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devingraymusic.com is the online outlet for brooklyn based drummer/composer devin gray he will need help while releasing his next album in the spring of 2015 (jan-end of june)
Application Deadline: 12/5/2014
Creative Marketing Internship at Private Member's Club – Part Time
CORE: club — New York, NY
We are a private members club and hospitality company for the most influential individuals driving global culture and the economy today. Conveniently located in Midtown Manhattan, we provide an unmatc…
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MJ Trade Co LLC — New York, NY
MJ Trade Co provide marketing consulting and research services to improve business performance and build brands. This is the ideal opportunity if you are a self-motivated, want to work in a fun, fast …
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Adknowledge — New York, NY
Giant Media, a division of Adknowledge, is a native video platform that distributes branded videos for innovative, creative, and forward-thinking media agencies and brands. As the largest Native Video…
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Public Relations Intern
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Description Company description: We are a human-powered discovery engine for cultural interestingness, a subjective lens on what matters in the world and why. We are business incubators for artists an…
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This is a paid position - Ideal candidate must possess a strong desire to take initiative. Interns will work directly with management in existing client work. Prior experience with market research and…
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Marketing Internship, Government Markets
ESI International — Arlington, VA
The Marketing Intern, Government Markets, position, which will support ESIs Government Business Unit's (GBU) overall marketing and business development efforts, is a full time position reporting to th…
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Digital Media/Marketing Intern MIH Entertainment is looking for young, energetic Digital Media/Marketing interns to join our Marketing team. We need our interns to help manage projects, conduct market…
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Global Gov't: This year's climate change report by the World Bank is a frightening screed filled with warnings of apocalyptic doom. Doesn't this organization have anything better to do than to needlessly scare people?
The World Bank was established in 1944 as a "facilitator of post-war reconstruction and development." That job done, it now has a "present-day mandate of worldwide poverty alleviation."
In taking on that burden, it has assured itself it will never fade away, because as long as there are humans, we'll have poverty, which guarantees that World Bankers will always have jobs trying (but never succeeding) in lifting the poor through means that continuously fail.
World Bank President Jim Yong Kim got it half-right when he said, "We will never end poverty if we don't tackle climate change." Poverty has always been, and, unfortunately, always will be part of the human condition. The World Bank will never end it.
But he's got it 100% wrong about the importance of the World Bank tackling climate change. If it doesn't, nothing will be lost. But if it does, lots is locked in. Policy changes to mitigate carbon dioxide emissions, which the World Bank supports, will be costly.
The Stern Review, for instance, says that taking greenhouse-gas emissions back to 75% of 2007 levels by 2050 could cost as much as 3.5% of global GDP. That review says a 1% gain is possible, but the more-likely scenario is a 1% loss in global GDP. A revised estimate says the loss will be 2%.
The argument, of course, is that those losses are small when compared to the much bigger losses that will occur due to global warming. But what those larger costs will be are, at best, a poor guess. We have yet to experience the climate change disasters that were predicted. Nor have the temperatures, which have actually been falling, reached the scorching heights we were warned about.
Yet calls for carbon taxes and cap-and-trade policies are in favor among governments.
A carbon tax, which is inexplicably supported by some on the right, is not a cost-free solution. In fact, it's not a solution at all. Consider Australia 's carbon-tax regime. Greg Sheridan, foreign editor of the Australian, convincingly wrote some months back that his country's carbon tax is "environmentally inconsequential, economically costly, administratively nightmarish."
Meanwhile, the carbon tax in Canada's British Columbia is "an expensive, ineffective and unpopular failure," according to B.C.'s daily Internet independent The Tyee. And it's the same in Great Britain.
Peter C. Glover, writing in the Canada Free Press, said earlier this year that the British carbon-tax scheme is "an abject failure." "It has actually had zero impact on Britain 's carbon footprint which, during the tenure of green taxes, actually saw emissions increase by 20%."
Fact is, the poor — those the World Bank says it's in the business to help — are hurt more by carbon taxes than the middle class and rich because they spend a higher portion of their income on energy. They're also harmed more than the middle and upper classes for the same reason when carbon-trading schemes are implemented.
But the World Bank is a political organization and its decisions are based on the political fashions of the day, not rational analysis. And today's popular politics demand a religious belief in the speculation that man's greenhouse-gas emissions are heating the planet to intolerable levels.
