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A unique filmmaker known for making movies that bridge the gap between her two homelands is taking flight with her latest big screen project. NY1's Budd Mishkin filed the following "One On 1" report.
Looking for the secret to creating a good scene in a movie? Director Mira Nair says part of the answer can be found right in her garden.
"How I move something around, how it flourishes here and not there. How you can't force something to bloom, how you have to find a circumstance in which it can bloom. Those are incredible lessons for cinema as well," says Nair.
Nair's career has certainly bloomed since she moved to New York City in the 1980's, cited by critics and film festivals around the world, thanks largely to the films dealing with her native India and Americans of Indian descent -- "Salaam Bombay," "Mississippi Masala," and "The Namesake and Monsoon Wedding."
But Nair's latest film is "Amelia," the story of pilot Amelia Earhart. It's a big studio, big budget affair.
"You have a lot more voices that you have to navigate and try to keep your own story at the same time. Your own voice at the same time," says Nair.
Nair says part of that navigation is enduring market questionnaires of audiences who watch rough cuts of the film. Which actor do you like? Which scene is your favorite? When are you bored? The director is then supposed to recut the film accordingly.
"That can be illuminating in terms of confusions of a film but can also be really irritating," says Nair. "It can be like chasing your own tail."
I asked her if she feels pressure in her independent films to get it just right for her Indian American audience and for those seeking a window into that community. She says that type of pressure is a type of censorship.
"I really hate the anthropologizating of a community. 'Oh, we wear the dot because it means this' kind of nonsense. I'm not there to educate people in a homework way," says Nair. "My task is to make flesh and blood characters who do things that are funny and you recognize yourself in them because they are truthful."
Nair's films are known for bridging the worlds of India and the United States. In "The Namesake and Monsoon Wedding," she went so far as to link Calcutta and New York by intercutting the bridges of the two cities.
"Those were visual ways that I could bridge two stories," says Nair. "I'm a visualist first and foremost. How do I find that hook, how do I tell this story rather than lecturing to you in a dull and didactic fashion?"
Nair says the notion of color blind casting is much more acceptable now than it was 20 years ago.
While making her 1991 film "Mississippi Masala," a love story with an African American man and an Indian American woman, Nair met with an Orion Pictures executive to get financing for the film.
"He heard the story and said 'Can't you make room for a white protagonist?' I smiled as I often do when I'm rejected and I said 'Well all of the waiters in this film will be white. Of that I can promise you,' recalls Nair. "And he laughed and I laughed and I was shown the door."
Nair made the film her way, a recurring theme throughout her career. She says as an independent filmmaker, you have to have the sensitive heart of a poet, but also "elephantine skin."
"I get a lot of energy from rejection," says Nair. "When someone says it's bad or you can't do this or it's impossible. I have this feeling in my stomach I'm going to show you. That's a very important feeling for an independent filmmaker who is trying to do things not many others have done before."
To call Mira Nair a woman of the world is no cliche. She lives with her husband and son near Columbia University, where she and her husband both teach.
But the family spends part of each year in Kampala, Uganda, where she's established a film school. Nair also has a home back in India where she grew up.
"There was only one theater and I was not a fan of the Indian Bollywood style movies, especially growing up," says Nair. "This theater showed Dr. Zhivago every Sunday for years."
Theater, not cinema, was her passion at university in Delhi. At the age of 19 she earned a scholarship to Harvard. Nair says she appreciated Americans' openness, but there were other lessons learned beyond the classroom.
"I worked 20 hours a week dishwashing in the dining hall, I was struck by the amount of waste and excess that Americans are used to. It is just gobsmacking," recalls Nair. "That continues to astound me in terms of what is taken for granted here and what is simply wasted." Citing the actor's lack of control and a desire to tell stories her own way, Nair's passion shifted to documentary filmmaking. How did she get her first films seen? She got on the bus.
"I would go in the early years, making $300 a pop showing my films to women's groups, and unions or students and film societies. anyone who wanted me," recalls Nair.
One early documentary that played on public television involved strippers in nightclubs in India. But not everyone was thrilled.
"Indians would get outraged. 'Why are you showing this face of India. You should show doctors in Porsches like I am.' People would write to me and say that. I would say 'As soon as doctors in Porsches become interesting I am right there,'" says Nair.
Nair eventually moved on to feature films. For her first, "Salaam Bombay," she hired street kids as actors.
"I was surrounded by so many people who thought that I was nuts," says Nair. "You are constantly surrounded by rejection and constantly surrounded by a certain loneliness. Loneliness is important for an artist. You have to have the guts to be alone in whatever your endeavor is."
"Salaam Bombay" earned an Oscar nomination for best foreign language film. Nair would never have to take the bus to show her films again.
New York has played a prominent role in several of Nair's most recent films, like the namesake. She contributed one of the short films to the romantic movie "New York I Love You." After the September 11th attacks, which she described as a "tough time for people who looked like her," Nair made another short film, the true story of a young Indian American who was killed at the World Trade Center then was suspected of being a terrorist before finally being buried as a hero.
"I very much wanted to try capture in 11 minutes the complexity of someone who considers New York City home and someone like brown like me, what that tightrope was and felt like," says Nair.
Gone are the early career moments of what she calls "exquisite terror," sitting on a set with 80 people waiting for her to tell them what to do. The enigmatic nature of making movies -- finding out in the edit room that something she thought was bad is actually good and vice versa -- remains the same as it ever was.
"You learn not to trust euphoria fully until the whole matter is done and dusted," says Nair. "But yes it's a wonderful feeling when you have that sense of things are working. You see the unpredictability of life in the frame even though you are constructing it."
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3 PHOEBE'S ORANGE VELVET COAT SEASON 5, The One Where Everybody Finds Out Phoebe was horrified to see Chandler and Monica make out (''My eyes! My eyes!''), and we were equally appalled to see her don an orange bath mat.
4 BALD BONNIE SEASON 3, The One at the Beach Rachel continued her grand tradition of sabotaging Ross' relationships by persuading his formerly long-haired girlfriend Bonnie (Christine Taylor) to shave her head. (''You can feel all the bones in your skull!'')
5 RACHEL'S BRIDESMAID DRESS SEASON 2, The One With Barry & Mindy's Wedding This bubble-gum pink disaster -- complete with floppy hat -- prompted Chandler to compare Rachel to Little Bo Peep: ''I'm sorry, we don't have your sheep.''
