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Post War Years: Galapagos
Galapagos can be said to be a record that's in a perpetual state of flux, unsure of what it is that makes it truly special.
Post War Years
GalapagosLabel: RCA
US Release Date: 2013-03-05
UK Release Date: 2013-02-25
British band Post War Years are all over the map on their sophomore release, Galapagos. You'll listen to this album and find glimmers of cool keyboard sounds of years recent and years yore, some of which may seem readily apparent--the poppy indie rock slow rhythms of first song "All Eyes" may have you reaching for Surfer Blood a little bit, not to mention the Genesis-like proggy break in the middle of the same song--and some that will have you struggling to come up with the soundalike on the tip of your tongue. Does "Glass House" sound a little OMD-ish? Does "Nova" sound a little like Bryan Ferry, at least vocally? Does "Be Someone" come across as a glitchy electronica version of Vampire Weekend? And "Volcano" sounds reasonably indie rock--is that Vampire Weekend again, or something else that you can't quite fathom? For a band that seemingly quotes krautrock and the Warp Records catalogue as influences, in addition to everything else, it's hard to peg what this group is actually trying to do by assimilating so many sounds into their, well, sound. And this is also a band that is trying to bridge the gap between audiences: they've toured with Mumford and Sons, which would seem to be, on the surface, a rather unlikely choice for tour mates.
So, yes, there's a lot going on with this band, which will either endear you or lead to dismissing them completely. Already, some reviews of Galapagos have veered on either side of the fence. On one hand, you have a four out of five star review of the LP from Time Out London that goes so far to compare Post War Years to Radiohead (!), while The Skinny gives the record a two out of five stars, and calls it "overblown". Although there are a few reviews straddling the fence, you get the sense that Galapagos is very much a love it or hate it proposition. Well, I have to admit that I'm probably one of these fence straddlers: the album does have its lovely moments, but it starts to feel a little samey, particularly in its second half, and it just doesn't make too much of an overall impact other than to leave you with the impression that it's...nice. This is a bit of a shame, but you do get the overall impression that Post War Years are simply overreaching here: trying on an array of different sounds to the point where they haven't constructed their own identity. Galapagos, then, can be said to be a record that's in a perpetual state of flux, unsure of what it is that makes it truly special.
However, there is a fairly consistent first half to talk about, and, boy, is it good. The record opens up with the aforementioned "All Eyes" which takes a number of sonic twists and turns, making it an unlikely choice for a single (but it is, indeed, a single from the album). Once you get used to the roadblocks, it comes out of the wringer being undeniably catchy. "The Bell" sounds suitably spacey, and I can detect a slight Madchester sound to the proceedings, before the '80s-style keyboards kick in and the whole thing turns on a dime. Still, it's affecting. But the best thing on the album is "Glass House". This is just an astoundingly great pop track with Moog-esque keyboards that feel lifted from Rush's "Tom Sawyer". You'll wind up humming this song in your sleep, with its rousing chorus and menacing verses. And "Be Someone" has a sort of afrobeat rhythm to it that marries that sound with the unlikely paring of Pantha du Prince. "Growl" even feels a little like a Local Natives song--something off that band's debut album--with vocals that at one point come across as a little Bowie-esque.
However, from there, you're pretty much sludging through retreads of the same thing. Only final track "God", with its music box stylings and false endings, feels in any way remotely original and different from what came before. That's not to say that the songs in the remainder of this disc are bad, they just don't strike one in the same way that the opening gamut of tracks do. And, lyrically, there's nothing here that will smack you upside the head and command you to pay attention--it's pretty much your standard pop fluff, which is not meant to be a commendation, but it is what it is.
