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Why Gold Bugs Should Cheer For Democrat Presidents
We already know that Ben Bernanke is a gold bug's best friend (here, here and here). And while technically Ben Bernanke is a republican, and was appointed to his post by a republican president, it is safe to say that when it comes to printing money political affiliation is irrelevant, especially since it was paradoxically a democrat Obama who was Bernanke's biggest backer during the last year for very obvious reasons - after all it was merely Bernanke's $2 trillion in excess reserves that pushed the stock market higher and gave the false impression that the economy is improving (even if a potential Romney administration would have hardly budged the status quo and likely replaced Bernanke with an even more pro-printing figurehead in the face of Bill Dudley). So a different question is: should gold bugs be more excited by a democrat or a republican president. The answer is self-evident: of the $4000 inflation-adjusted increase in gold price since gold was floated by Nixon, a solid $3000, or 75% of this rise, has taken place under Democratic administrations. So dear gold bugs: stock pile that physical and cheer on Obama and hopefully his democratic successors. At this rate, gold (and ostensibly all other precious metals) will outperform every single asset class known to man (sorry Buffett).
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Make a little money. Lose a civilization. Hell of a deal. Literally.
Yeah, they're idiots.
But they really can't help themselves now, the central planning is too far gone. I should point out I don't trade gold, I save it...on the bottom of a lake ;-)
Same damn thing happened to my silver and moonshine still. Funny how the earth sucks;)
When 475 get another 5% to go along with them.....there's only one thing left to do....sell paper and buy gold.
Greed has nothing to do with it.....it's just just self preservation.
Gold bugs: "Yay FDR!"
oh wait...
No kidding. Cheering wildly right up until the crickets start chirping when the executive order is signed.
Part of the "Cash for Gold" explosion is intended to reduce the constituency of "folks" who'll be angered by a ban on possession.
Those who sold their gold will feel extra-special stupid as gold skyrockets right up until the ban, when they'll golf clap for the leveling benefits of socialism.
Dems good for gas bugs too.
'At this rate, gold (and ostensibly all other precious metals) will outperform every single asset class known to man'
Well, there is gold, soon to be centre of the monetary world again.
All other metals are industrial though.
Precious? Don't think so.
God made Go(l)d.
Man made paper.
You go and try making gold...maybe you can find it, but, no way you can make it.
Indeed it (pm's) is precious...since the dawn of time.
Another FOFOA leming...I'm sure nothing will have any value to anyone ever for anything...other than gold of course. Sigh
We all know gold and silver are going much much higher due to QE to infinity. Lets just hope the world doesn't tear itself apart in the process.
zerohedge.com? OR goldhoarders.blogspot.com? When SHTF I'm stockpiling lead, brass and bottles of water
"cheer on Obama and hopefully his democratic successors"? At this rate, there won't be much to succed.
The measure of sucess for O and is Statist ilk is the destruction of the dollar. Collapse the economy, crush the prudent, and usurpation of a government by the people, for the people is their goal. Of course their reign will be much more merciful, spreading the wealth and all the goodness that flowes from totalitarionism.
I've been investing in bullets (and food) since Dear Leader took the throne. While I can't predict the future, I know it isn't going to be pretty. Sooner rather than later, Dear Leader is going to run out of other people's money. The Obama Bucks will stop flowing. The Obama Phones will stop working. When that happens, the thin veneer we call civilization will fall, and those who exist only by feeding off the labors of others will riot and pillage. Even gold won't hold back the rampaging hoards.
If america joins israel and bombs iran the chinese and the soviets may just decide its time to dump the dollar and the shit will hit the fan
I am not sure that that isnt what obama and his gang want anyway in order to impose tyranny
It takes an Ivy League economist to understand that gold is just a barbaric relic. And it takes an uninformed gullible people that have known nothing but fake paper used as money to believe it.
Hmmm deep. Economists know nothing, espescially if they are from Harvard, and the people know nothing unless it is on TV. So therefore gold is real money. To make it short and sweet: the crowd is always wrong.
For not "knowing" anything, they sure live pretty well. Oh well, hope they taste like chicken.
Save your breath and your arm strength....you're going to need it when you have to start swimming.
You can only pull something like this off once. Make the best of it - Gordon Brown
but but but...romney killed the twinkies...or so said the mob goon trumka...
so there
lol...a statement from the Teamsters...
It would seem one union was standing on a rickety ladder trying to put the Twinkie Star on top of the tree...and knocked the whole thing over.
Merry Christmas.
Huh? Sorry Tyler. All this headline shows is statistically , you like to write articles about gold and your bias in favor of it. The "launch" really occurred under Bush W.
But we ZHers know that you are just making light chit chat with this article anyway, as we are aware of the bigger monsters lurking in the waters.
Reuters said there is no need to worry because in their technical terminology the economy has a bungee cord that will save us all (therefore no need to buy the shiny stuff). They're pretty optimistic that recent market losses don't really count for much of anything, and the article's illustrious commentariat seem to agree (although not knowing what they are agreeing on). All appears to be well in the Republic.
What this really demonstrates is that the Reagon-Bush Sr.-Clinton years were merely a pause on our road to hyperinflation. A pause probably due to several factors including the fall of the Soviet Union and an amazing technological innovation (which doesn't happen that often).
Open to debate on this issue .. time will tell.
We could have the fall of Persia and a revolution in nanotechnology or gene therapy.
Not holding my breath or anything though.
I personally detached my tradition holdings independently apart from the likes of any Government public servant partyline scoundrel .
Just like the human population, all I see is an exponential plot. Enough with the left/right bullshit.
"Indexed to 1969"
I would prefer a log chart going back to the charter of the Fed Reserve, especially if the thesis involves gold vs usd. We are not even at base camp 1 yet.
Yes, let's see how this 100 year experiment in price stability is working out for 99% of the population. Great point.
As long as politicians dare not touch Medicare and Social Security, those liabilities will continue to increase by about $7 trillion a year. The Fed will be on infinite QE to deal with debt and unfunded liabilities.
All this talk of the Fiscal Cliff is about $600 billion in reduced spending and increased taxes while US debt and unfunded liabilities rise by $8.3 trillion a year. So the Fiscal Cliff addresses about 7% of the increase in debt and liabilities and the politicians cannot agree on that.
Bernanke will have to continually attack gold like his predecessor Greenspan who said:
"Central banks stand ready to lease gold in increasing quantities should the price rise."
- Testimony Before the Committee on Banking and Financial Services, U.S. House of Representatives July 24, 1998
Well, He's almost out of those Gold bullets and China is happy to accommodate the central banks gold release by buying it all up. The Shit hits the fan when China says they have 10,000 tons of gold and people lose faith in the USD for the Renminbi.
I read in Jim Rickards "Currency wars" thats its as little as 4,000 tons and they can challenge the dollar for reserve status. They were over 1,054 tons in 2009 now and probably closer to 2K today. At the rate they are mining and buying, they will probably have 4K within 5 years if not sooner.
According to oilprice.com on their gold holdings by country widget ,
China is #2 behind the US with 131,561,483/oz of gold or 4027 metric tons of gold .
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Very nearly ready. Just waiting on an up and running alternative to the SWIFT system.
Been in process since that unscheduled BRICS meeting in Mumbai in May.
The system will probably be ready in mid 2013.
Not so clever of the USA to use SWIFT as a weapon against Iran.
The Law of Unintended Consequences is a bitch.
Bring it, but I seriously doubt China will allow any peg of thier currency to a fixed measure of gold. It's a fiat world now and they need to be able to manipulate their currency in order to control the sheeple (as they have consistently done for thousands of years). They are a communist/mercantile state, go ahead peg to an exchangable and fixed amount of gold, please. Many of us hold lots of currencies, including theirs, please do it. It would be awsome to know that a fixed amount of yuan (or any paper for that matter) would be exchangable for gold moving forward. Bring it.
