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Discussion in 'Fantasy / Horror' started by KatG, Jan 22, 2007.
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Charlie Huston has gotten Already Dead optioned for film and in development. While I'm thrilled for Huston, I do wonder how many of the supernatural mystery series can really get made in film/t.v. at once. Jim Butcher's Dresden Files is already on t.v. -- and it's a fun series, if not yet groundbreaking and somewhat cleaned up from the books. Charlaine Harris' vampire Southern mysteries are getting done on HBO, and so on. Then again, we have both Medium and Ghost Whisperer on U.S. t.v., so what do I know.
Entertainment Weekly in the States is clearly trying to do a little more book coverage on their online site. Mostly things like which acclaimed novel did you not read, but hey, it's a start.
Jonathan Lethem's earlier category sf novels have now been exorcised and are now described as just a part of his body of "trippy" fiction. Still, the fact that they bother to mention Gun With Occasional Music at all is pretty good.
The new system in the U.S. of airing new episodes of shows, then yanking them off the air for several weeks, then bringing them back at unpredictable times is really, really annoying.
Especially when you develop a fascination for a character, say House or Bones, and you must wait for interminably long periods for a new episode because of some idiotic thing called American Idol. I understand this latter show is all Juzzza's fault. It started over there and he must have convinced them to export it to us. He has this nasty vicious streak, you know.
The timing of Battlestar Galatitca episodes seems similarly chaotic. It seems hard to know exactly when to expect it, when it's going on a "mid-season" hiatus, and when it will be back. And it doesn't help the DVR recording when they also run the original Battlestar series at the same time, so you end up with boatloads of the young Richard Hatch instead of the old Richard Hatch...
Who developed this new system of episode spurts ??
Cool that entertainment weekly is evolving to include books. (Propably because all those show watchers need to read something while waiting for the new episodes to show up!)
It was the aftermath of the lets debut different series all year round strategy, followed by the lets do several weeks of reruns, then new episodes at the sweeps periods strategy. People didn't like that one much, especially for serial plot shows, so they switched to this yank and dump approach. They like it better because they can put in other shows or specials during the hiatuses, move around Idol, and concentrate all the episodes of the hotest shows around sweep months. So instead of one season, you have three mini-seasons.
It's partly the cable channels' fault because they would put on shows all different times of the year, they had fewer episodes per season, could do more than one season per year, and sometimes had big gaps between groups of episodes. So the networks cut back the number of episodes per season, and then had to deal with how to make it to May. But it's becoming increasingly difficult to keep up with shows this way. I try not to get involved in too many shows, though my husband has finally dragged me fully into Lost. (I gave up on Battlestar Galactica when I realized I didn't like any of the characters and wanted the Cylons to win, kill all the humans and end the misery.)
I suspect it is all a plot to get people to buy the season DVD's so that they can finally see all the episodes.
An aspect of the current publishing/distribution system that intrigues me. When I was a boy, drugstores used to have the standing, circular displays of paperback books. Book stores didn't carry paperback books and used book stores hadn't been invented. That's where I found the new stuff, in drug stores.
In the libraries - including the Phoenix Public Library - for some reason, there was an sff section but all of the books were hard cover and several years old. You could check out early and earlier decade stuff but not the latest and greatest. My family did not have the budget to permit my perusing the genuine bookstores.
But, what intrigues me now is that drug stores still have a book and magazine section as do grocery stores but you never see the latest and greatest sff there; you only find the second tier and re-prints. Why is that?
Actually, I don't notice much sff in those venues at all - mostly just the books by those-authors-whose-names-shall-always-be-larger-than-the-title. I consider those commodity books, since people buy them strictly based on the author name alone regardless of what the book may be about. The only sff I usually see might be some mass media flavor of the moment, like Eragon or Potter or Narnia.
Any book that was put in paperback was and still is not considered literature because it is in mass market paperback. Therefore the libraries would not stock them. This meant all the "genre" works from specialty markets that would put most of their stock in mass market paperback so fans could afford it, could not get most of their lists into libraries. (The bulk of the prejudice against category sff has little to do with the actual titles and a great deal to do with their being a paperback market that was first mostly sold in places like drugstores, as I keep trying to explain.)
Also, it's just plain hard for libraries to keep track of mass market paperbacks, they fall apart a lot faster, they are easy to steal, etc. So public libraries keep some mm paperbacks around, but they don't worry if they lose them as inventory and they don't bother to keep up with paperback offerings. MM paperbacks in libraries are mostly donations from patrons.
To get around this and to get more book reviews, since reviewers also won't usually cover paperbacks, publishers in the 1990's started doing limited small hardcover print runs not only of the top sellers but of other authors as well, including newbies. This ensured that the books would be more likely stocked in libraries where they might gain a readership. It's the mystery novel model and it worked brilliantly.
Non-bookstore vendors such as drugstores and WalMart, who were serviced by jobbers, decided to severely cut down or eliminate altogether their paperback racks in the 1990's. This caused a steep decline in the paperback market that escalated within the decade into a full collapse from which publishers still haven't recovered. Category romance, which made up about 50% of the paperback market but which was beginning to see its fanbase shrink, had to shift huge blocks of authors into the mainstream and cut back all their lines. Westerns, which had been struggling, died completely as a category market. Horror went under yet again, with the number of titles severely cut. SFF was hard hit, but the success of epic fantasy at the time kept it going until the juggernaut of Harry Potter and the LOTR movies. General fiction from Updike to Krantz went through what you could call a recession. And category mystery crashed and burned -- mid-listers were dumped, lists were cut -- it got nasty.
The specialty mystery and sff bookstores, which were already struggling against the chain superstores, couldn't survive with all the publishers cutting out their mid-lists, and decreased to only a handful, although recently there's been signs of renewed life there. The online stores did take up a lot of the slack, but they are still only a small percentage of the total market, as most people still won't shop online. I'm not sure at this point whether the total number of sales outlets for books has increased or decreased to concentrate on the bookstores, but I do know that the loss of drugstores and grocery store business is still really hurting things. Unfortunately, books don't sell as well as cookware and hair products do.
And libraries are steadily losing their funding, often times being closed down.
On the end of the Potter franchise, and now the sky is falling:
It's not exactly as if they didn't know the series was going to end someday... Why do business people sometimes act like such dolts? They land a cash cow and seem to think it will always be there, allowing them to rake in the dough...
The other thing this highlights is the pitfalls from having such a single massive hit (if we lump the whole Potter phenom into one big bucket). So much gets geared to supporting the monster, to the point where your entire corporate bottom line depends on one author's output. I remember when Scholastic, the U.S. Potter publisher, took a massive stock price hit on just *rumours* of a delay in one of the books. Pretty scary when your book value (so to speak) is so tied up in a single property.
HE's 1st Law of Business Management: Find a crisis and manage it.
The better business schools make an art of denying the obvious by refusing to admit the strength of the US and Euro business system is crisis management. We do it better than anyone in the world. The weakness of these systems is long range planning precisely because there are no immediate results to point to as accomplishments, and without accomplishments there can be no flurry on the stock markets. All energy gets devoted to today's crisis - e.g., promoting today's phenom. When today's crisis passes, as with the Harry Potter books, THEN and only then energy gets devoted to resurrecting the company because NOW that is today's crisis.
