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Disclaimer : Unfortunately I don't own them . I asked, but the PTB said no.
Have had a severe case of writers block so am hoping this doesn't suck too badly!
As always reviews and guidance welcomed.
Many thanks to my fella for helping describe the feelings associated with vertigo.
Poor love.
Chapter One
Megan felt the heat of the blast long before her mind registered the danger . She felt herself being thrown to the floor, was aware of an ear splitting thunderous roar. Debris rained down around her. Attempting to roll away Megan caught sight of David, he was crouched behind a car about twenty feet behind her. Shouting something? She couldn't be sure. Almost as if in slow motion Megan watched as David ran from the safety of the car to where she lay. His voice muffled as he spoke. Seeing she couldn't hear him properly David raised his voice to a shout.
Nodding slowly Megan grabbed onto David's arm as he pulled her to her feet. He slung her arm around his shoulders as they made their way back to the cars . Picking their way through even more debris.
David half carried Megan and set her on the ground behind the SUV. Looking her over he could see a few cuts and scratches on her face and arms. Other than that there didn't seem to be any further damage. She looked dazed, watched in confusion as people ran around, shouting orders. Sirens from the approaching Fire Department could be heard in the distance.
"He set it off"
"I know Megan."
David held Megan's hand, trying to keep her grounded.
"Did you see where Don and Colby were?"
"Megan" David held her head steady, ensuring she locked eyes with him.
"Did you see Don and Colby?"
He kept his words precise, clear. Watched as the question was digested. Megan fighting for control against sensory overload.
"Oh god David ! Oh God they were by the front door"
"Ok , It's ok Megan. We'll find them"
David looked around and spied an officer , he seemed to be in a daze, like most people at the scene. Still trying to compute what had just happened.
"Hey! Hey man!"
The officer turned to David, seeing Megan seemed to snap him out of his daze and into action.
"Is she ok?"
"I think so, but I need you to stay with her until the paramedics get here. Ok?"
"Yeah, yeah no problem"
"Thanks man"
David took another look at Megan, she seemed to have regained more awareness and nodded to him.
"Find them"
"I will"
David made his way back through the debris toward the devastation caused by the explosion. They had been promised an hour. He'd barely waited twenty minutes. David fought off the chill as he realised the bomber had waited until the Agents were within the blast radius. Waited until he'd catch them.
The front of the house had collapsed completely, the wall blown out causing the roof to cave forward. Chunks of the roofing and concrete lay cast aside like a grotesque version of Stonehenge .
Through the smoke David could make out bodies, most moving, albeit slowly. He ignored the ones face down and still. Don't think about that yet. Have to find Don and Colby. Concentrate.
Thinking back to the last radio communication David knew they had been on the east side, about to round the front of the house, ready to storm in before the bomb was set off. David walked to where the edge of the building should have been. More debris. The side of the house had buckled but not collapsed. David could see five bodies, they were intact, only a small amount of the wall had rained down around them.
David ran to where they lay, three were moving, two were still. Slowly he moved the first agent. Large gash to the forehead, conscious , confused but alive. Not Don. Not Colby.
The second agent was helping a third to sit up. David smiled in relief as Colby was helped to a sitting position.
"Hey man, you ok?"
"David? What the hell happened?"
"It's ok, try not to move. He set the bomb off early"
"Ya don't say"
David moved to the fourth body, which was lying on top of the fifth. He rolled the agent over, one arm definitely broken, thready pulse. Alive. Not Don.
He pulled him onto his back and went to check on the last agent. Holding his breath. This had to be, had to be him.
Check for pulse, weak but there. Hands under torso, roll slowly, support the head.
Don's face was pale and sweaty, covered in dust. But he was breathing, he was alive. David carefully laid his head down, there was blood all over his hair but no way to tell where the injury was.
"Don! Don can you hear me?"
No response. There was blood trailing down his neck, David turned Don's head carefully and saw that his ear was bleeding, he checked the other side. The same.
"Any sign of the paramedics?"
"David , he ok?"
"I don't know, he's alive at least. How are you feeling?"
"Thankful that we didn't knock on the front door I can tell you that. My ears hurt, my head hurts and I'm pretty sure I'm gonna have to put up with this ringing for a while to come"
Amita ran toward Charlie's office, she hoped he hadn't seen the news report. Thankfully he rarely went to lounge. They had all sat in silence as the news crews played out the horror with the excitement of a wino who had found twenty dollars and was heading toward the liquor store.
Eye witness reports , how did they find those people so quickly? One said there had been FBI agents by the door, another said they had already gone inside. One man had even said he'd seen bodies fly threw the air. Did these people live for these moments? Amita slid around the corner and ran to Charlie's door.
He was busy writing on his chalkboard, headphones so loud Amita could make out the song from her place by the door. She carefully approached him, laid her hand on his shoulder.
"Hey Amita, you ok?"
"Amita, what's wrong? Is it that study you're trying to finish. I can help you if you want me too you know. All you have to do is ask"
Charlie couldn't place the emotion in Amita's eyes, she wasn't speaking. She was just staring at him, staring at him with , with compassion? What was going on?
"Are you ok?"
"Charlie, there's been an incident. It's all over the news. A bomb went off at the house"
"Don didn't get there in time? I told him where the likeliest places would be. Was there much damage?"
"Charlie, Don did make it there. They're saying that several FBI Agents were injured"
Charlie felt his legs buckle. He moved to sit down. Never taking his eyes from Amita.
"I don't know. So far they're saying that there are several casualties. That the guy set the bomb off as the agents surrounded the building."
They sat in silence for what seemed like an eternity.
"It probably wasn't Don's team"
Amita held Charlie's hand. She knew it had been his team, had seen David in the background of the news report.
As she was about to speak Charlie's phone rang loudly, making them both jump. He sat staring at it for several rings. Afraid that if he answered then this would be real. It couldn't be real. It just couldn't.
Amita answered for him.
"Hello…..Hi, It's Amita……ok……..…where will he be?………I'll let him know…..No……….We'll call Alan……..ok……………thanks……..bye"
She put the phone back on the desk and held both Charlie's hands in her own.
"That was David, Don's being taken to memorial. He's unconscious but he's alive. Has a head injury of some sort. You need to call your Dad Charlie"
"Huh? Oh, yeah. I'll call him. Then can you drop me at the hospital?"
"Of course"
Alan stood in front of the packets of meat at the store trying to find the best beef for his lasagne. Seeing how none of the last batch was left uneaten he figured he'd give it another go. Maybe this time with some garlic? Or Chilli? His phone began to shrill loudly in his pocket.
"Hey Charlie, listen, do you want chilli or garlic lasagne?"
The hairs on the back of Alan's neck all rose in unison.
"He's at memorial, there was a bomb, he has a head injury."
"I'll pick you up on the way."
"Amita's going to drop me"
"Ok, I'll see you soon"
Alan left his shopping and the store behind, as he drove off a shop assistant ran after him, waving his basket . Another lost sale.
Alan sat in the waiting room with Charlie and David. They'd been waiting for news for over half and hour and were all starting to become impatient.
David had filled them both in on the events, the early detonation, finding Don, assuring them both that he was ok. Even though he wasn't so sure himself. They hadn't been able to wake him.
Colby and Don had ridden in one ambulance, Megan in another, with David following them both in the SUV. So far there were eight injured. Only eight .David had thanked all the god's he could remember for the low injury count. No fatalities. By some miracle the guy had set the bomb off at the wrong moment. Both teams had barely rounded the front wall before all hell broke lose. The news had played it somewhat differently of course. From what he could tell from Charlie of what Amita had said of the news report, you'd think that the entire FBI force had been at the house. They were so lucky. David crossed his fingers, hidden by his side. Please let the luck continue.
