts starring Amitabh Bachchan and other Bollywood stars. Does this make Basha a bad film? Definitely not! Andaz Apna Apna, another cult comedy flick has its roots in Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest. Godfather and Scarface have served as an inspiration for a bunch of Indian films. In a country diversified by language, the landscape of Indian cinema does suffer from the possibility of remakes.
Barfi! is no exception. On all probabilities, the movie is an entertainer and nothing more. All the 'Tramp' mannerisms do not make Ranbir Kapoor a bad actor. He is still a well-groomed actor. Amidst all the accusation of plagiarism, here's one actor who can pull off a meaty role that any other actor would have easily discredited. All said and done, the movie cannot be sent for the Academy Awards; not because it's a rip-off but for the sole reason that there are far more deserving movies to be recognized.
Are the Academy Awards the final frontier of all awards? We are talking about a jury that put Scorcese on the winners list for a movie he blatantly copied (The Departed), leaving all the original works he had previously done. It's the same jury that has still not bestowed an award for a genius like Christopher Nolan. So there you go….. All I'm saying is even if your least favorite movie won an Academy Award, it wouldn't be the worst thing on earth! :D :D
I had never been invited to a film premiere before. When I finally got a free pass to what the crew called Seidhadhariyel, I couldn't miss it for two reasons. One, it was free. Yes, the typical Indian mentality of buying any/all fan(s) that says 'free air'. It's quite a marvel that we should feel proud of a guilty pleasure. Two, watching a short film on a big screen isn't something one would come across everyday. At the least, not me.
So that's the backstory of why I agreed to watch this film inside AVM premises. Well, that might qualify as a third reason, unofficially. AVM studios, known for their legacy of being termed as one of the essential platforms for the world of Tamil cinema, were playing host to the premiere of Seidhadhariyel, a short film. It was probably routine for them. To me, it was novel. Had short films reached a juncture where we get to see them on full-fledged and devoted big screens?
I was seated inside the preview hall. After what seemed like fifteen minutes, the film began with all pride and glory. Sorry, was that glory or gory? The film was nothing short of a violent streak. Of course, I knew the preface of the film, thanks to the promos on YouTube. Still, the bloodshed and subliminal gore was a bit too much to take. Or was it?
Halfway through the movie, I realized my folly. This was neither a gang war genre nor a bang bang type. I'm afraid I might be letting out spoilers here, but the message was beautifully conveyed. Though the crux of the film stuck on to violence, the tipping point of the story was something else. There were no villains. Just plain old villainy, playing its part like it should. By the time the movie got over (30 mins approximately), I found myself appreciating the team efforts that went behind each scene, shot and frame.
Which bring me back to the same question. Have short films reached a juncture where we get to watch them on full-fledged big screens? Maybe. Maybe not. Open YouTube and Vimeo, and you'll find a horde of short films plunged in the vast ocean of video hosting surface. But a prototype like Seidhadhariyel, and probably more, could pave way to regulation of short films.
In the future, can we expect short films to be screened on popular screens? And by popular, I mean Sathyam Theatres or Escape Cinemas (Chennai). Will there be a fully functioning censor board governing short films that get released under a reasonably recognizable banner? We have witnessed short film makers taking a leap on to feature film platforms, owing to faithful producers who were willing to encash on the virality factor of the short versions. But will short films share the same space along with its longer counterparts? Maybe, maybe not.
Indulging oneself in the unknown, without realizing the ramifications. In this case, Karma can be a powerful force and a bitch for real. The cosmic law suggests that you can be held responsible even for actions that rise out of negligence. Mortals beware!
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Why bank deposits shouldn't be an asset class
Amar Bhidé has responded to my piece about his proposal to guarantee all bank deposits.
First, he says that the real stupidity in Ireland wasn't the blanket guarantee of bank deposits; after all, he says, "virtually all Western governments implicitly or explicitly guaranteed all bank deposits (and other forms of short term cash, such as money market funds) in 2008″. Instead, it was Ireland's guarantee of bank bonds. "this was dumb", says Bhidé, "but it has nothing to do with whether or not deposits should be guaranteed".
I think the two are in fact intimately connnected. Deposits are a funding source for banks, as are bonds. If you take in more of the former, you'll issue less of the latter; cheap deposits will quickly chase out expensive bonds. If investors start flocking into 1-year and 3-year certificates of deposit on the grounds that they're federally guaranteed, it's hard to see how investors would find 5-year or 10-year uninsured bonds particularly attractive, unless they yielded a lot more than the CDs. And it's equally hard to see why the bank would feel the need to pay through the nose to issue expensive 10-year debt, when it had unlimited access to much cheaper short-term funding instead.
