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Daytona Seafood Festival On Manatee Island May 11 2013
Posted by Janis Gagliardi on Wednesday, May 1st, 2013 at 6:31pm.
Join Us At The Daytona Seafood Festival May 11, 2013 on Manatee Island
Join us for great Seafood, Entertainment, Cold Beer, Vendor Displays, Petting Zoo, Butterfly Tent, and family fun at the Daytona Seafood Festival!
Bring friends and family to Manatee Island at 325 Beach street Downtown Daytona Beach FL just150 yards South off the Main Street Bridge!
General Admission is $5, kids 12 and under are free and there's even free parking!
Check out the Daytona Seafoodfest website www.seafoodfest.net
Some of the Entertainment includes:
Joey Miller who will be performing shortly after noon on May 11, 2013 at Daytona Seafood Festival.
Bring the kids and say H!i to Cappy the Clown will bring her humor including face painting which is her signature.
Linda Cole will also be performing and will co-host the Daytona Seafood Festival!
Caroline Strong, a local teen singer, songwriter, and guitar player prodigy will perform at noon and 1:30 pm. Don't miss Caroline's performance!
John Nickoloff & Friends Unplugged performs on stage at 5:30 pm. John will be performing songs from his new CD.
See Hoobly the pig from the Shergren Farms Petting Zoo too!
Great food will be available at the seafood truck rodeo and vendors include:
- TJ's Seafood Shack
- Super Grouper Trooper
- Cafe Heavenly
- Lobster Roller Truck
Other companies include Gene's Steak House and Tia Cori Tacos
Another fantastic highlight of the festival is the BUTTERFLY RELEASE!
Contact Team Gagliardi now for more information about Port Orange Real Estate and Daytona Beach Condos. Marty Gagliardi 386-316-5968 - Michael Gagliardi 386-316-5967 - Heidi Gagliardi 386-290-6842. We are ready to assist you!
Janis Gagliardi, Broker Associate
Gaffs Realty Company
Cell: 386-299-2798
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Mark your calendar for THIS SATURDAY * BUTTERFLY RELEASE is coming to Manatee Island at Daytona Seafood Festival on May 11, 2013. Release times are noon and 4 pm. Enjoy a day of great seafood, live entertainment, cold beer, vendor displays, a petting zoo, and lots of family fun.
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Sno Balls will be serving up sweet flavors of snow cones SATURDAY at Daytona Seafood Festival.
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DUSTIN SEYMOUR has been added to the entertainment schedule for Daytona Seafood Festival. Dustin will be on stage from 1:45 - 2:45 pm May 11, 2013.
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Name: Khan, Abram
Asshole, That jerk , Genghis Khan, Little Stalin /by siblings/
Age: 18
Nationality: Mongolian-Russian
Height: 6''4 -- 193.0 cm
Weight: 169 lbs
Birthday: November 11th
Year: Third Year
Swim Style: Free style.
Level: Novice
Personality: Blunt | Straight-forward | Lewd | Apathetic | Touchy/Romantic | Mean.
-- Abram won't ever hesitate to let anyone know how he feels. He's a blunt young man who is shameless all the way. He could care less what people think of him, and pretty much does what would make him feel happy. Abram seem indifferent and moody all the time and for the most part he pretty much is. He doesn't like being bothered. If he likes you he'll let you know, and if he doesn't like you, you'll definitely know.
I'll add more after rping
- Diversity
- Fur/ cold or cool weather
- Speaking Russian or Mongolian so people won't understand him.
- Working out
- Eating
- Family, but not friends.
- Wolves and wild animals.
- Swimming is ok
- His sister
- Tits or gtfo
- When people get on their knees and just beg him for everything
- Hard work
- Nature and music
Porn and masturbating
- Traditional things
- Waking up really late in the day. He's fine with waking up early and staying up late
- Lazy people--even though he himself is kind of lazy sometimes.
- Being bothered.
- more t.b.a
Additional Information:
- He has two older twin brothers[24] and one younger sister[6]
- His older brothers are kinda mean and tease him a lot. It's a love hate thing
- Holds a grudge against his mother for enrolling him in an all-boy school.
- Abram doesn't do much but he'll flex for you if you ask.
- His animal is probably a Giant Red Octopus
- He sticks his tongue out a lot
- Abram can be kind of cruel so like....heads up
- Don't feel that chest hair without permission
it's sensitive
- I want him to have a girlfriend . .unless someone convinces me otherwise
Contact information: Skype or Notes //Ask me for my skype
Preferred method of RPing: Lit.


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Rich Trzupek is a veteran environmental consultant and senior advisor to the Heartland Institute. He is the author of the new book Regulators Gone Wild: How the EPA is Ruining American Industry (Encounter Books).


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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) - Wes Short, Jr., Jeff Freeman, Doug Garwood and Bill Glasson all carded 7-under 64s to share the first-round lead at the Champions Tour national qualifying tournament at TPC Scottsdale.
Short then had seven consecutive pars for his 64.
A winner of the 2005 Michelin Championship at Las Vegas on the PGA Tour, Short has had back problems over the past three years and played on the PGA Tour on a major medical extension. He made the cut at the Shell Houston Open, his first on the PGA Tour since 2007.
''I hit it close four times over the first eight holes and it was nice to start off with an eagle,'' Short said. ''I then made a 30-footer for birdie at No. 18 and another 30-footer for birdie at the second hole.
''It was just a perfect day to play and if you kept the ball in play off the tee, you were going to have short irons into these holes. It's a four-day event and I need to keep playing like I did today.''
Garwood, who played just five tournaments on the Champions Tour this year after turning 50 in late March, finished tied for second at the Nature Valley First Tee Open at Pebble Beach and tied for seventh in his debut on the circuit at The Principal Charity Classic.
He came into the event nursing an injury to his rib cage, but it didn't seem to bother him on Tuesday. He made eight birdies and also had a three-putt bogey on his round.
''I wasn't sure I was going to be able to play today, but I took three Advils this morning and was good. When you have conditions like this, you can make lots of birdies and I was able to do that. It was nice to get off to this kind of a start, especially how I was feeling coming in here,'' Garwood said.
Glasson, a winner of seven PGA Tour titles, used a pair of eagles on both of the par-5s on the back nine to also get in at 7 under for the day. He's trying to achieve fully exempt status for next season after finishing 33rd on the 2013 money list with $459,277.
Like Glasson, Freeman, the 2011 Q-School medalist and a conditionally exempt player in 2013 after he tied for eighth at last fall's national qualifying tournament, went bogey-free on his round, opening his day with birdies on four of his first five holes.
There will be no cut in the 72-hole qualifier. At the end of four rounds, the top five finishers earn fully-exempt status through the re-order in the 2014 season, while the next seven players will be conditionally exempt. In addition, the top 30 finishers and ties will be eligible to compete for spots in open qualifiers at all co-sponsored events on the Champions Tour in 2014.
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Sophomore Marissa Janning was named the BIG EAST WBB Player of the Year, while seniors McKenzie Fujan and Sarah Nelson earned All-BIG EAST Second Team honors on Wednesday, March 5.
