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Nov. 25 (Bloomberg) -- Osaka voters choose this weekend between a populist ex-governor who has pledged to enlarge Japan's second-biggest economic region through municipal mergers and an incumbent backed by the political establishment.
Toru Hashimoto, a 42-year-old lawyer whose popularity as a TV commentator helped him win as prefectural governor in 2008, last month quit his post to run against Kunio Hiramatsu, mayor of the city of 2.7 million since 2007. Among Hashimoto's pledges is to eliminate his own job if elected.
"I am running in this election to abolish the mayor's post," said Hashimoto, who wants to merge the city with the surrounding municipalities to consolidate spending on projects such as railroads and airports. While this would be modeled after Tokyo, ultimately creating a more powerful governor's post, Hashimoto said his real aim is global competitiveness.
The Osaka-centered Kansai region, which has an economy on par with Switzerland and spawned companies like Panasonic Corp. and Nintendo Co., faces increased competition from other parts of Asia as the yen's climb hurts exporters. The region's economy shrank 5.7 percent in the 10 years ended March 2009 to 38 trillion yen ($492 billion), while Tokyo's grew 0.1 percent. The number of factories in Higashi-Osaka, the nation's most industrialized township, has dropped 40 percent from its peak to 6,016, about the same level as the early 1970s.
"A bigger, integrated government lets us compete on a more equal footing with cities like Shanghai, Seoul or New York," Hashimoto told an audience this week at a campaign stop.
'Decisive Leader'
Known for his outspoken views on subjects such as gambling and nuclear power, the father of seven has struck a chord with voters frustrated with national politicians as Japan endured two decades of economic shrinkage and allowed public debt to reach more than double gross domestic product.
"Hashimoto is a very strong, decisive leader," said Motoji Kawahito, a 39 year-old tax accountant and native Osakan. "That's a kind we rarely see in Japan these days."
Kawahito said Osaka risks withering and dying if it doesn't change drastically. He said Hashimoto has brought "a breath of fresh air" to an election that local media are calling a modern-day "Siege of Osaka Castle," referring to a series of 17th-century battles at the city's historic fortress that annihilated the Toyotomi clan and led to Japan's unification under the Tokugawa Shogunate.
Hashimoto's opponent, incumbent mayor Hiramatsu, was briefly an ally. The two were elected a few months apart and while they were familiar faces on the local scene thanks to their television exposure -- Hashimoto as a panelist on current affairs programs and Hiramatsu as a news anchorman -- they were both largely welcome additions to the local political scene.
Political Split
The relationship eroded when Hashimoto laid the groundwork for his One Osaka party, which now controls the prefectural assembly and is the largest bloc at the city level.
While neither candidate is directly linked to the Democratic Party of Japan or the Liberal Democrats, the nation's two biggest parties, their local chapters have lined up behind Hiramatsu, who is 21 years older than Hashimoto. The Japan Communist Party decided not to run a candidate and has endorsed Hiramatsu, according to a Mainichi newspaper report.
In speeches, Hiramatsu presents himself as focused on repairing Osaka's financial standing as the city struggles amid the global economic recession.
"I have steadily achieved what I promised to voters in my four-year term," Hiramatsu said this week. "Don't be deceived by a baseless fairy tale that says everything will be perfect if we just change the political system."
'Hamlet' Moment
He told the audience he has cut the city's debt by about 400 billion yen and cleaned up Osaka's image by getting rid of abandoned bicycles that clutter many streets of the mainly industrial metropolis.
Mizue Nakata, a 71-year-old widow who listened to the speech, said Osaka has become a cleaner, more attractive city since Hiramatsu became mayor and will vote for him.
"Hashimoto on the other hand seems aggressive and dictatorial," said Nakata, who has witnessed five decades of Osaka's history. "I'm afraid he wouldn't really care about the weak like us. We don't want to be left behind."
To Hashimoto, whose surprise resignation forced double elections that will also see a One Osaka ally vie for his old job as governor of Osaka prefecture, Sunday's vote is a "Hamlet moment" for Japan's No. 2 region.
"To change or not to change -- we must choose between the two," he told supporters at the rally. "I pledge to increase income and jobs for Osakans by reforming the political system."