Overall, Galapagos comes off as being a little on the rote side. There's elegant stuff to be had here, for sure, but there's not overly much--aside from "Glass House"--that comes across as sheer brilliance. Galapagos represents a band still feeling out its sound to varying results. Your mileage may naturally vary, but this band is neither the new Radiohead nor "overblown". The group exists in that murky middle ground of being something that isn't terrible but isn't terribly innovative and groundbreaking, either. In short, Post War Years is a pop band with arty aspirations. That the group doesn't quite get there on Galapagos is a bit of a shame, but, you know what? It's sort of fun hearing the band try, especially in the front half of the record. Post War Years is simply an outfit that still needs to figure out what it is, and get past its seeming identity crisis and attempts at broad audience appeal. In short, guys: pick a style and stick with it.


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The world of Krynn is ever changing, and even the gods can be taken by surprise. And if that's true of the gods, what chance can a mere mortal have? Caught up in forces none of them could hope to face alone, a small but determined band of adventurers come together in a desperate attempt to stop an invasion. Mina, as enigmatic as ever, escapes imprisonment to set off on a quest that will test even her considerable will. All the while, evil spreads across the land, gaining ground with each new day. With so much at stake, with the very soul of Krynn on the line, champions must be found even in the darkest places.
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Super unexpected twists. Loved it was very pleased and can't wait for the next one . Keep them coming please I need them lol
"Great story, bad voice acting"
The kender is Australian? The officer in Solace is a cowboy? I don't know if Margaret Weis agreed to the accents used by the narrator, but I think these were horrible decisions. It totally ruins the fantasy of Dragonlance novels for me. I've been reading Dragonlance since 1986 (well over 30 novels) and these accents ruin my listening experience. I definitely prefer some of the other performances to this chick. I had to grit my teeth just to finish listening to this, but I did cause I love Weis and pretty much everything she does.
"Dazed and Confused"
I am a huge fan of the Dragonlance series and the offshoots especially when Margaret Weis and/or Tracy Hickman do the writing. Having said that I am very disturbed by this series of books. I read books one and two but I have given up on book 3 because I see no need to read it.
Mina from the war of souls is one of the main characters. She and the God Chemos join together to rule the world. Takhisis was banished in the war of souls and Mina lost her faith in the god. She seemed to then be just this weak girl who could not move forward in life until another god showed her the way. This is not at all how I pictured Mina to be and totally ruined my perception. Chemos God of the dead came along and seduced Mina, promising her a new army that would have enternal life. Thus Vampires are introduced to the Dragonlance series. When I left off Mina was a God that Takhisis tricked into thinking she was human. Chemos and the other Gods were showed to have nothing but petty jealousy's that made the books seem like comedies.
The other main characters were a monk of Majere, a dog, and a Kender. I guess they are supposed to be the good that stops the evil. These three characters never stepped into the hero roles so I cannot figure out why they are even in the book. The series to my had no real story line. It seemed like Margaret was creating a large cloud that had everything and nothing. I saw no reason for the story so I found it hard to follow.
I thought the series was the work of a first time writer not the senior writer I know Margaret to be. I think this series should be scrapped and a new series should be written for Mina.
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Alternative to PowerDesk Pro's Dialog Helper?
I've used PowerDesk Pro v5 for years on XP, primarily for its "dialog helper." The v5 dialog helper doesn't work on Windows 7. If anyone has tried v7, I'd appreciate knowing if Dialog Helper works on Windows 7.
But, since the only feature of PowerDesk Pro that I really use is Dialog Helper, I wonder if there are alternative products that work on Windows 7?
I'd appreciate any suggestions.
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While it's not exactly the same, it's the same concept:
Filebox Extender
It's now open sourced so perhaps someone can take the released source code and improve on it...
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Windows 7
Directfolders is great (even better than Dialog Helper):
Direct Folders - quick access to your favorite folders
If you also install UltraExplorer (even better than PowerDesk):
Ultra Explorer
It's free!
It works under Win 7
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Directfolders is great (even better than Dialog Helper):
Direct Folders - quick access to your favorite folders
If you also install UltraExplorer (even better than PowerDesk):
Ultra Explorer
It's free!
