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The wicked witch of the GOP, Ann Coulter, is once again (surprise!) discussing liberals and black folks in her new book.
Written by Ann Coulter
The media's fixation on the Trayvon Martin case, while ignoring much more brutal crimes with clearer racial motivations, is a return to pre-O.J. America. The thesis of my book, "Mugged: Racial Demagoguery From the Seventies to Obama" — out in paperback this week! — is that after decades of liberals play-acting Racist America, wherein they cast themselves as civil rights champions, and other, random white people as Bull Connor (a Democrat), it all ended with the O.J. verdict.
That's when white America said, That's it. The white guilt bank is shut down. It was one of the best things that ever happened to America — especially for black people. But then in 2007, Barack Obama brought it all back. In order to immunize the most left-wing presidential candidate the nation has ever seen, the Non-Fox Media went into overdrive reporting their fantasies of America as a nation full of racists, constantly terrorizing innocent blacks.
Of course, once Republicans got the Democrats to stop terrorizing black people, there was no one else doing it. Nonetheless, for decades, the media would highlight every apparent white-on-black crime, treating each such incident as the Crime of the Century.
White-on-black crimes were, and are, freakishly rare. But the media weren't showcasing these one-off events as man-bites-dog stories, but rather as dog-bites-man stories in a universe brimming with packs of rabid dogs. According to liberals, whites attacking blacks was an epidemic — a nationwide "cancer," in the words of erstwhile NYC Mayor Ed Koch. n 1986, only 2.6 percent of all homicides in the entire country were white-on-black killings. Black criminals killed nearly three times as many white people (949) as whites killed blacks (378) and they killed 16 times as many black people (6,235) as whites did.
So if you're confused by the blanket coverage of the Trayvon Martin case — attracting even the attention of the president of the United States! — while far more common and more vicious black-on-white murders are ignored, try to understand that liberals are frightened by change. They are desperately clinging to a world that never existed.
Their fantasy of an America bristling with racists allows them to portray any criticism of our massively incompetent and dangerous president as just another sad episode of oh-so-typical white racism. They have to protect Obama, so the rest of us have to get "Mugged."
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Jeremy Ben-Ami of the liberal lobbying group J Street is the man of the moment: The group's upcoming conference in Washington has become a source of great controversy for many reasons. I interviewed Ben-Ami yesterday by telephone, and here is an edited transcript of our conversation. In our talk, he showed that he learned a bit about triangulation during his years in the Clinton White House. He declared himself a Zionist; condemned the book "The Israel Lobby"; called America's military aid package to Israel untouchable; and told me he hopes his group angers the non-Zionist left by staking out mainstream Jewish positions on Israel and the peace process -- "I hope that we have a very strong left flank that attacks us."
Jeffrey Goldberg: Let's just go right to the Stephen Walt question. Why do you think Walt (the co-author of the book "The Israel Lobby") likes J Street?
Jeremy Ben-Ami: I don't know and I don't care. One of the reasons why I won't answer your call to quote-unquote renounce him is that it really smacks of witch-hunts and thought-police. It's not my business to "renounce."
JG: Witch-hunt? How is it a witch-hunt to argue that Stephen Walt and John Mearsheimer blame the organized American Jewish community for starting the Iraq War and even helping cause 9/11? It's a statement of fact, it's in their book. I would think that when you have an organization, like you do, one of the ways you define yourself is by saying what you do and don't stand for--
JB: May I finish? I actually respect your writing. I respect your thinking. But then there are the people like Michael Goldfarb, who is a Republican political operative who is masquerading as a (Weekly Standard) journalist. And when he goes after us, and asks people to verify their loyalty to certain principles, that's a different thing. But I'm more than happy to tell you why, on a personal basis, I don't like what Stephen Walt and John Mearsheimer have written in their book and in their articles. I don't agree with Stephen Walt. It's his business whether or not he chooses to say nice things about us. I have zero right to tell him, and I have zero interest in telling him, not to say what he thinks. That is his business.
JG: Tell me about the problem with his thesis.
JB: Here's where the line is. There is no question that over the last 40 to 50 years, the American Jewish community has developed a very sophisticated lobbying mechanism to promote its views and its interests, and I am in awe of that as a student of politics. I also happen to respect and value much of what has been achieved. For instance, the special relationship between the U.S. and Israel, the essential security guarantee that the U.S. provides, the notion that Israel should always have a qualitative military edge -- those are things that have been achieved by lobbying, by what some people would call the "Israel lobby." J Street is very happy with these achievements, and we support those ends, and we respect and admire much of what groups like AIPAC and others have done over the years.