Janning finished the regular season as the BIG EAST scoring champion, posting 548 points in 30 games (18.3 ppg). Janning also led the BIG EAST in FT% (.861), hitting 124 of 144 attempts, was second overall in three-pointers made (76) and eighth in the league in assists at 3.8 apg (115). The sophomore guard was one of eight conference players to eclipse the 30-point mark this season and one of just four to do it on multiple occasions, including a league-high point total of 38 against Georgetown on Feb. 5.
Fujan also shared the BIG EAST's top spot for points in a game, dropping 38 on DePaul in Creighton's 86-78 win over the conference champion on Jan. 4. Fujan closed out the regular season third in scoring for the Bluejays with 378 points and is second on the team in three-pointers with 46.
Nearing the top of Creighton's charts in scoring, rebounding, blocked shots and games played, Nelson was dominant once again in her senior season. She leads Creighton in rebounds (238) with 7.8 per game, is presently second in scoring (12.7 ppg), second in assists (110) and leads the Bluejays with 34 blocked shots this season. In Tuesday's game with Butler, Nelson became Creighton's all-time leader in blocks with 153 in her career.


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Neil Steinberg: What if the shooting means nothing?
BY NEIL STEINBERG email@example.com July 20, 2012 3:58PM
Updated: August 22, 2012 6:09AM
The grim ritual begins anew.
First the shock, delivered with the dawn Friday morning. A massacre at a midnight screening in Colorado of the new Batman movie, "The Dark Knight Rises." A dozen people killed, 58 wounded.
Then the shooter is introduced — James Holmes, 24 — and ushered into the pantheon of heavily armed, deranged Americans. A growing list. He was taken alive, so we'll get the chance to know him well, better than we could ever want to, to take a good long look into whatever psychological cesspool he has crawled out of, an extended tour of a very small, sad and not-all-that-interesting place.
We'll happily forget him, despite the periodic reminders. Holmes gets to go to prison for the rest of his life. You have to wonder if that thought occurs to these shooters, and if it does, how they can still go through with it. Maybe they assume they'll die in the process. Maybe they don't care. In the photo, Holmes smiles. Why do they always seem to smile?
This being the Internet age, the punditry is unleashed immediately, no time for contemplation required: What was a 3-month-old baby doing at a midnight screening? Hollywood wonders how the massacre will affect the movie's box office. Christopher Rapoza posts a photo of his wound on Reddit, a social news site. People joke, but perhaps that can be forgiven — some things are so awful that you have to joke. Or maybe it should not be forgiven — maybe it is a symptom of the exact indifference to humanity that helps cause this kind of thing in the first place.
Not that we know what caused it, not that we can ever know, though causes aplenty will be disinterred and rinsed off for public inspection. A lonely childhood, no doubt — it never is the captain of the football team who does this sort of thing, is it? A love of guns.
Ah, guns. We might talk about them, but why bother? Our hearts won't be in it. That ship has sailed — 311 million Americans and about as many guns. They keep the fear at bay. Holmes had four guns when he was arrested. Plenty for the job. He shot 70 people, including that baby, who lived, and a 12-year-old, who didn't.
Besides, the conclusion you draw depends on the conclusion you start with. Gun-control advocates — if there are any anymore — will point out that it's still far too easy to get guns, that people with serious mental illness have no trouble arming themselves.
Gun devotees are already saying that if only the audience had been armed, why, they could have returned fire, and the death toll might be less. An armed society is a polite society. Or maybe it's a society where 12 people die every single night in gunfights over parking spaces instead of 12 in rare theater slaughters.
So an armed standoff, of sorts, and even having the debate at this moment seems crass, dipping your fingers into the still fresh blood of the victims to sketch out your case in crimson.
What do I think? I'd be tempted to say this means nothing. Aurora, Colo., is still a generally safe, middle-class suburb. There is no reason to seize upon the still-rare, irrational act of a madman, amplified by an overabundance of weaponry, and say it represents something significant about America. There were thousands of 24-year-olds at midnight Thursday who slept the sleep of the innocent, after a day of study, or work, or some other activity, who didn't send 70 fellow citizens to the hospital or the morgue. Why can't their lives be analyzed, their acts considered as reflecting back on all of us?
But that's not how it works.
An ideal society would deny these shooters the fame that so many seem to crave. We'd number them instead — Holmes could be "2012 Shooter A." We'd recognize that the details are meaningless — lots of people are mentally ill, or lonely, or suffer, and still they don't kill anybody. Maybe somebody was mean to Holmes once — so what? Who cares?
We should reject the search for reasons as a charade, a clutch for cold comfort. Whether he shot those people as a statement against global warming or because he views the government as an illegitimate occupying force or because he's upset the Dark Knight trilogy is coming to an end, in the final analysis, what does it really matter? Will it bring back the dead? What comfort will it give to all those people who lost a loved one early Friday? All those people whose lives are now a series of hospital rooms and operations, of pain and fear?
And we don't live in that ideal society, do we? Our politics are a poisonous Manichaean fistfight between factions who have lost all respect for each other. Our free time is spent submerged in an online netherworld where many of us parade our darkest biases and reflexive contempt with no ramifications whatsoever.
So what is our duty here? I guess we are obligated to pay attention, and to try not to view this tragedy as routine, to try not to harden ourselves against this most recent horror, to pretend that we can change ourselves so this will never happen again, when we all know that it will certainly happen again.


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some thoughts on Guardians of the Galaxy
When the previews for Guardians of the Galaxy started showing up in theaters, I was struck by the ways they used Blue Swede's "Hooked on a Feeling." That song was a nutty novelty hit when I was a wee lad in 1974, and I wondered if anyone else in the theater even remembered the recording, much less felt the sense of nostalgia I did when I heard it. Would people think that "Hooked on a Feeling" was some kind of message from another planet? What could its inclusion in the trailers for a Marvel movie possibly mean, except that, obviously, Guardians of the Galaxy was not a movie to be taken entirely seriously? And yet, that song, and the aesthetic choice that led to its inclusion in the movie, is a key part of understanding the appeal of not just Guardians but of the entire Marvel Cinematic Universe project.
Some thoughts on Lucy
Like a lot of things with me these days, the first thing you have to understand about my reaction to Lucy is that I'm old. I'm old enough to have worked at a movie theater in New York when Subway was released, and watched its delirious blend of kinetic cinema, outlandish violence and heartsick romance repeatedly. I'm old enough to have gone to see La Femme Nikita in a movie theater, many times, thrilling to the many ways it was a vast improvement over Subway. I'm old enough to have felt frustrated over the past two decades as director Luc Besson built his gigantic company in France, became a big-budget producer, made computer-animated movies for children and only occasionally made what I'll call "Luc Besson movies," that unique blend of kinetic cinema, outlandish violence and heartsick romance that I fell in love with so many years ago. If nothing else, Lucy is a stunning return to form for Besson, at once a thrilling summation and a brilliant leap forward.