The idea is already being floated that Gold is enemy friendly keep that in mind I could see obama coming for it after he goes after your 401k's.
The Gold Standard is not Synonymous with Freedom
Yes I do have Gold though not alot I have more in silver just pointing this out .
Good luck with that. We have seen major superpowers go bankrupt and collapse before. Look at what the Soviet Union went through. The same thing will happen in the U.S., all the world's a stage and all you have to do is replace those actors (U.S./Russia) with China/U.S. and the relevant currencies (Dollar/Ruble) with the Yuan/Ruble. Their will be secessions by resource rich or fiscally independent states (as there were with the Soviet collapse) and there will be multiple economies/currencies for the people and only one economy/currancies when dealing with any given state or government agency.
hedge accordingly.
What about the Repubs and Dubya when the barbarous relic went from $300 to $1,000 per ounce? Last time the gold price tripled was under Carter a Democrat so the "Dem is good fer gold" is all bullshit. Central Bankers pull the puppet strings of the politicians and then the TREASURY DEPARTMENTS print the money. Politicians do NOT create inflation; BANKS do. End of Discussion.
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Just more of Central planning tossers throwing shit at the wall, and hoping it sticks!
Bush was Democrat Light. He and his father are nothing more than the country club republicans. Medicare prescription D and compassionate conservatism was a bullshit smokescreen for more keynesian policies and then you have Greenspan priming the pump. There is no difference in the parties. Obama is taking us over the cliff at 200mph, the republican establishment is doing it at 150.
Neither one was a leader in the vein of -dare I say it- Reagan.
August 15th, 1971. A day which will live in infamy
While I'm fundamentally bullish long term for gold, I see that technically gold and silver are setting up for a primary bear market.
Currently, gold and silver are still in a primary bull market. However, if the Nov 2 lows (secondary reaction lows) are jointly violated by gold and silver, then a primary bear market would be signaled.
This is the vital chart to look at:
If such lows are not violated and both precious metals continue higher, it would be a very bullish accomplishment.
Every fucking market on this planet is rigged. This thing can blow any time. Do you really want to be staring at the charts with cash in your hand?
The Dow theory, which was developed in the 20s and 30s, is useless in todays "markets". And so - meant politely- is your "if ...jointly violated " statement.
Best proof is Richard Russell, who has been trying for 3 years to decide whether there is a bull or bear market in stocks, he rants on about the transports and industrials like something out of a museum - incredible.
On the other hand, maybe a stronger metals position isn't a bad idea--who gives a rat's ass who's president as long as they all seem to play the trendy card of weak borrowers, cooked numbers, to prop up an oversold market, and the bleed out continues:
Federal Housing Admin Red Ink may be $32.8B, double original estimate:
Clever, just embalm Freddie and Fannie and casket it somewhere else.
The Headline should read: "Why Gold Bugs Should Cheer For Progressive Presidents"
Democats will steal everything you think you'll make........... socialist.
That's correct.
By my calculation 10000 ton @ $2000 ounce is $643 billion. That is nothing when compared to hundreds of trillion in liabilities. If that doesn't tell you how undervalued gold is nothing will.
According to oilprice.com on their gold holdings by country widget ,
China is #2 behind the US with 131,561,483/oz of gold or 4027 metric tons of gold .
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Hey, Warren Buffett, if you pay ME $100,000 to have lunch with a Gold Bull (aka Gold Bug), I will ensure that you learn many things about what you "don't understand". I will also ensure that you learn why what you "do understand" is underperforming that which you do "not understand". Understand?
Nice fractal relationship between 1979 and today. Nonetheless, for Gold in US Dollars to rise, the US Dollar will likely fall - meaning the Euro, Yen, Pound and C-Dollar (all four of which have recently topped) would have to rise.
Gold seems to be holding, down about 1% this week. Gold stocks are plunging.
A curious observation.
If the title replaced 'gold bugs' with 'PM dealers' then I would tend to agree. We are yet to see what the value of holding gold in the long-term is. It is really hard to know what is up the sleeve of the central bankers. Is the chairman really even in charge of the operation or is he merely just another figurehead puppet to the ruling elite puppeteers? And if so, what are the plans of those puppeteers?
Ever notice equity "buy and holders" abhor gold?
Like the beating heart in Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart" which drove the protagonist mad with its perceived ever louder beating.
Gold in the home of a buy and holder whispers ever more loudly..."tard".


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|July 19 2009, 06:39 PM
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Re: The Typhon Pact
"If the world was perfect, it wouldn't be." - Yogi Berra
|July 19 2009, 06:49 PM
Location: India
Re: The Typhon Pact
Well we could have Section 31 trying to counter the "threat" of Species 8472 "pro-actively" by figuring out how to open a gateway into fluidic space, developing a more potent weapon building upon what Doctor Joe built (by kidnapping 7 o 9 and taking her nanoprobes of course). We could have events escalating to almost full scale war (AGAIN??? ) , until Elias Vaughn and Julian Bashir discover Section 31's insidiousness and alongwith JL Picard negotiate truce with Species 8472. They also manage to hold onto detailed evidence of Section 31 and its involvement but don't go public with it yet for fear of not having all the information about who the leaders of Section 31 are.
Nothing like spicing up an already roiled post-Destiny AQ eh?
|July 19 2009, 06:49 PM
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Location: ...But it's sad and it's sweet and I knew it complete, when I wore a younger man's clothes.
Re: The Typhon Pact
I'm suddenly reminded of a quote from "Babylon Five".
G'Kar: "We are all the sum of our tears. Too little, and the ground is not fertile and nothing can grow there. Too much, and the best of us is washed away".
I see the current state of the Trek universe as perhaps acknowledging the first part of that comment. The destruction and death suffered during the Borg invasion and aftermath might encourage the growth- might be encouraging the growth- of something great. You see it more in terms of the latter half of the comment, I think. Why? We've already seen positive outcomes rising from the ashes of the Borg invasion: the more interconnected Trek universe.
We are all the sum of our tears. Too little and the ground is not fertile, and nothing can grow there. Too much, and the best of us is washed away.
|July 19 2009, 07:02 PM
Location: India
Re: The Typhon Pact
As for your quote from Batman Begins, I don't think it compares. The Federation wasn't "falling to pieces", wasn't a "breeding ground for suffering and injustice", wasn't "beyond saving" before Destiny.
And after 63 billion people perished, whole worlds and lives shattered didn't you want to know some of the consequences and see our heroes working through those consequences to make the best of what's happened? Or would you rather simply dismiss that as just another war, just another casualty figure and have the AQ and our heroes continue happy as hamsters as if nothing ever happened?
|July 19 2009, 07:11 PM
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Re: The Typhon Pact
"If the world was perfect, it wouldn't be." - Yogi Berra
|July 19 2009, 07:21 PM
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Location: ...But it's sad and it's sweet and I knew it complete, when I wore a younger man's clothes.
Re: The Typhon Pact
the people of Alpha Centauri voted four to one, if I recall, to raffirm their commitment to the Federation despite their own leader's original desire to pull out.
We are all the sum of our tears. Too little and the ground is not fertile, and nothing can grow there. Too much, and the best of us is washed away.
|July 19 2009, 07:27 PM
Location: India
Re: The Typhon Pact
None of the post-Destiny books had or ended with "Everyone in the Federation has given up. Everything is gone to the dogs. No one is fighting to survive anymore."
They did have "Our heroes continue to work through these hard times, making the best of what they can. The civilian governments of surviving worlds are still functioning and strong and are helping everyone else to relocate and rebuild. Everyone's doing their bit. The Typhon Pact has been created but has not engaged in any hostile act. We know of a race of xenophobic but benign beings called the Caeliar with a former Starfleet captain as one among them. The Borg are no more. The Titan is continuing its explorations of the Gum nebula. Voyager and a fleet of ships is going to the Delta Quadrant to explore and establish peaceful relations with the races there and to find out and make certain of the status of the Borg and Caeliar."