"Agent Sinclair?"
"Agent Reeves is asking for you"
"How is she?"
"She's fine, she's this way"
David nodded to Alan as he followed the Nurse. They'd had no news on Don yet. Other than he was still unconscious.
Megan smiled as David entered the room, he took in her appearance, dusty, tired, butterfly stitches holding a cut on her cheek, dressed in jogging bottoms and a t-shirt.
"Hey, how are you feeling?"
"I'll be better when they tell me how Colby and Don are. No one will tell me anything"
"We don't know much yet, Colby was awake at the scene and wanting to get back to work, they practically man handled him into the ambulance. Don's still unconscious, we're waiting for news. Aside from that how are you feeling?"
"I'm ok, a little sore but ok. I still can't believe the son of a bitch set it off early"
"Yeah, well, we found remains inside, they're being tested now but I'm pretty sure they're his."
"Shame, would have liked to have smacked the guy"
"Did they say when you could go home?"
"I have to rest here for another couple of hours, then I'm good to go."
"Good news"
Alan watched Charlie fidget, Charlie watched Alan watching him. Neither knew what to say and both were avoiding saying anything. The scenarios running through both the men's minds were varied and elaborate. Charlie was running through bombing statistics, probabilities of injuries dependant on how close the victim was to the blast, all this flashing through his mind at the speed of light, like a supernova exploding through space, consuming all other thoughts in it's path. Alan was trying very hard to concentrate on how he would reprimand Don for being so close to the blast, for taking such a chance, he tried to think of all the things he would say to him. All the while trying to avoid the image of Don's mangled body. He knew it was a head injury, but having seen so many bomb victims on the television Alan couldn't help but imagine his son broken in two, lost forever.
"Mr Eppes? I'm Doctor Murray"
Alan looked up at the man standing over him. Fearing the answer he asked the question anyway.
"Is my son alright?"
"Mr Eppes, Don has regained consciousness , he's not quite alert but he knows what happened, we're running tests right now and once we know more you'll be the first I tell."
"Can I see him?"
"Not just yet. As I said we have tests we need to run and then you can see him."
"When can he come home?"
Charlie stood next to the Doctor. He asked his question again.
"When can he come home?"
The Doctor looked at Alan who's eyes were filled with the hope that it would be soon.
"It depends on the tests. Definitely not tonight. We'll see how it goes. I'll come and find you when we're done so that you can see Don"
"Thanks Doctor"
Alan tried his best to smile but he really wanted to shake the young man before him. How dare he keep him from his son. Tests or no tests he was the father and therefore had every right to see his son, march right in there and ring his neck for causing them so much worry.
Charlie made his way to the room where he'd seen David follow the Nurse, he saw Megan on the bed talking softly with him
"Hey, how are you feeling?"
"Charlie, hey any news on Don?"
"He's awake, that's all we know for now"
"That's good news"
"You ok?"
"Yeah, I'm ok. A little shaken but nothing I won't recover from. I just can't wait to get out of here"
David stood and grabbed Megan's cell from the table.
"You want me to call Larry for you?"
Charlie couldn't help but smirk as Megan's face lost it's paleness in a full blush.
"What? Why? No, you don't need to do that"
Charlie walked back out to the waiting room and sat next to his father ,he breathed a sigh of relief. Don was awake. He was alive and he was awake. Which meant he'd be fine. He was sure it meant that. No way it could mean anything else.
"So what's the damage?"
David watched as Alan took a deep breath. Charlie was sat beside him, left leg shaking up and down and a look of barely contained panic in his eyes. Megan sat next to David, waiting for a response from the Eppes men.
"Well" began Alan , "It seems that he's sustained damage to his ear drums. They think he was closer to the blast than any of the others. I don't really understand to tell you the truth."
Colby entered the waiting room and sat next to Charlie.
"Don had started around the corner when the bomb went off. It was Miller who pulled him back"
"Hey man, how are you?" David asked , concern draped across his features.
"I'm good, a little banged up and bruised and I have one heck of a headache and ringing in my ears, but apart from that I'm good to go. How's Don?"
Alan took another deep breath.
"The Doctor says he has ruptured ear drums and is showing signs of Acute Vertigo."
Charlie let out a long sigh, like he'd been holding his breath for hours. He knew Don was going to be fine but the thought of what could have happened to his brother was going to be keeping him up for many nights to come.
"He also has concussion but apart from that he's very lucky."
"We had a lucky escape today Mr Eppes" Megan held Alan's gaze.
"Only one agent was severely injured today, the rest have cuts and bruises and sore heads. Jenkins had wanted to set the bomb off at the precise moment to cause the most amount of damage. He was determined to take as many of us with him as he could."
"Yeah, well, lucky for us his math was crap and he set it off too early" Colby grinned Charlie's way.
"I hope Don see's it that way. Thank god it wasn't worse. Do you know the statistics for victims of bombings? When I think of what could have happened to Don"
"Enough Charlie" Alan glared at his son. Breakdowns of bomb victim injury statistics just weren't needed right now. All Alan needed to know was that his first born was going to be fine, a little bruised, a little banged up, but in time he'd be fine.
Until then Alan was determined to chain him to the damn couch if he had to. Don was staying with them whether he wanted to or not and Alan refused to budge on that. He may be the big, tough FBI Agent but Alan had many years and a great deal more deviousness on him. He was not above tricking his first born into staying.
Failing that he would be handcuffing him to the damn couch.


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Film Oscar Nominations
Published: Tuesday, January 27, 2004 at 1:48 p.m.
Last Modified: Tuesday, January 27, 2004 at 1:48 p.m.
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) - "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King," the final chapter in Peter Jackson's majestic fantasy trilogy, led the Academy Awards race Tuesday with 11 nominations, including best picture and director.
The Napoleonic era naval adventure "Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World" was right behind with 10 nominations, among them best picture and director.
Bill Murray, Diane Keaton, Sean Penn and Charlize Theron _ all Golden Globe winners Sunday _ were among the leading acting nominees. The most notable snub came for the Civil War saga "Cold Mountain," which failed to get nominations for best picture, director Anthony Minghella or lead actress Nicole Kidman.
Other best-picture nominees for the 76th annual Oscars included "Lost in Translation," about two lonely Americans in Tokyo; the brooding murder thriller "Mystic River"; and the horse-racing drama "Seabiscuit."
Along with best picture and director, the nominations for "Return of the King" included original score and song, visual effects, film editing and adapted screenplay for the script based on J.R.R. Tolkien's fantasy classic.
"Return of the King" led last weekend's Golden Globes with four wins, including best dramatic picture and director, and its broad critical and fan support give the film the inside track at the Oscars.
Nominees for lead actress included a surprise pick, Keisha Castle-Hughes as a New Zealand girl who bucks tradition to become leader of her Maori tribe in "Whale Rider." At 13, she's the youngest person ever to be nominated for lead actress, the Academy said. The film's distributor had been pushing her in the supporting category.
The youngest nominee ever was 8-year-old Justin Henry as supporting actor for 1979's "Kramer vs. Kramer." At 10, supporting-actress winner Tatum O'Neal was the youngest Oscar recipient.
Besides Jackson and "Master and Commander" director Peter Weir, the directing nominees included Sofia Coppola for "Lost in Translation," only the third woman ever nominated for best director and the first American woman. The previous nominees were Lina Wertmuller for 1976's "Seven Beauties" and Jane Campion for 1993's "The Piano." Both lost.
