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#1 General Comment
To 'Ken'
SUBMITTED: Monday, September 16, 2013POSTED: Monday, September 16, 2013
First of all, this company Dynamic Recovery is nothing but a junk debt buyer who bought an old debt for pennies on the dollar. They work for no one but themselves. The reason they are so aggressive is because any money they can collect by inflating the finance charges goes in their pocket. The original creditor wrote this debt off years ago. This rougue company is only ripping people off by trying to collect on old debt that's past the statue of limitations. As far as breaking any laws? Yes they did by contacting anyone and telling them anything regarding the debt or collection process. They violated the FDCPA by doing that. This person should contact their state's AG office and file a complaint. This person could file a lawsuit and collect on what this rougue company is doing. Who are you to even judge what happened? And yes, you probably do work for this company or another just like it.
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As the baby-boom population bulge moves towards its twilight years, more businesses are sensing the opportunities, writes Rod Myer.
The greying of the population is luring corporate Australia into the aged-care game, a space once the preserve of the churches, not-for-profit groups and individual operators.
Trendsetter Macquarie Bank is finding the sector sexy, with its listed cashbox Macquarie Capital Alliance Group (MCAG) paying about $125 million to the Salvation Army for 14 homes comprising 1400 aged-care beds and 800 independent living units. The bank has also spent $600 million buying aged-care assets in New Zealand and Canada.
The demographics of the aged-care business are compelling. At the beginning of the decade, 2.4 million people were aged over 65, making up 12.4 per cent of the population. By 2021, 18.4 per cent, or 4.2 million, of the population will be over 65, including almost 1 million over 80.
Credit Suisse First Boston analyst Moira Daw says demand for goods and services supplied to the aged "is set to explode".
Looking after old people, especially those requiring labour-intensive constant care, in a framework of heavy government regulation, might not sound like a way to make money, but it is, says Pat Grier, managing director of Ramsay Health Care.
"Margins on better-quality aged-care facilities are between 17 and 20 per cent, while with hospitals (which account for most of Ramsay's business) it's more like 10 to 12 per cent."
MCAG chief executive Michael Cook says the key to success with aged-care assets is, like in any other business, good management, investing in the future and scale.
"Running a large network of facilities using aged-care best practices gives operational efficiencies," he says.
"We run them as one unit, which gives advantages in procurement and the way we operate the business in terms of staffing, rostering and training."
Having big bucks behind you is also an advantage. "Our plan is to heavily invest in the facilities we've acquired over some years. That will involve development of sites, through rebuilding, expanding or improving," Cook says.
Until recently, aged care has essentially been a cottage industry. The Minister for Ageing, Julie Bishop, says Australia has about 3000 aged-care homes with 1500 owners, and 65 per cent of these owners operate only one facility.
David Vaux, managing director of the DCA Group, the largest corporate owner in the aged-care sector, says: "We've got 3000 beds in Australia and are just completing the $270 million takeover of New Zealand's largest operator, which has 2500 beds."
DCA sees good growth opportunities. "There's fragmented ownership, and the quality of operators in the business is generally quite poor," Vaux says.
The business of housing the aged has four main sectors. Some companies, such as Queensland listed property group FKP, operate in the retirement village area, which provides integrated communities for retirees capable of independent living but wanting access to on-site services.
FKP executive Tim Russell says the group has developed and now owns and manages more than 4000 retirement units and has another 1200 at least in the pipeline.
Such operations differ from conventional property development in that retirees buy or lease properties, pay a small management levy like a body corporate fee, and, when they leave, FKP takes 20 to 40 per cent of the value of the property in return for the services it has provided over the years. These typically include pools, gyms, libraries and bowling or tennis facilities.
When people become too infirm for independent living, they move to aged-care homes, which come in three categories low care, high care and extra-services high care. Demand is growing dramatically and how the industry will keep up is a hot political issue.
Julie Bishop says the Government has increased funding by $2.2 billion and by the end of the year will come out with further initiatives to allow the industry access to capital.
David Vaux, like other operators, wants those initiatives to include extending a bond scheme, which exists in low-care facilities, to the high-care sector. At present, low-care residents can be asked to pay bonds that are returned to them or their heirs when they leave the home. The operators take $3000 a year of the bond for five years. Bonds can vary from below $100,000 to $500,000 and no interest is paid on them.
People without the capital to pay bonds give 85 per cent of their pensions to the operator and all residents receive some government subsidy.
Effectively, the bond is an interest-free loan. As longevity increases, more high-care homes will be needed, and Vaux says that with high-care homes costing $150,000 a bed to build, they will also need to charge bonds to ensure demand growth is met.
"Now very few standard high-care facilities are built, as economically they don't stack up," he says. "There's a need for 30,000 new beds to be built in four or five years. That is $6 billion in investment, which is unlikely to be spent under the current funding regime."
Of DCA's 3000 Australian beds, 600 are extra-services high-care beds, where the company can charge above government caps to patients who can afford to pay. That, he says, is a niche growth area.
Pat Grier says that is the only segment Ramsay is interested in but, because it is a small niche, it is hard to find reasonably priced purchase opportunities.
Primelife, a major operator backed by Babcock & Brown, has about 1000 beds, but only 75 are standard high care. It has another 232 beds under construction, 48 of which are extra-service high care.
Scott Power, an analyst with ABN Amro Morgan, says the aged-care sector has the "flavour" of infrastructure investment with its regular cash flows, but it is also a growth story. "But operators really need to be switched on," he says. "There are few that can run them properly."
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How do you think this will affect the rise of young skaters that are coming up now. do you think that Plushenko will be a world force like he was before the olympics? I know that he was often overmarked, and if the judges do this agian, it will hurt Evan's Johnny's as well as skaters like the Japanese and Buttle from becoming major conndendors of world gold. I doubt highly if he can stay competive through 2010,, i don't know how old he is, but he did have a few stammina issues recently, and three more years of hardcore training migt not be what he baragined for.
Personally, i belive that Plushenko will come back and find the skating scene quite diffrent than he lef it. IMO Joubert will try extra hard to get the world title this year, bacause next year he willl be back to being the ubderdog to plushenko. The japanese, even without a quad, can cerainly challange pluchenko becasue of thier edges, spins and great foot work and POE from theier triples. Plusenko might not realize it's not as much fun as he remebered.


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Nelson Mandela, 1918-2013
posted at 7:51 pm on December 5, 2013 by Mary Katharine Ham
"Our nation has lost its greatest son," [South African] President Jacob Zuma said in a televised address on Thursday night, adding that Mr. Mandela had died at 8:50 p.m. local time. "His humility, his compassion and his humanity earned him our love."
The Internet is awash with remembrances of Mandela from people who never knew him. Some will be self-important and tiresome, but most are just the honest, gut feelings of millions—each a testament to the reach of this towering, touching figure of the 20th century. I never knew him, but I knew the power of his inspiration and his example. As a kid, attending majority-black schools in North Carolina less than a generation removed from segregation, my classmates and I knew we were there, together, because of the bravery and leadership of good people who came before us. It was a hard thing to grasp at 7 (likely easier for my black classmates), vague at first. We played hopscotch under the arc of the moral universe, rarely looking skyward to see where it was bending. But there were moments when, in our innocence, we could feel the weight of what happened before we were born— a trip to Woolworth's in Greensboro just minutes away or the release of Nelson Mandela on the other side of the world.
Greater awareness and hormones intervened, turning middle school into a place of racial tension where old friendships were taboo and anger reigned. Mandela's example of a man supremely wronged who did not let bitterness overtake him seemed amazing, otherworldly. I'll always be thankful he was the leader who rose while a bunch of confused teenagers in North Carolina were hurting from wounds old and new. Mandela's life and death, of course, are not about me or my experiences. But the enormity of what Mandela did gave so many the opportunity to discover the beautiful joys and challenges we experienced alongside all God's children. And, he gave my friends and me an idea of the giant people and giant sacrifices required to allow us to live in a neighborhood where "little black boys and girls" literally, routinely held hands with "little white boys and girls." It was a gift and it wasn't always a given. But it's easy to take for granted what seems impossible after it's already been done.