Hashimoto has said his merger plan would create economies of scale that can reduce government spending and the number of public employees. Among Japan's cities, only Tokyo has a system under which wards have an elected mayor. While it's a structure Hashimoto wants to adopt, it's not likely to slow the decline of the regional economy, a researcher said.
"Osaka has been stagnating for a long period of time and it is very difficult to find a specific cause behind that," Akihiro Shima, an analyst at the Kansai Institute for Social and Economic Research, said in an interview.
While Shima agrees local governments should have a certain amount of size to compete against foreign cities, he said a mere structural reshuffle won't add much value.
"Tokyo is thriving not because its local government is great," he said. "It's successful because it's the seat of the central government and people are still flocking to it."
--With assistance from Aki Ito in Tokyo. Editors: Drew Gibson, Brian Fowler.
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QUALIFICATIONS: Ability to gain working knowledge of Whatcom County Library System's policies and procedures; ability to act as a representative of Whatcom County Library System to the public and uphold intellectual freedom standards; ability to perform alpha/numeric filing accurately; ability to learn and utilize the Dewey Decimal System; ability to check materials in and out on the Horizon circulation system; ability to establish priorities and organize workload; ability to maintain tact, courtesy, confidentiality, and strict discretion in dealing with the public; ability to maintain a pleasant and productive working atmosphere. Work requires considerable physical effort in the handling of materials up to 30 pounds and/or continual standing or walking 90%+ of the time. Requires the ability to speak and understand English. Must be 16 years of age or older to apply.
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Five-time Cincinnati winner Roger Federer blunted Andy Murray's attempt at a comeback as he moved into the semi-finals at the Western & Southern Open.
The second-seeded Federer defeated Murray 6-3, 7-5 after the Scot had taken a 4-1 lead in the second set.
World number three Federer said he had "lost a little bit of the rhythm" before rebounding against the eighth-seeded Murray in the second set.
"From the baseline, he was hitting the ball well - harder and deeper..." Federer told reporters. "I snuck in a quick break, and next thing you know, I'm back. I feel like I stole that second set."
Federer will face Canadian fifth-seed Milos Raonic in Saturday's semi-finals with surprising Frenchman Julien Benneteau meeting Spain's David Ferrer in the other.
Raonic breezed past 15th-seed Fabio Fognini of Italy 6-1, 6-0 in a quarter-final mis-match that lasted only 57 minutes.
Benneteau delivered the day's shock with a 1-6, 6-1, 6-2 ousting of Swiss world number four Stan Wawrinka to reach his first Masters semi-final.
Benneteau belted nine aces and broke serve four times as he earned his second victory over a top-10 opponent this year and became the first Frenchman in 14 years to advance to the Cincinnati semis.
Ferrer outlasted fellow Spaniard Tommy Robredo 6-4, 3-6, 6-3 a day after Robredo, the 16th-seed, had stunned world number one Novak Djokovic.
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BOURBON: 1st Quarter 2013 Financial Information
PARIS, May 2, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --
Revenues up 13.4% vs. 1 st quarter 2012
And stable compared with 4 th quarter 2012 due to seasonal effects
"In a favorable context for the oil & gas and related services industry, BOURBON is continuing to grow. Daily rates for vessels with contracts renewals continue trending upwards," says Christian Lefèvre, Chief Executive Officer of BOURBON. "In the first quarter, BOURBON to ok delivery of 4 supply vessels, 1 IMR vessel and 5 crewboats. The activity was affected by the seasonal impact of the North Sea winter and the South-East Asia monsoons. 23 classification dry-docks were scheduled for the supply and IMR vessels during this period of reduced activity.The remaining quarters of the year will see a 25% decrease in the number of classification dry-docks in a market stimulated by growing demand for vessels." First quarter 2013 highlights
- Continued growth especially in the Shallow water offshore segment (+31.7%); this is due to the combined effect of the entry into service of 9 vessels in the last 12 months and improved market conditions (utilization rates and average daily rates).
- Signing of a 3-year contract in Trinidad for the latest generation FSIV (Fast Support Intervention Vessel) with dynamic positioning (DP 2).
