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|Vein Drain
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Vein Drain is the 9th episode of Season 1 of Scooby-Doo Solve Them All
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When people are complaining about a giant monster terrorizing town, the gang has to follow the monster to Coolsville's ickiest location Mugwamp Swamp!
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A crowd of people is enjoying a movie in the Coolsville Theatre. They hear a loud screech and a giant leech breaks through the screen and screeches. Everyone flees. The leech attaches its mouth over the cash register and sucks all the money out.
The gang receives calls about the monster. They follow it in the Mystery Machine to Mugwamp Swamp. Daphne is grossed out by the swamp. The Mystery Machine goes over a bump and Scooby and Shaggy fall out the car and into the muddy swamp.
In the swamp Shaggy and Scooby find their way to a quaint hut. They enter. Inside is a couple. Their names are Billy Bob and Marian. They ask if Scooby and Shaggy want a snack. They of course say yes. The two walk off into the kitchen when the giant leech rips the roof off of their hut! Shaggy and Scooby run.
The leech screeches at them. Fred hears it and turns the Mystery Machine around. He picks them up into it. Velma and Daphne scream. All igators are right in front of the van! The gang hops out of the car and run further into Mugwamp Swamp.
Velma says she's researched the swamp before and she says their is a very old river boat somewhere in it.
Fred stops and points to the riverboat. And asks if that is it. Velma says yes. The gang gets on board. They see many toads and rats. Daphne says "ewww". Fred says they should split up, him, Daphne and Velma will investigate the ballroom, while Shaggy and Scooby will investigate the cabins.
Shaggy and Scooby find an old cabin. Shaggy says who ever lived there must be loaded. Scooby agrees. They hear a screeching sound. They hide. The leech comes in and sucks up a jewelry box and an old purse. Shaggy and Scooby are shivering. The leech turns around and sucks the door off and it screeches. Shaggy and Scooby run off. The leech squirms afterthem.
In the ballroom Daphne admires a beautiful crystal chandelier. Velma says the name of the riverboat is the S.S Mugwamp. Fred hears the screams of Shaggy and Scooby. He tells the girls to hide. They all duck under tables. Shaggy and Scooby burst in along with the giant leech. The leech sucks up the chandelier. Fred orders the girls to tie up he leech. They do and the leech is caught. The gang cheers as they unmask it as....
Billy Bob and Marian! They wanted to steal money from places in Coolsville, but when they heard about the S.S Mugwamp they thought there might be loot on board. The leech was a giant robot and a giant vaccum, that's how it sucked everything up.
Carl comes and shoves the couple into the police car. He thanks the gang for helping arrest the two. Scooby cheers Scooby-Dooby-Doo while an alligator snaps at his tail. Scooby screams.
Villains Edit
- Giant Leech
Locations Edit
- Coolsville
- Coolsville Theatre
- Mugwamp Swamp
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|Billy Bob and Marian
|Wanted to steal valuable things


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Three months ago, the rating agency gave the highest rating for the IPO of the monopoly coal producer based on 'strong fundamentals'. Today, it says new thermal power projects will suffer due to a demand-supply gap that is widening. Did it ignore the risks?
Barely three months after the rating and research firm ICRA assigned the highest grade for Coal India's (CIL) initial public offering on the back of 'strong' fundamentals, it has started talking about a shortfall of coal production for new coal-based thermal projects.
ICRA, an associate of Moody's Investors Service of US, in its latest report, says, "The spurt in demand has led to a significant rise in import levels, given the failure of domestic coal production to keep pace with the increasing demand because of structural bottlenecks that prevent quick commissioning of mining projects." The domestic production of course predominantly comes from CIL.
The same rating agency, three months ago, gave the highest grade, '5/5', for the CIL IPO citing strong business fundamentals as well as financial strength. It had said that CIL is the largest coal producer in the world and owns vast reserves, a highly favourable demand-supply situation in the domestic coal industry, and that this monopoly in the coal industry is expected to result in strong growth prospects for the company.
CIL accounts for around 80% of India's coal production and provides around 70% fuel for the country's thermal power plants. The Coal India IPO, which was oversubscribed 15.3 times, raised Rs15,000 crore from the market.
The question is, what fundamentals were taken into account while assigning the grade-coal reserves, the monopoly of the company or its financial figures? It seems that credit agencies and industry experts do not bother to pay attention to risks in the nature of business of state-owned companies in which the government has tight control.
In its recent report, ICRA says, "The demand-supply gap in the domestic industry is likely to widen significantly over the medium to long term as many large-size, coal-based power projects are expected to commission over this period. Many of these projects were conceived on the premise that domestic coal would be available to them in the required volumes."
"While such projects have been able to secure letters of assurance (LoAs) from the Coal India group, such contracts actually guarantee coal availability of 50% of their annual requirements from domestic mines," the report says.
Since environment minister Jairam Ramesh slapped the Comprehensive Environmental Pollution Index (CEPI) on many of its coal blocks, CIL has lowered its production target for this financial year by 3.5% to 444.50 million tonnes, and for FY12 the company has reduced the production target by 8% to 447.50 million tonnes.
Lower supply of coal in the domestic market will force power companies to import coal. Coal prices are higher and volatile in the international markets and this would eat into power companies' margins. The report says that higher coal prices for new thermal projects will impact returns and undermine the debt service capabilities of the project promoters.
According to the report, domestic demand for coal witnessed a compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of over 8% between FY2006 and FY2010, while production CAGR was under 7% during the same period, due to several issues like environment clearance, land acquisition and political unrest in coal-producing regions.
Source: Outcome Budget of 2010-11, Ministry of Coal and ICRA research
The graph (Coal demand-supply position) shows that though the state-owned company sits on largest reserves, or produces the highest amount of coal in the world, India has been largely dependant on imports.
