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My Satanic Warriors, Satanic Family,
I salute all of you!
First of all, I wanted to congratulate our Gentile People and Family that is keeping the War Raging against the enemy. Our WORK, PAYS OFF. We have asked for your Faith and your Loyalty, we are giving you back OURS. We are in the frontlines FOR HUMANITY. We are fighting on the frontlines, for Humanity and all people on Earth. Our Work produces fruits. We have been waging serious spiritual warfare. If we stop, this world STOPS BREATHING at the same time. And everything will be lost. We must NEVER, EVER stop. This would be equal to stating that the jews must annihilate this world.
Unlike the hoards of the stupid idiots who are supposedly "fighting" against this assimilation, we KNOW some fundamental fact. We know the JEWISH PROBLEM. We know of the "White" jews, the "Yellow" Jews and the "Black Jews" equally. We know of their plan, because we have ALL Studied their works. We know them by their work. Let others sleep and blow dick to "Yashua", "Jewsus", "Rabbi Emmanuel Krayst", "Prophet Bordallah" and any other jewish hoax. We know who is doing what and is responsible. Finally, we know about the Torah and how the enemy, with their occult forces has been trying to shape history to mass murder and communize all Gentiles into extinction. We all here are Gentiles, we have the Ancient Knowledge and we awaken the Ancient Blood of our Races. We can't be LIED to, as these fools. These lies cannot withstand us. We have to take the lead, as we have been.
Our Races need REDEMPTION for the jewish destruction they have underwent. Mentally, spiritually, but first and foremost, PHYSICALLY.
If these Mudslim and Pisslamic Hordes and jewish pawns think they will find the love and the shekels, the jew promises and their golden Lamborghini where they are coming, they are severely mistaken. They will be treated as they deserve, for listening and doing the work of the jew. As infiltrators and soldiers of the jews, who have backstabbed their Pagan Gods and their own people. These are not only murderers of OUR people, our PAGAN TRADITIONS and OUR RACE, but they are the MURDERERS, the BACKSTABBERS and the TRAITORS OF ALL THEIR ANCESTORS, GODS AND GENTILE RACES. What would Astarte, What would Bael and what would all the Ancient Kings and Gentile Heroes, who died, adhered and protected Pagan hood, think of these Islamic Hordes? What would their Elders state if they saw them serving those whom THEY DIED TO KEEP AWAY? HOW ARE THESE BEINGS FEELING WHEN THEY ARE SEEING THEM AS SLAVES TO THE JEWS, WORKING THE JEWISH BIDDING?
They are literally genocides and criminals, not citizens, neither they will ever be. Upwards to 90% of these "people" are NOT refugees or whatever other shitclaims of the jewish media. You have seen their nasty tricks. Yes, they WILL NOT HELP AFRICA, but the jew wants to make the people 'Migrate' and "find their own help". NEVER HELP AT HOME, HELP "ABROAD", SO THE JEW CAN PUSH IT UP WITH THEIR EXTINCITON. YOU ALL HAD ENOUGH JEWISH HELP THESE 2000 YEARS! THE HELP WHICH HAS BROUGHT EVEN THE EARTH HERSELF TO A DEATHBED. We know the jews, and we know their Works of operations. This is why here, we have the commendable people, the Pagan Warriors of ALL Races. Those who DO NOT listen the jew, above or below. Those who will raise their head against the jew, wherever they see him, in WHATEVER THEY SEE HIM. We have had enough jewish "help", "guidance" and "assistance", let alone their accursed supremacy and reptilian choosiness.
This is why all people of the world are on their knees now, others having fallen entirely to the jews. The "organizations" that were to help these people were jewish ran and jewish in their root and actions, therefore, these people weren't helped. Just another jewish scheme to fool you all. Pay for Unicef and see the Unicef CEO with her Rolls Royce, stupid Goyim.
But this is also WHY, ALL THE PEOPLE OF THE WORLD WILL RISE AGAINST THESE SCOULDRELS AND BRING THEM TO JUSTICE. Because this World cannot have NO-MORE.
You wonder if they are refugees at all in the end? Oh, a little picture of a little doll in the mud. Oh, a crying kid (in the midst of 1000's of murderous Pisslamic immigrants nonetheless, who is being schooled to Islam and to kill White People). Whomever is so stupid, then I pity these fools with single digit IQ. People must wake up. Don't buy into it, as this is all again 'emotional' jewism. When it comes to facts, who cares about facts, Goyim. Just "feel" what we want you to feel. Just feel repulsive, weak, sinful, afraid, stupid, docile. Because when the facts come in, this is when you will see a Truth that will, if you are still a living person and not a jewish Zombie, push you to a reaction. But the jews still play their old record. Lies, Lies, LIES. The jews are pushing Europe into impoverishment, collapse and Racial destruction. This is to ensure that they will have it easy with enslaving everyone else. Nobody else is going to protect any "rights" or any "Races" or help in anything else, let alone fight the enemy at the core about this. The enemy knows this, because they know well who they have under their thumb, where their work is ended and when it must come in an end.
Naturally, Whites have reacted on their insanity and their attempts to bring down the whole world into Bolshevism/Communism, same as many other Gentile Cultures that weren't struck beyond repair did the same. This time, it will be no different. We will AGAIN fight them. Not only in the basis of Europeans, Whites or Westerners, but ALL GENTILES WILL ATTACK THEM THIS TIME. EVERYONE IS BECOMING AWARE. THE RACES THEY SEEKED TO OBLITERATE, THE GODS THEY TRIED TO KILL AND THE FALLEN COMRADES FROM THE *WHOLE* WORLD, THEY ARE HERE AND THEY WILL FIGHT SPIRITUALLY TO THE DEATH!!!
We will not tolerate this.
These people are just infiltrators and a living bomb. The jews fill their pockets with as much as 2000-3000$ a PERSON for these people to get there. These people are given papers on what to state, what to ask, what to claim and the list goes and goes. This is obvious that the jews do this also, to destroy the economy, the ethics, the constructions of the host states they are pushing this towards etc. The jews were really pissed on the West attempting to help the Middle East, making ties etc. They used their puppet politicians and anything they could, to halt this, and start the Middle Eastern genocide and Pisslamic flourishing. Well, it got out of hand, but this is another story. What remains is the jew. A strong Middle East would mean no Pissrael, and in the long term, no Pisslam either. So what the jews did, is they started a War, to play the victim again. But they will perish in it. Also, this is the same thing they did in 9/11. The professional victim. 9/11 is what enslaved America to the jewish punks. Now, they are using people as living bombs, again they are trafficking these people like cheap bitches. The jew has been a pimpster and slave owner for centuries. They know the deal.
They want to destroy everyone, and they wouldn't give a damn about who they kill either. They want to kill Whites first, because they know we will react to this and they know we will defend ourselves. Not like they once did with the fake holocau$t, which never happened, way worse. Now, the whole world is against them. ALL RACES, THEY DO KNOW WHO IS THIS BAD ELEMENT THAT RUINS THE PEOPLES AND THE NATIONS. Just raise ANY rock you want, and find the jewish criminal element. Its that simple. They are using these people like animals, again, to do their work of Racial Destruction. Do you know anyone flat broke having to spare that much, for an uncertain trip to "Europe"? Supposedly when the "daily pay" in these places is like 2$, how can they make 3000$ for all their family members and anyone to "come abroad" into happy town, as the jew promised them. Obviously, we are dealing with Jewish Funding and also, criminals. And a 5% of lifelong savings, but who cares. Instead of investing any money and labor into their OWN country, they are just jumping over and doing what the jews state, while PAYING THEM, to come and destroy us. This is NOT in anyway, "IMMIGRATION". This is staged invasion, orchestrated by the ancient talmudic jew.
Also, these people are carefully selected so they are extremists, murderers, 9/10 male to female ratio and that they carry all sorts of diseases as Malaria, Aids, Tuberculosis and anything else that ensures that they will *KILL* us. Things are very obvious. The jew is at it again, staging an Invasion of Europe, to cause Ethnic Cleansing of Whites. They sense they are on the brink of destruction, so they are pulling their cards as fast as they can. The jews asked their fellow jews to have LEFT EUROPE by 2016. You *KNOW* what is going to happen over here. These "return home" statements were NOT a coincidence. These hoards keep coming and coming. The jews MUST keep "leaving and leaving". There will be no emotions of weakness, no more fake tears and no more xianity. People will raise their fist against the Jews. This includes EVERYONE. The jews must be spiritually destroyed. People must open their eyes at ONCE to the jewish programs of death, extinction and genocide. They have destroyed WHOLE CONTINENTS BY THEIR TALMUDIC HATRED. You see, this is a sum. The jew fills their pockets, genocides Whites, promotes their pisslam program (which is pretty much murder ideology) and destroys the last beacon of resistance in the jewish supremacy goals. Then, they know, with Whites out, they will destroy everyone else easily. What they have now highly uncomplished will become complete.
But they will COMPLETELY AND ETERNALLY FAIL.