- Beginning of the charter contract for the third vessel in the Bourbon Evolution 800 series in Asia as soon as it left the shipyard, underlining the success of this series.
BOURBON Marine Services Subsea Services Q1 2013 Q1 2012 Q1 2013 Q1 2012 Q1 2013 Q1 2012 Revenues (in millions of 315.1 278.0 258.5 222.1 51.6 45.7 euros) +13.4% +16.4% +12.9% Number of vessels* 465 443 445 425 19 17 (end of period) +22 +20 +2 vessels vessels vessels Average utilization rate 84.2% 83.7% 83.9% 83.7% 90.6% 85.7% (in %) +0.5 pt +0.2 pt +4.9 pts*Vessels owned by BOURBON or on bareboat charter
Total Shallow fleet Deepwater water excl. offshore offshore IMR Crewboats Crewboats Average utilization rate (in %) Q1 2013 86.6% 89.8% 90.6% 88.7% 80.8% Q1 2012 92.5% 84.3% 85.7% 87.6% 81.0% Average daily 21,392 14,315 40,405 19,427 5,034 rate (in US$/d) Q1 2013 +6.9% +7.7% +5.8% +6.1% +13.2% Q1 2012 20,011 13,290 38,181 18,309 4,447Quarterly revenues
Change at current exchange (in millions of euros) Q1 2013 Q1 2012 rate Q4 2012 Marine Services 258.5 222.1 +16.4% 257.2 of which Deepwater offshore vessels 93.0 86.5 +7.5% 92.6 of which Shallow water offshore vessels 92.8 70.5 +31.7% 91.1 of which Crewboats 72.8 65.1 +11.8% 73.5 Subsea Services 51.6 45.7 +12.9% 51.4 Other 4.9 10.2 -51.5% 4.2 BOURBON TOTAL 315.1 278.0 +13.4% 312.8Compared with the first quarter of 2012, BOURBON's revenues grew by 13.4% to 315.1 million euros (+14.3% at constant exchange rates), benefiting from 35 new vessels joining the fleet (of which 20 crewboats). This growth occurred in all segments (particularly in Shallow water offshore). Compared with the fourth quarter of 2012, BOURBON's revenues were stable, impacted by the number of planned classification dry-docks over the period, especially in areas with a highly seasonal impact (winter in the North Sea and monsoon period in Asia). Indicators for BOURBON activity
- THE BOURBON fleet
BOURBON Q1 2013 Q1 2012 Change Q4 2012 Number of vessels* (end of period) 465 443 +22 vessels 458 Average utilization rate 84.2% 83.7% +0.5 pt 86.2%*Vessels owned by BOURBON or on bareboat charter
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Author: Ravi Rannan-Eliya, Director, Health Policy Programme, Institute of Policy Studies, Colombo, Sri Lanka
Recent years have seen a resurgence in attention to the effectiveness with which health (and other social) services reach the poor. It would be welcome if policy-makers' concerns with equitable access of the poor to health services were universally driven by a normative concern for equity of access and of opportunity in itself. Yet, such concerns can also stem from a purely instrumental perspective. Progress towards the Millennium Development Goals will be inadequate unless critical services reach the poorest households in whom the burden of ill-health is concentrated, and we know that progress in many parts of the world is already falling far short. The focus of the WDR 2004 on "Making Services Work for Poor People" is recognition of the centrality of this issue. Correspondingly, there has been a significant improvement in the availability of information on the extent of disparities in access across all regions.
Often implicit in much of this is the notion that medical intervention does matter in obtaining better health, and so it does matter if poor people do have access to such services. Too often, the well-established finding of strong statistical correlations between the level of living standards and population health outcomes has obscured the related finding that the bulk of mortality decline in the past century cannot be explained by changes in living standards. Where significant mortality decline has occurred in the developing world, it has always required that modern medical services first become available to communities. Income growth by itself will not deliver low mortality.
