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Born in 1981 in Australia,
Emilie de Ravin
trained as a ballerina before shifting her focus to acting. Her first onscreen role was as one of the leads on the syndicated TV version of
The Beastmaster
in 1999. But the stint proved shortlived when
de Ravin
accepted a starring spot on a network series, the cult-hit sci-fi show
. After that series bowed in 2002,
de Ravin
could be seen in a few TV guest roles and in a made-for-TV remake of
. But in 2004, she landed the part that would elevate her to the next level of stardom when she was cast as the young single mother Claire Littleton on ABC's hit mindbender
. While appearing on
de Ravin
also began to pursue a career on the big screen with roles in such prominent films as the horror remake
The Hills Have Eyes
and the acclaimed indie noir homage
. In June, 2006, she married actor
Josh Janowicz
, but the couple filed for divorce less than a year later. The actress remained a popular character on Lost and worked on the show until its conclusion in 2010. The same year she co-starred in Operation: Endgame, a comedy thriller following two groups of elite assassins as they fight amongst themselves. ~ Matthew Tobey, Rovi
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His relationship with his father strained in the wake of a family tragedy, rebellious New Yorker Tyler (Robert Pattinson) finds love with the one girl who understands him. Tyler wasn't looking for love, but that's exactly what he found when he met Ally (Emilie de Ravin). Enchanted by her beauty and inspired by her spirit, Tyler finds that his strange life suddenly makes sense when he's around Ally. As their relationship grows, Tyler learns to live his life with passion, and value the little things. When buried secrets threaten to tear the young couple apart, Tyler realizes that sometimes love is worth fighting for. Chris Cooper, Pierce Brosnan, and Lena Olin co-star. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
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A family welcomes home a missing child, but he may not be all he seems to be in this suspense drama. Nicholas Barclay was a 13-year-old living in Louisiana with his family when he mysteriously disappeared, and though his mother, Kimberly (Ellen Barkin), and sister, Kathy (Emilie de Ravin), have been hopeful he'll be found, after three years it seems increasingly unlikely. To their surprise, Nicholas (Marc-André Grondin) returns home one day, claiming he'd been kidnapped by child predators but finally escaped. Kimberly and Kathy are overjoyed and welcome him home with open arms. Nicholas' brother-in-law, Brian (Brian Geraghty), senses this young man isn't really Nicholas, though, and Jennifer Johnson (Famke Janssen), an FBI agent looking into the case, shares his suspicions. But if Brian and Jennifer are convinced Nicholas is an imposter, why aren't Kimberly and Kathy willing to acknowledge the same evidence? Based on a true story, The Chameleon was the first English-language feature from French director Jean-Paul Salomé. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
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Operation: Endgame
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A satirical workplace comedy with a slick action twist, Fouad Mikati's Operation: Endgame explores the violence that erupts when the organization charged with protecting America implodes, and the employees turn their guns on each other instead of their enemies. Somewhere beneath Washington, D.C., an intense rivalry is heating up between two opposing teams of government assassins. The hired killers in the organizations take their names from Tarot cards. The Fool (Joe Anderson) is the latest recruit. Reporting for his first day on the job, The Fool is shocked to find that his boss is dead, and the office is on lockdown. To make matters worse, the building has been rigged with explosives, and it's going to blow soon. Now, in order to get out alive, The Fool will have to root out the killer in his midst, and make a quick escape before his co-workers catch him in their crosshairs. Ellen Barkin, Zach Galifianakis, Rob Corddry, and Jeffrey Tambor star. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
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Remember Me
His relationship with his father strained in the wake of a family tragedy, rebellious New Yorker Tyler (Robert Pattinson) finds love with the one girl who understands him. Tyler wasn't looking for love, but that's exactly what he found when he met Ally (Emilie de Ravin). Enchanted by her beauty and inspired by her spirit, Tyler finds that his strange life suddenly makes sense when he's around Ally. As their relationship grows, Tyler learns to live his life with passion, and value the little things. When buried secrets threaten to tear the young couple apart, Tyler realizes that sometimes love is worth fighting for. Chris Cooper, Pierce Brosnan, and Lena Olin co-star. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