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Rep. Ron Paul did not get a speaking slot at the GOP convention. But a video paid tribute to him,and his son Sen. Rand Paul let Republicans know that his father's brand of libertarianism remains a force within the party.
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The grounds of Walsingham Abbey are famous for the spectacular ruins of the mediaeval Priory and place of pilgrimage, together with an unrivalled display of massed snowdrops in February.
Walsingham has a long history of religious pilgrimage, by tradition dating back to the 11th century.
'Walsingham' consists of two unspoiled North Norfolk villages, Little, or 'New' Walsingham, and Great or 'Old' Walsingham; both have a wealth of historic buildings.
The Georgian Shirehall, for 200 years a courtroom but originally built as a pilgrim hostel, is now a Museum, also the entrance to the Abbey Grounds and provides local Tourist Information.
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It was almost 40 years ago, but Nancy Smith remembers the one year the men's pro tennis tournament was held at the Mid-South Coliseum; her father had box seats. But even more memorable is that not long after the tournament moved to The Racquet Club of Memphis, a young and unknown Czech player came to town and, in that far simpler time, stayed at her parents' house.
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A worker at the CBOE S&P 500 options pit exhales during the final minutes of trading Thursday, August 4, 2011, in Chicago. The S&P 500 Index closed -60.27 (-4.78%), and the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed -512.76 (-4.31%). | John J. Kim~Sun-Times
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There were few places for money to hide Thursday as stock prices came hurtling down.
The steepest drop since the meltdown era of 2008 spared no sector in the stock market. Commodities were no good as a safe haven and even gold and silver, favorites of the pessimists, sustained losses too.
On a day that recorded the highest trading volume in more than a year, the major stock indexes fell by 4 percent to 5 percent, building on earlier losses in Europe. The rout eliminated any gains this year, with the Dow Jones industrial average falling 512.76 points, 4.3 percent, to 11,383.68.
Traders struggled to find a metaphor — dams bursting, straws breaking camels' backs. All were trying to describe a collection of worries that finally burst to the forefront. They range from sovereign debt in Europe to renewed signs of a sickly economy at home, with skepticism about the U.S. government's debt hanging over all like a cloud.
"Put it all together and you get an environment where you reduce risk," said Howard Simons, market strategist at Bianco Research LLC. "You might want to buy, but you'll get run over. It's a classic washout kind of a day."
Headlines from overseas heightened suspicions that Spain and Italy were on their way to join Greece and Portugal as economic basket cases.
On tap for today is the federal government's report of the jobless rate for July. "That's the kind of number that could change the momentum or send us into a crash," said Phil Flynn, analyst at the brokerage PFGBEST.
After finding brief support in the minus-350 point range, the Dow lost another 150 points in the final hour of the session Thursday and closed just above the day's lows.
In the stock and options exchanges, traders smelled fear. The popular "fear gauge," the CBOE Volatility Index or VIX, rose 35 percent to reach 31.66. The index, developed by the Chicago Board Options Exchange, uses option prices to project volatility in Standard & Poor's 500 stocks.
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Treasury prices rose as investors crowded into bonds, and that caused already low interest rates to slip more. That helps bond holders, while consumers get a lift because it holds down rates on loans. The average national rate on a 15-year mortgage is 3.54 percent, a record low.
Any easing of commodity prices will improve corporate profits and, perhaps, hiring.
And the concerns about the global economy have sent oil prices down 13 percent over seven straight trading days. It hit a six-month low Thursday and a barrel for September delivery closed at $86.63 in New York trading.
Fred Rozell, retail pricing director at Oil Price Information Service, said oil's pullback should translate into savings of 20 cents to 35 cents per gallon at the pump.
Thursday's selloff caused whispers of a big Wall Street word: capitulation. It's the term for a brutal day that gets all the selling pressure out of the system and lets markets return to a balance between fear and greed.
Marshall Front, chairman of the investment firm Front Barnett Associates LLC, said if Thursday wasn't a selling catharsis, it'll come soon. But he said stocks have become oversold by any standard and that his clients want to buy and not run.
"We've begun to do some nibbling at stocks we've liked for a long time. The valuations look cheap," Front said.
The S&P 500 index fell 60.27 points, 4.8 percent, to 1,200.07 and the Nasdaq composite index lost 136.68 points, 5.1 percent, to 2,556.39.
Capitulation? Maybe. But another description is dead-on accurate: correction. All the major indexes are down more than 10 percent from recent highs in July, meeting the official definition of a correction.
Volume on all markets totaled more than 14 billion shares.
All 10 industry groups in the S&P 500 saw price declines and for a time, Kraft Foods was the only component of the Dow 30 industrials to post a gain. But by the session's end, Kraft, which had announced it was splitting itself in two, fell 52 cents to $33.78.
Kraft's breakup eventually would force a change in the Dow lineup.
Gold briefly hit a record high, then settled $7.30 lower for the day at $1,659 an ounce. Silver lost $2.327 to $39.431 an ounce.
Brian Wesbury, chief economist at First Trust Advisors LP, said the selloff indicates no fundamental change of direction and that stocks are cheap. He noted that companies in the S&P 500 that have reported second-quarter earnings so far are reporting 20 percent higher profits from a year ago.
PFGBEST's Flynn, however, was unconvinced. "Bad economic numbers have made people realize that the economy is not as strong as some of the S&P earnings would have you believe," Flynn said.
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A new review on teacher education calls many Charlotte-area programs "mediocre," but local colleges and universities warn people to be wary of the review.
The National Council on Teacher Quality last week released a teacher preparation review, the first of its kind, rating teacher education programs across the country. Schools were rated on a four-star scale.
Several schools, such as the elementary education program at Catawba College in Salisbury, received zero stars and a consumer warning from NCTQ.
The review has faced criticism from colleges and universities.
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Katie Moyer, associate director of teacher preparation studies for NCTQ, said early elementary reading is an area of particular concern in teacher preparation programs.
She said only 29 percent of schools across the country are requiring teachers to take courses that adequately cover five different scientifically proven reading areas. These strategies are phonics, vocabulary, phonemic awareness, fluency and comprehension.
Winthrop University in Rock Hill and Appalachian State University in Boone received ratings of one star and zero stars in early reading, respectively. Neither school received any stars in preparing teachers to work with struggling readers.
UNC Charlotte is one of the few schools that received four stars in early reading for both its undergraduate and graduate-level elementary education programs.
Many schools in North Carolina, the report said, are not adequately preparing students to teach high school content. Moyer said that the programs are not requiring enough courses that cover all of the different subject areas.