The information is all around about how 3 in 50 of these people are actually from the jewish owned ISIS. They are also "Racists" against Whites to an un-paralleled level. We are under invasion and attack, but this shouldn't be explained in such terms. WE ARE UNDER TALMUDIC CURSES BEING BROUGHT TO LITERAL, CONCRETE REALITY. The jew is responsible and GUILTY. They KNOW what is going on. We need to spiritually destroy the jews and all things will fall in place, for everyone around the World. This exploitation and jewish murder of everyone involved must end.
Then, those of you who are of the people of these Gentile Races who are being used and tortured, same as us who are again the attacke, without the jews in your midst, you will have an open way to rule these people again. Same as us. The Truth will shine again upon our Races and then, we will follow the Order once existed. Of Light and of Truth. Then, they may be turned to Greatness. Until then, we must fight. Fight tirelessly, fight without stopping. Keeping in mind everyone that has perished and died under the jewish expedition, under their insatiable and monstrous hunger for Gentile Blood.
If you have a springle, just a springle of faith and respect for all these Gentiles that were killed, lived horribly bad lives, the countries that destroyed, the genocided peoples, those who fought against the enemy and whose souls cannot rest, you have to spiritually FIGHT. If not, then you can join the legions of decay and get defeated alongside with them.
The enemy *WILL* get destroyed.
As Adolf Hitler stated, when the jew is removed from a Volk, the Volk returns to a Natural Order. If you care about this World, Advancement, all peoples and all Races, above and mostly including yours, you must side now, like your Ancestors did, and fight the new Red beast of Judea, in all its shapes, forms and forces. We are all as Gentiles under the Satanic Banner. It was the USSR once, it was "The Tribe of Israel" at some other time, It was the "New dogma which killed the Pagan Arabs", it was "The Inquisition" once, yet now things are different. Different forms, different times, different Warfare. SAME ENEMY. We have to keep this fight until the end, until the jewish supremacist murderers are brought down and convict for their crimes against Humanity. All Races have been brought and are being brought, to the brink of death and collapse. We must all pull this fight, as Satanic Gentiles and spiritually obliterate the enemy, while bringing Humanity back to health. When the enemy is gone, we will correct everything with tireless work.
Education and Spiritual Warfare are our weapons. These are the weapons that hit at the core. The only really and deeply effective, but above all, legal weapons. Use them wisely.
Have Faith in our Gods. Not only Faith, but action. And not only Action, but Outcomes. Not only fights, but Victory.


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"An excellent house in a lovely ..."An excellent house in a lovely village with all amenities nearby.An excellent house in a lovely village with all amenities nearby.
- Open fire
- Smoke-free
- Garden / Patio
- Pub/shop < 1 mile
- Washing machine
- Dishwasher
- Broadband / WiFi
The property
Unicorn House is a beautiful and historic Grade II* listed 15th century Black and White house, superbly located in the centre of the delightful village of Weobley.
Step back in time in this Weobley cottage, once mentioned in the Domesday Book, and enjoy a wealth of original character, including oak beams, antique furniture and two impressive inglenook fireplaces, both with woodburners.
All features in this cottage combine with modern facilities, thereby creating a unique opportunity to experience a truly lovely property, perfect for families and friends who wish to enjoy time together in one of the most beautiful parts of the country.
This large cottage in Weobley benefits from four en-suite bedrooms, a very well-equipped kitchen, two lovely sitting rooms and an enclosed rear garden, ideal for relaxing and dining alfresco.
Guests can enjoy the village's shops, cafés and three pubs, not to mention the wonderful atmosphere of this Herefordshire village.
After completing one of the many pleasant walks on offer in this picturesque area, guests can treat themselves to an excellent meal in Jules, a popular restaurant in Weobley (best to book a table in advance).
Unicorn House is in an ideal location for keen golfers as there are 10 courses within 14 miles, the nearest being Herefordshire Golf Club less than 3 miles away, plus the area is noted for its excellent fishing, as there are over 180 miles of salmon, trout, coarse and grayling river fishing available.
Ideal for walking, fishing and golfing holidays, grab this rare opportunity to enjoy a lovely character property, in a delightful village, in this beautiful part of Britain.Read more
Four bedrooms: 1 x super king-size double (zip/link, can be twin on request) with en-suite bath, power shower over, basin and WC, 1 x king-size double with en-suite corner bath, hand-held shower, basin and WC, 1 x double with en-suite corner bath, hand-held shower, basin and WC, 1 x twin with WC. Ground floor shower room with shower, basin and WC. Luxury fitted kitchen with breakfast table and AGA. Sitting room with dining area with inglenook fireplace, woodburner and French doors to rear garden. Spacious snug with woodburner and large modular sofa.
- Oil central heating with woodburners in sitting rooms
- Electric oven and induction hob, oil-fired AGA (available Oct - April inclusive), microwave, fridge/freezer, washing machine, dishwasher, 2 x TVs with Freeview, Blu-ray, iPod dock, electric piano, WiFi, telephone with honesty box
- Fuel, power and wood for woodburners inc. in rent
- Bed linen and towels inc. in rent
- Stairgate
- Roadside parking in front of cottage
- Enclosed, rear garden with small lawn, patio and furniture
- Sorry, no pets and no smoking
- Shops, cafe, pubs and restaurants 2 mins walk
- Note: Delicious home-cooked meals are available from Donna's Pantry at additional cost; further information available from owner.
About the location
Hay-on-Wye 15 miles; Hereford 11 miles; Ludlow 20 miles.
The picturesque village of Weobley is a hidden gem and is quite simply the jewel in the crown of Herefordshire's famous Black and White Village Trail, situated in the famous Welsh Marches. Voted in the top ten places to live in England and winner of the National Village of the Year, this delightful village boasts many timber framed houses, some dating back to the 1400s. With excellent facilities including shops, churches, coffee shops, traditional pubs and the renowned Jules restaurant as well as many scenic walks from the village, this is the perfect holiday destination. Standing close to the borders of Wales and surrounded by beautiful rolling countryside, including Offa's Dyke and the Golden Valley, this is an excellent location for walking and biking trails. Within easy reach are Hay-on-Wye, medieval Ludlow, historic Hereford and Leominster. Enjoy trips to the beautiful town of Hay-on-Wye which is ideally situated for visiting the Brecon Beacons National Park and Black Mountains. The popular medieval town of Ludlow, situated above the River Teme, is also well worth a visit, with stunning surroundings of unspoilt countryside of south Shropshire and the Welsh borders. The cathedral city of Hereford dates back to Saxon times and boasts an eclectic mix of architecture, with a medieval bridge spanning the winding River Wye. Here you can discover the fascinating Mappa Mundi world map and the captivating chained library, home to a collection of rare and ancient books. There is also a cheese factory, vineyard and many cider farms in the surrounding areas for guests to tour and sample the delights of the wonderful local produce. This really is a wonderful village in a beautiful region of Britain.
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This property offers the following short breaks:
- Winter
- Off-season
- Last minute

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This Kale Orange Cranberry Salad Recipe is super-fast to make, loaded with nutritional goodness, and absolutely delicious!
Super-fast to make, loaded with nutritional goodness, and absolutely delicious!
- 1/2 cup sliced almonds
- 1 bunch of kale washed, stems removed, torn into 2-inch pieces
- 1 cup dried cranberries
- zest from one orange
- 3 tablespoons orange juice
- 3 tablespoons cranberry juice
- 3 tablespoons white balsamic vinegar, or apple cider vinegar
- 1 teaspoon honey or maple syrup
- 1/8 teaspoon salt
- 1/8 teaspoon pepper
Place almonds on small baking sheet and toast at 350 until slightly browned, about 3-5 minutes (watch them closely so they don't burn!). Meanwhile, zest the orange, rinse, dry, and tear the kale into 2-inch pieces.
Juice the orange into a small bowl or salad dressing shaker, then add the other dressing ingredients and combine thoroughly.
In a large serving bowl, combine kale, almonds, and cranberries. Toss with the salad dressing until well-coated
Finish the salad with orange zest and serve.
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Gwyneth Paltrow Has Bludgeoned Vanity Fair Into Writing A Puff Piece
- Vanity Fair reportedly will publish a piece on Gwyneth Paltrow but now it's going to be "soft." Gwynnie emailed friends asking them not to provide quotes for the piece, which supposedly claims she had an alleged affair with Elle MacPherson's husband, and also asked them not to appear in the magazine in the future. VF appears to have backed off. Talk about coal in our stockings. SAD FACE. [RadarOnline]
- Paris Hilton's little brother Barron Hilton has accused Lindsay Lohan of getting one of her friends to beat him up because he was talking shit about her. [TMZ]
- Meet Ariane Rinehart, the actress who played Liesel in last night's production of "The Sound Of Music Live." Turns out she's Ivy League smart, too! [Zap2It]
- Dayna Morales, the New Jersey waitress who faked getting an anti-gay message on a receipt from a customer, has not yet donated any of the money she received from supporters to the Wounded Warrior Project, the charity she pledged the funds to. [Jezebel]
- A brawl broke out at the "Mob Wives" premiere party last night, because of course it did. [This is what happens when you have too much of Big Ang's wine and cream soda concoction. — Amelia] [Huffington Post]
- A director on "America's Next Top Model" named James Howe was killed in Los Angeles during a home invasion. [Yahoo News]
- Kirstie Alley spilled the deets on that raging cocaine addiction she had … [Huffington Post]
- … and called her ex-Scientology pal Leah Remini a "bigot." [US Weekly]
- Kate Middleton said she has introduced Prince George to "messy play," which sounds like a fancy early childhood education term for what babies do naturally. [People]
- Madonna's son Rocco is 13 years old and on Instagram. Madge has our sympathies. [People]
- Kristen Wiig and Mad Libs are everything you'd hope it would be. [New York Times T Magazine]
- India's online dating websites skip straight to the weddings. [The Atlantic]
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Monday, May 12, 2014
Vitesse Launches New 10 Gigabit Ethernet Line
Camarillo-based chip maker Vitesse Semiconductor said this morning that it has launched a new line of 10 Gigabit Ethernet chips. According to the company, it has launched a new generation of 10 Gigabit Ethernet (GE) PHYs, a family of physical layer transceivers called the VSC8489. The company said the new components are aimed at enterprise and high speed data centers supporting cloud services. The new family includes timing synchronization features, input signal monitoring, and much more. The company said the product is in production now.


