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I love eating avocados.
Whether that's in guacamole, on sandwiches or whatever, I could eat one everyday.
The problem with avocados, however, is they're entirely too hard to keep fresh.
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If the Cubs' season were an avocado, it would already be in the waste can: its tasty talent disappointing far too long for enjoyment.
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[MAQUOKETA, IA] Maquoketa Art Experience welcomes Iowa artists Mary Zeran and Dena Tollefson this October for their group exhibit "Dribs + Daubs: Painters Mary Zeran and Dena Tollefson Explore Nature". Through their work, the two Cedar Rapids artists explore various acts of exploration including scientific, observation, deconstruction, and creation. Each artist employs differing methods and materials in their paintings, but the common link is the innovative approaches to leaving a mark on a surface.
Dena Tollefson's body of work is a unique process she developed called "Daubism". A true colorist, Tollefson individually mixes oil paint and applies "daubs" to the canvas with a palette knife. The largest daubs are applied with a serving spoon, allowing ridges of paint to catch the light and appear to dance as the viewer moves past the painting. Tollefson has exhibited nationally in Texas, New York, California, and Georgia and in galleries throughout eastern Iowa. Her work is part of permanent collections in The Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, St. Luke's Hospital, and The Marion Arts Council.
Mary Zeran's work is seeped with juicy color, organic forms and lots of movement. She uses drips as an expression of rhythm, and motion, translating feelings and sensations into visual form. Pushing the limits of collage, Zeran layers multiple pieces of acetate to create imaginary abstract worlds. Zeran has exhibited nationally at galleries in New York, Seattle, and Los Angeles and in galleries throughout eastern Iowa. Critics from Artweek, The New Art Examiner, and The Seattle Post-Intelligencer have reviewed her work. Her paintings are part of permanent collections with The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The University of Iowa, and The University of Iowa Hospitals. She is a recipient of the Len Everet Scholarship and a graduate of The University of Iowa.
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A Purdue University veterinarian says parents should resist the urge to give live rabbits and chicks as Easter gifts.
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INDEPENDENCE, Mo. (AP) — A former western Missouri pastor has pleaded not guilty to the shooting death of a former parishioner last March.
David Love is charged with first-degree murder and armed criminal action in the death of 42-year-old Randy Stone in Stone's insurance office. He pleaded not guilty to both charges Monday in Jackson County Circuit Court in Independence.
The 50-year-old former pastor left his post at new Hope Baptist Church in Independence in late April. Stone had left the church about two weeks before he was found slain.
Stone's family members have said Stone's wife had been having an affair with Love for several years.
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The board of the Kingdom of Callaway County Fair has made a concertive effort over the past several years to bring a more old-fashioned, family feel to the fair. Part of
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"That's part of our heritage, and we need to keep mules alive here in Callaway County," Linnenbringer said, adding that was why he went to the board four years ago and offered to put the show on if the board would bring it back. "I'm big into mules. I like mules, I raise mules, I show mules."
Judging by the turnout at Tuesday night's show, Linnenbringer's goal to keep the tradition alive was met, with many of the participants sharing his view.
"It's the state animal. You can't have a fair without the state animal," opined Dan Coleman of Millersburg, who until recently owned and operated C MO Mules.
His wife, Marsha, agreed, adding that Missouri, "has a lot of history with mules, especially in Callaway County."
"We just like mules. We trail ride a lot and it's just good family fun," Marsha Coleman said of the couple's love for mules — which includes putting on the mule show at the Boone County Fair.
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With respect to Google Ventures, some of the investments they've made have been in this space, but they typically look at investments as 'let's find the best business opportunities to pursue with the best teams.' Those don't always happen to be in energy. But still, it's tough to ignore energy, being arguably the largest industry in the world. There are certainly opportunities in that space, whether it's a more efficient conversion of power [or] using assets more efficiently, like ride-sharing, or fuels that can be made in almost a carbon-negative way, that can be cost-effective and sustainable.