Coppola, the daughter of Francis Ford Coppola, also earned an original-screenplay nomination for "Lost in Translation." Her father, an executive producer on "Lost in Translation," is a five-time Oscar winner, while her grandfather, Carmine Coppola, won the musical-score award for "The Godfather, Part II."
"I think about the family tradition, to be nominated, joining the men in my family," Sofia Coppola said. "I haven't thought about the idea of winning."
The other directing nominees: Clint Eastwood for "Mystic River" and a surprise choice, Fernando Meirelles for the Brazilian film "City of God."
Meirelles' nomination may have bumped "Seabiscuit" filmmaker Gary Ross out of the best-director field, but Ross was not complaining, considering his best-picture honor and his nomination for adapting the screenplay from Laura Hillebrand's best seller.
"I'm very happy for `City of God,'" Ross said. "When a smaller movie like that can be recognized, the more all of this can be spread around, the better it is for everyone. This is a time to celebrate what we all do, which is make movies."
"Cold Mountain" did get seven nominations _ among them, best actor for Jude Law as a Confederate deserter making his way home to his sweetheart and supporting actress for Renee Zellweger for her role as a no-nonsense Confederate woman.
Along with Law, the actor nominees were Johnny Depp as a wily buccaneer in "Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl"; Ben Kingsley as an Iranian immigrant fighting for possession of a home in "House of Sand and Fog"; Murray as a has-been actor shooting a commercial in Japan in "Lost in Translation"; and Penn as an ex-hoodlum out for revenge over his daughter's death in "Mystic River."
The other best actress nominees: Keaton as a down-on-love playwright unexpectedly romanced by two men in "Something's Gotta Give"; Theron as real-life serial killer Aileen Wuornos in "Monster"; Samantha Morton as an Irish immigrant mother in "In America"; and Naomi Watts as a grieving wife and mother seeking vengeance in "21 Grams."
It was the fourth nomination for Keaton, a best-actress winner for 1977's "Annie Hall." Keaton now has been nominated in four different decades, which adds relevance to the themes of her comeback role in the $100 million hit "Something's Gotta Give," that older men and women still have life and love left in them.
"What's wonderful about the movie is it gives hope for all of us baby boomers out there," Keaton said. "It permits us to continue to engage in the idea of romantic love at the very least. It's fantastic for actresses of my generation. It means we can still be in romantic comedies, and if they're well-written and directed and acted, it works and it makes money."
Contenders for supporting actor were Alec Baldwin as a sleazy casino owner in "The Cooler"; Benicio Del Toro as an ex-con whose effort to go straight ends in tragedy in "21 Grams"; Djimon Hounsou as a standoffish artist dying of AIDS in "In America"; Tim Robbins as a man tormented by childhood abuse in "Mystic River"; and Ken Watanabe as a samurai battling Western influences among his countrymen in "The Last Samurai."
Besides Zellweger, supporting actress nominees were Shohreh Aghdashloo as a compassionate Iranian immigrant in "House of Sand and Fog"; Patricia Clarkson as an acerbic mother coping with breast cancer in "Pieces of April"; Marcia Gay Harden as a suspicious wife in "Mystic River"; and Holly Hunter as a single mom trying to rein in her defiant daughter in "thirteen."
Harden said the pressure was off this time, since she won the supporting-actor prize three years ago for "Pollock." She had been a surprise nominee for that film and oddsmakers labeled her a longshot to take home the Oscar.
"If I listened to Las Vegas before, I was 12-1 not to win," Harden said. "I think I'll just enjoy the ride this time."
Scarlett Johansson, who received Golden Globe nominations for "Lost in Translation" and "Girl With a Pearl Earring," was bypassed. Among other snubs, there were no acting nominations among the "Rings" and "Master and Commander" casts.
The blockbuster "Finding Nemo" was nominated for animated feature film, along with "Brother Bear" and the French film "The Triplets of Belleville."
Foreign-language nominees were the Canadian film "The Barbarian Invasion," Sweden's "Evil," Japan's "The Twilight Samurai," the Netherlands' "Twin Sisters" and the Czech Republic's "Zelary."
Nominees in most categories are chosen by specific branches of the 5,700-member Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, such as actors, directors and writers.
All academy members are allowed to vote for best-picture nominees. The full academy also is eligible to vote in all categories for the awards themselves.
ABC will broadcast the Oscars on Feb. 29 live from Hollywood's Kodak Theatre. Billy Crystal returns as host after a four-year absence, his eighth time as Oscar master of ceremonies.
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|Reviews for The 475th Annual Quarter Quell
| SeekerDraconis chapter 33 . 1/3/2013
Oh, I thought Aurora died in the last chapter. Haha! Well, I'm still glad that Hunter was able to kill her. Geez, Aurora! How dare you try to kill my tribute, I made you to be his ally! XD
Hahaha, Emiliana gone lesbian! Guess this is one of her strategies. And Lotsear cheated on Kalli.. in live television! I wonder how Kalli would deal with this.
Oh no, please don't kill little Alia. I want her to be the Capitol ally victor. :(
| SeekerDraconis chapter 32 . 1/3/2013
Happy new year, Squintz! :)
Oh noes, Aurora died! Well, I don't really care that much about her, I'm just glad Hunter survived. And Squin, could I maybe send a sponsor gift for Hunt? Some supplies and medicine for his wounds? I kinda forgot how the sponsorship thingy is in this story, but please send him those stuff if I have enough points. Thanks!
| Insanitywriter chapter 33 . 1/2/2013
kofioedjancfonawdofhwonerioh fklwbf;awnofher;ofghsd;lfn! I WAS FREAKING OUT! I was freaking out sooooooo bad! still am! my kindle died in the middl of the fight and.. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH HHHHH! I wanted to kkill her! I wannted to kill her dead! GGGGGGGGGAAAAAAAAAHH! oHMIGOSH! i wondering why a cannon didn't go off and now i get it.. and OHMIGOSH! *Tears streaming down face as i jump around histerically* I WANNA KILL HER! BRING HER BACK TO LIFE TO I CAN KILL HER! WWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNN NNNHHHHHHHH! And then she had the audasity to talk to Nick?! OH HELL NAWH! *flails arms around head* I swear if Hunter can't use his arm i'm bout to book hop this mug and kill this bitch! INSANITY STYLE!
... Moving on...
AWWWWWWWWWWWNNNNNNnnn TORO AND VANCES PUPPY IS SOOOOO CUTE! XD XD XD I lurver etttt jes jes jes! At first i thought it was trying to kill Toro and im like OH HELLZ NAH! but then he licked him and im like awwwnn... but waiting for it to turn or lead bigger mutts to them... but now im just like AWWWWNNN (still watching though -_-)
XD XD XD DID I NOT TELL YOU LOTTY AND EMI WOULD GET TOGETHER! Smh... but i just can't stand Emi sooo much! (either other them really... but ESPEACILY Emi) sooo im like... is it the feelings from the very begining or is she trying to get her gaurd down! GRRRR i'm on to you Emi -_-
GASP! NOOOOO YOU CANT MAKE ALIA SICK! *tears* well sicker... since she's already sick... *sniffs*.. Dont leave mah Pyra all alone! X(
| Insanitywriter chapter 32 . 1/2/2013
FOOOOCCCKK! OHMIGOSH MY HUNTER! *cries sobs of tears* he almost died! O.o gasp.. but now hes all alone! :(... damnit aurora... how could you have been so calm when you were supposidly running for your life! Smh... and I just knew Carter and jade were gonna team up :3
| Fluteorwrite chapter 33 . 1/2/2013
Heck yeah go Hunter! *fist pump*
Cool! Toro and Vance have a guard mutt :D
Lotsear! I thought you were better than that! *sobs in corner*
Pie's acting like Alia's older brother, it's so sweet *sniff*
| androidilenya chapter 33 . 1/2/2013
I knew it! I absolutely knew that was going to happen! I've been prediction Emiliana/Lotsear since they allied! Gah, that's so awesome, they're so cute together. Poor Kalli, though, wonder what she thinks of this. Now two of my favorites are together! With an awkward third wheel, too, but whatever.