She said this might be because the state only requires teachers to pass content area tests for professional teaching licenses. Teachers getting an initial license do not have to pass any content-based tests.
Moyer also said many teacher education programs are too easy to get into. Queens University of Charlotte only partially meets the NCTQ standards for selection criteria, because the school does not bar admissions to students with grade-point averages below 3.0.
Only one entire program in North Carolina, a graduate program in secondary education at UNC Chapel Hill, made the review's "honor roll" of programs that receive three or more stars.
Criticism from the schools
Officials from many of the colleges and universities say that NCTQ did not visit the schools or conduct interviews and based the review on course syllabi.
But Moyer said the NCTQ is confident that even without visiting the schools, the data it has gives it an adequate picture of teacher education programs.
Mary Lynne Calhoun, dean of UNC Charlotte's School of Education, said the NCTQ should have asked questions such as: Are our graduates well prepared? Are they persistent in their work? Are they getting hired?
NCTQ did not give UNC Charlotte any stars in high school content for either of its undergraduate or graduate schools, but Calhoun said the council failed to pick up on the fact that UNC Charlotte requires that all students studying secondary education have a major in the subject area that they plan to teach.
James Stringfield, dean of Catawba's school of education, also said in an email that NCTQ did not accurately report the data given.
"The report indicated there is no coverage in science for the Common Core for elementary teachers, when our students are required to take 7 hours of content in science in addition to an elementary science methods class," Stringfield wrote.
Winthrop plans to file an objection with NCTQ. Judy Longshaw, a spokeswoman for Winthrop, said in an email that the school's low ratings in reading are not accurate.
"The course description even specifically references 'struggling readers,' so faculty find these ratings misleading," Longshaw said.
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Peggy seems to be the only one genuinely doing well this season, and when Peggy does well, I do well. Her character arc throughout the entirety of the series has been a steady ascent: from secretary to copywriter to head of her own department. She's in her element here, upbraiding her underlings for shoddy work -- echoing the sentiments of her mentor Don about the difference between a slogan and an idea, and even using some of his old tricks to break up her mental roadblocks.
A stand-up on Johnny Carson does a bit about the gruesome trophies taken by soldiers in Vietnam and it ruins her Super Bowl spot for headphones. But as Ted Chaough reassures her, she's good in a crisis, and she turns these lemons into some damn fine lemonade. In an industry where you're only as good as your last idea, it's easy to get worried that your last idea was actually your last idea ever. This is where Peggy realizes that she's good enough not to let that particular fear eat at her too much -- that if she opens herself up to it, the idea will inevitably come. There's a reason why Chaough hired her, and it's not just to twist the knife in Don.
Everyone else seems to be doing just about the same, give or take a few inches of sideburns. A new up-and-comer Bob Benson arrives and displays some genial gall, cornering Don in an elevator with a couple of coffees in those classic Anthora cups and then tactlessly sending a spread over to Sterling's mother's funeral, an act that flapped the usually unflappable Ken Cosgrove. Ken later sees Benson sitting out in the open, fishing for people to impress, and balks at his naked ambition, ordering him to go back to his office.
In the creative department, there are a few new faces in the copywriting pool and a few new facial features on some of the old faces: Stan has grown a beard, and Ginsburg has a mustache and scraggly hair that makes him look like a cross between Edgar Allen Poe and Harpo Marx. Don catches them smoking a joint when he returns, calling them out with the line, "I smell creativity."
Don seems to have a good relationship with his team even in Peggy's absence, although he dislikes some of their recent work and gives them a great impassioned speech about the dangers of trivializing the word "love." Coming from Don, it's a bit rich, like Newt Gingrich talking about "the sacred bond of marriage." Especially when his motivational jeremiad -- "What's the difference between a husband knocking on the door and a sailor getting off a ship? About 10,000 volts." -- is interrupted by the visit of Dr. Rosen, whose wife Don will be bedding by the end of the episode.
Rosen's presence is another of the episode's reminders of the slender line between life and death. He's a surgeon who hold's people's futures in his well-trained hands every day. "Please don't compare what I do to what you do," Don entreats him, but later in the episode, as the doctor is getting ready to cross-country ski his way to the hospital to save or lose yet another patient, he tells Don that their occupations are actually rather similar. "You get paid to think about things they don't want to think about, and I get paid not to think about them," Rosen says, certainly not thinking about the fact that Don will soon be up in bed with his own wife while he shuffles down a Manhattan avenue under the cold glow of streetlights. It's the first day of the new year and both of them are already up to their same old habits: One on his way to a job he can't turn his back on for a second, the other philandering and looking for his newest and latest shot of happiness. Don makes the resolution to put a stop to the affair, but you wonder how long that will actually last.
When Don was brought back to his apartment after the funeral incident, he drunkenly demanded his doorman tell him the details of his near-death experience. He wants to know, he needs to know: Is it a bright light? A tunnel? Can you see the Pearly Gates? After all this time and effort, is it just another door to walk through?
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That is a terrible idea, and I doubt it was only a publicity stunt. Someone actually thought that would be a great idea?!ReplyDelete
This is an awful idea! Superdrug are awful PR wise and I can't stand their service in store or online. There is no way this should have been posted! Surely these things go through a number of people before they're OK'd to be posted? AWFULReplyDelete
Such a fail in their book, how do they think that this is a positive re-enforcement for people? There is enough material for people to compare themselves to do we really need to add something else? No.ReplyDelete
Im surprised this has even come out especially if celebrities haven't endorsed it!
This is terrible, as someone who has struggled with their weight I know how devastating it is to find out you are heavier than others. Body positivity and self esteem needs to be promoted to younger people (and some adults), not a celebrity lifestyle.ReplyDelete
How ridiculous - the things these companies dream up! I was just reading earlier how Rodial are releasing a range called 'Cougar' for menopausal women, which is so offensive too.
I'm sure Superdrug have a wide following of young girls and to promote this is just wrong. x
Soooo glad to see that you've talked about this in your blog. The idea is horrible! And then we wonder why we all are so obsessed with our looks..


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Pushing Daisies, with its candycolored sets, cute concept, and stylized acting, spent its first season proving it was more than just a pretty face: Its brain was whirring with imagination. You remember the show's gimmick, right? Ned (Lee Pace) can bring the dead back to life with one touch, but if he retouches that person, he or she dies again, forever. He used this ability to bring his deceased true love, Chuck (Anna Friel), back from the grave. The premise had its drawbacks too many scenes in which Ned avoids touching Chuck in some gaggy-coy way, like wearing bells on their slippers to signal each other's approach.