A quarter of a century ago, James Bovard of the Cato Institute wrote that "although the bank started with the highest ideals," it had by the late 1980s devolved into an organization that helps "Third World governments cripple their economies, maul their environments and oppress their people.
"It now consistently does more harm than good for the world's poorest."
Things haven't changed much for the World Bank since 1987. It's still breaking whatever it puts its hands on. The biggest difference is that 25 years ago, it couldn't use the global warming nonsense as a wrecking ball.
Cyberwar: The director of the National Security Agency, Adm. Michael Rogers, has warned a congressional panel that China has the capability to knock out the entire U.S. power grid. This is a first-magnitude threat.As severe as U.S. national security problems are with the militarily resurgent Russia ...
Amnesty: Now that President Obama has made the Constitution a welcome mat for illegals to wipe their feet on, Republicans can make a series of moves. This should be treated as the national emergency it is.For the president to shield up to 5 million aliens from the deportation that statute requires ...
Corruption: Smoking-gun emails show how the administration sought to derail a CBS reporter's investigation of its "gun-waking" operation — a reporter whose computers were mysteriously and mercilessly hacked.Fast and Furious, along with Benghazi, is one of the two "phony" administration ...
Lying With Statistics: In April, we doubted that the surprisingly high ObamaCare enrollment numbers could be trusted. Turns out, we were right to be skeptical. The White House had been vastly inflating the figures all along.This week, Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell admitted that ...
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Acevo is launching a review of the Work Programme, which came under heavy criticism yesterday for failing to get sufficient people into long-term employment.
Just 3.5 per cent of the 878,000 people who took part in the scheme until July 2012 had found work for six months or more. The government's target for the scheme was 5.5 per cent.
In response, Acevo is launching a review of the Work Programme. It will publish recommendations for how to make improvements to the Work Programme and for what should come after it once the Work Programme comes to an end.
Sir Stephen Bubb, chief executive of Acevo, said: "It is no good the government playing smoke and mirrors by telling Work Programme providers to 'get their act together', or focusing on how many benefit claimants aren't 'playing by the rules'.
"The truth is that the Work Programme is the government's big answer to long-term unemployment, and if we are to make it work, there are serious questions to answer."
Responding to the Work Programme figures, Sir Stuart Etherington, chief executive of NCVO called for data to be published on supply chains, while Joe Irvin, chief executive of Navca, called for an independent inspector of the Work Programme.
Irvin said: "We should not accept this failure. I have been saying for months that we need to accept that the Work Programme is not working as it should. The worst reaction would be to say that we just need more time and carry on with the scheme without any changes.
"It is time for action to sort out the Work Programmer. And I am not saying this because charities are being badly treated. I am saying this because the Work Programme is letting down unemployed people who deserve better."
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The Work Programme was the get out clause for the DWP, they are now able to pass the buck. Long term unemployment is not a wish for many but until rents and other living expenses are in line with what people can realistically earn, the crisis will develope.Many of these people that are having monies suspended can only access voluntary help or commit crime. Im very concerned because its affecting everyone, young, old and many other vulnerable people. Its funny how they are paid huge contracts for these clients but they refer people to us all the time and we are a voluntary org.
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Imagine if Iraq had not been invaded
Whatever else you may say about the "young war criminal" (as British journalist Alan Watkins used to call former prime minister Tony Blair), he certainly fights his corner with great determination. He is condemned to spend his life defending his part in the invasion of Iraq in 2003, and last weekend he was at it again.
In a 3,000-word essay on his website, Tony Blair wrote about last week's conquest of almost half Iraq's territory by the fanatical fighters of ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria): "We have to liberate ourselves from the notion that 'we' have caused this. We haven't." What he really meant by "we," of course, was "I."
But at least give Blair credit for producing an interesting argument. "As for how these (recent) events reflect on the original decision to remove Saddam," he wrote, "...(the argument) is that but for the invasion of 2003, Iraq would be a stable country today....
"Consider the post-2011 Arab uprisings. Put into the equation the counterfactual -- that Saddam and his two sons would be running Iraq in 2011 when the uprisings began. Is it seriously being said that the revolution sweeping the Arab world would have hit Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Yemen, Bahrain, Syria... but miraculously Iraq, under the most brutal and tyrannical of all the regimes, would have been an oasis of calm?
"So it is a bizarre reading of the cauldron that is the Middle East today, to claim that but for the removal of Saddam, we would not have a crisis."