ICRA estimates that the demand-supply gap will increase further as many thermal projects are being commissioned. It says that the installed capacity of coal-based thermal power plants increased from 71GW in FY2007 to 90GW at the end of November 2010. By the end of FY2012, ICRA expects the thermal power capacity would be 113GW.
Demand from other industries, including steel, aluminium and cement is likely to be very high in the next five to seven years, although a number of thermal power plants are likely to be based on imported coal.
ICRA expects coal production in the country to grow at the historical rate of around 7% per annum. This could see the demand- supply gap increase to more than three times over the next five to seven years from the current gap of 67 million tonnes, a clear indication that the power sector will largely depend on import of coal.
Interestingly, ICRA also says that the Ministry of Coal from its Mid-Term Appraisal report for the 11th Plan period has reported that to bridge the gap the country would require to import 83 million tonnes in FY12. CIL, in its red herring prospectus, had said that it would face a deficit of 110 million tonnes and 235 million tonnes in FY11 and FY12 respectively, if all thermal power plants with LoAs from CIL are commissioned on time.
In its 19-page affidavit to the Supreme Court, the telecom regulator wrote to DoT that Idea and Spice had violated the terms and conditions pertaining to roll-out obligations and the merger between the two companies were in violation of the guidelines for the intra-service area merger
New Delhi: The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), which has come under the scanner for its alleged inaction in the second generation (2G) spectrum allocation scam, today told the Supreme Court that it had from time to time recommended to the government action against erring companies, including cancellation of licences of Idea Cellular and Spice Telecom for some circles, reports PTI.
TRAI said the two companies failed to fulfil roll-out obligations and their merger was in violation of rules.
"The authority (TRAI) wrote to DoT that Idea and Spice are in violation of the terms and conditions pertaining to roll-out obligations and the merger between the two companies is in violation of the guidelines for the intra-service area merger," it said in its 19-page affidavit.
"Hence, the licenses of Idea in Punjab and Karnataka service area and Spice in respect of Maharashtra, Haryana and Andhra Pradesh service area may be cancelled," the regulator said.
The regulator also submitted it had recommended to the government in November last year to take punitive action against the telecom companies for not fulfilling their roll-out obligations.
"The authority wrote to DoT stating that 69 licenses out of 130 did not fulfil the mandatory roll-out obligations and recommended that immediate necessary action be taken by the DoT against them," TRAI said.
Right to information is a formidable weapon that promotes transparency and helps to curb corruption. While there are some drawbacks that can be addressed separately, we must use this law to its full potential
Just who can use the Right to Information Act? This would seem a strange or at best stale question, considering that the Right to Information (RTI) was implemented in 2005, on 12th October to be precise. But a little over five years later, the question is still relevant, as many people continue to be ignorant of the potency of this Act that could give them the information they seek, sometimes resulting in justice for oneself-all with the power of just a pen and paper.
The beauty of the RTI Act is that it is very Gandhian in its nature, as it non-violently demands information from public authorities (government departments) who are compelled to provide it under this law. Prior to this Act, the executive and the legislature took umbrage under the Official Secrets Act, 1923, and evaded making any information public. When the RTI Act came into force, it generally overruled the Official Secrets Act (which strangely has not been made null and void as yet). So, if any officer tells you that he is forbidden from revealing information under the Official Secrets Act, do tell him that the RTI Act has nullified it, even though it may still exist on paper.
Besides, all government departments across the country have been directed to suo moto disclose information in the public domain, preferably on a website, under Section 4 of the Act, within 120 days after the Act was implemented, and to update information at regular intervals. Many of them either have not done so, or have uploaded inadequate information (read as, that which is convenient to them).
We shall discuss, in another article, the intricate details of Section 4 which empowers the citizen to procure information faster than a written application under Section 6. Suffice to mention for now that inspection of files (under Section 4) can be done by any citizen by simply visiting a government office, and using the right to go through the official documents, as well as demanding and getting photostat copies/CDs of the required documents. Of course, certain documents cannot be revealed under Section 8 (which also we will understand with examples).
The best thing about the RTI Act is that the Public Information Officer (PIO)-the designated officer to whom the application is sent-cannot ask you the reason/purpose for your seeking information. Section 6(2) clearly states, "An applicant making a request for information shall not be required to give any reason for requesting the information or any other personal details, except those that may be necessary for contacting him." It does not matter who you are-you could be a criminal-but you have the right to get the information.
A unique example comes to mind. Several years ago, when I was working with a national daily, our resident editor received a very well written inland letter in English from a prisoner, who was serving a life sentence for murder in Yerawada Central Prison. He was kept in the Open Jail due to his good behaviour. However, after he led an agitation-joined by many fellow prisoners-against bad quality food being served in the jail, the authorities decided to put him in the closed prison as a punishment.
Humiliated, he filed an application under Section 6 of the RTI Act, demanding a copy of the Prison Manual Act, to find out the reasons under which he was transferred to the closed jail. Predictably, his application was rejected and, therefore, he dashed off a letter to the newspaper. My editor asked me to follow up the story. I called up the Inspector General (IG) of Prisons and asked him the reason why the prisoner's application was rejected. There was a flutter in the police office as the IG asked his officers to have the RTI application re-written by the prisoner and within 24 hours the prisoner received a copy of the prison manual. What happened after that is another story, but it highlights how people-friendly this Act is.
In all other laws, it is the citizen who is at the receiving end. For example, if you disregard the red traffic signal, you could face action from the traffic police. If you do not pay your income-tax in time, you could be penalised. However, in the case of the RTI Act, the public information officer has to supply the information asked for within a time frame (30 days, if it is under Section 6, and instantly if it is under Section 4) when the citizen (applicant) demands it. Else, he could be penalised. (This has not been implemented in right earnest as most of them are given a hearing and pardoned.) The applicant can appeal to the first appellate authority (a senior officer of the department given this additional charge), or the second appellate authority, that is, the information commissioner.