Aw, Alia... you can't die, you're too cute...
Love the random guard-mutt that Toro and Vance got.
Looking forward to the next chapter!
| shakakid chapter 33 . 1/2/2013
Hey. Sup. Shakakid's here. And yep, i'm lazy to login again :p so yeah!
Overall, it's an awesome chapter! Loved it.
Oh god. I love the mutt-dog-guard-pet thing. Its a pretty cool idea! xD Lucky Toro and Vance! Scamp seems pretty useful too! I hope Scamp won't turn into a predator or evil spy or something like that *shudder*
I KNEW IT. Aurora didn't die by the mutt attacks. And! Hunter's and Aurora's fight! Its seems pretty scary and...bloody :O And because of that fight, Hunter has a lot of injuries omg.
Lotsear and Emiliana...what are you both doing...like seriously...um...I DIDN'T EVEN EXPECT THAT...ok.
Awh, Alia and pie 3 :)
Can't wait for the next chapter!
| nb1998 chapter 33 . 1/2/2013
Awh Toro's got a pet, that's cool but it's kind of a spy.. I wonder if it will turn on the two of them or not. So Aurora is finally dead, I didn't particuarly like her that much but after that cruel death scene I don't like Hunter very much either and seeing as he has quite a lot of injuries I don't know how much longer he'll live. Woah.. what the hell is Lotsear doing and Emiliana...
| Shakakid chapter 32 . 1/1/2013
Hey, shakakid here! I'm lazy to login so yeah but its me :)
I agree with Carter's thoughts about the games. Yep, the game drive people insane. Like seriously.
And...Carter and Jade became allies. Good for both of them :) have an ally is better than all alone by yourself.
Love the action scene when a mutt attacked Aurora. But, does Aurora die? I mean, Hunter didn't hear any canon bombs. Well, there's a chance that she'll survive, although it's really small.
Okay! Short chapter but its fine :) Oh anyway, happy new year!
| androidilenya chapter 32 . 12/31/2012
Whoa, what happened to Aurora? Guess she's dead, then... don't see how anyone could survive getting jumped by a pack of mutts. Poor Hunter. I still like him a lot, so here's hoping he survives a bit longer!
Carter and Jade's alliance is nice.
Great to see an update from you, loved this chapter! Can't wait for the next!
| Necklace of Rope chapter 32 . 12/31/2012
Hi there!
Although short, this chapter had some good moments. I particularly liked that little bit at the beginning when Carter is thinking about what Games do to people, and the fact that thought about Lani are what drives him instead of survival instinct. It was endearing.
And some action with that mutt that attacked Hunter and Aurora was fine, too xD
If you say this chapter is foreshadowing, I really can't wait to see what's coming xD So please update soon! :)
| nb1998 chapter 32 . 12/31/2012
So Aurora died, I'm surprised that Hunter didn't die as well there, I don't dislike him but there is other charcters that I like better than him. And then Carter and Jade have teamed up which seems reasonable as neither of them really want to kill anymore.
| SeekerDraconis chapter 31 . 12/3/2012
Uh-oh. Jade's turning out to be like Olivia (it's Olivia right, the D12 female?) from the last story. I just hope she wouldn't suffer the same fate.
Damn! Emiliana just had to barge in the scene when Jade was about to kill Lotsear. Now they're all in the same team, Emiliana and Lotsear. I swear, that alliance was made to annoy the hell out of me. Emiliana killed Sterling, and Lotsear killed Douglas. I hate them girls now. -_-
What? Little Alia has cancer?! Poor little girl. And Pyralis named a butterfly Kai! :sad:
| charlieal12 chapter 31 . 12/2/2012
Yay! No deaths! Neon is so adorable, GO NEON!'
| Insanitywriter chapter 31 . 12/2/2012
Aaaaawwwwwwnnnnnn!... sigh... welll no one died this time... I was freaking out during jade and lottys fight! I really thought someone was gonna die! And didn't I tell you emi would be joining with lorry! Like forreal!... and this is rediculous! The three I cant stand in the SAME alliance! Its like it was meant ro piss me off! And whytm the hell hasn't tally killed emi yet?! She KILLED ally! Like forreal aaaaahhhhh! *rage* and pyra and alia are soopooo cute! It Sufis that she has cancer though! :hats just fucked up (guess capital life anit all its cracked up to be...) but you all can di it! You can be free... like kai... for kai... (I still want hunter to win though!)


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Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Michael Ramirez on Government Micromanagement of Private Businesses
Sunday, March 29, 2009
Brazil's Bloodsuckers
I'll translate some of the main points as a warning against the same statist and centralizing trends that we currently observe here in the US:
[The Brazilian Senate], with 81 Senators, has 181 directors, each receiving a yearly salary of around $ 141,000 (R$ 325,000) . The budget of the Senate is greater than the budget of the municipality of Porto Alegre [one of the largest cities in Brazil]. To manage a few buildings and needs, the [Senate] spends more than a city with a population of more than 1.4 million.
This is the heritage of our patrimonialist culture, which deifies the state so it can be used as private property by some. Nothing more than taxpayers' money at the service of the privileges of a quiet caste of surreptitious swindlers. In Brazil, due to the particularities of its civilizatory process, state power - the Portuguese Crown - arrived before the establishment of communities. The people came after, submissive and conformed to the preexisting structure of command. The consequence is that our history was drawn around the fringes of the state, while society remained subject to a secondary, supporting role.
This is why the private sector is so much despised [in Brazil]. For no other reason than that entrepreneurship is not part of our curricula. ... And yet we greet the state as our only possible redeemer.
Saturday, March 28, 2009
The Descent of UK: Bad Omen for Our Administration's Economic Policies?
I would not be surprised if, in the near future, we start hearing acid speeches like the one below here in the US. The speech was recently delivered by Representative Daniel Hannan in the European Parliament, accusing Prime Minister Gordon Brown of furthering UK's economic descent. Will we be next?
A Comment on Ennyman's "Juarez: City of Blood"
In short, do you really believe that drug dealers with millions of dollars on the line don't have sufficient resources to open those borders as wide as they please? On the other hand, do you really think that gun legislation in Texas or a re-configured Brady bill is going to make the violence disappear like Houdini's elephant? What do you think?I'd like to comment on the question of gun sales to Mexico. This question can easily become technical, and I believe it's important to avoid the trap of wishful thinking here. I touch on the point briefly in my research on border crime, and there's also an extensive economic literature on the particular subject of guns and crime, with lots of issues yet to be settled. I'll just point out three problems with the idea that forbidding gun trade with Mexico (in this case, blocking exports that are legal in the US but illegal in Mexico) is important to solve the crime problem in Mexican border cities:
- As exemplified by Ennyman's post itself, blocking exports of guns to Mexico, besides creating an additional cost to the American taxpayer, probably won't do any real good, since it's so easy to smuggle guns into Mexico anyway. I wonder if this should really be a priority.