You guys have it backwards. I am continually impressed by how well the book publishing industry manages to market itself as a big, monied, glamorous industry to people. In reality, it is tiny, backward and poor compared to any other entertainment and information industry. And the children's portion of the industry is even tinnier and poorer, and up until the last decade or so, was actually in a massive slump.
So Bloomsbury didn't put all its eggs in one basket and have no strategy beyond trying to milk its cash cow. Bloomsbury was just publishing its books, and Harry Potter turned out to be not only the phenomena writer who pops up every half-decade or so, but the series that broke every record ever held in book publishing and revitalized the entire children's publishing industry -- something no one could predict. Bloomsbury could find, publish and promote numerous titles from here to kingdom come and still not manage what Harry Potter produced.
But business people and investors have no clue how book publishing works and no interest in investing long term in book publishing. They rushed in with money when Harry Potter hit and they'll rush out again when it's gone. Bloomsbury or Scholastic can no more manage such short term enthusiasm from the business community than they could the tides of the oceans.
Scholastic will be fine, probably, because it has most of the other hit-makers in children's publishing and a vast educational operation. Bloomsbury is perhaps in a less envious position, and in the much smaller market of Britain, but it clearly has some cash that it's trying to use to build up the company's operations.
On the one hand, I'm elated to hear that they are launching this site. It's what authors desperately trying to publicize on the Web have been waiting for and it could have an enormous impact, helping book publishing to finally get a foothold in the goodie pile that the other media have had all to themselves.
On the other hand, it is all too reminiscient of the 1970's, 1980's rush of publishers to venture into multi-media, electronic industries they know squat about. This was because Wall Street suddenly decided that book publishers were a good investment, but having invested in them, they expected massive growth book publishers simply couldn't produce, especially with their returns system. There were two ways to get growth -- sales and publishing mergers, and acquiring other non-publishing companies. The acquiring approach proved fairly disasterous once we had the 1990's recession.
But now we have international publishing conglomerates as the result of all the mergers that control most of the book publishing and have many other types of companies besides -- Bertelsman from Germany, Penguin from the U.K., etc., so it might be a good time for this sort of thing. It certainly can't hurt publishing in general if someone gives it a try. So overall, it's good news.
It's a guy thing, you know? Genetics, predestination and all that!
Then again, show me where this is not crisis management:
Understand that I believe in crisis management; it's what business does best. But, it certainly does not reflect any long term historical analysis or long term strategic planning. In the publishing industry, I am not all certain what long term planning would look like, but I would certainly enjoy perusing Scribbner's strategic plan for educational purposes...
I'm not sure there is such a thing as long-term planning in book publishing. It's kind of hard -- they still don't know if they are going to exist in twenty years or not or what the electronic mediums are going to do to everything. And you can plan long-term, but then there's a merger and they dissolve the company. So yeah, crisis management. It is going to be very hard for these companies because of investment pressure that they keep producing Harry Potter numbers, which is impossible.
Worked for the now extinct Sperry Flight Systems which had a strategy to be in three distinct markets: commercial flight, commuter flight, and military flight systems. When one market was down, the other two tended to balance the scales.
For publishing, I would think the big guys would adopt a similar policy: general fiction, genre fiction, children's fiction, non-fiction, and textbooks with the latter forming the base. Particularly in the latter I can see a means for formulating short-term and strategic plans to keep the company viable in the textbook market.
For the former, I can see strategies: looking for one or more series in the fiction categories; a self-help phenomena such as "I'm Okay, You're Okay" "Megatrends" or a really good explainer series to take on the sciences as we know them today. The Jordans, Goodkinds, Anne Perrys, Karons, Hillermans, Clancys, et al, come along with a regularity that belies the gut feeling that no one succeeds anymore.
But, committing to these kinds of activities takes committing budgets; budgets for long term planning are difficult to come by when the company is struggling to make ends meet this year. It's always easier to jettison than to acquire.
They do. I'm not sure which mega-house Bloomsbury belongs to or has a distribution deal with, since it's the British market, but I would assume they have one. The large houses -- Bertlesman which has BDD and Random House, Time Warner, Penguin, etc. have general fiction, categories imprints, children's, non-fiction -- which is where they make most of their money -- and educational operations. However, in the 1990's, with the cutbacks, a lot of them spun off or dumped their educational arms, so that market is kind of separate now from trade. But Signet, for instance, as part of Penguin, still makes a lot of their money in schools and universities for Signet Editions of classic works, and there are Norton readers and such.
I think the problem was that it was easy to do both, especially with the mergers.
Okay, we're taking votes and propositions for the movie media theme of the summer!! Two years ago, of course, the theme was the death of the movie industry. Box office was down again, the tentpole movies were performing erratically, the media claimed that people were abandoning unpleasant and expensive theaters for DVD's and cable, the teenagers had supposedly staged a web revolt, the studios were firing people and toying with things like releasing a movie in theaters and DVD at the same time as the wave of the future. There were endless articles moaning about it all, many of which I foolishly read and then denounced as idiotic.
The next year, they shuffled their feet, said oops, we were wrong, and bombarded us with articles about how Hollywood was going political and serious with films about social issues and the fallout of post-9/11. Along with that went a side order about the return of the R-rated commedies. So the theme became Movies for Adults, especially movies with very adult titles like "The 40-Year-Old Virgin."
This year is clearly the year of the sequel, but what erroneous conclusions and predictions will they draw from that? Get your candidates in now or vote for your favorite hypotheses.*
*Okay, so this is mainly North America, but people from other countries can still play.
"Sequels" seems to be the theme of the decade, not the year. Wait, I'm thinking of re-makes. Here's a prediction: Sequels of Re-makes. Charlie's Angels pioneered. Starsky and Hutch 2. Miamy Vice 2. (I did hear a rumour about Coppola and Dracula 2 )
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Even though it's packaged as a standalone product, Can I Eat That? is really just an episode of the PBS program Nova ScienceNow. Thankfully, it works just fine as fun and informative hourlong documentary on some of the science behind what we eat, even if it's a fairly disjointed experience.
A spinoff of PBS's long-running science show Nova, ScienceNow takes a more casual, lighthearted approach to its topics than its parent program. As a result, Can I Eat That? is really accessible; there are lots of animations, and host David Pogue eases into each of the four topics with goofy charm. "Thanksgiving Cooking Chemistry" sees Pogue visiting the folks at America's Test Kitchen as they use science to make awesome turkey and stuffing. In "Why Do We Cook?," Pogue and some experts discuss why humans cook—and how cooking may have help humans evolve. "What is Taste?" is pretty self-explanatory, and "Profile: Nathan Myhrvold" puts a spotlight on renaissance man Myhrvold and his insane space-age kitchen. Myhrvold uses a variety of unorthodox techniques to perfect cooking methods, and from the look of things, it's working.
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An acclaimed actor once known for portraying some of the most nefarious villains on the big screen will look to television where he will produce a horror series with more evil at its heart.