James Bond: Skyfall part 9
In case the reflective nature of Skyfall were not already apparent, the "preparation montage" begins with a shot of Bond revealed in a full-length mirror. The mirror will later be used in a trap, the classic "fooling the bad guys with a full-length mirror" trick. As Kincade says, "Sometimes the old ways are the best." We see some traps laid out, others are merely hinted at. All of them (spoiler alert) work exactly as planned.
James Bond: Skyfall part 8
Act IV of Skyfall begins at 1:45:49 and opens with a stunning shot of Bond, with his Goldfinger car, as a tiny figure in a huge landscape, fitting as Skyfall's primary goal is to place the Craig Bond in context, not just in the Bond-verse but in the cultural landscape. The narrative asks "How does James Bond fit into the modern world of espionage?" but what it's really asking is how he fits into the modern world at all. And I don't think I'm "bringing this" to the movie, I think it's quite intentional. The Bond movies have never, ever seriously asked us to consider the world of real-life espionage at all, they've always been colorful, absurd, high-flown escapist spectacles, the Batman of espionage thrillers. They didn't offer a solution to the Cold War, they offered escape from it, they goofed on it.
And so, as with Batman, Bond must now be re-imagined, brought to earth, scaled back and made a resonant character. I'm not a grade-A cultural analyst, but one thing I've noticed in the past decade is that everyone has an opinion on Bond, and must have an opinion on Bond, and must be prepared to discuss and defend those opinions, and must be prepared to offer logical reasons why they prefer Dalton to Brosnan or why The Spy Who Loved Me is better than Thunderball or why Nick Nack is better than Tee Hee, all in spite of the fact that it's all quite silly. James Bond, for some bizarre reason, bless his heart, matters to us as a culture. He obviously means something.
I think the cultural shift regarding Bond is the same shift that has presented itself to straight white men everywhere: he's no longer in charge of everything, and the world is no longer his red carpet. Watching You Only Live Twice the other day, I was struck by how the whole narrative just unrolls for Bond to step into. There's a scene where Japanese super-spy Tiger Tanaka takes Bond to his gigantic Ninja Training Camp, an idea silly enough by itself, but sillier still is the way it's presented to Bond: here is a gigantic ninja training camp, we are all here to help you, do what you like with us. Guns, gadgets, vehicles, women, travel are all thrust toward the Connery Bond with the flourish of a fruit basket in a penthouse suite for a VIP. "Right this way, Mr. Bond, your fantasy adventure awaits you for you to partake."
With rare exceptions, the Bond movies are nothing but fantasy comedies for middle-aged men with adolescent minds (which is why Roger Moore kept being cast long past his sell-by date – Bond on paper may be a young man, but Moore was the audience). The typical Bond plot falls apart with only a cursory glance and has the visual panache of a 50s Batman story: giant props, garish villains, shark tanks, volcano strongholds, indestructible henchmen. In On Her Majesty's Secret Service Bond leads a chase into a stock-car race and no one bats an eye. The climax of You Only Live Twice hinges on a self-destruct device called "The Exploder Button." They are movies made to entertain Don Draper, and, lest we forget, Don Drapers used to run the world.
Now the president is a black man and Bond's boss is a woman and the Bond brand of leering sexism and casual misogyny is repugnant and off-putting. That's why the Craig Bond has been re-imagined, brilliantly, as an underdog, a shadow living in a shadow, a grown child who dreads a trip home: he can't escape his past, he must go home — in order to burn it to the ground. In fact, we could say that the plot of Skyfall exists as an excuse for Bond to go home and destroy it, to shed his past. Like Silva, he wants to finally be his own man.
James Bond: Skyfall part 7
Skyfall, up to this point, has been eerily linked to The Dark Knight Rises in many ways, but now suddenly it links itself to The Avengers, or, rather, to Silence of the Lambs, with Silva brought to justice mid-movie and placed in what can only be an escape-proof glass cage. (How odd that MI6, just recently relocated, nevertheless had the foresight to build an escape-proof glass cage in their offices.) The glass cage, because of its cinematic echoes, dramatically ramps up our fear of Silva — up 'til now his threat has always been cyber-specific, but suddenly he's being treated like a dangerous animal, as though he might bite. (Ironic that his Bond-villain deformity is a damaged jaw.)
"You're smaller than I remember!" beams Silva as M comes to visit him, exactly what a son returned home from a long absence says to his mother. Silva wants to press the mommy button, but M counters brilliantly with "Whereas I don't remember you at all." Silva, he reports, was left for dead with some enemy spies who tortured him for months (shades of Die Another Day) and his only recourse was his cyanide tooth, which — damn British manufacturing! — was defective and only disfigured him. Silva's egotism is directly related to his hatred of M, in the way of growing boys everywhere: he seeks, in his own way, to cut the apron strings, to wipe his mother off the earth so that he can finally be his own man.
James Bond: Skyfall part 6
After we check in with M and a minor contretemps with Mallory, where again old and new clash (Mallory insists M's methods are outdated, M insists that this threat must be matched by a similar answer — a shadow against a shadow), we swoop back to the South Pacific, where Bond and Severine arrive at Bad Guy Deserted Island (looking a little bit like Mol's Dream World from Inception). Bond is strapped to a chair (evoking painful memories of Casino Royale?) in what appears to be a server room, facing rows and rows of data — the modern weapon. And here's our Bad Guy, Silva, monologuing straight out of the box, literally (he steps out of an elevator), which the director handles beautifully by combining the monologue with a Lawrence of Arabia-length introductory shot of Silva walking towards camera. So that Silva literally comes into focus as the monologue goes on (it's also an echo of the first shot of the movie, with Bond coming into focus as he comes down the apartment corridor in Turkey). The monologue, of course, is Silva's story about Rat Island, and his grandmother's solution for killing the rats, turning them into cannibals, changing their nature. Bond says "I made my own choices," Silva counters with "You think you did." Fate and determinism seem a little heavy for a Bond movie, but then it fits the Craig Bond well, with the enormous shadow of Bond History looming over him. Character is habitual action, and James Bond is nothing if not end-to-end habitual action, and the question of the motivator behind that action is central to the Craig reboot. The Bonds of yesteryear are pure fantasy, stylish assassins who travel the world, stay at expensive resorts, gamble in stodgy establishments. Craig does all that, but when he goes to the expensive resort he gets in by stealing someone's car at the valet stand and when he gambles in Monte Carlo it's on business. You get the impression that the Connery Bond does nothing but read Esquire on his off-hours, but Craig looks like he's never read a magazine in his life. He's a thug who has lucked into a job where he gets to pretend to be stylish, and learns he's good at it. That, all by itself, is more "character" than Bond has ever been invested with. When Connery quit, the producers replaced him with a male model, which shows exactly what they thought of the character: a stylish, attractive form, useful for selling products: cars, clothes, accessories, James Bond movies.