The New York Times makes one succinct paragraph of what's one of the most improbable turn-arounds in history:
Mr. Mandela spent 27 years in prison after being convicted of treason by the white minority government, only to forge a peaceful end to white rule by negotiating with his captors after his release in 1990. He led the African National Congress, long a banned liberation movement, to a resounding electoral victory in 1994, the first fully democratic election in the country's history.
It's hard not to look back at moments like that, like the American Revolution, the Civil War, World War II, the Cold War and marvel at how lucky we are to have had the right leaders in the right places to make things happen. And to marvel at the sheer force of will and skill it took to make them happen. The Washington Post has an interesting read on Mandela, the political animal behind the saintly figure. He needed the soft-spoken, forgiving side and the savvy, harder political side to change his country:
Admirable as they were, those saintly virtues don't begin to explain his political genius. Mandela was also cunning, iron-willed, bull-headed, contemptuous — and more embittered than he let on. He needed all of his traits — soft and hard — to engineer a political miracle: persuading a sitting government to negotiate its own abdication by yielding power to the very people it had ruthlessly oppressed.
Historic transfers of that magnitude typically occur only at gunpoint. To pull it off peacefully, Mandela knew that he had to tame the racial fears and hatreds that have haunted beautiful South Africa since the first whites settled there four centuries ago. He needed to teach militant blacks that they couldn't take revenge and frightened whites that they shouldn't fear retribution.
Mandela didn't do all that by himself. On both sides of the racial divide, he had the help of legions of sophisticated negotiators determined to find a peaceful path to democracy. His main partner, President Frederik W. de Klerk, was a shrewd Afrikaner who had the foresight to understand that the grotesque apartheid system he once championed was destroying his country, and he had the fortitude to stick with his surrender-without-a-fight strategy through four arduous years of start-and-stop negotiations, even as the deal grew less attractive for the white minority that had put him in power.
Read the whole thing if you have the time. Mandela is not just the man with the halo, and he couldn't have done what he did if he were.
Mandela's most famous quotes.
Thoughts and prayers for his family and his countrymen.
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The existence of a footnote does not actually mean the claim is accurate, footnotes are there for the purpose of people verifying the information. Now, as to Sowell's book I have not read it. But if he makes the claim that black people did not experience housing and employment discrimination in the North before the Great Migration then I know I don't have to read it. Because I have read dozens of books which prove that claim 100% false.
No one is saying there was no discrimination prior to the northward immigration. Ever seen "NO IRISH NEED APPLY" signs? But there were also integrated schools, neighborhoods, businesses, factories, etc. Sowell documents this with demographic data. So long as you're constantly curled up in your little liberal cubbyhole you will continue to come off like a dope. For you to eschew exposure to black intellectuals is odd. Maybe not…
I can cite examples and texts that examine the history of race relations from Portland to Maine. Were there free black towns in the North, and west in particular, of course there were. Did all of the founders of free black towns cite the impossibility of upward advancement in the so-called "free states" as the reason they broke out to form their own towns, absolutely.
Everyone who moved west did so to improve their lives, for any number of reasons. To say that blacks did so only because of "racism" is laughable. And to imply that blacks lived only in such towns is a lie.
If the test is whether I have read Sowell, I have a whole bibliography you need to check out. libfreeordie on December 6, 2013 at 10:12 AM
I see the fruit of your bibliography on a daily basis whenever I watch the news, read a newspaper, analyze 0b00ba…
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History can not be denied. The American right wing opposed the end of apartheid. libfreeordie on December 6, 2013 at 9:10 AM
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History can not be denied. The American right wing opposed the end of apartheid. libfreeordie on December 6, 2013 at 9:10 AM
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PARK RIDGE, Ill. -- The seventh-ranked University of Michigan women's soccer team was picked to finish fifth in the Big Ten Conference, as the conference released its annual preseason coaches' poll and Players to Watch list on Wednesday (Aug. 13).
With the addition of Maryland and Rutgers to the conference this year, the Big Ten now consists of 14 teams. The Wolverines will face each of the other 13 Big Ten opponents once during the 2014 season, including Penn State (Oct. 16), which was picked to win the conference.
Additionally, sophomores Madisson Lewis (Canton, Mich./Plymouth) and Nicky Waldeck (Chicago, Ill./Western Reserve Academy [OH]), as well as sophomore/freshman Ani Sarkisian (Cresskill, N.J./Cresskill/Florida State) were tabbed as Players to Watch by the conference office. Lewis was an All-Big Ten Freshman Team selection a year ago, and finished the season as U-M's second-leading scorer (6G, 9A). Waldeck played in 19 games with one start in 2013, tallying three goals and two assists. The U-M coaching staff pegged her as one of the team's most improved players during the spring season. Sarkisian transferred to Michigan for the 2014 season after one year at Florida State. She missed the 2013 season at FSU due to injury, but is healthy and expected to contribute and add depth to U-M's front line this season.
Michigan will kick off the regular season on Friday, Aug. 22, when it welcomes Cal State Northridge the U-M Soccer Stadium for a 7:30 p.m. matchup. The Maize and Blue's first Big Ten showdown is set for Friday, Sept. 12, against Minnesota. The conference-opening tilt with the Gophers will begin at 8 p.m. at the U-M Soccer Stadium.
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13. Northwestern
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Illinois -- Jannelle Flaws (F), Taylore Peterson (M), Aliina Weykamp (D/M)
Indiana -- Tori Keller (M), Abby Smith (M), Veronica Ellis (M)
Iowa -- Melanie Pickert (D), Cloe Lacasse (F), Caitlin Brown (D)
Maryland -- Aubrey Baker (M), Rachelle Beanlands (G), Cory Ryan(M)
MICHIGAN -- Madisson Lewis (M/F), Nicky Waldeck (F), Ani Sarkisian (M/F)
Michigan State -- Mary Kathryn Fiebernitz (D), Paige Wester (F), Megan Marsack (M)
Minnesota -- Katie Thyken (M), Tarah Hobbs (G), Josee Stiever (M)
Nebraska -- Jaycie Johnson (F), Mayme Conroy (F), Caroline Gray (M)
Northwestern -- Niki Sebo (M), Margo McGinty (D/M), Jackie Alyinovich (D)
Ohio State -- Nichelle Prince (F), Kayla Varner (F), Nikki Walts, (M)
Penn State -- Emily Hurd (M), Mallory Weber (F), Raquel Rodriguez (F/M)
Purdue -- Mollie Kuramoto (M), Taylor Niewoit (M), Alex Hairston (F)
Rutgers -- Madison Tiernan (M), Erica Skroski (D), Stef Scholz (F)
Wisconsin -- Rose Lavelle (M/F), Cara Walls (F), Genevieve Richard (G)
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ABBEVILLE (AP) — The Vermilion Parish Sheriff's Office says deputies shot and wounded a pit bull that ran at them while they were investigating a complaint that its owner let it run loose.
According to a news release sent Friday, a veterinarian treated the dog and deputies cited Brittany Meche for allegedly breaking the leash law.
The sheriff's office says the Dec. 23 complaint was the fourth alleging that she let her dog run loose. The person who complained told deputies the dog growls at people.
Sheriff Mike Couvillon says deputies don't shoot just because animals are unleashed, but are trained to protect themselves. He says the dog was barking and growling while it ran at them, and he stands by their decision.
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RESIDENTS of an inner-city area of Birmingham are fuming after hundreds of
rubbish bags have been left littering their streets since before Christmas.
Inhabitants of the Bordersley Green area had expected a Boxing Day collection,
but bin men did not turn up – and have not been back since.
They've now waited over two weeks to have the stinking rubbish taken away.
Resident James Furnish, 45, stormed: "We all have a bit more rubbish at
Christmas, and when they don't come and pick it up what can we do?
"It's piled high down every street and sometimes it's started to blow into the
"They haven't even cleared the litter bins they provide on the streets, so
those are overflowing as well.