Watching the second-season premiere, though, I am freshly impressed with Pushing Daisies' persistent, admirable inventiveness. Series creator Bryan Fuller (Wonderfalls) and his exec producers (who include Men in Black's Barry Sonnenfeld) have opened up the show in a bold, energetic way, and are really letting the supporting players shine. This is a very good idea when your cast includes the vivacious, Emmy-nominated Kristin Chenoweth as Olive, a blond minx jealous of Chuck's romance with Ned, and the fabulous team of Swoosie Kurtz and Ellen Greene as Chuck's ultra-eccentric aunts.
Daisies gets off to a great start with a despairing Olive quitting her job at Ned's Pie Hole restaurant and joining a convent— Chenoweth's pearly pipes trill magnificently in a brief, hilarious Sound of Music parody. And the show solves one of last season's logistical drawbacks: Kurtz's and Greene's claustrophobic characters never left their house, but now they've been pharmacologically freed into this crazy world after Chuck baked antidepressants into their pies. Finally, the sisters can inflict their wacky madness upon a wider part of the populace.
There are still problems. The pie puns continue to make me wince—Olive says she's ''really flaky,'' while Lily accuses her of being ''all pious.'' And Chi McBride's cynical detective still feels oddly disconnected from the rest of the ensemble. But the show has a fresh, vigorous snap, and the impeccably deadpan Pace gets off some good lines, expressing his nervousness at one point by muttering ''If I could breathe, I would vomit.'' With a little more of that sourness to balance the sweet, Pushing Daisies could be pushing greatness. B


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Highland Fling!
Gold-Medal winners Bryan Clay and Jeremy Campbell enjoyed a memorable day at the Highland Games in Invercharron, Scotland today as their incredible Team USA: Britain Bound tour continued.
The Highland Games, a historic competition that features events such as the caber toss, the hammer toss, the weighted ball throw and the heavy weight for distance and height event , presented Campbell and Clay with a truly unique experience. Dressed in kilts and their Team USA gear, the pair absorbed instruction from a local "heavy athlete" before trying the Highland Games events for themselves.
Campbell and Clay found themselves being applauded and encouraged by the crowd, the judges and the athletes alike as they worked their way through the various events. Each discipline tested the athletes in way they hadn't been tested before and both of them came away with a healthy respect for the heavy athletes.
After completing the event, the pair were treated to a musical performance by local children, then given instruction on the iconic bagpipe by a local expert.
My favorite part of the day was trying some of the Highland Games activities, especially the caber toss. It reminded me of Gotzis track meet in Australia because of the way the community comes out to watch and support the athletes.
I was most surprised by how difficult the events at the games were. In a lot of ways they were similar to our throwing events but the items and weights were very different. I guess everyone was surprised that I didn't rain at all.
Three words to describe the Highland Games: Challenging, competitive and fun. I could tell the people at the Highland games really love the athletes and sports. As an athlete, that's something you always appreciate.
I would like to try the caber toss again. I was starting to get the hang of it and just needed a couple more attempts.
I felt like a tourist when I showed up with a kilt - and had spandex underneath. Local custom says nothing underneath the kilt.
Can't wait to see the pictures I took of the jumping salmon. We stopped by a river on the way home and were able to watch salmon jumping upstream. The Scottish Highlands are really beautiful.
At the end of the day it was great to get to our hotel - where we are relaxing ahead of a another busy day with Team USA: Britain Bound.
Today was the moment we've all been waiting for! Time to put these world class athletes to the ultimate physical challenge – Scotland style!
Highland Games have their origins in the Scottish Clan system and date back for over three hundred years. The Clan Chief would encourage his men to participate in feats of strength, skill and endurance to prove themselves skilled in battle. Several Highland Games take place around Scotland during the summer and early fall months and luckily, Jeremy and Bryan made it just in the nick of time to attend the final Games of the season!
See what Bryan got up to on day one and twotwo of his Britain Bound adventure
The Invercharron Highland Gathering, as it was known, started in 1888 in the grounds of Invercharron House. Traditionally the final games of the year, many of the Scottish Games Association league results are decided at Invercharron, making it the most exciting of the season. The Games were revived in 1981 and celebrated their 25th anniversary in 2006.
Bryan enjoyed trying out different events and even trying to play the bagpipes! We also have it on good authority that he was seen trying to do the traditional dance – the Highland fling! Let's see if there are any photos to prove this tale…
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Write A Song Wednesday: There's A Fire Burning
Our Write A Song Wednesday musicians, Jeremy Thomas & Andy Stafford, are the real deal! So much so, they had a gig the night before until 3am and STILL came in to perform for us!
The opening line was given to us by Jamey Johnson, who recently performed at Mahaffey Theater in St Pete, "There's a fire burning, I think it's gas." Our listeners offered up an interesting story about an unfaithful lady… who turned out to be… Veronica? Jeremy made V melt by adding some creative lyrics!
Each Wednesday, we take an opening line from an artist or celebrity. Then, our listeners add lyrics line by line! Our guest band takes those lyrics and turns them into a song! Check out the lyrics, then click below to hear the song!
There's a fire burning, I think it's gas
If she cheats again, this time it'll be the last
Jose, Jack & Jim will be my friends tonight
Too much of any of that, and I'll want to fight
I can't afford another mug shot
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Carmon Colangelo is a pioneering printmaker whose work combines surrealism and abstraction with the exploration of art history, science and technology. He is known for large mixed-media prints that combine digital and traditional processes. He is the dean of the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis and holds the E. Desmond Lee Professorship for Collaboration in the Arts.
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For up-and-coming screenwriter Aaron Berg his first screenplay sale couldn't have gone any better. His script, titled "Section 6," sparked a bidding war, with Universal nabbing the rights and paying a cool $1.2 million for his thriller that "follows the World War I-era formation of British intellige...Read More »
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Well, it looks like the gang's all here. Rumors ran rampant that Bryan Singer's "X-Men: Days Of Future Past" would be bringing back a number of the series' more well-known characters, with Hugh Jackman confirmed to appear alongside Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellan. But Bryan Singer has confirmed via...Read More »
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Title: Anti-irritating rosacea treatment
United States Patent: 6,680,062
Issued: January 20, 2004
Inventors: Muizzuddin; Neelam (Bethpage, NY); Marenus; Kenneth D. (Dix Hills, NY); Maes; Daniel H. (Huntington, NY)
Assignee: Color Access, Inc. (Melville, NY)
Appl. No.: 971561
Filed: October 5, 2001
The present invention relates to a cosmetic or pharmaceutical composition for topical application to the skin afflicted with rosacea and treated with a retinoid. The composition for treating rosacea comprises an anti-irritating component and several other components for treating rosacea. The other components form a mixture of a salicylic acid, a phytosphingosine, green tea, hinokitiol, gorgonian extract, and polysaccharide. The invention also provides a method for decreasing the irritation on the skin caused by the heightened sensitivity experienced by skin suffering from rosacea. The other components are effective in treating the rosacea condition, but particularly, in treating the telangiectasic symptom of rosacea.