However, when the analysis of that lobby veers over a line and essentially says that all of American foreign policy is controlled by this one lobby and this one interest group, to me, personally, this does smack of the kind of conspiracy theories contained in the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. This notion that somehow Jews control this country, they control our foreign policy, that there is some diabolical conspiracy behind the scenes, this is when you cross that line. I believe that the analysis in the Walt and Mearsheimer book and article crossed that line, but this doesn't take away from my view that this is an incredibly effective lobby.
JG: You have a situation now in which the Obama Administration has obviously failed to achieve a settlement freeze. You believe that the American government should pressure both the Arabs and the Israelis to come to the table and reach a deal. If Israel ignores the entreaties of the American president, should continuing American military aid to Israel be up for discussion?
JB: The short answer is no, but there's actually a longer explanation for the no. The short answer is that military aid should not be on the table -- this is an absolutely essential aspect of Israel's security, and it's an essential aspect of the U.S.-Israel relationship. However, the U.S. should be able to get across that, as an ally, and as a partner in this relationship with its own interests and view of what will actually move the situation forward, its voice and its views need to be listened to, and that means some serious, behind-closed-doors conversations between the president and the prime minister.
JG: But they've already had those.
JB: I don't know what took places in those conversations.
JG: Well, they didn't work yet.
JB: It's very, very early in the process. What J Street has said is that this issue of a settlement freeze is not the place to put all your cards on the table. If this is a card game, I wouldn't go all in on the settlement freeze. I think that the settlement freeze is an important precondition, it's an important early issue, but the fundamental issue is to get to two states, let's get to a final status agreement, and it's at that point that I think the full force of the U.S. should be brought to bear on all the parties. And let me be really clear: all the parties. When we get to that point, there should be a very, very different and serious conversation. I don't think this is the point to go all in.
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|ORDER: The Court ADOPTS Magistrate Judge Stewart's Findings and Recommendation 17 . Accordingly, the Court REVERSES the decision of the Commissioner and REMANDS this matter pursuant to sentence four of 42 U.S.C. § 405(g) for the calculation and award of benefits. Signed on 04/29/2014 by Judge Anna J. Brown. (bb) Modified on 4/30/2014 to correct date of signature of judge (bb).
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Does anyone know if you can buy tickets for the everglades online? I've tried using a shopping directory, although they had similar deals I couldn't find the package I wanted.
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Out in the East Everglades along the Tamiami Trail, on the thin strip of asphalt that runs between Miccosukee Resort & Gaming and Naples, plenty of dangers await the unsuspecting visitor. Alligators, pythons, cottonmouth snakes, and snapping turtles lurk in the marshes, ready to strike at a moment's notice.
But to Gary Matthews, nothing is more treacherous than airboat captains — those wizened, weathered men who pilot tons of metal backed by a ten-foot propeller over a few feet of water and miles of sawgrass. Threats, intimidation, theft, and underhanded tactics are as abundant in the Everglades as lilies and gators, he says.
"It's very cutthroat. It's a bloodbath," says the 61-year-old Matthews, who is tall and bald, with a face tanned from decades under the sun in the swamp. He runs private tours in Everglades National Park for Airboat USA, a company he purchased about a decade ago. Since then, he says, the other companies along the Tamiami Trail — namely Coopertown Airboats and Everglades Safari Park — have made his life a living hell.
"All we've tried to do is run a successful business," Matthews says. "They've tried about seven times to get me put out of business."
It's a soap opera set in a sleepy part of the swamp that includes profanity, cops, and tens of thousands of dollars in profit. Matthews lobs accusations at his competitors; they deny them. According to Jesse Kennon, owner of Coopertown Airboats, Matthews has become persona non grata among airboaters. "The only one stirring up trouble here is Gary Matthews," he says. "Everybody's tried to help him, but he wants to come in and take over. Not many people here like him."
The South Florida airboat industry dates to the years immediately following World War II. Coopertown, the oldest concern in the East Everglades, opened for business in 1945; Safari Park started up in 1968. Since 1989, the National Park Service (NPS) has allowed only four companies — Coopertown, Safari Park, Gator Park, and Airboat USA — to operate in Everglades National Park. Those four hold a virtual monopoly on roughly 100,000 acres of land, ten times the size of Manhattan.
