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As we outlined in Part I, there are powers at work that are trying to bankrupt the United States. (And if you haven't read that piece, we recommend that you do for background purposes.)
We believe that the economic roller coaster of the past few years has been an intentional effort on the part of various Progressives to use the free market system against itself. They know how the free market system works, they know that the free market system does, in fact, work, and they are using free market principles against the free market in an effort to bring it down.
The current stock market prices defy all logic. Unemployment is officially over 10%, and in some areas of America it's double that. Consumer spending is down. Yet stocks are on the rise? There is no reason that stocks should be as high as they are, especially stocks of companies making consumer goods. If you ignore the statements by the White House and the mainstream media that "we have turned the corner" and "the economy is on the rebound", look deeper. Look at the unemployment rates. Look at the ads on TV that are pitching products as ways to save money. Look at the stores that are going out of business and the remaining stores that are positioning themselves to try harder then ever to get your business. Look at the uptick in telemarketers selling "extended auto warranties" and the increasing number of ads encouraging you to keep your older car and change your own oil to save money. Look at the headlines saying that advertising sales are down… There's no better indicator on the state of the economy than looking at the advertising market.
Look around you… pay attention. The economy is still heading south, and there's no rebound any time soon. That is the reality.
Listen to the White House and the parrots in the media tell you the opposite.
What is going on here?
We'll tell you what: A classic Wall Street fraud called a "pump and dump". Wikipedia defines a pump and dump as:
"Pump and dump" is a form of microcap stock fraud that involves artificially inflating the price of an owned stock through false and misleading positive statements, in order to sell the cheaply purchased stock at a higher price. Once the operators of the scheme "dump" their overvalued shares, the price falls and investors lose their money. Stocks that are the subject of pump-and-dump schemes are sometimes called "chop stocks."
Let's rewind a year ago. The stock market was tumbling. People were watching their retirement savings evaporate faster than Obama's campaign trail promises on November 5th, 2008. The hardest hit were the Baby Boomers who were close to retirement. They had plans for that money… vacations, helping their grandkids with college, remodeling the kitchen, time shares, new cars. Now… gone. Retiring early became a distant memory and working into their 70's became a reality.
All during the slide, investment firms and hedge funds bought-and-sold as they thought the market hit bottom, then kept on going. Losses mounted. Most financial advisors told their clients to just "hold on" and that the market would rebound. Baby Boomers looking at recouping their losses dug in and held tight. When it hit bottom, people who had available money left poured it into the market, grabbing bargains. Massive "buy" orders increased the optimism of traders, and more people followed suit. Positive news from the White House helped this along, as did positive news from the parroting press.
The Dow Jones is now teetering around 10,000 and some people think the market is bouncing back. Don't be fooled.
One of the largest hedge funds — Soros Fund Management — is owned by none other than George Soros. And Soros Fund Management made massive investments when the market hit bottom. Yes, the job of investment companies is to make money, and grabbing lots of shares of stocks of quality companies like Macys at bargain-basement prices is sound investment advice. But large stakes in such companies also means that you have a major influence on the stock price. When you're that big and you buy big chunks of stock, other people buy. When you unload large positions in a company — particularly market leaders — other people unload too. In short, Soros Fund Management has the ability to influence large sectors of the market. More on that in a minute.
A little bit on George Soros. He is known as "the man who broke the Bank of England". And in addition to his financial dealings, Soros has his fingers in many Progressive "think tanks" and media arms. MoveOn.org, the Open Society Institute, the Tides Foundation, the Democracy Alliance, the Center for American Progress, America Coming Together, and many, many others have all benefitted from his massive infusions of cash. These organizations have sponsored environmental advocacy groups and "experts", radical groups such as ACORN, and have groomed many members of Obama's cabinet like John Podesta.
To say Soros is influential in modern-day politics is a vast understatement. How influential? In researching this article, we found it interesting that one of the Open Society Institute's projects — "Project on Death in America" — has a stated mission "to understand and transform the culture and experience of dying through initiatives in research and scholarship, the arts and humanities, through innovations in provision of care, through public and professional education and through public policy." This information is hosted on a US Government website, the National Institutes of Health, which is part of the US Department of Health and Human Services. One of the many organizations that Soros has ties to is Health Care for America Now. Knowing this, is it any coincidence that this week the U.S. Government came out with recommendations changing the recommendations on mammograms to raise the age that mammograms should start, cap the upper age for mammograms at 75, and say that self-exams aren't really that important? We think not. After all, this is the same man who in 1994 gave a speech where he said he offered to help his mother commit suicide, and financially and vocally supported the Oregon Death with Dignity Act, which legalized Dr. Kevorkian-like physician-assisted suicides. This is merely a glimpse, only one example, of how Soros' overall ideology is seeping into the fabric of the United States Government. His hooks into the American political system are many and deep.
So let's play this out. Knowing what we know about Tacticians and Strategists, we can easily see that the Fannie-Freddie plug was pulled last year to help get Obama and other Tacticians elected. The result was a tanking of the economy, which many Strategists capitalized on, George Soros among them. Now the Strategists are falsely inflating the economy to increase the value of their positions (pumping up the market) and are waiting for the optimal time to pull the plug on the economy by dumping their stocks. A massive dumping of stocks by major investment firms such as Soros Fund Management will trigger a massive sell-off in the market. And when we say "massive" we mean a drop so far and so fast that the slide of the 2008-2009 will seem like skiing down the bunny slope instead of the double-diamond. In the end, most people will be broke, retirement accounts will be empty, businesses will go out of business, and the only people left with money will be George Soros and his friends. This money will then flow through his many associations and by proxy into and out of the US Government. Talk about "the power behind the throne"! Soros will have the ability to do pretty much whatever he wants, and make no mistake about it: his goal is to remake the United States — and the whole world — into a society as he believes it should be. Is he the "puppet master" pulling all the strings? Look at the background of the man and who he's connected to and you be the judge. We just know that there are a lot of strings and they all connect to him.