It works under Win 7
BTW, there is a new version of PowerDesk (v. 8) that works under Win7. But I've grown tired of PD's flakiness; it hasn't been maintained well in recent years, and that's why I'm going to try D.Opus (at twice the price!).
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RE: BVG Graded cards valued less than ungraded of same condition??
It seems to me as though Beckett is stepping into graded card pricing without very much past collected information on prices. Ive checked their listings with what EBAY sells the cards for and they are pretty far off on a LOT of cards! I think the prices that are in this first issue will look ridiculous when comparing it with a future issue say three years down the road. These first issue prices are just a throw up which needs to be filled in with a lot of working hours scouring auctions and sales all along the web. I just hope they get more detail in the 80's and 90's years...I was about as disappointed as Ive ever been in my life I think when I saw that they stopped the card by card listings at 1980! I think they need to separate the sports up like the regular becketts do. I would really like to see pricing for commons, stars, semi stars and the like as well. I think all this is the reason they are saying what theyre saying. Theyre covering their asses, yknow? Because, if a raw card is sold as "Mint" and the "promise" that it will grade high, people will pay more than what it might really grade out to most of the time. I think the prices Beckett are referring to are the ones in the guide they just released and im sure they are well aware these prices are going to change drastically from what they are now up until they stabilize at what they are really worth (what people are willing to pay for them)
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In the past, I have heard people say things like " my dad brought such and such home and it was his rifle, carbine, pistol, while in combat in the pacific". That being said, My pop was a supply officer in the USMC during the war, and prior to his passing in 1993, he assured me that under no circumstances were any marines allowed to keep their combat arms, and that those who had carbines, Garands, 03's , and 1911's, after the war purchased them on the civillian market post war. Does anybody have knowledge to the contrary?


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January 31, 2011
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KABUL—Investigators probing massive fraud that nearly brought down Afghanistan's largest bank have found the lender avoided scrutiny for years by giving clandestine loans—and sometimes outright bribes—to senior Afghan officials, said Afghan and U.S. officials and former bank insiders.
Some of those who allegedly took Kabul Bank's money were until recently among a small core group of cabinet ministers touted by U.S. and European officials as potential reformers who would clean up the pervasive corruption that has undermined President Hamid Karzai's administration and fueled support for the Taliban.
The problems at Kabul Bank represent one of the most widespread and destabilizing corruption scandals to emerge in the nine-plus years since the U.S.-led coalition toppled the Taliban. Most of the government's own accounts are at the bank and it handles roughly $1.5 billion in coalition-financed annual salary payments to about a quarter of a million Afghan soldiers, police and teachers.


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The auditorium at Toronto's De La Salle College, on a recent morning, was packed. Students in dark green blazers listened to a few words from their principal, then joined him in prayer, below wall hangings depicting the school's patron saint, Jean-Baptiste de la Salle.
Then Gerry Dee, comedian, co-creator and star of Mr. D, and a former student and teacher at De La Salle, took to the lectern. His show, he said, is based on his time at the school.
"But it's also fiction," he added, quickly. "Those things you see me doing as Mr. D, that's not what I did here." There is some tittering in the audience. "OK, some of it I did. Not gonna lie."[np-related]
Not that anyone in his student audience much cared, but Dee had hit on what is, I think, his show's central challenge: making it funny, but not so ridiculous as to be unbelievable. It is evident from Dee's return to De La Salle that he took teaching seriously — he worked there for nine years beginning in 1994, back when he was known as Mr. Donoghue — and yet the character he plays is a self-absorbed slacker. Is that really what he was like as an educator?
"Not really," Dee says in an interview after the school assembly, sitting across a desk in the library. "When I was writing the show, I looked at things that I thought were going on in my head when I taught, and I showed them."
There were times, he says, when he would leave his class and go to the staff room and talk about something a student had just said to him. He would tell fellow teachers the things he wished he could say in response.