Though airboat companies exist as far north as Orlando, the most popular operators are along the Trail. Coopertown entertains about 90,000 visitors per year — 75 percent of them from outside the country. Overall, Kennon estimates, about a half-million people a year ride the airboats in South Florida. At $20 a head, those numbers have added up to big money.
But the airboating territory might shrink. Since the addition of the East Everglades to Everglades National Park in 1989, the NPS has considered limiting access to parts of the fragile ecosystem. Acting public information officer Mary Plumb says the NPS is evaluating "how many, if any, of the four operations are necessary and appropriate for visitors."
And competition is growing in Miami. Dozens of smaller companies have popped up on the Trail all the way through to Naples and into Everglades City. Kennon says that, since 1980, the area has gone from roughly 25 companies to 2,500.
Matthews is one of those small operators. A retired airline pilot, he began to airboat professionally in 2001. Back then, he helped government agencies and research organizations — the U.S. Geological Survey, the Department of Environmental Protection, scientists from Louisiana State University — travel the Everglades to conduct studies. After doing an educational show about frogs for New York City's PBS affiliate, he began to think of expanding his business.
Soon he started working with TV shows such as The Amazing Race, CSI: Miami, and Burn Notice and a number of projects for Animal Planet and the Discovery Channel. He even appeared in an episode of Kourtney & Khloé Take Miami, the Magic City-based spinoff of Keeping Up With the Kardashians in which Matthews discovered the sisters stranded in the Everglades and found them a cabin in the swamp.
Matthews is full of impressive claims — for instance, he used to own a repair shop for Porsches and Ferraris in Coral Gables in the '70s and '80s, and Animal Planet approached him to replace Steve Irwin after the Australian explorer's death in 2006. "I didn't nail the audition, so to speak," he says, chuckling. But there's little mirth in his voice when he talks about his run-ins with other airboat captains.
"I have no respect for Coopertown or Safari Park," he says. "I've done nothing to hurt them."
In November 2007, he says, Kennon verbally and physically threatened him during a tour. As Matthews recalls, he was leading a private tour in the park when Kennon approached on an airboat.
"Jesse flies in and he's screaming, 'Get your motherfucking ass out of my Everglades,'" Matthews says. "Then he grabs a pipe, and he's going, 'I'm going to kick your fucking ass!'"
It's difficult to imagine the 70-year-old Kennon, who is soft-spoken and quiet, threatening to beat a man. With a wispy ponytail, glasses, and a green polo shirt tucked into jeans, he looks more like a retired high school science teacher than a swamp denizen. Though he acknowledges that he and Matthews had an argument, he vehemently denies any physical threat was made.
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Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. Reports Strong Results For Second Quarter Fiscal 2013
Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. (NASDAQ:TTWO) today reported financial results for its second quarter fiscal 2013, ended September 30, 2012. In addition, the Company updated its financial outlook for its fiscal year 2013, ending March 31, 2013.
For its second quarter fiscal 2013, GAAP net revenue was $273.1 million, as compared to $107.0 million for its second quarter fiscal 2012. Non-GAAP net revenue was $288.0 million, as compared to $107.0 million for the year-ago period. GAAP net loss from continuing operations was $12.4 million, or $0.15 per diluted share, as compared to $47.3 million, or $0.57 per diluted share, for the year-ago period. Non-GAAP net income was $10.2 million, or $0.11 per diluted share, as compared to Non-GAAP net loss of $39.4 million, or $0.47 per diluted share, for the year-ago period.
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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What does Nick do when he learns that his mother wants to see him?
(a) Goes on a walk with his father
(b) Goes fishing
(c) Takes the car into town
(d) Takes the boat out onto the lake
2. What are Nick and Marjorie doing as the story begins?
(a) Studying
(b) Rowing in a boat
(c) Riding bicycles
(d) Playing tennis
3. What feeling does Nick have on this morning?
(a) That he is homesick
(b) That he does not want to leave
(c) That he will never die
(d) That he wants to remember this morning forever
4. What does Bill's father say makes drunkards?
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(b) Opening liquor bottles
(c) No self restraint
(d) Sad memories
5. What does Dick Boulton call the logs?
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(b) Zeus' toothpicks
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(d) A nuisance
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1. What do the evacuees do every night at midnight?