That's not hope enough for you after a large scale carnage?
Frankly given the scale of the devastation and the sheer numbers of displaced persons, there were so many more worse things the writers could have chosen to put in but didn't because its Trek. For eg. Losing the Peace only had an almost incident between Displaced Persons and the military of Pacifica, that could have been much more terrible given what we know about detention camps and such in our real world.
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|July 19 2009, 07:28 PM
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Re: The Typhon Pact
I would hope it will *keep* surviving.
The rather bleak tone that the novels are taking now, you can understand why I question whether the writers want that.
"If the world was perfect, it wouldn't be." - Yogi Berra
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|July 20 2009, 12:13 AM
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Re: The Typhon Pact
Also I find it interesting you will bring up the negative things about the Pact members but ignore the negative aspects of the founding members of the Federation at the time they formed it's predecessor the Coalition of Planets.
Also many of the other powers in the Alpha Quadrant in the 22nd century porbably felt the same way about the Coalition and later the Federation that replaced it as you seem to feel about the Typhon Pact, does that make them right considering how things turned out.
|July 20 2009, 12:23 AM
Location: Montgomery County, State of Maryland
Re: The Typhon Pact
The point is not the fall of the Federation. The point is the evolution of the Federation. The point is the Federation learning to stop being the arrogant superpower and to cope with the fact that it is now living in a multilateral quadrant after having essentially lived in a unilateral quadrant since Praxis exploded in 2293.
In other words, the Federation is undergoing the same process the United States is undergoing in real life: Coping with no longer being the biggest kid on the playground and having to deal with other cultures that are or are becoming equally powerful.
As for overtly positive storytelling -- I'd consider Losing the Peace to have had a very hopeful, inspiring ending, and I would consider Over a Torrent Sea to have been a very hopeful, optimistic story.
The key to the Typhon Pact is to tell a story about the Federation coping with losing its status as the sole superpower of the quadrant without losing Star Trek's essential optimism.
2. The point of this thread was to ask why the Typhon Pact exists, remember?
"Just days ago, I was sitting in my office resenting the way my comfortable existence had been disrupted, and in my self-absorption, I resolved to launch a campaign to ask my fellow Centaurians o vote on whether we should secede from the Federation. Now, thanks to an utterly audacious act that has shaken me out of my complacency, I've revolved to add a second question to this plebiscite, asking whether we as Centaurians should reassert our commitment to the ideals set forth in the Articles of the Federation. To renew the promises we made over two centuries ago to the peoples of Earth, Vulcan, Tellar, and Andor, and to all the peoples who have come after, to be a unified society, dedicated to our mutual welfare and survival."
Read the novels. Nothing about them is anti-Federation.
Remember, there's nothing virtuous about strength. Taking strength away from the Federation does not mean taking away its morality, its value system, its optimism -- or its survival. No one's trying to destroy the Federation anymore.
From pages 356-357 of A Singular Destiny:
I'd call that a pretty gosh darned hopeful book, since the Federation managed to be more mature and responsible about its refugees than the U.S. has in real life!
And, plus -- I mean, hell, just months after almost being destroyed, the Federation is sending out two major exploratory fleets -- the Titan and the rest of the Luna-class explorers deep in the Beta Quadrant, and the Voyager fleet of NINE starships back to the Delta Quadrant! I'd call that pretty frickin' hopeful.
Is the Typhon Pact a rival? Sure. A problem? Yeah. An existential threat? No.
In other words, the Tholians were going behind the Pact's back to screw over the Federation.
The point was NOT to say that they were RIGHT, but simply to say, "This is how they think and how that might inform their behavior."
In the meantime, I'll just repeat: They've been very clear in saying that the idea is not "the fall of the Federation," but, rather, "The Federation has to deal with credible rivals who are not Pure Military Dictatorship Eeeeeevil, and has to deal with not being the most powerful interstellar state in the Alpha Quadrant anymore."
Politics tends to be treated as a zero-sum game, but it doesn't need to be. It's a result of the choices we make. Now, right now, it looks like the Typhon Pact and Federation are going to end up in a rivalry for power, resources, and influence, but that doesn't mean that it's going to be a war, or that either one has to pose an existential threat to the other. The Federation can still exist even as the Pact grows around it through voluntary expansion.
And if the Federation starts to feel threatened by the Typhon Pact growing to surround them, maybe they need to step back and realize that that was how they made other nations feel. The Federation understands full well that it can grow through voluntary expansion without in any way posing a threat to its neighbors, because the Federation knows that it can grow without having any desire to conquer independent worlds.
The question is, will the Federation extend the same benefit of a doubt it has traditionally asked for from its small independent neighbors to the Typhon Pact if it becomes the small independent neighbor? Or will they react with the same paranoia towards the Pact with which other worlds have reacted towards the Federation?
In other words, to you, does safety only occur when there is domination?
The relevant quote about the Federation and the Typhon Pact is not to be found in the Batman films. The Batman films are about a society's internal sense of identity and beliefs, not about its relations with other societies.
The relevant quote about the UFP and T.P. can be found on pages 376-377 of A Singular Destiny:
Democratic socialism is the hope of human freedom.
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(And I thought my brilliantly impassioned monologues were long....)
"You still haven't given up on me...."
And from Dark Knight:
"People are dying, Alfred! What would you have me do?"
"Endure, Master Wayne."
"This city (i.e. Federation) just showed you that it's full of people who are willing to believe in good."
"The saying implies but does not name the effective agency of its supposed utopia.... 'Needs and abilities' are, of course, subjective. So the operative statement may be reduced to 'the State shall take, the State shall give'."
--David Mamet
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Location: Montgomery County, State of Maryland
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Democratic socialism is the hope of human freedom.
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always told us he would rise above his peers in rap. In his new video, not only is he the last MC left standing, he's the last man on earth.
"I wanted to do something more exciting and interesting than the traditional club video," he said a few days ago on the video set of "Get Up," the lead single from his December 9 LP, Before I Self Destruct. "The directors come in, and guys present treatments to me, and they aren't my usual video directors, and we came up with a concept for it, just a little more futuristic. I took a scene that I seen in a film, 'I Am Legend.' … It's a collage that I thought was interesting."
Fif trekked a few thousand miles to L.A., where he'll play a Dr. Neville-type character. No fighting the undead, though.
"Not actually fighting zombies, but you'll see scenes like in the beginning of 'I Am Legend,' " 50 said. "New York City was desolate, like everything was just gone. Instead, that'll be Los Angeles. … There was a scene, one of the creatures was running into the glass, and I kinda re-created that in my own way."
In "Get Up," as you've heard if you've been listening to the radio the past few weeks, 50 encourages folks to move on the dance floor and warns them he's come to spread some "California Love" as well as some NYC hate.
"Well, you know, 'California Love' is a great song," he explained. "And this joint is more like it. It's the same key and being played in the same key. … It's the first thing that came to my head when I heard the beat. That's what I feel like great music does. It inspires you to actually say something that you wouldn't say. Although with different production, I wouldn't have wrote the verses different and the intro different, but because I felt that way I started off, 'I came to bring you that California love and New York hate, all of the above.' "
"Get Up" is produced by former right-hand beat man, Scott Storch.
The General gets even more cinematic when his LP drops. He's including his film, "Before I Self Destruct," as a bonus.
" 'Before I Self Destruct,' it's interesting," he said of the movie, which he directed and starred in. "I played Clarence in the film. For me, I wanted to show what a lot of urban folks don't show: cause and effect. I wanted to explain the actual behaviors by showing you the trials and tribulations the character went through prior to him being a part of harsh activity, in the wrong direction. So I have references. Movies like 'Menace II Society,' that had great characters, didn't really show cause and effect. Voice-overs explained it. It explained to me that O-Dog was 'America's Nightmare: young, black and just didn't give a f—.' But it did show us what happened to him or what happened around him that influenced him in that way. The Caine character, it did show us how he was influenced. So, you know, there were portions of the film that did have cause and effect in it, but the main characters, this is why people have more compassion for the Caine character than they did for O-Dog."


