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We levy the Local Business Tax for the privilege of doing business in Jacksonville/Duval County (in accordance with Florida Statutes, Chapter 205). Local Business Tax Receipts are valid for one year, starting October 1st and expiring September 30th of the following year. Receipts not renewed by September 30th are delinquent and subject to applicable penalties. Additionally, any person who does not pay the required Local Business Tax within 150 days after the initial notice of tax due, and who does not obtain the required Local Business Tax Receipt is subject to civil actions and penalties.
Any person doing business in Jacksonville/Duval County must obtain a Local Business Tax Receipt. Any businesses located in another municipality in Duval County are required to obtain a city Business Tax Receipt from that municipality where the business is located, in addition to paying the county tax for Duval County. Any person who provides merchandise, entertainment, or services to the public, even if only a one-person company or home-based business, must obtain a Local Business Tax Receipt before starting to operate.
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Local Business Taxes vary depending on the nature of business. The number of employees, equipment and seating capacity are a few variables that factor into the amount of tax due. A receipt is required for each place of business and for each separate classification at the same location. Receipts are transferable when there is a change of ownership, business location or trade name. A personal receipt is not transferable to another individual.
You must apply for new Local Business Tax Receipts in person at our downtown office, 231 E Forsyth St. Suite 130 (see map on our website at
Before we issue a Local Business Tax Receipt, a business must meet all required conditions. Supporting documentation should include Corporation registration information, and/or Fictitious Name registration, State License for the profession (if any), Picture ID, Social Security Number or Employer Identification Number. At that time we determine the proper classification of your business, enter your information directly in to the system, and charge the appropriate amount of tax. We do not require a formal application, nor do we accept online applications.
The renewal period for Local Business Taxes starts July 1st and runs through September 30th. We mail the Local Business Tax renewal applications in June as a courtesy reminder to allow time for processing payments, printing, and mailing renewed Receipts. New businesses may pay taxes any time during the fiscal year. We prorate the business tax beginning April 1st, at which time half-year rates apply.
It is the Receipt holder's responsibility to renew before the expiration date to avoid penalties. You may renew your Local Business Tax Receipt by mail,
, or in person at any Duval County Tax Collector's branch office. Click on the link to find the nearest
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: You must have your current renewal notice without any changes).
Should a business fail to pay their Local Business Tax, the Tax Collector may notify the State Attorney's office to enforce payment of the tax. F.S. 205.053(3) provides any business owner who does not pay the required Local Business Tax within 150 days after the initial notice of tax due, and who does not obtain the required Receipt is subject to civil actions and penalties, including court costs, reasonable attorney's fees, additional administrative costs incurred as a result of collection efforts and an additional penalty of up to $250.
A business using a fictitious name must submit a copy of the current Certificate of Registration; those using a corporate name must submit a copy of the corporation current Certificate of Status from the State of Florida. The state now requires you advertise all new business names. Contact the state for more information.
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Before you conduct business from your home, you must execute a disclosure statement with the Building and Zoning Department. There are certain restrictions to businesses conducted out of your home.
Professionals and businesses, such as physicians, engineers, real estate firms, mortgage brokers, restaurants, etc., must submit current State Certificates when applying for a new Local Business Tax Receipt. State information: 850-487-1395. The Local Business Tax is due for any state licensed professional engaging in the practice for that profession. This does not relieve the requirement of paying the Local Business Tax for the business being operated.
All businesses dealing with food must have a permit from the Division of Hotels and Restaurants, State Agriculture Department or the State Health Department. State information: (850) 487-1395.
Businesses such as sellers of travel, health studios, telemarketing, dance studios, pawn shops, motor vehicle repair shops and intrastate moving companies are regulated by the Florida Division of Consumer Services. They must show evidence of registration when applying for the Local Business Tax. For questions regarding licensing requirements, contact the Florida Division of Consumer Services at (800) 435-7352 or visit their website at
In addition to a Local Business Tax Receipt, a Building Contractor needs a Current State Certificate issued by the State Construction Industry Board, (850) 487-1395. We collect the Local Business Tax due for a state licensed professional engaging in the practice for that profession. This does not relieve the requirement of paying the Local Business Tax for the business operated.
The State Department of Business and Professional Regulations did away with the Qualifying Business License they issue, merging that requirement with the process of registering the Certified/Registered Contractor.
The requirement to maintain a Local Business Tax for the Qualifying Agent remains unchanged at the local level.
Residents of Duval County who are permanently disabled persons physically incapable of manual labor, widows or widowers with minor dependents and persons sixty-five (65) years of age or older, who use their own capital (not in excess of $1,000) and not more than one employee, or helper, can engage in business without being required to pay the Local Business Tax. Proof of residency is required.
The disabled may be entitled to an exemption, provided they meet certain criteria, including a physician's certification, less than $1,000 of the applicant's capital investment, and not more than one employee or helper in connection with the business or occupation.
The applications for Local Business Tax Exemption are available downtown.
By definition, Business, Occupation, or Profession do not include the customary religious, charitable or educational activities of nonprofit religious, nonprofit charitable and nonprofit educational institutions in the state. No Local Business Tax Receipt shall be required for occasional sales or to engage in fund-raising projects when the projects are performed exclusively in the activities of the organization.
In addition, no Local Business Tax Receipt is required for a charitable, fraternal, youth, civic, service or other organization for fund-raising projects when the projects are performed exclusively by the members and the proceeds are used exclusively in the activities of the organization.
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You must display the Local Business Tax Receipt conspicuously at your place of business and in such a manner as to be open to the view of the public and subject to inspection by all duly authorized officers of the county.
Please notify the Local Business Tax office regarding any changes to the following: business name or ownership, location, number of employees, equipment, machines or any other contingency.
Should you cease doing business, return the Receipt to the Local Business Tax office so your name may be removed from the file.
Any business that sells or deals in alcohol/tobacco must obtain a certificate from the Division of Alcoholic Beverages and Tobacco at (904) 727-5550.
Business owners are required to pay tangible personal property tax. For information, contact the Property Appraiser at (904) 630-1964.
Owners of hotels, motels, rooming houses, and similar transient rental properties are required to contact the Tourist Development Tax Section. Those businesses that sell gas, fuel oil, propane, water and electric are required to contact the Public Service Tax Section. You may reach both sections at (904) 630-2022.
Refer to your Receipt number whenever you contact the Local Business Tax office. For further information, please contact: (904) 630-1916 option 3.
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Damien Thigpen also ran for a touchdown for the Bruins (6-2, 3-2 Pac-12), who rebounded from road defeats at Stanford and Oregon despite a sluggish start in their homecoming game.
Fuller caught a 76-yard TD pass for the Bruins' first score and added a rushing TD with 3:36 to play. Hundley passed for 273 yards and scored on runs of 11 and 1 yards while moving into third place on UCLA's career total yardage list.
Sefo Liufau passed for 247 yards for the Buffaloes (3-5, 0-5), who have lost 13 consecutive Pac-12 games.