Bhidé says that capital requirements would force banks to issue bonds — but I don't see it. If there's one thing we learned during the financial crisis, it's that no one really considers subordinated debt to be useful capital: no bank has ever defaulted on its bonds and survived. In other words the kind of capital you get by issuing bonds is the kind of capital no one particularly wants. Instead, investors and regulators are increasingly looking at pure equity, in the form of metrics like TCE. I would hope that we've moved away from the paradigm that when a bank wants to improve its capital ratios, it issues a bunch of new liabilities which mean certain death if they're ever defaulted on. That doesn't strengthen a bank at all, and everybody knows it.
Bhidé's proposal wouldn't just destroy price discovery in the bank-debt market. It would also have the effect of raising interest rates more broadly, and increase the US government's cost of borrowing. After all, bank CDs are always going to yield more than Treasury notes. If they carry exactly the same government guarantee, then there will be a significant move out of Treasuries and into bank deposits. I can't see why the government would want that.
And yes, a lot of governments did implicitly or explicitly guarantee all bank deposits during the crisis. But here's the thing: implicit guarantees are better than explicit guarantees, and temporary guarantees are better than permanent guarantees. Bhidé wants a permanent explicit guarantee, which is the worst of all.
An explicit and permanent guarantee on bank deposits would, overnight, create a whole new risk-free asset class — in a world where we've learned time and time again that risk-free asset classes are a Really Bad Thing. Investors tend to put inordinate value on safety, when what we really want to encourage is risk-taking. And highly-regulated banks with massive government-guaranteed bank deposits are not the best mechanism for allocating risk capital. Markets might not be perfect, but they're surely better at capital allocation than that.
As companies like Apple build up their cash reserves into the tens of billions of dollars, we're already beginning to see a world where bank deposits are becoming something of an asset class. It's not a world we should encourage — let alone one we should institutionalize with a blanket government guarantee. Money should be invested; the government has no business encouraging corporations and institutional investors to simply park it in a bank instead.
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So if all bank deposits are guaranteed by the government, then what's to stop banks from investing those deposits in the highest yielding but riskiest investments? Don't say capital requirements, because the banks don't even like 10:1 ratios.
Having the government guarantee all bank deposits will buy us nothing but an inevitable bailout for banks. There is already plenty of cash sitting around doing nothing (and earning nothing), so this would just be a handout to companies that don't need it. It solves nothing.
I had been meaning to comment on the previous post and decided against, but now that you are back on this, I think you are way off mark here. I think the critical point is not the current deposit infrastructure, but rather the fact that an entirely parallel deposit infrastructure (i.e., shadow banking) has been developed to cope with the uninsured deposits.
In this vein, the work of both Gary Gorton and Sam Pozsar is very instructive. The first one has shown at length how the 2008 crisis was nothing more than a run on the repo market functionally identical to the banking panics pre-1913 and pre-FDIC. The second one has shown, pretty convincingly, that a huge driver behind the emergence of the repo market was the rise of institutional cash pools, which, exceeding insurance limits, had to find a way to deposit their cash without taking on significant risk (by becoming junior unsecured creditors in any amount over $100,000 – now $250,000). I'd say it's a great bet that apple and google don't want to run repo desks, but if the alternative is to take on single-A credit risk, they'll do that all day long.
Speaking exclusively about deposits, without acknowledging how wholesale deposits have moved into the shadow banking system is, at best, incomplete.
"we've learned time and time again that risk-free asset classes are a Really Bad Thing"
Oh really. I thought you said there was no such thing as a risk-free asset class. You can't have it both ways – how can we learn "time and time again" from something that doesn't exist?
"Money should be invested; the government has no business encouraging corporations and institutional investors to simply park it in a bank instead."
OK, suppose that there exists a risk-free account and it pays 0% interest. People who choose to deposit in this account have decided that they see no investment opportunities that pay more. Why does the government have any business contradicting them? Why is some apparatchik (Freedom's Fighter Comrade Felix?) supposed to be smarter than the market?
The first part of your premise is fine: there is no need for the government to guarantee deposits or any other investment vehicle provided by private enterprise. But to achieve this we have to forget the rest of your rant: the government should allow every citizen and every commercial entity to hold deposits at the central bank. Such deposits are risk-free and accordingly pay the lowest possible interest rate, a rate determined by the CB in order to achieve the policy objectives mandated to it by the government. Want more interest? You'll have to accept the risk.