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Comprehensive plan moves forward
City council members, school officials, consultants and residents chatted in small groups around lunch tables in the Eudora High School commons before a comprehensive planning focus session July 10.
Murmurs of conversation about what businesses Eudora has and what businesses should be here echoed throughout the high ceilings of the commons.
By 7 p.m., it was time to get down to business as consultants from Bucher, Willis and Ratliff of Overland Park led the focus session, open to the community. The firm consults mostly for public entities like cities and counties.
Consultant Scott Michie led the meeting, employing some of the enthusiasm of a motivational speaker.
"We're trying to engage and challenge you to think in a positive way," Michie said. "Don't censor yourselves. Don't censor your neighbor. Think big."
He and two other consultants encouraged participation from the audience by asking questions and writing suggestions on oversize tablets pre-printed with issues for discussion.
"We're coming as consultants to push you," Michie said. "Tonight is for you all to talk to each other."
Before the meeting began, Mayor Ron Conner told the audience that the top-10 list of goals for Eudora he mentioned on election night would come from community members at the focus session, not just from him. Planning committee member Kurt von Achen echoed the sentiment, saying that the planning commission couldn't handle Eudora's future by itself.
Before breaking into groups to prioritize lists in f three areas quality of life, economic development or land use and infrastructure the entire group added and discussed items on the notepads.
Michie prompted the audience like a lecturing college professor.
"Who can define 'beautification?'" he asked.
Michie called on raised hands around the commons. Respondents came up with ideas like cleaning up trash and keeping houses painted.
Community members also raised their hands and offered their opinions about what Eudora needs, including a youth center; a large, centralized park area and tax incentives for downtown businesses
Part of the brainstorming session dealt with downtown development issues and historical preservation.
Pam Trefz Staab told consultants and the audience that downtown should be a unique space.
"Competing with Lawrence and Kansas City can be a drawback sometimes," Staab said. "How do we develop a retail area people can use? We need something that distinguishes us from them."
Councilman Tom Pyle, who has a downtown business, said Main Street between Seventh and Eighth streets had always been Eudora's business district.
"I've always thought there's a difference between good old buildings and old buildings," Pyle said. "We've got a couple of good old buildings and a couple that should just give way to another."
Staab and others at the meeting raised the issue of urban sprawl as well.
"What's important to me is that Eudora doesn't look like every other suburb," she said.
Richard Campbell added, "We just want to be unique."
Marilyn Laws Porter and Lane Johnson talked about traditional neighborhood design where homes and businesses are integrated and in close proximity to one another, much like the older area of Eudora.
Michie said a mid-September workshop would use the priorities community members set July 10.
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In this Nov. 26, 2012 file photo, actor James Gandolfini attends a special screening of 'Killing Them Softly' hosted by The Cinema Society, Men's Health and DeLeon at the SVA Theater in New York. Emmy organizers say the awards ceremony will include five special memorial tributes, including Cory Monteith and James Gandolfini.
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The Emmy Awards will feature five special memorial tributes, including one to "Glee" star Cory Monteith, organizers said.
Monteith died in July at age 31 of a heroin and alcohol overdose. He will be remembered by the show's Jane Lynch.
In addition, Edie Falco will honor James Gandolfini, her co-star on "The Sopranos." Gandolfini died of a heart attack in June at age 51.
Other tributes during the Sunday event will see Rob Reiner honoring "All in the Family Star" Jean Stapleton; Robin Williams remembering his friend and mentor Jonathan Winters; and Michael J. Fox honoring "Family Ties" producer Gary David Goldberg.
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For the first time in Mansfield's history, the five-member Board of Aldermen is all black. Two white aldermen - one defeated and another who did not seek reelection - rolled off the governing body Monday, making way for their replacements Tuesday.
Also a first is having two aldermen living in the same district. Alderman Roy Rogers Jones was elected by District B voters although he's not lived there in more than a year.
Jones qualified for election in April using his Jefferson Street address even though he is living in the 400 block of Willard Street, which is on the opposite side of the city. Jones ...


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Day 40: Defense grills EPA agent as Kilpatrick trial stretches on
DETROIT (WXYZ) - Earlier today, 7 Action News Investigator Ross Jones blogged all the news to come out of day 40 of the Kwame Kilpatrick corruption trial. Follow along below:
1:00--The end: That's all for today folks. We'll see you all tomorrow morning at 9AM.
12:55--No one else: Paskiewicz said she never saw any other text messages between the Mayor and contractors (other than Ferguson) discussing city bids.
12:52--Helping minorities? Defense lawyers argued that Bobby Ferguson was helping minority firms by hiring them as subcontractors. However, Chutkow just showed the jury a slew of invoices from subcontractors that were neither minorities, nor based in Detroit.
At least one of them has pleaded guilty in Bobby Ferguson's prior bid-rigging case.
12:46--Prosecution up: Assistant U.S. Attorney Mark Chutkow is up now, asking Paskiewicz if her investigation revealed that the Mayor's father Bernard Kilpatrick ever met after hours with Bobby Ferguson. Paskiewicz says that they did.
12:33--Van Dusen: For those of you wondering about Ferguson defense attorney Susan Van Dusen--who took a nasty fall on Monday and has been out of court recovering ever since--we just heard from defense lawyer Gerald Evelyn that she is suffering from headaches (though less frequently than before), and is expected to see a neurologist soon.
Here's to wishing her well.
12:21--Yesterday's testimony: Rataj is trying to point out a contradiction in Packiewicz's testimony from yesterday. But it looks like the judge wants to talk to lawyers first, as they're all huddled with her at sidebar.
12:20--Still on stand: Paskiewicz is still testifying, under cross-examination from Ferguson lawyer Mike Rataj.
Sorry for the delay in blog posts. Had to run outside to update our 7 Action News at Noon viewers with a quit live shot.
11:30--No, I'm not dead: I haven't posted anything to the blog in a while because, well, there hasn't been a lot to say. The defense is pretty deep into the minutia of a lot of the evidence we've already gone over and, well, my media colleagues and I are coming up dry in our search for a headline.
10:43--Break time: And we're taking a 20-minute break.
10:40--Bobby worked: You'll remember yesterday we learned that Bobby Ferguson made $3.1 million on work his company performed on a Detroit sinkhole. Now, Rataj is showing the jury invoices that Ferguson paid to other companies for work he subcontracted out. Presumably, this is to show that Ferguson was having work performed onsite.
10:21--McCann: Rataj is asking Paskiewicz whether Kathleen McCann, the former Soave Enterprises vice-president, pulled the strings at the company or was more or less an intermediary. Paskiewicz said that McCann took orders from Soave.
10:10--Shea's done: That's all from Bernard Kilpatrick's lawyer. Now up is Bobby Ferguson's attorney Mike Rataj.
10:04--Thomas done: Looks like Thomas got the message. He just wrapped up his questioning of Paskiewicz, and Bernard Kilpatrick's lawyer John Shea is up now. He's asking Paskiewicz about a text message we saw yesterday regarding the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department evaluation committee.
Bernard Kilpatrick: THE REAL PROBLEM WITH DWSD IS THE EVALUATION COMMITTEE. WARREN HAS SOME IDEAS HOW You CAN PROCEED. CN WE MEET WTH HIM TOMORROW EVENING?
Kwame Kilpatrick: I will meet with him and Victor Mercado. I'm n Ot just mtg with him.
Warren, says Paskiewicz, is Warren Evans, who served on the DWSD water board. I'm including the typos in the texts so you can see exactly how they were written.
10:01--Move along: It seems Judge Nancy Edmunds has had enough with this line of questioning from Jim Thomas.
"A lot of these questions have been asked and answered. Please move forward," Edmunds said.
"Let's move to things you haven't already asked."