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Based on author Bryan Burrough's ambitious tome Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-43, director Michael Mann's sprawling historical crime drama follows the efforts of top FBI agent Melvin Purvis (Christian Bale ) in capturing notorious bank robber John Dillinger. A folk hero to the American public thanks to his penchant for robbing the banks that many people believed responsible for the Great Depression, charming bandit Dillinger (Johnny Depp) was virtually unstoppable at the height of his criminal career; no jail could hold him, and his exploits endeared him to the common people while making headlines across the country. J. Edgar Hoover's (Billy Crudup) FBI was just coming into formation, and what better way for the ambitious lawman to transform his fledgling Bureau of Investigation into a national police force than to capture the gang that always gets away? Determined to bust Dillinger and his crew, which also included sociopathic Baby Face Nelson (Stephen Graham) and Alvin Karpis (Giovanni Ribisi), Hoover christened Dillinger the country's very first Public Enemy Number One, and unleashed Purvis to take them down by whatever means necessary. But Purvis underestimated Dillinger's ingenuity as a master criminal, and after embarking on a frantic series of chases and shoot-outs, the dashing agent humbly surmised that he was in over his head. Outwitted and outgunned, Purvis knew that his only hope for busting Dillinger's gang was to baptize a crew of Western ex-lawmen as official agents, and orchestrate a series of betrayals so cunning that even America's criminal mastermind wouldn't know what hit him. Marion Cotillard, Channing Tatum, and Stephen Dorff co-star. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
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High Noon
High Noon is one of four made-for-TV movies adapted from Nora Roberts' romance novels for the Lifetime channel in 2009 (along with Tribute, Northern Lights, and Midnight Bayou). Emilie de Ravin (Lost) stars as Phoebe McNamara, a single mom who works a stressful job as a high-stakes hostage negotiator for the police department. Phoebe's hectic life gets more complicated when she begins dating hunky bar owner Duncan Swift (Ivan Sergei) -- and finds herself targeted by a psychotic stalker obsessed with the Gary Cooper Western High Noon. This romantic thriller features Cybill Shepherd in a supporting role as Phoebe's neurotic mother, Essie. ~ Sandra Bencic, Rovi
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Lost: Season 04
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After Oceanic Air flight 815 tore apart in mid-air and crashed on a Pacific island, it s survivors were forced to find inner strength they never knew they had in order to survive. But they discovered that the island hold many secrets, including a mysterious smoke monster, polar bears, a strange French woman and another group of island residents known as The Others. The survivors have also found signs of those who came to the island before them, including a 19th century sailing ship called The Black Rock, the remains of an ancient statue, as well as bunkers belonging to the Dharma Initiative a group of scientific researchers who inhabited the island in the recent past.
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The Perfect Game
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William Dear (Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann) helms the period baseball drama The Perfect Game, a cinematization of real-life events that transpired in 1957. Clifton Collins Jr. stars as Cesar Faz, a 1950s baseball player who immigrated from Mexico to the U.S. with the intent of making it as a Major League player. After encountering racism and hostility that stand squarely in the way of his success, Faz high-tails it south of the border and decides instead to coach a Little League team, ultimately guiding it all the way to the Little League World Series. The film co-stars Emilie de Ravin (Lost); W. William Winokur authored the script. ~ Nathan Southern, Rovi
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Lost: Season 03
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Find the answers you have been looking for in the explosive third season of the show USA Today calls "the most gorgeous, audacious, expansive series on network TV." As the power of the island to both heal and destroy comes into sharp focus, the lines between good and evil are blurred and loyalties are challenged when the survivors of the crash become tangled within the lives of the Others. Plan your escape, and immerse yourself in all 23 episodes of Season Three. Go deeper than ever before in this seven-disc DVD box set, complete with hours of never-before-seen bonus features, including secrets from the world of the Others, behind-the-scenes featurettes, unprecedented access to the Lost writers room, and so much more.
