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Skip to comments.Chevy to Build Impalas, Malibus at Underutilized Volt Plant
Posted on 06/04/2012 8:57:15 AM PDT by jazusamo
CBC News reports that an Ontario General Motors' plant where Chevy Impalas and Equinoxes were built will be closed down, costing Canadians around 2,000 jobs. GM reportedly plans to partially move production of the Impala to its Detroit-Hamtramck assembly plant in Michigan. You may remember the Hamtramck site from the Chevy Volt commercial which trumpeted the building of Volts there. It now seems that low demand for the Volt has led to the plant having enough time to build other, conventionally-powered vehicles. While the Volt may have been the car GM "had to build," it appears that consumers would "prefer" them to build cars like the Impala.
It is also reported that GM will build 2013 Chevy Malibus at the Chevy Volt plant . The additional tasks will give workers that produce the low-selling Volt something to do, other than stay home on paid leave as they have had to do during shutdown periods for the Volt. It also enables GM to politically tout job creation at the Volt plant. The fact that the jobs have not been created by the "green" Volt and that they come at the expense of lost Canadian jobs is sure not to be mentioned.
Canadians that have a stake in GM are learning what it is like to be part of a group that is not politically important in the US. It must seem confusing to those in Canada who read the American media reports about how great GM is doing and how many jobs are being "saved or created." The pain is intensified by the fact that Canada chipped in about $11 billion to help GM through their manipulated bankruptcy process. The CBC article quotes some who question what Canadian taxpayers are getting for their money.
President Chris Buckley of Local 222 Canadian Autoworkers Union laments, "I am absolutely disgusted at GM's decision to close the plant." According to the article Buckley goes on to state, "Our members have done everything GM has asked us to do for quite some time all in the eyes of having jobs in the future. What more can we do to ensure we have a future?"
Canadian politicians echoed Buckley's sentiment as noted in this excerpt:
Opposition parliamentarians were quick to agree. "It's one thing for the company to survive," NDP MP Peggy Nash said. "If the jobs don't survive here in Canada, it's not much good to Canadians."
Liberal MP John McKay wants Ottawa to review the terms of GM's original loan. "They haven't actually paid back the loan at this point," he said. "They have declared dividends, they have sold off shares and ... the poor taxpayers of Ontario and Canada are left holding the bag."
So, I officially welcome the soon to be unemployed GM workers of Canada and the Canadian taxpayers to the "Hosed by Government Motors Club." Members of the club include former GM shareholders and bondholders, widows and other accident and asbestos litigants, owners of "Old" GM vehicles who did not have their vehicles' problems covered by "New" GM, Indian tribes and others who have had their lands polluted by Old GM , Delphi non-union retirees, non-union workers at shuttered GM dealerships and, last but not least, the American taxpayers. The exclusive club does not include politically-favored US unionized labor or legal firms enriched by the GM bankruptcy process. And while it may be hard for Canadians to comprehend the hype about how great a job the Obama Administration did by putting GM through bankruptcy at a huge expense to taxpayers, maybe the fact that the Administration also is credited with assassinating Osama Bin Laden will be of some consolation.
Mark Modica is an NLPC Associate Fellow.
What? I thought the Obamamobile was selling like hotcakes!?!?!
Funny, eh ?
Cur the "OBAMA BRINGING JOBS BACK TO AMERICA!" Campaign Commercials!
GM has already announced that it set sales goals for the Volt of 45,000 units for the calendar year. How is that corrupt company going to sell so many overpriced golf carts if they are building something different at the golf cart factory?
This move seems to be the proof they've finally started to stop believing their own lies.
If I remember correctly, that Canadian plant was rated very high in quality control. Seems like a dumb move.
Dear GM,
If you were smart you would immediately ABANDON any and all plans to continue to produce EITHER OF THESE CARS. My 2001 Impala, bought NEW started falling apart at 80,000, Biggest piece of CRAP they ever came up with except maybe the VOLT. The malibu is running a close second. Why we bailed out this loser company is beyond me. I run my Chevy Work trucks 250,000 miles without ever doing a repair OF ANY KIND, except brakes,shocks, oil changes...I will NEVER BUY ANOTHER CHEVY CAR. Instead I will be buying FORD'S since they did not take Blood Money from OBAMA, already bought 2 crown vic police interceptors and love them.
It has nothing to do with quality, numbers, or profit.
GM is bleeding money again, still.
2,000 VOTERS in detroit will have jobs this November. (and their spouses, cousins, and friends will vote too)
Screw canada, it's all about HIM getting re-elected.
When are they going to do a retro car 56-57 Chevys.
(Never would be the same, I know.....still might be fun)
:: GM has already announced that it set sales goals for the Volt of 45,000 units for the calendar year. ::
And we see the failure of their union-devised business plan...again!
In essence, this means that GM has ^contractually^ promised the UAW that it will build 45,000 Volts. In turn, this sales goal means that the franchises better sell them or get their franchise threatened.
GM needs to re-tool their plan of business.
Other than the Vette the '57 Chevy was the nicest looking Chevy ever built, in my view.