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This week's song: "
Living in a Rainbow
Following the main song, we are introduced to the cast in the following order: Curtis, Kimee, Jenn, Shaun, and Karla.
pays a visit to Chats. Jenn is feeling very happy and is wearing her "happy clothes" (lots of red) as a result. Unfortunately, her good friend Chats is in a very grumpy mood. Together, they sing a song about those "Grumpy, Bumpy Blues":
(Jenn) You got the grumpy, bumpy blues
You don't know what to do
(Chats) Grumpy, grumpy, bumpy
I don't wanna play
(Jenn) You got the grumpy bumpy blues
You don't know what to do
(Chats) Grumpy, bumpy, bumpy
I wanna go away
(Jenn) You got the grumpy...bumpy...blues.
Jenn then points out the blue scarf Chats is wearing, inquiring if she's wearing it because she's feeling grumpy. However, feeling grumpy, Chats explains, does not make her feeling like wearing anything special; the scarf is simply because she's chilly. They then describe more differences between feeling happy and feeling grumpy. For example, when you're happy you feel like singing and dancing. But when you're grumpy, you don't feel like doing anything at all. Jenn thinks she has a solution to the problem, so she gives Chats a big hug. The hug cures Chats' blues! They sing again about her new "Happy, Zappy Blues":
(Jenn) You got the happy, zappy blues
It's really, really true
(Chats) Happy, happy, zappy
I wanna play all day
(Jenn) You got the happy, zappy blues
It's really, really true
(Chats) Happy, happy, zappy
I wanna sing yeah, yeah
(Jenn) You got the happy....zappy...blues!
explains to us that it's orthodox to blow a kiss goodbye, but perhaps we should try a new way of saying goodbye. She proposes the idea that we should instead give hugs, and she even explains how:
Fling your arms out
Then wrap them about you
And squeeze real tight
Hug yourself with all your might
But why stop there? Perhaps we should give hugs to say hello also:
Fling your arms out
Then wrap them about you
And squeeze real tight
Hug yourself with all your might
explains that his family is very noisy. He'd like to tell us all about his family, but it requires the help from the other members. Each member of Hi-5 is needed to play a member of Curtis' family: Jenn will be his mother, who likes to whistle in the garden; Shaun is his big sister, who sings in the shower; Karla is his little brother, who likes to bang on a drum; Kimee is his dog, who howls all the time. Curtis will of course play himself, and he mentions that he likes to play the keyboard. They all make their respective sounds at once while Curtis explains that his dad likes silence, upon which they all immediately stop making noise (except Shaun, whose reaction to the plea of silence is a little delayed). Curtis suggests that they all use their noisiness to make music, and so they do:
We're a noisy family
We've been making noise for years
But when we play together
It's music to our ears
stands next to a life-size cutout of himself. Before him are different colors, which can stand for his feelings inside:
Yellow when I'm happy
Red for energy
Green brightens up my life
Orange for feeling free
Blue for when I'm feeling calm
I see it in my mind
Pink around my heart for love
Peaceful purple's fine
Colors for my feelings
Very soon you'll see
The multi-colored rainbow
Bright, happy parts of me
He explains that the cutout will act as a blank canvas and proceeds to paint each color, representing its respective feeling, in the appropriate places on the cutout. His head is painted yellow (happiness), legs and feet are red (movement), eyes are green (alertness), arms and hands are orange (freedom), stomach is blue (calmness), heart is pink (love), and everything else is purple (peace).
explains that the way she moves can help explain how she feels:
Jumping jacks when I'm happy
High kicks for energy
Stomping, let my anger show
Spinning, feeling free
Rocking when I'm feeling sad
Sometimes in my heart
Hands across my heart for love
Floating, peace and calm
There are all my feelings
There for you to see
The multi-moving, grooving rainbow
Amazing part of me
reads a story about three flower bulbs, Karla, Kimee, and Shaun. The three bulbs had been sleeping all winter underground in the park to stay warm. However, as it got warmer and summer came, the bulbs grew into beautiful flowers. First up were Karla and Shaun, yellow daffodils who quickly noticed that they were surrounded by other yellow daffodils. A short time later, Kimee grew fully, only her petals were red! She was the only red flower in a field of yellow. Karla and Shaun decided she could spend the night, but would have to find some more red flowers like herself come morning. The next day, a child playing in the park, Jenn, came upon the three flowers. She remarked what a lovely tulip Kimee was, who was glad to finally know what type of flower she was. Jenn said that her red petals enhanced the beauty of the yellow daffodils surrounding her. The three flowers sang about themselves:
Petals bursting out
Smiling at the sun
Daffodils and tulips
Growing one by one
The daffodils accepted the tulip even though she looked different. When summer came to an end, the three went back underground to sleep, anticipating the warmth once again.