Gary Oldman, who has recently come to play the good guy in such films as the 'Harry Potter' and 'Batman' franchises after a successful run of assuming antagonists, will make his first foray into the small screen. As first reported by Deadline, Oldman, alongside Douglas Urbanski's Flying Studio, has teamed up with eOne TV to develop and produce a horror drama series.
'The Diabolic' follows the life and exploits of a brilliant but broken exorcist. He falls in love with a single mother, whose son just so happens to be possessed by an evil so powerful that it jeopardizes not only the boy, but the entirety of humankind.
Daniel Kay will write the pilot as Oldman and Urbanski's studio team up for the first time on TV, having worked together in film for 'The Contender.'
Oldman is just the latest in a string of high-profile film stars who are venturing into television for acting (Matthew McConaughey, Halle Berry), directing (David Fincher), and producing opportunities over the last couple years. As networks become more flexible, allowing writers and producers to craft shorter season over longer time frames, television is becoming an attractive venue for those who regularly work in film.
The profilic actor was most recently in the 'RoboCop' reboot, and can be seen later the is year in 'Dawn of the Planet of the Apes.' He is also in talks to appear in the forthcoming 'Star Wars' feature.


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Stormy Day by RioraeWatch
©2011-2016 Riorae
It's raining outside
omg i want you!
i LOVE this outfit!
Awq I wanna see your belly button!
you look great
Im speechless....you are so hot. Love your eyes and your body is making me bite my bottom lip
Nice outfit
Amazing!!! I dont fear the rain!!!
you so sweet!
Extremely beautie!
nice girl
How did I not see this shot before? That outfit shows off your amazing figure so wel. Seriously sexy
actually, it's hiding most of it...lol for good reason. Mary posed me so that i look skinnier than i actually am
It looks sunny to me. ^^
it was actually raining pretty hard lol. in florida, it can be sunny and raining at the same time... people from out of the state like to call it Florida Rain. lol
hey, wonderful a,d nice shot, you looks so gorgeous...
you are one of most beautiful girl from the world indeed
you are one of most beautiful girl from the world indeed
incredible midsection
Wow very pretty
awesome body and smile lady
Your one gorgeous girl!
if if you dress in the stormy days, I see you in the days of spring!
hmmm nice
May be it's raining but you are very gorgeous and hot, what could it be when it's sunny :-P ?
It's not pretty when it's sunny lol I'm like a vampire lol
Lol I don't think you burn into ashes but that you shine like a star
Oh My God!! I got them same shorts. But you look way better in them...
Your waist look so sensual, love your shot and u look so nice Grat shot!
P. Can we see the back part of your shorts? XD
I would like it!
P. Can we see the back part of your shorts? XD
I would like it!
OMG!!!!!!!!!!!! i think im going to have a haert attack.......... i love this photo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And looking amazing inside a gorgeous new shot hun
such a pretty smile and the greatest curves. <3 love!


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Russell Pearce's Prevarications Whitewashed by AZ Fact Check
Sand Land's top canard-carrier, state Senator Russell Pearce
I've blogged till I'm blue in the face about the endless stream of whoppers concerning illegal immigration flowing from the pie-hole of racist state Senator Russell Pearce, the main sponsor of Arizona's "breathing while brown law" SB 1070.
One of Pearce's favorite falsehoods, a phony stat he's sputtered on numerous occasions, like he did back in April in an interview with Channel 12's Brahm Resnik, is that, "9,000 Americans [are] killed every year at the hands of illegal aliens."
I noted at the time that there's nothing to back that figure up. It's based on a faulty analysis by nativist Iowa Congressman Steve King of a 2005 GAO report. As often as it's been repeated, it's been debunked. The group Colorado Media Matters, for instance, has pummeled this spurious claim into steak tartare, over and over again.
So along comes Azcentral.com's AZ Fact Check, which (surprise, surprise) discovers that the claim is as empty as Pearce's cranium, yet still labels its findings "inconclusive."
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Blogger Mitch Martinson over at ArizonaPolitics.com has been all over this fumble from jump. He gives high marks to the research done by reporter Vaughn Hillyard, all of which is spot on. However, he notes that Hillyard likely did not have the final say in whether or not Pearce's claim was labeled "false" or "inconclusive."
Martinson writes:
"Now, it is unlikely that the reporters at the Arizona Republic/Channel 12/Cronkite School are the individuals determining what the final rating of a statement is. Especially, when it is an ASU journalism school student doing the reporting. Because it is hard to imagine that an award-winning student reporter who has already demonstrated a journalist's (good) strong principles would do the reporting that he has on State Sen. Russell Pearce's (R-LD18) use of statistics and still come up with a finding of `inconclusive.'"
In addition, Martinson correctly points out that the burden of proof is on the person spouting the stat. If Pearce and King concoct dubious factoids for their own political ends, and there's no valid evidence behind what they assert, we can assume they're full of bunk.
I'm reminded of that old H.L. Mencken quote: "Journalism is to politician as dog is to lamp-post." Martinson has the right idea: Call a spade a spade, or a canard a canard. Don't pussyfoot around when it comes to bigots and scoundrels such as Pearce and King. Otherwise, AZ Fact Check should lose its motto, "Keeping Arizona Honest."
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Just in case anyone had the misconception that the push to attack Iran was just Bush/Cheney or even just Republican. Democratic leadership will also be to blame. Another blank check is about to be written…
Category Archives: Iran
$400 Million and the Coming War With Iran
President George W Bush requested and received funding of $400 million (£200 million) for the plan after he made a secret appeal to Congressional leaders last year.
The money is likely to be used for operations carried out by the CIA and other intelligence agencies, according to the New Yorker magazine.
The appeal for funds "was focused on undermining Iran's nuclear ambitions and trying to undermine the government through regime change" said the magazine.
In the scenario concocted by Cheney's strategists, Washington's first step would be to convince Israel to fire missiles at Iran's uranium enrichment plant in Natanz. Tehran would retaliate with its own strike, providing the US with an excuse to attack military targets and nuclear facilities in Iran.
This information was leaked by an official close to the vice president. Cheney himself hasn't denied engaging in such war games. For years, in fact, he's been open about his opinion that an attack on Iran, a member of US President George W. Bush's "Axis of Evil," is inevitable.
On Fox News Sunday this morning, Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol said that President Bush is more likely to attack Iran if he believes Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) is going to be elected.
…so how do we stop it?
Spinning the IAEA Report on Iran
This is what John McCain cited as proof that Iran was developing and pursuing nuclear weapons.
Will Bush push another war before he leaves the post to his successor?
The War That Opposes Al Jazeera More Than Osama Bin Laden
I don't know whether you caught it here or elsewhere last week, but we've lowered the jackpot someone gets who snitches and leads to the death (wanna bet?) or capture (right, uh huh) of Osama bin Laden. But here in so called "liberal loony" Vermont, we're fighting a single opposing voice: whether to permit the broadcast of al Jazeera on a cable network here (and al Jazeera does NOT always take the side of Islam, if you have any regular reading experience there) like it's more heinous than September 11th and what we did to Iraq rolled together.