Yet, access to health care matters to the poor (and everyone else) for more than simply being an instrument to enable them to enjoy equity in health and in their capacity to realize their full human potential. Mostly forgotten in the early 1990s, as the debate went back and forth between those concerned with the "efficient" pricing of medical services and those concerned with the "maximization of health outcomes", was the devastating impact that sickness can have on the welfare of households. I say forgotten, because this is in reality an old truth. Since Bismarck introduced the Prussian state into the business of ensuring sickness insurance, the concern with risk-protection and the related notion of social solidarity have been primary drivers of health policy in developed nations. Here in Sri Lanka, no slouch when it comes to achieving good health outcomes, the lack of risk-protection was also the critical rationale that drove the state to make its decisive intervention in the health sector in the 1930s. A devastating malaria epidemic during 1934-35 did more than simply kill and debilitate tens of thousands. Many Sri Lankans, were impoverished as their paddy fields were left untended as those who normally worked the fields were lying sick at home, and as other family members were forced to give up their work to tend the sick. Private markets and charitable action proved utterly inadequate in the face of this disaster, and Sri Lanka embarked on its distinctive emphasis on the public provision of hospitals.
This truth remains only partially appreciated across much of the developing world. In contemporary Bangladesh, with a level of hospital provision still one third of that of Sri Lanka in the 1950s, it is reported that sickness is the single most important cause of default amongst Grameen Bank loan recipients. In China, the country that has lifted more hundreds of millions out of poverty in a shorter time than anytime in human history, inadequate access to health care is the single most important cause of households returning back into poverty.
What these national experiences collectively demonstrate is that it is not simply a matter of chance, or of national resources and history, or of the state of market development whether a poor person in a poor country, or even a poor person in a not-so-poor country, is treated appropriately or cared for without further impoverishment when sick. The means by which health services are funded and delivered play a critical role. Public policy matters.
Later this month, policy-makers, researchers and others will gather in Washington, D.C. to discuss specific experiences in the "Reaching the Poor" Conference. This initiative is welcome. Yet, I hope that they and others will look for lessons beyond the success and failure of individual programs and projects. In the past two years, researchers in 15 Asian territories together with colleagues from The Netherlands and UK have been working in a collaborative partnership to systematically assess and understand the equity performance of Asian health systems. Partly inspired by the ECuity project, the Equitap collaborative study has focused on measuring performance with respect to equity in several key dimensions. These include equity in payments for health care, in the incidence of government health care spending, and in the distribution of overall health-care spending, the incidence and poverty impact of catastrophic medical care expenditures, and inequalities in health outcomes. Although final results are not due to be published until late-2004, early results suggest four key messages.
First, health systems matter. There are numerous examples of innovative projects that do well in getting medical care to poor clients in countries such as Bangladesh, Indonesia and China, but the millions who benefit are insignificant with respect to the hundreds of millions who are beyond the scope of such initiatives. The poor are badly served in general in these countries because the health system itself fails them. Only by addressing the systemic problems will most poor people be reached. The comparative experience of several countries at all levels of development in Asia reinforces this because it can be seen that similar systems have similar results regardless of the level of income per capita. Thailand illustrates this well. The past two decades saw considerable experimentation there in developing special schemes targeted to the poor, many of which, such as its health card projects, have inspired efforts elsewhere. Yet, in their totality these failed to substantially alter the reality of great inequalities. To confront these, Thailand has had to adopt a system-wide solution bringing insurance coverage to all its citizens, and substantially increasing public financing.
Second, public financing is the key to risk-protection, and lack of risk-protection is principally an issue for the poor, who are less likely to have access to savings, loan facilities and private insurance, and are more likely to be close to subsistence levels already. Across Asian economies, the greater the degree of public-financing (tax funding or social insurance), and the lower the extent of reliance on out-of-pocket financing, the lower the incidence of catastrophic expenditures, and critically the lesser the impact of these on the poorest households. Although specifics of institutional design and conditions may mediate the impact to some extent, it is the level of public funding and thus risk-pooling that counts.