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Susan Sontag
Remembering an intellectual heroine.
But even this insecurity had its affirmative side. If she was sometimes a little permissive, launching a trial balloon only to deflate it later (as with her change of heart on the filmic aesthetic of Leni Riefenstahl) this promiscuity was founded in curiosity and liveliness. About 20 years ago, I watched her having an on-stage discussion with Umberto Eco in downtown New York. Eco was a bit galumphing—he declared that his favorite novel was Lolita because he could picture himself in the part of Umberto Umberto. Susan, pressed to define the word "polymath," was both sweet and solemn. "To be a polymath," she declared, "is to be interested in everything—and in nothing else." She was always trying to do too much and square the circle: to stay up late debating and discussing and have the last word, then get a really early night, then stay up reading, and then make an early start. She adored trying new restaurants and new dishes. She couldn't stand affectless or bored or cynical people, of any age. She only ventured into full-length fiction when she was almost 60, and then discovered that she had a whole new life. And she resisted the last malady with terrific force and resource, so that to describe her as life-affirming now seems to me suddenly weak. Anyway—death be not proud.


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Many, young and old alike, may agree with the late comedian George Burns when he said, "The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending, and to have the two as close together as possible."
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While somewhat flawed, totally worth it.blackrose | Nov. 4, 2013 | Review of Lucius steam - PC
Like what the previous commenter said, this theme is sort of like Rosemary's Baby. It's also got a little bit of the omen thrown in for good measure. The best part is, there aren't many games where you intentionally play as the villain, while in this one, you do. You have numerous choices on how to play, you can be subtle, or you can eventually say "forget subtlety" and go on a murderous rampage. The ways to kill are staggering, and, trust me when I say this, not for the faint of heart. A great game that earns a 7.5 out of 10 or, here, 75/100.
An under-rated console portblackrose | Nov. 4, 2013 | Review of Castlevania Lord of the Shadows Ultimate Edition - PC
One of the biggest concerns I've heard is that this game is a bad port, or it having poor graphics. There are accusations of it being copied from a particular series, when the genre has become a stable in general. Any accusations and poor ratings on this front are purely for ignorant reasons. And now I'll head to the main part of my review. The narration is mediocre, and while it does match the setting, it gives away important plot points before they even happen. The voice acting is good, but not great, easily earning around an 8 out of 10. The combat system fluid, and you learn to watch your enemies, find out their tells, and from there, act accordingly. The ability to where it's not just random adds a level of strategy to the game. The biggest boss battles are magnificent, movements of giants and golems are fluid. Now for the kinds of weapon upgrades. You can grapple, ride larger monsters, and it's all needed to progress. If you don't want to miss upgrades, here's a hint. Go to previous areas. In short, the game has a ton of re-playability with all the content it has to offer. This game gets a 9/10 from me.
A game that is pure fun, only half heartedly serious.blackrose | March 28, 2013 | Review of Saints Row The Third - PC
While people rag on this game in comparison to Saints Row 2, it's pure fun. Saints row 2 was all about building back up. In Saints Row the Third, you've had everything stolen from you. So what do you do? You make things a living hell for all who stand in your way. In the game you can destroy gang operations, take part in Professor Genki's Super Ethical Reality Climax (which I must say is a fun way of legal murder in the game), among other activities. There are even secret mini-games you get to play if you're the passenger in multi-player. so just loosen up, and have fun. Remember, this game was not made to be serious. It was made to be completely wacky. And in that, I give it the rating I feel it deserves.