GM and its union and government owners can choke on whatever kinds of cars they want to make. Falling of deaf ears. I will NEVER even consider something made by GM.
Edsel > Volt
Just wrote an email about the content of this thread to someone, and mentioned GE seemed IMO to be waiting for the results of the election before completing their commitment to purchase those 20,000 Volts.
It seems to me it would be a smart move on the part of GE rather than get stuck with all that costly junk.
I owned one for about six months, my uncle gave it me when I turned 21, then I traded it in on 59 Chevy.
Really wish I had either one of those cars today.
However, I really loved my 56 VW Bug.
All the cars seem so ordinary these days (unless you have lots of $$$$$$$)
I couldn't agree more and believe that's exactly what GE is thinking.
Ever hear of a 789....?
The additional tasks will give workers that produce the low-selling Volt something to do, other than stay home on paid leave....WTF?
What is it with these f'ing unions? So the taxpayer is paying these guys to sit at home?
Nope, but I WANT one!!!!!
Thanks for the link.
Just what we need. More gimmicky muscle cars with spoilers and racing stripes. Why don't they put a number on the side too. I was at the Chicago Auto Show this winter and I have to say these cars look like dinosaurs from a bygone era. While other companies are building sleek contemprary cars, GM seems stuck in the past. Perhaps on a whim some people buy these cars, but not the average consumer.
Dad and I were out yesterday. Settled all of the world's problems, along with discussing what a piece of junk these electric cars are.
My comment? "They'd be perfect in a retirement community. Use them to get back and forth to the club, to the golf course, get a few groceries, and so on."
Dad's response? "Your Grandfather used to use his Golf Cart for just those very things."
My first Car was a 55 Chevy 210 two door Wagon I bought for $100. I needed to put a new front end on it because it was in an accident. I bought the entire front end, (hood-fenders-grill) for $25.
A year later my Brother had a friend selling a 57 Chevy Coupe for $150. I went to look at it and the passenger side rear quarter panel was bashed in.
I looked at the guy and said, I can't believe you're trying to sell your Friend's Brother (me) that piece of junk.
Hindsight is indeed 20/20. I don't even want to think about the 69 Shelby Mustang I missed getting for $2,000...
"Other than the Vette the 57 Chevy was the nicest looking Chevy ever built, in my view."
I just loved my 62 Belair 'bubble top' 327. Bought it new in 62.
The Canada plants were historically predicated on the Canadian dollar being cheap, well below par with the US dollar. Now that the US has depreciated (thanks Ben, Timmy, and Baraq) to below Canada, the Canadians are hosed.
Must be their plant for producing crappy cars.
You recall wrong. The 283 was the engine that the '57 chevy had, a great engine. The 327 came along a few years later.
Heck retro the 66 GTO. I'd buy one.
You're correct...It was a 283 cubic inch. One was 220 hp and the other with dual quads was 270 hp.
"The 327 was quite an engine..."
It was very quick off the line and took on many heavier Impalas of the same year with comparable specs. BTW, my brother purchased a 57 Belair, in 57, when he got out of the service. I believe it was a 283, yellow with a white top and gold trim. It was quite a site. Used to love it when he took me to school.
Thanks for the ping, Hieronymus.
Canada Ping.
Again, another ally getting screwed by Obama!! If the private sector took over GM, I would think that Hummer, Saturn and Pontiac could be split into a new company -- while Chevy, Buick and Cadillac and GMC truck could be GM. I would have spun off Vette into 'BLUEGRASS MOTORS', because IMHO it is the only car GM build that I want.
Why is it 'RIGHTFULLY SO"? G.M. has been making automobiles in Canada since 1918. Just another example of Obama and his cohorts sticking the political knife in the back of a trusted friend and ally.
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Ending the year with a not-so-great weigh-in update, but hopefully I'll start 2015 with a much better one. I have to remember to always focus on the positive. :)
Ending the year with a not-so-great weigh-in update, but hopefully I'll start 2015 with a much better one. I have to remember to always focus on the positive. :)
If you're friends with me on Facebook, you already know this. On Sunday night, a little before 10:00pm, I had a seizure. My husband and I had been watching TV lying on separate couches, and he made a joke, looked over, and thought I was laughing. When he looked harder, he saw me shaking and thought I was choking. My arms had been crossed over my chest, and he picked me up (!) and tried to give me the Heimlich. I guess when he saw my face, he realized that I was having a seizure. He called 911 because I wasn't breathing, and they talked him through everything and sent the ambulance within minutes.
I don't remember anything except waking up on the ambulance asking where I was. They asked me my name, my address, my birthday: I couldn't answer anything because I couldn't remember. Slowly my memory came back to me, but it was surreal to be asked that, KNOW that I know the answer, but not be able to tell them.
Other than that, I don't remember a thing about it. It was mostly traumatic for my husband, who really took the brunt of all of it. I did end up with some battle wounds: I bit almost clear through my tongue, twisted my ankle, and tweaked my back. I tried to nurse all of those yesterday, but I'm really feeling the brunt of the pain today. And not being able to sing, talk, or practice trumpet is KILLING ME. They say that the mouth heals faster than any other part of your body, so hop to it, body! I can deal with the back and foot (although they are pretty damn painful), but the tongue is just really an inconvenience for everything: the above mentioned plus eating, drinking, or brushing my teeth.