"Pretty soon this whole area is going to start to smell awful. It's
A spokesperson for Birmingham City Council said the collection dates had been
"widely publicised".
He said: "The bins are collected weekly, they were suspended over Christmas
Day and Boxing Day and that was widely publicised.
"Collections resumed on the 27th and will be continuing over New Year, if they
would normally have a collection on Boxing Day they will have one on January
The uncollected rubbish has reached 10ft-high in places as it continues to
pile up outside people's homes.
Furious resident Lisa Wenner, 69, who has lived in the area all her life,
said: "The rubbish is 10ft high in some places, the winds are getting pretty
high and if the bags aren't collected soon the rubbish will be blown
"If that happens we are going to have rubbish in our houses and gardens, what
would be done about that?
"Surely an extra collection could have been arranged for the day after Boxing
Local Ian Richards, 35, an account manager, added: "I don't pay my council tax
for my rubbish not to be collected just because it's Christmas.
"Surely if a service is going to be removed then we should get some money
"Did they not think that Christmas means far more rubbish? Far more for us to
deal with?
"I bet they blame government cuts or something, but they could have just
rearranged it for the next day.
"As for seeing adverts about it across the city, well I certainly didn't see
any, it came as a complete shock to me and my family."
Mum-of-two Emily Clapham, 29, added: "The whole area is going to stink soon,
it's raining here and the bags are becoming saturated with the water.
"Soon this is going to start breeding diseases, we should not have to deal
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brief comment on the Steinberg video commentary
I'm going to try to describe what I hear him saying, translating into my own language and thus into the mess of metaphors I use when thinking about these things.
Steinberg of course says it all very simply and elegantly. I suffer from a tendency toward a formal and pedantic style, at which, trust me, sometimes even I am rolling my eyes, even as I'm typing the very words!
If you find my commentary to be over-complicating and obscuring the whole matter, please don't mind me and just stick to the video. My goal with the commentary is first to think through all this for myself and by spending time writing it all out, to really deepen my own practice. The "waking up" I talk about in Part I is what I'm after, and right now these notes are doing it for me. The reason I'm putting it on this blog in order to bring some attention to ideas in the video that I think others will find useful and illuminating. Also, by putting it on the blog I hope to give myself more reason to stick with the project.
Steinberg of course says it all very simply and elegantly. I suffer from a tendency toward a formal and pedantic style, at which, trust me, sometimes even I am rolling my eyes, even as I'm typing the very words!
If you find my commentary to be over-complicating and obscuring the whole matter, please don't mind me and just stick to the video. My goal with the commentary is first to think through all this for myself and by spending time writing it all out, to really deepen my own practice. The "waking up" I talk about in Part I is what I'm after, and right now these notes are doing it for me. The reason I'm putting it on this blog in order to bring some attention to ideas in the video that I think others will find useful and illuminating. Also, by putting it on the blog I hope to give myself more reason to stick with the project.
Please send in your comments, corrections, etc.
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Commentary on Saul Steinberg Talks (1967) Part I (second draft)
(see previous post for video)
"In the morning, they get up and they work."
-What follows is a description of S.'s morning routine. The simple wisdom of what he is going to talk about is how to arrange the conditions of mind and materials so that one can avoid a lot of complications and friction and frustrations and instead one can simply wake up and begin to work.
"It's a necessity to work a few hours."
Artists/writers/etc. often talk about working in the morning because there is a special kind of state of mind in the morning which is conducive to work. But this sentence holds a more general sense too. For "them," what is necessary is to work a few hours. That's the whole point, that's the first thought of the day—"it is necessary to work a few hours." Not all day, but definitely for a few hours.
"And drawing is my way of, um, explaining to myself what goes on in my mind."
-The drawing is a method of introspection, of seeing into his own mind. (Drawings can also have other functions, such as looking more deeply at the external visual world, or expressing emotions, etc.) So for S. the world of the drawing is like a mental world, his own mental world. It's not merely the visual world of depth and shadow and texture. Or we could say his mental world will be given depth and shadow and texture. His mental world and "shadows" and "forms" are all being brought together, given the qualities of each other: "drawing is a way of thinking." This is obviously evident in S.'s drawings and work.
But why feel the need to "explain to myself what goes on in my mind?" It's not just idle curiosity, an intellectual exercise. Nor is it vanity or narcissism or psychoanalysis, etc. Artists, like most people, start the day somewhat bewildered: "what am I doing? what should I do? what's going on?"
For the artist, the work itself is the place to go to wake up. For S. the drawing—both the activity and the thing itself—is, like meditation, a "mirror" for his mind. A way to figure out what's going on in there.
Like meditation, S. wants the activity of drawing to reflect his mind in "real time." One can only do it by doing it right now. Later, one can look back at the drawing as a kind of record, or map of the mind, but this isn't really the point. It's best not to worry about "does this drawing reflect my mind, or not?" or how good a job you are doing. One should clear one's mind and make a drawing. The drawing itself will teach you. The activity itself, of making the drawing, of getting the mind and the hand working together, interested in each other, is the point, its own reward.
"I start with the idea of a drawing. I have an appetite to make a drawing."
-The right conditions for drawing/working are twofold. The "appetite" is first.
I think it's best here to interpret what S calls "the idea of a drawing" and the appetite as basically the same thing. It would be wrong to say S. already has an idea before he starts, in the fully-formed sense of "a drawing of x in the style of y using the material z," something like that. I think it's best to interpret these two sentences together, as describing the same thing. He's really saying, "I start with the idea of [doing] a drawing."
It's hard to know where to start. Without some basic idea/form to start with, you have nothing. The possibilities of form and content are endless. Some people might want, in the abstract, to do a drawing, but when they're faced with endless possibilities of what to do first they might grow weary and give up here and not begin at all. They lose their appetite.
So there must be an intention to create some form, to stay with some form as it unfolds. In other words an appetite to enjoy watching and participating in the unfolding of something, some drawing. To open oneself to the process, and be ready to stick with it. A good way to stick with something is to enjoy sticking with it, and a good way to begin something is to anticipate the enjoyment one will get from sticking with it.
Another way to think of this would be that one needs to have a desire to carry out the actual physical actions of sitting, breathing, concentrating, moving the pen, creating the drawing, and to anticipate all this with pleasure. You shouldn't just force yourself to work.
"I have everything looking at me: paper, ink, pencil, and so on."
-The other pre-condition of the working day is having the materials ready-to-hand. Appetite is the mental half, materials is the other. S.'s paper, ink, pencil, and so on "look at him," greet him like friends. There is no conflict or struggle with the materials. This should already be taken care of. If it isn't, the desire to draw will be frustrated.
Maybe you have a hard time getting to work because you really haven't taken the time to figure out what materials you need, and you don't have them ready-to-hand. They shouldn't be "organized" in the sense of "visually organized." One's studio should be definitely be "messy," but only in the sense that everything is where it's most useful. If papers everywhere on the floor makes working easier right now, because you need to constantly refer to them, then they should stay there. So you need first to get the material conditions in place, before you can work. So that you can begin drawing without having too much friction, too much frustration: "where is this, where is the…?" etc. The working area should be organized according to the logic of ready-to-hand. One shouldn't have to stand up and walk around the house looking for every little thing one needs, interrupting the flow of concentration. This is crucial because the pleasure of concentration, of "flow," which is the fuel that keeps the work going day to day, week to week, keeps it worthwhile. If distractions and interruptions are constantly frustrating the flow and pleasure of concentration, work starts to seem like "homework." It is very difficult to sustain an "appetite" to do homework.
Your morning routine should be a good routine, a routine you enjoy, a routine that frictionlessly wakes you up to the enjoyment of concentration, the unity of mind and activity, and frictionlessly transfers you into the working part of the day.
Once you're concentrated, in the sense that your mind and your body and what you are doing are unified, and you're happy to stay there, then the rest can take care of itself.