Third, the emphasis given to targeting in official policy may be inversely related to actual equity performance. Within Asia, the territories that perform best with respect to the incidence of tax-funded government health spending (Sri Lanka, Thailand, Malaysia, Hong Kong SAR, some Indian states) are the very ones that most emphasize universal access. Other countries with apparently similarly tax-funded government medical services, such as Bangladesh, Indonesia and Nepal, do badly. One might speculate that relying on explicit targeting of special health programs to bypass inequitable access to most health services may be counterproductive because of the attitudes it induces in planners, providers and the public. When health ministries specifically earmark services for poor beneficiary groups, this may be well-intentioned, but it may segregate out the issue of reaching the poor. In such environments, addressing the barriers that affect the poor may be seen by officials as issues to be dealt with by specific program offices, or only on some days of the week when the pro-poor program has to be addressed. Relatedly, the successful tax-funded systems generally charge zero or very low-user fees from rich and poor as an extension of their policy of universal access. This tends to go in hand with and reinforce institutional provider cultures where charging for medical services in government facilities is seen as normatively bad. The charging of informal, or to be precise illegal, fees in ostensibly subsidized government facilities occurs in all countries, but it tends to be more pervasive and act as a significant barrier for the poor in those countries which have yet to reject the notion that official fees themselves are legitimate (Bangladesh, Indonesia, China, Cambodia). Changing provider norms is key since informal payments by definition are beyond regulation, but official acceptance of fees now or in the past may itself not help. Finally, amongst the public, programs that are seen as being meant only for the poor may lack the support of the non-poor whose political voice is most effective in ensuring the effective funding and operation of public services.
Fourth, adequate public expenditures for hospital facilities matter to the poor. Tax-funding for hospitals is the principle mechanism through which risk-protection is provided to the poor, since the poorest countries are largely not in a position to implement equitable insurance financing. Yet, hospitals are often unfashionable in public health circles. When policy-makers believe that they cannot afford to provide all services to the poor, it is often the case that they will target very basic primary medical care services, preventive care and outpatient clinics to the poor, and leave hospitals out of consideration. Hospitals often deservedly are seen as being palaces of sickness where vast quantities of public resources are consumed to treat a privileged minority of the urban dwellers and better-off. Yet, no health system will be equitable unless it can deliver hospital services equitably to the poor, and many countries do achieve this. This has often meant building many hospitals as possible in order to put them in the reach of most people. The challenge of making hospital services accessible must be confronted, and adequate funding must follow that.
Ravi Rannan-Eliya
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Did Mila Kunis and Justin Timberlake take researching their Friends with Benefits roles a bit too seriously? The petite beauty's cell phone was hacked into and "seductive" photos of Timberlake were leaked online, TMZ reports.
The sexy costars have long denied being a couple, even though their onscreen chemistry was rumored to have spilled off-camera (and to have caused their splits from Macaulay Culkin and Jessica Biel). But the four photos stored on Kunis' camera phone could prove otherwise.
According to TMZ, the four leaked pics include two of JT, 30, in compromising positions: One is of him sprawled shirtless on a bed and another features him jokingly wearing a pair of pink panties on his head -- although whether the underwear is Kunis' is only an educated guess. The only photo of the actress shows Kunis, 28, in a bathtub -- but only her head is visible. The final pic is "explicit in nature" of a man, but his face isn't in the shot.
But it's not just photos of the gorgeous stars that the hacker found; there were reportedly some gossip-worthy text message exchanges between Kunis and Timberlake, as well.
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IRS 'loses' Lerner emails
How convenient! The IRS announced on Friday that it has 'lost' all of Lois Lerner's emails to outside groups, including the White House. This is the same organization that is demanding C4L hand over information on our donors with the promise that the information will be safe. From the Wall Street Journal:
The IRS—remember those jaunty folks?—announced Friday that it can't find two years of emails from Lois Lerner to the Departments of Justice or Treasury. And none to the White House or Democrats on Capitol Hill. An agency spokesman blames a computer crash.
Never underestimate government incompetence, but how convenient. The former IRS Director of Exempt Organizations was at the center of the IRS targeting of conservative groups and still won't testify before Congress. Now we'll never know whose orders she was following, or what directions she was giving. If the Reagan White House had ever offered up this excuse, John Dingell would have held the entire government in contempt.
It's laughable to actually take the IRS at its word that they 'lost' all the emails the Lerner sent to individuals outside the IRS. I think I am going to 'lose' my W-2 next April.


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they need to make this legal in the uk,this will affect the dealers that do it now,the only way to go
Evidently, the Dutch have amnesia, the street dealer/o. crime wins this one, given why it was legal.