I've never had a seizure before and have no family history. The ER tests couldn't pinpoint why this has happened, so we're kind of on the hunt for what's going on right now. The reason they are focusing most on is 1) my low iron levels and 2) that I may have bleeding ulcers again which triggered it. I don't feel like I do, but they are doing an upper GI next week to be sure, and I have a consultation with a neurologist as well.
Thankfully, there was no repeat yesterday. I rested for most of the day, trying to keep my foot up and iced and my back as relaxed as possible. Jake, however, had to fix our plumbing. Not only did he have to be strong for me on Sunday and watch the entire thing, but he had to do hard physical labor yesterday. I just wanted him to be able to rest, but he has trouble doing that. I am so extraordinarily lucky to have him as my husband. Truly.
Today Jake went to work and I am home alone. I feel fine and I'm hoping nothing happens while he's at school. Crossing my fingers that it was just a fluke thing, but also doing a ton of research today about seizures after weight loss surgery.
If you have a seizure as a post-op or know someone who has, please contact me. I'd love to hear anything you're comfortable sharing: any medical info you have about WHY you had a seizure as a post-op, when it happened, any info your doctor may have suggested, etc. I just want to go in fully armed with info, because I know that almost always I have to advocate for myself as a wls post-op because doctors seem to know very little when I ask them questions. Thanks for your help!
Some of you yesterday read my blog about my +18 lbs regain. Everyone was really supportive, and I'm thankful that I had a pretty-kick ass group of folks who area always willing to take a few moments of their day to send a quick note to help try and boost my spirits. You havee no much that means to me, it really is helpful more than you think.
In the afternoon when my husband got home from work, I told him I was changing my diet pronto and going to lose weight. He generally bucks against that because he really does find me attractive no matter what, but more so, he knows I get a little cuckoo crazy with weight issues. His exact response to me was this:
"You don't eat that much, and really, you can eat whatever you want. Your problem is that you need to exercise, and you know it. Then you can eat whatever you want." (within reason, of course)
And honestly, he's right. I get up, got outside with the dogs and sometimes take them for long walks, but that's really it. I've stopped dancing, I don't do even the most basic of exercises, and I've gradually stopped going in the pool. Moving – exercising – I HATE it. I'm very well aware of what foods, nutrients, vitamins, etc make my body work well. But none of it is going to make a huge difference if I just sit on my ass all day. That's going to have to change, and I'm finding it the hardest thing to get motivated to do.
But then I had this idea: I choreographed and taught burlesque and troupe dancing for months, and the weight just poured off. I've considered contacting some local dance studios to see if it's possible to start a class around here. I haven't even attempted that yet, it's only in idea form right now.
But then I also had another idea: what about choreographing some songs, recording the teaching videos, and then maybe approaching the WLSFA about at least a one of song performance at the conference? My dance troupes have always been open to any man or woman, of any size, any dance background (including NONE) , and making something spectacular with people who just always wanted to just TRY IT. Try being on stage. With the comfort of many others in the same spot, with costuming (supplied for the most part by me), a real performance to look to, and a goal of getting moving and having fun and totally forgetting that you're working out.
Here's a little inquiry into how things used to run. If anyone of you are full-fledged burlesque performers, you are most certainly welcome. But for the rest of us the dancing, the costumes, and the "leave a lot to the imagination" is what we focus on. There's is no minimum amount of trying (if any at all) to participate. You can start at any level, and will immediately be welcome with open arms by some of the most fantastic, supportive women you've ever met.
I would run the class one of two ways: 1) by renting a studio that people (anyone is welcome) could attend on a weekly basis. There would likely be a small free for the class just to help pay for the rental of the space. and 2) lessons completely online (free) that both the in-class students at home could use to practice at home, and for those not in SoCal who really, really want to participate.
So here's the big question: WHO WOULD BE INTERESTED IN PARTICIPATING??? We've got a long way to go to April/May 2015, and it would be the perfect way to start. Of course, the performance aspect needs to be presented to the WLSFA, but even if we weren't allowed to do it there, I'd find us another venue.
Please let me reiterate that EVERYONE is welcome. The beauty of this show is that we celebrate REALY women (and men) of ALL AGES, SHAPES, AND SIZES, who just generally kick ass with their bravery and awesomeness.
If you think you might be interested, please leave a comment below with a way to connect to you OR PM or email me your address using the subject line: "REAL WOMEN DANCE TROUP." (email to: email@example.com)
A few things you may not know behind the scenes: I run EVERYTHING. The management, the production, securing the costumes, negotiating the contracts selecting the music, and almost 95 of the choreography.
I also ALWAYS accept performance ideas, music, and other ideas for suggestions. I want people to feel like that have a real emotional investment in the group. What started out as 5-6 friends talking about it, ended up in a 50-60 crew show that sold out three times.
If you've ever had an inkling to be onstage in a very supportive, loving, and strong friendship group – this is for you, I promise.
If I see interest, I am on it in lickety split time and we will get to work.
Show m your inner diva!