The present invention relates to cosmetic and pharmaceutical compositions for topical application to skin treated with a retinoid for a condition of rosacea comprising, a phytosphingosine, an antioxidant component comprising at least green tea, an anti-bacterial component comprising at least hinokitiol and a salicylate, and an anti-irritating component comprising at least a polysaccharide and gorgonian extract. The compositions of the present invention are capable of treating the symptoms of rosacea, especially the symptoms related to telangiectasia, such as flushing, while also being substantially non-irritating. The treatment of rosacea is enhanced, and the potential irritation felt on the skin using the retinoid for rosacea treatment is minimized by a combination of the phytosphingosine, the antioxidant component comprising at least green tea, an anti-bacterial component comprising at least hinokitiol and the salicylate, and an anti-irritant component comprising at least a polysaccharide, a gorgonian extract component.
Other features of the present invention are the methods associated with the topical application of the substantially non-irritating rosacea treatment of the present invention. In particular, the present invention includes the method of decreasing the irritation of skin associated with rosacea treatment regimen of topically applied retinoid, the method of treating telangiectasia with phytosphingosine, and therefore, it also includes the method of reducing redness associated with the appearance of rosacea. The present invention is particularly beneficial when used in conjunction with rosacea treatments of topically applied retinoids.
The rosacea treatment of the present invention is effective on skin treated with a retinoid for the rosacea condition. As previously mentioned, retinoids have proven useful in the treatment of acne rosacea. However, irritation can be experienced when using retinol to treat rosacea because of the heightened sensitivity of the facial skin suffering from rosacea. An unsaturated retinol fatty acid ester has been described in U.S. Pat. No. 5,885,595 whereby rosacea can be treated with less irritation. However, the present formulations succeed in reducing the irritation typically associated with rosacea treatment using different types of retinoids. Therefore, the rosacea sufferer can choose from a variety of retinol treatment regimens. The retinoid used to treat rosacea can be retinol (Vitamin A) and any of its derivatives, such as for example, retinyl palmitate, retinal, retinyl acetate, retinoic acid, and the like. The retinoid is used in an amount sufficient to effectively treat the symptoms of rosacea in combination with the other components of the present invention. The retinoid can be incorporated in the compositions of the present invention or be part of a separate treatment. However, preferably, the application of retinoids is part of a separate topical rosacea treatment regimen. The specific amounts of the retinoid can be, for example, about 0.001 to 5.00 percent, more preferably about 0.01 to 2.00 percent, concentration by weight of the total composition for rosacea treatment.
The compositions of the present invention include a cocktail of ingredients especially designed to alleviate the irritation experienced when treating rosacea, especially with a retinoid. Further, it has been surprisingly found that the inclusion of a phytosphingosine with the other active ingredients of the present invention, improves the condition of telangiectasia associated with rosacea. Although redness occurs with an inflammatory response or a deranged regulation of cell growth and differentiation of keratinocytes, the redness due to telangiectasia is vascular, and therefore, treatment for redness due to an inflammatory response will not necessarily treat redness due to vascular dilation, and most likely will not at all. Thus, the treatment of redness associated with rosacea, even when the skin is being treated for rosacea which can further irritate the skin, with the phytosphingosine and the other components of the present invention is unexpected. Some of the other active agents in the rosacea treatments of the present invention have been previously used in the treatment of rosacea. However, they have not been previously used with the phytosphingosine or collectively with one another as they are in the present invention to reduce irritation associated with a retinoid-containing rosacea treatment.
The phytosphingosine component is also known as an added active ingredient in cosmetic and pharmaceutical compositions, as explained in WO 00/01839 and in WO 99/29293, for their anti-inflammatory and antimicrobial activity, and as described in JP 2000109409, a phosphate of sphingosine for use in preventing acne. The contents of these references are incorporated herein. However, WO 00/01839 describes an enhanced method of producing sphingoid bases and derivatives such as phytosphingosines and, WO 99/29293 teaches a combination of a ceramide and a free sphingoid base which, when topically applied, allegedly benefit bacterial, fungal, yeast and viral infections, including rosacea. It has been taught in U.S. Pat. No. 5,792,794, also incorporated herein by reference, that coupling-products of retinoic acid or analogues with sphingoid bases such as phytosphingosines were stable and lacked irritating qualities similar to retinol derivatives retinyl-acetate and -palmitate. The compound is a sphingoid base linked through an amide to a retinoic acid. However, it has not been taught that the phytosphingoid by itself, or the other components of the present invention in simple admixture with a phytosphingoid (i.e., as separate components) can be substantially nonirritating especially when used in conjunction with a retinoid treatment for rosacea, nor has it been taught that a phytosphingoid by itself, or in combination with the other components, has any inherent effect on telangiectasia through anti-angiogenesis activity.
The effect of phytosphingosine in the present invention for treating telangiectasia is measured by the reduction of the flow of blood in facial skin. As shown in FIG. 1, the phytosphingosine acts in combination with the other components of the present invention as a vasoconstrictor. After four months of treatment, blood flow to the facial skin is reduced by about 25 percent. In addition, the presence of phytosphingosine also contributes to other known benefits such as treating acne comedones, serving as a building block for new ceramides, inducing de novo biosynthesis of ceramides, and acting as an important physiological regulator of growth and differentiation of epidermal cells as described in U.S. Pat. No. 5,792,794. The amount of the phytosphingosine used in the present invention for treating telangiectasia is from about 0.01 to about 10.0 percent by weight of the composition. Preferably, the amount of phytosphingosine is about 0.5 to 5.0 percent. The phytosphingosine of the present invention is available commercially from Gist-Brocades, Netherlands.