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The latest generation of the world's best-selling music notation software, Avid Sibelius 7 is sophisticated enough to meet the demands of top composers, arrangers, and publishers, yet simple enough for beginners and students. Work quickly with the brand-new, task-oriented user interface. Experience your scores in stunning clarity with the exclusive, professional-quality sound library. Collaborate more easily thanks to full MusicXML interchange support and other sharing options. And view beautiful, print-quality scores with advanced typography and graphics support. Designed by musicians for musicians, Sibelius 7 is the fastest, smartest, easiest way to write music. You can even take your scores on the go with the Avid Scorch app for iPad.
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Where once there was Peter, Ray, Winston and Egon, now it's Erin, Patty, Jillian and Abby keeping New York free of spectral botherment. With the rebooted Ghostbusters now in cinemas, what better time to track down its makers and ask them to reveal some of its deeper secrets. And who you gonna call – or, in this case, sit down in the Empire Podcast booth with a nice cup of tea – than the director? Step forward Mr. Paul Feig, the movie's maker, co-writer and chief internet-troll-repeller. Here's 13 things we learnt from him.
WARNING: this article contains huge spoilers for Ghostbusters from the start.
1. This Ghostbusters was almost set in Boston
Risking the ultimate sacrilege and shifting the crew from New York to its arch-rival up the coast, Paul Feig contemplated setting the reboot in Boston. "I hate making one city look like another," explains the director, "so we came close to doing it". Ultimately the shoot itself took place in Boston, but the story stayed in the Big Apple. "It's such a New York story that I couldn't do it," admits Feig.
2. …But the sequel may leave New York
That thing we said about ultimate sacrilege? Forget all about it. If a Ghostbusters sequel happens – and Feig already has a story for it – it may finally take the posse out of their spiritual home, maybe even to tackle foreign ghosts. "I might go to other places too," hints Feig. "There are countries that are way more into ghosts than we are…"
3. The film's troll-baiting dialogue was improvised
Ghostbusters has received Reddit-melting levels of odium online, a fact that doesn't go unaddressed in the movie. "You shouldn't read what crazy people write in the middle of the night online," jokes Kristen Wiig's Erin pointedly at one point. There was going to be more, too. When the 'busters arrive at the haunted heavy metal concert, there was originally another troll encounter scripted. "They were going to be confronted by two angry nerds", reveals Feig, "who were going to say: 'Who are you guys supposed to be? Those look like vacuum cleaners. Why don't you go and clean the house!' As they walked away, one of the crew was going to zap them in the ass and sets it on fire, but it seemed too harsh." According to the director, a lot of that online bile spewed forth from our own shores. "Honestly, if you tallied the angriest haters, they seemed to come from outside London."
4. Gertrude is based on a real axe-murderer
Like the 1984 original, this Ghostbusters opens with a terrifying encounter with a class 4 full-roaming vapour. Feig gives his co-screenwriter, Katie Dippold, credit for the character, a vengeful ghost known as Gertrude. "We liked the idea of this spooky history of this Lizzy Borden-type character that had killed people and her family had locked her down," he explains of her bloody origins. "Katie loves that kind of spooky stuff."
"Rowan is a loner terrorist who's figured out how to bring back his own army of the undead."
5. Rowan is modelled on homegrown terrorists
It's science v science in this new-model Ghostbusters as the antagonist, Neil Casey's Rowan, rallies the forces of the paranormal using his own brand of techno paraphernalia. For the reboot, co-writers Paul Feig and Katie Dippold wanted their bad guy to be "a homegrown terrorist" rather than a Gozer-style nasty. "He's one of these loner terrorists who, instead of using a bomb, has figured out how to bring back his own army of the undead." Describing him as "God's angry man", Feig draws a parallel with Taxi Driver. "He is a dark, Travis Bickle-kind of guy who was bullied."
6. Mike Hat was Chris Hemsworth's idea
One nugget of improv gold came via Asgard's finest. A bizarro exchange takes place when Chris Hemsworth's dim-bulb Kevin answers the Ghostbusters' call for a PA and baffles them with an odd, pet-based request involving his dog, um, Mike Hat. "Yes, 'First name, Michael; last name, Hat'," laughs Feig. "Chris came up with it! To me, he is the new Cary Grant. He's handsome, funny and he's a great actor and he's charming. We all wish we were Chris Hemsworth."
7. Rick Moranis and William Atherton don't cameo, but Harold Ramis does
At one point, there were plans for cameos for the men who played Louis Tully and Walter "dickless" Peck in the original Ghostbusters. Moranis, though, wasn't keen. "We hit a point where you have to walk the line about how many references you do," admits Paul Feig. There are fan-friendly cameos from Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Ernie Hudson and Annie Potts. The late, great Harold Ramis is also honoured in a blink-and-you'll-miss-it appearance. "Some people catch it and some don't," says Feig. "It's right at the beginning when Charles Dance is in Kristen Wiig's office. As he walks out, there's a bust of Harold Ramis."
8. Slimer's girlfriend is inspired by Looney Tunes
Yes, Slimer is back and he's been on Tinder. Lady Slimer – Slimer's new para(normal)mour or partner-in-slime – was based on Looney Tunes' Tasmanian Devil and his wife, explains the writer/director. "I just told [the designers] to make her look like Slimer with a wig on and lipstick. It's really stupid, but it makes me laugh." Feig hints at more to come, including, we hope, at least some Slimettes. "I think they are going to have a great relationship together."
9. Movie marketing worked much better in 1984
The director laments the spoiler-ific nature of his movie's marketing, especially the release of Mattel's tie-in Rowan toy in February. "It's this slow whittling down of all the surprises. When they put the trailers together they say, 'The foreign territories need to see Stay Puft" and I'm thinking, 'Oh god, really?' Can we not just bury all this stuff? Then the toys come out and the toys are just spoilers. You hit a point where you are just like, 'Fuck it, let's put everything online.' When I saw the original Ghostbusters, I saw one trailer for it and everything was a surprise."
10. The Ghostbusters logo has an actual name
In a twist slightly spoilt by that marketing, it's the 'busters' own branding that comes to destroy them in the final act. It turns out that their long-standing logo has a name, too. "To us, it's Rowan," says Feig, "but Dan Aykroyd and Ivan [Reitman] were saying, 'Oh, that's Mooglie.' That's the official name of the ghost in the logo, according to them. They'd tell me we had to call it Mooglie and I'm, like, 'Nobody knows that other than you!'"
"I think Slimer and Lady Slimer are going to have a great relationship together."
11. Bill Murray's character may still be alive...
Bill Murray cameos as a dapper, Quentin Crisp-like academic called Martin Heiss, and meets what looks like an untimely end on the pavement below the Ghostbusters firehouse… or does he? "We actually talked about [having him come back as a ghost]," reveals Feig, "but we made it so you're not quite sure if he got killed or not. I originally shot it where you see the chalk outline of him, with his hat and cane also outlined, but we wanted to leave the door open to Bill Murray, which he loved." Rightly so. Every door should be opened for Bill Murray.
12. The Times Square battle had kung fu inspirations
Feig cites the Shaw Brothers oeuvre of kick-ass martial arts cinema as a touchpoint for a final act Times Square smack-down in which the Ghostbuster face off against a legion of historic ghosts. "I wanted that sort of kung fu, Hong-Kong-cinema action to it," he expands, "with barrel rolls and all that stuff, because I love that." You'll need a degree in American history to tally up all the spectres zapped. "There's an evil bobby-soxer ghost, and someone kills a pilgrim. Yes, I know, some pilgrims were nice, I'm sure. The original fight was about four-and-a-half minutes long, but the studio didn't want to pay for it."
13. There was a Bee Gees dance routine planned
Cut from the final film, but appearing in a new state in the post-credits reel, is a sequence that sees a mass dance routine break out in Times Square. Bewitched by Rowan, a military unit was due to form a phalanx and start dancing to the Bee Gees' You Should Be Dancing. "This was the biggest controversy and the toughest decision for me," rues Feig, expanding on his decision to cut it. "Neil Casey (who plays Rowan) is one of the funniest people on the planet, but the minute his character is funny, the threat goes. The scene just messed up the tone. But we wanted to put it in somewhere, so we put it in the end credits. I always wanted the credits to be like a party."