Well, shit.
I knew I had gained weight. I had TWO people ask me "when I was due" this week, but I also knew because my clothes don't fit, and I'm really just physically uncomfortable. I've just had the perfect storm of menopause really starting to kick in, a change in my medications, and some personal stuff in my life that I'm not really comfortable talking about – all happen at once. (And no, it has nothing to do with my husband – we're still happy and he's a peach.) And how have I dealt with it? The same way that I always have: EATING.
I tried to convince myself that it wasn't me, because I'm still eating fairly small portions – but I'm DEFINITELY eating a lot of junk. And I'm at home all day working on my computer and not moving at all. Even taking the dogs for a walk has made me realize that I'm hella out of shape right now.
And I know you'll all jump in to try and make me feel better, and while I REALLY, REALLY appreciate that, it's not what I need. I need accountability. I need to start eating healthier and moving my body and not giving in to what's simple and easy.
Yes, I know that in the grand scheme of things, I'm still a "success" at six and a half years out, but if I keep moving in the same direction I will not be. And 183 lbs in NOT cool with me, or my closet.
And by the way, to the two idiots who asked me if I was pregnant this week: never EVER ask even if you have a single doubt. I mean, hell, you can look right at me and know that I'm not really at baby-making age any more. And besides that – though you couldn't possibly know this – you only asking me if I am pregnant only serves to remind me of the sadness that I can't have children. And the absolute WRONG thing to say to someone after they say NO that they're NOT pregnant is "oh, well you're bigger than the last time I saw you." $^@#$^% @#$^!!!!
I'm directing my anger at them, but I'm trying to not fall into a pattern where I beat myself up and not figure out how to get this weight off. It's no secret – I mean, I have to eat better and exercise – but damn, I wish I didn't have to. It's right back to where I started from.
It happens. It happens to most of it. If it's happened to you and you've taken the weight back off, I've love to know how you did it, where you're at, etc etc. And if you haven't been able to take it off, tell me about that too. But let's not beat ourselves up. Let's support each other and just do it. Be healthy. Comments section open…
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I haven't posted an entry here, on my "regular blog" for quite a while now (sorry)! I've been super-busy with the radio show on Mondays, The Dress Addict Promotional Giveaways, and also writing for the Wellesse Vital to Health Blog. I feel very fortunate to be part of the blogging crew there as I think Wellesse does so much good for the community!
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As a former morbidly-obese woman (311+ lbs), I am incredibly sensitive to the bias and stigma against overweight people. However, I struggle with the terms and ideaologies that are core to the Fat Acceptance movement.
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What materials did you use? Added a dotted mesh insert to seams of designer sweatshirt - it was one size too small - but I loved it and bought it - stupid!
What are you most proud of? I undid the complete side seam from the cuff on the sleeve (removed cuff as well) and right to the hem of the garment where I unpicked about four inches of the hem.
Amazing design and sewing workmanship. !!!
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Skip to comments.(NY) Governor Paterson proposes 'Obesity Tax,' a tax on non-diet sodas
Posted on 12/15/2008 9:52:33 AM PST by presidio9
A can of Coke could soon cost New Yorkers more than just calories.
Gov. Paterson, as part of a $121 billion budget to be unveiled Tuesday, will propose an "obesity tax" of about 15% on nondiet drinks.
This means a Diet Coke might sell for a $1 - even as the same size bottle of its calorie-rich alter ego would go for $1.15.
Paterson's budget also calls for a 3% cut in education spending, a $620-a-year tuition hike at SUNY and a $600 increase at CUNY - and about $3.5 billion in health care cuts, a source said.
The Democratic governor will not call for a broad-based income tax boost, but he will push to restore the sales tax on clothing and footwear.
The drastic belt-tightening comes as lawmakers struggle to close a $15 billion deficit this year and next.
"It's painful to make these decisions," Paterson said Sunday.
State employees again will be asked to forgo their 3% raises next year and defer five days' pay until they leave their jobs, the source said. In all, Paterson will propose about $9 billion in cuts, $4 billion in new taxes and fees, and $1.5 billion in nonrecurring revenue, a second source said.
The so-called obesity tax would generate an estimated $404 million a year. Milk, juice, diet soda and bottled water would be exempt from the tax.
"I'll just buy less," said Victor Lopez, 55, of Manhattan, as he drank a Coke at a midtown Subway store.
"I don't like to buy Diet Coke," said Amaury Garcia, 16, who works at a flower shop in Penn Station. "I'll just not buy any sodas if it goes up."
Public health advocates welcomed news of the tax, saying it would help the fight against childhood obesity.
"Raising the price of this liquid candy will put children and teens on a path to a healthier diet," said Elie Ward of the American Academy of Pediatrics of New York State.
The Paterson administration also announced steps yesterday to expand the state's social services net, including a 30% increase in welfare payments over three years starting January 2010, increased money for food banks and expanded access to the state's Family Health Plus program.
Paterson also hopes to make it easier for people to enroll in Medicaid by eliminating face-to-face interviews and fingerprinting requirements.
NY needs a stupidity tax ... they could generate trillions from Manhattan alone.