One of the other components of the present invention is the anti-bacterial component which comprises at least a salicylate and a hinokitiol. As used in the present specification, salicylates, known for treating skin microflora, can be, for example, salicylic acid, a common component of cosmetic and pharmaceutical compositions, and other salicylic acid esters. Preferably, the salicylate is a salicylic acid. However, currently available salicylic acid treatments are typically aggressive and too harsh for the skin plagued with rosacea as disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 5,728,732, the contents of which are incorporated herein. Further, it is not known that salicylic acid can be used in combination with the other components of the present invention to treat rosacea with substantially less irritation than is normally experienced with rosacea treatment regimens. The salicylate is present in an amount of about 0.1 to 5.0 percent, preferably, 0.1 to 1.0 percent by weight of the composition.
Hinokitiol, 2-hydroxy-4-(1-methylethyl)-2,4,6-cycloheptatrien-1-one isopropyltropolone is a wood extract obtainable from for example, pine or cedar. This material is known to have potent antimicrobial effects, and, as such, has been previously used for a variety of purposes. As shown in U.S. Pat. No. 5,811,114, the contents of which are incorporated herein by reference, hinokitiol also possesses an anti-irritancy effect. The amount of hinokitiol useful in the present invention is about 0.01 to 0.5 percent, and preferably 0.1 to about 0.2 percent by weight of the composition.
The antioxidant component of the present invention prevents the harmful effects caused by reactive oxygen species or oxidants on the health of the skin and some antioxidants act as an anti-inflammatory agent. In the present invention, the antioxidant component preferably comprises at least green tea which contains volatile oil, vitamins, minerals, caffeine and the active ingredient polyphenol. The polyphenol is a catechin, epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG) and is also believed to have antibacterial properties. The polyphenol is also known as an antioxidant. The incorporation of an antioxidant in a composition for treating rosacea is disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 5,972,993, and green tea and a sunscreen, including a salicylate, is disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 5,306,486, the contents of which are incorporated herein. Other known antioxidants can be used such as, for example, but not limited to, vitamins such as vitamin C and vitamin E, BHT, extracts from various plants, such as for example, rosemary. The green tea is present in an amount of about 0.1 to 0.5 percent by weight of the composition.
The anti-irritant component of the present invention comprises at least a polysaccharide and gorgonian extract. The extracts of gorgonian are also known to have antimicrobial activity as reported by Jensen, P. R., et al., "Antimicrobial activity of extracts of Caribbean gorgonian corals", Marine Biology, vol. 125, pp. 411 to 419 (1996). Caribbean gorgonians (Octocorallia gorgonacea, Phylum cnidaria) are a diverse group of marine animals which are commonly known as sea whips and sea fans. Upon analysis of the Caribbean gorgonian, it has been found that they are or can be a biologically active source of pseudopterosin, steroids, prostaglandins, lactones, sesquiterpenoid derivatives, and diterpenoid metabolites, such as, for example, diterpenoid glycosides. As described in U.S. Pat. No. 5,624,911, ether derivatives of pseudopterosin, derived from marine sea whip, are effective anti-inflammatory and analgesic agents. Gorgonian extract is available commercially from Centerchem, Stamford, Conn. The gorgonian extract is present in an amount of about 0.01 to 0.5 percent, preferably 0.05 to 0.2 percent by weight of the composition.
Although any polysaccharide can be used in the compositions of the present invention, the polysaccharide of the present invention is preferably an extract of red algae, of the species, Porphyridium. The polysaccharide is commercially available from Earth Salts Company. As described in U.S. Pat. No. 5,089,481 and International Patent Application WO 97/00689, the red algae polysaccharide is chemically composed of mostly xylose, glucose, and galactose. Both of these references are incorporated herein by reference. In particular, the red algae polysaccharide contains, in addition to galactose, a dimethyl galactose. As the algae grow in a liquid medium, polysaccharide is released from the cell surface. Thus, polysaccharide can be collected from the excretions of algae in a growth medium or, alternatively, it can be obtained from the cell walls by extraction. It has been known that algal polysaccharides inhibit the activity of viruses such as human immunodeficiency virus reverse transcriptase enzyme and herpes simplex virus. However, the ability of these polysaccharides to reduce irritation associated with the rosacea condition has not previously been described. Specifically, it has not been known to incorporate the red microalgae polysaccharide of the present invention in combination with the other anti-irritants in the anti-irritant component to treat rosacea without substantial irritation. The polysaccharide is present in an amount of about 0.5 to 2.0 percent by weight of the composition.
While not so limited, in a preferred embodiment, the emulsion of the invention is an oil-in-water emulsion. The aqueous phase may be any cosmetically acceptable water based material, such as deionized water, or a floral water. The oil phase may be any cosmetically or pharmaceutically acceptable oil, such an oil being defined for the present purpose as any pharmaceutically or cosmetically acceptable material which is substantially insoluble in water. The oils may be volatile or non-volatile, or a mixture of both. For example, suitable volatile oils include, but are not limited to, both cyclic and linear silicones, such as cyclomethicone, octamethylcyclotetrasiloxane, and decamethylcyclopentasiloxane; or straight or branched chain hydrocarbons having from 8-20 carbon atoms, such as decane, dodecane, tridecane, tetradecane, and C8-20 isoparaffins.
Non-volatile oils include, but are not limited to, di- or triglycerides, vegetable oils, such as coconut oil, jojoba oil, corn oil, sunflower oil, palm oil, soybean oil; carboxylic acid esters such as isostearyl neopentanoate, cetyl octanoate, cetyl ricinoleate, octyl palmitate, dioctyl malate, coco-dicaprylate/caprate, decyl isostearate, myristyl myristate; animal oils such as lanolin and lanolin derivatives, tallow, mink oil or cholesterol; glyceryl esters, such as glyceryl stearate, glyceryl dioleate, glyceryl distearate, glyceryl linoleate, glyceryl myristate; non-volatile silicones, such as dimethicone, dimethiconol, dimethicone copolyol, phenyl trimethicone, methicone, simethicone; and nonvolatile hydrocarbons, such as isoparaffins, squalane, or petrolatum.