"And then on the show, I say it."
The fictional Mr. D, then, is like a teacher unbound by the conventions of society, or more specifically, job security.
"I do hear from teachers who say, 'You are doing so many things that we wish we could say and do.' I think that's the best way to sum it up."
It works. The show is dryly funny, with Dee as almost the straight man to the school's other eccentric characters, including Jonathan Torrens as the uptight vice-principal, Mr. Cheeley, and Simon Hunt as the nerdy science teacher, Mr. Hunt. (Both characters are named for former colleagues of Dee at De La Salle.)
Dee, though, aside from using his visit to his former school to screen an episode inspired by a charity boxing match he put on at De La Salle, is also able to use his visit to deliver a message to the students about perseverance. He explains how he first pitched his idea for a show in 2007, but was turned down by CBC and another network. Then CBC decided to shoot a pilot in 2008, but declined to pick it up as a series. Later, under a new executive team, CBC asked to rewrite the pilot. He did. They passed.
"At the time, I thought shooting another pilot was a given," he says later. "I thought it was a lock." This time he had written much of the script himself. "Then I got a call saying, no pilot. I was devastated."
Two months later, he found out CBC had reconsidered. He says he remembers it vividly, standing in a Pier 1 Imports store and taking the call.
"I teared up," he says. "I was in disbelief. But after shooting that pilot, I felt we were going to get a series."
And so, some version of Mr. Donoghue is nearing the end of a successful first run as Mr. D.
"I was disciplined, I wasn't this gong-show teacher," Dee says of his former life. He coached, he volunteered, he put in extra time.
"I did all that. Was I the best at marking assignments? No. Did I kill time in class, did I talk about my weekend? Yes. But every teacher does that from time to time."
Not many of them end up writing a television series about it.
Mr. D airs Mondays at 8:30 p.m. on CBC.


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KINGS vs. VANCOUVER PREVIEW
Faceoff: 7:30 p.m., Monday, Staples Center
TV/Radio: FSW, 1150-AM
Update: The third-place Kings (27-14-5, 59 points) need a victory to avoid falling into a tie with the fourth-place Canucks (24-13-9, 57 points) in the Pacific Division. They also could use a win to halt a lackluster stretch of games featuring a lack of scoring that's led to losses in seven of their last 10 games. The Kings' recent skid included a five-game losing streak that included two shutout defeats. One of their recent victories was a 3-1 win Jan. 4 over the Canucks. This is the Kings' final home game before embarking on their annual Grammys trip, an eight-game trek that begins Thursday in St. Louis. The stretch includes games against the Ducks on Jan. 23 at the Honda Center and a "home" contest two nights later at Dodger Stadium. The Kings are 15-6-3 at home and 12-8-2 on the road.


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A BUS driver has been suspended after an online video depicted him viciously punching a female passenger.
The 94-second video (see graphic content below) starts as an unidentified woman shouted obscenities at the driver who is from Cleveland, Ohio, FoxNews reported.
The woman appears to strike the bus driver, who gets up from his seat and approaches her before landing a brutal uppercut that knocks her down.
Before the haymaker is thrown, someone can be heard saying on the video: "You going on the ground now."
The Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority bus driver, who has been worked for 22 years, then grabbed the 25-year-old woman and her pink jacket and took her off he bus. She then gets back on, where the two briefly continue brawling, as passengers try to end the melee.
"That's a (expletive] female," one passenger shouts.
"I don't care," the bus driver responds. "She want to be a man, I'm going to treat you like a man."
Mary Shaffer, a spokeswoman for the authority, told FoxNews in a statement that an investigation into the September 18 incident has been launched.
"Upon identifying the driver, he was immediately suspended and removed from duty," the statement read. "His behavior is absolutely unacceptable."
RTA officials apologized to customers for the incident.