Recently, Lucknow-based Aishwarya Sharma, all of nine years old, filed an application under the RTI Act about a garbage heap in front of her school. Thanks to her initiative and the amplification of the issue by the media, the overflowing garbage dump has been taken away and a library has come up at the spot. Teenagers in various parts of the country and those who have appeared for competitive examinations have filed RTI applications to demand copies of their original answer sheets, when in doubt about the marks they have received. While some have received them, most have had to file second appeals before the information commissioners who have given favourable decisions.
As per the official record at the State Information Commissioner's office in the Pune Division, 70% of the applicants seek personal information. But as information commissioner Vijay Kuvalekar states, most of them reflect social trends that affect many.
Of course, the RTI Act is not a magical wand, as procuring information requires perseverance. At times, rejection of the application can make one skeptical about the Act. There are cases of misuse also. But, overall, it is a formidable weapon for the common man that promotes transparency and helps to curb corruption, and since it has come more than five decades after Independence, we should use it to its full potential. Drawbacks such as its misuse could be addressed by experts. Each one of us should conserve and strengthen the Act by invoking it.
(The writer is a senior editor, author and convener of Pune Metro Jagruti Abhiyaan.)


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A collection of poems by Maria Flook
Reckless Wedding, Maria Flook's first collection of poems, was chosen for the Houghton Mifflin New Poetry Series in 1982 and it also received The Great Lakes College Association New Writers Award. The New York Times wrote: "This poet has the power to see unexpected resemblances - a wonderfully unsettling mix of sexual contamination and back-attic mustiness."
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instead of chacha, revoke automatic appropriation for debt service!
my first reaction upon hearing of senate president enrile's and house speaker belmonte's joint call for charter change soon after the impeachment and ouster of the chief justice, of which they were prime movers, was to wonder, ano ito, quid-pro-quo? the president owes them for corona and this is what they want, okay, hope for, in exchange? it's a relief, of course, that the prez was quick to reply that chacha is not a priority of his administration, kahit na i don't agree with the it-aint-broke-so-why-fix-it rhetoric.
this time the arguments for deleting, changing, whatever, the nationalist, protective economic provisions are old and new. old is the one about attracting foreign investments that our economy direly needs daw. new is the one about giving the military a bigger budget than education, the better to build an armed force capable of driving away the chinese from west philippine sea territory.
re foreign investments, as usual some agree, some disagree: economist calixto chikiamco and senator joker arroyo agree; economist solita "winnie" monsod and columnist conrado de quiros disagree. re an improved military budget, however, i have yet to hear anyone agreeing. the palace via lacierda says there are already efforts to upgrade the capability of the military for a minimum defense position. senator trillanes prefers the more prudent alternative of a peacefully resolving our differences with china and reviving our relationship as economic partners. and senator miriam thinks charter change to boost military strength is "just wrong":
"We just don't have enough resources to be a world or even a regional military force… What we need is a more effective Coast Guard, not the Navy itself," she said.
She added that she finds nothing wrong in the Constitutional provision requiring the government to allocate most of its annual budget to education.
"The hierarchy of priorities should begin with the mind. If we are clever, we can outclass the Chinese," she said.
philstar columnist ana marie pamintuan also objects to a bigger budget for defense than for education.
The Constitution stipulates that the state "shall assign the highest budgetary priority to education…" Enrile thinks this should be subject to change depending on the nation's needs.
Debt payments in fact have always eaten up the largest chunk of the annual national appropriation. Maybe Budget Secretary Butch Abad can devise a similar creative way of going around the constitutional provision to finance the achievement of the administration's goal of minimum defense capability.
… As it is, education (and health, for that matter) are still pitifully lacking in funding. So if defense spending will be increased, it will have to be taken from other budgetary items.
indeed. it's not as if education's budget is anywhere close to enough. the dismal lack of classrooms and textbooks and toilets and running water for our public schools is public knowledge. so is the low low pay of our teachers — no wonder they opt to work as domestic help abroad as a matter of survival. so is the poor quality of public education hereabouts — k-12 won't make a significant difference, promise! not without money for teacher and curriculum upgrades.
so really, it's a major major puzzlement how the senate president can even think of making bawas from that pitifully inadequate budget just to make dagdag to the defense budget. yes, china is a problem. yes, we need billions, even just for minimum defense, much more for the wishlist of jetfighters, mini-submarines, well-armed frigates, corvette-size combat vessels and minesweepers. but changing the charter to take money away from education to fund any of that is simply daft, when we could, should, as pamintuan suggests, be looking instead at annual debt payments that eat up the biggest chunk of the budget.
pamintuan, however, is mistaken in thinking that the automatic appropriation for debt service is provided for in the constitution. read the freedom from debt coalition (FDC)"s Briefer on the Automatic Debt Servicing Provision
It was during the Martial Law in the Philippines that automatic appropriation for debt service was first codified, in Section 31(B) of Presidential Decree 1177 (Budget Reform Decree of 1977). In consonance with her "honor-all-debts" policy, Aquino signed into law the Administrative code of 1987, copying en toto Section 31(B) of PD1177 into Section 26(B) of the code. Section 31(B) of PD1177 also serves as its legal basis.
read this explanatory note to House Bill 1962 authored by kabataan partylist rep mong palatino proposing the repeal of the automatic appropriation for debt service:
Because the government willingly binds itself to a law enacted not through the legislature, but by the decree of a dictator during the dark days of Martial Law to automatically spend more than a third of its annual budget on debt service, its spending on social services, from education to health care has always been grossly insufficient …
so there. THAT deserves to be repealed, amended, undone. THAT should be the priority of congress, not charter change. i'm not saying let's not pay our debts, i'm saying let's pay in amounts we can afford. what the senate and the house of reps should be wanting to change is not the constitution but this odious marcos decree that cory copied in full, unconditionally, without reservation, and which the fernan supreme court upheld :(
here's senator angara, who also wants the policy changed:
Angara, vice chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, said that debt servicing eats up a significant portion of the national budget, depriving the poor of their right to social services. He said that at least 40 percent of the country's budget goes to servicing of interest payments and principal amortization of debts.