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With the U.S. Presidential elections behind us, our colleagues in India share their thoughts on what the results mean to the world's largest democracy.
By Rakesh Thukral
Pre-poll media coverage and conversations indicated an overwhelming Indian support for a second-term Obama Presidency. This has now become reality, and India's reaction has been broadly positive.
The Indian Prime Minister shares a good rapport with President Obama, and was quick in sending a congratulatory message. Leading Indian business and industry associations, such as the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry, have also greeted Obama's victory with optimism, and they hope that the second term will see bilateral ties soar to a higher level.
India's optimism stems from its rising global profile – largely a result of sustained economic growth. The window of opportunity for greater engagement with U.S. leadership opened with the partial liberalization of India's economy in 1991. In addition, India shares core democratic values with the U.S.
President Obama has been viewed as a close partner to India. The Indian PM was the first leader to pay a State Visit to Washington after Mr. Obama's election, and President Obama's 2010 visit to India was amongst his longest foreign trips. Speaking at the Indian Parliament, President Obama won over lawmakers by saying, "India is not simply emerging; India has already emerged." When President Obama ended his speech with the Hindi "Jai Hind" (long live India), the Members of Parliament rose in applause, and Speaker Lok Sabha called the President's visit to Parliament "a celebration of democracy".
President Obama also made clear his priorities of enhancing Indo-U.S. business ties, and while in India, he engaged with the nation's most important stakeholders including politicians, businessmen and students. In addition, the American military operation culminating in the death of Osama Bin Laden inside Pakistan, and the renewed focus on terrorist organizations based there, are seen to be a vindication of India's stance on Pakistan, and also point to a likely ongoing defense partnership between the United States and Pakistan.
But despite the many positives, there will still be challenges ahead. Given U.S. domestic pressures to retain (and create) jobs are expected to continue, there may be some fallout on the Indian outsourcing business. In addition, India's reluctance to open up its economy fully has caused frustration among the U.S. business community.
But because of India's market and its strategic importance to US policy in the Asia-Pacific region, it is expected that the second Obama Administration will continue to work towards expanding trade ties with India. Before visiting India in 2010, Obama made it clear to his constituency that the visit would generate 50,000 U.S. jobs, as a result of trade deals to be forged in course of the visit.
Despite some hitches, Indo-U.S. cooperation is a bipartisan issue in the U.S., and there is broad stateside agreement over the need for stronger ties with India. In order to do so, the U.S. may well put pressure on India to get its act together on economic reforms before we get into our election mode for 2014.
Rakesh Thukral is chief operating officer of Edelman India
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Flag Day to highlight Vietnam sacrifice
Updated 10:50 pm, Thursday, June 13, 2013
One of the most turbulent years in U.S. history will be spotlighted during a Flag Day ceremony Friday in Natalia, for the 45th anniversary of Vietnam War's Tet Offensive.
Patrick Reilly, a veteran who was hurt in the early days of the lengthy 1968 campaign that claimed some 7,500 U.S. lives, said the 11 a.m. observance will tie the U.S. flag to the bloody fighting in South Vietnam.
"Many Americans don't know about it or have forgotten about it," said Reilly, who will speak at the observance.
Members of the Vietnamese Texan Women's Association of Houston will present sashes to families of the 12 Medina County troops who died in the war. Some of the South Vietnamese Texans traveling in two buses from Houston lost family members in the Hue City Massacre, in which more than 2,000 South Vietnamese were killed during Tet.
Reilly, who helped raise funds for the Texas Vietnam Veterans Monument, set for completion next year near the Texas Capitol, said each sash will bear the name of one of the 12 fallen troops from Medina County.
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Noting protests, riots and the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert Kennedy, he called 1968 "a horrible year for America."
Natalia Mayor Ruby Vera said the town has Medina County's largest Veterans Day and Memorial Day ceremonies, drawing up to about 500 people. Friday's ceremony will be held at the town's Veteran Monument.
Vera said she wanted to do more than sign a proclamation.
"If we're going to bring recognition to these people, let's do it publicly," she said. "Some of them will not be around for the 50th anniversary."
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Flag Day events
Flag retirement ceremony: VFW Post 837, 4436 Valleyfield Drive, will retire flags starting at 5:15 p.m. Post accepting flags that are no longer serviceable.
Army's 238th birthday: U.S. Army North will have a formation run of some 2,000 troops at Fort Sam Houston, starting at 6 a.m., followed by serving of cake in the Quadrangle.
Flag Day ceremony: VFW Post 76, at 10 Tenth St., will hold an outdoor observance at 7 p.m.
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When I first met Crean I thought 'now this is a guy who can turn this around quick'. This was not long after his hiring and before he'd ever coached a game at IU.
He sold me... But now I'm still waiting to see some substance.
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When I first met Crean I thought 'now this is a guy who can turn this around quick'. This was not long after his hiring and before he'd ever coached a game at IU.
He sold me... But now I'm still waiting to see some substance.
Nuntius was right for a while. I was wrong for a while. But ultimately I was right and Frank Vogel has been let go.
"A player who makes a team great is more valuable than a great player. Losing yourself in the group, for the good of the group, thats teamwork."
-John Wooden
Virtually no improvement from two years ago.
I can't see this team winning more than 3 games the rest of the season. I'm not even sure they get 3 more, but if they do, that's 12 wins. I don't expect miracles, I expect improvement. 12 wins with that creampuff non-conference schedule is not an improvement. 3 wins in conference play would actually be a step back. There's no reason for it either. Like I said, I don't expect to see the guy fired, but I want people to realize that this is not progress. This is a holding pattern.
I'm just not sure who Coach Crean thinks he is fooling. Surely he must be aware that the fanbase of Indiana Basketball is easily one of the most knowledgeable in the country. I just cant get a grasp of what his offensive gameplan is. Found it funny in the Star today there was a reporter that asked Crean if he had any thoughts of running a different offense. Crean responded by saying "... you draw something up and get it over to me and I'll take a look." Thing is, the guy could probably do that and it would look better than the offense Coach Crean has IU running currently.
I've never understood why many IU fans insist upon discussing Final Fours or championships right now. Can Tom Crean coach us to the Final Four? Sure he can, he did at Marquette so it's within the realm of possibility. Mike Davis even made a championship game so sure Crean could get IU to the Final Four. But talking about that is a lot like a theatre major saying "What if I can only win an Independent Spirit Award but never an Oscar?" before he or she scores a paid acting gig.
It's a holding pattern right now, sure, but not by design. Maurice Creek certainly isn't close to the player pre-injury yet so that's a major setback and the NCAA ruling against Guy-Marc Michel made IU's rebounding and defensive issues even easier to exploit. When Crean was hired and the program post-Sampson was gutted, I assumed nothing would really matter until after the fourth year. Right now we're halfway through his third. He has done a fantastic job recruiting - much earlier than I would have anticipated (I thought he'd have to start being competitive in the Big Ten first before top talent really considered IU an option). So I think things are looking up. Complain about his Xs and Os all you want, I'm not even going to bother judging that until years five and six.
Will Crean be the guy that pushes IU back to the Final Four? Maybe not, but it's not like anyone was consistently coaching Indiana beyond the first weekend of March Madness since the dude in cdash's avatar was drafted by the Bullets. Is Crean worse than Mike Davis? Would you rather have Crean or Sampson? A number of people wanted Mike Montgomery before Crean became IU's coach; how would IU feel about his phone plan? Many hoped Tony Bennett would be the next guy to lead the program but Bennett wasn't interested (probably because a daunting rebuilding project that likely wouldn't yield results for at least five years isn't very attractive to a coach at the infancy of his career).
Before IU could worry about Final Fours or Big Ten championships, the program had to be gutted and rebuilt. The best way to do that is with a person that excels at recruiting. It would seem at the moment Crean is doing everything that could be hoped for to create the foundation that will make IU a basketball destination school again. Once we get into years five and six, then we can talk about whether Crean's Xs and Os will get in the way of Final Fours and championships (Big Ten or otherwise) and maybe the same problems will still exist. But short of some oil-slicked Callipari magic or a mega coach like the Zen Master deciding challenge himself by heading to Bloomington, I'm not sure anyone could have made more progress during this time.
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This is the darkest timeline.
By atc's logic, we shouldn't judge Jim O'Brien's Xs and Os until the fifth year either. He entered a daunting rebuilding task with the Pacers. A job that was also turned down by our top targets. The team was horrible, the talent is still subpar. Yet we are allowed to critique his Xs and Os, baffling rotations, questionable decisions, but not Crean's? The guy has been a head coach for 13 years. He's in his third year at Indiana. The guys he is playing (and losing) with are his players. Obviously, I'm not expecting to win anything or even make the postseason this year, but I think a record hovering around .500 was very, very attainable with our laugher of a non-conference schedule.
Your last sentence is beyond baffling to me. You aren't sure anyone could have made more progress during this time? What progress has there been? He's cleaned up the program, sure, but players haven't developed under him. The mistakes are the same year in and year out with these teams. This was a year I expected to start seeing results. The heralded recruiting class that are currently sophomores (Hulls, Creek, Watford, Elston) were all expected to make a big leap from year one to year two. Hulls certainly looks a lot better. Watford's numbers are better, but his defense is awful and he goes for his stats to the detriment of the team quite often. Creek has regressed in an amazing way, but I'll issue a pass there due to his injury. Elston is who he was last year. More important, the results are the same. As a team, I have seen absolutely zero progress from last year to this year. That is alarming.