How do I describe it without sounding completely insane?blackrose | March 28, 2013 | Review of Just Cause 2 - PC
I could tell a joke about the name. But it's obviously been done before, so we'll put that behind us. Just Cause 2 is definitely one of those guilty pleasure games where you enjoy conspiracies and blowing stuff up. In fact, the whole point of the game is to destroy the infrastructure, take down facilities, and create instability. Rico is a fun character to play as, but I can't help but wonder where he stores all his parachutes, especially considering he can just grapple into the ground when in range and not have a scratch on him. The game breaks physics in so many ways, but that's the fun of it. This game is not made to be played seriously. It's meant to be enjoyed and to have some utter explosive fun. Wanna grapple a government solder from a rooftop to your chopper and dangle him? You can do that. Wanna send him into the sky with a gas canister (the tubular kind)? You can do it as well. Like I stated, the physics engine is completely broken and it's fun to abuse it. The game is also easy to mod, so enjoy.
It's got action and a fear aspect down, nothing else.blackrose | March 28, 2013 | Review of Resident Evil 5 - PC
Resident Evil has always been among my favorite franchises. Survival and horror go hand in hand in the series. Resident Evil 5 follows the events of Resident Evil 4, and the Las Plagas parasite has entered the bio-weapons black market. Resident Evil 4 was a good game with a good way to handle your inventory. Resident Evil 5 is a step backwards. You can't do that anymore. Now instead of being able to re-arrange your inventory, you're restricted to 9 inventory slots per character. It also doesn't have the same feel of urgency as its predecessors. None-the-less, withstanding its flaws (and yes, there are many), I played through it. It's still crafted well. There are still moments where you are surprised, but others that seem like a cop-out. Even still, I enjoyed this game. Best played in multi-player, by far.
A fantastic game, with a few drawbacks.blackrose | March 26, 2013 | Review of The Elder Scrolls V Skyrim Nexway (1) - PC
I pre-ordered the game on steam and played it upon release. It blew me away. Beautiful, well crafted, and a lot of fun. But slowly, I started to realize there were some interesting bugs. floating mammoths, being rocketed upwards by giants, and even problems with some quests. To this day, you still have to put effort into getting past bugs, even with the modding tools. Never-the-less it is still a good game. The main storyline is a tad short, but that makes room for all the side quests. I made a character that was a Nightingale, Dark Brotherhood Listener, Companion, as well as other things. The very fact you can make any kind of character you want is a staple in any Elder Scrolls game. The only reduction from a 100 score from me is the bugs. Blatant and difficult to fix at times. But they can be funny as well. If you can stand working around bugs, then this is DEFINITELY a game worth checking out.


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The Colorado Public Utilities Commission yesterday approved a request from the Kansas City-based utility to raise rates two-point-two percent, effective next month.
Company officials say residential customers should see an average increase of one-dollar-76-cents per month. Small businesses
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U.S. prices of fertilizer nutrients began to rise steadily in 2002 and increased sharply to historic highs in 2008 due to the combined effects of a number of domestic and global long- and shortrun supply and demand factors. From 2007 to 2008, spring nitrogen prices increased by a third, phosphate prices nearly doubled, and potash prices doubled. The price spike in 2008 reflects low inventories at the beginning of 2008 combined with the inability of the U.S. fertilizer industry to quickly adjust to surging demand or sharp declines in international supply. Declining fertilizer demand, disruption in fall applications, increased fertilizer imports (July to August), and tightening credit markets for fertilizer purchases contributed to the decline of fertilizer prices in late 2008. The prospect for strong fertilizer demand in early 2009, high raw material costs for the manufacture of fertilizers, production cutbacks, and decreasing supplies from fertilizer imports, however, could put upward pressure on U.S. fertilizer prices in spring 2009.
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May 4, 2016
We spoke to both congressmen representing our area Friday about their thoughts on President Obama's tax hike proposal for the wealthy.
Democrat U.S. Representative G.K. Butterfield said he hopes the democrats in the senate will restore the middle class tax cut. He and republican U.S. Representative Walter Jones say they plan to work together to steer the country away from potential economic disaster by finding some kind of compromise between both parties.