Colorado hasn't beaten a ranked team on the road in 21 tries since 2002.
The Bruins won despite 11 penalties for 122 yards, steadily pulling away from Colorado with solid defense and just enough playmaking from Hundley, their sophomore quarterback. Hundley finished with 345 total yards, passing Tom Ramsey and Cory Paus on UCLA's career yardage list in just his 22nd game with the Bruins.
Christian Powell rushed for 97 yards, Tony Jones rushed for a score, and Will Oliver kicked three field goals for the Buffs. Paul Richardson shook off an injury to catch eight passes for 81 yards and a touchdown.
Back home, UCLA's defense got some help from the offense against Colorado. The Bruins have outscored their opponents 199-66 in four victories at the Rose Bowl this season.
After opening the game with two fruitless drives, UCLA's offense had a yardage-losing play to open its third drive. On the next play, Hundley delivered his long strike down the middle to Fuller, who caught the ball in heavy coverage and kept his feet for a score - the longest pass in the careers of both Hundley and Fuller.
Colorado went back ahead in the second quarter with a 76-yard drive ending in Liufau's TD pass to Richardson, but the Bruins responded with another strong drive capped by Hundley's 11-yard TD run up the middle.
UCLA's Cameron Judge then forced a fumble on Colorado's ensuing kickoff return, and Hundley hit Fuller for a 6-yard TD catch capped by a pirouette at the goal line for an 11-point lead.
Colorado trailed 21-13 at halftime despite possessing the ball for more than 20 minutes and outgaining the Bruins, who committed 75 yards of penalties in the first half.
Hundley and Thigpen scored in the third quarter, and Fuller added his short TD run with 3:36 to play.
The Bruins played without injured linebacker Eric Kendricks, and tailback Jordon James returned from a three-game injury absence with just 8 yards on six rushing attempts.
Colorado began the afternoon with a promising victory, winning the opening coin toss for the first time in eight games this season.

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Bringing High Finance into Disrepute… yet again
I'd like to know about the role of speculation because the man in the street is being affected by what goes on in the world of high finance. A few greedy mortgage lenders in the US make a fast buck, the idea catches on, clever quants then repackage the loans, pass them on to all and sundry, at every stage people in expensive suits take out a nice profit, thank you very much. Next thing you know we are in a recession, all lending dries up, and house prices fall. It will be pretty disgusting if it turns out that those people in the expensive suits are to blame for the oil price rise as well.
Next thing you know, the banks will be telling us that all those investments that they've written down to zero over the last few months have value after all! "Sorry, man in the street, the crisis was all a false alarm. Your house price has just collapsed and you owe more that it's worth? Never mind, I'll buy you a beer with the big fat bonus I've just got from the windfall CDO profit!"


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• Choose menu items that are designated "healthier".
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• Skip the bread and butter or chips and dip offered before your meal arrives. Bring fresh fruits or veggies that your child can snack on while waiting for the meal to be served.
• Keep it colorful. "I need to find a rainbow on my plate" says ASU Associate Professor Leigh Small, Ph.D. "It's not only exiting for kids, but the color comes from fruits and veggies and gives them the variety they need."
• Choose fresh fruits instead of those canned in syrups.
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The Royal Bank of Scotland's investment banking business is making cuts to its technology budgets and forcing contractors to take holidays as it identifies areas where savings can be made.
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An internal RBS e-mail which was leaked to the BBC revealed 11 areas where there is an "opportunity to reduce spend".
The e-mail from CFO Chris Kyle said the investment unit needs to cut more costs. "As we head into the last quarter, there is a current need to further tighten and minimise the rate of spend on non-staff costs. The cost category governance forum has highlighted areas of opportunity to reduce spend," it read.
The bank said there will be a freeze on hardware and software spending for the rest of the year and approval for spending will have to be made by senior executives.
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From the Archives: Commonweal on John F. Kennedy
November 22 marks the fiftieth anniversary of John F. Kennedy's assassination in Dallas. Commonweal followed, with understandable interest, the career of Kennedy from his time in the U.S. Senate through his shortened term as president, as well as his legacy and the political and legal response to his murder. Through editorials, essays, and articles, the magazine covered Kennedy from a range of vantages and viewpoints. Appearing below are links to (and excerpts from) some featured stories from our archives.
In March 1959, the editors of Commonweal collected in a single article "significant excerpts from opinion in the Catholic press on Senator Kennedy's remarks" regarding the relationship of church and state, as well as the full text of his famous statement to Look magazine ("Senator Kennedy and His Critics" [.pdf]). The compendium includes commentary from America, The Catholic Messenger (of Davenport, Iowa), The Catholic Review (Baltimore), The St. Louis Review, and other publications.
A month later, John Cogley had this to say in "A Catholic for President?" [.pdf] (Cogley himself was later a presidential campaign adviser for Kennedy):
The day will come when our perennial discussions about whether a Catholic is qualified to be President will seem somewhat primitive. Of that I am convinced. For I am persuaded that the American Constitutional system is so carefully structured that the difficulties propounded in the present controversy are actually meaningless….
John F. Kennedy is no Al Smith. He is much closer to the enduring image of the President than the self-made man who grew up on the East Side of New York, had a scanty parochial school education, and wore a brown derby. Kennedy is the American Catholic arrivé. He attended private schools (none of them Catholic), great secular universities and has a blue-ribbon social background. … The stereotype of the Irish Catholic politician, the pugnacious, priest-ridden representative of an embittered, embattled minority, simply does not fit the poised, urbane, cosmopolitan young socialite from Harvard.
Days before the election in 1960, associate editor James Finn wrote on the mistaken belief that the candidates for the presidency exhibited no notable differences. From "The Difference to Me" [.pdf]:
By the time election day arrives one of the hardiest myths of the 1960 Presidential campaign—that there are no differences between the candidates—may, mercifully, have been laid to rest. There are already strong signs that it is dying. This article is written to help it on its way. …
A major difference, exists in what may be described as the "style" of the candidates. One gauge of Kennedy's style is the manner in which he dealt with the religious issue and the way he has buried all discussion about youth and an alleged lack of experience. Kennedy met the questions concerning his religion directly and head-on. All substantive questions that could legitimately be asked he answered unequivocally, and many questions that are irrelevant. After the first T.V. debate between the Vice President and the Senator, only scattered partisans thought there was still some political mileage in stressing Kennedy's age and his supposed political inexperience. It was all too evident that he spoke with at least equal authority and that he had an impressive grasp of facts, figures and sundry details. His major fault may well have been that he appealed too little to the emotions.
Nixon, on the other hand, has a quite recognizable and effective style. The "Checkers" speech remains the classic example, but almost any major address will do. Facts and sound information are employed, but they are all too often left behind in a blatant appeal to emotions. In itself this is not necessarily harmful; unfortunately, however, the emotional appeal frequently has little to do with any political issue.