Blair is employing one of his favourite techniques: winning an argument with a straw man. Nobody is actually saying that if the United States, Britain and some hangers-on had not illegally invaded Iraq in 2003, the country would be an "oasis of calm" today. Of course the Arab Spring would have come to Iraq, too, and of course there would be huge turmoil in the country today.
If Saddam Hussein had managed to hang on to power in the face of a democratic uprising in 2011 that was initially non-violent, Iraq today might be in a civil war somewhat like that in Syria. And if his dictatorship had been overthrown in 2011, whatever new government emerged in Iraq would certainly be contending with acute ethnic and sectarian rivalries today.
But the living standards, infrastructure, and health and educational services of a quite developed country would not have been massively degraded by a decade of invasion, foreign occupation and popular resistance. Hundreds of thousands of Iraqis who were killed in these events would still be alive (although Saddam's secret police would have murdered the usual thousand or so each year). And above all there would be no ISIS, nor anything like it.
There were no terrorists in Iraq in 2003. There were people with radical Islamist ideas, but they kept quiet for fear of Saddam's torturers and there weren't very many of them. And there were no "weapons of mass destruction" either. It was an exceptionally dumb war, to borrow Barack Obama's famous phrase, and it began the destruction of Iraq.
It is the deep sectarian divisions in Iraq's Arabic-speaking population (the Kurds are a separate issue) that are now completing that process of destruction. However, as with the distinctions between Catholics, Orthodox Christians and Muslims in old Yugoslavia before the breakup and the Balkan wars of the 1990s, most Sunnis and Shias in Iraq before 2003 lived side by side with a fairly low degree of friction.
It was the fight against foreign occupation after 2003 that radicalized people in Iraq and drove so many of them back into narrow sectarian identities. "Al-Qaida in Iraq," the original name for what now calls itself ISIS, was born in that struggle, and Tony Blair and George W. Bush were its midwives.
It's striking that al-Qaida in Iraq's main target during the occupation was to kill large numbers of Shias rather than lots of Americans. Its strategy was to provoke a sectarian war in which Iraqi Sunnis would be losing at first -- but then their plight would trigger intervention by Sunni states in the region and lead to a general Sunni-Shia war. It was a convoluted, nasty and deeply unrealistic strategy, but it made sense in terms of their radical Islamist ideology.
If there had been no invasion, and Saddam Hussein had been overthrown by a popular revolution only three years ago, there would certainly be great tension in a newly democratic Iraq now.
Sunni Arabs would be having trouble coming to terms with their minority status (which most were unaware of under Saddam). Shias would be tempted to exploit their majority status unfairly. Kurds would be pushing for more autonomy.
But they would be doing so in an atmosphere that had not been contaminated by a decade of sectarian hatred and savagery. There would be no organizations like ISIS dedicated to waging a sectarian war. And even if Saddam Hussein had not been overthrown and Iraq was caught up in a civil war like Syria's, it would have a far less sectarian character. As would Syria's, for that matter.
Gwynne Dyer is an independent journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries.
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What is confidence? I think I have plenty,until I see what it means to exude confidence. It is portrayed in every step… even if it leads others down the wrong path. It is spoken in every word… in phrases that are not our own but valued as such for being delivered through our own breath. In this sense, confidence...
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I Love Being Me And Sharing Myself With The World.For years I had a very low self-esteem and was even suicidal. I starved myself to get my own approval but could not get thin enough. I worked hard to acheive great things but none of my achievements helped me love myself. They only set me up to have to do something greater the...
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It's Not In You YetI don't think you can be born with confidence. I think you gain it. Confidence is sooo sexy and I'm really happy to have gotten to the point of believing in me.
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It's Hailey, I'm 16, & about 5'5.Looking for true friends that I can tell anything and everything. Is that you? (Preferably cute jk)
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Thanks to my boyfriend,I love my body. ❤
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I'm done with people feeling sorryfor me I've finally gotten back up and stronger than ever !!!
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United States soft-rock band Train are "upset" after their song Marry Me was used in a New Zealand anti-gay marriage website.
Family First website Protectmarriage.org.nz featured the music video for Marry Me, but the San Francisco-based band was alerted to its use by a New Zealander through Twitter.
Train has now released a statement saying "it was upsetting to us that Marry Me, a love song with no boundaries, was being used to promote an agenda we don't subscribe to".
"We [Train] take the idea of marriage very seriously, and believe it is the right of all consenting adults, regardless of sexual orientation.