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Saul Steinberg Talks (1967)
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Visual Scripts and Scrivener
Some interesting posts about ways to write comics using "visual scripts" in InDesign, and also another post about using Scrivener to write fictional comics at J. Abel's blog. I used Scrivener to write Ganges 5, and it went great. I highly recommend this program if you think it's the kind of thing you need. You can download a trial and use it for 30 days. Work through the tutorial that comes with it and you'll see how well-crafted an application it is. But it might be more than you need. If you're already writing a lot but your problem is organization and flow, then look at Scrivener. If you problem is you're not writing anything, you can probably just use a simple text app and get to work.
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Too Many Things at Once
Trying to work on too many projects in one day can be bad. There's a line I always think about (I forget where I read it): "Context switching is expensive." Expensive in terms of energy burned trying to get back "in gear" after switching contexts. Comics work involves many levels of nested problems and projects and it gives the brain a good workout to keep track of all the levels of tasks and problems. So don't make it worse by switching out whole projects/contexts too often or you'll get mentally tired quickly, and begin to feel exhausted and cranky.
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Having a Routine
If you are feeling anxious, you should sit down and ask yourself why. If the answer is "I don't know what I should be doing right now," maybe you should think about having a daily routine. Then the answer to the question is simple: you should do whatever comes next in the routine. Do whatever comes next, and don't let your anxious mind fool you into coming up with new things to worry about to distract you from your routine. You might start to think "No, the real problem is I don't know what I should be doing with my life!" This is probably not true. You probably do know. Go back to the routine and laugh at yourself. But if you really don't know what you should do with your life, you should sit down right now and figure that out.
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Some sketches
These are from 2010 or so -- pretty sure I drew
while these at the coffee shop with Dan Z and the STL drawing club.
I don't think these are great sketches or anything, but it's been a while since
I put anything up on the blog.
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John P
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Pomodoro Technique
Read about it here. Try it and see if it helps you. Works for me. Keep it simple.
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Wrong How
What also helps is realizing that it's not that "someone is wrong on the Internet," it's that most of the time they're not even wrong. After remembering that, somehow it's easier to just get back to your work, which is the right response anyways to whatever it was that riled you up in the first place.
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The Most Greef
...for me anyways. Followed by postpro and finding mistake after mistake after after ∞. Haven't got practical systems for these yet is the problem, I guess?
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Body of Work Thumbs
These are the layout pages for "Body of Work." (You can read it here.)
I'm in-between projects right now and trying to clean up the studio (AKA the living room), so I may as well post some junk like this.
I had a hard time with this assignment (for an exhibition at Parsons about polymath cartoonists) but I eventually figured something out I was happy with. Here's some tricks I learned about how to approach assignments that work for me personally:
1) start building the story around whatever emotion you're currently feeling in your life (annoyance, frustration, hostility, etc.)
2) make it recursive
3) "death"
I had a hard time with this assignment (for an exhibition at Parsons about polymath cartoonists) but I eventually figured something out I was happy with. Here's some tricks I learned about how to approach assignments that work for me personally:
1) start building the story around whatever emotion you're currently feeling in your life (annoyance, frustration, hostility, etc.)
2) make it recursive
3) "death"
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Layout Templates
It used to be that whenever I tried to figure out a page directly onto the big sheet of paper, there was so much erasing and so much daunting, expensive white space that I would get psyched out. But then I figured out this system of using these 8.5x11 copy-paper templates, and then there was less pressure to get it right the first time. It was easier to dive and do the "shitty first draft."
This is one of the page templates I use to figure out a page of comics. I draw most of my comics -- the "Ganges" stories, especially -- with 4 rows. When I'm starting a new story I usually print a few of these out on copy paper and sketch on them. Sometimes I figure out a page pretty much exactly right the first time, but often it takes a few tries. Or I'll just sketch scenes and characters in the boxes and not worry about where each panel is going to go until later. For a few years now I've worked this way and it's become second nature.
**** This link will take you to a .pdf of the file, ready to print out and get started. ****
(You can make your own 3 row, or whatever, templates for yourself, obviously.)
(You can make your own 3 row, or whatever, templates for yourself, obviously.)
Here are some older examples of this:
I have tons of these. Here's some from the "Jeepers" era:
But this created a NEW PROBLEM, which was the tedium of translating the thumbnails* onto the large piece of paper to do the final drawing. Then only about a year ago I figured out a trick:
Scan these layout pages back into the computer, and then enlarge them to the right size (for me, a row is 10cm tall, 30cm wide). Print them out again. You can only fit 1/4 of the page on an 8.5x11 sheet of paper, so you have to use 4 sheets of paper.
So you get something like:
Then you use that to lightly trace the big, basic shapes and placement of elements on the large sheet of paper. And then I ink in the panel borders and lettering, and now all that's left is getting the drawings right.
Now, I realize that this seems like more work than just looking at the thumbnails and sketching in the shapes! Maybe that works for you. But for me it's somehow less daunting to do all this, and do the tracing. Because all of the computer stuff is so easy for me at this point, it takes less brainpower than eye-balling it. There's less erasing and mistake-making, and thus fewer chances to get frustrated.
(Looking back, I'm embarrassed that I didn't figure this out more quickly.)
There's still a lot of erasing and re-drawing and fixing to do before I have pencils that are ready to be inked, but this trick gets me quickly through stages of layout that use to give me a lot of trouble.
You may not have the same troubles.
*I call these 8.5x11 copy paper layouts "thumbnails" even though they're obviously bigger than the thumbnails of any known mammal.
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This past weekend turned out to be a beautiful weather weekend. I wanted to do something outdoors but I didn't want to travel far. A friend suggested a trip to Cattus Island County Park.
I'd heard of Cattus Island County Park before, I knew it was nearby, but I'd never been. So I leashed up my dog, hopped into the car, and drove all of 10 minutes into the middle of nature.
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Illini fall in five sets to Iowa State
Champaign, Ill. -- It had been 18 years since the Illini had played the same team back-to-back days and Saturday's match with Iowa State was much different than Friday's. On Friday, Illinois cruised to a three-set victory in just over an hour an half. On Saturday, the Illini played their first five-set match of the season and came up just short in a 26-28, 25-19, 25-22, 23-25, 15-10 decision in front of another crowd of over 3,000 at Huff Hall. That match lasted two hours and 32 minutes.
On the difference between the two nights, Illini sophomore Liz McMahon said, "I think they were a little more used to our environment. The Stuff Huff match can be a little intimidating."
McMahon, who played exclusively in the front row this weekend, led the Illini in kills with 16 while hitting a respectable .317.
Another difference was found on the other side of the net where Iowa State freshman lefty outside hitter Mackenzie Bigbee had a whale of a night, finishing with 25 kills and hitting .409 on 44 swings, a night after tallying just seven kills.
Bigbee was especially tough in the second set that, tallying nine kills while seeing the Cyclones build an insurmountable 17-7 lead.
The game and indeed the weekend was a chess match of adjustments on both sides. Illinois head coach Kevin Hambly noted that oftentimes the team that lost the previous set had gained enough momentum to get off on the right foot in the next one.
Case in point was set one, which began much like the previous night with the Illini vaulting to a 20-13 lead, only to see Iowa State battle back to tie it. The Illini used setter Annie Luhrsen on the right side for the set-winning kill. The Cyclones hit .366 in that set and .300 in set two.
After Iowa State eked out the win in set three, the Illini block turned up the wick in set four. Illinois out-blocked the Cyclones 14-6 for the match, including 6-0 in the set four. Anna Dorn had another strong night both offensively, hitting .421 with 10 kills, and defensively, with a solo block to go along with seven block assists. Senior middle blocker Erin Johnson had eight kills and six blocks while setter Annie Luhrsen added five blocks to go along with a season-high 50 assists.
In the end, though it came down to too many unforced errors for Illinois. The Illini had 13 service errors and 19 hitting errors, 13 of those were unforced.
"They played a little more consistently all over and I think that were's still figuring stuff out," Luhrsen said. "That's just the nature of the process. At the service line, we're working hard to make the passers move and that means you're going to miss sometimes. Hopefully by the end of the season, we won't be making those errors."