Paterson also hopes to make it easier for people to enroll in Medicaid by eliminating face-to-face interviews and fingerprinting requirements.
Now there's a cost-cutting measure, for sure...
Can't this guy SEE that people do not want more taxes?
Maybe they should do the tax on the other end...like a liposuction tax.
This article is so infused with liberalese, I don't know where to start.
I always have an unpleasant aftertaste if I try one of those.
Amazing...........and just yesterday I was asked why I never had any desire to move back to NY.
A tax on anyone with the last name of Paterson!
Especially ridiculous in light of health problems related to diet drinks.
Still waiting for a sudden outbreak of sanity...
Yes, he'd prefer everyone get diabetes from artificial sweeteners.
The good news is that this won't be going national any time soon. There are still a lot of liberal politicians who have no intention of getting behind any obesity tax.
Yup........tax the people while they are down. Really helps the country. All they are doing is insuring their own salaries.
As a refugee from the People's Demorkratik Worker's Paradise of New York, it is hard for me to imagine why someone would pose such a silly question...
"Lord, please save and deliver me from the do-gooders!"
Hmm...so we hassle merchants and tax soda, but not calorie-filled coffee drinks and sugary juice. Maybe we should tax fat slobs for offending my aesthetic sensibility as I walk down te street? Better yet, how about a tax on liberal stupidity?
Funny... every fatso I see orders diet soda... like it somehow makes up for all the rest of their over eating.
IMO this kind of stuff is just arrogance on his part. He should consider himself lucky that he hasn't inherited a weight problem.
Obviously the only fat he's got is between his ears.
A tax on blind politicians to pay for their coke spoons and hotel trysts.
LOL!!! It was posed to me by someone who was born and raised out in the country and thought it was just so marvelous that I had actually been born and raised in NYC. Could not understand why I would give that up to live in the middle of nowhere.
Has it occured to anyone else but me that up until now diet and regular soft drinks have always cost EXACTLY the same? I'm no chemist, but I'm guessing a synthetic sweetener costs a bit more than corn syrp. After water, those are the primary ingredients in either beverage. This means that coke and pepsi drinkers have been subsidizing diet coke and diet pepsi drinkers ever since the latter were invented.
This bloated tick in my brother's office brings a little carton of Ben & Jerry's for lunch everyday and then complains about how he misses the bigger cartons he used to eat before he went on a diet.
How to end childhood obesity:
Get the kids off their fat rear ends, get them away from the computer, the Nintendo and the TV, and get them OUTSIDE, running, playing sports, climbing (short, Federally-approved;) trees, bicycling, rollerskating, ETCETERA! Parents need to say "No Junior, you CAN'T have a Wii for Christmas, but you CAN have a bicycle!
Aspertame makes me feel strange. The Splenda stuff I like however.
Obviously it is the State budget that needs to go on a diet. No can do, so instead they tell taxpayers that they are too fat, and need to tax them for their own good.
Obviously it is the State budget that needs to go on a diet. No can do, so instead they tell taxpayers that they are too fat, and need to tax them for their own good.
Don't you understand? The serfs themselves are incapable of judging what is good and proper. Therefore, the benevolent lords and masters of New York must help the serfs make the right choices.
And to think there are FReepers who think "Bible thumpers" are the greatest threat to our liberty!
My elected officials in Albany will soon be debating the appropriate taxation levels on Dr. Pepper vs. Diet Coke. It really has come to this.
If they can take a break from arguing the merits of taxation on OJ with or without pulp, I'd really like them to get their collective S@#$ together. Soon.
You are right about that: An excessive tax on computer games wouldn't bother me one bit, and it would do more for childhood obesity than adding 10 cents to the price of a can of soda. Ten cents is about as valuable to kids today as a penny was to us thirty years ago.
I don't live in NYC, so this doesn't apply to me. If the city can tax those who drink regular pop because it leads to obesity, shouldn't there be an offset for people who drink regular Coke but also exercise regularly? The exercisers would have to keep detailed records and have their gauleiter sign off on the weekly exercise log so they can get a tax break.
Or someone who has a physical job.
SNL was actually funny for a change. The Patterson guy was just too funny
Then NY will sue the seetener companies...Then they will increase taxes to pay for the suit.
Then the drug companies will come up with a new drug. Etc, etc, etc...
THARRRR SHE BLOWS! Man we got to render him down. There is a lot of biofuel in that belly. The liposuction guy could make a fortune.
I worked in NYC for 19 years, and lived on LI. While I think the city has some great benefits, like shops, shows, museums and retaurants, the rules and regulations combined with the insane taxes (which are only going to get much, much worse, given their deficit projections and the massive layoffs in the financial services industry) made it easy for me to leave.
We visit if we want, but are then happy to return to our slower, more friendly lifestyle.
Just another ploy to steal a few more coins from the taxpayers. How bout letting insurance companies charge higher premiums to people that are obese—a much more fair way of dealing with the epidemic of overfed people. Insurance companies already charge higher rates for smokers. Why not obesity or homosexual behavior? Homosexuals are the #1 vector for the spread of infectious diseases as well as AIDS breeding antibiotic resistant bacteria.