"Marry Me is about just that, finding that special love and making it last forever. Everyone should be allowed to have that."
It is not the first setback to Family First's anti-gay marriage campaign. The website had to be taken down after "unprecedented attack" took out the website's host servers on its Monday launch.
Family First director Bob McCroskrie said the website was dedicated to opposing Labour MP Louisa Wall's Marriage Equality Bill, which was pulled from the ballot last week and had sparked heated debate from both sides.
While the site was reinstated a couple of times on Monday, its Christchurch-based webhost had to eventually pull the site completely because hackers had overwhelmed their servers so much it affected every other website hosted by the company.
Family First's own website was also hosted by the company and also had to be pulled, but both sites were now back up and running on international servers.
"It is disappointing that some opponents in the marriage debate are unwilling to have robust debate and are resorting to desperate - but failed - attempts to shut us down," McCroskrie said.
"We are also disappointed that our web host company was targeted with offensive emails simply because they were a Christchurch business that we wanted to support and who were willing to host some of our websites."
Train have been working at getting their music video removed from the site since Monday, and just today it has been taken down.
Train caught wind their song was being used by Family First after a Twitter user alerted the band their song was being used on an "anti gay marriage website".
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McCroskrie said earlier in the week they had not yet heard from Train, but if they were asked to take the song down they would.
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Salsarita's founder plans Italian restaurant chain Capishe!
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Salsarita's founder Bruce Willette is developing a new restaurant venture focused on Italian fare.
The restaurant, called Capishe! Bold Italian Kitchen, will be a fast-casual concept, where food is made fresh in front of customers.
Lease negotiations are under way for three Charlotte-area sites — two in south Charlotte and one in uptown. The first locations could open within six months, Willette says.
Willette sees opportunities for as many as 20 locations in the future, but that will depend on how the restaurant is received.
He initially thought of the concept for Capishe! about five years ago, but said the timing wasn't right for the venture.
"Fast-casual Italian is definitely a growing trend. It's one of the last areas fast casual hasn't been placed," Willette says.
Now, he has teamed up with Peter Reinhart, Johnson & Wales University chef on assignment, to develop the menu. The duo also worked with design firm Little to develop the brand and concept.
"We feel confident with my experience and chef's culinary expertise, we've got our bases covered," Willette says.
He founded Salsarita's Fresh Cantina in Charlotte in 2000. He sold that chain of fast and casual Mexican restaurants in 2011.
Reinhart has developed a menu that will feature pasta entrees, where customers can design their dish. That includes red or white sauce, proteins such as chicken and pepperoni, and vegetables and other ingredients. Dishes are topped with bread crumbs and cheese, and cooked to order in 90 seconds.
Capishe! also will offer make-your-own pizzas, salads and two specialty sandwiches.
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Oakland, CA (SportsNetwork.com) - Stephen Curry sure made up for all those turnovers over the first three quarters.
Curry had 16 of his 33 points in the fourth, including a go-ahead jumper with three seconds left as the Golden State Warriors defeated the Dallas Mavericks 95-93 on Wednesday night.
Monta Ellis, who played for Golden State from 2005-12, drove in for a reverse layup with 1:26 remaining to give Dallas a 92-86 lead before Curry's four- point play and Draymond Green's right wing triple put the Warriors in front for the first time since the 6:45 mark of the opening frame.
Ellis split a pair of free throws at the other end to knot the tilt at 93-93 with 46.8 ticks to go and Curry's driving layup on the Warriors' next touch didn't drop.
Ellis missed a fallaway jumper from the foul line with 24.9 seconds on the clock. Curry then got the ball at the top of the arc with Shawn Marion guarding him. Curry dribbled to the right elbow, moved Marion out of the way with a pump fake and then calmly rose up and knocked down the jumper.
"We wanted to dwindle the clock down and he did what big time players do," Golden State head coach Mark Jackson said of Curry's go-ahead bucket.
Jose Calderon's shot from beyond halfcourt at the buzzer came up short.
Curry turned the ball over eight times through the first three frames, but didn't give it away in the fourth.
Harrison Barnes netted 17 points and Andrew Bogut pulled down 18 rebounds for the Warriors, who have won four of their last six contests.
Ellis and Dirk Nowitzki donated 21 points apiece for Dallas, which has dropped two straight on the heels of a three-game winning streak.
"You can take a positive from this," Ellis said. "It went all the way to the end, and they had to make a great shot. Steph (Curry) did and they won."