James Bond: Skyfall part 5
Now that the pieces have been put into place, James Bond can finally embark on an adventure. In short order he will visit a skyscraper in Shanghai, a ritzy casino in Macau and an abandoned island in Japan. This is Act II, which is largely procedural, the thrust of which is Bond Finds the Guy Who Took the List. Step 1 of "Find the Guy" is "Find Patrice," who is in Shanghai on a job.
James Bond: Skyfall part 4
James Bond's aim is untrue. The bullet from Bad Guy is apparently pulling on his shooting muscles. Worse, he's being subjected to a psychological exam. Parallels to Christopher Nolan's Batman resonate as the psych exam is administered in an interrogation room eerily similar to the one in The Dark Knight. The psych guy looks like a Freudian out of central casting, and we can sense Bond's eye-rolling dismay as he subjects himself to this humiliation. He knows, also, that an authority figure of some sort, probably M, is watching from behind the glass. So his answers aren't exactly honest. They're a performance.
The first word, "gun," Bond replies "shot," to remind whoever is watching that he's in the field, taking real risks, not wasting time hiding in a bunker. Then "agent," which Bond answers with "provocateur." Assuming he's not referring to the lingerie line (although, why not), he's referring to an agent who "seeks to discredit or harm another by provoking them to commit a wrong or rash action." Which would seem to be a reference to M, who spurs people to commit wrong or rash actions on a regular basis, most recently with telling Eve to shoot Bond. The word "woman" prompts "provocatrix," which, unless a simple echo of "agent provocateur," suggests that Bond sees himself a victim of temptation, manipulated and helpless before a woman's wiles. (Including M, but more likely women in general — he cocks an eyebrow while saying it.) "Heart" prompts "target," which refers both to his recent scrape with death (we could say that Bond would be dead now, except his heart is in the right place), but also his license to kill. "Bird" prompts "sky" (rather than "woman?"), "M" prompts "bitch." Which, if I'm reading the familial tracing of Skyfall correctly, means that Bond is a son of a bitch. "Sunlight" brings Bond to "swim," perhaps casting him back to Turkey, or plunging down out of the sky into the river, or perhaps back to that lovely day in Casino Royale, when Bond emerged from the surf like Aphrodite in a reversal of Ursula Andress's entrance in Dr. No. "Moonlight" prompts "dance," although it's hard to imagine Bond dancing in the moonlight, "murder" prompts the sly, demure "employment." Not "job," mind you, but "employment." Which implies that murder isn't his job, exactly, but is a career opportunity. A job is something you do for someone else, employment is something you trade for a skill. The difference subtly implies that Bond, should he decide to do so, could easily leave this rat maze and go murder for some other people, or for himself. Except that "country" prompts the adamant response "England," which tells us that Bond is, beneath it all, a patriot. The word "Skyfall," which obviously isn't a word the audience is familiar with, prompts the response "Done," at which point Bond terminates the exam. On the one hand, he's refusing to be the dancing monkey; he knows that this examination is a rigged game and he won't play. On the other hand, he is also "done" with Skyfall, as we will come to learn. (M and Mallory and Tanner watch from behind the glass, a little trio of power: M knows that Bond is giving his answers directly for her benefit, he doesn't know that he's also humiliating her in front of Mallory, and he doesn't know that she can't defend herself because it would mean exposing herself to Tanner, her junior.)
James Bond: Skyfall part 3
What does James Bond want? As I've discussed before, James Bond's "natural state" is one of arrested adolescence. He wants only to bed beautiful women, drink himself to stupefaction, and, if time allows, gamble. Everything that happens in his movies, all the cat-stroking psychopaths and space-based lasers, are all things that prevent him from getting back to doing what he wants. At the end of the typical Bond movie, he ends up in a boat or a space capsule or a submarine with a beautiful woman and a bottle of champagne, his debt to the world discharged. Allow me to repeat: if it were not his job to save the world, James Bond would never ever do it. It is not his concern. Which is why he often seems so bored on his adventures. In his very first movie he even sighs and says "The same old dream, world domination," as though there is nothing more routine than single-handedly altering global history.
In Skyfall he is no different. Surviving being shot (twice) and plunging off a very tall bridge into a river, and then going over a waterfall, Bond has apparently washed ashore somewhere beachy and is making a living from betting on scorpion-themed drinking games. He's got a shack, a lady friend, access to booze (and prescription drugs, apparently for his still-healing wounds) and gambling (scorpion drinking isn't not Chemin de Fer, but what is?), he has, after a turbulent pre-title sequence involving his own death, established equilibrium. For all this, he's not happy — something, he can tell, is calling him.
Into this paradise, life intrudes, as he is informed of the attack on M's life. Bond will never marry (Lazenby excepted), and he will never be a father, but he is, for what it's worth, a good son, and he hies himself, like Bruce Wayne out of The Pit, back to rainy old London to report for duty.
James Bond: Skyfall part 2
Skyfall is easily the most elegantly directed Bond movie. Bond movies date back to the early '60s, the tail end of the "big producer" era, and EON Productions, which has produced Bond from the beginning, retains its hold on the stylistic choices made. No actor, no director is a bigger "star" than James Bond. It's rare to see any kind of point of view from behind the camera. Bond movies are generally directed by skilled journeymen, directors who can organize a complicated set, deal well with actors, juggle egos, make their days and not go over budget. I remember watching Die Another Day with James Urbaniak, and him mentioning that he couldn't remember seeing a less-intentional directorial style, and I feel like Die Another Day is actually one of the more stylish of Bond movies. Skyfall's direction is not merely skillful and elegant, but has a specific point of view. Spielberg, Scorsese and Tarantino have all mentioned wanting to make a Bond movie, and while I think the ship has sailed for those guys, I wonder if perhaps we're approaching the point where a genuine stylist might be invited to put their stamp on the biggest franchise in history.
(Skyfall benefits not only from Sam Mendes's direction, but also from the Coenesque team of Roger Deakins as DP and Dennis Gassner as production designer, surely the greatest artists working in those jobs today. Indeed, apart from Ken Adam, I can't identify more talented people to have ever worked on a Bond movie.)
The "Bond title sequence" has been a feature of that franchise from the very beginning. Maurice Binder, who constructed all the titles from Dr. No to License to Kill, has to be counted as one of the most influential artists of the 20th century. Here we are, fifty years later, still trying to top him at the game he invented. Skyfall's titles acquit themselves very well — lush, evocative, thematically dense, telling the story of the movie in dream symbols. One of my readers suggested yesterday that Skyfall is perhaps all in Bond's mind as he plunges to the bottom of the river in Turkey, and the titles certainly suggest it. The swirling hole that swallows Bond up at the top of the sequence suggests the rifled gun barrel that has been Bond's logo from the beginning, suggesting that Bond isn't merely drowning in a river, but drowning in his past. "The past" has haunted James Bond at least since Diamonds Are Forever, and Bond movies have been referring to themselves since From Russia With Love. Bond has been trotting around the world for fifty years now, aging, then becoming young again, then aging again, sometimes keeping in touch with past selves, sometimes throwing those past selves. To me, it's weird enough that Daniel Craig shares an M with Pierce Brosnan, since Craig is a definite reboot, but the repeating M only scratches the surface of the weird temporality that Bond inhabits.