During the interpellation for Senate Bill No. 2857, "An Act Institutionalizing the Participation of Civil Society Organizations (CSOS) in the Preparation and Authorization Process of the Annual National Budget, Providing Effective Mechanisms Therefore, and for Other Purposes", Angara stressed that the policy on automatic appropriations on debt service further encourages reckless borrowing and spending as it guarantees payment without legislative intervention and without going through a thorough screening.
"The power to realign the budget and savings and the automatic debt appropriations make for a deadly combination as it allows the manipulation of the National Budget. As long as these loopholes exist, the temptation will always be present. We must therefore revisit and propose amendments to the budget laws to ensure fiscal discipline," he proposed.
so, really, when i read this in the news today:
Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile said he did not have in mind doing away completely with the 60-40 ratio favoring Filipino investors over foreigners.
"Just that we need to give ourselves the flexibility by authorizing Congress to change the ratio when there is a need for it. But (the idea is) always to protect the interest of the Filipino people in controlling the economy," Enrile explained in a radio interview over dzBB radio Sunday.
… my reaction was, OMG, invoking the interest of the filipino people in controlling the economy! does he think we're morons? if the interest of the people were truly the guiding principle of congress, matagal na dapat na-undo 'yang automatic appropriation for debt service na 'yan.
read walden bello's In the shadow of debt: the sad but true tale behind a quarter century of stagnation that i blogged about in may 2008, when gloria's congress was pushing for con-ass. i was against chacha then as i am against chacha now.
hindi charter change ang dapat nating pinag-uusapan. not at all. ang dapat nating pinag-uusapan ay ang pagbabago ng debt policy natin. we spend on the average half of the budget on bayad-utang and bayad-interes para lang makautang uli. ano ba yan. enough na please of the model debtor strategy that has only made a basket case of our economy.
and in the comment section, TonGuE-tWisTeD wondered,
Do these big lenders give the president of a country incentives or commissions for paying early? Gloria says we need to take advantage of the strong peso by retiring most of our debts earlier. Fishy, no?
and president aquino has been doing exactly the same thing, sabay pahiram ng one billion dollars sa IMF, sabay gloat that we are no longer a debtor country but a creditor na daw. LOL! read Govt debt hits P5.147 trillion and weep.
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July 30, 2012 at 7:14 pm
Hi Angela,
this is an issue whenever an Argentina or Russia (now Greece) threatens to default on its sovereign debt. The question: Should a country default?
The stock answer, which has its merits of being realistic, is that if a borrowing country does not "tie its hands" before it borrows, it will have to pay a much higher interest rate. To make this easy to understand, think of how credit card interest rates are so much higher than (often three times) those on debt secured by real estate. The reason has to do with the fact that credit card debt is unsecured, and is easy to default on it. Moreover, sovereign debt is unique; the international law concept of sovereignty allows the borrower to renege (because a sovereign cannot be sued without its consent). Creditors since time immemorial understood this, and price the loan interest rate according to the risk of a sovereign default. A sovereign borrower who wants a "low" interest rate will get it if it makes a credible promise, such as through its legislation, that it will not renege.
The inevitable conclusion is this. If we didn't have that Marcos-era provision (ratified by Cory), we would be even poorer today because we would have had to pay much higher interest rates on our external debt. Because of "reputation" effects, a benefit from the current law is that even our private sector can borrow abroad at lower interest rates than otherwise. In short, changing that law to make it easier for us to default would be a major blow to the economy.
Your concern is somewhat different. What if we had an irresponsible government that borrowed and squandered the funds? Should we not have a remedy? I think we should, but the remedy could be something other than an announcement that we would renege if our current leaders had become irresponsible. We cannot expect foreigners (i.e. lenders) to make sure that we have responsible governments; that rule would not help our reputation as upright citizens of the world. Of course this doesn't prevent a foreign lender, particularly an official one, such as the World Bank, from requiring clauses that help ensure that the borrowed funds are not misspent. In a way that's a remedy also, but not the kind that we can be proud of.
August 2, 2012 at 3:12 pm
Hmm, best defense I've read so far about automatic appropriation.
In the past, I was batting for re-scheduling of payment: partial suspension of payment for say three to five years and redirecting these resources to massive infra buildup and other backlogs, it would do wonders. But then you get the same effect by automatic appropriation and committing to new loans…
August 3, 2012 at 5:49 pm
Hey ricelander,
The reality is that automatic appropriation includes a big chunk of principal that's maturing, and then the lenders allow us essentially automatically also to re-borrow the principal plus a little bit more. So, yes, in a sense it seems a charade.
We could borrow a lot more, given our ratios when compared with other countries, but perhaps it wouldn't be wise until we can get a good grip on how to ensure that the borrowed funds are spent properly. This is easier said than done.
In the meantime, the low net new borrowing profile is good for lowering the interest rate we have to pay, and perhaps also for raising our credit rating (even though I believe the credit rating agencies are not all that good at it).
July 31, 2012 at 1:03 am
Thanks for the explanations O. I'm sure everyone is interested about this foreign debt. In my case, I've been conditioned to think of this debt as a national shame. Wouldn't it be easier to look at national progress in terms of debt rating or how low our interest rates are when our government borrows money. Has it become lower?
Shouldn't we also acknowledge that most of these debts are bonds? How much do we actually borrow directly from lenders? As far as debt vs gdp, we're actually better off the the US right now, a friend of mine claimed. Is this true? Most of Europe are worse off including France and Italy.
July 31, 2012 at 10:55 am
Debt by itself is nothing to be ashamed of. You would borrow on a mortgage to have a house. Creditors will think you a lesser risk if you had such a mortgage and your record of repayment was good.
The shame, if any, is with the use of borrowed funds.
But credit ratings are also not always reliable. The 2008 financial crisis was due in part to credit ratings agencies who didn't do a good job.