"The American people spoke very loudly in this election. They have accepted a divided congress, and that tells me that what the American people want is a spirit of compromise. They want some of the democrat ideas and some of the republican ideas, and that's why we are willing to have that conversation." said G.K. Butterfield,
(D-NC) U.S. Representative.
"I think everything has to be on the table. I do not think you can fix the complex issues facing our country unless you put everything on the table," said Walter Jones, (R-NC) U.S. Representative
Butterfield and Jones say they are optimistic a compromise will be reached before Christmas.
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In addition, the estimated impact of the revised accounting policies for fiscal year 2013 on deferred rent is subject to significant variability depending on the number of new restaurants opened in fiscal year 2013, the terms of future leases, the timing of when the Company takes effective control of the properties and the length of actual construction periods for those restaurants. The projected impact of the deferred rent adjustments for the periods presented above is split approximately 65/35 between pre-opening expenses and occupancy expenses. Further, for purposes of the deferred rent projections included in the table above, the estimated impact of the revised accounting policies on deferred rent for the remainder of fiscal year 2012 and fiscal year 2013 is based on the difference between pre- and post-restatement deferred rent calculations for existing leases adjusted upward for the impacts of estimated increases in rent and preliminary construction timelines for new units. New units include a mix of both already identified units and projected unit openings with an assumed pre-opening deferred rent cost structure similar to recent new unit openings. The total projected impact of the revised accounting policies on deferred rent for fiscal year 2012 includes approximately $350 thousand that is anticipated to negatively impact income before income taxes in the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2012.The annual anticipated interest expense reduction for fiscal years 2013 and beyond from the refinancing is projected to be in the range of approximately $3.5 million to $3.7 million, based on the following assumptions: (1) a rate of 6.25% under the Company's old credit facility as of October 29, 2012 (which contained a 1.50% LIBOR floor) and a rate of approximately 2.50% under the Company's new credit facility (which contains no LIBOR floor); (2) the Company's rent-adjusted debt ratio remaining below 4:1; and (3) average outstanding borrowings of approximately $50.0 million under the Company's new facility versus approximately $74.5 million under the Company's old facility immediately prior to the refinancing. The 390 basis point interest rate savings achieved at the closing of the new facility includes approximately 100 basis points of savings as a result of the elimination of the LIBOR floor from the Company's old facility. Accordingly, to the extent LIBOR increases in the future above 1.50%, the interest savings benefit will decrease by up to 100 basis points. The projected impact of refinancing for fiscal year 2012 is anticipated to be approximately a $600,000 reduction in interest expense less estimated post-closing syndication fees, based on the new financing only being in place for 63 days during the fiscal year.
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INDIANAPOLIS — Lunchtime at the annual agent meeting brought different interpretations of the same message.
The most optimistic was the agent who said he wasn't panicked, that all deals get done at the eleventh hour.
Which leads to problem No. 1 regarding this current NFL labor impasse between owners and players: Identifying the eleventh hour.
"I think March 3 is not even an issue," said Susan Tose Spencer, daughter of former Philadelphia Eagles owner Leonard Tose and the team's top legal counsel and general manager in 1984. "Why would the owners force a collective bargaining agreement so quickly through?"
Spencer hasn't been around the league since her father had to sell the Eagles in 1985 to pay off his enormous party bills. But she kept the Eagles' books and was involved in labor meetings during the NFL's most damaging work stoppage of 1982, when seven games were ultimately canceled from each team's schedule.
For all the predictions that have been made regarding the 2011 lockout, no one believes it will set a record for games canceled. Not when each game seems to set new viewership and revenue records.
Many of the league's coaches and executives who have gathered in the hotel lobbies here believe the deadline is just before the April 28 draft. Their thinking is the nearly 500 free- agent players won't stand to see teams fill their roster spots with rookies.
Some veteran football scribes wonder if the eleventh hour is the last weekend of July, when training camps are supposed to open and owners start squirming about losing preseason game revenues.
I believe the lockout will carry the conversations around the Labor Day grills, otherwise known as the final family moment before the regular season takes over American lives.