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1. Dedicate some time to focusing only on customers.
Whenever you get a chance, ignore the noise coming from your boss, the shareholders or the press. Take a few moments to think about what your customers actually need. If your boss wants you to develop a mobile app because your competitors already have them, stop and ask yourself if this will solve any real problems your customers have. When the survey responses are telling you the billing process is disjointed or impersonal, will a mobile app really make them any happier? In the second half of the year, most of us have limited or no resources for starting a new initiative. Make some quick notes about what the real challenges are and prioritize in favor of your... Read more
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When it comes to the experience, innovation doesn't necessarily need to mean technology advancements. For example, anyone who has a young daughter has been exposed to the experience driven brand, American Girl. When visiting the stores, girls are encouraged to bring their American Girl dolls for dining at the Café, where the dolls are given their own high chair at the table. Additional experiences such as girls taking their dolls to the American Girl hair salon and numerous special events truly draw in young girls to the overall experience and draw big dollars right out of the wallets of parents.
Additionally, technology innovations that have been positively impacting both the experience and convenience of shopping are on the brink of taking us to the world many of us never imaged while watching the Jetsons growing up.
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BSOD while Skype File Transfer, error 0x00000124
Recently my computer has been getting BSODs.
The latest was, I was using Skype File Transfer, receiving from my friend. When it was about 80% done, it freezes and BSOD happened.
In addition, I was just surfing the net, and receiving the file from my friend. My computer is well ventilated.
The Stop Code I received was, "0x00000124"
My Computer Build is:
-Cooler Master HAF X NVIDIA edition(NV-942) Case
-Gigabyte Z68XP-UD3-B3 Mobo
-Intel Core i5-2500K with a Cooler Master V6GT
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-2 Western Digital 1TB Caviar Black(RAID 0; Data Strip Size: 128KB) via Intel® Rapid Storage Technology
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I have attached all the debug info needed to this post.
I hope you guys can help.
Best Regards,
Ethan Chow.
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|29 Aug 2012
The recent dumps all point to a hardware issue, firstly I'd check your CPU temps and if they are ok then work through the stuff here - Stop 0x124 - what it means and what to try
******************************************************************************* * * * Bugcheck Analysis * * * ******************************************************************************* Use !analyze -v to get detailed debugging information. BugCheck 124, {0, fffffa800bcf6028, be000000, 800400} Probably caused by : GenuineIntel Followup: MachineOwner --------- 0: kd> !analyze -v ******************************************************************************* * * * Bugcheck Analysis * * * ******************************************************************************* WHEA_UNCORRECTABLE_ERROR (124) A fatal hardware error has occurred. Parameter 1 identifies the type of error source that reported the error. Parameter 2 holds the address of the WHEA_ERROR_RECORD structure that describes the error conditon. Arguments: Arg1: 0000000000000000, Machine Check Exception Arg2: fffffa800bcf6028, Address of the WHEA_ERROR_RECORD structure. Arg3: 00000000be000000, High order 32-bits of the MCi_STATUS value. Arg4: 0000000000800400, Low order 32-bits of the MCi_STATUS value. Debugging Details: ------------------ BUGCHECK_STR: 0x124_GenuineIntel CUSTOMER_CRASH_COUNT: 1 DEFAULT_BUCKET_ID: WIN7_DRIVER_FAULT PROCESS_NAME: ccsvchst.exe CURRENT_IRQL: f STACK_TEXT: fffff800`00ba8a98 fffff800`03027a3b : 00000000`00000124 00000000`00000000 fffffa80`0bcf6028 00000000`be000000 : nt!KeBugCheckEx fffff800`00ba8aa0 fffff800`031eab03 : 00000000`00000001 fffffa80`0bcf7ea0 00000000`00000000 fffffa80`0bcf7ef0 : hal!HalBugCheckSystem+0x1e3 fffff800`00ba8ae0 fffff800`03027700 : 00000000`00000728 fffffa80`0bcf7ea0 fffff800`00ba8e70 fffff800`00ba8e00 : nt!WheaReportHwError+0x263 fffff800`00ba8b40 fffff800`03027052 : fffffa80`0bcf7ea0 fffff800`00ba8e70 fffffa80`0bcf7ea0 00000000`00000000 : hal!HalpMcaReportError+0x4c fffff800`00ba8c90 fffff800`03026f0d : 00000000`00000004 00000000`00000001 fffff800`00ba8ef0 00000000`00000000 : hal!HalpMceHandler+0x9e fffff800`00ba8cd0 fffff800`0301ae88 : 00000000`0272bfa4 00000000`040881cc 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 : hal!HalpMceHandlerWithRendezvous+0x55 fffff800`00ba8d00 fffff800`030dbaac : 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 : hal!HalHandleMcheck+0x40 fffff800`00ba8d30 fffff800`030db913 : 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 : nt!KxMcheckAbort+0x6c fffff800`00ba8e70 00000000`7110bb77 : 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 : nt!KiMcheckAbort+0x153 00000000`0454ef8c 00000000`00000000 : 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 : 0x7110bb77 STACK_COMMAND: kb FOLLOWUP_NAME: MachineOwner MODULE_NAME: GenuineIntel IMAGE_NAME: GenuineIntel DEBUG_FLR_IMAGE_TIMESTAMP: 0 FAILURE_BUCKET_ID: X64_0x124_GenuineIntel_PROCESSOR_MAE BUCKET_ID: X64_0x124_GenuineIntel_PROCESSOR_MAE Followup: MachineOwner ---------
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|29 Aug 2012
Thank you for your prompt reply, I have overclocked my CPU to 4.20GHz via the "Gigabyte smart6 Ultility". In addition, my CPU Temp is "37-40 Degree Celsius" on idle, and "70+ Degree Celsius" at 100% CPU load. My CPU have been overclocked to 4.20GHz for close to 3 months.
I would like to check if it is somehow related to my Graphic card, because it is closed to 3years old. Or should I lower my CPU Overclock Settings?
Best Regards,
Ethan Chow.
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|29 Aug 2012
Stop overclocking and put all your settings back to stock then monitor the situation, in all likelihood the bsods are being caused by overheating due to the overclocking.
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Alright, once again, thank you for your analysis on my BSOD data. Greatly Appreciated!
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Sawing through the stacks and tossing trees, Todd Tupper is combing through and cleaning up. His wife and two daughters were in the house when the tornado touched down Thursday.
"They thought they were done," says Tupper. "But it was over in seconds, they looked out and could see light on both sides."
Having his home in ruins is the second tragedy in recent days. Tupper is also Christ Lutheran's treasurer, and important documents from the burnt up church were buried in the rubble at his home.
He says, "yesterday an individual found the actual bag I carry with the financial records."
On this day, Todd Tupper was able to find his daughter's bracelet, something that has sentimental value. They have also found family photos. Uncovering those kind of items has the townships and city of Stoughton getting involved.
"This is the mail that has come in in the last few days," says Stoughton City Clerk, Luann Alme, as she drops a big bin on the table.