It is the *lack* of this facility that currently creates so many market distortions, such as the use of repo for risk-free deposits and precious metals as savings vehicles.
If you don't know what I'm talking about, read Ashwin here: http://www.macroresilience.com/2012/01/0 5/the-public-deposit-option-an-alternati ve-to-regulate-and-insure-banking/.
Interestingly neither solves problems that we experience, however this represents the essence of the free market economy
"Bhidé wants a permanent explicit guarantee, which is the worst of all"
I like the concept of drawing these distinctions, but I believe that a permanent implicit guarantee is worst of all. That's the classic formula for privatizing profit and socializing loss, and it's exactly why that occurred at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. It's clearly worse than a permanent explicit guarantee. Fees can be charged for an explicit guarantee, as is done for FDIC deposit insurance, so it's possible for the program to be self-funding. That obviously can't work for an implicit guarantee – how can one charge for a guarantee that doesn't exist? An explicit guarantee is also much cleaner from a regulatory standpoint. With implicit guarantees, pushback against regulation can include the notion that the guarantee doesn't exist.
There is a fundamental difference between deposits and bond financing for banks. Deposits can be withdrawn on demand. Bonds eventually roll over, but in a predictable and generally manageable fashion.
Had Ireland insured all of the deposits and none of the existing bonds, it might still have had to insure new/rollover bond issuance, but that would still have been much less expensive as it would have allowed the insolvency of the banks to become evident in a timely manner. As it was, the guaranteed bonds were mostly rolled over by the time the guarantee expired.
I don't think you want to be living in this country when ordinary people discover that their banks have failed without insurance. That's why there is FDIC insurance. Whether an to what extent it should be limited is a matter of degree. Even 250,000 is probably inadequate. They also won't let money markets fail. The government would collapse.
Felix… "Money should be invested; the government has no business encouraging corporations and institutional investors to simply park it in a bank instead."
Money parked in a bank is invested… by the bank. My bank invests 55% of our 1 billion dollars in assets in loans to people, 35% in loans to businesses, 5% in marketable securities, and 5% in other stuff like bank owned life insurance or the physical bank branches that we own rather than lease.
The only money not "invested" by my bank would be the physical vault cash that we have to carry to transact business; that's only a couple million total for a billion dollar bank. Since we have about a 12% capital cushion our total outstanding loans exceed our total deposits.
I totally agree with you that FDIC insurance should be limited. What the right limit is could be debated. That one person should be able to park money at a dozen or many dozen banks to insure many millions of dollars could be debated. I will say thougth that I personally work with many elderly customers who want only to earn the highest possible federally insured rate or return. I spoke to an 80 year old man this week who very elequently explained why he would rather make 1% with a zero % chance of loss than make 10% with a one in a million chance of loss.
One characteristic of Irelands Banks that may not be immediately apparent is that huge proportions of their business is conducted in the UK, where many if not most of their customers live. The expatriate Irish in the UK and their businesses and descendants favour Irish banks over British ones.
When the crisis hit, the politicians of the day panicked and saw a run on Ireland's banks causing a big problem with UK residents calling the shots. The politician in charge was asked in the street what he was going to do and said an unwise, off the cuff remark about the Irish banks being 100% safe, and didn't want to lose face afterwards when his advisors tried to correct him, so he made it government policy. It seems he also muddled the asset classes too.
One of the cleverest tricks banks have pulled is convincing most people of simultaneous truth of these three logically inconsistent theories:
1. The government should create sufficient risk-free assets to satisfy people's desire to hold cash substitutes. These assets should never faces losses in any scenario and should be completely fungible. At the same time, they should be organized in a complex manner that makes it difficult for people to trade them outside the banking system, so that bankers can collect fees on trading them.
2. Those same risk-free assets should also be funding for banks' risky activities. Interest rates should be manipulated by the government in order to bail out unsuccessful risky activities. When a bank fails, the government should step in and make depositors whole.
3. Banks operate in a free market and any government intervention in their risk-taking is socialism that will lead to inefficiency…or worse!
You could believe various parts of this story, but the whole thing together is delusional. If the government is going to be this heavily involved, the government could directly issue all risk-free assets and then fund banks according to their safety and soundness and opportunities for lending. In fact, this is what our system already amounts to, except that it explicitly allows more looting (the Fed/FDIC won't really step in until you've gathered a lot of deposits with above-market interest rates and then blown them on risky investments).