Whatever the deadline, it's not 10 p.m. MST Thursday. The noticeable absence of owners during the negotiating sessions last week should have told federal mediator George Cohen that he is wasting his time.
"The leverage the owners have is when there is no bargaining agreement, and the players know there is no bargaining agreement and they start getting nervous," Spencer said. "And what happens when players start getting nervous?"
League business shuts down Thursday night. No free-agent signings. No Kyle Orton trade. The players won't start shaking then, though. Union leader DeMaurice Smith met privately here with player reps and board members, including Broncos safety Brian Dawkins, Friday. The team leaders were told to constantly stay in touch with their teammates during the likely lockout.
"Solidarity into September" should be the players' mantra. Better believe the owners will test that bond. One agent said during the meeting intermission that during the Cohen mediation sessions, the union made one proposal, and the owner-absent management committee said no. The union made another proposal, and management said no.
When did Jerry Reinsdorf, the hawkish Chicago White Sox owner during the dastardly baseball work stoppage of 1994-95, take charge of NFL labor negotiations? Actually, Reinsdorf is heading the owners' labor committee. Only now he's named Jerry Richardson, owner of Broncos coach John Fox's former team, the Carolina Panthers.
"Richardson is an odd pick to be one of the two they have to represent the owners," Spencer said. "He's a hothead. There are a lot of others in the league who are not. But they picked him. That says something about their tactics."
The Broncos' Pat Bowlen is the other co-chairman of the owners' labor committee. He and the other 31 owners are taking the strong-arm tactic of refusing to negotiate. Give us $1 billion back, the owners are saying now to the players, and you play two more games, and we have a deal.
Otherwise, no deal.
This is a game the players can't win; they can only hope they lose by a touchdown. If the players took the owners' proposal as it's typed now, the defeat would be equivalent to the 59-14 home whipping the Josh McDaniels-led Broncos took from the rival Oakland Raiders in October.
"Maybe they lose a game," Spencer said. "But they won't lose the whole season. The players will never allow it."
Hey, who besides Tim Tebow and the Broncos' new coaching staff needs minicamps, anyway?


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Life is a cabaret, old sport, or maybe halftime at the Super Bowl in Baz Luhrmann's overhyped and overheated 3-D adaptation of "The Great Gatsby" — the fifth time Hollywood has taken on the 1925 F. Scott Fitzgerald novel that many consider the greatest novel in the American language.
Luhrmann eschews the exclamation point that punctuated the title of his last musical extravaganza, "Moulin Rouge!" and soberly frames Fitzgerald's tale of lost love, megalomaniacal longing, and mad excess as Nick Carraway's report from a sanitarium, a strategy that not only positions the movie as heir to "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" but enables the director to quote large chunks of the novel, either through Toby Maguire's doleful voiceover or, occasionally, spelled out literally on the screen.
Still, subtitles notwithstanding, there's scarcely a moment of down time. Luhrmann's "Gatsby" bursts with inane vitality; the scenario is scored for rickety roller coaster and wacky slide trombone. Flaunting his trademark ballistic swoop or free-fall camera plunge at every opportunity, Luhrmann avails himself of digital magic to stage drag races across the Queensboro Bridge (feeling groovy?) and fill the screen with anachronistic Busby Berkeley cum Club 54 hip-hoppity Charleston displays.
The effect of these elaborate musical numbers is not unlike the "The Ethel Merman Disco Album," which, in its bombastic conflation of the archaic and the trendy, would not be out of place in Luhrmann's vision of New York as Jazz Age Disneyland. A Josephine Baker clone cavorts center stage at every party and there's a miniature Cotton Club on every block. Even a trippy mid-afternoon bootleg gin and flapper orgy is serenaded by a frantic black trumpeter on a neighboring fire escape. Gatsby's mansion seems modeled on Cinderella's Castle. How can Daisy (played with calculated banality by Carey Mulligan) ever hope to compete?