On November 18, 1960, Commonweal's editors penned their first editorial on the Kennedy presidency, "After the Election" [.pdf], in which they laid out their expectations for the new president-elect:
Even while we seek to extend the rights of democracy at home—where we fall noticeably short of the ideal—we must proclaim the ideals of democracy abroad. We must assert and teach that democracy is theoretically and practically superior to Communism and will survive. We must extend our help and influence to the new, revolutionary and untried countries without incurring charges of exploitation and colonialism. We must strengthen those ties which bind us to our Latin neighbors. We must work unceasingly for peace without relinquishing our strongest deterrent—the ability to wage war on at least equal terms. …There is no quarter of the globe that does not feel our influence. We must strive to see that such influence is beneficial and is regarded as beneficial.
James O'Gara, early in 1961, considered the idea of a Catholic president in his reflection, "A Catholic in the White House" [.pdf]:
[This] is why the inauguration of John F. Kennedy was so important to me, as an American and a Catholic. To emerge from second-class citizenship is no small thing: yet I think that is what we have done. And if this event is a memorable one for Catholics, it must be counted even more as a victory for the American idea.
But how strong a victory? Here are the editors writing in 1962, commenting that even after the election would seem to have made the president's religion a "thoroughly dead" issue, there were still "far too many evaluations of the President's conduct as a Catholic during his first year in office," from Catholics and non-Catholics alike [.pdf]:
It comes at least to a simple requirement in charity that we cease reading unworthy motives into the President's positions. Criticism, yes; mind-reading and soul-searching, no. ... The President has given neither Protestants nor Catholics grounds for special praise or blame. We commend him for it.
In the aftermath of the assassination, Commonweal's editors tried to envision Kennedy's legacy even as they tried to make sense of his murder and what it might say about the United States. Articles included a December 1963 editorial on the assassination, a remembrance from Walter Dean Burnham, and, later that year, remarks on the release of the Warren Commission findings.
"It is still not easy, days after the horribly well-aimed shots, to explain why the nation has been so moved by the assassination of John F. Kennedy," the editors wrote in December 1963 [.pdf]:
[I]t is perfectly understandable that many in Washington should still feel a sense of emptiness. That is particularly true of those younger men who came to Washington filled with zest and drive, animated by the aura of youth and vigor which Mr. Kennedy projected so well. But life has to go on; and it will and must go on under the guidance of President Johnson.
In the same month, in "Death of the President" [.pdf] the editors wrote this:
But now the violence and hatred that the President strove so hard to control have struck him down, and we grieve not only for him but for the nation, and for the possibility that his murder was not an isolated act, but rather an expression of the irrational forces eating their way into American life.
Ominous signs of these forces and emotions have grown around us. The repeated threats against the life of Kennedy, Stevenson and Warren; the suggestion by one editor, made jokingly he says, that Warren should not be impeached but hanged; the recent comment by a bitter columnist that one of his lifelong regrets is that the man who tried to kill Roosevelt in 1932 wasn't a better shot; the near assault on Lyndon Johnson by a Texas mob three years ago; the attack on Stevenson in Dallas only last month; the murders of the Birmingham children, the Baltimore postman and Medgar Evers, and the astonishing moral blindness that they illuminated. (One national magazine subtly suggested that the postman's murder might have been warranted because he was allegedly carrying an anti-Christian placard.)
Later that month, Walter Dean Burnham wrote [.pdf] that "as the President's assassination reminded us... individuals make a profound difference in human affairs":
How poignantly that lesson has been etched in our consciousness now! All previous calculations of the future, especially the near and political future, have been swept into oblivion by an assassin's bullet. That bullet killed far more than the physical body of John F. Kennedy.
In January 1964, Joseph F. Menez took up the matter of succession: "Three crucial questions are inseparably linked," he wrote: "The method of nominating the Vice President, the Succession Act of 1947, and what constitutes Presidential "disability" [.pdf].
The Vice Presidency can be said to have emerged from oblivion. This is true not only because the Vice President can succeed to the Presidency -- as eight have in our history -- but also because the Vice President is sorely needed by the President to lessen the strain of the toughest job in the world. Since 1949 ... when Congress made the Vice President a statutory member of the National Security Council ... the Vice President has played an increasing role in the formation of policy. The success of this development paid off in the smoothness with which President Johnson assumed office, a contrast with the confusion when Truman became President in 1945. Mr. Truman, who did not learn about the existence of the Atomic Bomb until sometime after taking the oath of office, described his accession this way: "[L]ast night the whole weight of the moon and stars fell on me."
And later that year, the editors commented on the release of the Warren Report: "If one wants the truth about man's capacity for revolting crimes and how our system fertilizes the ground for assassination, the Warren Report does not provide it" [.pdf]:
The nation knows better what it knew all along -- that a deranged man can do deranged things... The nation also knows that hatred combined with violence can lead to disastrous results. But if the people did not know that before the assassination, they are not likely to know it much better now; anyway, men forget. The consistent thing about Original Sin is that it is so unimaginative, ever satisfied with repeating itself. President Kennedy tried to establish a new frontier. What he needed, but was not given, was a new humanity.
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Eberly To Head New Golf Programs
Eastern Mennonite University has announced the hiring of Wendell Eberly as the school's first-ever head golf coach. Eberly, also an alumnus and former women's basketball coach, will head both the men's and women's golf teams at EMU, both of which will be a varsity sport for the first time this fall. He recently retired from a position with Rockingham County, spending more than ...More


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Grammy-nominated sitar player and composer Anoushka Shankar today releases her 7th album, Traces of You. Inspired by the loss of her father (Ravi Shankar) and the birth of her son, her album explores the full breadth of the human experience with moving grace.
Also joining Anoushka on the project are multi-award-winning musician Nitin Sawhney on production and half-sister Norah Jones on vocals. Below, catch the video for the title track with Norah!
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Wearing a professional watch like a Breitling Navitimer is a delicate straddle between formal and rugged wear. Generally, wearing big, bulky watches to the boardroom is like wearing a tee to a formal evening gala. But the Breitling Navitimer, although in every aspect bulky and full of overwhelming features like a self-winding chronograph, triple-dial functions and the Manufacture Caliber 01, is just as elegant as the best dress watch. The numerals are laid out neatly against a deep classy brown backdrop. The lines are streamlined and at most fashioned in orderly symmetry. The bronze dial only adds to the elegance of this watch. Likewise, the stainless steel bracelet pulls this watch towards a more chic and graceful attire than a casual everyday getup.
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Unattended child found in Towson motel
Panic at the Welcome Inn in Towson as police converged on a building full of children for reports of an injured one left alone in a ground floor unit.
"I came outside and there was like 15 cop cars and everybody was running around in the downstairs building and then somebody said that there was a little baby left in there all by himself and they couldn't find his parents," said Jessica Redman, a mother of two in a neighboring unit.