Inside the bin are wedding photos, prom pictures, and letters.
"This is from Milwaukee, it says to whom it may concern, we found this in our yard on Friday morning, we live a mile from Mitchel Airport, and it is a picture," shows Alme after reading the one page note.
Town of Christiana Chairman, Dennis Lund, says, "there is going to be wallets, jewelry, and everything else, so we are going to want to have people identify it rather than grab it and say that it is yours."
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While they're tallying the treasures, Tupper's already made a big find, his wife's wedding ring.
"She puts it in a glass dish that was by the sink in the bathroom upstairs. Some helper broke down the door, we got in there, it was still sitting in the glass dish by the sink," he says. "Even though the whole bathroom was in the back yard, we got the ring, so that was nice."
A lot of tornado victims may find they are also lucky when the lost and found opens at Stoughton's Fire Department in a couple of days.


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Black Holes & Revelations - Muse
- Band Name: Muse
- Record Label: Warner Bros
- Release Date: Jul 11, 2006
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Dec 20, 2012Electronic. Dazzling. Haunting. Beautiful. Bombastic. Impressive. Pop. Words spring to mind when describing the wonder that is Muse's fourth studio album, Black Holes & Revelations. A fearless direction, incorporating electronics, progressive rock, R'n'B, and more ridiculous elements to craft a masterpiece of modern music. An album so impressive, so magical, and so addictive. Muse are the masters of modern rock, clearly shaped by this album.
Though not my favourite Muse album, this is one hell of a piece, with brilliant solos, gritty solos, mesmerizing vocals, and catchy melodies. Though that doesn't necessarily make a good album, Muse have succeeded. From the flow of Take A Bow (an incredible electronic piece) into Starlight and Supermassive Black Hole (two songs so massive they have become the most recognized Muse hits of all time), and into the heights of masterpieces of Map of the Problematique and Invincible, this is strong, and hard hitting, and the definition of Muse. Though Soldier's Poem ruins the flow after the brilliant and monstrous Map of the Problematique (an epic piece, by far considered one of Muse's greatest works), Invincible surely makes up for it, bombarding us with powerful solos and haunting lyrics. The pace picks up again with the heavy and intentionally heavy Assasin and Exo-Politics (both prominent in their conspiracy-lead Bellamy lyrics) into the relaxing City of Delusion (though using strong progressions and lyrics so powerful, you'll never want it to end).
Hoodoo and Knights of Cydonia follow, two flawless pieces of music, lyrics so powerful and current, progressions so intriguing, guitar solos and piano experiments prominent throughout, they close a perfect album. Though the overall track listing isn't brilliantly placed, Black Holes & Revelations is a triumph, and one of Muse's greatest albums. Ever.
Overall Score: 10/10… Expand
Oct 5, 2010Muse strikes me as a combination of Radiohead, ELO, and Rush. Just saw them at Staples Center for the first time and was blown away. But going home and hearing this album solidified my admiration of this band. Great stuff.
Sep 11, 2010The most consistent of Muse's albums. I loved how each song in this album is a complete departure from their previous releases, giving an exciting, head bashing or head soothing ride and shows what Muse can really do.
Feb 13, 2011not as good as absolution but still amazing
supermassive black hole is my least favourite, but knights of cydonia is just.. epic
and guitar solo in invincible is also amazing
even when muse has gone more commercial, they managed to do great album
Feb 20, 2011Stunning. I don't want to write to much as i feel that may take away my point. This album has everything, it has ROCK (most importantly), electronica, acoustic and vocal ranges that simply inspire me to do better in everything i do. This is favourite Muse album. People may wonder why i'm saying that i think "He's not a Muse fan" - But i am a HUGE Muse fan, i followed them since pretty much day one, and like most Muse megafans i also LOVE Origin of Symmetry and Absolution, but for me, this album tops my lists. Fantastic album - end of.… Expand
Sep 30, 2012Black Holes & Revelations is a cool, smart and pretty awesome MUSE album that proves to be one of their best ones as well.
Mar 26, 2012The Best Muse Album EVER! So many amazing songs, Knights of Cydonia, Starlight, Map of the Problematique,City of Delusion. Thev whole god damn album is brilliant. Muse is a perfect example of what every modern band should be, from Matt bellamy's epic guitar riffs and voice like freddie Mercury, The groovy bass lines from chris and Dom's incredible drumming, Blakc Holes and Revelations is one of those albums you should listen to before you die.… Expand
Jun 1, 2012This is alternative rock at it's most powerful. Muse have given us a loud and beautiful album filled with music that's simply inspiring. A breathtaking album.
Aug 23, 2012This is my favorite album by Muse. The way they have made all the songs is just flawless. It sounds so awesome, not a single day goes by when I don't listen to any song off this record.
Apr 20, 2014Muse's 4th studio album may not be their best, but nonetheless, it is a beautiful record. It's a must have for a new Muse fanatic and collectors. It's almost perfect. 9/10 *
*Muse is one of the few exceptions of modern day musical artists that are actually good.
Oct 2, 2012By and large, Black Holes & Revelations is another great Muse album. Opener Take A Bow starts with synthesizer arpeggios, steadily growing into a massive climax and - after a break down - perfectly leads into the Strokes-influenced Starlight - with it's simple bass line and piano melody probably the catchiest Muse song to date. Lead single Supermassive Black Hole with it's sexy, moaning vocals over funky guitar riffs and a groovy drum beat surely is one of the album's highlights. While Map of the Problematique heavily borrows from Depeche Mode's Enjoy the Silence, it still works as a track on it's own, with it's beautiful arrangements coming in an electronic wrapping.
Solder's Poem is a slow, jazzy number with arpeggio guitar, a marching beat and barbershop vocals. Invincible serves as the albums centerpiece, starting of with haunting slide guitar over a marching drum beat, then growing into a heavy rocker with a great solo.
Assassin is the album's weak point. While still being a decent rock track, it's metal-inspired riffs eventually seem to be going nowhere. Exo-Politics features a groovy rock riff in a simple but quite effective arrangement. City of Delusion begins with acoustic guitar and grows into a rock track with mariachi trumpets, heavy bass and distorted guitar.
Hoodoo starts with almost arrhythmic Spanish guitar before a dramatic break with classical piano kicks in. It also features one of Matthew Bellamy's most vivid lyrics.