So the big question is "When will this happen?" We can't say for certain, but you can bet it will be strategically-planned and timed to coincide with the advancement of the overarching agenda. We're not financial advisors, but let's say that we've taken steps in our own IRAs to "cover our assets". We're willing to bet that "pulling the plug" on the pump-and-dump will happen right when the Strategists feel that it will help advance either government healthcare or environmental legislation. And we're willing to bet it will happen sooner rather than later.
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Weekend Reader 12-6-2009, News & Commentary Says:
December 4th, 2009 at 3:48 pm
[…] and Human Services has ties to billionaire financier and political progressive George Soros. As we reported before, Soros'
Trakker, USMC Gamers Says:
March 1st, 2010 at 11:24 am
look back to the incident where he earned his reputation. The Bank of London incident. he borrowed a shitload of british pounds. then started buying German Marks. he put so much traffic trough the currency market that the prices for Marks went through the roof, and the prices of pounds fell signifigantly. then, when he had manipulated the prices, through a slow movement of massive volume, he then instantly sold all of his Marks back for pounds, which were now much cheaper. then he pays off the Bank of England, and keeps the millions of pounds in profit. Basically he just stole a couple hundred million pound from the British people.
Same thing happened with the subprime lending with the Clinton adm relaxing the credit limits for FannyMae/ Freddy Mac. this caused the real estate market to go boom, but also set the stage for a bubble. what happens with bubbles? they always pop, and when they do, its Joe MainSt. who takes in the keyster.


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Seussical is bringing fantastical, magical, musical excitement to Bishop Tonnos Catholic Secondary School.

Based on the works of Dr. Seuss, one of the world's best loved musicals debuts on May 1, with a 7 p.m. curtain call.

Performers of all ages are excited to portray the characters from the familiar Dr. Seuss fables. Tony Award winners Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty originally brought the beloved Dr. Seuss characters to life, including Horton the Elephant, The Cat in the Hat, Gertrude McFuzz, lazy Mayzie, and a little boy with a big imagination, named Jojo.

The colorful characters transport audiences from the Jungle of Nool, to the Circus McGurkus, to the invisible world of the Whos.

The author-approved edition of one of Broadway's legendary musicals has been specially adapted to meet the needs of young performers, while carefully maintaining the integrity of one the greatest musicals ever written.

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January 20, 2004
House Minority Whip Hoyer faulted President Bush today for evaporated budget surpluses, education funding, healthcare issues and an environmental "assault on the air, the water and the land."
January 16, 2004
A congressman yesterday demanded that the Interior Department investigate "unauthorized leaks" that he said resulted in a report in The Washington Times about lapses in national security and the firing of U.S. Park Police Chief Teresa Chambers.
January 14, 2004
Worried by signs of President Bush's soaring popularity among Jews, Democrats launched a coordinated campaign 18 months ago to win back Jewish votes.
January 6, 2004
Worried by signs of President Bush´s soaring popularity among Jews, Democrats launched a coordinated campaign 18 months ago to win back Jewish votes.
January 5, 2004
If ever there was a case that cried out for investigation by the House ethics committee and the Justice Department, it is the evident bribery and extortion attempts applied to Rep. Nick Smith (R-Mich.)
December 31, 2003
President Bush on Dec. 30 ordered a 2 percent 2004 pay raise for civil servants, but government workers may eventually receive a significantly higher raise if lawmakers approve the pending fiscal 2004 omnibus budget bill.
December 10, 2003
House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer's (D-Md.) speech Monday to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) will cap a yearlong strategy aimed at preventing an exodus of Jewish voters from Democratic ranks.
December 9, 2003
Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (Md.), the second highest-ranking House Democrat, on Monday called for the ethics committee to investigate whether Republican lawmakers tried to bribe Rep. Nick Smith (R-Mich.) to vote in favor of the Medicare bill.
December 9, 2003
The House's second-ranking Democrat yesterday called for an ethics investigation into a Michigan congressman's assertion that unnamed GOP colleagues offered $100,000 for his son's congressional campaign if the lawmaker would vote for a contentious Medicare bill.
December 9, 2003
Angry House Democrats, still smarting over extraordinary parliamentary maneuvers that Republicans used last month to pass the Medicare bill President Bush signed Monday, sought to upstage Bush's big moment by taking to the floor to embarrass the House leadership.
November 28, 2003
The congressional year ends with the future of President Bush's vaunted energy bill uncertain and no decision on how to fix the nation's crumbling highways or avoid a looming trade war with Europe. With Republicans in control of the White House and both houses of Congress, it wasn't supposed to be this hard.
November 23, 2003
Collecting dust atop a desk in the office of House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer, D-Md., is a laptop computer displaying a digital clock.
November 22, 2003
It took intensive lobbying by President Bush and House Republican leaders, combined with the longest floor vote on record, to pull off House passage early Saturday morning of the most significant Medicare overhaul in the program's 38-year history.
November 22, 2003
In the pre-dawn partisan tumult after the extended Medicare vote, Minority Whip Steny H. Hoyer, D-Md., took to the microphones to liken the situation to one 16 years before — an instance that remains one of the formative moments of the House's current political dynamic.
November 12, 2003
Most of the stories about the California recall election noted after the fact that California had dodged a bullet: The dire predictions about election process failure did not come to pass. As John McLaughlin would say, "WRONG!"...
November 8, 2003
Congress is winding down, which is causing the partisanship to be ratcheted up...