Living in NY just plain sucks all around.
I'd really like to know where all the lottery money goes to. Doesn't look like hard times in the lottery line.
So, lets go to N.H. for cheap booze and some cheap R.C. Cola?
Now thats the funniest thing I have read,,,, well,, in the past few minutes anyway!
Problem is, the sheeple continue to vote for more taxes, whether they really want them or not.
They already have on. It's called a "lottery".
"Raising the price of this liquid candy will put children and teens on a path to a healthier diet," said Elie Ward of the American Academy of Pediatrics of New York State.
No, it won't, they'll just buy it in NJ or CT. Ever heard of prohibition? Putz.
calorie tax ping
>> Cant this guy SEE that people do not want more taxes?
Dude, you gotta think like a Liberal then it will make sense — so I've been told.
I am, I always feel a little nauseous after having a diet pop.
If you drive a car, Ill tax the street
If you try to sit, Ill tax your seat
If you get too cold, Ill tax the heat
If you take a walk, Ill tax your feet
(Cos Im the taxman)
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Translating Tranströmer: An Interview with Patty Crane
January 26, 2016 | by Danniel Schoonebeek
In the afterword to Bright Scythe, her new translation of Tomas Tranströmer's selected poems, Patty Crane tells a fascinating, fatalist story about how she came to translate the late Swedish poet and Nobel Prize recipient. Crane moved with her family to Tumba, Sweden in 2007, after her husband took a job overseas at a paper mill. A year into her relocation, she took a summer residency at Vermont College and began flying back to the United States in order to focus on her writing. One evening she sat next to poet Jean Valentine in a cafeteria, and because Valentine had heard that Crane was living near Stockholm, she asked if Crane might deliver a book to her friend Tomas. A year later, Crane was sitting in Tomas Tranströmer's home, speaking to him in Swedish, and beginning to translate his poem "The Station" into English. A few more years later—and this isn't part of that fatalist afterword, but it's part of our story today—a galley of Bright Scythe arrived at my studio in the Catskills and the doors that seemed to bar me from Tranströmer's work for so many years were blown off their hinges.
Is it weird for you to think that if even one of these events never took place you and I probably wouldn't be having this conversation?
It is weird. If it weren't for a flat bicycle tire, we definitely wouldn't be having this conversation! That's how I met my future husband, whose future job brought us to Sweden. I imagine there are events in your own life, maybe even a chance encounter, that led to this exchange we're having. Turn of events such as the ones I experienced—the move to Sweden, learning the language, re-discovering Tranströmer, my chance encounter with Jean, and everything that flowed from that—seem to me to be less about what happens to you in a given set of circumstances and more about what you make happen. I guess I'm talking about opportunity. A door opens and you enter. And look, a new room with more doors. Here I am in Stockholm, taking Swedish-for-Immigrants classes. Here I am reading Tranströmer in the original Swedish. Here's an early draft of my translation of "From July '90" with Tomas's faint pencil lines under the word pit. And here we are, Danniel, having this conversation. How do I reconcile that? I hope with sufficient gratitude, humility and hard work. Read More »
Empty Your Own Chamber Pot, and Other News
January 7, 2016 | by Dan Piepenbring
- The Swedish Academy keeps its lists of potential Nobel winners confidential for fifty years—meaning that, at last, we can see who coulda been a contender for the 1965 prize in literature. That year it went to the Soviet writer Mikhail Sholokhov, of And Quiet Flows the Don. Among the writers in contention, though, were Nabokov and Borges, neither of whom would ever make the cut. According to his maid, Borges was "tortured" by the annual spectacle surrounding the prize: "On the day of the announcement journalists would queue outside his door. This would happen year after year. The news each time that he had not won would make him very sad."
- In 1894, communes dedicated to the teachings of Tolstoy began to spring up in England; two of them still exist today, vowing to keep the flames of pacifism, anarchism, and clean Christian living. Kelsey Osgood paid one a visit: "Another community resident, Jo, wearing knee-high Wellingtons and a flashlight on her head, showed me the outhouses and taught me how to sprinkle wood shavings into the bucket to compost the bodily waste. (The shavings were from pine trees that they grow on their land and sell at Christmas.) I thought of how Tolstoy asked a young Desmond MacCarthy, the Eton and Cambridge-educated literary critic and journalist, to empty his own chamber pot while visiting Tolstoy's grand house at Yasnaya Polyana, because the Count thought it degrading to ask the servants to do it.
- A friendly reminder: mice are people, too, often somewhat literally. Maud Newton has humanized mice on the mind: "According to New Scientist, the researchers put human brain cells into mice by injecting 'immature glial cells' from human fetuses into baby mice, where they 'developed into astrocytes, a star-shaped type of glial cell,' and became invasive … It's impossible to know how many kinds of humanized rodents exist, in part because, if you're a researcher, you can have the mice tailor-humanized just for you. One company claims to provide at least seventy-five hundred strains … So far, whatever discussion exists in the scientific community about how humanized mice themselves might be affected by, for example, having human brain cells, seems to focus on the ways we've succeeded in making the mice more like us."