2. What war does the narrator mention in the memoir for Chapter 1?
3. About what do Nick and Bill agree is better than baseball?
4. What is a woman doing on a cart?
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Afridi hails Pak as 'best limited-overs outfit in world'
Star Pakistani all-rounder Shahid Afridi has hailed his side's limited-overs outfit as the best in the world, although he admitted that they need to improve their fielding efforts.
Pakistan's team is set to leave for the World Twenty20 in Bangladesh on Thursday, but Afridi is expected to join them early next week as he is currently undergoing a week-long rehabilitation after suffering a strain during the Asia Cup.
According to The Nation, Afridi said that he believes Pakistan's limited-overs combination in the world is the best in the world as they have equally good batsmen and bowlers, although he admitted that they need to improve their fielding as it is one of the most essential parts of limited-overs cricket.
Pakistan's warm-up matches are on next Monday and Wednesday, after which they open their campaign in a high-profile match against India, the report added.
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CHICAGO, Oct. 11, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Morningstar, Inc. (NASDAQ: MORN), a leading provider of independent investment research, today reported estimated U.S. mutual fund asset flows through September 2012. Investors added $16.5 billion to long-term open-end funds, as inflows of $29.9 billion into taxable-bond funds overcame redemptions of $16.8 billion from U.S.-stock funds. September was the 17th consecutive month of outflows for U.S.-stock funds and further evidence of investors' preference for the perceived safety of fixed income over equities.
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- Following the Fed's announcement that it will keep short-term rates near zero through mid-2015, investors revealed a willingness to take on risk within fixed income. Riskier categories such as emerging-markets bond, high-yield bond, and bank-loan each saw inflows of approximately $2.0 billion during the month.
- The largest fixed-income category, intermediate-term bond, collected new assets of more than $13.2 billion, bolstered by inflows of $2.8 billion for PIMCO funds and more than $1.4 billion for DoubleLine.
- Within equities, nearly every category saw outflows, led by large-growth with redemptions of $5.0 billion. While open-end equity mutual funds lost assets of $16.8 billion, nearly an equal amount flowed into equity exchange-traded funds.
- Dividend-focused funds have attracted $17.3 billion in assets this year, even as U.S.-stock funds lost $82.6 billion overall.
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Putting the Flying Karamazov Brothers in Shakespeare's "Comedy of Errors" is, in effect, doing a Spike Jones arrangement of the play.
There is, of course, textual justification for casting jugglers, mimes and just about everything but The Kitchen Sink (wouldn't that be a good name for a new vaudeville troupe?). Early in the play, Shakespeare says the town where it takes place is full of "nimble jugglers that deceive the eye." And while I am as ready as the next man to get on my high horse about travesties of Shakespeare, this is not the occasion.
Though some of the verse in this early play has a recognizably Shakespearean melancholy, for the most part "Comedy" shows its author striving to entertain the Elizabethan equivalent of The Tired Businessman.
The plot is low farce and there are plenty of those vulgar puns that must have been real thighslappers 400 years ago and are inexplicable now. In this context the playful vulgarity of the Karamazovs fits right in. If one is to complain, it may be that too often they settle for laughs that are too easy.
There are a lot of clever ideas. Having one of the actors read a book on "How To Tell A Joke" while he delivers one of those bawdy puns lets us laugh even if we don't understand. It's also fun to watch juggling fit the rhythms of the verse.
Sophie Hayden stands out for her ability to project a character in the midst of her accomplished acrobatics. In most other cases the acrobatics take precedence. Still, this "Comedy" makes breezy, delightful summer entertainment.
It takes no scholarship, merely a clear eye, to discern that there are more errors than comedy in Shakespeare's "The Comedy of Errors."
Possibly a youthful indiscretion (although the dating of the play is one of its more disputed aspects), Shakespeare's adaptation of a farce by the Roman playwright ("Comedy Tonight") Plautus, is, as the poet John Masefield once notoriously observed, "the only Shakespearean play without a deep philosophical idea."
You want philosophy? Look in the Yellow Pages, but do not go to the Vivian Beaumont, where Lincoln Center Theater is presenting "The Comedy of Errors" in an all-juggling (yes, that's right, juggling) version that originated at the Goodman Theater in Chicago, that jugglin' town.
"The Comedy of Errors" can be riotously funny in its own farcical right - Britain's Royal Shakespeare Company has had virtually a tradition of success with it - but it usually isn't.