If you want to put lots of money in a form guaranteed by the government, buy T-bills.
- ALL deposits at the big TBTF crony banks are essentially insured without limit.
- The question is only whether you want to enable smaller banks to be able to compete on equal footing for large deposits, or you want TBTF banks to enjoy another undeserved advantage.
- By "investing" your money, your money does not get safer. As the practice on Wall St is to hold your investments in "street name" you dont really own your stocks but only have a claim against your broker.
If it's been said, it's important to repeat: banks must make sufficient performing loans and from the interest and principal payments serving as a revenue stream, these become real operating cash flows so that banks do NOT have to do things like parasite on their depositors' money or borrow in commercial paper or repo/borrowings markets or Fed funds purchased relying – on all of these for liquidity.
In the US the Fed examines banks, especially smaller banks and disciplines them if they have insufficient operating cash flows from performing loans and other typical commercial banking and cash financial instrument trading for fee revenue that realizes to cash in the reporting cycle. Accrual basis accounting is key and for revenues to realize to cash in the reporting cycle too is key.
There is a double standard however, the Fed exercises applying more safety and soundness discipline for the non ISDA (smaller) BHCs while for the ISDA cartel the Fed is complicit and facile to those bigFinancials' interests and operating strategies of inflating their balance sheet with abusive contracting of OTC derivative contracts that when Fair Vauled in an upward or level market, the unrealized non cash gains from the FV is run thru the income statement to game it, manage earnings. The corruption of the unrealized non cash gains is a form of a fraud – it gives appearance of a revenue stream rising to the quality of revenues from performing loans or cash financial instrument trading, but not in that the fair valuing fails to produce revenues that realize to cash in the reporting cycle.
In a shrinking economy with less, fewer opportunities to make performing loans, without their abusive and agency self-dealing of proliforating OTC derivatives contracts, ISDA banks would not be profitable and would have to sell operating units and/or sell assets in order to summon liquidity. In a correcting market, this gives us difficulty to sell assets the prices of which the sellers expect to hold up while the market is correcting and other bigFinancials similarly are looking to sell assets or operating units.
The regulators which may be guilty aren't that stupid and want it easier to separate what can be sold when a bigFinancial has to execute its 'living will'.
Moreover, relying on borrowings and the fair valuing of the balance sheet inflated with OTC derivatives contracting, leaves the bank again at risk for having to execute its living will if and when the Fed stops QE and other liquidity programs that especially the ISDA cartel have needed in order to remain operating and appear profitable.
Managements relying on its depositors money gives us the risk of MF Global. Dirty secret is however that in that industry it wasn't illegal for MF Global to use its customers' money.
Regulators which find banks relying on using its depositors' money puts that bank or thrift of BHC, or FHC under an MOU and if the reasons aren't solved that management hasnt sufficient operating cash flows from its banking activities, the organ then goes under a cease & desist, and some one in senior management has to leave the company. Sadly in 2007-2010 we didnt see this with the ISDA banks, however there is precident for regulators to resume normal behavior.
Perhaps in the UK and EU a depository financial institution can 'borrow' its customers' deposits, but that then is sick depository institution and its management is a hair away from being reprimanded or if caught in a market correction or another crisis, out of their jobs.


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Who even remembers when The Hills cast looked like this. Smiling, young, innocent ... soon to be infected by the cancer that is Jason Wahler.
Ah, the good old days. Sure, there was always drama, but it wasn't nearly as fake. Well, at least not the boobs of Heidi Montag ... or Audrina Patridge.
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Get ready, Mariners fans. We are inching closer to the most exciting part of the baseball season. No, not the playoffs.
It is time for trade rumors!
If the Seattle Mariners keep winning a reasonable amount of games in the next few weeks, they may be prominently featured in the trade rumors that circulate at a furious pace around the Internet. It isn't the dominant teams that will be discussed the most, but rather the teams that are flirting with a playoff spot.
The Mariners would certainly qualify for that category.
Of all the major professional sports, it is fair to suggest that baseball may have the most hype when it comes to the trade deadline. This isn't to suggest that all the rumors come to fruition, because most of them simply don't.
The MLB trade deadline is big because major stars can change zip codes, and the packages that are exchanged can be an interesting mix of salary dumps and unproven prospects that may come back to bite the selling organization in the future.
Granted, Seattle fans should probably be thankful that the Mariners are actually in trade rumors that involve "buyers." In past years, there was an automatic assumption that the M's would be sellers, and that they should obviously trade Felix Hernandez to a team like the New York Yankees.