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The Hills Have Eyes
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Alexandre Aja directs this remake of Wes Craven's film The Hills Have Eyes. In this update, a family is taking a cross-country road trip when their trailer breaks down, leaving them stranded in the desert of New Mexico. There, they find themselves under attack by the savage "hill people," who were deformed by radiation during nuclear testing. ~ Cammila Collar, Rovi
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A tough-talking teen attempts to uncover his ex-girlfriend's killer in director Rian Johnson's hard-boiled high-school noir, told in the style of a Dashiell Hammett mystery. An outsider by nature, Brendan (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) is forced to penetrate the elaborate ranks of the high-school social scene and its more insidious underbelly when the body of his former girlfriend Emily is found lying lifeless in a remote creek. Though the pair had been on the outs, Brendan can't seem to shake the hysterical phone call that he received from Emily the day before her body was discovered, a call in which she rattled off a number of cryptic words: "brick," "pin," "tug," "poor Frisco." He's determined to find the guilty party, and to do that he'll need to uncover the meaning behind her enigmatic phone call. From the highest-ranking athlete to the lowest-level burnout, no one is above suspicion of leaving her in that creek or putting her in the position to end up there. Brendan's skill for getting the right attention from the right people leads him to a local drug dealer of urban-legendary status (Lukas Haas), who walks with a cane and lives with his mother. As Brendan infiltrates the social and political web more deeply, his theory solidifies and each player's role becomes clear, from the shifty-eyed pot slinger to an upper-crust innocent who may well be a femme fatale. Brendan may soon be ready to make his case, even if it's too late for him to get out. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
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4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42. Push the button and prepare to be blown away by the groundbreaking television event USA Today calls "TV's best series." The multiple Emmy Award-winning drama reaches new heights in its spectacular second season as the survivors of Oceanic Flight 815 discover they are not alone in their battle against "the Others," and a contested decision to open the hatch reveals a new realm of mystery and intrigue. Prepare yourself for the DVD experience of Season Two, complete with over 8 hours of original bonus material you can't see anywhere else -- including unaired original flashbacks -- and you'll discover for yourself why "everything happens for a reason."
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Jolly old Saint Nick goes from the nice list to the naughty list when an old wager runs up and his promise to be nice takes a backseat to his murderous impulses in this comic tale of terror from first-time director David Steiman. It turns out that the story of Santa Claus as we know it isn't quite the whole story, and instead of being a kind hearted gift-giver, Santa is actually a devilish life-taker. It was 1000 years ago that the cherubic devil lost a bet with an angel that forced him to play nice for an entire millennium. Though he remained true to his word and spread Christmas cheer for what secretly seemed like an eternity, Santa's patience has run dry with the expiration of the wager, and when this bet runs up the legend of kindly old Kriss Kringle will never be quite the same. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
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A passenger jet breaks apart in mid-air, crash-landing on a tropical island somewhere in the Pacific Ocean. Left without the creature comforts and basic necessities of civilization, the 48 survivors are forced to rely upon one another to stay alive -- and given the personality quirks of these survivors, this won't be easy during the first season of the ABC hit series Lost. Generally with the help of flashbacks, viewers learn a number of deep dark secrets about the castaways on a need-to-know basis, especially the demons plaguing Dr. Jack Shephard (Matthew Fox) and one-hit-wonder rock star Charlie Pace (Dominic Monaghan). Every so often, a crisis arises for the principal purpose of revealing a hitherto unknown and unsuspected aspect of one of the characters. Inevitably, hostilities both minor and serious arise from the basic fundamental differences among the survivors: Korean couple Jin and Sun Kwon (Daniel Dae Kim, Yunjin Kim) are unable to uphold their family traditions under the circumstances, while their inability to speak English creates an additional barrier between themselves and the others; and the MacGyver-like resourcefulness of former Iraqi Republican Guard Sayid (Naveen Andrews) is not enough to overcome the racism of some of his fellow passengers. Then there is the unfriendly aura of the island itself, with its inscrutable topography, and the bizarre menagerie of wild animals, ranging from a polar bear to a (possible) dinosaur! Also, the discovery in one episode of two long-dead bodies certainly does nothing to uplift the rescue hopes of the hapless survivors. And finally, there seems to be someone else on the island...someone not on the passenger list...someone who kidnaps two of the castaways and threatens to kill off the rest one by one. The one overriding question near the end of season one is: who among the "major" characters will not make it to season two? ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
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This made-for-TV remake of the classic movie chiller Carrie is slightly more faithful to the original Stephen King novel--and slightly less profane and violent. Following in the bloody footsteps of Sissy Spacek, Angela Bettis stars as woebegone high school girl Carrie White, whose shy and awkward demeanor obscures the fact that she is "gifted" with awesome telekinetic powers. As part of a cruel and vicious student prank, Carrie's better-looking and more socially savvy classmates arrange for the hapless heroine to be elected prom queen--and one does not have to have seen the original film to know the terror that is unleashed once Carrie is crowned (in more ways than one). The climax is infinitely more "high tech" than in the 1976 film, but whether it is equally as frightening is a matter of taste; additionally, the 2002 version boasts a radically different ending, one that could very well accommodate a sequel or two...or three... Patricia Clarkson reprises the old Piper Laurie role as Carrie's abusive religious-fanatic mother. Carrie first aired November 4, 2002, on NBC. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
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This beautiful Chesterfield sofa has a timeless appeal. Its sophisticated styling features a classic scroll arm design with elegant piping detail. Finished in sumptuous, soft black velvet-effect fabric with hand threaded button detailing, it's a stunning addition to any classic or contemporary room.