- Those same guns are available to Texans, and yet Texas is, in general, one of the safest places to live in the US, despite the fact that the number of police officers per capita in Texas is lower than in most Northern states. Just as an example, El Paso, right across the border from Cd. Juarez, is one of the safest large cities in America.
- Gun ownership is almost totally outlawed in Mexico (mostly for political, not criminal reasons), and that has never stopped Mexico from being a violent country, on the contrary, it only increased the asymmetry of power between "ranchers and cowboys" and "government thugs and bandits" - to oversimplify a much more complex discussion.
My take on it is that we should work incessantly and selectively to improve collaboration efforts with all Mexican citizens that recognize the problem and want to improve their institutions. The difficulty here is the strong resistance to institutional change that is put up by many in Mexico (and even by some in the US that benefit from the status quo in Mexico), and, unfortunately, there's no easy solution to this part of the problem. Anyway, I don't think that there's any real alternative to institutional change.
Friday, March 27, 2009
Government Bailouts According to South Park
Toxic Liabilities Instead of Toxic Assets
1. We cannot efficiently value or transfer "toxic" assets - so a good plan cannot depend upon this.
2. The UK's Special Resolution Regime, or one similar to that of the US FDIC, can cleanly split off the key banking functions into a new "bridge" bank, leaving liabilities behind in an "old" bank, thus also removing creditors' bargaining power.
3. Creditors left behind in the old bank can be fairly compensated by giving them the equity in the new bank.
4. We can pick and choose which creditors we wish to "top up" beyond this level, but should not indiscriminately make all creditors completely whole as in recent bailouts.
5. Coordinating actions with other countries will reduce any risks.
As we pour good money after bad in trying to save the banks, far too much time and attention has been focused on attempting to value or transfer or shore up the so-called "toxic" assets. This is natural enough, since they arguably caused the crisis, but it's also wrong. ...
A plan that isolates the bad liabilities rather than the bad assets of the banks, and pays the owners of those claims everything they legally deserve in liquidation but does not fully immunise them from losses, will achieve three major objectives.
- It will help unfreeze the credit markets by creating healthy banks able to lend.
- It will assure that depositors are paid in full, and all creditors are paid at least their entitlement.
- It will make the bailout cheaper for the government, increasing its flexibility.
Finally, as an additional benefit, paying creditors based on market values rather than government guarantees reduces moral hazard in bank finance, and increases the prospect of better monitoring by sophisticated private creditors in determining the future allocation of capital across financial institutions.
There will be a lot more we will need to do to solve the financial crisis -- let's not make the bank bailouts more expensive than absolutely necessary.
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Government Failure: On the Way to Hell
Maybe we needed an European from a country wrecked by socialism to make us see that the the emperor has no clothes. Despite the administration's insistence on misrepresenting the economics profession, many economists have denounced the lack of soundness of a plan that is at best a cartoonish application of outdated economic theories, possibly driven by less-than-noble politics.
The road to hell is paved with good (and sometimes bad) intentions. The AIG fiasco continues to burn: the resignation letter of Jake DeSantis to Edward M. Liddy is an excellent example of how government micromanagement (or should we say micro-mismanagement?) of the economy is a recipe for economic disaster (HT Mankiw, see also Division of Labour). I couldn't care less about corporate intrigue, however, this one is being supported by the taxpayer!
The government has botched up badly by keeping this company afloat, and the more it tries to replace markets and free enterprise with overblown politics, the faster we'll go down that old hot road. I just hope we make a U-turn before reaching terminus station.
PS: Megan McArdle's post and the commentaries that follow reveal how easily corporate governance can be messed up by government micro-mismanagement.
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
El Paso Mayor John Cook on Crime in Cd. Juarez
PS: I wrote a few articles on the subject of border crime, they're available here, here and here.
The Onion: Study Finds Most Babies Are Manic-Depressive
NEW YORK—A new study published in The Journal Of Pediatric Medicine found that a shocking 98 percent of all infants suffer from bipolar disorder. "The majority of our subjects, regardless of size, sex, or race, exhibited extreme mood swings, often crying one minute and then giggling playfully the next," the study's author Dr. Steven Gregory told reporters. "Additionally we found that most babies had trouble concentrating during the day, often struggled to sleep at night, and could not be counted on to take care of themselves—all classic symptoms of manic depression." Gregory added that nearly 100 percent of infants appear to suffer from the poor motor skills and impaired speech associated with Parkinson's disease.
Monday, March 23, 2009
Government Failure: The AIG Fiasco
It is a measure of how deep the anger runs that most press attention at the weekend focused on the government's new proposal to increase its scrutiny of executive pay rather than on leaks of the Treasury's long-awaited plan to tackle toxic assets. ...
Bankers are not the only ones feeling the heat, however. The Treasury knew about the bonuses before it gave AIG its most recent shot of state aid. And Senator Christopher Dodd, who faces a tough re-election bid, has come under pressure to explain why he did not try to stop such bonuses when he helped to write the bail-out legislation.
Mr Obama has been trying to catch up. ... But the president's critics say that, once again, he has let Democrats in Congress define an issue in such a way that it makes the administration's job of winning the public's trust more difficult. Indeed, Mr Obama did little to quell the outrage last week. In an appearance on the Jay Leno show he sang along with the chorus of disapproval and maintained that America had to get back to "an attitude where people know enough is enough" and a "sense of responsibility". It was left to Mr Leno to say he thought it a "little scary" that the government could impose a tax on someone it doesn't like.
Recessions produce economic insecurity and are ripe for populist politics. The danger is that Mr Obama risks being seen to be pandering to populism. Worse, some are wondering how well the relatively inexperienced Mr Obama would fare with a full-blown crisis given his wobbles over a minor issue such as bonuses. Others maintain he is still running last year's presidential campaign, and that he needs to show himself as more presidential, by using his position to calm and explain, rather than merely echo the public's frustrations at Wall Street. To be fair, Mr Obama did take a stab at that when interviewed by Mr Leno, but the call for more regulatory "common sense", perhaps a plea to Congress, got lost amid the rage and the gags.
Saturday, March 21, 2009
More on Inflation Targeting Failures
Friday, March 20, 2009
KAL's Cartoon on AIG
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Thursday, March 19, 2009
The Failure of Inflation Targeting in Brazil
Sachsida for example wrote a post (in Portuguese) that explains how inflation targeting failed to anchor inflationary expectations and may even have been responsible for the exchange rate run-up of 2002 (my translation):
The goal of this post is to question the current interpretation regarding the success of the inflation targeting regime in Brazil. I'd like to know how it is that a system that SYSTEMATICALLY fails to reach its targets can be considered a success. In its 10 years of existence, the inflation targeting regime was incapable to fulfill its targets in almost half of the years; and in the other half, nothing guarantees that the inflation targeting regime was responsible for price stability.
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Government Failure: Markets Did Not Bailout AIG
PS: here's Marginal Revolution on AIG presidential campaign contributions.
PS: here's Cafe Hayek on Fannie and Freddie bonuses.
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Government Failure: The Return of the Price Control Zombies, Part MMMDXXXIX
State officials across the country are proposing price controls to help fix the economy, riling economists who warn they can harm the economy and even destroy cities. ...
The New York Legislature and the San Francisco City Council are considering expanding rent controls. Some politicians in Vermont are trying to limit the price of milk. And in Alaska, a bill to cap oil prices is pending in the state legislature.
Proponents say the government has an obligation to provide relief for consumers during these trying economic times. But many economists say controlling prices and rents has failed in the past, and it often has bad consequences.