9:48--Mayor refuses: We're seeing an e-mail from one of Inland Waters' other subcontractors from 2005, discussing how their contract isn't going anywhere. Even though it was approved by the Water and Sewer Board, "the Mayor has refused to sign it because there has not been a resolution between Inland Waters and (Ferguson Enterprises)," wrote the employee.
This doesn't appear to be new information, though. It's already been established that this contract didn't go anywhere for a while. The why is what's being debated.
9:37--Testimony so far: Thomas is asking the same line of questions that we heard yesterday. Essentially, he's going over the chain of events that took place over the awarding of contract 1368, the $50 million Inland Waters contract. Officials with Soave Enterprises (who own Inland) said they were forced to hire Bobby Ferguson.
9:24--Finally underway: Blame the exceptionally long lines outside for the routinely late starts we've been having here at federal court. But we're finally going now, with Paskiewicz under cross-examination by Kilpatrick lawyer Jim Thomas.
9:13--Bobby's missing: We're delayed again here in Judge Nancy Edmunds' courtroom, as Bobby Ferguson and his defense team seem to be missing from court. All other parties appear to be present.
9:08--Twitter talk: The former Mayor took to Twitter yesterday following his other court hearing yesterday (he had to go to Wayne County Circuit Court after testimony wrapped up in federal court). Kilpatrick was there to set a hearing date to testify about his book proceeds.
You'll recall that a higher court recently ruled that Kilpatrick needs to testify over where the proceeds of his book are going, and whether he's hiding any money that could be going to pay off the restitution he owes the City of Detroit.
Kilpatrick tweeted: "All that fuss for absolutely nothing! Wow!"
9:00--New chapter: We expect that the feds will begin a new chapter at some point today (after Paskiewicz is finished testifying). As my colleague Heather Catallo first reported yesterday, the government has leveled new allegations that were not part of its original indictment.
In a RICO case, federal prosecutors can add what are called "overt acts" to the case that contribute to the allegations of racketeering The new chapter the feds are about to enter focuses on the construction of a recreation center in Detroit.
8:55--Welcome back: Here we are at day 40 of trial, with EPA Agent Carol Paskiewicz still on the stand under cross-examination by the defense. Yesterday, we saw new texts between Bobby Ferguson and Kwame Kilpatrick that the prosecution alleged showed the two were improperly scheming about city work that Ferguson wanted (and ultimately got) a piece of.
The defense countered, though, saying the texts were taken out of context. Plus, they argued, they were so wrought with typos, grammatical errors and even punctuation that their meaning was impossible to decipher.
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NEW YORK (May 17, 2011) – NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital is the only tri-state-area hospital listed on the 2011-12 U.S. News Media Group Best Children's Hospitals Honor Roll, and the hospital ranks eighth in the country in pediatric care.
NewYork-Presbyterian provides children's health services at two major sites: NewYork-Presbyterian Phyllis and David Komansky Center for Children's Health/Weill Cornell Medical Center – a full service children's hospital within a hospital – and NewYork-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center—a full service, free-standing children's hospital.
Ranks in all 10 clinical specialties
NewYork-Presbyterian – where the world's first six-organ pediatric auto-transplant surgery was performed – is ranked in all 10 clinical specialties, which include Cancer, Cardiology & Heart Surgery, Diabetes & Endocrinology, Gastroenterology, Neonatology, Nephrology, Neurology & Neurosurgery, Orthopedics, Pulmonology and Urology.
New advanced treatments, safe and comforting environment
Now in its fifth year, Best Children's Hospitals pulls together clinical and operational data from a lengthy survey, completed by the majority of the 177 hospitals asked to participate for the 2011-12 rankings. The survey asks hundreds of questions about survival rates, nurse staffing, subspecialist availability, and many more pieces of critical information difficult or impossible for those in charge of a child's care to find on their own. The data from the survey is combined with recommendations from pediatric specialists on the hospitals they consider best for children with challenging problems.
"At NewYork-Presbyterian's Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital and Komansky Center for Children's Health, caring for children means providing the best-available care in all clinical specialties" says Dr. Herbert Pardes, President and CEO of NewYork-Presbyterian. "Through our affiliations with two of the nation's leading medical colleges – Weill Cornell Medical College and Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons – our pediatric specialists are continually introducing new, advanced treatment options, as we strive continually to create a warm, safe and comforting environment that fosters health and healing for our youngest patients and their families."
"We are proud to be counted again as one of the nation's leading children's hospitals, something that is only possible through the talent and skill of all our employees and clinical staff, and their dedication to putting our patients and families first," adds Dr. Steven J. Corwin, executive vice president and COO of NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital.
The full rankings are available at www.usnews.com/childrenshospitals, and in print form, via Amazon.com in mid-August, and on newsstands Aug. 30.
About NewYork-Presbyterian Komansky Center for Children's Health and NewYork-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital
NewYork-Presbyterian Phyllis and David Komansky Center for Children's Health, which is affiliated with Weill Cornell Medical College, and NewYork-Presbyterian/Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital, which is affiliated with Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, have built a reputation for more than a century as two of the nation's premier centers for pediatric care. Together, they offer the best available care in every area of pediatrics – including the most complex neonatal and critical care, and all areas of pediatric surgery – in a family-friendly and technologically advanced setting. They are also major international referral centers, meeting the special needs of children from infancy through adolescence worldwide. NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital is also comprised of NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Westchester Division and NewYork-Presbyterian/The Allen Hospital. NewYork-Presbyterian is the #1 hospital in the New York metropolitan area and is consistently ranked among the best academic medical institutions in the nation, according to U.S.News & World Report.
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A Kansas House committee is backing a new plan allowing two coal-fired power plants in southwest Kansas. The Energy and Utilities Committee's decision to endorse a new bill comes only three days after Governor Kathleen Sebelius vetoed their first effort. The new bill restricts carbon dioxide emissions at the plants and encourages increased use of wind-generated power. But it has the same provisions Sebelius opposed, including stripping some of the power from the KDHE Secretary.
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"I naturally love to watch how people behave in groups, and how they act in different circumstances, and the way society shapes us. My time as a sociology major helped nurture my love for understanding how society and groups of people think and interact. This is useful in everything I do."
For 793 days, almost 5,000 miles from home, Blythe Duckworth '07 has committed herself to serving the greater good.
The journey began when Duckworth joined the Peace Corps and became a part of a community development project in Lviv, Ukraine. Working with an agency called People's Aid, she is helping build a non-profit sector that is still very young and upcoming.
"I work toward the goal of transparency and democratic values in the workplace," she explains, citing the need for greater communication and organizational structure within the agency.
Duckworth's commitment to service was evident in her years at Transylvania. Her internship with AIDS Volunteers of Lexington led to her receiving a two-year fellowship with the Jesse Ball DuPont Fund in Jacksonville, Fla., where she worked with such non-profit groups as the Girl Scouts and the National Audubon Society.
Duckworth discovered another passion while at Transylvania, though, that ultimately led her toward joining the Peace Corps and engaging in a life-changing experience.
"I knew I had to study abroad," she remembers. "I saw students after they returned from their trips and they seemed changed somehow, like they had a secret, and I wanted to discover that secret."
And she did, spending a term at London's University of Westminster.
"The time away from such a comfortable environment was extremely challenging, but absolutely gave me a more worldly perspective and a better relationship with myself."
It's a lesson that Duckworth continues to learn. Once again finding herself in a different world, she realizes that the challenge of bridging cultural gaps is often accompanied by self-discovery.
"My experience in the Peace Corps has shown me what it really feels like to struggle with my environment and my work," she says. "This struggle has helped me find a deeper understanding of what truly brings me joy—sharing culture and stories through food."
After completing her service in the Ukraine, Duckworth hints at the possibility of starting a business in the food industry that also contains elements of a social enterprise, hoping to not only serve food, but also serve her community.