That inconsistency was evident in the fifth set where both teams hit over .600 for the first half of the set, which stood tied at 8-8. After that the Cyclones went on a 7-2 run to close it out. Fittingly, Bigbee closed the deal with a kill.
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A motorcyclist has been jailed for causing the death of his teenage pillion passenger who diedin a crash with a taxi after he had made his bike "invisible", according to police.
Adam Murphy, 19, of Moordale Avenue, Bracknell, Berks, was found guilty of causing death by dangerous driving, causing death while driving otherwise than in accordance with a licence, and causing death while driving while uninsured.
He was sentenced at Reading Crown Court yesterday to a total of four-and-a-half years imprisonment and was disqualified from driving for six years.
A Thames Valley Police spokesman said Murphy was riding a 1,000cc Yamaha motorbike on the Ringmead with 16-year-old Rebecca Young as his pillion passenger on August 29 2009, when the accident happened.
He said: "The motorcycle was black, both rider and pillion passenger were wearing dark clothing and both wore black crash helmets.
"In addition to this, the bike was fitted with opaque headlight covers.
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"At 11.50pm, at the junction with Turnberry on the Great Hollands estate, a taxi travelling in the opposite direction was unable to see the bike approaching and turned across the path of the motorcycle, into the Turnberry junction.
"The bike hit the side of the taxi and both rider and pillion passenger were thrown from the bike.
"Rebecca's helmet came off during the collision and she sustained a serious head injury. She died on September 1 as a result."
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The land of Oz serves up its best food and wine in a winter of events to suit every taste, writes Leah McLennan
Feel like a tipple? Australia's wine regions have much to offer visitors, whether you're a wine connoisseur, foodie or lover of natural beauty.
Here are some events to base your getaway around.
The Swan Valley, a half-hour drive from Perth, features a rich fusion of wineries and fine food. The valley is Western Australia's oldest wine region and produces speciality whites, such as Verdelho, as well as full-bodied reds and fortifieds. Other attractions include art galleries, boutique beer outlets, a chocolate factory and animal encounters.
Event: Vintage Cellars International Wine Fair, May 6. This two-day event celebrates great wines from around the world.
Northern Tasmania's Tamar Valley is home to more than 30 wineries and some of the finest wines in the world. The unique cool climate produces elegant sparkling wine, chardonnay and riesling, cabernet sauvignon and pinot noir.
Event: Taste of the Tamar, July 21-22
This annual event held in Hobart showcases the region's premium wines and local produce.
The Barossa, just over an hour's drive from Adelaide, is home to big names, such as Penfolds and Jacob's Creek, and many boutique wineries.
The region has cool summers and rainy winters, perfect for shiraz and rich cabernet.
Other attractions include Maggie Beer's Pheasant Farm Shop and, because of the region's strong German influence, you can find butchers selling bratwurst sausages and bakeries offering yeasted cakes, such as streuselkuchen.
Event: Barossa Gourmet Weekend, August 17-18
Nearly 30 wineries will showcase their wines paired with food.
More than 100 wineries are spread across the picturesque hills and valleys of the Yarra, less than an hour's drive from Melbourne.
Victoria's best-known wine region is famous for chardonnay, pinot noir, shiraz, sauvignon blanc and sparkling wines.
Wineries range from small family-owned vineyards to large scale exporters, such as De Bortoli and and Tarrawarra.
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Celebrate the shortest weekend of the year at this boutique Yarra Valley event where 13 wineries throw open their cellar doors, expertly matching food and wine.
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New Delhi, May 12: Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia today said he will propose to the full Planning Commission meeting on Monday a new agricultural strategy to step up growth of the sector to the targeted level of four per cent per annum.
In an informal chat with newspersons, Dr Ahluwalia said the new strategy would in some ways be a departure from the existing plan strategy. The meeting would be a precursor to the NDC meeting on May 29, 2007, on the subject of stepping up growth in agricuture.
He said an NDC sub-committee had gone into the issue and had set up several sub-groups, headed by various Chief Ministers. The NDC Sub-Committee was headed by Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar.
In reply to a question, Dr Ahluwalia said the report of the NDC sub-committee would serve as a political endorsement of a new staregy underway, rather than an academic exercise aimed at gathering knowledge and information on the subject.
The full Plan Panel meeting to be chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is scheduled to be held in Yojna Bhavan on May 14, 2007.
Dr Ahluwalia recalled that the NDC's had appoved the Approach Paper to the Eleventh Plan(2007-11) which had stressed on higher growth, which was inclusive.
He said during the last two to three years agricultural growth rate had improved, but was still far less then the four per cent targetted growth rate. It was crucial to raise this to the level of four per cent.
Saying that a four per cent growth rate of agriculture was essential to improve the lot of the common man in the rural areas, Dr Ahluwalia said in the Indian context it was unpalatable to have a GDP growth rate of nine per cent per annum but a low growth rate in agriculture. To make growth inclusive, it was necesssary to have a high growth rate of the agricultural sector.
If the growth rate were to be of the magnitude of four per cent, then some of the ciriticism of a nine per cent growth not being inclusive would die down, he said.
Dr Ahluwalia said the ongoing marketing reforms need to be encouraged, as also taking the Agrcutlural Produce Marketing Act amendment to their logical conclusion.
While most states have drafted the new APMC Acts, many states are yet to frame the necesssary rules. Changes in these rules brook no further delay, he said.
Talking about restructuring agriculture planning in States, Dr Ahluwalia said the state governments must commit a reasonable proportion of their plans and allocations for agriculture and irrigation.
Dr Ahluwalia said long term issues are at least as important as medium term growth, and converge on some points. These are namely, getting technology moving and ensuring access of farmers to this, concentrating on investment, efficiency and systems support rather than subsidy; while diversification was important for income growth, it was equally important not to forget food security and social sector issues need to be addressed for reasons of equity.


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Those Holding Out Hope for an Enslaved Sequel Might Want to Just Go Ahead and Stop Doing That
Ninja Theory makes it known that no sequel is planned, and it's unlikely we'll ever get one.
Enslaved's Pigsy DLC Will Have You Creating The Perfect Woman
And you'll be able to do it in eye-popping 3D if you have the equipment.
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My favorite meme of all time! #Murica #4thOfJuly #Freedom #USA pic.twitter.com/HU6Sdl1Pbm
— Eric H. (@theRATHofHAN) July 4, 2013
It's time to load up your 4th of July playlist for your barbecues and holiday celebrations. Check out these Top 10 songs that would fit right in with your music selection for the Fourth.
1. Born In the U.S.A.
2. American Boy
3. National Anthem by Lana Del Rey
4. Party In The U.S.A.
5. Living In America
6. R.O.C.K. in the U.S.A
7. God Bless the U.S.A.
9. Surfin' U.S.A.
10. American Pie
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February 14, 2012
2011 Income Taxes Filed
I have just finished filing my 2011 income taxes. I used H&R Block at Home Online (now offering a 15% discount).
Due to the fact that I changed jobs mid-year, my annual income was a little lower in 2011 than it was in 2010. Couple that with the fact that we now have a mortgage (and mortgage interest) – and we received a little-bit-bigger-than-anticipated refund.
I am not a big fan of "loaning" the government my money (interest free, at that), but I knew that the job-change might result in the refund. We'll count it as a blessing – and use the money – but we have already adjusted our withholding for 2012. Our refund will be less, but our monthly take-home will be more.
As for what we'll do with the refund, we have three ideas. We'll us some of the money to reduce our mortgage principal, some of it to pad our savings, and some of it to take a long-weekend vacation.
Side note – I rarely write about politics (not because I don't have opinions on the subject, but because that's not really the purpose of this site) – but it would be cool if we could simplify the tax code / tax collection / tax payment system. I'm not sure what the answer is, but it is difficult to believe that the current system is the best we can devise.
Just finished up my returns today. Feels good to have that behind me as well. Glad to hear your perspective on 'loaning the government money' – I think it is correct. Go for that almost-zero refund.