Legalization of pot in the US, such as the Dutch, would lessen crime significantly
its ridiculous to expect coffee shop owners to not sell to foreigners; cutting out an entire season of profitable sales to holiday makers.
if you are willing to got from a country where "stupid" laws that prohibit cannabis use, to an area of Holland renowned for its relaxed cannabis laws, only to find you need to have a dutch id card to smoke then this will only BOOST the on street dealer sales, causing more crime and depleting sales from licensed local suppliers and coffee shops.
Well, at least they aren't imprisoning people for smoking it like here in the US.
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You put in the local area where you live and your interests, and local groups that meet up will pop up. Some are specifically for singles, and some are open to everyone. The best ones to meet men are the outdoors activity groups like hiking, kayaking, bicycling, etc. Besides that, look in the Sunday newspaper for cooking classes in your area, or classes at your county extension service on landscaping your yard, etc. Don't put all of your eggs in one basket.
With internet dating, I went on dates with about 30 different men before I met "the one." He had been on the internet on and off for about a year and a half, but had never been on one date with it, because he had the same problem as a lot of people on the internet with "ghosting," etc. His two past long lasting relationships had ended in the women cheating on him. We were both at the right place at the right time on the internet, and I'm glad he wasn't a serial dater. We've been together for 10 months now, and are perfect for each other. Keep trying with this venue and others. It's frustrating, but worth the effort! Take care.
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Good, that's 3 down toward the 100 that a book I read several years ago said you should date before you make your selection...lol. I was feeling the same way for a bit, have dated 5 guys since I broke up last fall, and nothing. But we have to remember we are not looking for someone just to HAVE someone, we are looking for someone who compliments us and is worthy to be our date. It's not easy, and you never know when you might meet the right one.
Try to look at the dates as learning experiences, and remember if it doesn't work it, it's not you personally, it just wasn't right for one or the other. Sooner or later, the right one will come along.
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Dynasty league, standard point scoring for various hitting categories. Have a solid team right now, finished in the money and 3rd last year, off to poor but not horrible start this year.
Offered Xander Bogaerts and Ruben Tejada for Starlin Castro. Tejada would be my starter at short until Xander becomes a viable option. Does Xander end up putting up substantially better numbers than Starlin and if so when? Have lost a little faith in Starlin.
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Posted: Tue, September 11 2012 at 6:10 PM,
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Some younger Americans are finding it harder to connect to the events that transpired on September 11, 2001 and what is considered to be on of the most tragic advances on U.S. soil in recent history.
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Foster scored 224 goals and 32 tries in 50 appearances for St Helens after making his debut in 2010, but fell out of favour last season and coincidentally his last appearance for them was in their shock defeat at Bradford in March.
"I am really looking forward to joining the Bulls and working with Francis Cummins," Foster said.
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"Working with new people will be good and hopefully bring out the best in me.
"When I got the opportunity at Hull it was a case of kicking on again and hopefully the same thing can happen again here at Bradford."
Cummins said: "Jamie has got some great experience already for such a young man but he's also got to prove a few points here. I think he did that at Hull and he needs to kick on again now.
"It will be hard for him as well, initially, to leave Saints after such a long time but he's got to take the next step in his career, as a lot of our players have had to do."
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just found a review! I had to edit a bit of it due to some harsh language.
The lost film in question is called The French, a documentary about the 1982 French Open directed by William Klein. Klein is most famous to the world at large as a photographer, and probably best known to those of you out in No Mas-land for his film The Greatest, a documentary about Ali that is in my opinion the best movie ever made about the Champ.
Kleins documentary style is of the wordless observer there is no narration in his films. His whole project in the Ali and the French Open movies is to use sports as a lens to view a cultural moment. In The Greatest, covering the first Liston/Ali bout, he takes to the streets of Harlem as locals argue about the fight, and visits a largely African-American theater class where the students are producing one-acts about Ali, then Cassius Clay. The effect of Alis inflammatory persona is transmitted in these scenes almost as powerfully as those that feature the Champ himself. Its an electrifying film, as much about African-American identity in the 60s as it is about a charismatic heavyweight.