November 8, 2003
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November 7, 2003
A Jewish Democratic group is creating an award to memorialize Senator Henry "Scoop" Jackson of Washington state, the legendary liberal internationalist who did much to win the Cold War and whose staunch support for the Jewish state helped it through some rough times...
November 7, 2003
Rep. Steny H. Hoyer (Md.), the House's second-ranking Democrat, hoped to use funds from a $138 billion spending bill now before Congress to upgrade the computer system at St. Mary's College of Maryland, modernize laboratories at the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy, and support a nonprofit group that repairs the homes of poor, elderly and disabled Marylanders...
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The appetite for demergers among retail players may not be great but it could be a different story for Australian real estate investment trusts. The most obvious candidate is diversified property giant
Two facts stand out.
A new managing director will take the helm as the long-serving
Stockland's directors have signalled they may be open to change, with chairman
The sentiment is welcome as some investors hold concerns about Stockland's plan to sell $500 million worth of industrial property and some chunky commercial assets ahead of the switch.
With Bradley insisting that a newcomer won't be handcuffed on strategy, various spin-off options may come on to the table.
Moelis & Co analyst Simon Scott sees Stockland as a beneficiary of any upswing in the residential market, and last week's interest rate cut will have helped that sentiment. He expects Stockland to continue its $2.6 billion sell-down of industrial and commercial assets. If Stockland gets these sales away, and even launches another 10 per cent stock buy-back, its gearing could plunge from about 20 per cent to 8 per cent. One avenue for spending is Stockland's planned $870 million of retail developments, but that may be poorly received. Investing further in retirement may also spark a backlash as investors have little patience with the sector that has delivered poor upfront cash yields. The option of using its capacity to buy up high-quality centres is not really open now that unlisted giants Abu Dhabi Investment Authority and CPP Investment Board are active.
Moelis instead suggests that if Stockland's retail portfolio was hived off into an internally managed separate entity, it could be geared at at least 30 per cent. Scott estimates that the standalone A-REIT would trade at its net tangible asset backing or better, with an earnings per security yield of about 7.5 per cent and distribution per security yield of about 6.7 per cent.
It could be a means of unlocking significant value, as this would be a re-rating of about 150 basis points against where Stockland trades now.
Given the portfolio is expected to hit about $5.4 billion by June 2014 and has well-regarded management, it could be a force to be reckoned with.
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The West faces its greatest challenge since the dark years before the Second World War. Its manufacturing cannot compete with China's and it is losing middle-level back office jobs to Asia. Meanwhile, large-scale immigration from around the world has begun to change its very nature.
For five hundred years after Columbus reached America, Europe expanded by colonising new territories around the globe. This expansion peaked about fifty years ago. In 1960, one-fourth of the world's population was of European ancestry; in 2000, it was one-sixth; in 2050, it is expected to be less than one-tenth. The average fertility rate of European women has fallen to 1.4, which is much less than the 2.1 needed to maintain the population.
If these trends continue, by the end of the 21st century, Europe's population is expected to decline to one-third of what it is today. In Italy, in 2050, barely 2 per cent of the population will be less than 5 years old, and more than 40 per cent will be 65 years or older. The situation is equally grim for Germans and Russians. In France, more than twenty per cent of the children are of immigrant groups. Europe will become a new melting pot consisting of major groups from the Arab world, Africa and Asia. The United States will likewise be transformed.
As the native populations age, the burden on the youth to support the pensioned will become increasingly severe. The only way out would be for Europe to allow even more immigrants to run factories and offices. This would have far-reaching impact on its culture.
Alarm amongst conservatives
The liberals consider it politically incorrect to speak of this demographic problem, and have yielded ground to the right to define the issue. The conservatives have played on the public's fear of a collapse of the culture of the West, although it is kept out of high public discourse. This has yielded them rich dividends politically.
Three years ago, the American right-wing ideologue and Republican presidential candidate Patrick J Buchanan wrote a book called The Death of the West where he blamed the West's declining populations to fall in morals, lax immigration, and social programs that take away the incentive to have children. This is how Buchanan lists the four dangers that face America and the West:
The first is a dying population. Second is the mass immigration of peoples of different colours, creeds, and cultures, changing the character of the West forever. The third is the rise to dominance of an anti-Western culture in the West, deeply hostile to its religions, traditions, and morality, which has already sundered the West. The fourth is the break-up of nations and the defection of ruling elites to a world government whose rise entails the end of nations.
It is to counter this impending 'suicide of the West' that the conservatives wish to weaken the state, and progressively shift education of children from the public arena to church-run schools to ensure that the school curriculum remains West centric.
The reality of the situation is much more complex than the conservative critique. The culture in the West has been changing for a variety of reasons other than immigration and social security. Witness, for example, the musical tastes or sexual mores now, where what is considered the norm now would have been frowned upon a half-century ago.
The share of the European portion of the world population increased during the colonial era, and if it is going down now, it is because the rest of the world is yet to go over the development hump that the West has crossed. It is expected that the fertility rates will go down everywhere, and the world's population will eventually reach a stable value.
Much of the change of the culture is driven by new technology. For example, the birth control pill revolutionised sexual mores. Man's control of nature is taking the mystery out of life.
On cultural suicide
Nevertheless, some anthropologists are comparing the ongoing process in the West with that of cultural suicide. They argue that cultural entities, like individuals and groups, must eventually die. And some of these, when confronted with an extremely stressful environment, commit suicide.
Ritual suicide is also not uncommon in today's world. In the United States, the suicide of the Jim Jones and the Heavens Gate cults are famous recent examples. It is part of the tradition of the U'wa tribe in the Andes of Colombia. Under threat of losing their land and way of life to the order of Western oil companies, the tribe has again threatened to jump to death over a high cliff.