"Economists widely agree that price controls often lead to shortages. There are many examples throughout history, and we have seen more recent demonstrations of this principle of economics in Venezuela and Zimbabwe," said Dr. N. Gregory Mankiw, a Harvard University economics professor and former chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under President George W. Bush.
Dr. Edward Glaeser, a Harvard economics professor who researches the effects of rent control, said price controls have "a whole litany of problems that make them among the most foolish forms of economic populism known to man." ...
"You had gas lines in the '70s.... The tougher thing is to think of cases where there was not a shortage due to price controls," said George Mason University economics professor Dr. Tyler Cowen, author of "Discover Your Inner Economist." ...
"In many cases rent control appears to be the most efficient technique presently known to destroy a city -- except for bombing," said Swedish economist Assar Lindbeck, a former socialist who has been researching rent control since the 1960s.
Monday, March 16, 2009
Arthur, D.W. and Macroeconomics
Sunday, March 15, 2009
Roberto Campos, Economic Development, and State Capitalism
Natural resources, supposedly the object of imperialist greed, are not fundamental [for economic development], since Japan became wealthy without them. Education does not guarantee progress, since Russia collapsed years after adopting the formula of Lenin: education plus electrification. The saving rate is important, but only if investments are not wasted. Stable money is a necessary but not sufficient condition. Furthermore, capitalism is not enough, unless it is liberal and competitive, since state capitalism is disastrous.
It appears that we're bound to repeat the economic mistakes of the past, and nothing out there will stop us from doing so.
Politics [when it comes to this crisis] will make matters worse, primarily because governments in both the rich and the developing worlds are intervening in their economies more broadly and deeply than at any time since the end of World War II. Policy makers around the world are hard at work crafting stimulus packages filled with subsidies and protections they hope will breathe new life into their domestic economies, and preparing to rewrite the rules and regulations that govern global markets
Why is this dangerous? At the G-20 summit a few weeks ago, world leaders pledged to address the crisis by coordinating their economic policy responses. That's not going to happen, because politicians design stimulus packages with political motives -- to satisfy the needs of their constituents -- not to address imbalances in the global economy. This is as true in Washington as in Beijing. That's why politics will drive the global economy more directly (and less efficiently) in 2009 than at any point in decades. Its politics that is creating the biggest risk for markets this year.
This is part of a worrisome long- term trend. In China and Russia, where histories of command economics predispose governments toward what we've come to call state capitalism, the phenomenon is especially obvious. National oil companies, other state-owned enterprises, and sovereign wealth funds have brought politicians and political bureaucrats into economic decision-making on a scale we haven't seen in a very long time.
Now the U.S. has gotten in on the game. New York, once the financial capital of the world, is no longer even the financial capital of the U.S. That honor falls on Washington, where lawmakers are now injecting populist politics into economics decisions. Companies and sectors that should be left to drown are being floated lifeboats. This drama is also playing out across Europe and Asia. As engines of economic growth, Shanghai is losing ground to Beijing, Mumbai to Delhi, and Dubai to Abu Dhabi.
Saturday, March 14, 2009
Government Failure: Stossel on Bailouts and Bull
Cool 20/20 video on the state of our fiscal irresponsibility (HT EconLog).
Friday, March 13, 2009
The Fifteen Strangest College Courses in America
Follow this link to see the list of courses (HT Marginal Revolution). Among them, you'll find "PHIL 180 - Philosophy and Star Trek" (descriptor here), taught at Georgetown University. Maybe they should have added "metaphysical implications of quantum mechanics" to the syllabus...
McTeer on Troubled Banks and the Money Supply
Thursday, March 12, 2009
Money Mayhem
Glenn Beck on the Monetary Base Hockey Stick
Central banks' track history is not encouraging when it comes to correctly timing monetary contractions. I really hope that this time we'll be luckier than before, but as Benjamin Franklin once said, "he that lives upon hope will die fasting."
Obama Gets an F from Financial Market Economists
U.S. President Barack Obama and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner received failing grades for their efforts to revive the economy from participants in the latest Wall Street Journal forecasting survey.
In striking contrast to President Obama's popularity with the public, a new Wall Street Journal survey of economists gives the president and his treasury secretary failing grades.
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Krugman Backed Down
PS: Caplan adds: "I have a dream that one day, people who refuse to bet on their statements will be viewed with greater contempt than those who bet and lose."
7th Art: The Train (1964)
Colonel von Waldheim: Labiche! Here's your prize, Labiche. Some of the greatest paintings in the world. Does it please you, Labiche? Give you a sense of excitement in just being near them? A painting means as much to you as a string of pearls to an ape. You won by sheer luck: you stopped me without knowing what you were doing, or why. You are nothing, Labiche -- a lump of flesh. The paintings are mine; they always will be; beauty belongs to the man who can appreciate it! They will always belong to me or to a man like me. Now, this minute, you couldn't tell me why you did what you did.The great irony presented in the movie is that while Colonel von Waldheim was willing to kill and die for a regime that considered the paintings that he loved to be nothing more than degenerate art, Labiche was willing to kill and die for the freedom represented by those paintings, even though he didn't have any aesthetic interest for them. Labiche's actions are a nice example of Voltaire's pledge: "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it."
Monday, March 9, 2009
Government Failure: Fire Foreign Workers First?
Will the administration make a clear statement against this shameful development in American politics?
This is a good example of what happens when concepts such as class struggle and nativism become accepted in the polticial discourse. People should be ashamed of even proposing such ideas.
Here's the CNBC video on the subject:
PS: Here's Mankiw on the subject.
Sunday, March 8, 2009
SNL: Geithner's Solution for the Banking Crisis
Saturday, March 7, 2009
Jim Cramer: "It's Amateur Hour at Our Darkest Moment"
Friday, March 6, 2009
Ice Sheets over Lake Superior
Hayek, Knowledge and the Crisis
If we can agree that the economic problem of society is mainly one of rapid adaptation to changes in the particular circumstances of time and place, it would seem to follow that the ultimate decisions must be left to the people who are familiar with these circumstances, who know directly of the relevant changes and of the resources immediately available to meet them. We cannot expect that this problem will be solved by first communicating all this knowledge to a central board which, after integrating all knowledge, issues its orders. We must solve it by some form of decentralization. ...
The problem is thus in no way solved if we can show that all the facts, if they were known to a single mind (as we hypothetically assume them to be given to the observing economist), would uniquely determine the solution; instead we must show how a solution is produced by the interactions of people each of whom possesses only partial knowledge. To assume all the knowledge to be given to a single mind in the same manner in which we assume it to be given to us as the explaining economists is to assume the problem away and to disregard everything that is important and significant in the real world.
7th Art: Caplan on Alan Moore's Refusal to Watch "Watchmen"
His [Alan Moore's] main rationale:A very good point indeed. Here's the trailer of the movie:
If a thing works well in one medium, in the medium that it has been designed to work in, then the only possible point for wanting to realize it on "multiple platforms," as they say these days, is to make a lot of money out of it.Even if money were the sole motive behind the Watchmen movie, though, how does it follow that the result will be bad? Adam Smith might retort, "It is not from the benevolence of the producer, the director, or the actor, that we expect our entertainment, but from their regard to their own interest."
The Death of Inflation Targeting
Inflation "IT" Targeting
The Bank of England, one of the pioneers of inflation targeting (IT), until recently a much praised monetary policy framework (one that, by the way, I helped to implement in Brazil), decrees the death of the regime (italics are mine):
Inflation targeting was introduced in 1992 with the aim of enhancing economic stability and making policy decisions more transparent. When Labour took office in 1997, Gordon Brown took that policy farther by making the Bank responsible for setting interest rates. Mr Brown also split responsibility for monetary policy from banking supervision, which he vested in the the new Financial Services Authority (FSA). ...