The Greatest is readily available on Amazon and Netflix, and at least here in New York, shown in revival houses periodically. The French, however, has disappeared from the face of the earth. I know about, and have seen, this film, purely by fortuitous accident. I had recently seen The Greatest for the first time at Film Forum with CI, and I saw a blurb god, I cant even remember where, somewhere very random that this William Klein film about the 1982 French Open would be screened at Florence Gould. I convinced a skeptical non-tennis-fan friend of mine to accompany me. This was about five, six years ago. Ive never seen a public mention of it again.
The French is not as compelling a movie as The Greatest by any means, but for those of us obsessed with the huge tennis stars of the 70s and 80s (meaning just about every tennis fan on the face of the earth) it is essential viewing, just for what intimate access you get into the players offcourt universe in a Grand Slam setting.
Here are the conclusions I drew from this film:
Borg was the coolest mother**** of all time (check out that stamp - it's ill). He was a cross between Humphrey Bogart, a Swedish porn star and a lazy but talented leopard. He cared little about tennis even though he was the greatest player of his era and in his free time he literally bathed in p****.
Yannick Noah was only slightly less cool than Borg.
Lendl was like, severely paranoid and weird.
McEnroe was borderline insane, to the point where it almost seemed like he had Tourettes syndrome. The moment he stepped on the tennis court he started spouting off, to the ump, to the fans, to any passing birds. Mostly to himself. Nobody liked him (big surprise on that one).
Nastase was f**** hilarious. Theres a great scene where during a rain delay hes got Chris Evert and Hana Mandlikova laughing like schoolgirls while he flashes his buttcrack at them in the clubhouse. Nastase was clearly an armpit fart kind of guy of the finest order.
And on and on and on. If youre a tennis junkie, you see why its a crime that this movie is not available ANYWHERE in the States. There are some obscure places on the French web where you can order it (sans subtitles, bien sur) but nowhere in America. What the f***? I dont know how it works, but heres my plea directed to the American Entrepreneur at Large would some one of you out there with a lot of money and power and who generally does this sort of thing unearth this film from whatever moldy vault its in and put it on DVD and, you know, sell it? This movie needs an audience. Merci, messieurs. Vous serez recompense.
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Quicksilver Resources Reports Preliminary 2012 Fourth-Quarter And Full-Year Results
The company closed on its Acquisition and Exploration Agreement with SWEPI LP, a subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell plc, on December 28, 2012. Quicksilver now owns a 50% interest in over 320,000 net acres in the Sand Wash Basin in Northwest Colorado, which will be jointly developed with SWEPI. The agreement also established an Area of Mutual Interest covering in excess of 850,000 acres in the basin.
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In the fourth quarter, the company completed the Vande Ranch State 1H, Quicksilver's second short-lateral well, which targeted the Wolfcamp formation in Upton County. The well is producing 38 Boed and continues to improve after recovering 32% of its load water. The Price Ranch #1H well, Quicksilver's first short lateral well drilled in Pecos County, averaged 129 Boed over its first 100 days of production from the Bone Springs formation.
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Conceal Carry Causing Controversy
Two months after the law took effect there still seems to be a lot of confusion about where you can and can not carry a concealed weapon in Illinois.
Dangers Of Sexting In Schools
Tom Gibbons is traveling to local schools in efforts to bring awareness of sexting and its legal obligations.
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Madison County state's attorney says he'll seek elimination of Fred Bathon's pension.
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The city's block parties kick off tomorrow and Alton Police say there are exceptions to Madison County State's Attorney Tom Gibbons' decision not to prosecute residents.
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Illinois State Police, State's Attorney Clash on Concealed Carry Enforcement
No reaction yet from Madison County State's Attorney Tom Gibbons after state law enforcers release a statement, saying they will continue enforcing the state's current concealed carry law.
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Insider's Summer Buzz 2011
A look at the NCAA's most intriguing teams as the 2011-12 college hoops season nears
In-depth analysis of college basketball returns in force with Insider's Summer Buzz series. Well before the start of the fall semester, Insider's reporters check in with 25 of the NCAA's most intriguing hoops schools to report on their offseason status.