The project seems ambitious. But Duckworth has already proven her ability to step beyond what is comfortable and easy. "My greatest accomplishment as a student and afterward is that I have never stopped challenging myself," she says.
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Event Name : CSP EMEA 2013
Event Date : April 17-18, 2013
Location : Seville, Spain
Website : http://www.wplgroup.com/aci/conferences/eu-esp2.asp
ACI's 2nd Annual CSP EMEA Summit will once again bring together local project developers and operators in the CSP industry to discuss the latest CSP EMEA and global market opportunities, develop strategies to operate more cost-effectively and drive down costs, hear the latest technological advancements breaking through into the sector and assess the opportunities and challenges in growing your CSP business in the region.
The conference will provide a platform for networking, knowledge transfer and new business development with decision makers within the CSP Industry. During the afternoon of Tuesday 16th April conference attendees will receive a unique opportunity to attend a site visit to AbengoaSolar's CSP plants in Sanlúcar La Mayor 16 April 2013. The conference will be looking at latest CSP EMEA projects, CSP as a growing demand power, latest geopolitical and economic outlook and latest CSP technology used.
Key Topics
- Identifying the Future Market for CSP: Geography, Policy & Competition
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- EU Policy & Regulatory Update & Outlook
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Ecstatically received at this year's Cannes Film Festival where it won the Grand Prize of the Jury, Joel and Ethan Coen's folk music dramedy "Inside Llewyn Davis" opens stateside December 6th. Ahead of its release, Indiewire is pleased to exclusively premiere three new stills from the film and from ...Read More »
On paper, the most compelling aspect of CBS Films' upcoming "The Kings of Summer," directed by Jordan Vogt-Roberts ("Successful Alcoholics"), is the array of beloved television stars populating its cast list. Nick Offerman ("Parks and Recreation"), Alison Brie ("Community" and "Mad Men"), Mary Lynn ...Read More »
With 21 years in the entertainment business, Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato are heading into their third decade of fabulousness with a new coffee table book, "The World According to Wonder." With well-regarded docs ("The Eyes of Tammy Faye"), popular reality TV ("RuPaul's Drag Race") and fiction fi...Read More »
After landing on an impressive trio of festival lineups last fall at Venice, Telluride and Toronto, Ariel Vromen's based-on-a-true-story hitman thriller/Michael Shannon vehicle "The Iceman" is being prepped by distributor Millennium Entertainment for a release early next month, and we have an exclus...Read More »
The documentary "The Good Son," which will be released by SnagFilms (Indiewire's parent company) this summer, tells the story of world-famous boxing champion Ray "Boom Boom" Mancini and the fight that changed his life. Based on Mark Kriegel's book of the same name, the film hosted a special family a...Read More »
One of the funkier selections in the Sundance Film Festival's NEXT <=> program is "Newlyweeds," the filmmaking debut of writer-director Shaka King. In its look at the life of a couple in love with smoking up as much as with each other, the dark romance-comedy has the pungent ...Read More »
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GORE SPRINGS – Virginia Lynn "Ivy" Winter, 50, died Wednesday, May 1, 2013, at her residence. She was born July 24, 1962, in Bruce, to L. Ivy and Bulin Timms Ivy. She was a homemaker.
Service is at 10 a.m. Monday at Parker Memorial Funeral Home with Bro. Truman Scarbrough officiating. Interment is at Bruce Cemetery.
She is survived by one son, Jonathan Winter (friend, Mandy Anthony) of Big Creek; two stepdaughters, Miracle Dunn of Tupelo and Katie Dunn of Tupelo; half-sister, Joy Ivy of Bruce; stepmother, Annette Ivy of Bruce; three grandchildren, Anna Belle Katherine Yelverton, Alicia J. Yelverton and Adain Lane Yelverton; and lifelong friend, Allen Dunn of Gore Springs.
She was preceded in death by her parents.
Pallbearers are Hunter Bailey, Joey Fleming, Chris Flowers, Steve Frennis, Tim Frasier, Chris Spencer, Shane Webster and David Winter.
Visitation is 5 to 8 p.m. Sunday at the funeral home.
Contributions may be made to Parker Memorial Funeral Homes, P.o. Box 458 Bruce Ms. 38915.
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David Banner + Talib Kweli, Outerspace, Jason Mraz, Sunn 0))), Tom Moon, Pierced Arrows + Watery Hearts, Ben Kweller
David Banner + Talib Kweli
Tues., Oct. 21, 8pm. $26. Trocadero, 1003 Arch St. 215.922.LIVE. www.thetroc.com
We all know stuntin' is a habit for David Banner, but does he bring that swagger to the stage? With Talib Kweli on the roster, there's no doubt. Kweli is known for his thought-provoking lyrics, Banner for his beats. Wondering why hip-hop's Malcolm is doing a show with its Google? To teach. Many don't know the socially conscious twinges in Banner's music and are less aware of Kweli's more light-hearted tunes. The two might be seperated geographically--Banner from Mississippi, Kweli from Brooklyn--but lyrically, philosophically, they're closer than you might expect. (Shahida Muhammad)
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Sat., Oct. 18, 9pm. $12. With AOTP + DJ Cru Cut. North Star Bar, 27th and Poplar sts. 215.787.0488. www.northstarbar.com
As befits our seemingly permanent underdog status, Philadelphia has one of the more fertile underground hip-hop scenes in America, with Outerspace helping to lead the charge with classics like 2004's Blood and Ashes. Another underground hip-hop hotbed? Connecticut. Yes, Connecticut. Outerspace's Planetary and Crypt the Warchild welcome Connecticut's finest emcee, Apathy, along with some of his Demi Godz crew and Army of the Pharoahs to our part of the galaxy for their God's Fury album release party. (Kellie Murphy)
Thurs., Oct. 16. 7:30pm. $75-$225. Tower Theatre, 69th and Ludlow sts. 610.352.2887. www.livenation.com
The wizard of oohs, ahs and fa la las brings his funky fedoras and folksy acoustic guitar to the Tower. The singer/songwriter's smooth voice will have you humming along to catchy choruses and simple lyrics, his music encapsulating a wide array of genres blending folk, pop, hip-hop and rock. He'll be performing the hits, naturally, and new material off his first record in nearly three years, We Sing. We Dance. We Steal Things. At seats ranging from $75 to $225 a pop, the thought of Mraz stealing anything is maddening. Those fedoras must be made of platinum. (Anastasia Kotsosavas)
Thurs., Oct. 16, 8pm. $16. With Thou. First Unitarian Church, 2125 Chestnut St. 866.468.7619. www.r5productions.com
Before Sunn 0))) every doomer, droner and stoner had one goal: ape Black Sabbath's oh-so-solid riffs and lay the Cookie Monster voice on top. Then Greg Anderson and Stephen O'Malley's behemoth took flight, and Sunn became the standard against which every metal group, ambitious in sound and concept, is measured. This show features Anderson and O'Malley with nothing but their guitars--no vocals, no guests, no Moog synthesizer. They'll be playing their first recording The Grimmrobe Demos in its entirety. The album is a creation myth retold in flesh and fog and feedback. (Erica Palan)
Thurs., Oct. 16, 6pm. Free. Kelly Writer's House, 3805 Locust Walk. 215.573.9748. www.writing.upenn.edu/
Let's see, there's the seemingly never-ending war in Iraq, health care is in a shambles and our financial market is in phase five of a massive meltdown. Seems like a good time to die! But before you pull that trigger or tighten that noose, thumb through Tom Moon's new and ambitiously epic tome 1,000 Recordings to Hear Before You Die--a comprehensive and diverse brick of a book so thick it makes Tolstoy's War and Peace look like pussy shit--to help pick your swan-song soundtrack. Moon will be at Kelly Writers House to talk about his book, the process of writing it and the criteria a song must live up to to be considered vital. He'll also be taking your questions. Here's one: Bright Eyes' I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning? Really? (Brian McManus)
Mon., Oct. 20, 8pm. $20. With Whitley. Johnny Brenda's, 1201 Frankford Ave. 215.739.9684. www.johnnybrendas.com
I miss the days when Ben Kweller was an awkward pimply teenager who banged melismatic Vanilla Ice covers out of a beat-up acoustic guitar in tiny coffeeshops. But that's the stuff of vintage Kweller dwellers' dreams (Sha Sha owners unite!). Since then Kweller's all grown up and tours with big boys and a five-piece band. Now BK is back with his brand-new invention--the down-home country-style road-tripping themed But How You Lookin' Southbound? Come in..., an EP of songs plucked from 2009's Changing Horses plus a few bedroom laptop specials. It makes sense that it's a special small-room tour for these rusty dust-ups about guitars, Jesus and the great blacktop beyond. (Tara Murtha)
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Bernard Campan
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Bernard Campan (2010)
4 April 1958
Agen, France
|Humorist, comedian
Bernard Campan (born 4 April 1958) is a French actor, film director and writer. He is a member of Les Inconnus trio of humorists. He won a César Award for Best Debut for Les Trois Frères, and was nominated for best actor for his role in Se souvenir des belles choses.