There are many ways to commit collective suicide. With their traditional way of life destroyed, the Pacific Islanders are eating themselves to death. Fully three quarters of the adults in Nauru and Samoa are obese, afflicted with ailments that were earlier absent. There are those who see in the present West the same dangers that took Rome to its fall. Decimated by disease, famine, and infertility, Rome submitted willingly to the sword of the barbarians.
The West confronts infertility and loss of manufacturing and office jobs to Asia. It is not certain that its economic security will be guaranteed by its dominance of the financial and the knowledge industries alone.
The entertainment dished out by the movies and television bolsters the sense of the mechanical nature of life. Given a pervasive spiritual crisis, it need not surprise that some people, or perhaps even communities, are acting as if suicide is the only escape.
Concentration of power
Edward Gibbon in his famous history on Rome's fall wondered if the end was inevitable. Historians have suggested that increased state control fatally weakened the empire.
There is increasing concentration of power in the hands of the medical and insurance establishments in the West. Even more disquieting is the increasing mechanisation of life that has led to a spiritual vacuum and alienation from nature.
The youth do not wish to marry and have children because they feel like cogs in the machine-state. The sexual revolution has not brought happiness; it has merely created a culture of gratification and consumption. Some are simply dropping out of the rat race and joining charismatic religious groups. It is estimated that about 20 per cent of Americans believe that the world faces imminent end.
It is essential to recognise this background to understand the current politics in the West, especially in America. But the remedy being offered by the conservatives as a part of George Bush's second term merely strengthens the business interests of the energy and the financial sectors without addressing the spiritual dimension of the problem. Despair does not arise out of the knowledge that we evolved from monkeys, but rather out of the pressures of the soul-less modern life.
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I'm currently a university student from a different country, majoring in something that has clearly nothing to do with music.
But I spent my teenage years back in the US, and I participated in Concert Band, Jazz Band, and a couple months of Marching band.
For now, I'm studying something I feel I should learn, but I honestly can't say this is what I want to do for the rest of my life...
Enough about my background, I just wanted to ask a couple of questions... please help me out if you don't mind.....
What if I wanted to become a band director? I still play my instruments at times, but I'm really not as good as I used to be. And I'm also going to have to finish college before I move anywhere else. But once I get it all done, I'm willing to move into US and and do whatever it takes..... even if it means more studying.
Do you think the idea is too impractical or unreal? Is there anyone who started off a bit later than everyone else....? or could I get some tips to keep me moving before I actually jump into this whole music education stuff?
Thank you so much for reading this...... and one short comment of yours could change my life (:
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Mr Hagger joined NAB in 2007 from PricewaterhouseCoopers, where he was managing partner of the Melbourne office. He also founded PwC's private client business. He was poached by former NAB boss Ahmed Fahour, initially as executive general manager of private and institutional wealth then to run MLC Insurance. He was most recently group executive people, marketing and communications.
Morningstar analyst David Ellis said MLC's performance lagged the wealth businesses of Commonwealth Bank and Westpac. A partner at Perennial Growth, Lee Mickelburough, said Westpac, CBA and AMP were all using their scale to lower costs and improve their service proposition while NAB had made little progress in this area. However, NAB is in the best position to prosper under the federal government's coming future of financial advice reforms.
Mr Tucker was instrumental in pushing the government to ban commissions and other conflicted remuneration. Under his leadership, NAB was the first institution to move its 1890 advisers to a fee-based model.
But his refusal to pay commissions and volume-based rebates to financial planners helped BT Financial Group and Colonial First State dominate the $451 billion investment administration market. NAB's share of the market fell from 21.4 per cent in 2000 to 17 per cent by the end of 2012, according to Plan for Life. BT's market share rose from 8.3 per cent to 21 per cent during the same period while assets under administration swelled from $9.6 billion to $93 billion. Colonial First State went from 7.5 per cent market share to 14.3 per cent.
NAB also failed to capitalise on the rise of self-directed investors. It wasn't until 2011 that the group unveiled its online share trading platform, nabtrade – 15 years after CBA launched CommSec.
Mr Clyne said nabtrade was a key part of the group's strategy to tap into the fast growing self-managed superannuation sector. He also flagged a number of new initiatives in coming months.
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Greater Western Sydney has challenged the Sydney Swans to bring the Battle of the Bridge to Canberra during the AFL season proper.
As the senior and more established club, the Giants think it is the Swans' responsibility to help grow the game and play their home clash against GWS at Manuka Oval.
That would enable the Giants to continue to build their following by holding their home tie against their cross-town rivals at Blacktown.
The two teams will face each other for the first time in Canberra in a pre-season NAB Challenge game at Manuka on Thursday.
Swans co-captain Kieren Jack said earlier in the week he backed turning the Sydney derby into a Battle of the Lake in future seasons and Giants forward Dylan Addison agreed it would be great for growing the game in the region.
But with GWS looking to establish itself in Sydney's west as well, he felt the Swans were better placed to bring their home derby to the nation's capital.
The Giants are into their third season of a 10-year, $26 million deal to play one pre-season and three home-and-away games in Canberra each year.
''I think it'd be great, the more footy that's played in Canberra the better,'' Addison said.
''Obviously we've got the agreement to play four games a year down here … but if they were to sell their home game to play a game in Canberra that would be great.
''It would be great for Canberra football, but we think it's important we play our local derby game, the Battle of the Bridge, up in Sydney and build our base in Sydney.
''As a young and establishing club it's important to play those important derby games at our home ground.''
Addison and emerging midfielder Devon Smith were in Canberra on Friday before next week's game.
Smith is one of a number of Giants hoping their third AFL season will be when they start to put their mark on the competition.