August 2, 2012 at 11:21 pm
"The shame, if any, is with the use of borrowed funds." Thats the reason i am for debt repudiation. For the past 40 years we are paying interest for behest loans that ended in secret Swiss banks accounts as well as in tax-heaven colonies, castles in Europe, high-end condos in USA. The Inquirer reported today that we have already spent ph-53 billion for foreign interest alone for the first six months, projected for one year is about over ph-100 billion pesos. Wow!! this amount could well be used for education and other poverty alleviation and development of infrastructure of public utilities to benefit the struggling middle class wage earners. If these well entrenched lender
has social conscience to extend assistance by way of political loans, they should atleast write-off the onerous interest that overburdened the citizens for loans passed on as guaranteed by govt.
July 31, 2012 at 1:05 am
Not to mention Japan is in worse shape with almost 2x debt against GDP.
August 2, 2012 at 3:18 pm
By the way, I blogged about a related topic:
Comparatively, we're not doing so bad.
August 2, 2012 at 3:43 pm
See it this way: you are a foreign investor with lots of money to spare. you take a look at the Philippines and find a 60-40 restriction, the rest in the neighborhood allows you 100%, all other things equal, where will you likely go?
As it is, don't you find the 60-40 arrangement complicated? I wonder who will provide the 60% counterpart?! Some cooperative of Filipino farmers or some association of Filipino tricycle drivers or Filipino whateverelse associations? Or the usual suspects: freeloading influential economic elites who provide some token share and the right connection to arrange for dummy corporations to skirt the restrictions
August 2, 2012 at 11:51 pm
In my Finance 101, fund management gurus recommends the use of leverage borrowings as one strategy to obtain funding without capital buildup. Hence,i believe we dont need to amend our Constitution to change 60-40 capital ratio to attract investments. A businesman should not put his egg in one basket by 100% investment. the development of bond market and flexible money market are vehicles in which capital funds are sunk in the system to propel economic growth and increased investment. In addtion, creating a stable political climate and secured remittance of profits are really the best incentives for foreigners to come in. I agree with the opinion of C.Quiros, anyone seeking to cha-change for this reason is an idiot.
August 3, 2012 at 2:26 pm
The 60-40 rule is kind of weird. It probably results in secret dummy arrangements, so doing away with it makes sense if you don't like the dummies. But an open regime looks like we're not getting anything from the outsiders, so that looks like a non-starter too.
Most likely, then, is that those who favor the present rule are the elite. And then, those who want to open up the country are confident that they can make the foreigners compete against each other to give us a good enough deal. But it's also quite possible that the foreigners know how to 'gang up' against us, and we're powerless (that's the story of the nationalists). Whom should we believe?


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On June 10, 1872, Edward Hollister received his land patent for an 80 acre parcel of land in the fertile valley known as Cache la Poudre Valley just west of what is now known as downtown Windsor. Once deemed as a "hinterland" between Greeley and Fort Collins, Hollister is known as the founder of Windsor. He along with his family became large landowners and was one of a handful of dry-land farmers and stock raisers in this booming section of northern Colorado.
Ideally located between Fort Collins and Greeley, the actual town site of Windsor developed primarily because of irrigation and railroads. Additionally, the town was served by a man-made reservoir just to the north of the downtown area first known as Lake Hollister and then later as Kern Reservoir or Windsor Lake. The lake was the source of irrigation for many Windsor area farmers. In 1891 the Lake Supply Ditch Company used Windsor Lake as a resource to ship over 1,500 tons of ice to use for refrigerated box cars or to sell to city's icehouses.
The lake was a vital source of ice for Denver and the railroads until the evolution of mechanically produced ice.
While irrigation for the farmers was readily available, this new town had no reliable transportation in which to ship its bounty to market. In 1882 the Colorado Central Railroad (CC) with financial backing from the Union Pacific Railroad (UP) expanded into Northern Colorado under a variety of names. That same year the town was named for the Rev. Samuel Asa Windsor, a visiting pastor from Fort Collins. Today the Burlington Northern Santa Fe (BNSF) Railway maintains the railroad through Windsor.
In January 1890, Otis Hill and Harry Teller formed the Windsor Mercantile Company. By the end of the decade the store had built the largest retail business block in town. Anotherinfluential commercial developer in that time period of early Windsor was John M. Cobbs who developed one of the most prosperous cattle feeding operations in Weld County. Cobbs invested his profits into Windsor's commercial development and is responsible for many of its existing commercial storefronts.
Windsor officially became an incorporated town on April 2, 1890 and consisted of everything south of the railroad to Locus Street and First Street west to West Street. The first meeting of the town board occurred on April 30 of that same year and consisted of Union Colony pioneers and prominent businessmen. The town continued to grow and mature steadily into the turn of the 20th century as a center of local commerce and agricultural processing. Windsor posted impressive shipping statistics with the Greeley, Salt Lake & Pacific and later Colorado & Southern Railroads for agricultural produce, particularly grain and potatoes, as well as passenger receipts. During this time period consumers stated that Windsor offered "everything one could ever want" in a small town.
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The 1910 U.S. Census indicated that 569 of Windsor's 1,780 residents identified themselves as Germans from Russia or the children of Germans from Russia. That number accounted for nearly one-third of the town's entire population (By 1920 the percentage was even higher).
Unfortunately, due to decreased sugar beet acreage in this area, the Great Western Sugar Company closed in the mid-1960s. A few years later, however, Kodak opened a Windsor factory on the Great Western Sugar Company's site to establish its Colorado headquarters. Kodak Colorado became Eastman Kodak's major manufacturing facility and was one of the single largest employers in northern Colorado. By 1980, Kodak Colorado Division employed 3,000 people, 85% of whom the corporation hired locally. Moreover, Kodak assumed an active role in dealing with the growing pains that inevitably happened because of the arrival of a large industry. To that end, the Windsor Chamber of Commerce led the effort to revive downtown. It appointed a Main Street committee to research, plan and implement the revitalization of the central business district.