Of all tracks on this album, Knights of Cydonia probably has the best chances becoming a muse classic. It's a sci-fi-western-soundtrack with massive riffs and singalongs - a true epic and a fitting closer to a convincing album by a band at the top of their game.… Expand
Mar 10, 2013Astonishing, big, nay epic, absurd, provocative, experimental.. all of these words are trying to describe muses new album Black holes and revelations. Filled with spacey melodies, lyrics that are infuriating who ever is on the top of the world, this album is pushing the limits so far that just for a moment you are left dazed until that grandeur hits you again making your brain totally numb. The album opener Take a bow is and art electronic rock piece that fills you with the necessary energy enabling you to endure the power of the album. Political and violent, musically huge and utterly brilliant, this song is just one of those muse space rock classics. Album continues with starlight, the tit song, which lowers your expectations a bit with simple, non experimental fusion of instruments. This song gives you the impression of an ordinary love song, even though it doesn't necessarily need to be one. Things are getting back on track with supermassive black hole. A song so different from anything you've heard, makes you feel like being inside a spacey disco filled with people high on shrooms. Musically out of this world as well. Then comes the peace after the storm in shape of soldiers poem. With it being light and ordinary in structure, the end product is surprisingly good. The harmony is perfected. Invincible is a song created as a love one, but not between lovers but fellow people, all people. A song that is practically an invitation for people to form unity and peace and as well revolution against those who are pulling us down, you know the famous 'they'. The line 'Together we're invincible' quite clearly states that when united no one could do us any harm. A classic musey space rock song containing a riff worthy of the best. Assassin is a heavier song furthering the idea of a revolution, but the central theme is brainwashing, that is creating people with no identities assassins. City of delusion is a progressive song filled with even more rage against 'those' but here is necessary to highlight the musical genius of the band as they've fused the sound of acoustic guitar with trumpets, damn good trumpets, wobly sounds and synthesisers that at parts it resembles the sounds of the middle east. The song as a whole gives goosebumps, especially the euroasian influences. Another song that uses synthesisers brilliantly is map of the problematique. An electronic piece, resembling depeche mode, is just a proof of what musical achievements the Devon trio are capable of. Exo politics, musically, again brings alternative space rock to the new level while keeping the theme of an fake alien invasion going. There are two songs left which I'll describe in two sentences as if there were no boundaries each of these songs would need an essay to analyze. First of them is knights of cydonia. This song is one of the best songs muse have composed, an ode to freedom which is significant for the reason that it is one one the best prog songs made, a frankly unforgettable experience. Hoodoo, on the other hand, is one of the best songs of the last decade, no further description needed. As you prepare to insert the cd into whatever drive you want, just remember that you have the chance to open yourselves a door into space. Ladies and gentleman, brace yourselves.… Expand
Mar 26, 2013Matt Bellamy's range as a songwriter continues to grow more complex, more absurd, and more bombastic with Black Holes and Revelations, which stands out even in Muse's distinguished discography as a masterpiece. From the opening synths in "Take a Bow" to the unbridled chaos at the end of "Knights of Cydonia," Bellamy has written 11 songs that stand alone brilliantly, but come together to tell a tale of government corruption and/or alien invasion.
See, even Muse isn't sure what they're writing about! This chaos characterizes Black Holes and Revelations. High points: Exo-Politics, Knights of Cydonia, Starlight
Low points: Assassin… Expand
Apr 14, 2014the best album of muse, & the first album of the great band that I heard, this album & showbiz are the best muse albums, I think that are the perfect albums, just for me, and only for me
Entertaining and rabble-rousing, daft and deadly serious, it's a fantastic record, with almost limitless appeal.
Black Holes and Revelations isn't a perfect record but it's a worthy addition to an already stellar catalog. [#14]
It shouldn't work, but Bellamy's mania is so convincingly realised that even the most avowed Muse refusenik may have to finally concede defeat.


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New Oldboy featurette contains plenty of new footage:
Spike Lee's Oldboy remake has released a new behind the scenes featurette online, featuring a few new glimpses of footage from the upcoming revenge drama. The featurette includes talking heads from both cast and crew discussing Lee's approach to the material, with Lee himself chipping in on what we can expect from the remake. However, it's the new footage that's got us really excited, including a very brief snippet of that infamous hammer-wielding hallway fight. Take a look at the new featurette below… If nothing else, the film looks remarkably striking in a visual sense, with that first scene of release back into the world looking particularly vivid. And then there's that cast… Directed by Lee and co-starring Josh Brolin, Elizabeth Olsen, Sharlto Copley and Samuel L. Jackson, Oldboy will open in the UK on 6 December 2013.
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Tonight, Cisco-owned Flip has announced a new addition to the company's highly popular line of web video-friendly cameras. The SlideHD features a slide-up touchscreen and new navigation. This model, which can record up to four hours of HD video at a time, will retail for around $279. The device features a 3-inch tilting LCD screen and stereo speakers for video viewing.


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Bridges > cell phones.
I-5 Bridge Collapse Shows Bridge Repair Needs Across U.S
The bridge collapse on Interstate 5 north of Seattle this week highlighted the nations aging infrastructure and the lack of significant improvements in the six years since 13 people died when a Minnesota span fell.
Investigators havent determined what caused the failure of a section of the bridge over the Skagit River in Mount Vernon, Washington (BEESWA), after a truck struck some of its steel girders. The collapse followed the commitment of $48.1 billion in U.S. economic-stimulus funds for transportation projects since 2009
Governor Jay Inslee said state and federal officials are working to devise a temporary replacement, known as a Bailey bridge, to end traffic detours on the north-south highway that runs the length of the U.S. West Coast. State Transportation Secretary Lynn Peterson said yesterday the bridge should have withstood the blow from the passing truck.
The accident turned attention back to the age of the nations transportation system. The 607,380 bridges in the U.S. are 42 years old on average, and 1-in-9 are rated structurally deficient, according to the American Society of Civil Engineers, which advocates more spending on such structures.
There are many places -- and probably the one that just collapsed is an example -- where bridges are being maintained but not replaced or improved to the extent they need to be because of the lack of available funds, said Joshua Schank, president and chief executive officer of the Eno Center for Transportation, a research institute based in Washington, D.C.
Slight Improvement
The engineers group gave U.S. infrastructure a D+ rating in a report this year, with bridges scoring better at C+. Thats an improvement over 2009, when the last report card came out and gave them a C. The organization said fixing deficient spans would take $76 billion.
Theres been more investment at the fed and state levels, Casey Dinges, senior managing director of the Reston, Virginia-based engineers association, said in an interview. Theres been more focus on bridges.
The condition of urban spans hasnt kept up with the national average and remains a concern, Dinges said. Vehicles make more than 200 million trips a day across bridges in the 102 largest metropolitan areas of the U.S., he said.
The 2007 collapse of the Interstate 35W bridge in downtown Minneapolis during rush hour sent cars plunging into the Mississippi River, killing 13 people. The tragedy spurred calls in Congress to raise federal fuel taxes, which didnt happen.
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Increasing spending on replacing or overhauling bridges wouldnt be easy to achieve because 80 percent of most highway-project money comes from the fuel-tax fed U.S. Highway Trust Fund. The federal levy on gasoline has been 18.4 cents a gallon since 1993, and sales have slowed with declines in miles driven and improvements in vehicle efficiency.
If we keep on the same trend line of investment, where were not increasing investment, we are going to have to worry in the future, said Janet Kavinoky, executive director for transportation and infrastructure at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the biggest U.S. business lobbying group.
President Barack Obamas $787 billion economic-stimulus package in 2009 poured $48.1 billion into highway and transit projects, yet accomplished little in terms of long-term improvement to bridges and other such infrastructure, Kavinoky and Schank said in interviews.