It's a great idea to invest some of the refund in reducing your outstadning mortgage capital amount, it will save you big time in the long term
I think the thing everyone should be doing is getting out of debt. That is my number one priority right now. It's hard to pay taxes to a government that is sinking us all with over-spending. I will take care of myself before taking care of Uncle Sam… and I won't lose any sleep over doing so.
Yea, getting taxes filed is a big relief. Now I look forward to ways I can save on my home improvement investments for 2012-if there are any incentives left to do so.


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fund remembering Avi Kurganoff benefits youth outdoor experiences
October 20, 2012 | ECF Press Release
GIfts made in memory of Avi Kurganoff to the Evanston Community Foundation have established a fund in his name.
The first grant from the Avi Kurganoff Memorial Fund will fund The Avi Adventure, a group camping experience for elementary school youth at Y.O.U. next spring or summer.
honoring Avi
Some months ago, Judy Mendel and and Jorge Kurganoff lost their son, Avi, after a fall in his dormitory at the University of Vermont. The outpouring of support for their son has been both generous and spirited. While not yet 21 when he died, Avi had a strong impact on his friends — and he had many friends! Gifts made in his memory to the Evanston Community Foundation have established a fund in his name and we are pleased to announce that its first grant will fund The Avi Adventure, a group camping experience for elementary school youth at Y.O.U. next spring or summer.
A glimpse of how Avi drew upon the challenges of white-water rafting shows just how and why this project is a fitting tribute. On a trip in January 2012 he said, "The biggest thing I learn from rivers is not to worry about things you can't control, and that's a big part of life…There's so much out here you can't control, and there's so much out here you can control. You just kind of have to go with it and trust that you know what to do and how to do it…And the bond you build with people while you do it is pretty intense at times, pretty awesome and pretty epic. It's something I plan on doing for a very long time."
Judy and Jorge want to ensure that other Evanston youngsters can draw strength from their own adventures.
Y.O.U. envisions the program
To be based at Washington School The Avi Adventure will bring together elementary school youth to learn about and experience the joy of the outdoors. Youth will spend one hour a week for eight weeks learning both the operational and social-emotional lessons of camping. Operational lessons will include topics such as how to identify safe areas for camping, how to pitch a tent, and how to stay warm. Social-emotional lessons will focus on "camping values" such as teamwork, inclusion, interdependence, along with understanding and accepting one another. The Avi Adventure will culminate in a camping experience where youth stay in tents by the Evanston lake shore and put to use what they have learned.
growing the fund
Sara Schastok, ECF President and CEO, remarked on the significance of this fund's purpose — "We wanted the community to know that thanks to dozens of you, the Avi Kurganoff Memorial Fund at the Evanston Community Foundation will give other children adventures that might be as transformative for them as they were for Avi. As the years pass, the Fund will grow and expand its reach, but at the heart of it will remain the belief that kids are capable of changing, that skilled and compassionate social workers can support them, and that new settings, especially outdoor adventures, hold a special power to develop the adult that a child can become."


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Karrueche Tran — Crush of the Day
Let's give Karrueche Tran a big round of applause. She reportedly just broke up with singer/famous alleged girlfriend abuser and all-around offensive train wreck of a dude, Chris Brown.
Let's give Karrueche Tran a big round of applause. She reportedly just broke up with singer/famous alleged girlfriend abuser and all-around offensive train wreck of a dude, Chris Brown.
With looks like this, Juliette Beavan of the band 8mm could easily be Babe of the Day (or year, really), but she's so much more than just a pretty face/body/everything.
Emilia Clarke went from little known actress to dragon queen of the Internet after the first episode of 'Game of Thrones' aired on HBO. Clarke plays the hot and hardcore Daenerys Targaryen on the dark fantasy series.
Olga Kurylenko is becoming the go-to hot European actress to co-star in flashy American action flicks. You may remember her from her roles in the 'Hitman' movie adaptation and the 22nd Bond film 'Quantum of Solace.'
Brittany Kerr is making the news today because she may or may not have been caught hooking up with married country music singer Jason Aldean. She's hot, she's a cheerleader, and she may be involved in a juicy celebrity cheating scandal. Yeah, we'd say Brittany Kerr is pretty damn crush-worthy!
Ginnifer Goodwin first caught our attention playing Vivian Cash in the Johnny Cash biopic 'Walk the Line.' This sweet and sexy actress has been on our radar ever since. Now we can see Goodwin every week on ABC's fantasy drama 'Once Upon A Time.'
British singer-songwriter Ellie Goulding is a certified star in her home country. Goulding's star is rising in the U.S. thanks to her winning soprano tone and moving tunes. The fact that she's a petite crush-worthy blonde with loads of talent and ambition isn't hurting either.
You may know Chanel Preston from her, eh, colorful film work, but the model/actress is now lending her talents to Aerosmith keyboard player Russ Irwin.
From B-movie starlet to 'Gossip Girl' to New York City fashion icon, Leighton Meester has surely risen through the ranks since she started acting as a teen. While we're not qualified to say whether her talent has risen with her start status, we know there's one thing that's remained consistent no matter Meester's station – her hotness.
Kim Kardashian she is not. A reasonably hot and passable Kim Kardashian clone? Yes she is!
It's time to stop calling her Hermione and start calling her by her name – Emma Watson! The 'Harry Potter' actress is all growns up, and she's coming into her own away from her wizard friends with a number of interesting post-'Potter' movie roles.
No, you didn't just somehow travel back in time to the mid '90s – we just named Alicia Silverstone our Crush of the Day in 2012!


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Dear Mr. Harper, Don't Let Verizon into Canada
Dear Prime Minister Stephen Harper:
I read with interest that you are considering allowing Verizon Communications to operate Canada with unique acquisition rights.
Bad idea.
Before you proceed any further, I suggest that you read a report by the highly regarded Center for Tax Justice and Good Jobs First titled "Unpaid Bills: How Verizon Shortchanges Government Through Tax Dodging and Subsidies."
Bottom line: Verizon is one of the country's most aggressive corporate tax dodgers.
The report found that Verizon enjoyed some $14 billion in federal and state corporate income tax subsidies in the 2008-2010 period even though it earned $33.4 billion in pre-tax U.S. income during that time!
At the federal level, Verizon should have paid about $11.4 billion at the statutory rate of 35 percent during the three-year period.
Instead, it actually got $951 million in rebates, putting its federal tax subsidies at $12.3 billion.
Its effective federal tax rate was 2.9 percent.
The report found that at the state level, Verizon should have paid about $2.3 billion in corporate income taxes during the period but it paid only $866 million.
Its aggregate state rate was only 2.6 percent, far below the weighted state average rate of 6.8 percent.
This gave it state tax subsidies of about $1.4 billion.
Verizon also used a special tax loophole called the Reverse Morris Trust to avoid paying about $1.5 billion in federal and state and local taxes on the sale of its landline assets in various states.
The report found that Verizon also aggressively seeks state and local tax subsidies through credits, abatements and exemptions.
There is no centralized reporting on these subsidies, but the report documents $180 million in special tax breaks and grants Verizon and Verizon Wireless received in 13 states.
In addition to aggressively dodging taxes, Verizon also overtly rips off our federal government.
In April 2011, for example, Verizon paid $93.5 million to settle whistleblower charges that it had billed the government for "tax-like" surcharges that it wasn't entitled to impose on the government.
Hidden surcharges on communication services have long been an unwelcome cost to business and consumers, and the General Services Administration had negotiated a firm, fixed-price contract with limited surcharges precisely to avoid being hit with hidden surcharges, the whistleblower alleged.
"Verizon was not only charging the government for the costs associated with communication services, but it also was pumping up its revenues by charging the government for Verizon's own property taxes and other costs of doing business," said Colette Matzzie, a Washington, DC, attorney with Phillips & Cohen LLP, who represented the whistleblower. "Under federal law, Verizon was responsible for paying those costs, not the government."
The settlement agreement covers the period from 2004 to 2010, when Verizon allegedly billed the government for a variety of surcharges including property tax surcharges, carrier cost recovery charges, state telecommunications relay service surcharges and public utility commission fee surcharges.