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| Lilyzinha chapter 1 . 3/7/2016
this is adorable, i want more of this verse
| ufc91 chapter 1 . 10/21/2014
This was a fun read. I like the concept of is a great deal.
| crimsonninja117 chapter 1 . 4/30/2014
that was awesome!
| dksamuri chapter 1 . 4/30/2014
| Miss Jackson Grayson-Barton chapter 1 . 2/24/2014
Awesome. And cute & adorable with the family love. Well kind've cute, because as awesome as the three characters are, a scene taking the p*** out of Dave makes it even better ;P
| darck ben chapter 1 . 2/1/2014
good story
| Solus Reborn chapter 1 . 1/16/2014
Now this is a gem to behold, I can imagine this scene roll out. Amazing snapshot of a possible future, thanks for a great read.
| NJHarris chapter 1 . 1/8/2014
Hit Girl MK2! After reading Holiday Bonus, the description of this short began to make sense when I decided to read it today, when originally I had absolutely no idea what it meant. I'm glad I read it now!
The superhero family to fear! For her first time she didn't do too bad. Well yeah she got shot, but she had all her gear on, so it's only bruises, not bullet holes. Dave knocking the guy on his ass in one hit! Haha! And Mindy finishing him off with a cheap nut shot, haha!
Dave does take the trophy for "failing epically" when he started out, haha! But then again he wasn't as prepared as Mindy was, and now Kimberly. But look at him now.
Getting to eat at the diner, it's official then. Kimberly is a new super, Hit Girl mark 2!
Ah man we still don't get Mindy's new name!
Such a fun read!
| Blazen chapter 1 . 9/9/2013
Interesting. But I surely hope Dave and Mindy's children would never have (or want) to become vigilantes. Do we really need another messed-up kid? Or worse, a kid who thinks fighting criminals is a game like in this story
Do not pay any mind to my moaning though. I know it's just a funny story about future Dave/Mindy family
| Morpheus Davol chapter 1 . 8/20/2013
This... THIS NEEDS TO BE A SERIES.
| Mikado X Goddess chapter 1 . 8/19/2013
love it XD
| Secrets4theunderground chapter 1 . 8/18/2013
This... this right here was perfect! I loved this more then words can say!
| Motorchickensmile chapter 1 . 8/9/2013
After all the reviews you've given me, it's the least I can do to take a look at some of your work!
I loved the movie Kick-Ass, but have never read any fan-fiction on it and never really thought of ( and still can't really support, I guess ) Kick-Ass and Hit-Girl as a pairing . . . so that being said, I'll try to keep my feedback away from those subjective areas.
Objectively, I think your writing is rather good . . . the opening snippet of this one-shot grips especially well and seems very cinematic. You have a good economy with images, but I thought some of the fighting descriptions could have been fleshed out more vividly. Your dialogue also flows very well, but it was a little confusing not knowing who exactly was saying what at the beginning . . . though I think that was probably done intentionally to delay the big reveal that it was Hit Girl and Kick-Ass and that they have a daughter now, so in that respect it works fine. The whole cussing and intense violence thing around a young child still raises my eyebrows involunatraily, but . . . lol, that's kind of one of the main themes of Kick-Ass and the whole point of Hit-Girl's character in general, isn't it?
I would go to a super-hero diner. Constantly. I would go there like gangbusters.
All in all, not a bad read at all - a nicely-done little one-shot. And obviously, you published this two years ago so I'm certain your writing has probably improved a lot since then . . . I know MINE certainly has. Maybe I'll go and peruse some of your more recent work sometime!
| Apollo Child chapter 1 . 4/27/2013
If PC ends with Dave and Mindy getting married it would be nice for there to be a sequel about their kids
| BlueEyedBrigadier chapter 1 . 4/21/2013
Suprised Dave/Kick-Ass didn't do more, even if the littlest Lizewski (or MacCready, since presumably, Mindy has no other relatives worth mention alive if Marcus became her guarding after Damn/Big Daddy died, so wanting to carry on the family name) had armour on.
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WASHINGTON A House committee asked the Obama administration Friday to release documents on the federal bailouts of General Motors and Chrysler Group, seeking more details on decisions that led to the auto industry bankruptcies.
"They negotiated, they reviewed and they approved every aspect of the Chrysler and General Motors reorganization," Rep. Spencer Bachus, R-Ala., said of the White House. "We don't know how the president's auto task force reached its conclusion."
The resolution, proposed by House Republican Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio, underscored lingering resentment in Congress over the government's work to push GM and Chrysler into bankruptcy. The House approved legislation Thursday pressing GM and Chrysler to restore closed dealerships. Auto task force head Ron Bloom was scheduled to testify before a House panel next week as part of a two-day hearing.
The request to the White House, approved by the House Financial Services Committee on a voice vote, seeks information about the work of the Obama administration's auto task force, the billions in federal aid to GM and Chrysler and reductions in benefits to auto parts supplier Delphi Corp.'s workers and retirees.
Committee chairman Barney Frank, D-Mass., said the resolution "does suffer from a certain selective memory approach," noting that the Bush administration provided the initial funding in late December to the companies. But he supported the request.
The resolution does not compel the White House to turn over the documents. It moves next to the full House for consideration.
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"These decisions were implemented without the auto manufacturers or the task force presenting evidence publicly that these (dealer) closings would actually benefit the auto companies financially," said Rep. Dan Maffei, D-N.Y., who has pushed GM and Chrysler to restore shuttered dealerships.
Chrysler emerged from bankruptcy in June and GM exited bankruptcy on July 10, helped by billions in federal aid. The government now owns nearly 61% of GM and 8% of Chrysler.
The bankruptcies required concessions from union workers, retirees, dealers and bondholders. The moves have brought loud protests from dealers, who have sought help in Congress to restore the companies' dealer networks.