"I saw the ambulance so I thought maybe something was wrong with one of the parents," added Tanisha Carter who lives across the hall, "I wasn't thinking about the child. I wasn't thinking about the kids."
According to police, neither were the child's parents.
Suspecting something out of the ordinary, management had sent a maintenance man with a key to check on the unit and he discovered a young boy left on his own.
"When officers arrived on the scene, they found a 6-year old male at the location all by himself," said Cpl. John Wachter of the Baltimore County Police Department. "The male was transported to an area hospital to be evaluated, and detectives from our Crimes Against Children Unit as well as the Department of Social Services are conducting an investigation."
Investigators now believe the parents had left the child unsupervised for two to five hours, and they have not disclosed where they spent that time, but it appears the law is clear in this case.
"In the state of Maryland, if you are under 8 years old, you cannot be some somewhere by yourself," said Wachter, "This child should not have been in this room by himself."
In the court of public opinion, the many parents who also make a home at the motel, where the parents disappeared to comes second to the fate of the young boy they left behind.
"I can imagine he's scared. He's sitting in there. I don't know where his parents went. He shouldn't have been by himself, but I can imagine he's sitting in there. He wants his parents and he hears the door... strange people walk in. He sees all the cops you know. I'm sure he's terrified," said Redman.
Parents we spoke with say they occasionally saw children coming and going from the unit, but rarely saw the parents.
They added it was not unusual to hear a young child crying for extended periods from behind closed doors.


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When sychronising, all the emails i moved to archive on my pc disappear from my Galaxy S3 inbox. I had a Blackberry previously and it would retain all emails received for a set period, 4 weeks in my case, regardless of what i did on the pc. Is there anyway to set the Galaxy S3 to retain all incoming emails ?
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Reading it again: The way you speak of synchronizing, you probably use IMAP. So if you move mails out of one folder on one client, this gets synced to the other clients as well.
If the archive is a local folder, you will thus not find them on your S3 anymore (as for this client, the mails simply got "deleted"). But if it's a subfolder on the IMAP server, you simply need to locate this folder on your SGS3. How this is done, depends on the client used -- so we cannot tell you unless you specify those details requested in the comments.


text: Nov 11, 2012 00:39 No. 19 Louisiana Tech takes explosive offense to Texas State No. 19 Louisiana Tech takes explosive offense to Texas State In this Nov. 3, 2012 photo, Louisana Tech's Kenneth Dixon (28) runs against Texas-San Antonio during an NCAA college football game at Joe Aillet Stadium in Ruston, La. (AP Photo/The El Dorado News-Times, Michael Orrell) MANDATORY CREDIT RAUL DOMINGUEZ| Associated Press Nov. 9, 2012; 9:51 p.m. Comments SAN MARCOS, Texas — Records have been falling all season for No. 19 Louisiana Tech, and more could fall this week. The Bulldogs travel to San Marcos to face Western Athletic Conference newcomer Texas State on Saturday night. Already off to the best start in school history, Louisiana Tech (8-1, 3-0) will face a Bobcats team that has lost two straight since opening the WAC schedule with a victory over Idaho. Picking up that second victory against the reigning conference champion will be difficult. "We wanted FBS football and we got it," Texas State coach Dennis Franchione said. "Louisiana Tech comes to town and they are the real deal. (They are a) fantastic offensive team. They score a lot of points. I hope our fans turn out and want to see this kind of football. Hopefully we'll play as well as we can and make it into a good, festive evening in our own stadium." Louisiana Tech is averaging 52.4 points and 570 yards per game. The Bulldogs' only loss was a 59-57 shootout against No. 15 Texas A&M on Oct. 13. Freshman running back Kenneth Dixon is already the school's single-season leader in rushing touchdowns (20) and needs only one more to tie the NCAA freshman record set by Marshall Faulk (San Diego State) in 1991 and matched by Virginia Tech's Ryan Williams in 2009. "It's been amazing," Louisiana Tech receiver Quinton Patton said. "The sky's the limit for him. When I first saw him out on the field when he came out for practice, he was always trying to shake and bake and everything, and I told him, 'You're too big to be doing that shaking stuff . just run through people, run over them.' And you've seen where it's gotten him." Dixon is tied for first in the nation in scoring (13.33 points per game) with Oregon's Kenjon Barner. He is averaging 100.9 yards rushing per game. Texas State's defense has allowed 32 touchdowns this season and opponents are averaging 202.8 yards rushing. The Bobcats (3-5, 1-2) can't focus only on Dixon, however. Bulldogs quarterback Colby Cameron is averaging 327.3 yards per game and thrown 24 touchdown passes. He passed for 348 yards and three touchdowns in a 51-27 win over UTSA last week — the seventh 300-yard game of his career, tying him with NFL Hall of Famer Terry Bradshaw for fourth on the school's all-time list. "I had no clue about records," Cameron said. "It's pretty unbelievable to be mentioned in the same category as Terry Bradshaw. It's pretty cool." Cameron has not thrown an interception in 358 attempts, but Franchione predicts that streak will stop Saturday. "I'll bet you we get one (an interception)," Franchione said. "Craig Mager or somebody (will get one). We seem to find a way to hang in there on those kinds of odds. We've made some interceptions that have been from some darn good football plays, especially by Craig and Darryl (Morris)." Get The Advocate in your inbox Subscribe


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The No. 1 ranked UCLA women's golf team finished the second round of the Pac-10 Championship in 4th place, which puts them 11 strokes back of the leader. Individually, sophomore Tiffany Lua ended the day tied for the lead after shooting a second round score of 72 (E).
The Bruins shot a 300 (+12) for their round to give them a total score of 584 (+8). The USC Trojans are currently in the lead after posting a 291 (+3) for their round to give them a total of 573 (-3). Right now the Trojans are leading by 7 strokes over Stanford and Arizona, who are tied for 2nd at 580 (+4). Rounding out the top 5 is Cal, who shot 295 (+7) to give them a score of 588 (+12). The real winner today though was Karsten Golf Course, as no team and only four individuals posted a round under par.
Lua finished her round in a tie for first place with USC's Sophia Popov after shooting a second round 72 (E) to give her a total score of 140 (-4). Both competitors currently hold a one stroke lead over second place Cyna Rodriguez of USC. As for the rest of the Bruins, junior Stephanie Kono, senior Glory Yang and freshman Ani Gulugian each posted second round scores of 76 (+4). Kono tied for 15th place at 147 (+3), Yang tied for 18th place at 148 (+4), and Gulugian finished in 25th place at 150 (+6). Finally, sophomore Lee Lopez shot 79 (+7) for her round to finish tied for 29th place at 152 (+8).