Question: why would you allow one of our country's most aggressive tax dodgers, a company with a track record of overtly ripping off our government, into your country?
What's bad for the United States will be bad for Canada.
Ralph Nader
Washington, DC
Designed by Seunghan Song, this "window phone" concept will reflect current weather conditions on the screen. To input text, you just blow on the screen to switch modes, then write with your finger as a stylus.
Mac Funamizu's "Cobalto" has taken the cell phone concept way into the future, with an almost all-glass design. The phone would feature 3D imaging that could make Google Maps even more useful, as demonstrated here.
Anastasia Zharkova's organic "Leaf Phone" melds aesthetic creativity with functionality. The winding stem of the leaves could be wrapped around a user's arm, wrist, neck, or other body part.
Liu Hsiang-Ling's "Sticker Phone" has a solar panel on the back of the phone and a curved surface that will allow it to stick to a window via suction to charge. Plus, you won't lose your phone somewhere on your desk.
A pop-up phone! Ilshat Garipov's "Kambala" is a fascinating concept that features a center piece that can pop out to fit into your ear, making it an earphone. In theory, it will also have the ability to match your skin tone, rendering it almost invisible.
Emir Rifat's "Packet" phone won first place at the Istanbul Design Week 2007. The tiny phone starts off at 5 cm square, then folds out as needed for different functions.
Jung Dae Hoon's "Dial" concept takes the rotary phone of the 'good ol' days' and combines it with mobile technology and modern jewelry sensibilities.
Nokia's "Morph" phone uses nanotechnology to create a flexible body and transparent screen that can be molded to whatever shape is the most convenient for its user. The nanotech could even clean itself.
People tend to keep cell phones for only two years, and Je-Hyun Kim's Natural Year Phone concept takes that into consideration. The phone is designed to naturally biodegrade after the two years are up.
At first glance, this entrant into Fujitsu's cell phone design contest looks like an ordinary paperweight. Actually, it's a cleverly disguised phone. As the picture shows, the small black dot can be transformed into a keypad, media panel or web browser depending on what corner of the plastic handset you drag it to.
Aleksander Mukomelov's "Mobile Script" phone starts with a stylish and sleek small screen, then reveals a larger touchscreen hidden within the phone's body to meet all of your media device needs.
Suhyun Kim's stylish "Visual Sound" voice-to-text concept phone for deaf people is a huge step from current systems like teletypewriters.
Forget solar power, electricity, or fuel: Daizi Zheng's concept phone is powered by Coca-Cola.
NTT DoCoMo's prototype "wearable terminal" brings us one step closer to being cyborgs. You stick your index finger in your ear to hear and speak through the microphone at the back of the wristband, then snap your fingers to connect or disconnect the call.
This pen phone is one of the thinnest and smallest phone designs yet. While it's designed to be connected mainly via a bluetooth headset, the top and bottom of the phone do include a receiver and earpiece.
This Nokia concept is made of memory plastic that can be molded to fit around a wrist, for example, then can be heated to return to it's original shape.
A concept phone from Fujitsu's cellphone design contest.
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16th July 2012: These are comments made by Andrew Brons in the Constitutional Affairs Committee (AFCO) last Thursday on a Presentation by Professor Luis Maduro on How Constitutional Changes Might Change Public Attitudes to European Elections and to the Mutualisation of Debt .
"Your (Professor Maduro's) thesis assumes that electorates can be persuaded to accept the European Union's criteria for taking their decisions on how to vote. However, people have the right to decide not only on how to vote but also the criteria on which that decision will be taken, however much others might deplore those criteria.
(Professor Maduro had suggested that the parties should commit themselves to alternative candidates for the Presidency of the Commission, so that European elections would be seen as an indirect vote for a candidate for the position of President.)
"Changes in political identification might facilitate changes in constitutional structures but changes in constitutional structures cannot determine how they vote or the factors that they take into account.
"In the European Elections, it is too tempting for the national political parties to use the unpopularity of their rivals for electoral advantage. Even local government elections are rarely decided by local factors.
"You suggested that constitutional changes that draw attention to the benefits as well as the costs of EU membership might lead to a greater acceptance of the mutualisation of debt and of budgetary burden.
"However, it is clear from recent experience that acceptance of the mutualisation of debt would depend on a common European identity. Most of the members of the other members of this Committee would see that as desirable but whether or not you see it as desirable, it does not exist now. That is clear from the response of the German and other Northern European electorates to the perceived bailing out of Southern European countries.
"Members of the same national states are prepared to accept, however reluctantly, the payment of taxes to alleviate economic problems in their own regions, because they share a common identity. However, the existence of that common identity must precede and not follow the pooling of debt and the sharing budgetary burdens and benefits."
Professor Maduro replied to this by suggesting that communities faced by common problems and the necessity for common decisions thereby developed a common identity.
Comment by Andrew Brons MEP:
Professor Maduro's suggestion that European elections might become indirect elections for the election of the Presidency of the Commission was an interesting one, even an ingenious one, though not, of course, one that we should see as desirable.
It could be said that there is a precedent for such a development in the transformation of general elections in Parliamentary systems from being the means by which members of Parliament are chosen into the means by which governments (and prime ministers) are chosen. Of course, the development that gave that transformation its momentum was the growth of modern political parties. Party labels provide a political shorthand that connects the vote of the elector for a particular constituency candidate into a vote for a party leader and ministerial team.
For European elections to be transformed into an indirect choice of candidates for the Presidency of the Commission, it would be necessary for European Political Parties to supersede national parties completely, in European Elections. I have warned about this before but it is now clear that this supersession would be necessary for the transformation envisaged by Professor Maduro to take place.
It is now clear that the development of European Political Parties is not simply icing on the cake for the European Project; they are an essential ingredient.
Some – especially those in UKIP – see attendance at committees to be a waste of time, even a distraction. Attendance at this presentation shows how much can be learnt.


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Popular property highlights
Located within a mile (2 km) of London Bridge, The Nautical Beachfront Resort is within 2 miles (3 km) of Havasu Regional Medical Center. This 139-room, 3-star resort has a golf course, a water park, and a restaurant. On the beach, the resort is also close to Lake Havasu Museum of History and Aquatic Center.
Enjoy a bite to eat at Turtle Grill, the resort's onsite restaurant. Savor a meal from the comfort of your room with room service, or get a quick energy boost at the coffee shop/café. Start each morning with cooked-to-order breakfast, available for a fee from 8 AM to 11 AM.
The 139 air-conditioned accommodations feature furnished balconies and afford space to spread out with sitting areas. Guests can expect free WiFi and cable TV. Bathrooms offer hair dryers and free toiletries, and beds sport premium bedding. Sofa beds, microwaves, and refrigerators are other standard amenities.
Guests of The Nautical Beachfront Resort have access to a golf course, a free water park, and an outdoor pool. You can put free parking to good use if you drive. The front desk is staffed 24 hours a day to help with concierge services and securing valuables. Other amenities at this beach resort include free WiFi in public areas, 5 meeting rooms, and conference space.
Property features
- Free WiFi in rooms and public areas
- Free parking
- Onsite dining
- Golf course
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Hotel Amenities
Hotel Amenities
In addition to a golf course, The Nautical Beachfront Resort features a complimentary water park and an outdoor pool. The resort offers a restaurant and a coffee shop/café. Guests can unwind with a drink at one of the resort's bars, which include a beach bar and a poolside bar. A computer station is located on site and high-speed wireless Internet access is complimentary.
This 3-star property offers access to a 24-hour business center and meeting rooms. Event facilities measuring 5625 square feet (523 square meters) include conference space. This beach resort also offers gift shops/newsstands, concierge services, and complimentary newspapers in the lobby. Onsite self parking is complimentary.
The Nautical Beachfront Resort has designated areas for smoking.