Now, the Burlington area is considered to be the most liberal part of the state; it's got a tiny Seattle kind of feel to it, and that it's a multiple college town doesn't necessarily make it more conservative.
Really? We can't listen to the other side occasionally? Sometimes, only by looking at both sides of the supposed truth can you discern the spin, the message, the actual agendae at work.
Thank The President For The Latest Gas Price Hike
No joke. With crude oil prices already well past the record $100/barrel that we used to treat as the great marker for "peak oil", where was the price going to go but WAAAAY up when Bush does the following in the past week:
* More saber rattling at Iran with "evil" charges amounting to the same damned things the U.S. is doing in Iraq
* Goes to Israeli Knesset (their Congress), plants a huge wet kiss on PM Olmert, and manages to dis both Iran and Barack Obama in the same charge as he also indicts Muslims in general
* Only then does he go to Saudi Arabia to ask them to increase oil production, at which point the Sauds flipped him the bird and sent him home as gas prices jumped by as much as 30 cents in a 24-hour period in some locations
* Threatens our own Congress who stopped the record levels of oil reserves Bush has been spending a fortune in storing (waaay above what any other admin has done, and Bush increases the reserve everytime the price rises like he wants to just hand energy companies all the tax dollars not being spent on the Pentagon)
Oil just closed on the stock market at a record $133.17/barrel. Thanks, President Bush! What latest horror will you enact?
McCain Campaign Populated By Lobbyists, Defense Privateers
Just how many McCain finance chairman, etc., have either had to step down or pretend they don't hear the questions being asked about their participation in the ironically-entitled Straight Talk Express?
Far, far too many.
For Dems and perhaps for most of the country, the biggest enemy we face isn't Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama, maybe not even al Qaeda. It's the threat of a McCain Administration that would continue the loathful, lousy work of the Bush Admin (aka Dewey, Cheatem, and How!).
Bush Likens Obama Diplomacy To Hitler Appeasement/Holocaust
President (I can never believe he bears this title) George W. Bush has done so many reprehensible things during his "administration" that it's hard to find a new source of outrage. Yet he managed to provide just that when, in front of the Israel legislature today, he liked Democratic candidate Barack Obama's desire to seek diplomatic solutions with Iran to the appeasement of Hitler and allowing the Holocaust to happen. Considering how much of the lawmakers in Israel are elected for their more extreme views, it was certainly pandering to a captive audience.
It's no small irony here that the Bush family fortune – for those who don't know – was cemented by Bush's grandpappy, Prescott, who rose to become a U.S. senator AFTER his New York based bank became disgustingly rich laundering Nazi money. Nazi money. Prescott Bush was no underling at the bank; he was an architect of the laundering and he knew where the riches came from.
To my knowledge, Barack Obama never got rich off plundering the wealth of a people whom Hitler's Nazi Party designated for genocide. But I know that many generations of Bushes have Hitler to thank. It paid for the embarrassingly worthless "college education" of the numbskull who thinks he's president and helped pay for that cute little wedding in Crawford for Jenna Bush last weekend.
To accuse Obama of Nazi-like appeasement would be heinous anyway, given what we've seen with the Bush Admin's famed lack of diplomacy. But for Bush to do it while he's filled his larders with the money stolen from Jews and others who opposed the Third Reich is so far beyond the pale it defies description.
On Hillary Clinton, Her Comments On Iran, And More
Last week, I posted that Hillary Clinton had completely lost me when she said that if Iran did anything Israel didn't like, she would have no trouble annihilating a country of tens of millions of people. Before that, I've been hopelessly deadlocked between both remaining challengers: Barack Obama and Mrs. Clinton.
Well, I still utterly despise what she said. I'd like her to eat it, actually.
But as much as I wrestle with the decision – and I believe I am very right in thinking that to blow away another country is NOT any adequate foreign policy outside the Bush Administration – I still feel torn.
As Vermont's junior Senator, Bernie Sanders (I-Socialist – no, really, he is), stated on The Colbert Report last Monday night, no matter which Democrat wins the party's nomination, we simply MUST be far better off than if ANY of the Republicans won, and especially since it would be John McCain.
I can live with Hillary if she's the candidate though I'll ride her rump if she pulls any Bush tricks in office, the same as I would if Obama wins. But if the general election were tomorrow and I could only vote between Obama and Clinton, I just don't know how I'd vote (and eeny-meeny-miney-mo and rock-paper-scissors just seem a bad way to choose).
Anyone else, like me, caught between Iraq… er… a rock and a hard place? Let me hear from you and what issues for you are causing the big divisions.
How Hillary Won Pennsylvania, But Lost This Voter
After some six weeks of discussion as to how Pennsylvania Democrats would vote today, Hillary Clinton has won the primary there, which many believe gives her enough momentum (never to be confused, pretty please, with JoeMentum, as in Karl Rove's favorite in-name-only Dem Joe Lieberman) to continue her challenge with Barack Obama for the party's presidential candidacy.
However, Hillary completely lost me. I'm not talking Bittergate or the talk that her campaign is in debt (like that's unusual for a campaign) or the silly issues of whether or not she wears a flag pin (she does not) or the foolish Bosnia story.
No, Hillary completely shot my potential vote (and readers here and on my personal blog know that I've been deeply divided who I want to be the Dem challenger to McCain) when she said she would annihilate Iran if they made any kind of attack on Israel.
Her words were pure Bush. I've had ENOUGH Bush and Cheney. The entire world has.
I very much support the right of Israel to exist and feel, due to our meddling in the Middle East (and not to mention the years the U.S. allowed the Holocaust to continue without action), we should support that nation. But besides getting the majority of our financial aid (the tiny nation gets more aid from us than any other country on the earth, though it's one of the least populated), we spend a ton on sending Israel military equipment they use with wild abandon on their enemies. We also help subsidize the illegal settlements Israel keeps building outside their own borders, on Palestinian land. THAT I don't support.
Mrs. Clinton sure as hell did not threaten to annihilate Israel when they were threatening to strike Iranian nuclear reactors which would have the potential to kill tens of millions of Iranians. She didn't say anything against Israel when the latest of Israeli officials said (and we've heard it from them before) it was time to launch a holocaust against Palestinians. (My God, who would toss about that suggestion, even thoughtlessly in anger, considering what Jews suffered in the 1930 and early 1940s?)
If I wanted nothing but more bloodshed and another billion or so people throughout the world hating us, I'd vote for (bleeping) McCain because he's Bush III. While I still respect Hillary a lot and would like to see her continue to do what good she does in government service, I won't vote for someone who uses Bush foreign policy to score votes. Un-uh.
Petraeus Back To Betray Us Again
Well, his words yesterday seemed like whole big repeats of late LAST summer (when the surge was supposed to be nearly over) and the Bush Administration lines on the Iraq war for more than four years.
I could barely contain myself when the Three Putzketeers (McCain, Lieberman, Lindsey Graham) helped to use the "update" on Bush's escalation of war – while the deaths and bombings the last few weeks have been off the chart – to spin more misinformation to assure them the White House.