Earlier, Dallas led 23-16 after a quarter of play and by as many as 18 in the second before settling for a 55-44 cushion at the break.
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LAKELAND, Minn. (AP) — When high school student Zach Sobiech learned he didn't have much longer to live, his mother suggested he write letters to tell his loved ones goodbye. Instead, the Minnesota teenager turned to writing music — and his farewell song, "Clouds," became a YouTube sensation that has attracted more than 4 million views.
Other musicians have covered the tune, and it inspired a celebrity video on YouTube. "Clouds" was even listed No. 1 on the iTunes Top 10 list on Wednesday — two days after Sobiech died after battling bone cancer.
His mother, Laura Sobiech, said on the CaringBridge website that her son was surrounded by family and his girlfriend when he died at his home in Lakeland, an eastern suburb of St. Paul. He had recently turned 18.
Sobiech was being remembered not only for his music, but also for the way he lived. John Hallberg, the chief executive of the Children's Cancer Research Fund, said Wednesday that Sobiech had a positive attitude and approached his diagnosis with strength and grace.
"You don't have to find out you're dying to start living," Sobiech said in a short video about him titled, "My Last Days: Meet Zach Sobiech," which also has been viewed more than 4 million times since it was posted to YouTube two weeks ago.
"I want to be remembered as a kid who went down fighting, and didn't really lose," he said.
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What beliefs unite the great majority of the British middle classes? To judge from their recitation in newspaper letters pages and opinion poll surveys over the past 12 months, the leading group would probably include a profound respect for the Royal Family – a carapace in which Republican sneering never seems to make the faintest dent – deep distrust of the European Union, and an unfettered hostility to what is known to the right-wing press as "benefits culture".
There is no getting away from this dislike of the substantial proportion of the nation's citizenry currently being raised at the State's expense, for its tocsin clangs through practically every forum of public debate. Party affiliations are no check to its clamorous expression – Labour voters are just as opposed to "benefit scroungers" as Conservatives – and even the liberal newspapers have been carrying letters in support of Iain Duncan Smith's proposals to cap at two the number of eligible children. "We are hard-working taxpaying middle-class people, who have every day to make decisions about our lifestyle choices", ran one of them, published in The Independent. "We are sick and tired of paying for those who choose not to act in a responsible way."
Naturally there is much to recommend these exercises in bourgeois self-justification, for they stem from a kind of fundamentalist strain of native Puritanism that has been going strong in our national life for several hundred years. Nearly anyone who earns more than £30,000 a year will be prey to the odd affronted middle-class moment. My own always comes when walking down the thoroughfare in central Norwich that leads to the law courts and watching the procession of pram-hefting teenage girls off to attend their boyfriends' appearances in the dock. There is nothing I can do about my instinctive exasperation: it was the way I was brought up.
On the other hand, talk of feckless ingrates milking the Exchequer and acting in an irresponsible way nearly always ignores the middle class's sempiternal ability to exploit the state for its own advantage. What, after all, is 40 per cent tax relief for pension contributions other than a middle-class perk? One of the sharpest scenes in J K Rowling's The Casual Vacancy comes when the pompous, calorifically-challenged parish council chair is expounding the "personal responsibility" line, only to be reminded by a colleague of the thousands of pounds wasted by the NHS in treating his weight-related medical complaints. At the economic level the only way to subdue the "benefits culture" is to create more employment, and where in a world where the factories continue to close and the manufacturing jobs head east, is that to come from? We can't all be computer programmers or wither on the Tesco check-out.
Radio Two has just begun an entertaining series entitled Barbara Windsor's Ladies of Song. The fascination of hearing Ms Windsor pay tribute to such bygone chanteuses as Alma Cogan and Kathy Kirby turns out to be twofold. First there is the straightforward nostalgia of being returned to the family dining room, circa 1965, with the radio on and the ornaments of old-style light-entertainment-land crooning into the ether. But coming up on the rails is an intriguing sub-text about the Americanisation of British culture.
The curious thing about the English-born Alma Cogan is her impeccable Stateside singing tone. If one wanted a date for the beginning of this cultural domination it could be found in the late 1920s, when the first wave of American cinema broke on these shores. J B Priestley notes in Angel Pavement (1930), his teeming novel of Depression-era London, that the appearance and gestures of a character called Edna Smeeth are those of "an Americanised Polish jewess"– presumably Greta Garbo – "who, from her nest in Hollywood, had stamped them on these young girls all over the world".