The derelictions start with these. Monetary policy failed. The Bank's mandate of targeting inflation proved too narrow. It focused on consumer prices but overlooked asset prices. Cheap imports from China helped to dampen inflationary pressures and let the Bank keep interest rates low. But a massive bubble in house prices, fuelled by imprudent lending, was left unconstrained. The Bank was so consumed with its monetary responsibilities that it failed in its task of securing financial stability. ...
The British financial system is dysfunctional and has damaged the wider economy. Mr Brown is its author. It might hasten necessary repairs if he were to acknowledge those errors.
Thursday, March 5, 2009
Rousseau Versus Hume
From Zaretsky and Scott we learn much about Hume, Rousseau, Voltaire, and others in the constellation of talents that made the Age of Enlightenment, even if (like Rousseau) some of them were in it rather than of it. There cannot be enough such books, or enough readers for them. They bring the time and its debates vividly into focus and remind one that what mattered then still matters now: not least the dangers of a philosophy of sentiment and passion -- Rousseau's prescription -- in which what one feels is justification for anything, though the world around one, if it has improved at all, has been improved by empirical common sense -- Hume's prescription. That is the real quarrel, which the quarrel between Rousseau the feeler and Hume the philosopher perfectly illuminates.
A Line Worthy of an Ayn Rand Villain
So what do I read this morning? A line worthy of an Ayn Rand villain:
I'm still not convinced that Obama will be the next FDR. To riff off Samuelson, scary quotations by high-ranking officials have forecast nine of the last five transitions to socialism. But I am convinced that many people in high places have bad intentions. If we avoid the worst, we will have gridlock - not our leaders - to thank.Rahm Emanuel, the incoming White House chief of staff, has said, "You don't ever want to let a crisis go to waste: it's an opportunity to do important things that you would otherwise avoid."
Really Interesting Political Economy
They argue that, in spite of ample evidence that private provision is superior to public provision and no evidence that public provision is superior to private provision, governments generally tend to produce education instead of relying on private suppliers. ...
Pritchett and Viarengo argue that government schools exist to produce not just values-neutral skills like literacy and mathematical competence, but beliefs and values. In other words, governments have a stake in controlling schools for the same reason they have a stake in controlling media: socialization and inculcation of regime-friendly values.
Their new wrinkle is that they expand conventional models of schooling supply and demand to include provision of beliefs in addition to skills. As evidence, they cite the prevalence of religious schools as the alternative to government schools. Both governments and religious organizations "are willing to subsidize skill acquisition in order to link it with socialization and the inculcation of belief" ...
Casual empricism and my experience with American schools suggests that the key problem is common ownership with multiple parties claiming the legitimate right to be "the regime." The ideological commitments of the polity should then determine the degree to which regime-ownership is contested.
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Williamson on the Myth of Historically Persistent Latin-American Inequality
Most analysts of the modern Latin American economy hold to a pessimistic belief in historical persistence -- they believe that Latin America has always had very high levels of inequality, suggesting it will be hard for modern social policy to create a more egalitarian society. This paper argues that this conclusion is not supported by what little evidence we have. The persistence view is based on an historical literature which has made little or no effort to be comparative. Modern analysts see a more unequal Latin America compared with Asia and the rich post-industrial nations and then assume that this must always have been true. Indeed, some have argued that high inequality appeared very early in the post-conquest Americas, and that this fact supported rent-seeking and anti-growth institutions which help explain the disappointing growth performance we observe there even today. This paper argues to the contrary. Compared with the rest of the world, inequality was not high in pre-conquest 1491, nor was it high in the postconquest decades following 1492. Indeed, it was not even high in the mid-19th century just prior Latin America's belle époque. It only became high thereafter. Historical persistence in Latin American inequality is a myth.
Mankiw Challenges Krugman
Paul Krugman suggests my skepticism about the administration's growth forecast over the next few years is somehow "evil." Well, Paul, if you are so confident in this forecast, would you like to place a wager on it and take advantage of my wickedness?
Team Obama says that real GDP in 2013 will be 15.6 percent above real GDP in 2008. (That number comes from compounding their predicted growth rates for these five years.) So, Paul, are you willing to wager that the economy will meet or exceed this benchmark? I am not much of a gambler, but that is a bet I would be happy to take the other side of (even as I hope to lose, for the sake of the economy).
Wow! Will Krugman accept the challenge and put his money where his mouth is?
The Government's Debut, as Judged by the Dow Jones
Americans have welcomed the Obama era in the same spirit of hope the President campaigned on. But after five weeks in office, it's become clear that Mr. Obama's policies are slowing, if not stopping, what would otherwise be the normal process of economic recovery. From punishing business to squandering scarce national public resources, Team Obama is creating more uncertainty and less confidence -- and thus a longer period of recession or subpar growth.It's interesting to contrast the gloominess of markets with the yet very positive public opinion, which appears to be much more lenient and, I would guess, affected by political sunk cost irrationality. It'll also be interesting to see if voters will be time consistent in their positive and tolerant initial judgment of the Obama administration.
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Ideology and Loneliness
Olds and Schwartz may be correctly sounding alarm bells regarding isolation, but what they're seeing is the fruit of what Packard cited more than forty years ago. In his 1962 analysis, "Personal isolation is becoming a major social fact of our time. A great many people are disturbed by the feeling that they are rootless or increasingly anonymous, that they are living in a continually changing environment where there is little sense of community."
A popular interpretation is that technological progress and industrialization are the main factors behind it. I disagree. The use of technology may have reduced our dependency on our neighbors and the time available for local social interactions, but in most cases it allowed for the elimination of barriers that were once important impediments to socialization. Just think about the success of Facebook and other social network tools that came up with the Internet. The demand for these socialization services can be seen as proof that there's indeed much loneliness in the world, but it's also proof that technology is able to provide solutions to the phenomenon.
The problem with these statist ideologies is that they glorify state regulation of human actions and collectivist activism at the cost of meaningful interactions at the individual level, particularly when these interactions have a normal, human and mostly benign self-serving nature. Because they propose that all individual actions must be framed by some dirigist higher purpose or some collective definition of social good, and not by the "selfish" needs of those immediately around, they may lead to dehumanization, like what's found among people under totalitarian rule.
My own personal experience tells me that this may be indeed an important factor, and I'd also say that it helps to explain phenomena like the one reported in this post.


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Photographer Henrik Adamsen has come over from Copenhagen to share his extensive portfolio of provocative fashion photography and beauty imagery with England's finest.
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Tania Braukamper remembers previous campaigns. It's not the first time that I see our friends at Fashionising.com compare two campaigns – they are spot on, perhaps the best blog within the fashion industry, definitely the best blog within the fashion industry in terms of journalistic acumen.
Angelina Jolie is the new face of Louis Vuitton. As you recall sometime back in April 2011 Bloginity.com reported that it has been confirmed that Angelina Jolie has signed a $10 million deal with Louis Vuitton.
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The snow-bed vegetation in the Northern Apennines was studied by the Braun-Blanquet method. The phytosociological relevés were classified by numerical methods. Four main vegetation types were identified: Salicetum herbaceae, community of Carex foetida, Poo-Cerastietum cerastioidis and Oligotricho-Gnaphalietum supini. The latter was described as a new association. The vegetation types were ecologically characterized by an indirect gradient analysis based on principal component analysis. The results were interpreted by means of: i) geomorphological observations, ii) soil profiles, iii) measurements of the length of the snow-free period.