Polls in various media have been showing a minimum of 60% of respondents saying the war has gotten no better or brought us any closer to an end since the escalation began when more troops were sent in ahead of approval starting in December 2006 and January 2007.
Your take?
Democrat: Put The Energy Into Opposing McCain, Not One Another
Stuck with a non-functioning net connection these last few days, I've had to depend more (oh, pitiful truth) on TV and NPR for my news and… well, according to the mainstream media, "the Democrats were all but choosing curtains for the Oval Office last summer but are now prepared to fracture into so many pools that John McCain may have it easy."
Yes, by God, the arguments out here have gotten extreme. And not all of them happen in cyberspace, such as when that group of leading Dem contributors sent a "bad Nancy" note to House Majority Nancy Pelosi regarding superdelegates. And yes, the whole real voter-superdelegate one, while just a single argument, is such a brouhaha all its own.
However, folks, we have to remember: the evil, such as it exists en masse, is John McCain and what some are calling a "de facto third term" for Bush and Company, because McCain may sign on to allowing many of the Bushies stay in power once he "assumes the throne" (as Republicans always view the Oval Office). Even if McCain had completely denounced the Bushies – and note, he hasn't by any degree of description – he is still the exact wrong choice for us moving ahead.
And it's PAST TIME to move ahead. We've been living in the hell the Bushies used and abused of our horror over the attacks on 9-11 to destroy us. They've done a finer job than Osama bin Laden, al Qaeda, and every other terror network combined could have accomplished against us.
Fight terrorism at home; get the Republicans OUT of the White House. It's a start.
This is our common mission. We can't let individual cat fights on specifc candidates obliterate the success of this mission.
While Cheney Grins and Gladhands, McCain Embarasses – All On The Global Stage
Apparently VP Dick Cheney and GOP presidential nominee-apparent, Sen. John McCain, aren't content with making people here at home miserably uncomfortable. No, they've taken their act on the road (dear God, pray for the world…).
After President Bush went on a goodwill tour a few weeks ago (one that went soooo successfully, too: he went to OPEC to beg them to lower oil prices – we're told – and now, gas prices have not just climbed but hit lifetime record highs), now it's Cheney's turn. His grin isn't any too good but he's definitely got the evil Machiavellian "I could rip and gut my mother without batting an eye" glaring sneer down pat as he suggests Dems are endangering the world and are all but underwriting al Qaeda.
Simultaneously, McCain has been proving that time spent with Bush DOES measurably lower your IQ. He's not just confusing Iran with Iraq (a great Bush/Cheney trick) on a regular basis and depending upon Joe Lieberman not just for help answering questions but on distinguishing a matzo ball from a yarmulke, but getting Joe to take heat for him when the audiences don't like the answers.
McCain's stupid globetrotting is almost understandable, if still inexcusable. But to have Bush and now Cheney trying to scare up supporters overseas, I'm afraid, may give us more of a hint that action against Iran is getting ever closer.
On This Fifth Anniversary Of War With Iraq
Think very carefully about who you want to represent you in the White House come January.
Can we afford a John McCain who made that silly gaffe subsituting Iran with Iraq (something Bush Washington has made very easy to do) until latter-day-neocon-nutcase Joe Lieberman corrected him?
I say no. A yes for McCain is a vote for more bloodshed.
Note, too, that no less than seven out of every 10 Americans feels the Iraq War is directly hurting our economy (the other three, I suppose, believe that the war IS what remains of our economy ::sigh::) and that even if the war ended now, we will continue paying costs for it for many, MANY years into the future.
It's Three In The Morning…
Bopping about the intertubes today I stumbled over the blog of George Washington University Professor of Political Science, Marc Lynch. The blog is titled Abu Aardvark. Professor Lynch writes mainly about Middle Eastern affairs, and the very top article as I bash out this post piqued my interest. That article is titled "never been afraid to talk about anything". Continue reading
The Ralph Nader Hat Toss: Why I Won't Scream He's In The Race
I've written here and elsewhere many times about my genuine fondness for the Nader family and for Ralph's historical work, so I won't cover all that ground anew. However, this feeling on my part really plays no role in why I won't be joining those who want to villify Ralph for his decision to run as an Independent for the office of the president of the United States.
First, it's tough enough that those who believe in the general principles Ralph has always stood by are often haranged by supporters of more mainstream candidates because Ralph is a "spoiler". Spoiler to what, when our campaigns all reek from the corruption, greed, glad-handing, backroom deals, antidemocratic ideology, etc. that go on?
Second, while I in no way advocate the rise of a third (or fourth, or more) political party just for the sake of their creation, I'm also still totally in shock that the country that demands more choices for ice cream flavors than chocolate and vanilla also feels that more than two political parties is "too much." What this has done is create great schisms under the banners of Republican and Democrat that often fracture against the whole. After all, my kind of Democrat may sound and vote differently than yours because I'm a progressive realist, while perhaps you are a middle-of-the-road Clintonite.
Third, sadly, does it really matter what Ralph does at this point? The last time he ran, he got only a fraction of one percent of the vote. Exactly from whom does this take from?
Even more sadly – because I used to take such pride in Ralph and his ideals – I have to acknowledge, and feel you should as well, that there are much bigger issues before us right now than whether or not Ralph Nader is in the 2008 presidential race. This is not 2000, nor 2004. Any sane person knows we can't keep one of the current crop of Republicans in the White House, not if we'll leave Iraq in our lifetimes or hope to prevent an even more bloody war with Iran. Our enemy isn't Ralph: it's all the bastards who want to finish destroying what little good in this nation that George W. Bush hasn't already turned into kitty litter.
Less Jobs. More Wars. Mmmm…McCain.
Here's some of the immediate political brilliance of Brave New Films, a little unsettled by the potential of a McCain Presidency. Another variation at the link.
The State of the Union (SotU) Address: If Only Bush Spoke The Truth
Considering Bush has been known €" mature, wise fellow that he is €" to flip the finger at press and photographers, a part of me wonders if, on the occasion of his final State of the Union delivery tonight (Monday), he might just tell the truth, certain that no one can do a damned thing about all the misery, injustice, and death he has wrought. God knows the man looks for opportunities to smirk ever more insultingly.
So here's what I think he would say if truth serum were administered to him just before the speech:
Good evening, you pussies and ingrates:
I could give you my usual bullshit about how I gotta hard job and I work hard (damned, I say that a heluva lot) but we all know if damned good 'o me to bother to put in eight hours a WEEK between my naps, ball game watching, riding my mountain bikes OVER old ladies, and planning for the vacations I take ev'ry few days.
But anyways… I won't make this long 'cos you don't wanna hear it and frankly, I like to pretend to get into bed real early like so I can hide my drinkin' and druggin' I'd make certain you'd do federal time for. So let's get this sucker over with.
Too effin' bad if you don't like the job I've done; it was never up to you anyway. And mixed in with all the lies was a little truth, anyway. Like when I said I wanted to make America an ownership society €" not my fault if you thought YOU would be the owners when I really meant Saudi nationals, wealthy Kuwaitis, and scores of other rich for'ners would come in and buy everythin' up 'cos I made sure you can't afford to breathe.