Selected filmography[edit]
- Le téléphone sonne toujours deux fois!! (1985)
- Les Trois Frères (1995)
- The Bet (1997)
- Augustin, King of Kung-Fu (1999)
- Beautiful Memories (2001)
- Lightweight (2004)
- How Much Do You Love Me? (2005)
- The Man of My Life (2006)
- Park Benches (2009)
- Les Trois Frères : le retour (2014)
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Terry Chaney of Royal Oak stepped outside his doctor's office Monday in Birmingham, guided by his volunteer driver.
What the visually impaired Chaney, 59, didn't expect was a surprise from the head of a new metro Detroit nonprofit -- ITN Metro Detroit, which stands for Independent Transportation Network.
Executive Director Lori Fidler handed Chaney a $25 gift certificate, good for more of ITN's chauffeured trips, because Chaney had just logged the group's 500,000th ride. ...


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David Sole, a retired Detroit water worker, protests with Cheryl LaBash, a retired Detroit city worker, in June 2013 against cuts to city retirees. / Andre J. Jackson/Detroit Free Press
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As a retiree from the City of Detroit, and acting president of AFSCME Local 207, I oppose the so-called grand bargain. Every dollar stolen from us will not be given to the people of Detroit, but merely help the greedy banks cut their losses. They expect us to bail them out with our modest pensions. This deal should be called the grand larceny.
There are no guarantees that our pensions wont be cut again. And this is more than a 4.5% cut for general retirees. When you consider health care costs, it is more like 35-50%. Almost half of the general fund retirees who planned for our retirement through the annuity savings plan will see a total pension cut of up 20%. Thats my situation. We are not even allowed to pay back what Kevyn Orr calls excess interest in a lump sum. The 20% cut could continue for my entire life. Because I opted for a reduced pension so that my wife could have financial security after I die, the 20% cut could continue for her entire life. The state of Michigans $194-million contribution is a small portion of the revenue sharing that the state owe Detroit. Annuity savings participants are being extorted for at least $230 million.
Elimination of cost of living allowances will cost us and our beneficiaries 2.25% a year. Medical insurance cuts can add up to an additional 30% loss, especially for those who are not old enough for Medicare. I am on Medicare, yet my monthly drug costs increased 400% after March 1 when the city reduced a Medicare supplement.
The experts say that this is the best we can get, that the cuts are merciful, and that resistance is futile. The same arguments will be used to impose the Detroit blueprint on pensions throughout the nation. We are told that if we vote against this, then even more punitive cuts will be imposed on us. But it has been our experience that whenever injustice is tolerated for the illusion of security, more demands soon follow.
If we vote yes, we lose the right to sue. We should keep fighting and continue our legal appeals. However, as the U.S. Supreme Courts recent ruling against affirmative action shows, we cannot simply rely on the courts for justice. AFSCME Local 207s Executive Board urges everyone to vote against the Detroits bankruptcy plan to help build a mass movement of resistance. That is the only way we can secure our pensions and a brighter future for the people of Detroit and workers everywhere.
Michael Mulholland
Acting President, AFSCME Local 207
I am at the breaking point
I am so tired of hearing about the grand bargain grand for whom? The state? Certainly not the pensioners or retirees of the City of Detroit. If I attend one more meeting where Im told to give up my right to fight a disagreement because it is the right thing to do, I am going to scream! A cut of 4.5% is something I can live with, but eliminating the cost of living adjustment while increasing my health care costs? No so much. And what about this recoupment clause? You want $25,000 back from me for overpayment of interest. I dont have the option of paying that back in todays dollars.
I recently received a package increasing my medical costs even more from $29 a month to $1,303.72, giving me little or no choice in the matter, as it will automatically change over in August. I cannot purchase my own Medicare Advantage package until the next open enrollment in November/December. Whatever happened to the golden years? How golden is this?
I have reached a breaking point. I am living with a friend because my house was foreclosed by a bank. I am frustrated beyond comprehension.
This move against my fellow retirees, who worked hard to get where we are, is completely unconscionable.
Ella Marlene Norman
Dearborn Heights
Why should we trust Orr?
I am a retired Detroit teacher and a loyal union member and supporter. Detroit retirees are being urged to accept the offer of Kevyn Orr to take pension cuts.
We should remember that this offer was made by a person who was hired by a governor. What is there to make a person think that accepting this offer would be the end of things? The unions I supported did not back down so easily.
Frank E. Hasse
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Even the top hunters miss easy targets from time to time. Remember that nobody is perfect, so if anyone claims he or she has never missed a target, it could be that he or she doesn't really hunt that much, or just plain lying. It takes years of experience in order for one to become a skilled shooter. As you acquire experience in shooting with a rifle, you become more familiar with the characteristics of your rifle. This familiarity makes it easier for you to anticipate things that affect your shooting.
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Duraid Lossia, the owner of Tom's Party Store, was killed at his business in the 20900 block of Inkster Road on Saturday afternoon.
Farmington Hills police arrested a Detroit man today in connection with the fatal shooting of a party store owner who was beloved by people in the community, including many of his customers.
"Physical evidence collected from the scene and surrounding area has linked the subject to the crime," police said in a news release announcing the arrest.
Duraid Lossia, the owner of Tom's Party Store, was shot in the head at his business on Inkster Road, north of 8 Mile, Saturday afternoon. ...


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What to Expect in Russia: Transportation and Accommodations
Russia is an immense, mysterious and fascinating country that has been alluring adventurous tourists for decades. In addition to its breathtaking architecture and stunning landscapes, Russia also has world-class art, unique culinary delights and various other cultural treasures to offer its many tourists.
With so much to do and see in Russia, prospective travelers should do a bit of preliminary research to make sure they know which popular hotspots and local gems they want to see during their trip. By doing a bit of planning ahead of time, tourists can greatly reduce the stress of traveling and ensure that they get the most out of their Russian vacation.
Russian Traveling Resources
If you are planning a Russian vacation and don't speak Russian well (or at all), bring a portable Russian language dictionary and a reliable travel guide with you wherever you go. These two resources will significantly ease your travel and communications throughout Russia.
For additional help getting around Russia, consider hiring a Russian interpreter or tour guide for the first few days of your trip. With a Russian interpreter as your guide, you can fully enjoy your Russian vacation and avoid the anxiety of trying to overcome the language barrier.
Getting Around in Russia: Public and Private Transportation Options
Like many European destinations, Russia has a number of transportation options to offer the adventurous tourist. Here is a brief look at some of the most popular transportation options in Russia:
- Bus: Public buses are affordable and widely accessible, as they frequently traverse various Russian cities, including Moscow and other major European capitals. Remember, however, that it will take you longer to travel by Russian buses, as regular stops and layovers will delay your progress.