He's managed 38 games in his first two seasons and, while he hasn't set any goals, he'd love to play his 50th game this year.
''I wouldn't have dreamt about that, I still pinch myself and still feel like a little boy,'' he said of possibly reaching the milestone.
''But even the other day I felt like I'd got a lot older in the intra-club match [on Wednesday], a third-year player and having guys like [No.2 draft pick] Josh Kelly asking questions about structures it makes you feel a lot more confident in what you're doing.
''Hopefully us third-year players can drive a lot of improvement.''
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With this view, he came to terms for a three years truce with Hunyadi and the Hungarians.
I have never, until this moment, heard of the name of Hunyadi.
I heartily thank you; but you must tell me something more of Hunyadi.
I heartily thank you, but you must tell me something more of Hunyadi.
Mineral waters like Hunyadi, etc., irritate the cause of constipation (proctitis) in a way similar to cathartic remedies.
After that battle, I suppose Hunyadi enjoyed his triumphs in peace?
By the way, don't make any blunder about that Hunyadi contract The people here will want you to break it,—don't, on any account.
Stories of Hunyadi's extravagance and eccentricity now poured in on all sides.
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Holloway allegedly blamed Blatter for the changes to the offside law and labelled him "an idiot and a lunatic" after their 1-1 draw with Southampton.
"The club has received a letter asking Ian for his observations," said chief executive Michael Dunford.
"He has been given until 16 January to respond to the letter."
"Once he and, possibly, his legal advisers have studied the contents, there will be an official response to the FA from him."
Argyle had a late goal ruled out for offside in the New Year's Day game at Home Park.
After the game, Holloway reportedly said: "Sepp Blatter: you are an idiot. Put the rules back to what they should be. He is a complete lunatic."
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The new Dyfed-Powys Police and Crime Commissioner is proposing to increase the amount people pay for policing by 3.9% for 2013-14 – a drop on the level of the increase over recent years.
The Commissioner will put his proposals to the Police and Crime Panel today (Friday). Once the Commissioner and the panel agree a figure it will be implemented.
Christopher Salmon said he is proposing the smaller rise to balance the need of providing an effective policing service, while minimising as far as possible the cost to taxpayers.
The proposed rise to the precept, the part of the council tax that pays for police services, is the equivalent of a 14.9 pence weekly increase or, a rise from £198 to £206 annually, for a band D household.
This will take Dyfed- Powys Police's budget to £98million for 2013-14.
Commissioner Salmon said: "I am acutely conscious of the pressure on family budgets in these tough times. In proposing the council tax precept, I have sought to balance the needs of our police service with the demands on families across Dyfed-Powys.
"I am proposing a rise of 3.9%, down from the rises of between 4.2% and 5% of recent years.
"This produces a challenging but achievable budget for Dyfed-Powys Police that will enable us to protect service to the public while minimising demands on taxpayers."
Commissioner Salmon added: "My aim is to bring rises into line with inflation over the next four years.
"The budget allows scope for much-needed investment in new facilities and leaves us well positioned to cope with unexpected events in future.
"Thanks to the fantastic work of all in the police, we can continue to improve our service even in tough financial times."
Details of the Commissioner's precept proposals are in his draft Police and Crime Plan, which is open for public consultation until February 6.
The Commissioner is urging people to share their views on the plan which is available via his website: www.dyfed-powys.pcc.
Electronic and hard copies can be made available on request by contacting the office for the Police and Crime Commissioner.
Email opcc@dyfedpowys.
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Active Storage Rolls Out 32TB Mac Storage Product
Torrance-based Active Storage, a venture backed developer of storage products for the Apple market, announced a new, 32TB RAID product this morning. According to Active Storage, the new 3U product is specifically targeted at media production and Apple professionals, and includes an iPhone monitoring app and native Mac OS X storage management software. Active Storage is headed by ex-Apple executives, and is venture backed by Intel Capital, Mission Ventures, and Valhalla Partners. The firm said the new product starts at $19,999.


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"True Adolescents" is here!July 12, 2011 | By | COMMENTS
Many of you know that my partner, Craig Johnson (the guy you see in all of my posts), is a filmmaker. His first feature, TRUE ADOLESCENTS is finally here and I'm so excited that you, my loyal readers, will finally be able to see it. The movie stars Mark Duplass (who you may know as the co-director of "Cyrus" and the star of many indies, including "Humpday" and the FX show "The League") as the misfit nephew of Academy Award-winner Melissa Leo. When his girlfriend throws him out of their apartment, Duplass comes to stay with Leo and Leo asks a favor: will he take her son and his best friend on the camping trip she promised them? The movie follows their adventure to the Olympic peninsula (remember when I went there to help scout for the movie?) and what ensues is both hilariously funny, slightly shocking and very, very moving.
The movie will be available on DVD (here's the Amazon page; reserve a copy!) and On-Demand August 30th. It's also going to play at the reRun Gastropub Theater in Brooklyn from July 29th through August 5th. New Yorkers, make sure to come out and see it–you'll probably see us there! (Apparently they have bacon fat popcorn so that's an extra reason to come).
And sure, I'm very biased, but having seen the movie many times, I really love it. It strikes a perfect balance between comedy and drama; it's both silly and heartfelt. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do.
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My family is considering heading up to the Canadian Rockies after spending time in Glacier (the American one)/Waterton. We'd probably spend a night at the Prince of Wales Hotel in Waterton and then head up to Banff.
I need more details from my dad, but I'm assuming we'd spend about two days in the area. If that's the case, what's the best way to spend two days? Is it best to just stay in Banff National Park since it's a short amount of time, or would visiting Jasper, Yoho, or Kootenay be a good idea?