I'd rather die standing up than live on my knees.
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Agree that there's little to no observable player development. The offense is hideous to watch...not that unlike the Pacers actually.
There's also no real development from a team standpoint. I mean...these guys are in year two or three of his system. Shouldn't they at least show some sort of purpose or organization out there. All I see is a bunch of guys overdribbling around the perimeter.
Personally, I'm not even demanding B10 wins at this point. You can lose and still show signs of improvement/development individually and as a team.
Finally, Crean, please sit Watford's sad *** on the bench until he commits to working on the defensive end of the floor (including rebounding)! He's playing like a 6-9 wimp.
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I think the team looked better at the end of the season in Crean's first year than they have since that time. Obviously, there's more talent now but I thought by the end of that season he had them playing about as well as could be expected and they looked to be playing with a sense of purpose and discipline.
I've been surprised they didn't build on that as the talent and experience both increased.
Nuntius was right for a while. I was wrong for a while. But ultimately I was right and Frank Vogel has been let go.
"A player who makes a team great is more valuable than a great player. Losing yourself in the group, for the good of the group, thats teamwork."
-John Wooden
I think a lot of you are jumping the gun. The team was G-U-T-T-E-D. Then most of the freshman that came in Crean's first year left. Effectively this is year 1 of the rebuild. Last year was year 0. The first year was just...well it was unprecedented.
What the hell are we doing to say we expected better right now? This is a team full of sophomore without one upper classmen worth a damn or any sort of front court talent at all.
This is not a very good basketball team yet. That is the long and the short of it, but the foundation is there. You have to let it build though.
Let's not turn into Michigan football.
Everyone thinks they're the most knowledgeable fan base.
You want to ruin this program fast? You fire Crean now. Let him get that 2012 class in here and if he bombs then you go big game hunting for a big time coach with all that talent. Just like UNC did when they bagged Roy Williams.
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Everyone freakin' left except for Pritchard and Jones when he brought in the Watford, Creek, Elston class.
Elston as well is making much quicker decisions than he did last year and is playing with more aggression.
Watford has improved and regressed at the same time. His offense is superior particularly in the post, his defensive failures are largely due in part to the lack of a true big body next to him IMO.
Creek will never be the same player again after his injury or at least he won't be this year, I have accepted that.
We just need a bit more patience, we're not even three full years through this process.
Also, this...
All the apologists say the same thing about the team being gutted. Trust me, I'm well aware of the situation he walked into. Tabor and Finkelmeier were the only returning players, and neither of them was worth their weight in salt. I get that, I really do. I don't buy that "this is really year 1" crap. Year 1 was year 1. His situation sucked, but he is playing with his own players. He recruited all these guys in one form or another. The fact that they don't fit his system is odd, because he knew his system and he knew the players when he recruited them.
You are right: it isn't a very good basketball team. We all realize there are serious holes in our virtually non-existent frontcourt and we don't have a point guard who has the ability to create for himself, which is a huge problem in the dribble drive offense.
I want to know, what is the foundation? These guys who you yourself said aren't very good? Is Crean himself the foundation? The recruiting classes coming in?
Obviously, when I said fire Crean above, I didn't mean now, today. It was a post I made when I was pissed off during the game, when we all know hyperbole rules. I posted in another thread that I think it would be incredibly short sighted and it would do the program no favors if it fired him now, and I fully anticipate on seeing him make it to Year 5 regardless of the outcome of this year and next.
Which is exactly how I expect this to play out.
THAT'S when you decide if Crean's your guy and if you not go out to try and bring someone in who is big time somewhere else and wants to coach IU with all that talent.
It was a general comparison. I didn't get that deep into the situations. I just think it's incredibly idiotic that we supposedly can't judge Crean's coaching, you know, since he hasn't been a head coach for 13 years with "meh" results, even when his rosters weren't gutted.
I understand patience, I really do. I also want to be rewarded for my patience by seeing growth and progress. While I agree mainly with what you were saying about the individual improvements (however incremental they may be), the results are the same. We will end up with barely more wins than we did last year, quite possibly with fewer Big Ten wins than we had last year. Everyone and their brother (including you, I suspect) picked the Hoosiers to win somewhere between 14-18 games this season. Why aren't they there? Why are we still seeing the same mistakes that we saw in his first and second seasons? Why are we still routinely getting the crap beaten out of us by opponents with similar talent?
Watford can be a very good player.
Elston can be a great dirty work player.
Creek, if he ever heals, can be a good shooter, but like all major knee injuries it's probably going to take til at least next fall.
Finally, there is Oladipo and Sheehey, when I see Oladipo, I see a classic Tom Izzo/Mich St. type player and with Sheehey I see a great 4 year swing man.
I think that's a decent foundation all things considered. Just because they aren't very good right now, doesn't mean they won't get better. JMO tho
I'm depressed because I thought when those guys got here, and by their second season on campus, that we would be ready to compete for Big Ten titles and make deep tournament runs. In Year 6 of a rebuild, with that kind of talent, I don't think that is an unreasonable expectation.
Now? I think that class will get us back to the tournament, and flame out in the second round like most Crean-coached teams. I just don't think he is a very good coach. I see a lot of limitations in him. The offense, regardless of personnel, is horrid. His defense is horrid, and he is slow to make adjustments to his schemes. But lord knows that he will yank around his players with hockey-like substitutions. I don't really blame him for this that much, but he has a different starting lineup every game. Again, I understand the need for that, but he needs to adjust his system to the personnel. They can't run the dribble drive. Verdell is a turnover machine and Hulls simply doesn't have the physical tools to create for himself.
I'll exclude Oladipo and Sheehey from this, since they are freshmen.
In college basketball, aren't you supposed to make your biggest jump between your freshman and sophomore seasons? I thought all these guys would have progressed, and the team would benefit from it. They maybe have in small ways, but the team is certainly no better off. Looking at the micro, you can see improvements in most of those guys. Looking at the macro, the results are the same. Why?
Maybe, I'm just saying I think we have to wait til the end of next year to really know anything that's 4 years. And if by then it looks like Crean doesn't have it together, then the 2012 class spends one year with him and then we go looking for a guy like Roy Williams when he was at Kansas.
I don't think we could get a guy like Roy Williams, but I think that is how it is going to play out. He underwhelms this season and next season, but we give him Year 5 and the 2012 kids and see what he can do. With that mix of talent and veteran leadership, that team should be a top 15 team, assuming we get the guys we are supposed to get and no one defects early from the Hulls/Watford/Creek/Elston quartet.
I agree with the assessment of what that team should be.
I don't know why we couldn't get a guy like Williams. UNC was in a mire just like we were until they got him. What brought him in was the Felton/May/McCants class.
Why can't 2012 be that sort of class for us if we add Harris? PG/Big man/Wing
Well, he was a UNC alum, I think that's what did it. Dean Smith, his mentor, called and personally implored him to take the job. We don't have anything like that here. Otherwise, I agree with your assessment. With Harris, that 2012 class would be the framework of a national title contender. I really believe that.


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With 257 kilometres to be covered in total, the 112th edition of Paris-Roubaix will include 28 cobbled sections, or in other words 51.1 km of the shakes. On the race route, 9 sections totalling 15.4 km of cobbles will also be on the programme of the Tour de France next July.
With 257 kilometres to be covered in total, the 112th edition of Paris-Roubaix will include 28 cobbled sections, or in other words 51.1 km of the shakes. On the race route, 9 sections totalling 15.4 km of cobbles will also be on the programme of the Tour de France next July.
For many riders, the two coming months are perceived as a tunnel at the end of which the light is Compiègne, the venue for the start of Paris-Roubaix, the main goal of all the cobble addicts in the professional pack. Each detail can turn out to be precious in preparation for this unique event, starting with in-depth knowledge of the route, which this year has undergone several modifications. The sequence of the first difficulties has been revamped, in order to visit some cobbled sections that had been left "fallow" for several years. Whilst the first vibrations will be felt as usual after approximately one hundred kilometres near Troisvilles, almost twenty kilometres further on, the pack will deviate from last year's route to reacquaint itself with the sections at Haussy (800 m) and Saulzoir (1,200 m), re-integrated into the route after an absence of 10 years. As for the 1,200-m section at Famars, it has only been absent for two years.
However, reconnoitring this year may also involve riders in cycling's elite beyond the circle of specialists on the Flanders classics that take place as spring's first shoots emerge. The perspective of the 5th stage on the Tour de France, which will take place on 9th July between Ypres and Arenberg Porte du Hainaut, will surely incite the favourites to make several journeys to the Nord Pas-de-Calais region… and why not test their mettle on the Queen of the Classics, since 9 sections on the programme of Le Tour will be visited by Paris-Roubaix. Nevertheless, in July, the pack will be making its return in the opposite direction, starting with the section at Gruson, where the riders on Paris-Roubaix will almost have the cycling stadium in sight. Only the section at Mons-en-Pévèle will be tackled in the same direction as on Le Tour, but only for a portion measuring 1,000 m in July.