The story of two identical twins, separated at birth, and provided with two identically separated identical twins as servants (this latter elaboration was Shakespeare's personal gilding of Plautus's original lily) needs care; and even then the plot, while crystalline in outline, is murky in details.
Perhaps it is the play's general, if genial, vaudeville-style inconsequentiality and breeziness that has led to it being pretty much fair game for adapters and improvers.
In 1938, Rodgers & Hart, together with George Abbott, when he was little more than a middle-aged stripling, made us a cheerful musical, "The Boys from Syracuse," and much more recently, on a far sadder note, the play was used for yet another Broadway musical, the disastrous "Oh, Brother!"
So why not jugglers? Why not the self-styled New Vaudeville? Why not the Flying Karamazov Brothers and their juggling circus? Why not Avner the Eccentric? Why not Ethyl ("High Octane") Eichelberger?
Well, why not? But there again, why? And why at Lincoln Center? Well, so far as that is concerned, why not?
As for the Karamazovs, they first flew at the play in 1983, and after their crack-up at the Brooklyn Academy of Music with Stravinsky's "The Soldier's Tale," conceivably thought that this might be a good wheeze to get their ambitions once more airborne.
While charming, laid-back individuals, the Karamazovs are rotten actors, which no amount of their heavily underlined acknowledgment of the jokey fact can excuse. Not even in "The Comedy of Errors."
The director, Robert Woodruff, who was also involved in that unhappy "Soldier's Tale," has retained a remarkable amount of Shakespeare's comparatively brief text, and staged the whole thing at the frantic pace of a belly-laugh tripping on a whoopee cushion to the sound of a kazoo.
The topical additions - the predictable gags about Irangate and the Hasty Hart - are not particularly painful, Eichelberger ad libs with spirit, but generally there is an unsubtlety to the humor that is more knowing and more pretentious than vaudeville or burlesque (the intended stylistic sources) would have countenanced.
For example, when one of the Dromios (don't ask even them, which) has a pseudo demise and segues into Mercutio's death scene from "Romeo" - we have horrified shouts of: "Wrong play!"
The joke is not particularly funny in the first place, and even less funny when it has to be signaled for some Yuppie-recognition quotient, in the second. Highbrow vaudeville is a contradiction in turns.
The best performances come not from the Karamazovs (who juggle surprisingly little, and, disappointingly, very conventionally, here being at their happiest when playing instruments), but from the acid-tongued Eichelberger as a Courtesan who knows her way round any camp; Sophie Hayden, who not only makes a delightful Adriana (Shakespeare's spirited heroine) but can twirl a mean baton; and the lovely Avner the Eccentric.
Avner's opening shtick with a cigarette pack is a treasure, markedly funnier, and, in its desultory way, more Shakespearean than anything that follows.
Still let me be fair to this "Comedy of Errors": it does have a manic vitality, and its four-and-a-half-ring circus approach certainly provides its own fast and furious fun.
The jazzy music directed by Douglas Wieselman (who also composed some of it with Thaddeus Spae) is a consistent pleasure, some of the comic routines are irresistible, and with its sets by David Gropman and inventive costumes by Susan Hilferty, the whole show has a cheering tatterdamalion look to it.
I suppose the laudable intention was to provide Shakespeare for people who do not like Shakespeare. And it may work. But, be warned, I doubt whether it can provide Shakespeare for people who do not like juggling.
For myself - and, let me signal, I am quoting from a wrong play - I would have preferred more matter and less art, or more juggling and less Shakespeare. Or, if you like, no Shakespeare - or Plautus, or even Mickey Mouse - at all.
At one point in ''The Comedy of Errors,'' as free-interpreted by the Flying Karamazov Brothers, William Shakespeare walks on stage and balances an electric guitar on his bearded chin. Shakespeare is impersonated by Timothy Daniel Furst, the silent Karamazov. While Mr. Furst inhabits the play with a look of bewilderment, his four fellow freres throw a proverbial custard pie in his face. ''The Comedy of Errors,'' which opened last night at the Vivian Beaumont Theater, plays fast, loose and lunatic with the original. The approach is totally lacking in reverence but is not deficient in humor.
These five juggling clowns (unrelated except in their zaniness and their hirsute appearance) will do almost anything for a laugh. Nothing is too sacred or profane to be ridiculed, beginning with Shakespeare and extending to themselves as Shakespearean actors. Occasionally, the show misfires, but, as juggling virtuosos, the Karamazovs have learned to be quick on the recovery. If they drop one club, they spin two others into the air. To rephrase the subtitle of ''Twelfth Night,'' this version of ''The Comedy of Errors'' could be called ''What They Will.''