Each article studies key newcomers and evolving lineups and features expert analysis from Jay Bilas, Doug Gottlieb, Joe Lunardi and Fran Fraschilla.
You can find each story archived below. And be sure to stay current on all the latest college hoops news with Eamonn Brennan and Diamond Leung at the College Basketball Nation blog.
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- Louisville's Harrell gets 1-game suspension
- Virginia clamps down on Harvard in blowout
- Authenticity of $33K Jordan shoes questioned
Insider knows you're hot for hoops during the summer, so we're bringing you a closer look at 25 of the most intriguing college programs before school's even in session.
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Massive turnover defines Lavin's crew
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Cards have talent to fill holes
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Tar Heels prep for title run
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Blue Devils face point-ed questions
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Freshmen, vets form potent combo
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Vols face long, tough rebuilding path
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Bulldogs need Sidney to stay on the court
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Frontcourt will have to carry load for Bruins
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Talented Wildcats need a new star to emerge
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Online classes have never been more popular at colleges and universities, but instructors continue to struggle to find ways to prevent students from dropping out. According to a new study from Kennesaw State University's Coles College of Business in Kennesaw, Georgia, they shouldn't bother trying.
Keeping students engaged in online classes is a growing concern for educators as the online education sector experiences rapid-fire growth. More than 4.6 million college students were taking at least one online class at the start of the 2008-09 academic year, according to the 2009 Sloan Survey of Online Learning. Yet the student dropout rates for online courses are 15 to 20 percent higher than those for traditional face-to-face classes, according to a 2007 study published in The Journal of Educators Online.
A group of six Coles professors noticed they too had the same problem when it came to online classes. For example, the online version of one popular business class, a prerequisite for entrance into Coles, had a spotty track record when it came to students completing the course. In the fall of 2008, only 55 percent of students managed to finish the class. In the spring of 2009, they decided to put seven well-known retention strategies to the test on two sections of the course.
The researchers did everything from making students sign an e-mail course contract to placing personal phone calls to make sure they were on top of their class material, according to the study, which will be published in the International Journal of Management in Education in October. Students exposed to the strategies dropped out as frequently as those who were not, the authors said.
"We called them at home, sent them emails, quizzed them on the syllabus and
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of information systems at Coles and one of six study authors, in a press release issued by the school. "The students will say they appreciate these efforts, but these weren't a factor in making them stay in the course."
Further research is needed to find out what makes a student a successful online learner, the study said. But for now, before students sign up for an online class, they might want to reflect on whether they have the individual traits that might help them stick with the course, like good time management skills and motivation, Leeds said.
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Would love this to happen to me all them sexy shemales taking me.mmmm
guardian August 7, 2010
Great, 3 Trans with big and hard cocks and no mercy for the stud - this is a great fantasie of mine - ;-).
iswing May 21, 2012
all have very nice cocks. anyone can fuck my asshole
Wally April 20, 2012
I like big red, I want to cum in the ass while she gets sucked by him.
bobdahsextoy December 8, 2011
Id love to be this lucky bastard. Id want to be there every day and night. Anyone want to fuck this slut ass? cum one cum all!!!!!!!!!
thickdick December 30, 2011
cant have mine went u want
Matt uk January 14, 2012
Hmm I so need some she males to fuck me every dayxxx
DREAM!!! September 24, 2012
mike August 7, 2010
that would be a dream cum true!!!!!
roy August 8, 2010
that guy must be in heaven
bryan October 18, 2012
Awsome video, I would love to be where he was a minute in, when the gorgous redhead was mouth fucking him, the blonde was pounding his ass, and the platnum blonde was sucking him off. The only thing that would have been better is if they would have all three came in his mouth.
yike August 9, 2010
why cant i see this video??
vercingetorix August 8, 2010
io61 August 7, 2010
voglio farmi scopare da tutte e tre!!!
lovethetaste August 7, 2010
what I would give to trade places with that guy, but give me an ATM ending!
lol.. August 7, 2010
could you tell me how is this possible to get these tits if you were a man. i mean how does it fit with your skin?!!!
culo-apretado November 18, 2011
me encantaria tener esas 3 vergotas en mi culo y en mi boca
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