As for Iraq, boo-frickin-hoo so many have died. At least they're not people I care about. My dumb-as-dirt daughters are just fine and livin' like princesses so I don't give a tinker's damn that your kid is too dumb to get into college 'cos I dumbed down the requirements for public education or 'cos I made sure they can't afford to go on to school. After all, we gotta military recruitment quota to fill and it's not like there are jobs out there for your grown kids to get; and where they can find jobs, I'll make damned well sure they are jobs that can feed a family. Besides, college ain't all its cracked up to be. Just look at me and I went to a bunch of the best effing schools in the country. Continue reading
All Those Iraq Lies? (The) Saddam (Devil) Made Bush Do It
Well, we've heard every possible excuse from the president and the rest of the Bush Administration on how they could have been so terribly wrong about weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and the threat the Iraqi leaders presented to the U.S. So now, after a government audit documented 935 separate lies about Iraq – and the American economy affected by a war with Iraq – from the Bush Administration, what makes more sense than for the Bushies to turn around and blame Saddam? Well, that is, it makes about as much sense as anything else this murderous, greedy, deceitful crew does, anyway.
What marvelous timing that the FBI agent who supposedly was the one to interrogate Saddam Hussein after his capture in Iraq in December 2003 picked NOW, in light of the lie report, to disclose highlights from his seven-month-long interrogation of the Iraqi dictator, hanged just before the end of 2006.
However, for the Bushies to quickly spread the story that it was Saddam who lied and fooled them does NOT appear to be a particularly flattering spin on events. For it to matter, we would have had to BELIEVE what Saddam was saying in the first place – and we had no reason to do that, did we? After all, we expect our enemies – and America's greatest enemy of all, President George W. Bush – to lie to us. So why did the Bushies magically choose to believe the WMD/threat lies (if Saddam told them rather than the U.S.)?
Also, according to Colin Powell, and Dick Cheney, et al, they had "military intelligence" and well more than ample evidence from "trusted sources" that WMD was EVERYWHERE in Iraq and that the nation, which could barely afford to operate at all, was ready to launch suicide camel rocket SCUBA divers to blow up the West Coast (remember?).
Well, as usual with the Bushies, the truth changes faster than Bush's "reasons" for going into Iraq in the first place, and none of the stories/versions makes as much sense as that we went in there for the oil, and got a lot more (and not in a good way) than we bargained for.
Why can't the Bushies do something truly unique just ONCE? As in, tell the truth? Wait. I know why. Because to them, the truth is just something to spin into something worse. Lessons we need to keep in mind as Bush keeps ramping us forward to war with Iran.
The Former Republican Congressman Turned Terrorist: Why We Should Wait To Pass Judgment
OK, it's very tempting: a Midwest man (Mark Deli Siljander of Michigan) who formerly served in Congress (as a Republican) and as a delegate to the United Nations has been charged with 42 – count 'em – charges of funding and promoting terrorism. The righteous Republican tag makes me want to exploit this story for all it's worth.
But here's why I won't.
First, there's that strange notion of "innocent until proven guilty" that was hard hit even BEFORE the Bushies rode into office on a surplus of rigged electronic voting and almost completely eliminated now. But even that is not the only reason here I won't take the bait.
Siljander has been charged for his efforts with the Islamic American Relief Agency which the feds claim funnels money to groups that have actually threated America and its war of empire in Iraq, Afghanistan, and elsewhere. However, we've seen a BUNCH of such charges that, even when the feds DO manage to win in court, seem to be built on unsubstantiated so-called evidence. Outside the U.S., many courts throughout the very civilized world have, often using info "developed" by the Bushies, have failed to render guilty verdicts because of the speciousness of the charges and the evidence the cases are built upon.
As the Christian Science Monitor so WISELY opined soon after September 11th, 2001 when they decided to stop using the term "terrorist" to identify everyone the Bushies do not like, "one person's terrorist is another person's freedom fighter." This government is waging war on money going to every Muslim cause that isn't directed at keeping the Bushies and American corporations in charge of the oil in Iraq and the huge oil pipeline planned to cross Afghanistan OR to promote the war Bush WANTS to have in Iran.
At the exact same time, this government turns a blind eye to fund raising for others who also might be construed as religious fascists; for example, it's fine if you donate huge sums of money to some of the seriously rightwing "let's get rid of these Muslims and anyone else of not-our-kind-of-Semite" groups in Israel. (Palestinians and others are also Semites, btw, which makes any criticism of the most rightwing of the Israeli government's actions as "anti-Semitic" just because some of us want a fairness way beyond odd.) And Israel is just one example of the terrorists our government IS willing to support while condemning a select group of others.
Knowing how many charges have been brought by the highly politicized judicial system under Bush for reasons that have nothing to do with actual justice, I'm sorry but I don't think anything they do stands up to the smell test.
IF Siljander's group and Siljander himself actually are terrorists, then I have no problem with them being charged and prosecuted. But persecution just for being Muslim – to this Christian, me – just stinks. STOP ALL TERRORIST FUNDING and then apply the rules, or stop bringing charges only against CERTAIN parties. We still support, for example, many programs that help keep any Saudi but the Saud royal family in extreme poverty in ways most of the rest of the world sees as terrorism against the Saudi people but God forbid an Islamic charity does anything to feed and educate those poor.
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INDIANAPOLIS—Four Tell City Wrestling Club members earned medals in the Indiana State Wrestling Association folkstyle state tourney last weekend.
Alec Stahly placed second in the bantam 70-pound weight class.
He had a first-round bye, beat Kenan Bowling of Normonco 6-3, and beat Clay Will of North Posey 5-2 to reach the championship match.
David Guhl of the Fighting Irish Wrestling Club beat Stahly 11-2 for the title.
Shane Braunecker went 5-2 to place fifth among 40 wrestlers in the bantam 55 weight class.
EVANSVILLE—Tell City freshman Anjan Kashyab placed second in age-16-and-under boys singles at the TSAC Pepsi Classic tennis tourney last weekend.
Kashyab had a first-round bye. He then defeated Ben Johnson of Newburgh 6-1, 6-0, Mathew Helm of Bloomington 6-4, 6-2, and Robert C. Caltenbach of Paducah, Ky., by illness default to reach the finals.
David Laser of Glencoe, Ill., beat Kashyab 6-0, 6-1 for the title.
The tourney included some of the top players from Indiana, Kentucky and Illinois.
HUNTINGBURG—Reserve center Lynk Kordes scored 13 points in the second half as Forest Park beat Tell City 65-48 in a Class 2A boys basketball sectional semifinal Friday.
Kordes' career-high point total all came in a seven-minute span.
The Rangers' complemented his inside game by hitting 4 of 7 three-point shots in the second half.
The Marksmen led much of the second half despite a ragged start that included five first-quarter turnovers and nine in the first half.
This year there was general agreement on who should be on the All-Perry County girls basketball team but little agreement on who should be named its Most Valuable Player.
Once again I had the three county coaches, the two who coaches against all three county teams (Alan Cox of Crawford County and Randy Graham of Tecumseh) and me, who saw all three county teams play at least four times, do the voting.