Rather than trash Fitzgerald, Luhrmann is bizarrely reverent — treating "Gatsby" as though it were the Epic of Gilgamesh. Indeed, he bludgeons Fitzgerald's hardly subtle symbols (the green light on Daisy's dock, the giant eyes of central Queens) so relentlessly he might be starting a new religion. Leonardo DiCaprio's Gatsby is introduced with a blast of "Rhapsody in Blue" and is regularly framed against the cosmos. DiCaprio himself seems to be channeling Robert Redford, who played the role in the disastrous 1974 version of the movie — although he brings a welcome sense of irony to the part. This vaguely comic performance enables DiCaprio to complete the American Dreamer triptych he initiated with turns as Howard Hughes and J. Edgar Hoover.
There's also 3-D, with enough high angles to keep the process interesting, even when Luhrmann isn't showering the audience with fusillades of glitter and confetti. Credit where due: Luhrmann does adequately handle the big third-act hotel room confrontation involving Gatsby and Tom (Joel Edgerton). But, as if embarrassed by letting his actors act, he immediately blows the movie's human dimension sky high in the car crash that follows. Not only shown in slow motion, the catastrophe is needlessly reprised.
Does Baz Luhrmann dream of making Ken Russell seem as restrained as Robert Bresson? (Do androids dream of electric sheep?) Subtlety is not a concept but giddy as it is, "The Great Gatsby" lacks the lunatic excess of "Moulin Rouge!" There's nothing here to compare with the latter's absinthe vision of Tinkerbell or Jim Broadbent's prancing version of "Like a Virgin." Searching for real depth, Luhrmann ends the movie by demurely quoting "Sunset Boulevard." This "Gatsby" is beyond vulgar but, unfortunately, not far enough.


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Tax alternatives in the United States
November 1, 2006, 7:33 pm
It is worthwhile to briefly consider tax types that are not currently important in the U.S. because these mechanisms are used in other countries or are central in various proposals to reform the U.S. tax system. We summarize five tax types here:
- National sales tax. This would function similar to a state sales tax – as an addition to the retail price of certain products. A national sales tax would clearly be simpler and cheaper to administer than the current federal income tax. It would also encourage savings because, under most proposals, income that is not spent on taxable goods and services is not taxed. There are, however, two significant disadvantages to a national sales tax. First, it would create an incentive for black market exchanges to evade the tax. Second, it can be highly regressive – similar to the regressivity of state sales taxes. A national sales tax could be made less regressive, or even progressive, by providing rebates for low-income households. Eligible households could complete a form at the end of the year to determine their rebate amount.
- National consumption tax. This is slightly different from a national sales tax. A household would pay the tax at the end of the year based on the value of its annual consumption of goods and services. Rather than having a household keep track of everything purchased, consumption can be calculated as total income less money not spent on goods and services (i.e., invested or saved). Again, a consumption tax would promote savings by exempting it from taxation. A consumption tax could also be designed to be progressive by taxing different levels of consumption at different marginal rates.
- Value added tax. Most developed countries levy some form of value added tax (VAT). A VAT is levied at each stage in the production process of a product, collected from manufacturers according to the value added at each stage. Thus, the tax is not added to the retail price but incorporated into the price of the product, similar to the way excise taxes become embedded into the price of products. Compared to a national sales tax, a VAT reduces the likelihood of black markets.
- Wealth taxes. While the U.S. tax system includes local property taxes and, at least for a while, estate taxes, there is no tax on holdings of other assets such as corporate stocks, bonds, and personal property. Several European countries, including Sweden, Spain, and Switzerland, have instituted an annual wealth tax. A wealth tax could be very progressive by setting high rates and becoming effective only at significant wealth levels.
- Environmental taxes. These are levied on goods and services in proportion to their environmental impact. One example is a carbon tax, which taxes products based on the emissions of carbon attributable to their production or consumption. The rationale of environmental taxation is that it encourages the use and development of goods and services with reduced environmental impacts. Like other taxes on goods and services, environmental taxes can be regressive – suggesting that environmental taxes need to be combined with other progressive taxes or rebates for low-income households. Among developed countries, the U.S. collects the smallest share of tax revenues from environmental taxes.
Further Reading
- Global Development And Environment Institute, Tufts University
CitationRoach, B. (2006). Tax alternatives in the United States. Retrieved from http://www.eoearth.org/view/article/156424
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