My father (born 1921) was Edna's male equivalent, always liable to interrupt family meal-times with a snatch of "Ice-cold Katy won't you marry the soldier?" and disliking Ronald Reagan less for his policies than for his debased professional status as a B-movie actor. There have been times when the pendulum swung back the other way – see the 1960s colonisation of America by British pop – but generally speaking this reverse imperialism has been in place for three-quarters of a century. One of the subliminal reasons why British people are so indifferent to continental Europe is that most of their cultural influences come from the other direction.
The book I most enjoyed reading last week was an omnibus edition of Posy Simmonds's cartoons about the Weber family, first offered to readers of The Guardian in the 1980s and now reissued to mark the 25th anniversary of the series' close. The great merit of the adventures of George and Wendy Weber, an irreproachably liberal couple, addicted to all the good brave causes, was that they sharply exposed most of the attitudes espoused by the medium in which they featured: Guardian readers who laughed at them were laughing at themselves.
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Liverpool's American owners Tom Hicks and George Gillett may face some difficult decisions regarding their continued involvement at Anfield but the future of the club is not under threat.
The pair have just over six weeks to agree a refinancing package on the loan they took out to buy the Barclays Premier League side in 2007.
Accountants KPMG expressed concern over the level of debt being incurred by Kop Football Holdings, Liverpool's parent company, after it posted losses of £42.6million in the year ending July 2008.
Most of that was a result of £36million of interest payments on a loan of £350million - which has to be renegotiated by July 24.
However, suggestions Liverpool are facing financial meltdown have been dismissed by sources close to the American duo as "totally wide of the mark".
The club itself posted profits of £10.2million but that was swallowed up by the huge interest payments of the parent company.
"The owners seem remarkably relaxed about it, which can only be a good sign," an insider told PA Sport.
"There is no threat to the club. Liverpool's profitability and profits are up.
"There are other clubs who are considerably more in debt than Liverpool are."
Hicks and Gillett are confident they can refinance the loan in time for the July deadline.
However, leading football financial experts believe in the long term they need a huge influx of cash from outside or they will have to sell up.
In January Kuwaiti billionaire Nasser Al-Kharafi offered £425million for overall control but the Americans only want to sell 50% - which will prove a significant hurdle to further investment.
"It is quite difficult but not impossible to get debt refinanced but it is absolutely not the ideal time to be negotiating debt positions," said Vinay Bedi, divisional director of investment management firm Brewin Dolphin based in Newcastle.
"They wouldn't be short of banks to turn to but the bank would make it very much on their terms - all companies that have restructured their debt deals in the last few weeks have got very onerous restrictions."
However, Bedi does not believe the club is close to going under.
"It does create an element of financial risk to the business because it is not a good position but the credibility of English football would be badly tarnished," he added.
"For one of the top four clubs to be in this position is not particularly ideal but I wouldn't have thought the bank would want to call in the debt.
"I don't think anyone genuinely believes Liverpool will not be playing in the Premier League and Champions League next season - it is just a question of who is running it and how it is structured."
Bedi said that if Hicks and Gillett did decide to sell there would be a number of interested parties - at the right price.
"From an overseas point of view there are probably people to buy it as there is a better economic attraction because of the exchange rate," he said.
"The Premier League is still the best market for marketing yourself across the world and the fact Liverpool are one of the key clubs in the Champions League makes it an added attraction."
Another leading analyst, Professor Tom Cannon, believes Hicks and Gillett may have to sell their interest in their American sport franchises or even cash in on some of Liverpool's most saleable assets.
Midfielder Xabi Alonso is a reported £23million target for Real Madrid while Argentina captain Javier Mascherano is reportedly interesting Champions League winners Barcelona.
"It is almost hard to imagine they can resist the pressure on them to bring in another investor," Cannon, professor of strategic development at Liverpool University's school of management, told Sky Sports News.
"But whether another investor will come in on the type of conditions Hicks and Gillett seem to be asking is open to question.
"I think it is more likely Hicks will sell some of his interest in the Texas Rangers (baseball team) or [Gillett will sell] the Montreal Canadiens (ice hockey team).
"Unless they either sell Alonso or do more buying and selling then they will be operating in very difficult conditions.
"They desperately need new finances, not least to take the burden of this debt and the related interest.
"They can't really seriously think in terms of another six-month extension, they need long-term secure financing."