The emulsions may also comprise other optional components, depending on the intended end use. These include, but are not limited to, water soluble colorants (such as FD&C Blue #1); oil soluble colorants (such as D&C Green #6); water soluble sunscreens (such as Eusolex 232); oil soluble sunscreens (such as Octyl Methoxycinnamate); particulate sunscreens (such as Zinc Oxide); antioxidants (such as BHT); chelating agents (such as Disodium EDTA); emulsion stabilizers (such as carbomer); preservatives (such as Methyl Paraben); fragrances (such as pinene); flavoring agents (such as sorbitol); humectants (such as glycerine); waterproofing agents (such as PVP/Eicosene Copolymer); water soluble film-formers (such as Hydroxypropyl methylcellulose); oil-soluble film formers (such as Hydrogenated C-9 Resin); cationic polymers (such as Polyquatemium 10); anionic polymers (such as xanthan gum); vitamins (such as Tocopherol); and the like. However, any additional optional component must not interfere with the reduction in irritation and the anti-angiogenesis activity achieved by the components of the present invention.
The invention is further illustrated by the following non-limiting examples.
Example I
Ingredient Percent Phase I Deionized Water 64.40 Methyl Paraben 0.10 Sodium Hinokitiol 0.15 Phenoxyethanol 0.10 Phase II Hyaluronic Acid 0.10 Methylcellulose 0.50 Phase III Deionized Water 12.15 Salicylic Acid 0.50 Phase IV Phytosphingosine 0.20 Dimethicone 5.00 Cyclomethicone 15.00 Green Tea 0.40 Gorgonian Extract 0.20 Polysaccharide 1.10 Fragrance 0.10
A composition according to the present invention is prepared as follows:
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Through the years the high school junior began to fall in love with the sport of racing. Although Evans didn't have a means and didn't know anyone in the sport, he dreamed of being able to one day explode with acceleration from the start line of an official Bicycle Motorcross (BMX) race.
When his family moved to Cleveland from Kentucky in 2004 Evans was thrilled to learn the YMCA had a bike racing track but it wasn't until five years later that he entered his first competition.
"Last summer when I heard about a bike race a friend of mine and I rode our bikes all the way there because we didn't have a ride," Evans said. "Since we were early we just rode around the track until it was time to register."
He may have never raced in an official competition, but that didn't hold him back from being a determined and aggressive competitor. After placing third the rest is history. He was hooked and couldn't wait for the next race. The medal he received — showing proof of his achievements stirred up desire to get a collection of medals and trophies.
Evans said he was shocked and happy to find out there was an opportunity to do something he really liked.
"Its a lot of fun to do and the people who are in the sport make it fun too," said Evans. "Some of them spend thousands of dollars on their bike and equipment and there are some people who just like going out there and simply riding a bike."
Wyatt Bevis, unit director of the L. Harlen Painter Unit Boys and Girls Club saw Evans' interest and began helping him pursue the sport. After a few practice sessions with Evans, Bevis knew he had a natural ability, combined with some exceptional biking skills. In addition to being a friend, Bevis became Evans' personal coach.
Seated on his bike more than any other seat, Evans rides for hours every single day. One thing he has discovered is how quickly a bike can wear out and how often equipment needs to be replaced.
"Since I was 4 I have had to get a new bike every year because I wear them out," he said.
Having the right BMX gear and equipment is essential to the sport. Thankfully the Boys and Girls Club is helping to sponsor him. According to Evans he would still be racing in a long sleeve T-shirt and blue jeans without assistance.
"If it wasn't for the Boys and Girls Club I wouldn't be where I am now. I wouldn't have the Redline bike, knee pads, gloves or the helmet. The support they give me is the best," said Evans.
In October the guy who has ridden bikes for fun most of his 16 years became a BMX champion. All of his hard work and countless hours of practice paid off. He had the opportunity to compete in the 16 Novice class of the "BMX 2010 Redline Cup National" in Kettering, Ohio. The three-day event turned out to be an experience of a lifetime experience for Evans.
"He entered the competition tied with five others in first place," Bevis said. "The three-day process combined his finishes from each race to score the overall Redline Cup Champion for his age group and skill level."
Evans finished in second place on both Friday and Saturday. He was tied for the lead with one other racer entering Sunday's event.
"He knew he would have to win the race in order to become the champion," said Bevis. "When the gate dropped Kendall took off and led the race all the way to the finish line."
The incredible win on Sunday gave Evans enough points in the overall standings to claim the Redline Cup Championship. Along with the title of National Champion, he gets to ride with a "National #1" number plate on his bike next season.
Winning the biggest race he's entered in only one year of competing has been an extraordinary accomplishment for Evans.
"I felt like I had to represent my family and friends which pumped me up to do my best," he said.
"I couldn't believe how far I had come. When I first started I was terrible but with practice and making up my mind I did it."
Evans' biggest goal right now is to make it in the top 15 of the nation. Since school has begun he has cut back on practice a little but still gets in three or more days practice with his coach.
To those interested in the sport Evans suggests they work hard to be prepared.
"It's a lot of fun, but to be successful you have to work really hard."
A dream come true for Evans and his bike-riding friends would be for the middle and high schools to start a bike team.
"It's something my friends and I hope for and talk about all the time," he said.
According to Bevis, Evans is in the running for trying out for the Junior Development Camp for those born between 1994 and 1995.
"If he qualifies he will travel to California to train with top BMX racers around the world and have the opportunity to be looked at for the Olympic team."
Until the next BMX competition begins Evans will stay focused on his goals, work hard in school and plan for the future.
Charlie Sutton, executive director of The Boys and Girls Club said Maria Hernandez, "Youth of the Year" and "Runner-Up National Youth of The Year" has been encouraging Kendall to be a part of the youth of the year program.
"Kendall has become the BMX rider to beat in the southeast. We are very proud of his accomplishments. As a one-year rookie he is already getting the interest of others who are considering underwriting him," Sutton said. "We expect big things from him." Evans realizes the status and the title of champion can be used as a platform to help others. He has already had opportunities to mentor younger kids at The Boys and Girls Club.
"I used to want go to culinary school because I love to make things but recently I've noticed teenagers down and depressed. They come to me for help so I've made my mind up to do youth counseling."


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All or nothing in West's boomPUBLISHED: 29 Jun 2011 00:05:00 | UPDATED: 29 Jun 2011 06:09:53PRINT EDITION: 29 Jun 2011
Jonathan Barrett
On the surface, economic indicators in WA show a state in the midst of a once-in-a-generation boom. Photo: Erin Jonasson
Perth entrepreneur Steve de Mol knows from firsthand experience there's something not quite right about the West Australian economy.
"I have a son earning $180,000 a year while two of my daughters – an occupational therapist and a beautician – earn $40,000 and $55,000," says de Mol, who provides safety access equipment and electrical switch rooms to mining companies.
"There's the resource-related income, or nothing," he says. "If you're hooked into resources I think you're going to have a pretty good two or three years ahead of you. If you're not, you're going to be a victim of it."