- The New York Public Library's special collections department has released some 180,000 images into the public domain. You want postcards? They got postcards. You want maps? They got maps. You want rare images of "Town Ball" and "Old Cat," two stick-and-ball games that were precursors to baseball? You got rare images of "Town Ball" and "Old Cat," two stick-and-ball games that were precursors to baseball. "It's not just a data dump," said Dan Cohen, the executive director of the Digital Public Library of America. "It's a next step that I would like to see more institutions take."
- If you've ever arrived in New York through the Lincoln Tunnel, you've probably espied the big red sign for the New Yorker, a hotel whose iconic name has nothing to do with the magazine. This was "the hotel of the traveling salesmen, pilots and aircrew on short layovers, tourists and GIs being shipped to the European Front … If the Waldorf-Astoria were a well-dressed woman in an elegantly feathered hat, the New Yorker would be a salesman in a crumpled suit, drinking a whiskey and soda." But what goes on there? What went on there? Early photos tell of a glut of Art Deco glamour—and a secret tunnel leading to Penn Station.
Bringing Voices from Chernobyl to America
October 9, 2015 | by Nicole Rudick
Svetlana Alexievich, the latest Nobel laureate in literature, has said that "after twenty years of work with documentary material and having written five books on their basis I declare that art has failed to understand many things about people." But art is precisely what she has made: a "novel of voices," as she has described her work, built from fact and feeling. Voices from Chernobyl, which Dalkey Archive Press published in 2005, is Alexievich's fourth book but only her second to be translated into English. None of her other works have, to date, been published in English.
I asked Chad Post, who was then Dalkey's associate director—he's now the publisher of Open Letter Books—about what led him to publish Voices from Chernobyl in America and about his first impressions of Alexievich's work, a blend of narrative and reportage that doesn't offer conclusions. "Why can't we say, I don't want to be a slave anymore?" she said in a 2013 interview. "Why do we suffer again and again? Why does this remain our burden and fate? … I don't have an answer, but I want my books to motivate readers to think about the question for themselves."
What struck you about Alexievich's writing when you first read her?
That it's very political of course. She's writing about the way the government ruined people's lives. People died, they knew it, and they covered it up. They didn't care. But at the same time, her writing is made up of all these voices—there are hundreds of people are in the book, but each one is fairly distinct, and even when their stories overlap, they retain their own voices, their own particular tales. That made it feel very human. It's miserable to read, but it's made very human and very powerful because of the way she allows their voices to tell truths that are hard to take. When those truths in the context of a narrative, of someone telling a story, it's much stronger than if the experiences had been reported. Instead of "Then, on April 24, this thing happened, these people died in this way," she let someone say, "My husband brought home his firefighter's hat, and gave it to our son, who later got brain cancer and died." Read More »
The Hermit Kingdom—in Fabulous 3-D! And Other News
October 8, 2015 | by Dan Piepenbring
- The Belarussian writer Svetlana Alexievich has won this year's Nobel Prize for literature. Read her piece "Voices from Chernobyl" from our Winter 2004 issue. "Alexievich," The New York Times writes, "is best known for giving voice to women and men who had lived through World War II, the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan that lasted from 1979 to 1989, and the Chernobyl nuclear disaster of 1986."
- Our editor Lorin Stein discusses translating Michel Houellebecq's novel Submission—specifically, one sentence about arousal, Muslims, and politics: "At first I wrote, 'Given the political situation, choosing a Muslim turned me on.' But this was very un-Houellebecqian … One of us came up with arouse: 'Arousing, in a way' — for me, that's how Houellebecq sounds. And even though the syntax doesn't track the French exactly, it preserves the air of anticlimax, the slight fussiness, the stoicism of the original. The sentence became less brutal, less vulgar."
- When he's not making movies, Wim Wenders takes photographs—and yes, most of these photos contain landscapes, and sure, most of them are devoid of human life, but don't call the guy a landscape photographer. He's got your number. "I am not a landscape photographer. I am interested in people. I am interested in our civilization. I am interested in what traces we leave in landscapes, in cities and places. But I wait until people have gone, until they are out of the shot. So the place can start talking about us. Places are so much more able to evoke people when people are out. As soon as there is one person in the shot everybody looks at that person. If there is nobody in the shot, the beholder is able to listen to the story of that place. And that's my job. I try to make places tell their stories about us. So I am not a landscape photographer. I am really interested in people, but my way of finding out things about people is that I do photos about their absence, about their traces."
- When the Oregon Shakespeare Festival announced plans to translate all thirty-six plays into modern English, people got very pissed, very fast. These days we like our Shakespeare unadulterated; his genius, the thinking goes, reposes in his language. But it wasn't always so. "So many serious Shakespeareans over the centuries have argued the opposite: that Shakespeare's genius had to be salvaged from the obscure, indecorous, archaic, quibbling mess of his language. For poets, playwrights, editors, and actors from the seventeenth century through much of the nineteenth, Shakespeare's language wasn't intoxicating so much as intoxicated: it needed a sobering intervention."