Paul Rice, chairman of the leading fans group Spirit of Shankly, called on the Royal Bank of Scotland - with whom the Americans have their loan - to call in the debt.
"The revelations underline Hicks and Gillett's utter failure as owners," he told the Liverpool Echo.
"We urge Royal Bank of Scotland to not refinance the loan and instead seek more responsible and appropriate custodians for Liverpool Football Club.
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The University of Massachusetts-Lowell will host a new center for innovation and entrepreneurship, called by its organizers as "one of only three of its kind in the world." The as-yet unnamed center is to be funded with a multi-million dollar donation from the Deshpande Foundation, according to an announcement today by both UMass Lowell and the Deshpande Foundation.
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SEOUL (Reuters) - The daughter of a former military ruler won South Korea's presidential election on Wednesday and will become the country's first female leader, saying she would work to heal a divided society.
The 60-year old conservative, Park Geun-hye, will return to the presidential palace in Seoul where she served as her father's first lady in the 1970s, after her mother was assassinated by a North Korean-backed gunman.
With more than 88 percent of the votes counted, Park led with 51.6 percent to 48 percent for her left-wing challenger, human rights lawyer Moon Jae-in, giving her an unassailable lead that forced Moon to concede.
Her raucous, jubilant supporters braved sub-zero temperatures to chant her name and wave South Korean flags outside her house. When she reached her party headquarters, Park was greeted with shouts of "president".
An elated Park reached into the crowd to grasp hands of supporters wearing red scarves, her party's colour.
"This is a victory brought by the people's hope for overcoming crisis and for economic recovery," she told supporters at a rally in central Seoul.
Park will take office for a mandatory single, five-year term in February and will face an immediate challenge from a hostile North Korea and have to deal with an economy in which annual growth rates have fallen to about 2 percent from an average of 5.5 percent in its decades of hyper-charged growth.
She is unmarried and has no children, saying that her life will be devoted to her country.
The legacy of her father, Park Chung-hee, who ruled for 18 years and transformed the country from the ruins of the 1950-53 Korean War into an industrial power-house, still divides Koreans.
For many conservatives, he is South Korea's greatest president and the election of his daughter would vindicate his rule. His opponents dub him a "dictator" who trampled on human rights and stifled dissent.
"I trust her. She will save our country," said Park Hye-sook, 67, who voted in an affluent Seoul district, earlier in the day.
"Her father ... rescued the country," said the housewife and grandmother, who is no relation to the candidate.
For younger people, the main concern is the economy and the creation of well-paid jobs in a country where income inequalities have grown in recent years.
"Now a McDonald's hamburger is over 5,000 Korean won so you can't buy a McDonald's burger with your hourly pay. Life is hard already for our two-member family but if there were kids, it would be much tougher," said Cho Hae-ran, 41, who is married and works at a trading company.
Park has spent 15 years in politics as a leading legislator in the ruling Saenuri party, although her policies are sketchy.
She has a "Happiness Promotion Committee" and her campaign was launched as a "National Happiness Campaign", a slogan she has since changed to "A Prepared Woman President".
She has cited former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, a tough proponent of free markets, as her role model as well as Angela Merkel, the conservative German chancellor who is Europe's most powerful leader.
One of those who voted on Wednesday was Shin Dong-hyuk, a defector from North Korea who is the only person known to have escaped from a slave labour camp there.
He Tweeted that he was voting "for the first time in my life", although he didn't say for whom.
Park has said she would negotiate with Kim Jong-un, the youthful leader of North Korea who recently celebrated a year in office, but wants the South's isolated and impoverished neighbour to give up its nuclear weapons programme as a precondition for aid, something Pyongyang has refused to do.
The two Koreas remain technically at war after an armistice ended their conflict. Kim Il Sung, the grandfather of the North's current leader, ordered several assassination attempts on Park's father, one of which resulted in her mother being shot to death in 1974.
Park herself met Kim Jong-un's father, the late leader Kim Jong-il, and declared he was "comfortable to talk to" and he seemed to be someone "who would keep his word".
The North successfully launched a long-range rocket last week in what critics said was a test of technology for an intercontinental ballistic missile and has recently stepped up its attacks on Park, describing her as holding a "grudge" and seeking "confrontation", code for war.
Park remains a firm supporter of a trade pact with the United States that and looks set to continue the free-market policies of her predecessor, although she has said she would seek to spread wealth more evenly.
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