The cobbled sections featured in both Paris-Roubaix and the 5th stage of Le Tour 2014
. Gruson - Carrefour de l'arbre (1,100 m)
. Ennevelin - Pont-Thibaut (1,400 m)
. Mons-en-Pévèle (3,000 m on PR / 1000 m on the TDF)
. Bersée (2,600 m on PR / 1,400m on the TDF)
. Orchies - Beuvry (1,400 m)
. Sars-et-Rosières - Tilloy-lez-Marchiennes (2,400 m)
. Brillon - Warlaing (2,400 m on PR / 1,400 m on the TDF)
. Wandignies-Hamage - Hornaing (3,700 m)
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Athens grad fights to raise cancer awareness
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Bonnie Beutler, 36, is a fighter, as an attorney and facing her third round of cancer.
"She did not turn away any opportunity to get better," said Bernadette White, her mother.
White and Beutler's husband, Eric, have taken care of Beutler around the clock. Beutler was diagnosed with cervical cancer in 2010. White said that her annual exam a year earlier had revealed she had HPV, the virus that causes cervical cancer, but she was not notified or sent for further tests at that time.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, most people with HPV never develop symptoms or health problems. Though nearly all cases of cervical cancer are caused by HPV, 90 percent of HPV infections go away by themselves within two years.
Beutler underwent a radical hysterectomy at age 34. In September of 2012, she was diagnosed with an inoperable tumor around a ureter tube, which leads from the kidney to the bladder. She went through six weeks of chemotherapy and daily radiation in an effort to shrink the tumor.
In April, Beutler learned that cancer was discovered in her bladder and lymph nodes, stage 4, and the tumor that had shrunk earlier had grown.
"Bonnie is one of those bright, shining-light people," said Amanda Comeaux, who has been friends with Beutler since middle school.
Despite the pain, Comeaux said, Beutler "has a great sense of humor and a positive outlook."
Comeaux said they are telling Beutler's story so all women will be tested for HPV annually and insist on the results.
Comeaux and Beutler's friend Melissa Kanasty have organized Bowling for Bonnie 6-10 p.m. June 8 at Thunderbird Lanes, 400 W. Maple, to help with special transport costs for Beutler and help with the insurance premiums her employer said they must now pay.
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With mortgage interest rates dipping as low as 4.75 percent on Wednesday, Tampa Bay area homeowners should be clamoring to refinance with some of the cheapest home loans in generations.
Or should they?
Thanks to a 30 percent drop in home values since 2006, local bankers and mortgage brokers are preaching the virtues of home refinancing to a smaller choir of homeowners than they were just two years ago.
Borrowers with stellar credit and hefty home equity should find savings galore, but for the tens of thousands of homeowners who bought in the boom market of 2004-2007, refinancing could prove costly and pointless.
"I'd probably tell more people in this market not to refinance,'' said Kerri McDougald, broker-owner with Brandon's All Mortgage Group. "Most people right now are upside-down on their mortgages or the cost of refinancing is not effective for them."
To be sure, if you've owned your house at least five years, accumulated equity and won't move in the next year or two, you can save thousands of dollars a year.
On Tuesday, the Federal Reserve cut the rate it charges banks to between zero and a quarter percentage point, the greatest loosening of credit since the Great Depression.
Trimming your mortgage from 7 percent to 5 percent on a $200,000 loan would save you about $3,000 a year. Even accounting for fees and commissions associated with refinancing, you'd come out ahead in a year or two.
"For people in a decent equity position who have paid on time the rates are extraordinary,'' said Rim Karnavicious, mortgage specialist at First State Bank in St. Petersburg. "All the people who refinanced in the 6 to 7 percent range the last few years, should really look at refinancing again."
But the plunge in housing values has priced thousands out of the refinancing market, regardless of their credit score. Nearly half of Tampa Bay area homeowners who bought in the last five years owe more on their mortgages than their homes are worth, according to the real estate valuation company Zillow.com.
It's even worse for people who bought in the peak price year of 2006. About 70 percent of them have negative equity in their homes. If they wanted to refinance, many of those homeowners would have to bring tens of thousands of dollars in cash to the closing table to compensate for the real estate depreciation. Without at least 20 percent in equity, bankers often require private mortgage insurance, which could add at least another $100 to the monthly payment.
"The house has to qualify as much as the borrower," said Don Ward, compliance manager at Clearwater's All State Mortgage and Loan Corp.
Even homeowners with solid equity but small loan balances might find it worth their while to skip refinancing. It could take years to work off the closing costs for such a small loan.
"I can drop some people two points on some loans, and it will save them only 30 bucks a month," said Rick Kelly, owner of Bay to Bay Lending in Tampa's Hyde Park.
To combat the recession, the Fed promised this week to keep rates "exceptionally" low for a while.
Whether that will be enough to help most Tampa area homeowners remains to be seen. Mortgage brokers said phone volume swells whenever banks cut rates. But as often as not, they have to turn down those potential borrowers. They simply don't qualify in an era when customers can no longer fudge incomes on loan applications.
"This rate cut is not going to address the biggest thing, which is lack of equity,'' McDougald said. "'Everybody's afraid to spend right now. They don't even know if they're going to have a job next month.''


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Bento&co Blog : All you need to know about Bento, Cooking, Japan and our New Products!
Welcome Shirley to the Bento&co blog!
Hello :) I am Shirley, a bento artist/chef and blogger. I started making bento back in 2011 as getting lunch was very inconvenient at work, and in 2012 my blog, Little Miss Onigiri was born.
(Note: On August 2014, Shirley's blog has been updated to Little Miss Bento)
After receiving several requests to share the bento photos on social media platforms, I decided to start a bento Facebook page as well.
Bento making is a passion that I am fond of, and excited about. My head is often bursting with ideas on what to make. Even when I visit the supermarkets, I often imagine what I can make out of an ingredient or food product.
Character bentos are my forte, but I also enjoy making usual bento lunches, bread, sweets and other decorative food items. If you like kawaii and and fun creations, I am sure you will enjoy my blog postings.
I will continue to do my best and thanks for staying with me.
- Shirley
shirley says...
thank you so much sabrina for the sweet comment! i will do my best!
On November 13, 2013
SAbrina says...
Love All those beautiful creations and you have such great talents! your creations is spreading smiles around!
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Skyscanner acquires Distinction
We're celebrating the growth of the Skyscanner team today with the acquisition of mobile app development and design specialists Distinction.
We're celebrating the growth of the Skyscanner team today with the acquisition of mobile app development and design specialists Distinction.
The acquisition gives us the chance to really take control of our own destiny when it comes to app development and it's been a busy year already for Skyscanner's mobile product teams with the launch of two new apps.
Our 30 new Budapest-based colleagues at Distinction have worked with us for some time now on app development projects, most recently on the launch of our hotel app, which is available on iOS and Android.
With a focus on innovation and a determination to ensure that all apps have the user experience at their very heart, there was an instant feel that the team 'got' what we were about and has taken the same approach to design and programming as we do here at Skyscanner. So we've high hopes of what we can achieve as a new combined mobile team.
Budapest becomes Skyscanner's eighth global office and it's a pretty inspiring and creative workspace that, dare we say it, even rivals Skyscanner's existing offices with its own table football, popcorn maker and a 3D printer.
The team is set to grow even further with additional roles being created over the coming months. Our mobile growth isn't limited to our new team in Budapest either – we're continuing to build the teams across our offices to expand our mobile development capabilities. Anyone wanting to keep an eye out on new roles can check out our recruitment site.
Skyscanner's co-founder and CEO Gareth Williams talks below on what the acquisition means to the company and, on behalf of everyone at Skyscanner, passes on a warm welcome to our new colleagues in Hungary.
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text: Decorating your home for the holidays can be a real chore, but at least you can hang garland over your doorway easily with this cool new Instant Doorway Garland Hanger. This hanger easily holds in place using adjustable spring-loaded tension bars instead of screws or nails to help prevent damage to the doorframe and accommodates garland up to 24' and 20 lbs. A simple solution that generates professional-looking results.


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text: 1st Source Corporation (Nasdaq:SRCE), parent company of 1st Source Bank, today reported net income of $12.57 million for the second quarter of 2012 and $24.28 million for the first six months of 2012. This compares to $14.87 million reported in the second quarter of 2011 and $25.47 million for the first six months of 2011. Last year's second quarter benefited from higher investment security gains and lower loan and lease loss provisions. Diluted net income per common share for the second quarter amounted to $0.51 compared with $0.61 for the second quarter of 2011. Diluted net income per common share for the first half of 2012 was $0.99, compared to the $1.04 earned a year earlier. At its July meeting, the Board of Directors approved a cash dividend of $0.17 per common share, an increase of 6.25% over the second quarter a year ago. The dividend is payable to shareholders of record on August 6, 2012 and will be paid on August 15, 2012. Christopher J. Murphy III, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, commented, "This was a good quarter for 1st Source. Loans were up a strong 4.89% from a year ago; we grew our deposits and total assets; our net interest margin is holding steady; our total nonperforming assets have declined 27.1% from a year ago; and credit quality continues to improve. In comparing the quarters, last year benefited from one-time gains of $2.22 million from the sale of investment securities and the sale of a former corporate aircraft, as well as a $1.99 million lower provision to our loan and lease loss reserve. The present quarter is more normalized with an increase to the reserve driven by loan growth. Overall, our net income for the second quarter is up about 7% from the first quarter of this year." Mr. Murphy continued, "We continue to be cautious about the economy. It seems as soon as one sector improves, another faces challenges. Locally, the RV industry is improving, while agriculture is hit with a drought. Our national and international businesses are doing well – financing and leasing for aircraft, car rentals, medium and heavy duty trucks, and construction equipment are all performing as expected or better.