Each was asked to vote for five players they would want to put on the floor together to try to win a game.
LINCOLN CITY—Tell City scored seven pins to beat Heritage Hills 72-39 in junior high wrestling Thursday.
Jagger Hudson, Grant Bolin, Justin Alvarez, Spenser Beard, C.J. Rowe, Cody Osborne and Nick Bolin earned the pins for the Archers.
Osborne scored his fastest, in just 20 seconds.
The Archers might have won by an even larger margin but "our forfeits did not match up that well, costing us some points," said Tell City Coach Josh Casebolt.
LINCOLN CITY—Tell City won 8 of 13 events but finished second in a junior high boys triangular swim meet Thursday.
The Archers beat South Spencer but lost to Heritage Hills by one point.
"Heritage Hills was able to enter two relays in the 200 and 400 freestyle relays where we barely have enough boys to fill all three relays," said Tell City Coach Lewis Anderson.
Tell City's Trent Rainey won the 50- and 100-yard freestyles for Tell City in 29.42 seconds and 1:10.42, respectively.
TELL CITY—Tell City won 9 of 13 events as it dominated a junior high girls triangular swim meet Tuesday.
Tell City scored 136 points, Boonville 86, and Pike Central 74.
Logan Flannagan won the 100-yard individual medley in 1:18.82 and the 50 breaststroke in 40.31.
Bailey Powell won the 100 and 200 freestyles in 1:09.90 and 2:36.06 respectively.
Other individual winners for the Archers were Sidney Brown in the 50 backstroke in 41.63 seconds and Kassie Peter in the 50 free in 32.31.
REO—Led by two individual champions, Tell City won the junior-senior division of the 17th annual Southern Indiana bench press & squat competition at South Spencer Feb. 27.
"We've never won it before," noted Tell City football defensive coordinator Ron Robinson, who helps supervise Tell City's weightlifting program.
More than 20 schools from southern Indiana and western Kentucky competed.
Tell City senior Kyle Osborne won the 216-pounds-and-over individual title with a 300-pound bench press and 485-pound squat.
HUNTINGBURG—Trent Theising hit a 12-foot shot with 2.4 seconds left to lift Forest Park past Perry Central 40-39 in the first round of the Class 2A boys basketball sectional Tuesday.
Forest Park led 38-36 with 23.6 seconds left and had a chance to virtually ice the victory as Nathan Bromm went to the free-throw line for one shot plus the bonus.
He missed the first shot, though, and Perry Central rebounded.
Jacob Schwartz scored a three-point play on a driving five-foot shot and free throw to put the Commodores ahead 39-38 with 0:13 left.
OAKLAND CITY—Cannelton played well, but missed scoring opportunities cost the Bulldogs a chance at victory in a 63-55 loss to New Harmony in the first round of the Class A boys basketball sectional Tuesday.
"We missed 17 shots in the lane, including three or four layups down the stretch," noted Cannelton Coach Brian Garrett.
This was the fourth meeting of the season between these teams. New Harmony had won the previous three contests by an average of 20.7 points per game and outrebounded Cannelton by 16 per game.
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Newly-convicted Enron executives Ken Lay and Jeffrey Skilling both plan to appeal, but whatever happens the case has changed the legal landscape for corporations. Alisa Roth reports.
The computer maker and search giant confirmed yesterday that Dell would pre-package Google software in its new PCs. Cheryl Glaser looks at the implications.
Moscow is floating a plan to take over three oil projects that are now being run by Western companies. Stephen Beard reports.
The coffee retailer announced yesterday it was bringing its trademark mermaid to Brazil. Dan Grech reports.
It's not known for being a wild and crazy place, but today Singapore gave Las Vegas Sands a contract to build what will be the most expensive casino in the world. Jocelyn Ford reports.
This installment of the Job Files visits a pub owner in Kent, England.
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Most of the plastic in this country is made from petroleum, a nonrenewable source. But it doesn't have to be. A company in Nebraska is making an innovative plastic — from corn. Sarah Gardner reports.
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Robert Cisneros, PhD, was installed as an honorary lifetime member of the Campbell University College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences' Alumni Association during its annual Alumni & Friends Homecoming Tailgate on Saturday, October 24.
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The Campbell University College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences Alumni Association named Michael L. Adams, PharmD, PhD, a Distinguished Alumni at its annual Homecoming Tailgate on Saturday, October 24.
Internationally renowned surgeon brings awareness to Campbell health care community
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The Dr. Joseph W. Baggett Wellness Institute, part of Campbell University's College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences (CPHS), provided a rare opportunity for faculty, students, and local clinicians to engage with internationally renowned surgeon, Josef Stutz. Stutz is a pioneer in the research and treatment of lipedema, a chronic disorder of adipose tissue and lymphatic dysfunction. Lipedema's characteristics are defined by fatty tissues in distinct patterns in the lower extremities of the human body.
CPHS to host Special Forces Major for Convocation
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The College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences at Campbell University is honored to announce Major Ivan Castro as the keynote speaker for its opening convocation ceremony on Friday, August 21. The College begins each new academic year with a convocation ceremony to gather all students together, to welcome new and returning students, and to honor those students who will be graduating the current academic year.
Curriculum revisions reignite innovative spirit
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The last time the College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences' doctor of pharmacy curriculum committee was charged with building a new curriculum, the year was 1985 and it was the only program in the School of Pharmacy at Campbell University. It was unlike anything else in the state, offering a progressive PharmD-only curriculum. Thirty years later, a team of eight faculty and three student pharmacists are at the drawing board revisiting curriculum requirements to continue the legacy of innovation for Campbell pharmacists.


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Portions of the following information are based on facts provided by the arrested individuals. Those individuals have been booked with, not convicted of, the offenses shown. All accused should be presumed innocent until proven guilty.
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Kelly Ann Chaisson, 29, 7069 Shrimpers Row, Dulac, failure to return leased movables.
Gerald Allen Wells, 29, 15543 Waywood Ave., Baton Rouge, resisting an officer.
James Leonard Earls Jr., 26, 1107 East St., Houma, two counts failure to appear.
Jody Jondell Davis, 40, 9277 Golden Gate Court, Houma, failure to appear, failure to pay fine and costs.
Christian Jaye Cooper, 18, 273 Monarch Drive, Houma, second degree cruelty to juvenile.
Desmond Dewayne Jackson, 18, 417 Morgan St., Houma, failure to appear.
Carla Marie Dupre, 25, 300 Prosperity St., Chauvin, driving under suspension, improper lane usage.
Feb. 10, 2009
Shane Joseph Mackles, 30, homeless, entry after being forbidden, vagrancy, disturbing the peace by intoxication, unlawful solicitation.
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Conis Thomas Johnson, 54, 6112 North Bayou Black Drive, Gibson, failure to appear.
Clyde Jamar Carter, 28, 413 Owens St., Napoleonville, speeding, possession with intent to distribute schedule I controlled dangerous substance.
Brandon Lamon Theriot, 24, 6102 North Bayou Black Drive, Gibson, distribution schedule II controlled dangerous substance, possession with intent to distribute schedule II controlled dangerous substance.