- Total number of rooms - 139
- 24-hour front desk
- Coffee shop or café
- Free newspapers in lobby
- Conference space
- Gift shops or newsstand
- Free water park access
- Water park
- Laundry facilities
- Number of floors - 3
- ATM/banking
- Meeting rooms 5
- Restaurant
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- 24-hour business center
- Conference space size (feet) - 5625
- Conference space size (meters) - 523
- Number of meeting rooms - 5
- Golf course on site
- Beach cabanas (surcharge)
- Pool cabanas (surcharge)
- Pool sun loungers
- Beach towels
- Free self parking
- Number of buildings/towers - 6
- Outdoor pool
- Breakfast available (surcharge)
- Wedding services
- Concierge services
- Year Built 1964
- Computer station
- Designated smoking areas
- Grocery/convenience store
- Free WiFi
- RV, bus, truck parking
- Beach bar
- Poolside bar
Family Friendly Amenities
- Family Hotel
- Water park access (complimentary)
- Outdoor pool
- Free Wi-Fi
- Grocery/convenience store
- Laundry facilities
- Sofa bed
- Refrigerator
- Microwave
- DVD player
Available in all rooms: Free WiFi
Available in some public areas: Free WiFi
Free self parking, RV, bus, truck parking
Room Amenities
The Nautical Beachfront Resort offers 139 air-conditioned accommodations with DVD players and coffee/tea makers. Rooms open to furnished balconies. Accommodations offer separate sitting areas and include sofa beds. Beds feature premium bedding. Premium cable television is provided. Guests can make use of the in-room refrigerators and microwaves. Bathrooms include shower/tub combinations, complimentary toiletries, and hair dryers.
Guests can surf the web using the complimentary wireless Internet access. Business-friendly amenities include desks and phones; free local calls are provided (restrictions may apply). Additionally, rooms include irons/ironing boards and ceiling fans. Housekeeping is provided daily.
- Premium TV channels
- DVD player
- Premium bedding
- Separate sitting area
- Ceiling fan
- Air conditioning
- Phone
- Free local calls
- Coffee/tea maker
- Microwave
- Private bathroom
- Free toiletries
- Hair dryer
- Shower/tub combination
- Iron/ironing board
- Sofa bed
- Furnished balcony
- In-room climate control (air conditioning)
- Refrigerator
- Cable TV service
- Daily housekeeping
- Connecting/adjoining rooms available
- Desk
- Blackout drapes/curtains
- Free WiFi
- Room service (limited hours)
Where to Eat
Cooked-to-order breakfasts are available for a surcharge and are served each morning between 7 AM and 11 AM.
Turtle Grill - This family restaurant serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Guests can enjoy drinks at the bar. A children's menu is available. Happy hour is offered.
Room service (during limited hours) is available.
Nearby Things to Do
A golf course and a complimentary water park are featured at the resort. Other recreational amenities include an outdoor pool.
Children under 15 years old are not allowed in the swimming pool without adult supervision.
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or nearby; fees may apply.
- Sailing nearby
- Windsurfing nearby
- Mountain biking nearby
- Scooter/moped rentals nearby
- Hiking/biking trails nearby
- Bicycle rentals nearby
- Parasailing nearby
- Personal motorized watercraft on site
- Golf driving range on site
- Golfing on site
- Kayaking on site
- Motor boating on site
- Rafting on site
- Rowing or canoeing on site
- Water skiing on site
- Fishing on site
If you have requests for specific accessibility needs, please note them at check-out when you book your room.
- Accessible bathroom
- In-room accessibility
- Roll-in shower
Hotel Policies
Minimum check-in age is 21
Check-in time ends at 5 AM
Check-in time starts at 4 PM
Check-out time is 11 AM
Payment types
Children and extra beds
- Children are welcome.
- Kids stay free! Up to 5 children 17 years old and younger stay free when using existing bedding.
- Pets allowed for an extra charge of USD 50.00 per pet, per stay (maximum USD 50.00 per stay), plus a deposit of USD 200 per stay
- Dogs and cats only
- 2 per room
- Specific rooms only
- Pet-friendly rooms can be requested by contacting the property at the number on the booking confirmation
You need to know
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
- Minimum Spring Break check-in age is 21 years old.
No rollaway/extra beds available
No cribs (infant beds) available
No elevators
Noise-free rooms not guaranteed
- Deposit: USD 200.00 per stay
- Spring Break deposit: USD 500.00 per stay (for stays between 9 March - 14 April)
- Resort fee: USD 19.95 per accommodation, per night
- Pool access
- Sporting facilities or equipment
- Business center/computer access
- Phone calls
- Laundry facilities
- Self parking
- Housekeeping
Optional extras
- Breakfast fee: between USD 7.00 and USD 20.00 per person (approximately)
- Pet deposit: USD 200 per stay
- Pet fee: USD 50.00 per pet, per stay (maximum USD 50.00 per stay)
Hotel Name
- Nautical Beachfront
- Nautical Beachfront Lake Havasu City
- Nautical Beachfront Resort
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- Nautical Resort
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- The Nautical Beachfront Hotel Lake Havasu City
We should mention
Reservations are required for golf tee times. Reservations can be made by contacting the resort prior to arrival, using the contact information on the booking confirmation. Up to 5 children 17 years old and younger stay free when occupying the parent or guardian's room, using existing bedding. Only registered guests are allowed in the guestrooms. The property has connecting/adjoining rooms, which are subject to availability and can be requested by contacting the property using the number on the booking confirmation. Some facilities may have restricted access. Guests can contact the property for details using the contact information on the booking confirmation. This property allows pets in specific rooms only (surcharges apply and can be found in the Fees section). Guests can request one of these rooms by contacting the property directly, using the contact information on the booking confirmation.


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It's the other half here…
If there's one thing I've learned as a traveler, it's that the best experiences aren't planned. Lance and I recently took a quick trip to Nashville, and during our one-night stay we met some awesome people and I fell in love … with a table.
If you've followed posts here for a while, you might already know I like to shop. I especially like to shop while I'm away from home for things that remind me of places we've been. So Lance planned some time into our quick trip for me to go shopping at quirky local shops and galleries (because he's just awesome like that).
That's how we came upon the Art & Invention Gallery on Woodland.
It's a fun and funky gallery with work by Nashville-area artists in all sorts of media – everything from paint on canvas to pottery to cute stuff made from other stuff, like license plates and wood.
I was perusing a table covered in clay jewelry and tiny bowls and spoons when I overheard Lance talking to someone in a back room. I wandered back there, and that's where I met Bret MacFadyen. Bret, who owns the gallery with his wife, Meg, uses a garage/warehouse space behind the gallery as a studio, and there he crafts furniture out of architectural salvage pieces and found objects. I wandered around and looked at his creations as I eavesdropped on Lance's conversation.
My eyes and feet kept drifting back to one piece – a coffee table that I swear was sitting in that shop waiting for me to walk in and find it. Lance introduced me to Bret, who's incredibly nice and very interesting, but I found it hard to concentrate because with that table and me, it was love at first sight.
Fast forward about 20 minutes, and I've measured the table, measured the trunk of our car (very aptly named a Honda "Fit") and discussed with Bret the backstory of the piece. It's made from old industrial shelving, reclaimed oak boards and oversized casters. Bret hand-distressed the wood boards and painted the metal shelf with a unique finish that looks like patina on copper. As soon as I determined it would fit in the Fit, I bought the table and made plans to return the next morning to pick it up, which we did.
Meanwhile, we all kept talking, and I can't imagine visiting Nashville now without stopping into the Art & Invention Gallery to say hello to Bret and Meg – or visiting The Idea Hatchery, an adorable cluster of indie shops next door.
(Any woman reading this post should know that if you plan to visit Nashville, Goodbuy Girls is worth a visit. Its boots are like no others.)
Now, when I plop down in our living room and prop my boots up on the coffee table, I remember a truly lovely weekend in Nashville. I say all this to say that amazing travel moments don't just happen on once-in-a-lifetime trips to Tuscany or Tokyo or the Grand Canyon. I grew up in Nashville's shadow, and it's still full of surprises.
Also, the best experiences are always, always about people.