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Friday, June 1, 2012
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Report Finds Proposed Increase to Electricity Prices Will Not Solve Texas's Power Needs Sierra Club Says Energy Efficiency, Clean Energy and Other Options Still Better for Texans
Austin, TX -- Today, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) released a report by the Brattle Group looking at investment possibilities for new electrical generation in Texas. The report explains the effects of ERCOT proposed changes to the structure of the Texas energy market, as well as additional policy options. Some of the changes that ERCOT and the Public Utility Council (PUC) have been considering include raising the maximum price that a generator can bid for one megawatt hour of energy from $3,000 to as much as $9,000. 1 megawatt hour is enough energy to power about 1000 homes for one hour. The plan has drawn harsh criticism from some strange bedfellows, including the Sierra Club, the Cities of Austin and Houston, the Office of Public Utility Council, a coalition of retail electric providers, large industrial customers and the South Texas Electric Cooperative. These groups and cities have all publicly opposed a plan by the Public Utility Commission (PUC) to allow electric power producers to raise the cost of energy beginning in August. The PUC see these price hikes as a method to spur more electrical generation from natural gas and coal-fired power plants.
"Texans shouldn't take the bait, this is worst possible time to put an extra burden on our families' wallets," said Cyrus Reed, Conservation Director of the Lone Star Chapter of the Sierra Club. "Instead of using our money to build more coal and gas plants, the PUC should implement their rules proposed to raise energy efficiency goals, goals which will reduce the demand for electricity and decrease our electric bills. It's also time they start investing in the future of the Texas economy and approve rules that would require at least 500 MWs (about 400,000 homes worth) of renewable energy from resources other than wind be installed by 2015."
In comments submitted last month to the Public Utility Commission (PUC), the Lone Star Chapter of the Sierra Club told the Commission to choose faster, easier, and more cost-effective options. The proposal by PUC to raise the maximum bid from $3,000 up to $9,000 for one megawatt hour could put the squeeze on the average Texan's wallet, costing a household an additional $480 a year in electricity cost. An independent analysis performed on behalf of ERCOT found that raising the maximum cost of one megawatt to $4,500 would raise overall electricity prices by some $15 per month on the average homeowner's bill, while PUC's second proposal to raise the maximum bid to $9,000 by 2015 could raise overall prices by $40 dollars on the average bill.
"Today's Brattle Group report provides some important information about market prices, investments and generation, but it fails to adequately look at low-cost solutions that are already on the books," said Reed. "Energy efficiency programs, the potential for 1,000 of megawatts of demand response (alternative ways to meet our electricity demand), and ways to promote clean energy like solar are ways we can ensure the lights stay on while reducing the cost to working Texas families."
The Brattle Group reports found that even if the price caps were raised to $9,000 per megawatt hour, there would not be enough power added to the energy market to ensure we have the electricity we need in a crisis. This concept, known as a reserve requirement, makes sure that if there is a Hurricane, an extreme heat wave or other energy shortage that Texans can keep their lights on. . The Brattle Group report does state that the Texas energy market could consider different alternatives to its current form which relies solely on electrical generation to meet energy needs as a way to ensure Texans have enough power in a crisis, or when energy demand is at its highest.
Reed noted that the Commission has proposed a rule to implement legislation that requires certain utilities in Texas to meet 30% of the growth in their electrical demand through energy efficiency programs, and that could potentially reduce electrical demand substantially at peak times, like the middle of a hot Texas afternoon in August.
However, the rule has very tough "cost caps", electricity rates that power companies cannot exceed, which certain utilities like El Paso Electric and Texas-New Mexico Power say are so low they cannot meet the goals required by the legislature. "Let's give the utilities the flexibility they need to meet their demand and energy savings goals for pennies on the dollar rather than raise prices at certain times by $1,500 or even $6,000, raising everyone's electricity bills," said Reed. "Otherwise, this simply looks like a measure to promote building new power plants for the sake of building new power plants. That's not the right solution for Texas."
Reed noted that the Sierra Club has hired a national expert to look at potential ways to save additional energy through these utility programs, and that analysis will be released next week.
A full set of our initial comments can be found at: http://texas.sierraclub.org/press/newsreleases/20120517PUCrateComments.pdf


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- Address: 29 Zizhuyuan Road, Beijing 100089, China
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Opened in 1987 and refurbished in 2004, Shangri-La Beijing is located the western part of Beijing in Haidian district, with easy access to financial district and Technology Park, State Guest House and historical Summer Palace.
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Occupy Wall Street and Occupy the Fed: Two Sides of the Same Coin
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The OWS crowd is here to stay. The dollar will no longer be a safe haven. If you are a silverbug and you are looking to get more at these levels, don't wait to long.
I couldn't agree more GW, but it's more too. It's also about corporations controlling our governments in other ways too like buying off the FDA to not label genetically engineered food, or to keep no limits on additives in food. Even transfats are still legal, and there is no real reason to have them. They can easily be replaced with other fats that do not cause disease, but they have long shelf life, and the corporations like that. It's about the FDA letting out drugs early that kill people. Three different diabetes drugs from the same class were let out one after the other, and each was withdrawn after many deaths. It's about the medical corporations taking over medicine in recent years and massively profiteering off of it. It's about TOO BIG.
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It should probably also be mentioned in your article that along the lines of The Federal Reserve acting as private corporations when it suits them and therefore not subject to these Freedom of Information laws that they are making that argument via their counsel, Mathew Collette -- Justice Department Office of Legal Counsel.
I'm wondering, if I as a citizen or non-government entity was in need of legal counsel, would I be given access to the legal resources of the Justice Department.
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Ok, first we had the TEA Party rising up over a number of individual perceptions. These included the destruction of the Rule of Law by a President and his political party by negating the claims of small, mom and pop, bondholders of Chrysler and General Motors; destruction of the United States Constitution where Congress unilaterally declared that it possessed the right to demand individual American Citizens to purchase a product from a private entity; and that trillions of taxpayer funds were used to benefit political donors in the form of Unions, Banks and Wall Street.
While the origins of the TEA Party were organic, politicians of the Republican Party rushed to place their personal charisma, such as it were, over the mass. Then they worked to divert goals of the TEA Party into personal channels of power, position, and political ambition.
Many believe that the Republicans were successful.
Now we give rise to another protest, again with a number of individual perceptions. These include the demand for jobs, education, direct democracy, removing money from politics, ending the Federal Reserve System, raising minimum wage, and a host of other competing themes.
And again we see Politicians, this time Democrats, rushing to place their personal imprint on the movement in an effort to channel demands to meet political ambition.
Many believe that the Democrats will be successful.
My advice: Avoid Politicians. They serve their own interests, Republican or Democrat, and their interest is to be reelected. To be reelected they rely on large, lump sum donors such as Unions, Banks, Wall Street and other Mega-Corporations. You, as an American citizen, are less than peanuts in the scheme of things.
It would seem there are some common points that shared by both the "Occupy X" and the TEA Party. Chief of which is that our Congress is bought. They are merely employees of the Banks, Wall Street and Mega-Corporations.
No one will get radical solutions from those that are merely employees. To get relief you have to go to the root; to the ultimate boss.