Kayla Louise Parfait, 24, 4584 Shrimpers Row, Houma, two counts possession with intent to distribute schedule II controlled dangerous substance, unlawful possession drug paraphernalia, improper supervision of a minor, obtaining drugs with altered prescription.
The individuals whose names follow were incarcerated on the order of a court or processed following a judicial determination.
Feb. 10, 2009
Logan Michael Moore, 21, 502 Bobby Lou Ave., Houma, possession of marijuana.
William Joseph Skipper, 20, 311 Mobile Estates Drive, Gray, theft less than $300.
April Leigh Adam, 19, 218 East 26th Place, Cut Off, DWI, improper lane usage, seat belt violation.
Nikki Lynn Ledet, 21, 130 Fane St., Houma, DWI.
Arthur Landry Jr., 26, 907 Broadmoor Ave., Houma, speeding, DWI, improper lane usage, open alcohol container in vehicle.
April Brandolyn Tabor, 25, 614 Cypress St., Gibson, DWI.
John Michael Bohler, 26, 604 Douglas Drive, Houma, DWI, improper lane usage.
Gerald Anthony Simon, 47, 4229 Grand Caillou Road, Houma, DWI, careless operation.
Benjamin David Pitre, 21, Petterson St., Cut Off, speeding.
Gerald Allen Wells, 29, 15543 Waywood Ave., Baton Rouge, obstructing public passages.
Herman Williams, 20, 2601 Larry St., Houma, violating proclamation of emergency.
Kammie Joann Higginbotham, 24, 262 Palm Ave., Houma, possession of marijuana.
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Guaranty Trust Bank Plc, Nigeria's biggest lender by market value, gained the most in more than five weeks after announcing plans to expand operations in Africa to grow its loan book.
The stock climbed 2.6 percent, the most since Feb. 14, to 14.52 naira by the 2:30 p.m. close in Lagos.
Guaranty will start its operations in Ivory Coast, the world's leading cocoa producer, in May, Chief Executive Officer Segun Agbaje said on a conference call yesterday from Lagos. The bank plans to expand into five to seven "high impact" African countries in five years, he said.
The bank plans to grow its loan book by 15 percent this year and achieve a return on equity of 25 percent, Agbaje said. Nigerian banks are starting to normalise lending following a contraction in credit after a crisis in 2008 and 2009 in which loans were advanced to speculate on the stock market. The central bank responded by firing the chief executives of eight banks, which did not include Guaranty, and took corrective action to bail out the industry.
Guaranty's net income in 2011 surged to 52.65 billion naira ($334 million) from 38.35 billion naira a year earlier, the Lagos-based bank said in an e-mailed statement March 16.
The bank's return on equity stood at 31.06 percent prior to the crisis in 2007, dropping to 13.64 percent in 2009 and recovering to 23.6 percent last year, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. This ratio measures a corporation's profitability by revealing how much profit a company generates with the money shareholders have invested.


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Emergency purchase as our GE Profile died after 9 yrs ! Less organization than the profile in fridge and freezer prompting me to go out and buys bins esp for freezer to help with that. The crisper drawers are VERY cheap and one cracked after 2 days of use. Can't open the freezer door in order to pull out basket because door must be opened fully for clearance of the bin and not possible if you have any kind of a wall that it opens near. So will have to get on knees to rummage thru to find stuff. The ice cubes fall backside of bin if you just wiggle it which then drops to the floor of the freezer which I can't a access because I can't pull out the bin to to door clearance issue. Wish I had my drawer freezer back. When opening either doors, upon closing , causes the other door to briefly pop open which one would think takes away from energy efficiency. I was told this is normal. I have never in my 57 yrs, experienced a fridge that did this at other peoples homes or vacation travels with kitchens ! Also noisier than last GE .Overall not impressed by this purchase and have much buyer regret. This was the only bottom freezer available at the store at the time and this was an emerg purchase so couldn't shop around. Deeply regret this purchase. Was also told most appliance only last 8-10 yrs so didn't want to spend fortune and only certain size fits my cabinet space.
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By Nellie76
from Juneau, AK, United States
Comments about GE 20.2 Cu Ft Stainless Steel Bottom Freezer Refrigerator:
I wanted a freezer on the bottom so the refrigerator contents would be easily viewed and reached. I like that the refrigerator is at eye level and easily accesible. However, I'm disappointed that the shelves go all the way across and cannot be reconfigured halfway accross like my previous refrigerator could. Thus, the only way I can put tall items in, like milk cartons or tall bottles, is in the door. If I adjust a shelf so that there's the height on a shelf, that means the whole shelf moves, and then the shelf above or below is very short. I would not have bought it if I'd known this, but unfortunately the store wherre I bought it did not have one in stock for me to look at, and the website did not disclose this problem. Also, the freezer doesn't have a designated place to put ice trays--again I might not have bought it had I known that. Too bad. One more thing: it seems pretty noisy when it's running.
Bottom Line Yes, I would recommend this to a friend
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Double drawer freezer allows to seperate items
By maleko1
from Pauls Valley, OK, United States
I purchased this refrigerator almost 8yrs ago and it has been completely trouble free. GE should return this refrigerator to the market. This Model is worth every penny. I use the water in the door frequently for everything because it is filtered and the design leaves complete equal capacity in the double door space. No worry about ever having ice maker problems, the large ice maker tray inside the freezer is only accessible when needed, also leaving more useable space.
Great features, larger inside than we thought.
By dk57
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Like it a to - only possible negative is that it does run a little loud
Roomy and Feature-"full" for a smaller fridge
By JustDee
from Milwaukee, WI, United States
I was a little worried (as I bought the item online) that it would be smaller, in terms of storage space than it looked. But now that we've got it installed, I'm LOVING it - the temp. controls work really well, the icemaker is great and I love the way the inside of this refrigerator is "organized". And despite it being slightly smaller than standard, it has plenty of room for all our groceries. Very please overall with this product!
Design of refridgerator
By Patzmerman
from Roseville, MI
I really like the design of this refrigerator but it turned out to a little smaller than the one I just got rid of. After installation we noticed that the freezer is not sealing tight enough. We have condensation around the seal and frost on items just inside the door. No meat drawer.
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By adamrl
from Grand Rapids, MI, United States
Really nice basic fridge with great looks. Great design and quiet.
Great Looking Fridge
By jwnutso
from California, United States
Very happy so far. Love the style and functionality. Took one star away as the freezer drawer gets blocked from sliding out al the way by the door itself, even when the door is opened at 90 degree angle. Can still reach all frozen foods for our use, but it is odd.
Love the bottom freezer
By Bobbing
from Bouse, AZ, United States
Bought it in December very happy with it would highly recommend this product.
Just what we needed!
By Squeaky72
from Prescott Valley, AZ, United States
So many of them had standard features. This model had them all as options. That is a huge bonus to us.
Frig with lower freezer
By 812frig
from Cumming, Iowa, United States
I love the milk in the door shelf. Very tough and durable interior. Look so shinny white, easy to keep clean, I Polish it more than my Harley Davidson. Pride in ownership.
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