What are some things that are must-see or must-do? No long, less-frequented trails because my dad freaks out about bears and refuses to allow it. Any shorter and more popular trails that we should take?
Anything worth our time in Calgary?
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Sid the Science Who?
Brad has created a bunch of pages for [[:Category:Sid the Science Kid Episodes|Sid the Science Kid Episodes]] and [[:Category:Sid the Science Kid Songs|Sid the Science Kid Songs]]. As of press time, we have 35+ pages on Sid the Science Kid, which I think may be excessive, given the tenuous connection with the Muppets.
I'd like us to figure out how much coverage the [[:Category:Digital Studio Productions|Digital Studio Productions]] are going to get on the wiki. Between Sid, Unstable Fables aend Frances, there's the potential for more pages about computer animated TV shows that are essentially unrecognizable as a Muppet-related project. (Check out the number of red links on 3 Pigs and a Baby to see where this could go.)
Personally, I think our coverage of these shows should be very limited. The Henson Company sold the Muppets in 2004, and they seem to be transitioning into a pretty average computer-animation studio. I think Sid the Science Kid has about as much to do with the Muppets as a Sesame Workshop show like Pinky Dinky Doo. Maybe even less -- at least Sesame Workshop still makes TV shows that have Muppets in them.
Shows like Between the Lions and The Book of Pooh have stronger Muppet connections than Sid the Science Kid does, but we don't have character and episode pages for those. I'm not sure that we have to exhaustively document a cartoon show just because it has the "Henson" name on it.
What do other folks think? -- Danny (talk) 05:34, 1 September 2008 (UTC)
- I think that's a good question, but it depends. Also, Sid, Frances, and Unstable Fables are not all comparable. Sid characters actually look faux-Muppety, unlike Frances. *However*, Sid, Frances, and The Skrumps are all not just computer animated series. They all use the Henson Digital Performance System, puppeteered pretty much the way most full-body creatures like Earl Sinclair or Muppets like Pa Gorg are: one doing the body movements, and one doing the face and/or voice. The difference is they're manipulating a real time digital puppet, not a physical one. So from that sense, I don't think that makes much difference as far as the general stuff is, and I don't see a reason *not* to have character and episode pages. For that matter, we have one page for a Sam Plenty character, Marion Weadle, and that has no Muppet or puppet connection at all (just Henson produced and with some puppeteers as live actors) and then there's MirrorMask. And we have a page for Greg Evigan just because he starred in the Brian Henson executive produced, Henson Company released sitcom Family Rules. So that inches into a larger question of what Henson Company stuff we cover (or if it's just "stuff we don't like as much.") If the latter, we do still have redlinks for characters on the Good Boy! page. :)
- In my opinion, as digital puppets made by Henson (though not Muppets, because they're not physical and Disney owns the name), Sid and Frances character pages definitely belong in a way that Book of Pooh stuff doesn't. *But* I'd say there's no real reason for dozens of song pages (right now, in fact, all the say is which episode they were in, a sentence summary, and a date), kind of like the way we decided we didn't need a bunch of soundtrack pages for Creature Shop-effects movies. They're not Muppet songs, they're not Creature Shop songs, and there's no reason the info can't be included on the episode pages.
- Now, Unstables Fables stuff is actually completely different. Pre-production is done by Henson, kind of, in that they hire the screenwriters and greenlight the stuff and the pre-production designs and the voice recording. All the animation is outsourced to India, though. Right now, we have pages for a few Unstable voices ([[Steve Zahn]], [[Nolan North]], [[Jesse McCartney]], etc.). While I personally think an argument could be made that Unstable Fables voices are as relevant as some of the recently deleted international stuff, those pages are usually interesting (or can be made interesting). But the characters, less so; the only page we have right now is [[Big Bad Wolf (3 Pigs and a Baby)]], which I created with much difficulty, and I'd personally be fine with vetoing character, song, etc. pages for that kind of thing.
- Then there's The Blue Elephant, a two-year old feature which had already been theatrically released in Thailand and was just dubbed (and I'm not even sure how much involvement Henson had with that aspect, without checking the credits) and put out under "[[The Jim Henson Company Discoveries|The Jim Henson Company: Discoveries]]" label. I hadn't meant for a page to be created yet, but Brad put some of the info there, including a red-link to dubbing actress Miranda Cosgrove (so the connection for any of the voices is that they dubbed a movie which has nothing to do with the Muppets and is only related to the Henson company as a "Discovery," which is definitely slimmer than the German voice for Judge Wapner on Muppets Tonight.)
- So I guess in general, it's time to re-define what our purpose, to create a Wiki for "everything related to Jim Henson and the Muppets" now means. Or specifically, how much it covers stuff done by the Jim Henson Company that has nothing to do with the Muppets (before and after they sold the name). -- Andrew Leal (talk) 05:57, 1 September 2008 (UTC)
- I'm kind of thinking out loud, but I think that just as Disney Wiki doesn't stop after Walt Disney died, I think we should document projects that The Jim Henson Company is involved in, even if they don't involve traditional puppetry. I understand making a distinction between putting their name on something that they didn't actually create, but Sid sounds like a major project that the Henson company intends to get back in the PBS/Sesame Street demographic, as opposed to the adult shows, and the tween specials. But I understand if people want to keep this "Muppet Wiki", instead of "Henson Wiki".