The four talking Karamazovs play the twins, masters and servants. While one Antipholus (Paul Magid) resembles the other (Howard Jay Patterson), the Dromios are instantly distinguishable. Sam Williams is cherubic while Randy Nelson is tall and slim. One would have to be a fool to confuse them - and that fact should say something about the other characters on stage.
Almost all of them derive from - and occasionally diverge from - the original script. There are a few additions, besides the character of Shakespeare. For example, a major role is that of the Janitor, played by the ineffable Avner Eisenberg. This deadpan honorary Karamazov begins the evening by littering, sweeping and littering the stage. As he merrily warms up the audience, he sets the show in a circus context. Soon, so much is happening that if you look in the wrong direction, you may miss a choice flight of fancy, such as Mr. Eisenberg's droll walk on a low wire (the ''wire'' is a slack clothesline).
Four years ago, when he was artistic director of the Goodman Theater in Chicago, Gregory Mosher had the ingenuity to match the Karamazovs with Shakespeare's most frivolous comedy. Now, as artistic director of the Lincoln Center Theater, he has had the good comic sense to let New Yorkers share the joke.
Sets, lights and breakaway costumes are by the same creative hands. But there have been a few minor changes on the road to the Beaumont. The non-Bardian banter has been updated to include references to Oliver L. North, Gary Hart and other names in the news. Sophie Schwab, still delightful as Adriana (wife to Antipholus), has changed her stage name to Sophie Hayden, and there is one notable newcomer to the cast. Ethyl Eichelberger, for years a downtown star, has gone legitimate, in a manner of speaking.
Mr. Eichelberger is both the courtesan and the abbess - an easy double play for this cross-dressed clown, who has a one-man version of ''King Lear'' in his own repertory. In character, he does his signature cartwheel. All around him, other actors are turning figurative (and sometimes real) cartwheels, circumnavigating and, whenever possible, circumventing Shakespeare.
Ms. Hayden, Gina Leishman (as her sister) and a few others have a genuine affinity for the Shakespearean language. On the other hand - as I said in my original review from Chicago - as classical actors, the Karamazovs are not about to challenge the Royal Shakespeare Company. But can Ian McKellen juggle?
The Karamazovs use juggling as a comic instrument and for punctuation. In this production, the juggling is infectious, or, if you will, catching. Everyone does it; the stage swarms with true and mock Karamazovs, as comedy veers from pratfalls to visual and verbal puns. When in doubt (or in trouble), the actors make the comedy physical. Just as the Karamazovs use tenpins to make a point, Ms. Hayden twirls her baton, which could be regarded as singular form of juggling. For example, when she is angry, she swings her baton as if it were a machete.
On stage are stilt-walkers, belly dancers and fire-eaters. There is an aerialist (Wendy Parkman) with striking equipoise, and there is also a rubber chicken. Behind the scenes, a circus-style band sounds like a chorus of calliopes. There are enough variety acts for a bill of old and new vaudeville. The director, as he was in Chicago, is Robert Woodruff. While crediting him for his Keystone Kop traffic management, one must wonder if part of his duty was not to duck and run for cover.
At one point during a preview, Ms. Hayden accidently sprayed a theatergoer with seltzer - and offered an apology. No such apology is owed Shakespeare. He should be able to handle himself (duck and run for cover). He might even have enjoyed the Elizabethan spontaneity. If you put aside preconceptions, you should laugh at this frolicsome clown show, and, as Mr. Eichelberger reminds us during a stroll through the audience, if you want to know the real plot of the play, you can look up ''The Boys from Syracuse.''


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If obedience is deep listening to God, then Maggie Ross's new book is a powerful, effective and understated guiding to faith and soul-truthfulness. There is a rarity, freshness in her writing. Insight, scripture, wisdom and prayer swirl around here in this challenging earthy write. You will see God clearly and more honestly than in most other places. The sense of having wrestled with the wilderness, wanderings and wideness of humanity are striking. Repentance, tears and fire rarely get such a wise and moving exploration. Reality permeates this wonderful new BRF title. Faith and experience will be enriched should you invest in the reading of this fine book! Reviewed by Revd Dr Johnny Douglas Maggie Ross clears away the 'white noise' that so often attends writing and talking about faith. She invites us into real quiet, which is also real presence, presence to ourselves and to the threefold mystery that eludes our concepts and even our ordinary ideas of 'experience'. 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JEFFERSONVILLE, N.Y., Dec. 14, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Jeffersonville Bancorp, Inc. (OTCQB:JFBC) (the "Company"), the holding company for the First National Bank of Jeffersonville (the "Bank"), announced today that the Bank has been approved by the New York State Department of Financial Services ("NYSDFS") for conversion from a national to a New York State charter. The conversion will be effective December 21, 2012 at which time the Bank will operate under the name "Jeff Bank."