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Lusaka, Zambia positions
Family Literacy Coordinator
Summary: The Family Literacy Coordinator will plan and facilitate a Family Literacy Program under Lubuto Library Partners' DREAMS Innovation Challenge grant to keep adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) free of HIV. The Family Literacy Program targets young mothers (15-24) and their young children with daily adult literacy classes for AGYW and early literacy programming for children ages birth through six.
Primary responsibilities:
- Develop Family Literacy program curriculum in consultation with partners and advisors;
- Train and lead a team of Family Literacy Programming Assistants;
- Develop a personal learning plan for each young mother in the program focused on facilitating re-entry to a formal educational program;
- Lead three Family Literacy program sessions per day, six days a week, at sites throughout Lusaka;
- Provide targeted outreach to young mothers, in consultation with organizations already serving this group;
- Compile a list of community resources and resource persons;
- Uphold the highest standards of early childhood education, care and development;
- Work with the Scholarship Manager and the Female Outreach Coordinator to ensure smooth recruitment of young mothers and immediate connection to scholarships as appropriate;
- Maintain organized documents on the Family Literacy programs;
- Manage budgets related to programs directly under her/his control;
- Communicate success stories to LLP staff, particularly the Communication Manager;
- Maintain beneficiary records in a confidential manner.
- Diploma or degree in Education required
- 3-7 years' experience in education required, including experience teaching adult literacy;
- Experience in early childhood education highly desirable;
- Experience in parenting education highly desirable;
- Previous work experience with vulnerable children and youth is highly desirable
Skills & abilities
- Embraces the mission of Lubuto Library Partners.
- Demonstrates strong interpersonal and leadership skills
- Possesses a strong understanding of early childhood development (ages 0-6) and parenting practices to support healthy development and positive educational outcomes for young children;
- Possesses a strong understanding of literacy development across the lifespan;
- Works energetically and enthusiastically with young children and their parents/caregivers;
- Is a "self-starter," driven to develop and maintain systems and network relationships.
- Organizes and leads efforts, and consistently "follows through" on tasks and goals.
- Displays a positive attitude, shows concern for people and community, and demonstrates presence, self-confidence, common sense and good listening ability.
- Cares deeply about advancing the educational status and rights of young people in substantially disadvantaged communities.
Position location:
- The Family Literacy Coordinator will facilitate daily Family Literacy Programming at the three Lubuto Libraries in Lusaka (Kamwala, Garden, and Lusaka West).
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Press Information Notice: The IMF Concludes Article IV Consultation with the United States
August 4, 1997
|Public Information Notices (PINs) are issued, (i) at the request of a member country, following the conclusion of the Article IV consultation for countries seeking to make known the views of the IMF to the public. This action is intended to strengthen IMF surveillance over the economic policies of member countries by increasing the transparency of the IMF's assessment of these policies; and (ii) following policy discussions in the Executive Board at the decision of the Board.
The IMF Executive Board on July 28, 1997 concluded the 1997 Article IV consultation1 with the United StatesBackground
Real GDP growth in the United States rose from 1.6 percent during 1995 to 3.3 percent during 1996, and reached an annualized rate of 4.9 percent in the first quarter of 1997. The rebound in growth over this period reflected broadly based strength in final domestic demand, led by business fixed investment and consumption. Growth slowed to 2.2 percent in the second quarter of 1997, as the pace of consumer spending eased substantially. The unemployment rate hovered between 5.2 and 5.4 percent from the second half of 1996 through early 1997, before falling below 5 percent on average during May-July 1997. At 4.8 percent in July 1997, the level of unemployment is well below most estimates of the natural rate. At the same time, there is little evidence of inflationary pressures. Excluding volatile food and energy prices, inflation measured by the consumer price index fell from 3 percent during 1995 to an annual rate of around 2 1/2 percent during 1996 and the first six months of 1997.