The root here is our monetary system. Our monetary system is mathematically designed to extract from the least of the 99% to benefit the 1%. There are many online articles and videos that make in-depth explanations of the phenomenon. Suffice to say that, under our current system since 1913, for every $1 produced, $1 + X must be returned. 'X' indicates interest payment. And if only $10 produced, where does the extra 'X' come from?
The Big Boss is the Federal Reserve Bank. And the Boss should be the target of all activists, left or right, before any meaningful talk of resuming citizen control of our Government can begin.
Expect vicious resistance against killing the Federal Reserve System. But once that nest of vipers is eliminated all else will work itself out.
It would seem a little embarrassing to have to inform the "Occupy Wall Street" movement (OWS) that the corporate icon they are protesting – The New York Stock Exchange – was already sold to the Germans. But the real motive behind the protests are a spin job on the basic instruction set drilled into young law school students about how to win Courtroom arguments:
"When the facts are in your favor; pound the facts. When the law is in your favor; pound
the law. When neither the facts nor the law are in your favor; pound the table."
The facts are that from 2008 to 2010, the Left controlled the Presidency and a filibuster-proof-Congress for the first time since the 1977 to 1979 days of Jimmy Carter. The Left used their iron-fisted dominance to pass laws to engage in massive stimulus spending and interventionist restructuring of the American economy. As a result of these historic actions; our federal debt grew in 3 years by more than during our first 222 years and our credit rating was downgraded; while unemployment rose and is about to go even higher. With a record like this; it should not come as any surprise that the Left has been reduced to taking to the streets to pound the table.
After gaining control of government, the Left screamed that the economy was facing a depression and needed the type of large government stimulus spending programs enacted by Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) and his filibuster-proof-Congress in 1933. But after three years in office, FDR's federal spending only hit 10.2% of GDP; whereas current federal spending is estimated to have risen to 25.3% of GDP. After three years in office; FDR's stimulus spending helped reduce unemployment 2.6%; versus the 4.3% rise in unemployment we have suffered over the last three years. In fact, from 1940 to 2008 unemployment only exceeded 9% for one year; but unemployment has been over 9% for each of the last three years.
More foreboding, the chart below from Lombard Street Research demonstrates employment trends lag U.S. GDP by approximately 12 months. Given GDP growth peaked in the 3rd quarter
of 2010, plus it takes at least 150,000 new jobs per month to keep unemployment from rising due to population growth; unemployment appears to be on the verge of a big jump!
Furthermore, the most interventionist economic restructuring laws passed by the Left are just now starting to take effect. The Congressional Budget Office estimates the Patient Protection and Affordability Care Act (Obamacare) will cause 800,000 job losses in healthcare and banks recently announced they will cut another 150,000 jobs due to the Dodd–Frank Act (DONK).
In one of the biggest boomerangs to the Left; their spending and interventionist actions has had the unintended consequence of savaging local tax revenues. The deteriorating economic situation caused the loss 35,000 state and local jobs last month and 267,000 in the last three years. Mark Zandi, Chief Economist for the prestigious Moody's credit rating service, estimates that state and local government will lose another 400,000 jobs in the year ahead.
Self-appointed economic spokesman for the Left, Paul Krugman, summed up his frustration that America has not appreciated the historic spending and economic restructuring he championed:
"A weary cynicism, a belief that justice will never get served, has taken over much of our
political debate — and, yes, I myself have sometimes succumbed. In the process, it has
been easy to forget just how outrageous the story of our economic woes really is."
Krugman clearly intends "fill in the details" to usurp the young Occupy Wall Street protester's agenda in attempt to regain credibility with the American people for the Left's failed agenda:
"A better critique of the protests is the absence of specific policy demands. It would
probably be helpful if protesters could agree on at least a few main policy changes they
would like to see enacted. But we shouldn't make too much of the lack of specifics. It's
clear what kinds of things the Occupy Wall Street demonstrators want, and it's really the
job of policy intellectuals and politicians to fill in the details."
The arrogance of the Left's intellectuals and politicians will not allow them to acknowledge the obvious facts that their initiatives have been abysmally destructive to our nation. Don't be surprised if the Occupy Wall Street protests turn violent. After all; violence is the highest form of pounding the table.
You shouldn't try to make this thing a left vs. right debate. I see it more as an us (the people) vs. them (corporations, 1%, other special interests). The author of this article is trying to bridge the gap for us between what is considered the Tea Party crowd and the Occupy Wall Street crowd -- both essentially wanting the same thing. I will ignore the Koch Brothers, Sarah Palins, Michelle Bachmans, etc.. in the Tea Party movement if you ignore the Unions, Solidarity verbage, etc.. in the Occupy Wall Street movement. It seems pretty clear to me right now that the Left would prefer to bankrupt the country in their own special way and the Right is pretty Hell bent on bankrupting the country in their own way and it is to both their advantages to keep us (the people) divided. I hope this becomes clear to you someday.
Anyone participating in these occupy wall street events is as Lenin put it, a useful idiot.
I'm on holiday out in the boonies, with global roaming costing me a $/min, just checking Zh before i crash and I thought I'd specially log in to say "fuck you maggot"
Its been disappointing to see how many zhers have been dismissive of the protests - I say to them
'you are the sleep walking drone, get off your ass and join em cos this could b ur last chance before they figure how to stop this in the future '
Here in oz we didn't get hit by the gfc but if we had their would have been hell to pay, c'mon ows , run with it all the way
List of demands from occupywallst.org, suck on this. You think I'm gonig to throw in with a bunch of piece of shit communist party tools with the ultimate pigman Soros trying to pull off an Argentina/Venezuela? FUCKING FORGET ABOUT IT :
Demand one: Restoration of the living wage. This demand can only be met by ending "Freetrade" by re-imposing trade tariffs on all imported goods entering the American market to level the playing field for domestic family farming and domestic manufacturing as most nations that are dumping cheap products onto the American market have radical wage and environmental regulation advantages. Another policy that must be instituted is raise the minimum wage to twenty dollars an hr.
Demand two: Institute a universal single payer healthcare system. To do this all private insurers must be banned from the healthcare market as their only effect on the health of patients is to take money away from doctors, nurses and hospitals preventing them from doing their jobs and hand that money to wall st. investors.
Demand three: Guaranteed living wage income regardless of employment.
Demand four: Free college education.
Demand five: Begin a fast track process to bring the fossil fuel economy to an end while at the same bringing the alternative energy economy up to energy demand.
Demand six: One trillion dollars in infrastructure (Water, Sewer, Rail, Roads and Bridges and Electrical Grid) spending now.
Demand seven: One trillion dollars in ecological restoration planting forests, reestablishing wetlands and the natural flow of river systems and decommissioning of all of America's nuclear power plants.
Demand eight: Racial and gender equal rights amendment.
Demand nine: Open borders migration. anyone can travel anywhere to work and live.
Demand ten: Bring American elections up to international standards of a paper ballot precinct counted and recounted in front of an independent and party observers system.