On the surface, economic indicators in WA show a state in the midst of a once-in-a-generation boom. But in reality, the data hides the state's own two-speed economy, which pits the resources sector against everything else.
The forecast growth of 4.5 per cent in 2011-12 is the highest of any state, according to the state budget, which has WA's nation-leading unemployment rate dropping as low as 4 per cent by 2014-15. Weekly earnings at almost $1450 are second only to the public-servant dominated Australian Capital Territory. The figures provide little comfort for businesses not directly tapped into the resources sector.
Retailer Paul FitzRoy says only businesses directly tied to the booming sector can really afford the ever-increasing rents.
"Everybody believes WA is awash with money," says the owner of speciality store Black Plastic. "It's really just a small number of people earning a lot of money. All we see is the cost of living skyrocketing."
Despite not boasting anything near the population or shopping culture of Sydney or Melbourne, Perth retailers in the city's most prominent shopping strips pay comparable rates to shop owners located on Chapel Street, Melbourne or Sydney's Oxford Street.
That's a problem, especially since the expected rebound in household consumption has failed to materialise in WA, with the projected 4.5 per cent rise in 2011-12 recently downgraded to a below trend 3.75 per cent by State Treasury.
"The last six months have been pretty dire, to be honest," FitzRoy says. "We just have enough of a niche to be able to cope."
Bankwest economist Alan Langford says it could be worse. "A two-speed economy is better than a no-speed economy," he says. "It's hugely difficult to spread wealth further without constraining the speedier parts of the economy."
Langford says that if WA were a nation, a local dollar would be worth about $US2, destroying just about every export other than iron ore (the spot iron ore price is almost triple JPMorgan's long-term forecast of $US60 a tonne, despite recent drops). Interest rates would be running about 2 percentage points higher than they would be on the east coast.
Luckily for local exporters, the industry-destroying currency rate never eventuated, even though 68 per cent of West Australians approved of a split from the rest of the nation in a 1933 referendum on the issue.
The theoretical economic conditions of the Dominion of Westralia are borne out in the figures; WA has $109.5 billion of energy, minerals, processing and infrastructure projects in advanced development, according to the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics andSciences, out of a total $173.5 billion across the country.
The country's other resource state, Queensland, has $49 billion.
Langford says interest rate concerns, which are in part caused by a pipeline of good projects, is a problem that other economies would like to have.
"They would like to have interest rates rising because their economy is strong rather than interest rates closer to zero because their economy has major long-term structural problems," he says. "I'd rather have our problem than theirs, any day."
The high wages on offer in the male-dominated resources sector flow through into a gender disparity, according to an analysis of ABS data. West Australian men earn more than 25 per cent more than women –by far the biggest discrepancy between the genders among the states.
Billionaire mining magnate Andrew Forrest believes the mining sector is the solution, not the problem.
The founder of Fortescue Metals Group says he is seeing desperation among job applicants hoping to secure work that he hasn't seen before.
"That tells me that the mining industry isn't doing nearly well enough to help Australia out," Forrest says.
There is, however, a concern that the good news flowing out of the Pilbara, buoyed by large-scale liquified natural gas projects, weighs too much on Reserve Bank of Australia officials in Sydney fearing an inflation outbreak.
An interest rate rise suddenly looks less logical, the argument goes, when you speak with a nervous consumer or hesitant home buyers.
There might be a presumption in the eastern states that West Australians can shrug off rate rises, buoyed by their mineral resources.
In reality, the state's residential property market is among the weakest in the country because potential home buyers refuse, or can't afford, to pay for properties that doubled in value in the two or three boom years before the financial crisis.
Craig Smith-Gander, managing director of Perth-based Kwik Transport and Crane Hire, says one of the company's main money spinners, residential construction, is flat at best. But what's worse is that the company is working in an environment of boom-like demand on skills, without the upside.
"There's lot of semi-skilled work in the north," Smith-Gander says. "It doesn't really matter what type of skill set they have, the pay is good and young workers in particular are tempted."
He says his business has "third-hand" exposure to the resources sector, as his crane and transport company moves mining-related machinery, which offsets some of the downside of the boom.
Clothing retailers are less fortunate.
Shop owners on South Terrace in Fremantle, for example, pay up to $1800 a square metre – or $54,000 a year for a 30 square metre shop – according to data provided by CB Richard Ellis.
The figures are not dissimilar to the rents paid at the top-end shopping strips of the eastern states.
Even one of WA's most successful manufacturers, ship-builder Austal, has been caught in the cross-hairs of the mining boom, with one analyst blaming a recent earnings downgrade at the listed company on "Dutch disease", where the resources sector is inflating the Australian dollar to the detriment of industries like manufacturing.
But if many WA businesses are doing it tough in the state's two-speed economy, spare a thought for those who are struggling for everyday necessities.
Rents and general living costs are so high in the epicentre of the boom that the Shire of East Pilbara has felt it necessary to regulate the use of sea (shipping) containers.
"A sea container can be used for storage purposes only – no habitation is permitted," the Shire regulations say.
Nonetheless, businesses and residents in the area are known to use the storage facility as an office or sleeping quarters because of the prohibitive rents and high costs of construction.
The Pilbara region is home to the country's most expensive rental accommodation with median weekly advertised rents for houses at $1650 per week, according to RP Data.
The price represents almost a three-fold increase over the last five years, making it almost essential to have a living allowance from a good employer in order to avoid the government housing queue.
Against this backdrop, the Colin Barnett-led Liberal state government acknowledged the problems of the internal two-speed economy in May's budget by showering charities providing welfare services with an extra $600 million a year.
State Treasurer Christian Porter says there are limits to legislative measures that can keep all sectors of the economy advancing at the same speed.
"We as a government are cautious about this notion that you can pass a piece of legislation in state Parliament and that will ensure that every steel manufacturer in Kwinana will be busy tomorrow," Porter says, referring to Perth's industrial precinct.
But local businesses want to see the state government do more to ensure the wealth is spread.
HVLV managing director De Mol, a father of seven who counts major miners BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto as clients of his switchroom manufacture company, says the "average Joe" is missing out on the boom.
"It might be called a $50 billion Gorgon project but you get about $2.10 of that amount in the Western Australian economy," says de Mol, referring to Chevron's massive LNG project.
"All we get is a couple of over-inflated wages for fly-in fly-out people up there. But as for everybody else, well they are sitting in empty workshops."
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