After a reduction in the target federal funds rate in January 1996, the stance of monetary policy remained unchanged during the rest of the year. At its regularly scheduled meeting in March 1997, the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) raised its target for the federal funds rate by 1/4 of a percentage point to 5 1/2 percent. In announcing this decision, the FOMC noted that, while evidence of a pickup in inflation was largely absent, monetary policy needed to be forward-looking if a low and stable inflation rate was to be maintained. With some evidence that output growth was slowing, the FOMC left the federal funds target rate unchanged at its meetings in May and July.
Fiscal policy actions and sustained economic growth have resulted in a steady decline in the unified federal budget deficit from $290 billion (4.7 percent of GDP) in FY 1992 to $107 billion (1.4 percent of GDP) in FY 1996. A decline in the structural deficit (i.e., the estimate of the deficit measured at full employment) accounted for most of the improvement in the fiscal balance, reflecting the effects of expenditure cuts and tax increases adopted in August 1993 as part of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993 and subsequent actions. Economic developments in the current fiscal year have been more favorable than expected. In May 1997, it was estimated that the budget deficit would decline to about $67 billion (0.8 percent of GDP) in FY 1997, and more recent data suggest that the FY 1997 deficit may be even lower.
On a nominal effective basis, the value of the U.S. dollar increased by 4.4 percent during 1996, as the dollar continued to recover from its historic lows against the yen and deutsche mark in early 1995. The dollar's strength reflected relative cyclical conditions among major countries, as generally higher returns on dollar assets compared with those in other industrial economies attracted substantial capital inflows to the United States. The dollar appreciated further against other major currencies in 1997, with its nominal effective value rising by about 7 1/2 percent from December 1996 to July 1997. The external current account deficit rose from 2 percent of GDP in 1995 to 2.2 percent of GDP in 1996, reflecting the effects of the stronger dollar and robust growth in domestic demand on the merchandise trade deficit. The surplus in the capital account of the balance of payments rose sharply in 1996, as net private capital inflows increased with net foreign purchases of U.S. securities posting a strong increase and foreign official purchases of U.S. assets remaining at the very high level recorded in 1995.
Executive Board Assessment
Executive Directors congratulated the U.S. authorities on their skillful management of economic policies, which had yielded remarkable results, and noted in particular their success in bringing the economy to full employment while containing inflationary pressures. Directors discussed the possible factors underlying the exceptional performance of the economy; while this would require continuing further study, they mentioned the likely role of underlying improvements in long-term economic efficiency, reflecting the pervasive application of recent technological advances, and the flexibility of labor and product markets, as well as some temporary factors that had restrained inflation. Several Directors also noted that, in assessing the recent performance, account should also be taken of the uncertainties associated with problems in measuring output and prices. Directors considered that continued adept handling of monetary policy and further progress in reducing the budget deficit would establish a firm basis for sustaining the current economic expansion.
Directors noted that an immediate policy challenge was to guard against the emergence of inflationary pressures. In view of the high degree of resource utilization, the underlying strength of aggregate demand, and the likelihood that factors that have restrained inflation in the recent past--including slowly rising labor costs, the appreciation of the U.S. dollar, and increased external competition with weak growth in other major countries--would diminish in the period ahead, Directors agreed that the U.S. monetary authorities would need to remain vigilant.
Directors considered that a forward-looking approach to monetary policy was essential, given the lags with which monetary policy affected output and prices. Several Directors agreed with the authorities that there appeared to be no immediate need to tighten policy, given the present expected evolution of economic indicators. Those Directors, however, recognized that further interest rate increases could be required in the future if economic growth turned out to be stronger than expected. Many other Directors, however, cautioned that an undue delay in tightening monetary policy could undermine the current expansion by increasing the risk that aggregate demand pressures would build, and, from an international perspective, such a policy development could have disruptive effects on other countries, as more substantial increases in interest rates might be required subsequently to contain inflation. Those Directors took the view that a further, moderate, and preemptive tightening was necessary to guard against the emergence of inflationary pressures. Some Directors expressed the sense that, if stronger productivity growth had caused an upward shift in potential growth, this consideration would have important implications for assessments of the current stance of monetary policy. With regard to setting formal inflation targets, most Directors saw little need to change the current monetary policy approach, noting that the Federal Reserve's policies were already credible.