Demand eleven: Immediate across the board debt forgiveness for all. Debt forgiveness of sovereign debt, commercial loans, home mortgages, home equity loans, credit card debt, student loans and personal loans now! All debt must be stricken from the "Books." World Bank Loans to all Nations, Bank to Bank Debt and all Bonds and Margin Call Debt in the stock market including all Derivatives or Credit Default Swaps, all 65 trillion dollars of them must also be stricken from the "Books." And I don't mean debt that is in default, I mean all debt on the entire planet period.
Demand twelve: Outlaw all credit reporting agencies.
Demand thirteen: Allow all workers to sign a ballot at any time during a union organizing campaign or at any time that represents their yeah or nay to having a union represent them in collective bargaining or to form a union.
These demands will create so many jobs it will be completely impossible to fill them without an open borders policy.
They should occupy K Street too. That's where a lot of dirty deed doers hang out - the lobbyists. Maybe they should take a few hostage and demand the tax payers get paid back the trillions of dollars the bankers gambled away. Of course they should only accept payment in gold bars.
The Left isn't interested in getting rid of the Fed. All they really want is to utilize it's powers solely for political purposes. The Right isn't really interested either because they are attached at the hips to the financial system and the large corporations.
The OWSers would be appalled at how constrained the Federal Government would be without the Federal Reserve and the TBTF banks.
Many, maybe most would be but not all--they're a diverse group.
Most also want justice--if things aren't fixable they want it even more.
Oops -- just notice you confined your comment to the Left. You're probably right.
No, Mr. Cain, the protestors are protesting at the top: they know who's in charge.
If moved to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. it will be met with force, disbanded and excluded from the network news.
thats correct, why protest the puppets.....protest the puppet masters
i wonder how that filthy baby faced psychopath dimon is sleeping , noises in the yard, how blankfeins work with god is coming along, it must be a bit interesting to be viscerally hated by tens of millions of your fellow travellers, how abbie hoffman would have loved this, movements can move mountains, its in fact the simple story of history.kent state awaits, then it gets colorful.
The root evil is the Infinite Growth monetary operating system. Until it gets smashed, nothing will be changed. Sorry to disappoint you all but that's the message from the Math Department back in 1972.
Good point GW if the that were true. I am not concvinced that the OWS people are ticked at the big banks. There hasn't been a unified message. I hear a lot of stupid statements from the ignorant and a couple clear heads that are there for a real reason. Unfortunately the whole thing was organized by another George Soros funded group with Van Jones leading the charge.
Your point about the Fed and the large TBTF banks both need to be reeled in is spot on. The TBTF need to fail and the Fed at the very least needs to be audited by Ron Paul.
I see it like this:
We're headed off the cliff, and what is happening is significant by any measure, so we must determine if this thing can be made to help soften the impact. Several things are apparent. First, if it is to make any difference, it will have to find a way to limit its focus to common ground and targets, and produce something compelling that is NOT what is expected. Second, this is now getting enough purchase that some kind of platform will be necessary. A congress of sorts is in order, perhaps using a lottery system based on daily presence - the more days you're there, the more tickets you get in the lottery. Set it for a week from now, at a place where it can be covered by cspan start to finish. Without a platform, the fight (in the minds of many) will remain one of law and order vs useless hippies. If it's done seriously, any finished product will be the object of planet-wide scrutiny. This may be an unprecedented opportunity.
How do we keep it free of self-defeating planks? This could be done by creating a mission statement for the congress, to perhaps include: 1. Our purpose it to find non-coercive ways to reform our broken system. 2. Our purpose is to offer solutions that do not require years of study and bureaucracy-building, solutions that can be adopted by legislation immediately and go into effect immediately. 3. Our purpose is to promote solutions which don't favor one American or group of Americans over another. 4. Members of this congress swear to adhere to these principles, and produce ideas consistent with them.
GW, if there's anything to this please pass it along.
I knowz it cuz I saw the video on my AM radio.
"The Federal Reserve and the giant banks are part of a single malignant, symbiotic relationship"
Yep George, that about right. Though let's not forget how the owners of these TBTF sit on the boards of the fortune 500 and seek to gin up the Military Industrial Complex and the American KGB (i.e. TSA/Homeland inSecurity) as it's good for profits and serves to keep the serfs in line via false patriotism or intimidation.
Two very disturbing items I've read recently:
1) several republican members of the super committee have stated the Military budget should be exempt from any cost cutting
2) Homeland Security has approached a university think tank in the UK seeking methods to make "Identity Management" measures more platable to the masses.
Chilling thoughts, both of them. But hey ... your tax dollars at work.
Let me restate that .. money extorted from you by the criminal Federal Government being used against you.
"Let me restate that .. money extorted from you by the criminal Federal Government being used against you."
We definitely should keep our eye on that... BUT
..the REAL threat are these little socialist hippies running around trying to destroy the country. They remind me so much of those teaklanners when they were trying to do the same thing.
Man am I GLAD they have this new suspicious activity hotline. I heard NewsCorp has something too. I never thought the real terrorists would be Americans, but THIS IS GETTING OUT OF HAND PEOPLE!
Tick turd, let's just say, you ain't seen shit yet, the fat lady is just warming up her voice. This will end up in an Epic fail for everyone BUT, at least you will know where you stand in the NWO afterwards, graveling for food would be my best guess. Fight on your feet brother. This will go viral.
u shoulda' kept reading but its my fault... good thing ure adhd isn't viral.
Are you for real, or perhaps some government software meant to distract.
Glad to have a suspicious activity hotline you are? My what a good little minion you are.
The real terrorists (and traitors) are in NewYork and WashingtonDC. Report that to your hotline.
tin ear for sarcasm?
That's right moron.
If the EU implosion sets off a derivative chain of events that could be a game changer.
As in lose ones job, savings, 401K.
At that point is like Gerald Celente says , once you have nothing left to lose... you lose it.
yeah I'm not as polished as a few others are with sarcastic twist. However, I thought is was quite obvious given the wink and all.
So relax, just some humor given the hilarity in some of these protest threads.
Don't quit your day job. That was truely obscure.
"Don't quit your day job"
Damn, great line.
Little more clear that time?
The right and the left have been wrong all along, and that's why we're where we are today. If people are going to accept their dumbing down, then they will have to be led by other dummies rather than to educate themselves on their own initiative and expense. Marching in the street, geting your head bashed open, just so you can get your jollies by swearing at ignorant police thugs is not how you educate yourself about the political and financial realities. I guess it works pretty well for the childish masses though, at least they seem to enjoy it. Rah. Now watch the violence ensue and away go some more of our freedoms. Are we smarter now?
What they are doing at the protests is spreading the word to the propagandized people who depend on TV for their news. At least some of those signs are getting on TV.
Fed / Wall St are just one side of coin. They should occupy D.C. to make it full circle.