- North Korea just held its first photography exhibition curated by Western artists. Among the works on display were pictures by the Slovenian photographer Matjaž Tančič, who took portraits of North Koreans in—wait for it—3-D. And though that art form is liberating, his travels were not: "My guides would keep trying to trick me by taking me to the 'beautiful bits' like the pristine maternity hospital in Pyongyang, or a newly refurbished library. I'd keep trying to trick them into letting me talk to ordinary North Koreans." Tančič described the country as "like a stage," and then, later, "like a movie."
The Subjective Flow of Time, and Other News
October 17, 2014 | by Dan Piepenbring
- Richard Flanagan's The Narrow Road to the Deep North, which just won the Booker Prize, tells the harrowing, oft forgotten story of Australia's role in building the Thai-Burma Railway: "Although there were nine thousand Australian P.O.W.s who worked on the railroad, a third of whom died while imprisoned, the episode never took hold of the national imagination. Flanagan himself has said that 'it's a strange story that isn't readily absorbed into any nation's dreams.'"
- Flanagan's name is also set to appear on a special British postmark congratulating him on the Booker. "We're really pleased to share his success in winning this renowned literary award with a postmark that will be delivered to addresses nationwide."
- "One way researchers have tried to measure the subjective flow of time is by asking people of different ages to estimate when a certain amount of time has gone by. People in their early twenties tend to be quite accurate in judging when three minutes had elapsed, typically being off by no more than three seconds. Those in their sixties, by contrast, overshot the mark by forty seconds; in other words, what was actually three minutes and forty seconds seemed like only three minutes to them. Seniors are internally slow tickers, so for them actual clocks seem to tick too fast." (That's from Lapham's Quarterly's elegant new Web site, by the way—note it.)
- Pittsburgh's City of Asylum, which provides sanctuary to exiled writers from around the world, celebrates its tenth anniversary this weekend with an event featuring their five current residents, Huang Xiang, Horacio Castellanos Moya, Khet Mar, Israel Centeno, and Yaghoub Yadali.
- Why did Sartre refuse the Nobel Prize in 1964? "Sartre's rejection of the Nobel Prize was not personal. It was metaphysical. Every act I take as a writer, Sartre was saying, affects the existence of my readers. Accepting the Nobel Prize would have been, for Sartre, to compromise the freedom of his readers. Indeed, it would have compromised the freedom of all mankind."
How to Win the Nobel Prize
October 9, 2014 | by Dan Piepenbring
A close reading of the Swedish Academy's citations.
Reading the news about Patrick Modiano today, I was struck by the insipidness of the Nobel Foundation's citation: "for the art of memory with which he has evoked the most ungraspable human destinies and uncovered the life-world of the occupation." It bears all the hallmarks of an overblown blurb, one of those in which a bold, gimlet-eyed novelist is elucidating the now, or a limpid, singular poet is saying the unsayable. (Very few poets are saying the sayable these days, if our blurbs are to be believed.)
Let's unpack this citation, beginning with this business about "the art of memory," which doesn't seem like much of an art to me. (To conceive of it as such invites a corny geriatric punch line: "Just wait till you start forgetting so much!") Granting that it is art, is it really the art through which Modiano "evokes"? That would have to be his writing. If he'd simply sat at his desk lost in memories, he wouldn't evoke much more than his own sighs. For that matter—can one really "evoke" a destiny, and, having been evoked, is that destiny still "ungraspable," let alone the most ungraspable? Who's to say that one destiny can be grasped more easily than another? ("He was destined to be a pediatric podiatrist—he saw it plain as day.") Then there's this murky concept of the "life-world," which sounds like something out of Heidegger—wouldn't one word or the other have sufficed? To speak of a life-world implies its negative, the death-world, which, despite our best efforts, has never been uncovered.
Drafting these citations must be painstaking, fairly joyless work. This one, at least, reads like an act of circumlocution by committee; the choice to append "the most" to "ungraspable" may have occasioned hours of debate. And for what? The final result could apply to anyone; in the broadest terms, not just every writer but every person in history has practiced the art of memory, evoking destinies and uncovering life-worlds. Read More »


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"I think this potentially is one of the most important cases to come down for the Panhandle in 20 years," said Austin attorney Jim Ray, who represents WBD.
After three years of hearings, the Texas Railroad Commission in 1989 adopted rules that consolidated 13 fields in the Panhandle into one field. Those rules prohibit oil producers from shooting perforations higher in a well bore to tap into gas-indigenous formations.
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WBD was sued by another producer, who claimed the company was violating the Panhandle Field rules. Ray said the Railroad Commission sealed one of WBD's wells in 1994 because of alleged rule violations.
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Not to be confused with Ferra Penelope, this Penelope is a very sweet champagne girl who is almost 4 years old. She came in with Elenor who died shortly after coming into the shelter. She came into the shelter in June of this year; she gets along with other ferrets, so I think we'll be able to find a new friend for her. She is very active. She loves running through the tubes, especially with a friend she can torment from the end of a tube. She also likes to push small balls or eggs through the tubes. She would love to get a new tube to share with the shelter as well as some new toys to play with in the tube.
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Dr. Sean Barrett or Dr. Britney Giddens
Santa Clara Animal Hospital
2510 River Road
Eugene OR USA 97404
Penelope has a Santa.
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