GM is reducing its 6,000-dealer network by more than 2,000 by not renewing franchise agreements next year and winding down stores with outgoing brands such as Pontiac, Saturn, Saab and Hummer. Chrysler cut 789 of its dealers as part of its restructuring plan, reducing its dealer count to about 2,400.
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Los Gatos, CA (PressExposure) March 07, 2011 -- Do you feel safe in your bedroom? Most of us do. It's a comforting feeling when you snuggle into your bed after a long day and prepare yourself for sleep. But what if I told you the place you feel safest is actually extremely detrimental to your health? In fact, you are exposed to a greater amount of chemicals on a daily basis, the majority of which are pollutants from within your home, than most of us realize. Forget nuclear waste and smog; beware of your toxic mattress.
In 1901, only 1 in 8000 people were ever diagnosed to have cancer. Today, it's 1 in 3! It's no wonder when you realize that only 2 percent of the 100,000 chemicals used in commercial manufacturing of products have ever been tested for carcinogens or toxicity. For example, a traditional mattress, the type most people sleep on every night are made from enough chemicals to fill a 50 gallon barrel! Things like pesticides, hydrogen cyanide, boric acid, volatile organic compounds (Not the good organic), formaldehyde, and chlorine. This is truly scary stuff! So what can you do to prevent this?
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2. Traditional mattresses are NOT biodegradable. Moreover, they are the largest producer of any air born carcinogens in the United States. This means they are extremely bad for the environment and your home.
3. The FCC passed a safety measure that required mattress manufacturers to extend the time it takes for a mattress to burn if caught on fire. Sound safer right? A closer look reveals that the fire retardant used to meet this "safety standards" releases deadly levels of carbon monoxide and hydrogen cyanide when they burn.
4. There is no regulatory agency or safety commission policing the products made for home use so mattress manufacturers, without a social conscious, can use whatever chemicals they want in the manufacturing process.
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John 1:41-42
The basilica of St. Peter at Rome is, for many reasons, the world's most notable place of worship. It is notable first of all for its site, for it stands on the very place where the Emperor Nero drove his chariot by night through his gardens, his way illuminated by the blazing pitch-covered bodies of the Christian martyrs. It is notable for its chief architect and builder, Michelangelo; for the triumphs of sculpture and painting which adorn it; for its gloomy crypt, where sleep the long succession of the bishops of Rome, and, according to the ancient tradition, Peter himself. It is notable for the vastness of its area and the years of its construction; for the famous statue of Peter, worn smooth by the kisses of devout pilgrims from every quarter of the globe; for the prayers for grace and forgiveness that are daily offered there by sinners in every language spoken by man since the confusion of tongues at the Tower of Babel. It is notable for its great golden dome, surmounted by the cross, and which, seen afar off by the traveler coming from the north or the south, the east or the west, lets him know that he is approaching the Eternal City. Within and around that great dome are the words of Christ to Peter: "Thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it." But standing under that great dome, and reading those words from Matthew's Gospel, there is another inscription that one feels ought to be added. It is this sentence from John's Gospel: "He first findeth his own brother Simon, . . . and he brought him to Jesus." Without Andrew there would have been no Peter.
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On 24 November 2003, Wikipedia user Sayeya added the following content in an article titled Creole from Spanish or Machaco language:
it is a language that is been from the bad form to speak and to write the Castilian language of the Real Academy of the Spanish Language, and which has regional contributions that are creation of the people of the different departments that conform to Colombia. it is simply the Creole form to speak to the español.pero difference in his ortografia and gramatica in many subjects, although also in others it is resembled, not so single to the Spanish, but to Gallego(but this similarity is accidental, since as lejania geografica between both languages is obvious is much, but in which another word exists the similarity ) and the Colombian indigenas languages from which it takes many but words from which normally it takes the Spanish from the Real Academy of the Spanish Language, at the present time the dialectos have a dictionary of dialectologias elaborated by the expensive institute and crow of Colombia that condenses it in 6 great and fat volumes affluent.
Now (Feb-2004) the text above is moved to Talk:Spanish Creole/Creole from Spanish or Machaco language and acts as a redirect to Spanish Creole. The reason for the move was the proposed deletion of the Creole from Spanish or Machaco language article and the desired preservation of its page history by Optim.
On December 22, 2003, user TUF-KAT voted to delete the page because it was nonsense.
Soon after the page listed in Votes for Deletion, user Optim rewrote the text above in proper English. Because of not enough free time, he was based only on information given in the original nonsense text (see above). Optim's text is as follows:
Creole from Spanish or Machaco language is a language originated from a merge of the Castilian (Spanish) language of the Real Academy of the Spanish Language and various linguistic elements from Colombia. It is simply the Creole form of Spanish. There are differences in the spelling (orthography) and grammar and it's also similar to Galician (Gallego) in some manner. But this similarity is accidental. It has many elements from the indigenous Colombian languages. Currently Spanish Creole has a dictionary published in Colombia (?) in six volumes (?).
User Optim theorized that Machaco is either the name of this Creole language or the name of some native Colombians. After some search on the web, user Optim found nothing useful about Machako (also tried with alternative spellings). User Optim thought that Machaco may be a Spanish word, so he used AltaVista's Babel Fish Translation Service and found that the Spanish word Machaco means "I crush" in English. Optim asked JorgeGG on #wikipedia and got the answer "(Machako) from machacar (verb) to crush, make dust, to insist in something. Yo machaco, tu machacas, el machaca, nosotros machacamos, vosotros machacais, ellos machacan. present tense".
On December 23, 2003, Optim decided to move the information here, so he created the article Spanish Creole.
At User_talk:Sayeya Optim found this message regarding user Sayeya: This user is a native Spanish speaker and can't speak English at all. His contributions consist mainly of crude translations from the Spanish Wikipedia (mostly of articles he wrote) using the on-line translator at http://babel.altavista.com, and therefore should be kept an eye on. Pilaf 23:29, 2 Dec 2003 (UTC).