Or rather, to get shot down. Ahem, ZHers, please let me update you on what you're "supposed to do":
- Go to WDC and get gunned down as terrorists, instead of having that annoying "popular public opinion"-shield of opposing bankers
- Don't do anything and just hope that you get to elect RP.
- Disregard the movements - it's just another conspiracy - that is why the MSM and ZH-sockpuppets are mudslinging them at full force.
No, be a good citizen, and shut off your brain.
Some of the people who were bailed out at taxpayer expense (tenured college professors for example) as the rest of us were thrown under the bus are being listened to by these kids...they are being led astray.
Um... Words that begin with T, ah, an object, a thing, a thing you're holding, uh.... uh, PASS!
When democracy gives way to tyranny those with rifles will still get to vote.
A ballots dead
so a bullet's what I get
a thousand years they had tha tools
we should be takin' 'em
fuck tha g-ride
I want the machines that are makin' em
Would someone please tell#OWS to move it to K Street and be the wrath to all lobbyists in the land. They needs ta go!
Occupy Wall Street and Occupy the Fed: Two Sides of the Same Coin
Cause all us poor folks down at that damn blog didn't realize that, or anything.
Occupy The Fed sounds like the real deal. OWS appears to have a lot of Soros involvement.
"OWS appears to have a lot of Soros involvement."
here ya go (covering all bases), e.g.: on HuffPo, and AJ, and Bill O'Reilly, and the beat goes on.
Occupy Boston is right across from the Boston Fed on the "Rose Kennedy Greenway". No discernable city permits, thousands of hours of police detail work, free electricity. Saturday evening had a football-field-long "march" along the waterfront. Maybe up to 200 "campers" last night.
Get together on the Boston Common today, no permits (as opposed to the TP event that had them up the wazoo).
- Ned
Why is your track full of OWS ? Do other topics not interest you so little? :-)
Because its a topical event?
He doesn't get paid for 'other'.
Us 99%...we be clueless I guess **Shrugs**.
Can someone please tell me why U.S. citizens bear arms? Do they see them as some sort of trinket to collect, like pokemon cards or old coins?
'Cause i just don't see them being used for their main purpose, so what's the point? If not now, when exactly?
Can someone please tell me why U.S. citizens bear arms? Do they see them as some sort of trinket to collect, like pokemon cards or old coins?
'Cause i just don't see them being used for their main purpose, so what's the point? If not now, when exactly?
Because you get Libya ... times about 30 million ... think it's worth it? ... think a hard core of these thieves and mercs won't effectively fight it out ... and destroy everything? ... think they won't use the full arsenal? ...
That is exactly what the bankster scum want us to do. They want to change the subject, change the targets ... so that it is not THEM.
Edit: Just wanted to add one thing: You do not destroy your own fucking country, and then throw a party and pretend you were freed by this epic destruction. That is the most backwards possible step ... the one the idiots-with-guns in Libya took. This should of course go without saying, but apparently it doesn't ... and the dip-shits in our respective MSM are all too willing to play to that narrative and it's dumbshit behaviour.


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This month, Gordon Getty - composer, philanthropist and generous supporter of the San Francisco Symphony - celebrates his 80th birthday. To mark the occasion, Michael Tilson Thomas leads the SF Symphony and Chorus in a special concert, with world renowned tenor Plácido Domingo, on Monday January 6 at Davies Symphony Hall.
The only public celebration of Getty's birthday, the concert also features guest artists Frederica von Stade, Lisa Delan and pianist Robin Sutherland, in a program which includes music by Beethoven, Delibes,Tallis, Strauss Jr, Mahler, Lehár, Verdi and Gordon Getty himself.
Mr Getty, who was raised in San Francisco and is an alumnus of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, is a long-standing Board member of the SF Symphony. He and his wife, Ann, have provided leadership and generous support for some the Symphony's most important initiatives, included in which are the acoustic renovation of Davies Symphony Hall in 1990, the Grammy® Award-winning Mahler recording cycle, and the Orchestra's international tours.
With compositions performed widely in North America and Europe, Gordon Getty was honored as an Outstanding American Composer at the John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in 1986, and in 2003 he was awarded the Gold Baton of the American Symphony Orchestra League. His works have been performed by the San Francisco Symphony on many occasions, and include two world premieres and one West Coast premiere. Most of Getty's works feature the voice, but he has also written for orchestra, chamber ensembles and solo piano.
Describing his style as "undoubtedly tonal, though with hints of atonality", Getty says that he "represents a viewpoint that stands somewhat apart from the twentieth century, which was in large measure a repudiation of the nineteenth and a sock in the nose to sentimentality. Whatever it was that the great Victorian composers and poets were trying to achieve, that's what I'm trying to achieve".
Plácido Domingo's appearance at this celebratory concert marks his return to the San Francisco Symphony for the first time since his debut performance in 1973. With over 3600 performances to his credit - and having appeared in more than 140 different roles - Mr Domingo has conducted more than 450 opera performances and symphonic concerts, founded the international voice competition, Operalia, and has celebrated 40th anniversaries at the Metropolitan Opera, Vienna State Opera, La Scala, Arena dei Verona and Covent Garden. He has also made more than 100 recordings - winning 12 Grammy® Awards - over 50 music videos, won two Emmy Awards, and starred in three feature opera films.
One of the most beloved musical figures of our time, mezzo-soprano Frederica von Stade has a career in opera, concert and recital which spans three decades. She is well known to audiences around the world through her many featured appearances on television, which include several PBS specials and Live from Lincoln Center telecasts.
American soprano Lisa Delan - recognized for her versatility and accomplishment in opera, song and recording - has performed on some of the world's leading concert stages, including Lincoln Center, the Auditiorio Nacional in Madrid, the Moscow Conservatory, Tchaikovsky Hall in Moscow, and in a special appearance at Windsor Castle. Ms Delan sang the title role in the world premiere of Gordon Getty's Joan and the Bells in 1998, a role she has since reprised in France, Germany, the US and Russia,
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Ramona Singer and the cast of "The Real Housewives of New York City" were out on the town on Wednesday night, celebrating the premiere of their show, and during the debut party, Ramona didn't hold back when it came to her thoughts about her success on the show.
On the red carpet, the soon-to-be divorced mother of one was asked about the remaining originals, which are herself and LuAnn de Lesseps, and although they did both star on the first season of the show, and continue on up until the current season six, Ramona doesn't feel that LuAnn is on the same level as she is.
"Well, LuAnn isn't considered an original," Singer revealed to the NY Daily News on March 14. "She's just a part-time Housewife, so really I'm the only standing original and the reason is I don't play for the cameras, I play for me."
LuAnn was also on the red carpet, and clearly didn't hear the comment, but that didn't stop her from being hesitant when it came to her thoughts about Ramona and the relationship they have.
"There's always been friction between me and Ramona, but we're in a safe place right now," she said. "We're not at odds for the moment. You never know with Ramona, you never know what you're going to get."
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