- Cab: Taxicab companies will vary from city to city, as each Russian city has its own unique cab service. For the most part, plan on negotiating rates with a Russian cab driver before accepting a ride, as this will ensure that you don't get ripped off.
- Rental Cars: Those who want to traverse more of the Russian countryside on their own schedule may want to rent a car when visiting Russia. In addition to AutoEurope, which offers rental car services in a number of European cities, AVIS is also a reliable choice for Russian car rental services.
- Train: Taking the train is an inexpensive, low-stress way to see the vast landscapes of Russia. Tourists who don't want to deal with directions or who don't have an international driver's license are best suited for train travel in Russia.
- Plane: If you are traveling to Russia from further distances (or other continents), you will likely need to fly into one of Russia's major airports – Moscow, St. Petersburg, Kazan, etc. Plan your flight around your chosen destination.
Russian Currency
For the last 500 or so years, the national currency of Russia has been the Ruble or Rouble. While travelers may want to exchange their money for Ruble before getting to Russia, currency exchange services are also available at airports, hotels and banks throughout Russia.
Get an up-to-date calculation of Rouble exchange rates.
Best Places to Stay in Russia
Russia has a variety of economical to opulent accommodation options to suit the needs of any traveler. The best accommodations for you will depend on your budget and preferences, as well as the budgets and preferences of your travel companions.
Here is a look at popular accommodation options in Russia:
- Hostels: Travelers seeking cheaper, last minute accommodations may want to stay in Russian hostels. Because these more communal environments can lack some privacy, they are usually best suited for solo travelers, students and others looking to make new friends on their Russian travels. View a comprehensive listing of Russian hostels.
- Hotels: Tourists looking for more comfort, privacy and/or luxury will want to stay in one of Russia's hotels. While prices will vary according to season and location, the vast number of options means that tourists can usually find a deal on their hotel stay. Research Russian hotel options and book your stay.
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The election is over and the dust is finally settling on the national scene, as well as on at least one congressional race in Utah. All the so-called political experts have their never-ending opinions on why things turned out the way they did, but I think most people realize it's now time to move on and get to work.
The biggest challenge the Utah Legislature has this year is to keep Utah the best-managed state in the Union. We've seen some positive momentum with the economy, and need to do everything we can to keep that going. More importantly, we must not do anything to hinder economic growth.
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5 Non-Dairy Frozen Desserts That Will Make You Melt
Perhaps one of the most popular and versatile non-dairy ice cream, soy ice cream has been around for years. It offers a lighter taste than ice cream, and is available in most grocery stores.
If you are allergic or intolerant to soy, fear not! Rice ice cream is a perfect soy-free option. Thinner and lighter in texture, it has an instant melt-in-your-mouth consistency.
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President Obama Welcomes the Cyber State
Today US President Obama announced plans for a "cyberspace strategy" that includes everything from possible offensive cyberwar strategies to education. It also contains a little-discussed "identity management" plan that makes me wonder if Facebook profiles are about to become the new Social Security cards. »


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Nas made to pay Kelis support
A judge has ordered the rapper Nas to pay Kelis £18,000 a month for support money.
It comes a day after the Milkshake singer gave birth to the divorcing couple's baby boy.
The temporary settlement was issued at the Superior Court in Los Angeles.
Neither Nas, whose full name is Nasir Jones, nor Kelis, whose full name is Kelis Rogers, attended Thursday's hearing.
The 29-year-old filed for divorce from the rapper in April, after they married in July 2003.
The pair have been fighting over support payments for several months, with Rogers claiming that Jones hasn't paid towards the cost of her pregnancy and her expenses.
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Judge Louis Meisinger ordered that Kelis receive $30,471 in spousal support per month - the couple's son will receive $9,027.
Nas' lawyer Mark Vincent Kaplan, told 1xtra: "Kelis, through her lawyers, was asking for double the amount offered by Nas and I guess lawyers have to earn their hourly fees somehow and there's no such thing as an absolute fact."
Kelis' lawyer Larua Wasser told the court that Kelis is trying to secure a new record deal and hopes to begin recording new music soon.
She gave birth in New York on Wednesday and named the baby Knight.
Nas' lawer has confirmed the rapper was present at the birth despite US reports that he was banned from the hospital.
Kaplan said: "Nas did arrive at the hospital about 5 to 10 mins before the baby was delivered and was delighted that he'd made it."
A statement issued to the BBC by Kelis' publicist Tracy Nguyen read:
"Kelis is grateful to have given birth to a healthy baby boy. Her focus is on getting acquainted with him and enjoying her role as a new mom."


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Military and overseas absentee ballot voters are more likely to be able to participate in the special election to fill the vacated seat in Illinois' 2nd congressional district, as the result of an agreement reached between the Justice Department and Illinois officials.
The primary will be Feb. 26 and the special election will be April 9. The election fills the seat of Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr., who resigned from Congress in November.
The agreement, reached Jan. 10, requires that by Jan. 15, the state will ensure expedited transmittal of ballots to military voters whether stateside or overseas, including family members and citizens living overseas to all those who have requested an absentee ballot by that time.
Certain provisions of Illinois law prevent election officials from sending absentee ballots to military and overseas voters at least 45 days prior to these elections, as is required by the Military and Overseas Voter Empowerment Act, according to the lawsuit filed by the Justice Department on Jan. 10 in the Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division.
The agreement, which must be approved by the federal district court, also requires that by Jan. 31, Illinois officials resolve any candidate petition challenges and ensure expedited notice to military and overseas voters of the final list of candidates for the Feb. 26 primary. Voted ballots must be postmarked by Feb. 25 and received by March 6 to be counted.
In addition, under the agreement, for both the primary and the special election, Illinois will provide all military and overseas voters the option of returning their marked ballots by email, fax or express mail, at no expense to the voter.
For the April 9 special election, the state will ensure expedited transmittal of ballots by March 8 to all military and overseas voters who have requested them. Voted ballots must be postmarked by April 8 and received by April 23 to be counted.
Information about requesting absentee ballots is available at www.fvap.gov.
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Binding to go w/Slayblade & DC Judge Boots?
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Binding to go w/Slayblade & DC Judge Boots?
I've been doing a lot of research online (unfortunately I haven't had time to look at many bindings in person except K2 & Ride), I think I've narrowed my selection based on what I
would work well with my riding style and setup(
) based on reviews etc.(in no particular order):
1) Rome: Targa or 390 Boss.
Like: Adjustability, Auto Strap, Canting options, Adjustable flex on ankle strap.
Unknown: Toe and ankle strap comfort. Compatibility w/boots, board and riding style.
2) K2: Auto Ever, Auto Drone or Formula.
Like: Ankle strap hinge, funnel to feed ladder into ratchet, Auto, Forward lean adjustment, Harshmello.
Unknown: Toe and ankle strap comfort. Compatibility w/boots, board and riding style.
3) Ride: Double Agent or SPi.
Like: Customer service, Adjustable flex on ankle strap, toe cap strap seems like it would hold well and be comfortable.
Unknown: Toe and ankle strap comfort. Compatibility w/boots, board and riding style.
A few questions:
1) Does anyone have any firsthand knowledge of how any of these bindings might fit a pair of 09/10 DC Judge boots (sz 11)?
2) I prefer toe cap to over the toe. Which toe strap slips the least/is the most comfortable?
3) Canted footbeds seem to make a ton of sense, but I don't really have a wide stance or knee problems, would I still benefit from them?
4) BOTH zones of the BOA Focus have a cable that runs through and tightens the same area where the top of the ankle bends/where the ankle strap goes (I think I need triple boa focus, lower, upper and ankle lol) and I always experience mild discomfort in this area. Which bindings' ankle straps would be most comfortable?
5) My boots are quite stiff, would a stiffer binding (Targa, Double agent) be too much?
Any other things I should consider, suggestions, advice, feedback etc...would be greatly appreciated!
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