- Another question which kind of relates, since the Muppet name is now owned by Disney, but allowed to show up on Sesame merchandise, who are Eric Jacobson and Steve Whitmire actually working for when they bounce back and forth between Disney specials and Sesame Street? Are they Henson company employees who have an agreement to perform characters in those 2 universes that are no longer owned by the Henson company? I just bring this up because the Muppet universe has been carved up into so many pieces, that are owned by so many different companies, that it gets difficult to decide if we only want to cover the characters created by Jim Henson, or if we want to cover the things that the company he founded did and does in the future. -- Ken (talk) 06:31, 1 September 2008 (UTC)
- It's a good question Danny, and I have actually been thinking about this after you brought up the questions about entries in the international voice actors. Personally I would think that the coverage of the future Henson digital projects should not be excluded from the wiki entirely, after all the company behind it are historical for the Muppets and the "Muppet technology" lead to the digital performersystem. However I don't think that there should be as much details, maybe just a page about the production and thats it.
- I really think there should be a policy about this, because while I was writing this it struck me, that in theory people could start adding Disney productions on here as well, with the reasoning that we add non-Muppet stuff on the wiki from the company that have owned the Muppets, so why should the current owner not have it's productions listed. Henrik (talk) 07:02, 1 September 2008 (UTC)
- While it's a legitimate issue, I don't think people adding Disney pages is an issue, since it's not just "some company that owned the muppets" but the company founded by Jim Henson and which still bears (and trades on) his name. By the same token, Disney Wiki is a mess and not a good model, but that's because Disney is a global empire which extends into so many areas and productions, whereas even if we fully documented Sam Plenty, Good Boy, etc., it would still be a drop in the bucket compared to the overall Muppet coverage. Apart from examining what "all things related to Jim Henson" means re the company, there's our other measuring stick: is this something of general interest to our readers on the whole? That's why we have Category:Frank Oz Films, Category:Connections, and pages like Sesame Street Cast in Other Roles, based on legitimate interest in knowing what other stuff Frank Oz and other folks have worked on (and in general, managing to tie those back to the Muppet world). I think that could be done with Sid, iffy with Frances, no on Sam Plenty, etc. We haven't taken a vote in ages, but depending how this develops (and since lately only a few users have really been active in current events discussions), that may or may not prove useful. Part of the issue, though, and also I think why Danny's concerned, is the fact that in general Muppet news has been scarce, so sites like Muppet Newsflash and some of the fan boards cling to any news from Henson (announcements of optioned properties, live action web shows, DVD re-issues of Gulliver's Travels, etc.) for lack of anything really Muppety to sink their teeth into. So it may be partially an issue of how much of that we want to encourage/discourage. -- Andrew Leal (talk) 20:17, 1 September 2008 (UTC)
- Yup. I see this stuff as the new Frackles -- something that only interests a select number of people on a particular fansite.
- I think the criterion of "it's made by the company that Jim Henson founded" means that these projects always have some relevance to the wiki. I wouldn't ever say that we should stop covering the Henson Company's output. The question is just in the level of detail that we want to put in, which for me really means the number of individual pages.
- Somewhere along the way, we decided that From the Balcony episodes would all be on one page, although FtB characters have their own category. I don't remember how we came up with that, but I think it's appropriate for that project.
- It usually helps at this point in the discussion for me to start making lists :) -- so let me try to make a list of what "coverage" means for us. Here's a list of how many subcategories we currently have for various projects, as a measure of how much coverage that project gets on the wiki right now:
- 26 subcats: Sesame Street
- 11 : The Muppet Show, Fraggle Rock
- 9 : Sesamstraat
- 8 : Bear in the Big Blue House, The Dark Crystal, The StoryTeller
- 7 : Dinosaurs, Dog City, Labyrinth, Muppet Babies, Muppets Tonight, The Muppets' Wizard of Oz
- 6 : Farscape, The Muppet Christmas Carol, Muppet Treasure Island, The Wubbulous World of Dr. Seuss
- 5 : The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland, Elmo's World, It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie, The Muppet Movie, Muppets From Space, Sesamstrasse
- 4 : The Animal Show, Big Bag, Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas, Follow That Bird, The Great Muppet Caper, The Jim Henson Hour, Kermit's Swamp Years, Mother Goose Stories, The Muppets Take Manhattan
- 3 : Animal Jam, The Hoobs, Mopatop's Shop, Puppet Up!, Sesame Beginnings, Tinseltown
- 2 : The Ghost of Faffner Hall, The Land of Gorch, Late Night Buffet, Muppet*Vision 3D, Sam and Friends, The Secret Life of Toys, The Tale of the Bunny Picnic
- 1 : Dr. Dolittle, Five Children and It, From the Balcony, Jack and the Beanstalk, Little Muppet Monsters, Panwapa, Play With Me Sesame, Unstable Fables, The Witches
- No category: Buddy, Donna's Day, Frances, Good Boy, Telling Stories with Tomie dePaola
- On the whole, I think that matches up pretty well with how much we care about a particular project.
- Everything from 4 subcats and up is pretty much core Muppet Wiki material -- the various puppet shows and movies, plus a few special Creature Shop productions (Dark Crystal, StoryTeller, Dinosaurs, Labyrinth, Farscape). The top three are obvious -- Sesame, Muppet Show and Fraggle Rock. Below that, it depends on how much effort someone is willing to put in to build the pages. Wubbulous World doesn't really deserve more coverage than The Jim Henson Hour, but we have a contributor who's psyched about building those pages.
- We give 2 to 3 subcats for more marginal puppet projects -- shows that nobody really cares about or where there isn't a lot to say.
- Creature Shop movies and miniseries get one category each for Characters. Actors just go in a general "Creature Shop Movies Actors" type category.
- Stuff that we really don't like doesn't get any categories at all, even if it has puppets in it (like Tomie dePaola).
- With that in mind, I find it hard to justify 3 subcategories for [[:Category:The Skrumps|The Skrumps]], and 3 for [[:Category:Sid the Science Kid|Sid the Science Kid]].