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As expected many changes have occurred. Smaller family size, better incomes and higher educational status were observed. Agriculture ceased to be the chief occupation of the main providers. Home production of foods improved in terms of the variety of foods produced but not in the number of families doing so. Dietary changes observed confirm the basic Puerto Rican eating pattern and indicate the incorporation into the diet of other foods available in the supermarkets. Meals included increased amounts and more varies sources of nutrients. In general, dietary data obtained showed people in Dona Elena community eating a more nutritionally adequate diet than they did in 1958. The community assessment showed a pattern of growing dependency of the community on the outside world especially for their food supply.
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Brian Friel's 19-year-old memory play, Dancing At Lughnasa, famously looks back in sadness to the disappointed lives of five Catholic sisters in County Donegal in 1936. I doubt it deserves quite the instant-classic accolade it has achieved. And nothing about Anna Mackmin's in-the-round production, a theatrical form at odds with the play's intimacy, convinces me otherwise.
"Atmosphere is more real than incident," insists Peter McDonald's gesticulating but semi-detached narrator, Michael, betraying the fact that Dancing At Lughnasa loses its dramatic impetus — distracted by the discreet charms of remembrance.
The play is, though, shot through with scenes of outstanding pathos and rueful humour — as in the sisters' exuberant, stamping dance of defiance against the constricting dullness of their loveless existence.
Friel sets his play in 1936, when the Spanish Civil War blazed a trail of Left- wing defiance and Stalin's Great Terror impends. Political and social change is in the rather Chekhovian air.
Friel catches the mood but does not make enough of it. Even in County Donegal they are catching up with the past as the Industrial Revolution looms over Ireland.
And the sisters' brother, Finbar Lynch's disturbed, disturbing priest, Jack, has returned sick from Uganda, his Catholic faith replaced by enthusiasm for polygamy and his house-boy.
Perhaps because of him the oldest sister, Kate, is about to lose her teaching job? McDonald's impassive Michael, love-child of one of the sisters, Chris, broods over the action. As narrator he looks back at lost family times from the vantage point of the Fifties, yet takes part in the 1936 scenes as a child, investing the play with a disquieting, spectral strangeness.
Designer Lez Brotherston's interesting, expressionistic design is dominated by a huge, dead tree, beneath which a kitchen-table, heating stove and sink rest on paving stones, themselves fringed by vegetation.
True to the spirit of Garcia Lorca's The House Of Bernard Alba, also written in 1936, where a religious fanatic of a mother locks away her sexually yearning daughters, Dancing At Lughnasa keeps four dejected but spirited young women under the control of Michelle Fairley's superb epitome of prim, Catholic rigour. The girls — Niamh Cusack's ardent Maggie, Simone Kirby's sexually smitten Rose, Susan Lynch's Agnes and Andrea Corr's Chris — all put on a fine, sisterly show. But there is too much aimless domestic gossiping, long-winded ruminating over the local dance for which they now may be too old.
Corr's Chris is mother to Michael and her sisters behave like greedy voyeurs when Jo Stone-Fewings's father of her child makes one of his rare appearances, eccentric in his panama hat, braces and cloying charm. Dance, the play's suitable, metaphorical replacement for sex, engages the couple, though not for long.
Borrowing a thematic trick from J B Priestley's Time And The Conways, Friel's Michael tells us what will become of the sisters and then tracks back in devastating dramatic irony: we see the sisters aspiring to a happiness we know they will never achieve.
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As with quite a lot of things these days I first read about the death of Robert Hughes on Twitter. I'd love to know what the old bruiser thought of this new medium and to hear how wittily he might encapsulate its follies. I have a suspicion that he would disapprove. But in one sense it did him proud when it came to instant commemoration.
The hive-mind swarmed, provoked by the news, and in a matter of minutes an anthology of Hughes's best lines were ticking up on the time-line – those arresting, aphoristic phrases that knocked what you thought you knew out of you and left you thinking hard about what he wanted to put in its place. Most good critics would be travestied by a 140-character limit on quotation. But tellingly, Twitter captured the essence of Hughes's clarity, memorability and pugnacity.
The aggression in the prose wasn't too everyone's taste, and his sense of combat very occasionally hampered his criticism. "A Gustave Courbet portrait of a trout has more death in it than Rubens could get in a whole crucifixion" he wrote once, which makes the point about Courbet while unnecessarily suggesting that an odd kind of heavy-weight bout has just taken place. If great art is a kind of combat it's rarely as head-to-head as that. But for any young critic reading Hughes there was something intoxicating in his reassurance that art – and writing about it – need not be an effete affair. It could involve getting into fights and winning them, not by throwing your weight about, but through the accuracy of your punches. And that art was worth fighting about was implicit in the eagerness with which he squared up.
His prose style alone was a continuous combat with the prevailing orthodoxy in art writing. Though an unapologetic elitist ("I don't think stupid or ill-read people are as good to be with as wise and fully literate ones" he once said) and a frequent scorner of the popular, he never used language that might exclude the uninitiated. Getting as many people as possible into the club was what he was interested in, just as long as they shared his interests. His The Shock of the New did more to open up modern art and its complexities to a general audience than anything broadcast before or since. The writing style was blunt, plain-speaking, briskly impatient with jargon that might conceal vacancy behind impressive polysyllables.
It's a rare ability to be able to write at the highest intellectual level with the plainest words. This paper's former critic Tom Lubbock had the gift. And Hughes did too. And accessibility like that takes nerve, since there are no opacities or obscurities to hide behind if your argument doesn't make sense. It is, unfortunately, vanishingly rare among those who currently administer and mediate contemporary art.
Look at any exhibition catalogue and 99 out of a hundred of the essays will be written not for the general public who attend, but for a priestly convocation of curators and academics. And even they aren't really expected to read them, but only to note that the right rituals have been observed, the correct authorities appeased. Certain things will be unsayable, many orthodoxies taken for granted.
It is often pharisaical, in fact, and Hughes, without getting too grandly scriptural about it, was a scourge of fine art pharisees. He hated the hype of the art market, he wrote, "because it intersects with a fatal propensity for sanctimony. I don't like the idea of art being a religion." By which he meant, I think, not that it couldn't contain the sacred, but that what is sacred can easily get lost when theologians, sectarians and dogmatists have a monopoly over access to it.
Writing directly to what anyone could see when they looked at a painting Hughes did what all really good critics should do. He fought for the priesthood of all believers.
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It's an odd experience sitting in a theatre and thinking, "I would thoroughly recommend this but I hate it." I found it happening at the opening of the National Theatre's production of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. It does faithful service to a book about which people feel proprietorial.
But for me it was also a compendium of theatrical pet hates. First: little model trains, tagged in someone's head as "magical". Second: actors pretending to be bits of furniture. Third, and perhaps most grating of all, slow-motion sequences. Go – I can pretty much guarantee you'll love it more than I did.
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I think we can be confident that Jeanette Winterson didn't see The Trip, Rob Brydon and Steve Coogan's series about a gourmet writing expedition around the North-west. Why? Because one of the funniest sequences in the show consisted of the two of them riffing off that hoariest of all costume drama clichés, "We ride at dawn".
Why so early, they asked each other, why not get a bit of breakfast in first? They teased the phrase, tormented it and eventually left it for dead. And yet there it is in The Daylight Gate, Winterson's new novel about the Pendle witches, as if nothing had ever happened. In-joke? Or evidence that her editor doesn't watch a lot of television either?
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