The Company expects that the charter conversion will not have a significant impact on the Bank's current activities or investments, although the Bank expects some annual cost savings as a result of the conversion. The charter conversion also should not adversely affect Bank customers and will not affect the terms and conditions of loan and deposit accounts.
Wayne V. Zanetti, President and CEO of the Bank, stated: "We believe the Bank will benefit from the insight and oversight of the NYSDFS, which is focused on local New York community banks and financial institutions. We anticipate that the regulatory oversight of the NYSDFS will be similar to what we have received from our federal regulators in the past, but with a more local orientation."As a result of the charter conversion, the New York State Department of Financial Services and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (the "FDIC") will be the Bank's primary regulators. The Federal Reserve Board will continue to be the primary banking regulator for Jeffersonville Bancorp. Jeffersonville Bancorp is a one-bank holding company, which owns all the capital stock of The First National Bank of Jeffersonville. "Jeff Bank" maintains twelve full service branches in Sullivan County, New York located in Jeffersonville, Liberty, Monticello, Eldred, Loch Sheldrake, Livingston Manor, Narrowsburg, Callicoon, Wal*Mart/Monticello, White Lake, Wurtsboro and Bloomingburg. This press release contains forward-looking statements based on current expectations that involve a number of risks and uncertainties. All opinions, forecasts, projections, future plans or other statements, other than statements of historical fact, are forward-looking statements and include words or phrases such as "believes," "will," "expects," "anticipates," "intends," "estimates," "our view," "we see," "would" and words and phrases of similar import. The forward looking statements in this press release are also forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act"), and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the "Exchange Act"), and involve substantial risks and uncertainties. We can give no assurance that such expectations will prove to have been correct. Actual results could differ materially as a result of a variety of risks and uncertainties, many of which are outside of the control of management.
CONTACT: For More Information, call: 845-482-4000 Wayne Zanetti, President - CEO
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Hi all!
Great site,very informative!!
I am buying a '66 gto, it has a 389 with 4bbl, and a powerglide. I would like to put either a turbo 350 or 400 in it. Does anyone know what's involved with making the change? Do I have to change the yokes? If so do any sock yokes fit?
Thanks all for all the info!!!
Have you consitered a 200-r4 instead?
The 350 you won't have any problems with, but if you go to a 400 you have to do one of several things. The tranny needs to be a short shaft 400 for starters, the trans cross member needs to be moved back and a second set of holes drilled into the frame for it. The shifter will need to be swapped with a new shifter cable set up that will read correctly. If you go to a 400 you will either need to cut down your drive shaft, or find a 67' GTO 400 driveline. You will need to have the yoke off of a 400 as well. The 350 is an easier swap, but both can be done. It really depends on how much hp you plan on running and/or if you are doing any drag racing.
Thanks for the quick reply.
I have access to a turbo 350 and 400, both need freshening up, but I have both. So I never really considered the 200. Plus isn't the 200 computer controlled? If it is, isn't it a more difficult upgrade? And what changes to the drive line need to be done?
I am going to have the motor freshened up, but keep it fairly close to stock, maybe 30 over, so I should be below 400 hp. So it sounds like the t350 is the easy swap. If going to the 350,it's just a straight swap,the driveshaft and crossmember line up, the only change would be the shifter? That sound easy and cheap.
Again thanks for the replies.
Hog, if you want some further help on the swap check out www.performanceyears.com It's a nice Pontiac site with alot of helpfull peeps on it. See you there!
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Great site thanks for the link. I must have missed that one while browsing. Thanks again Ed
Nope the 200r4 isn't computer controled it just requires either a toggle switched or a controler (that lots of places sell) to engage the lock-up converter. I just suggested it as they are real nice if you plan to be doing some highway driving an are pretty strong and a very easy swap too.
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