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morning while I was working out I put on Monty Python's Meaning
Of Life. Of all the Python movies it's the one I'm least familiar
with and the one that I remember as being the most baffling
and un-funny. Unlike Holy Grail and Life of Brian it doesn't
have even a nominal plot (unless you count the loose attempt
to organize the sketches around the various stages of life);
and it is composed of equal parts of the absurd, the disturbing,
the sophomoric, and the dark. But I think I am much better
able to appreciate it now than I was when I first saw it at
college in the late 1980s - especially the darkness.
It begins with a 10-minute short film called The Crimson
Permanent Assurance, directed by Terry Gilliam. It's a brilliant
little piece of work, and unfortunately now it is ruined for
American audiences because of our memories of the World Trade
Center attacks. Basically, the central joke of the filmlet
is "corporate piracy." The frail and white-haired employees
of the Crimson Permanent Assurance, an accounting firm that
has just been bought by the Very Big Corporation of America,
rise up against their besuited yuppie executive taskmasters,
make them walk the plank, and then sail off onto the high
"accountancy" looking for adventure.
Their old rococo office building becomes a ship, in a wonderful
sequence that is kind of a prelude to Baron von Munchausen,
and the accoutnants, many of them now sporting earrings, eye
patches, and cutlasses made out of office supplies, sail until
they come to a "financial district" full of gleaming glass
skyscrapers. They attack and board one of the skyscrapers,
which leads into a hand-to-hand battle between the grizzled
pirates and a gang of thirtysomething executives, in which
the ordinary furniture of a corporate conference room is weaponized
in hilarious yet somehow approrpiate ways.
The WTC echoes, alas, come in when the defeated "captain"
of the "boarded" corporation leaps out of a window
to his death, and the film dissolves to a shot of a ruined
city with burnt-out shells of "once-proud" skyscrapers to
show that the Crimson Permanent Assurance has carried the
day. I was thinking as I watched it that Gilliam had found
an effective, if absurd, way of dramatizing the conflict between
the established "moderate" capitalism represented by British
concerns like the Crimson Permanent Assurance and the new
behemothal unrestrained capitalism represented by the Very
Big Corporation of America.
About the time I was watching The Crimson Permanent Assurance
for the first time in college, Caryl Churchill was taking
on the same battle in her satirical musical Serious Money,
a play I would donate organs to be able to see performed.
The Big Bang, as England's transition into (or hostile takeover
by) American megacapitalism was known, happened in the 1980s
under Reagan and Thatcher, and reading Serious Money will
give you some indication of how hard it is to try to explain
what something like that means - even though the effects are
global and catastrophic.
The bottom line is, it is very difficult to explain the operations
of global capital in a way that ordinary people can understand,
even in a classroom - forget trying to do it on a stage. Gilliam's
little film makes no attempt at that kind of explanation,
instead using the vocabulary of a genre we're already familiar
with to translate corporate piracy into a visual language
that we can all understand. It's a weird little movie, but
it has an even greater hold on me now than it did when I first
saw it (after which I remember dreaming about the building-to-sailing-ship
When I finished the workout and turned the video off (right
at "The Middle Of The Film"), what I saw was George W. Bush
giving his big speech at the United Nations.
I missed the introduction, where apparently he actually
talked about what he was there for, which was to demand that
the U.N. help us out in Iraq, on our terms. I came in at the
beginning of what struck me as a wild digression about various
other international threats and menaces, such as the AIDS
crisis and famine. The only purpose I could think of for this
portion of the speech was that it was a lame attempt to make
it look as if we still give a shit about the rest of the world
- look, we're going to put a whole $200 million into international
famine relief. Gee, George, that sure sounds like a whole
lot of money... until you compare it to the $87 billion you
have asked for to fix an Iraq that you broke, even
though the U.N. told you not to.
And then he started talking about sex slavery.
It was a positively surreal moment. Suddenly he's in the
middle of a long diatribe about this international sex slave
industry and how we have to work to put a stop to it. Now,
it is not that trafficking in human beings is not a problem,
or that sex slavery is not one of its more disgusting manifestations.
It's just a little strange to see it popping up in this context.
I mean this is supposed to be a speech about the situation
in Iraq, right? How did we get to sex slavery?
There are plenty of reasons why rhetorically this might
have seemed like a good move to Bush's speechwriters. First
of all, sex slavery is universally acknowledged to be a Very
Bad Thing, so Bush gets to look big by seeming concerned about
it. Second, it subtly ties into the whole "saving third world
women from third world men" thing that was used to justify
our invasion of Afghanistan and which will always come in
handy any time we want to take out an Islamic nation. Third,
it is guaranteed to play to his base, who not only are appalled
by sex in all its forms, but who also favor stricter controls
on immigration to this country, which is of course one of
the ways in which it would immediately occur to this administration
to try to control human trafficking. And fourth, it works
as a ploy to stifle critics of the speech. What, you thought
that was a disgusting performance of American arrogance? What
are you, some kind of pro-sex-slavery monster? But whatever
the underlying reasons for including it, coherence would not
seem to be one of them. Rebuilding Iraq... sex slavery. What
the hell?
Well, there is a connection. It's just not one he wants
us to make.
Let's see...what are the conditions you have to have before
you can set up an international human trafficking ring? Well,
first of all, you need to find a large population of vulnerable
and desperate people. You need a group of people who are so
fucking desperate to get out of their own countries that they
are going to fall for scams about finding people work in America
(or Europe, or wherever), or be drawn into prostitution because
it's preferable to starvation. Or, you need a large population
of vulnerable and desperate people who are living in an area
where there is no functioning system of law and order, or
a system of law and order so corrupt that it can be bribed
to either look the other way or actually help out when the
traffickers abduct the women and children they intend to sell.
Then, you need a network of buyers in a richer nation who
see nothing wrong treating these particular human beings with
less dignity than you would accord to the family pet as long
as they're going to get some pleasure or profit out of their
So basically, what you need is uneven development. Money
and power in one part of the world, poverty, anarchy, and
desperation in another. The kind of thing that is created
and maintained by global capitalism, which relies on keeping
the majority of the world poor and exploitable so that they
can reap bigger profits when they sell their products to the
rest of the world. The kind of thing encouraged and intensified
by those hard-to-understand developments in international
finance that Gilliam was already going after, albeit with
a sense of playfulness that would be gone by the time he was
making Brazil, in 1983.
See, there really is a connection!
So, then, if you're looking to start up a sex trafficking
ring, you want global capital to keep right on doin' what
it's doin'... and of course that's what George W. Bush and
his Enron buddies are all about. But uneven development alone
is not enough! You also need regular, violent convulsions
of the ordinary fabric of society that will destroy kinship
and community structures, create populations of unprotected
and vulnerable refugees, break down the ordinary operations
of law enforcement, render governments unstable and highly
corruptible, and otherwise make it possible for you to prosecute
an illegal and flagrantly immoral trade in broad daylight
at high volume.
And lucky for you, we got guys in Washington right now who
have Ph.Ds in making all of that shit happen.
Yes, you are living in exciting times, my aspiring trafficker,
because your man in the White House has just reduced not one
but two countries to rubble and then brought in America-friendly
puppets to run them and American-owned companies to "rebuild"
them. Yes, you ought to be daily thanking George W. Bush for
the opportunities he is creating in Iraq, a country which
has been reduced to poverty by 12 years of sanctions and now
plunged into a nightmare of chaos and random violence in which,
basically, any form of organized crime could be prosecuted
and our troops would never get around to dealing with it,
as they are too occupied with protecting themselves from attack,
securing their own bases and the U.N. building, getting the
oilfields back into production, trying to restore basic services,
and trying to figure out who the hell it is that they're fighting
these days.
Yes, Virginia, Bush's invasion and occupation of Iraq do
have something to do with sex slavery. They help make it all
So, sure, it's always good to bash human trafficking, it's
a terrible thing and it does not get nearly enough press.
But as long as military force and the resultant mayhem and
destruction are this administration's preferred method of
dealing with... well, with everything, then I don't want to
hear it from Bush. It is just too disgusting to watch him
up their condemning the things that his own policies have
done so much to foment. When they erect a statue to our great
leader in the public square, they should depict him with the
panther of evil rubbing up against his legs, as Bush swats
it on the nose with a rolled-up newspaper with one hand, and
feeds it a humongous, bloody steak with the other.