User Optim tried to find whether a Colombian Spanish Creole exists but with no results yet. He is still trying. User Optim, thanks to a contribution by User:Rlvaughn found info about an English-based Colombian Creole: [1]. But this has nothing to do with Spanish Creole.
User Optim suggests to delete this Temporary Information as fictional, since Ethnologue contains no information about Spanish based Creole in Colombia except what is listed in this page (Palenque). User Optim is trying to understand whether the information refers to Palenque, but it seems that this is not the case and the machako-thing is something different.
This user is almost banned from the spanish wikipedia and according to what other wikipedians say, he tried to create a Machako wiki in Meta-wiki. According to other wikipedians, User Sayeya is nicknamed as HeKeIsDa in the spanish and french wikipedia. In french wikipedia he tried to create a valid article named Bambuco (folkloric Colombian music) but he used automated translation. Other wikipedians fixed his translation. See [2]
But user Optim doubts whether Machuko is a valid article. If somebody knows about any Spanich creole as descibed in Sayeya's text please write details here.
Please answer to the talk page of this article. What should we do about Machako?
Optim 04:31, 23 Dec 2003 (UTC)
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- Creole from Spanish or Machaco language -- ostensibly English, but I can't understand a word. Has something to do with Spanish dialects. Tuf-Kat 04:42, Dec 22, 2003 (UTC)
- The article is awful but I suggest to keep it. Maybe Spanish Creole would be a better title. Someone MUST perform a rewrite ASAP (well if I have time, I will do it, but I cannot say for sure). Some links from google, I dont know if all of them are relevant but may be useful to somebody who is going to rewrite the article: [3], [4], [5], [6], [7], [8], [9], [10], [11], [12], [13]. Peace Profound. Optim 05:11, 22 Dec 2003 (UTC)
- btw I can understand the main notion of the article. Well I will perform a small rewrite now just to make sure it's proper English, but I dont have time to do research on the web, I will just read and rewrite what the article says in better English. Somebody else plz fix it and make it better. Optim 05:17, 22 Dec 2003 (UTC)
- Great work! I change my vote to keep, and move to Spanish Creole or other more appropriate title. Tuf-Kat
- Keep it. Although I can not understand papa about the dictionary text in the article, the subject is interesting and I myself, a Spanish speaker all my 31 years of life, did not know this existed in Colombia. But it needs work, perhaps someone who knows about the subject can help? Antonio Falcon Martin
- Keep and list on cleanup or pages needing attention. Bmills 12:56, 22 Dec 2003 (UTC)
- Redirected to Spanish Creole. Optim 03:14, 23 Dec 2003 (UTC)
- Please have a look at Talk:Spanish Creole and let's take a decision on what to do with this machako thing. Should we add this info in Spanish Creole? Obviously Machako does not need to be a separate article. Optim 04:43, 23 Dec 2003 (UTC)
- Keep. If this is ever finished - it will be fascinating. Davodd 07:26, Dec 27, 2003 (UTC)
Español de cocina[edit]
Is español de cocina the same as Chabacano?-- Error 00:15, 2 Apr 2004 (UTC)
Languages of the Philippines[edit]
Are you sure that Tagalog is the most spoken indigenous language in the Philippines? It wasn't after the independence. -- Error 03:09, 4 Apr 2004 (UTC)
- Tagalog *is*, meaning currently, the most widely spoken indegenous language in the Philippines. It doesn't mean that Tagalog is also the most widely-spoken language during the Spanish period. Cebuano was probably more widely spoken during that time. --seav 17:39, Apr 4, 2004 (UTC)
I noticed that on the list of Quechua Hispanicisms. Is it a typo for "irmanu"? —JerryFriedman 20:24, 29 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Macaense chapado[edit]
Are you sure that Macaense has ever had a Spanish substrate? Where? --Error 04:12, 11 Dec 2004 (UTC)
- who wrote that? *OMG* -Pedro 00:26, 2 Apr 2005 (UTC)
- I removed it from the article and correct was the rest. In the case of Papiamento, there could be debate over if it if a Portuguese Creole or an Iberian Creole has ethnologue says. One way or the other, it should be putted under Portuguese Creole or Iberian Creole, not has Spanish Creole. A mild language influence does not mean that it is also a creole of that language, and if it is, it should be superstrate. The substract of Macaense is Malay and Chinese. The superstrate is Portuguese. If there is a Spanish word or two doesnt mean it is Spanish or Spanish-influence (which I find very suspicious, and very improbable), Japanese and English are more likely, but Spanish (from the Philipines?!?) --Pedro 01:04, 2 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Please educate yourself Pedro, Spanish is more wide-spoken in the Philippines than you would realize, there is an immense amount of literature written by Filipinos in Spanish, since it was their first language. Just because a country is in Asia, or doesn't fit your narrow-minded stereotypes of the world doesn't mean that it can't have influences that you might not expect. And besides, you just made yourself look like a fool, because any Spanish speaker knows that the Philippines is a Spanish colony, so it makes perfect sense that the Spanish language is prevalent there, in creole and pure forms. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 184.108.40.206 (talk) 05:14, August 20, 2007 (UTC)
Other Spanish-influenced languages[edit]
I think that it would be nice to make an other section for other languages (that are not creoles) very influenced by Spanish such as Chamorro, Quechua, Taglog and other Phillippine languages, like in the Spanish Wikipedia. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 126.96.36.199 (talk) 19:52, 11 May 2007 (UTC).
Nigerian Pidgin[edit]
I removed the following unreferenced section:
- Nigerian Pidgin is a creole language spoken in Nigeria, based on English. The Spanish influence can be seen, as Spanish slave ships traded off the coast of Nigeria. One example is the Nigerian word "sabi", which means "to know", which comes from the Portuguese and Spanish words "saber", which have the same meaning.
A Portuguese influence is much more probable than a Spanish one. Please provide references and non-Portuguese examples. --Error (talk) 02:08, 7 November 2016 (UTC)


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