After all, don't the Mariners know that they are supposed to be a farm team for the rest of the league so that MLB can maintain their economic imbalance? But, I digress.
The major point here is that fans cannot get sucked in. Don't do it!
What is the danger here, you ask? The danger is that fans start to play general manager, and that can be difficult given the typically biased perspective.
In addition, fans can believe that "anonymous sources" are actually all real and can be trusted for credible information.
Believe it when you see it.
Now that we have social media, Twitter and other outlets give us up-to-the-minute information on the latest "rumors." We hear that teams are "interested" in a particular player, or that organizations may have talked about a potential deal. Here is a good example. In this case the phrase "expected to talk" is used:
Mariners would be in playoffs if postseason started today. They're expected to talk with White Sox if Dunn, Ramirez, Viciedo available.
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Here's the reality. GMs allegedly talk all the time. However, a GM is not going to give away a proven star under club control for a couple of Single-A pitchers just because the fans can dream about what that player would look like in their team's uniform.
Does this mean that fans should boycott the Internet until after the trade deadline? Certainly not. If anything, these rumors can be incredibly entertaining and some of them will actually get done.
Just take each rumor with a grain of salt. As the days and weeks fly by, the rumors will really start to heat up.
Maybe one or two will actually come true. Imagine that.
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Digital Diplomacy +SocialGood Forum
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Half-day conference beginning at 9:00am
A Digital Diplomacy Coalition (DDC) and UN Foundation hosted half-day conference focused on the transformative power of technology. This event brings together the dynamic international community with innovative technologists and influential minds. Diplomats, non-profit leaders and industry professionals explore the potential of digital media and technology to make the world a better place, and how to translate that potential into action.
Conference Agenda
Welcome and Opening Remarks
Lovisa Williams, Digital Diplomacy Coalition
Caleb Tiller, United Nations Foundation
Panel: Citizen Digital Diplomacy: Engaging Youth for Cultural Understanding and +SocialGood
The Internet has enabled the youth of the world to connect, learn, and influence in ways unlike any before. This panel will explore how youth engagement online is driving citizen diplomacy, and how governments and NGOs are engaging with youth through digital to promote cultural understanding and social good. Moderator: Anastasia Dellaccio, United Nations Foundation
Panelist: Rebecca Zylberman - Manager, Networks & Partnerships, British Council
Panelist: Michael Hill - CEO, Youth for Understanding USA
Panelist: Noam Katz - Minister of Public Diplomacy, Embassy of Israel
Ignite: +SocialGood
Zain Habboo - Senior Director, Digital and Multimedia Strategy, United Nations Foundation
+SocialGood unites a global community of innovators around a shared vision: Leveraging the power of technology and new media to make the world a better place.
Panel: Digital Engagement and Support During Natural Disasters
This panel will explore how government and organizations are using digital and emerging technologies during natural disasters to better coordinate their crisis response teams and serve the needs of the public. Moderator: Jed Shein, Embassy of Israel and Digital Diplomacy Coalition
Panelist: James Barbour - Press Secretary and Head of Communications, British Embassy
Panelist: Corina DuBois - New Media Chief for @TravelGov, U.S. Department of State
Panelist: Wendy Harman - Director of Social Strategy, American Red Cross
Ignite: FrontlineSMS
Sean McDonald - CEO, FrontlineSMS
FrontlineSMS is a desktop software created to lower barriers to positive social change using mobile technology.
Panel: +SocialGood in a Digital Society
This panel will explore how governments and international organizations are using digital media and technology to make the world a better place, and how to translate that potential into action. Moderator: Zain Habboo, United Nations Foundation
Panelist: Boaz Paldi - Senior Communications Officer, UNDP
Panelist: Ilse van Overveld - Counselor for Public Diplomacy, Press and Culture, Embassy of the Netherlands
Panelist: Alan Rosenblatt - Digital Political Strategist, Executive Director at the Internet Advocacy Center and Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University
12:00 noon
Keynote: How Digital Is Changing Global Affairs
Introduced by: Scott Nolan Smith, British Embassy and Digital Diplomacy Coalition
Speaker: Jim Rosenberg
Head of Online Communications and Social Media, World Bank
Exploring the transformative power of the Internet and social media in government and global affairs. Offering a unique perspective on the growth and future of the convergence of government, NGOs, and technology.
Closing Remarks
Lovisa Williams, Digital Diplomacy Coalition
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