A lot of places decided to do things like fill potholes and resurface streets, Schank said. Its an emphasis on creating jobs instead of creating long-term economic growth. That emphasis means that transportation is not being thought of as a long-term driver of economic growth.
I-5 Accident
A section of the 1,112-foot (339-meter) I-5 bridge collapsed two days ago at about 7 p.m. local time, dumping several vehicles into the river below and injuring three people. No one died, authorities said.
Based on our inspections, the bridge is not structurally deficient, Peterson said at a briefing in Mount Vernon, about 62 miles (100 kilometers) from Seattle. The bridge was subjected to a close inspection of impact damage by state transportation workers about six months ago, identifying tears and deformations, the Associated Press said yesterday.
Inslee, a Democrat, said a Bailey bridge is a temporary structure to replace the 160-foot section that fell. He suggested that federal funds may cover as much as 90 percent of the cost. He didnt provide a timeline.
We are now engaged in a full-scale pursuit of trying to restore this artery of commerce as quickly as we can, he said yesterday at a news briefing. The section of I-5 links Seattle to Vancouver.
Obsolete Bridge
The four-lane steel truss bridge that fell was built in 1955 and was considered functionally obsolete, according to the National Bridge Inventory Database. It carried an average of 70,925 vehicles a day. The spans superstructure was rated as fair, meaning it was structurally sound with minor flaws such as cracks or pitting in its girders, according to the database report.
Out of more than 7,000 bridges in Washington, at least 540 were in the same condition or worse, according to the database.
About 14 percent of U.S. bridges were considered functionally obsolete in 2011, the most-recent year available, according to the U.S. Federal Highway Administration.
National Transportation Safety Board investigators are probing the causes of the I-5 collapse.
Our mission is to understand not only what happened but why and how it happened, Safety Board Chairman Deborah Hersman said yesterday at another briefing in Mount Vernon. We want to make sure we do not have events where interstate bridges drop into the waterway below them. That is not what we expect.
Some Dangerous
While the fallen span hadnt drawn attention for its earlier condition, other bridges in the U.S. have been identified as potentially dangerous.
In New York, Governor Andrew Cuomo is replacing the 57-year-old, 3.1-mile Tappan Zee Bridge across the Hudson River. The span, about 20 miles north of Manhattan, was supposed to last for 50 years. It carries 138,000 vehicles a day between Westchester and Rockland counties, 40 percent more than its designers intended.
New Jersey will close its Pulaski Skyway, a major route to the Holland Tunnel and Manhattan, to New York-bound traffic for two years starting in 2014 for a $1 billion reconstruction project, raising concerns about commuting delays.
The 3.5-mile bridge, which has two 550-foot spans that cross both the Hackensack and Passaic rivers and was built about eight decades ago, carries 67,000 vehicles a day.
It has deteriorated since opening in 1932, and is functionally obsolete because certain features, including road width, no longer conform with modern standards, according to the New Jersey Transportation Department website. The Skyway has two 11-foot-wide lanes in both directions with no shoulders.
State lawmakers have said the bridge wasnt properly maintained for decades.
The Skyway, which cost $20 million to build, is included in the National Register of Historic Places because of its historically significant design.
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Bridges > cell phones.
Thanks Obama!
Maybe the US should invade its own country to spread democracy and then it will be okay to spend billions in tax money on roads, bridges, tunnels etc etc. Then we can watch that money disappear down the rat-hole of crony capitalist friends as these private companies charge taxpayers $75 for a light bulb;
The whistleblowers describe a company that paid inflated prices for goods and services on a daily basis and then passed these overcharges on to the U.S. taxpayer. An approach of "don't worry � it's cost-plus" may be lucrative for Halliburton, but it should be of great concern to the government and the taxpayer.
High-level Halliburton officials frequently told employees that the high prices charged by vendors were not a problem because the U.S. government would reimburse Halliburton's costs and then pay Halliburton an additional fee. One whistleblower said that a Halliburton motto was: "Don't worry about price. It's cost-plus."
Wasteful Spending: Ordinary vehicles were leased for $7,500 a month. Higher prices than necessary were paid for furniture and cellular phone service. Poor quality mobile homes were purchased and accepted even though much better units were available. Under Halliburton's cost-plus contract, all of these wasteful expenditures were passed on to the taxpayer. The company even sought to order embroidered towels at a cost of $7.50 each when ordinary towels would have cost about one-third of the price.
Avoiding Competition Among Vendors: Halliburton's objective was to keep as many purchase orders as possible below $2,500 in value so its buyers could avoid the requirement to solicit quotes from more than one vendor. Instead of having multiple vendors submit competitive quotes for needed materials and selecting the lowest quote, Halliburton frequently sought only one quote from a single vendor.
Inviting Unjustifiably High Quotes: It was routine for Halliburton buyers to copy a requisition, hand it to a single Kuwaiti vendor, and tell the vendor to submit any quote below $2,500 the next day. The focus was not on obtaining a reasonable price.
Relying on an Inadequate List of Preferred Vendors: Halliburton supervisors provided buyers with a list of preferred Kuwaiti vendors. Many of the preferred firms were unreliable or charged "outrageous" prices. Supervisors did not encourage buyers to identify alternative vendors and, in some cases, wanted to use a higher price vendor on the preferred list rather than a new, cheaper vendor.
Remember when unions waste tax money we call it a sin, when its done by private companies we.....still blame unions anyway.
On the bright side, I bet they would find WMDs this time...
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Not many funded by Obama. And not many in the US either.
The ones funded are folding or moving to China. GE, which is not getting anything from Obama's payoff service, does a decent job on solar as well as wind as well as nuclear. All without gov help.
And please get off the Halliburton BS.
As an "intelligent" person, please comment on what other companies are available to provide all that they do/did.
Further, if they are such a rip off operation, how come they make such a small profit? I do not own shares but am aware of them. They pay tax at a 47% rate BTW. That's even higher than Buffet's secretary.
Its not that I dont like them... they are arguably not needed in any form at the federal level.
Let's let the states sort out education and take those funds and fix the bridges.
If memory serves, this bridge did not collapse due to structural problems or poor maintenance (even if both may have been in evidence).
It collapsed because a greak wonking over-height truck ran right into it due to not following over-height-restriction route adherence.
In any event, road infrastructure spending is like any other, it's either a priority or it's not. For Greens, it's odd to see them want more road funding, given the non-green nature of current roads and vehicles.
With that said, if you do want more road funding, the answer is quite simple:
1. Prioritize it over other spending.
2. Ensure what you spend is well spent, not $2 Billion spent to build a $10 million dollar road (watse in state DOT agencies is rampant).
I can think of a few hundred things I'd cut in order to fund better road/transit projects......but only if there was some assurence that these projects weren't simply political handouts to favored contractors, and that whats spent is what we get.
+1 on the stimulus argument.
Where the fvck did that money go? I know Joe tells us that GM is alive and OBL is dead but surely that didn't cost a trillion dollars.


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