Directors considered that progress in reducing the budget deficit in recent years and the agreement between the Administration and the Congress to balance the budget by fiscal year 2002 had created a favorable medium-term outlook for U.S. fiscal policy. The remaining challenge was to implement and adhere to the terms of the agreement. In that context, some Directors urged the Administration and the Congress not to use prospects that revenue might be stronger than expected as a pretext to ease the terms of the agreement, and thereby lose a historic opportunity to bring the budget into balance on a structural basis. Many Directors also indicated that a faster pace of fiscal consolidation--by bringing forward spending cuts and delaying tax cuts--than that envisaged in the balanced budget agreement would help to contain demand pressures and enhance the plan's credibility, as well as increase the latitude for countercyclical fiscal policy. On the composition of fiscal adjustment, a few Directors expressed concern that the substantial cuts envisaged in discretionary spending might be difficult to implement given the substantial compression of such outlays in recent years, and the Administration's desire to raise spending on education and training, and they noted, therefore, that deeper reforms of the entitlement programs would have been desirable. While it was noted that discretionary defense spending was declining more rapidly than other nondefense-related discretionary expenditures, a few Directors, nonetheless, saw the need to reduce unproductive expenditures, including the reallocation of expenditures from defense to nondefense priority areas.
While the medium-term fiscal outlook was generally viewed as favorable, Directors cautioned that the aging of the U.S. population would place increasing strains on the Medicare and Social Security systems, with significant implications for fiscal policy over the longer term. Prompt efforts were required to reduce the financial burden that those programs would otherwise impose in order to avoid more draconian measures in the future. Directors supported the Administration's intention to establish a bipartisan commission to develop a plan to address Medicare's longer-term finances and encouraged the U.S. authorities to act quickly. While the financial problems of Social Security were less immediate, Directors nonetheless noted that a plan to shore up the system's longer-term financial position should be implemented as soon as possible.
Targeted tax incentives tended to narrow the tax base and make the income tax system less efficient and transparent. Directors encouraged the authorities to give consideration in the coming years to simplifying the income tax system and reducing distortions in order to enhance economic efficiency.
Over the past two years, the dollar's appreciation had helped to moderate aggregate demand and to limit inflationary pressures in the United States and had also helped to sustain growth in other countries. However, the strength of the U.S. economy relative to other major countries and the appreciation of the dollar was contributing to a widening in the external current account deficit, and the persistence of large U.S. current account deficits and growing international indebtedness would be a concern over the medium term. Directors noted that the best means of addressing that problem would be to boost national saving through continuing improvements in the fiscal position, with attendant benefits for both the United States and the world economy.
Directors welcomed U.S. initiatives to advance trade liberalization and encouraged the authorities to continue that effort. Directors also welcomed the preparedness of the United States to use the multilateral dispute-settlement procedures of the World Trade Organization for settlement of trade disputes. Directors urged the authorities to be cautious in their use of unilateral trade actions, and encouraged the United States to exercise its leadership role by pushing forward more quickly with trade liberalization in traditionally sensitive sectors, especially agricultural products and textiles.
Many Directors regretted the decline in U.S. official development assistance relative to GDP in recent years, and urged the authorities to reverse that trend. They also encouraged the authorities to meet their commitments to international financial institutions.
A few Directors also urged the United States, and other major countries, to work with the IMF to ensure that arms sales to developing and transition countries did not undermine efforts to strengthen macroeconomic policies in those countries.
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I remember there was a little program to extract the music from the Vice City DVD...does something like it exist for San Andreas ?
I've been searching the boards and the internet, without luck.
Extract the music ?
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Since there is an official soundtrack available for purchase, this comes under the catagory of warez.
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