- I think we should give the digital productions the same level of coverage that we do for From the Balcony and the Creature Shop TV shows. -- a Characters category, and that's it. Episodes and songs can go on the main page about the production, like we do with From the Balcony.
- Thankfully the first episode of Sid the Science Kid is all about teaching kids how to make lists. They don't know it, but they're creating a generation of wiki people. Anyway, I agree with that rundown. No need to have separate pages for Sid and Frumps episodes and songs. —Scott (talk) 23:46, 1 September 2008 (UTC)
- That sounds fair (since in general the Muppety relevance lies in the characters and who's performing them more than anything else), and for the most part won't affect much except merging info. There might be more to say about Frances episodes than Sid at some point, but I think that's a Wubbulous situation. That is to say, as with some other things, if/when we ever get a hardcore Frances fan willing and able to make really good, generally interesting pages about the stuff and argue for it, I think that would be a different issue. But right now, with all the Sid stuff, it seems less because of actual passion for a show which barely aired today then "Finally, something new to fill up pages with." How about Unstable Fables, though? (Which as said, aren't digital puppet shows at all, just outsourced animation). Voices and no characters? -- Andrew Leal (talk) 00:05, 2 September 2008 (UTC)
- Well, so far we have pages for the four "star names" and [[Nolan North]] and [[Tom Kenny]] (who are semifamous, at least to soap opera and Spongebob fans respectively), so probably just unlink everyone else unless they have another connection. That sound about right? And yeah, if we're going to discourage more character pages, we may as well nuke the one there. -- Andrew Leal (talk) 03:23, 2 September 2008 (UTC)


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The pen has always been the tool of the writer. So, here is a picture of a pen in honor of the power that it has wielded for centuries. Words really do have power – Christians must believe that if they are to remain faithful to the Bible. Ours is the most book-friendly of all world religions, and it is no surprise to me that the Christian blogosphere is flourishing. Blogs are just one more way for WORDS to work their magic.
History affirms the power of words, and in particular the power of the written word, to communicate the ideas spoken by one man in order to create at times whole movements and revolutions.
But, of course, there are so many different ways of communicating or recording our words. There is a big difference between a calmly spoken word, a heated exchange, a quiet word of encouragement, a thunderous sermon, a telephone call, a book, a letter, an email, or even a blog post.
I would argue that the last of these – the blog – is as much a unique form of communication as the rest of them, although it borrows in its style from several of the older modes of exchanging words. Whilst it is an altogether new medium and its uniqueness cannot be overestimated, it does borrow from its older siblings.
Blogging can have much of the intimacy of a conversation, even more of the unlimited geographical reach of a telephone call, and at times the scholarly thought of a book. (OK – maybe not here on this blog!) A blog can sound thunderous at times, and often reads like it should really be spoken out loud. It can also draw you in and make you feel like the writer's friend. Blogs should last forever, and will form an ever-growing repository for the world's information. They will become ever more promising as a source of information and punchy sound bites. This is because bloggers read – and listen to – all the other forms of literature and communication. Being bloggers, they cannot just take in all these words – instead they reflect on them, and do what bloggers do best – quote the juicy bits. Bloggers also process large volumes of text and summarise, simplify, and interact with them – asking and answering questions about things even the writer had not thought of. A good example of this is the way Ed Stetzer recognised that blogger, Tim Challies, improved on his writings about worship! You have to listen to that sermon to get my point here.
Somehow the pen, to me, symbolizes blogging. A pen can be used for quick jottings, but once that letter is sealed in the envelope and posted, there is no going back! Google never forgets, even if you delete your blog post! So, I love the thoughts that the image of a pen evokes. Oddly, though, these days I rarely actually USE a pen! Having said that, now that I have my journaling Bible, I am using a pen (or rather a pencil) again. I am embarrassed to admit that I realized I had almost forgotten how to write! Well, OK not quite, but holding a pencil does seem quite strange as the keyboard is undoubtably my favorite weapon!
Different people have very different ways of writing. For me, I tend to write almost as I speak. There may be a long time of reflection, and even a few notes scribbled down, but every now and then the moment grabs me and the words just flow. I can spend hours looking at a blank piece of paper, or more usually a blank computer screen – then suddenly the words come tumbling out. I could almost be talking at the screen.
The best thing about a screen or a piece of paper is that, just like a congregation to whom I am preaching, and quite unlike an individual to whom I am speaking, it doesn't answer back- at least not until I'm finished anyway! I find that I think whilst talking or writing, and the person who benefits most from this blog is me – ideas flow, preconceptions get challenged, and at times revelation from God's Word comes to me.
You guys get to watch along with me and be swept along with me as the pressure for WORDS to flow builds up, and then they come tumbling out at a quicker and quicker rate, and then as the moment begins to leave me, the drive to hit PUBLISH becomes quite literally overwhelming. If you are quick, you may even get to see the mess I leave behind me for the ever trustworthy Annette to come and clear up!
I guess I will always leave other people to carefully polish their own words. Mine – even after Annette has finished with them – will always have a rough feel to them. They will often seem almost as if I have said them aloud.
In some ways, that's how I believe a blog should be – somewhere between the truly written form and the oral form of words. I may not have the incomplete sentences and the mid-sentence corrections of the spoken word, but at times I might just as well have them! So, unlike the polished finished form of a book where an error and a retraction are extremely costly, I hope you will indulge me a little here with the odd blemish, and even (dare I say it?) the occasional error! If I do make a mistake, and it is pointed out, then I will, of course, endeavour to correct it. But remember, I was only blogging!


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Meanwhile, Sybase Inc. mobile and wireless subsidiary iAnywhere Solutions said it would work with Casio Inc. to develop mobile business tools for enterprises. Go America, Inc., will provide wireless Internet access service for users of Cassiopeia Pocket PC devices.
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