The Plaid Adder's demented ravings have been delighting
an equally demented online audience since 1996. More of the
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The bulette (pronounced boo-LET, byoo-LET, boo-LAY, or byoo-LAY[4]), also known as a landshark,[3] is a particularly loathsome creature that lives in the Starwood area of the forest of Cormanthor.[5] Feared and hated by most living creatures, bulettes are extremely dangerous, burrowing unseen beneath the soil before erupting up at an unexpected moment to seize their prey.[6] Dwarves called the bulette a ghohlbrorn.[7]
Bulettes are sometimes supposed to be a bizarre cross between an armadillo and a snapping turtle, though there is little evidence to support this theory. Bulettes are heavily armored, however, like either creature, and have a powerful jaw mechanism for snapping up their unsuspecting prey. In many cases a bulette will swallow its prey whole, consuming their victims clothing, weapons, and other equipment along with the creature itself, which the bulette can in fact digest successfully through the use of powerful stomach acid.[6]
Bulettes are covered head to toe in armor. Around the head and rear, this armor is a blue-brown color, while in-between the hue might range from gray-blue to blue-green. Areas around the eyes are slightly darkened, with the eyes themselves being a yellow color with blue-green pupils. However, while bulettes can see in perfect darkness with these eyes they are not a bulette's primary method of sensory perception. Instead, bulettes typically hunt through the detection of vibrations in the ground, moving towards the source of the movement when their hunger is aroused.[6]
The male bulette's mating ritual is fairly complicated, involving the killing of deer and boars, these being placed in a wide circle. He then digs a shallow pit in the middle of the circle, and lines it with the bones of the animals he has killed. Over the course of about a week, the bulette slowly grinds the bones in the pit into a fine powder. He then digs underneath the pit and waits for the female.[citation needed]
The female usually comes along within a month after being attracted by the odor, at which point the bulettes mate. It takes only a day and a half for the female to lay around a dozen eggs, covered in spines, and by the next morning, they have hatched. During hatching, the female bulette makes a noise like an elephant. Once hatched, the newborn bulettes immediately attack the mother, in an attempt to kill her. She fights back, and although she usually kills a few of the young, she succumbs to their attacks more often than not.[citation needed]
For the 48 hours immediately after the hatching of the eggs, the powder in the mating pit is saturated with fluid from the eggs, making it into a very effective fertilizer.[citation needed]
A bulette is a fearsome magical beast whose origins are unknown but has become a dangerous predator. They burrow through the soft earth, listening for potential prey and then erupting from the ground to consume their living targets. As they have a distinctive fin that cuts through the ground as it approaches, these creatures are often referred to as "land-sharks."[citation needed]
A bulette's body is covered in thick, layered plates. Its head is bullet-shaped, similar to that of a shark, with a massive mouth filled with multiple rows of razor-sharp teeth.[citation needed]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Wizards RPG Team (2014). Monster Manual 5th edition. (Wizards of the Coast), p. 34. ISBN 978-0786965614.
- ↑ Doug Stewart (June 1993). Monstrous Manual. (TSR, Inc), p. 33. ISBN 1-5607-6619-0.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Template:Cite dragon/Creature Features/1
- ↑ Frank Mentzer (January 1985). "Ay pronunseeAYshun gyd". In Kim Mohan ed. Dragon #93 (TSR, Inc.), p. 25.
- ↑ Mike Mearls, Stephen Schubert, James Wyatt (June 2008). Monster Manual 4th edition. (Wizards of the Coast), p. 38. ISBN 978-0-7869-4852-9.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Skip Williams, Jonathan Tweet and Monte Cook (October 2000). Monster Manual 3rd edition. (Wizards of the Coast), p. 28. ISBN 0-7869-1552-1.
- ↑ Christopher Perkins, Adam Lee, Richard Whitters (September 1, 2015). Out of the Abyss. In Jeremy Crawford ed. (Wizards of the Coast), p. 67. ISBN 978-0-7869-6581-6.
- James Butler, Elizabeth T. Danforth, Jean Rabe (1994). Elminster's Ecologies (Cormanthor). (TSR, Inc), p. 18. ISBN 1-5607-6917-3.


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Written By: Lance Edwards
Carlo Prater (29-10-1), Houston's top ranked lightweight fighter, will be fighting this weekend in Brazil at UFC 142. Currently residing in Brasilia, Brazil, Carlo has maintained strong roots as a part of the Houston MMA scene. Having been involved with Yves Edwards with the Thugjitsu guys, Saul Soliz with Metro Fight Club and Paradigm Training Center, Carlo is one of the most accomplished and respected fighters locally.
We last saw Carlo fight locally in Legacy Fighting Championship 7, where he defeated talented UFC veteran Cameron Dollar via kimura. Carlo is set to face Erick Silva (13-1), a highly regarded fighter from Team Nogueira in Brazil. Silva was due to face Siyar Bahadurzada (20-4-1), but an injury forced Bahadurzada to withdraw. Prater received the call to fight for the first time in the world's biggest MMA organization, and enthusiastically agreed.
The matchup is interesting as both guys are very well rounded. Both have black belts in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, and both have black belts in Judo. Both have also finished the majority of their fights with submissions. One glaring advantage Prater has, is big fight experience. Silva won his UFC debut, but has not fought nearly the caliber of opponent that Prater has. In his 9+ year career, he has fought the likes of Melvin Guillard, Carlos Condit, Drew Fickett and Spencer Fisher.
Prater has fought at both 155lbs and 170lbs during his career, and most recently has been fighting at 155. This fight will be taking place at 170lbs. When I made contact with Prater, he was jubilant and excited.
"I love fighting at 170, guess where I am?", Carlo stated " I'm at a Churrascaria!"
It is pretty safe to assume that with Carlo eating steak two days before his fight, he will be on the smaller side of 170 lbs. However, Prater isn't phased. He is in the midst of a 4 fight win streak, the longest streak he has had since 2004.
When asked if he had a message for the folks back in Houston, Prater stated, "Sure. I'm gonna swing for the fences like Bagwell at the Astrodome and throw heaters like Clemens at Minute Maid." As is normally the case, we can expect Carlo to put on a show.
Carlo wanted to thank everyone in Houston who is giving him support, and predicts it will be "one hell of a fight".
When asked if there was anything he wanted to add, he stated "Keep up with me on Facebook and Twitter @TheOneMMA and www.carloprater.com"
We wish Carlo every success this weekend at UFC 142.


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Tibbo exhibited at the IoT Tech Expo Europe 2016 which took place in London's Olympia. These were fantastic two days, which have brought together a great number of well-known IoT industry companies and experts.
The conference program consisted of several sessions dedicated to daily life IoT, industrial IoT, physical security, smart cities and more. Leading IoT experts have provided their own opinions and forecasts on the Internet of Things future development trends. Interesting topics and issues were raised within Q&A sessions.
Having been involved in this event, Tibbo gained very exciting and productive experience. We've discussed the collaboration prospects with potential partners, as well as met IoT market drivers and influencers.


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A 59-YEAR-OLD woman and a 51-year-old woman have been returned for trial at Dungannon Crown Court each facing 18 charges relating to selling counterfeit goods.
Mary Bridget Duffield, 14 Kilmacrannell, Lisnaskea and Ellen Patricia Leonard, 4 Creevanmore Meadows, Omagh, appeared at Enniskillen Magistrates Court on Monday this week, each facing 10 counts of trading in counterfeit goods, a further six for fraud using trade mark when goods sale and three counts of exhibiting articles which infringe copyright.
The charges relate to the events of October 26 and 29 and November 26 last year when it is alleged a number of counterfeit jewellery items were being sold at Clogher Market.
Some of the items carried brand names including Tiffany & Co, Thomas Sabo and Links of London.
In court the two defendants confirmed that they understood the charges against them.
District Judge Liam McNally adjourned their cases until January 15 when their trials will commence at Dungannon Crown Court.


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No radar for local cops
The ban on the use of radar for municipal traffic enforcement in Pennsylvania should continue. There is no epidemic crisis of speeding, only an epidemic of politicians seeking more money from safe drivers.
Speed is a cause of about 5 percent of accidents, according to the National Highway Safety Administration. Speeding as a cause of accidents in free-flowing traffic is rare, yet this is when most citations are written.
After 50 years of government propaganda and misinformation about highway safety, it's easy for our elected servants to declare we must give local police radar guns or everybody's going to die! In the end, the special interests profit from radar – radar manufacturers, politicians, police and the courts.
Posted speed limits are at the heart of this. What is the safe speed and who decides? Too often, they're set by politicians responding to citizen complaints, not engineering. A reasonable traffic limit is one in which the super majority of people obey. An engineering concept known as the 85th percentile very simply says that 85 out of 100 motor vehicles will normally travel at or below a speed which is reasonable and prudent.
But that makes the job of the police — to collect taxes for the government — very difficult.
The Highway Safety Administration found that 90 percent of posted speed limits are eight to 16 miles per hour too slow. Because uninformed and misled constituents complain about "speeders," politicians push for arming local police with radar guns and keep limits too low. Unrealistic speed limits do not reduce accidents and may actually cause them.
Hunting down drivers with radar guns will not improve highway safety and unnecessary enforcement of too-low limits will foster contempt for the law. There is only one reason for radar — money. Call your legislators and tell them to keep the local ban on radar in Pennsylvania.
Tom McCarey
Berwyn, Chester County