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Sofa Depth Including Recliner | 72cm |
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Singapore Swing
Peaceful and prosperous, Southeast Asia's famously uptight nation has let its hair down
- By David Lamb
- Photographs by Justin Guariglia
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It was 3 a.m. and I was fresh off a Singapore Airlines flight from Newark—at 18 hours, the longest regularly scheduled, nonstop commercial flight in the world. Jet lag was playing havoc with my system. So I left the hotel and headed over to Boat Quay, not expecting to find much except fresh air and solitude. This, after all, was Singapore, long ridiculed as a prissy, soulless place, with no DNA for fun, culture or the arts. Singapore? Isn't that where chewing gum is illegal and Cosmopolitan magazine is banned as too racy? Where bars close before anyone starts having a good time, and everyone is so obsessed with work that the government launched a smile campaign to get people to lighten up?
The first time I saw Singapore, while on an R & R break from covering the Vietnam War in 1969, the quay was part of a decrepit waterfront, crowded with sampans and junks. Gaunt, dull-eyed faces peered out of opium dens in a Chinatown alleyway I happened upon. The newly independent country—a city-state about the size of Chicago—was in the process of leveling vast areas of slums and jungle, as well as a good deal of its architectural heritage. There wasn't a lot to do after you had seen the teeming harbor and Bugis Street, where transsexuals sashayed by every evening to the delight of tourists and locals. I stayed only two days, and left thinking I had discovered a remarkably unremarkable country destined to join the impoverished fraternity of third-world nobodies.
Located just north of the Equator, Singapore has never recorded a temperature lower than 66 degrees Fahrenheit, and tropical heat hung heavy the night I returned. I turned onto the stone promenade that followed the Singapore River. Glass-fronted tourist boats were moored at the docks, but there was not a sampan in sight. Boat Quay, renovated, ablaze in lights, startled me. Outdoor restaurants with tables under colorful umbrellas stretched along the waterfront. Across the river, floodlights illuminated the old colonial British post office that has been transformed into the Fullerton Hotel and voted the best hotel in Asia in a recent international survey. The shoulder-to-shoulder bars in the quay were packed with hip young Singaporeans and European expatriates, drinking Guinness and Old Speckled Hen on draft and cheering a replay of the Liverpool-Reading soccer game on flat-screen TVs.
I ordered a Kilkenny. The bartender was doing a Tom Cruise Cocktail routine, flipping bottles behind his back and pouring with a flourish. His assistant, a Chinese Singaporean with silken black hair falling to her waist and low-slung jeans, applauded and gave him a hug. I asked the bartender what time last call was. "Dawn," he said. "We're in one of the new entertainment zones."
Whoooa! Could this be the stuffy, somber Singapore I had been warned about? This tiny nation—whose ascendancy from malaria-infested colonial backwater to gleaming global hub of trade, finance and transportation is one of Asia's great success stories—is reinventing itself, this time as a party town and regional center for culture and the arts. "Prosperity is not our only goal, nor is economic growth an end in itself," says Singapore's prime minister, Lee Hsien Loong. Translation: let the good times roll. Suddenly people are describing the city with a word that, until recently, wasn't even in the local vocabulary: trendy.
The government has lifted its prohibition on bar-top dancing and bungee jumping. Cosmopolitan is very much for sale on the newsstands (though Playboy still hasn't made the cut) and sugarless chewing gum is available (with a doctor's prescription saying it is for medicinal purposes, such as dental health). Plans are under way to build two Las Vegas-style casino resorts, worth a combined $3.3 billion, on Marina Bay. International brand-name clubs, such as Ministry of Sound, the mother of London rave clubs, and Bangkok's Q Bar, have opened satellites here. A colonial-era girls' school, Convent of the Holy Infant Jesus, has been reborn as a complex of upscale restaurants known as Chijmes. All this is enough to make Singapore's traditionally well-behaved 3.6 million citizens feel as though they went to sleep in Salt Lake City and woke up in pre-Katrina New Orleans.
"Night life started taking off in Singapore when the government extended bar hours, just as Bangkok, South East Asia's traditional party town, was cutting them back from 4 a.m., to 2, then 1," says David Jacobson, the American co-owner of Q Bar Bangkok. "It was a pretty draconian turnaround for Bangkok, and what you find is that a lot of people looking for fun these days are avoiding Bangkok and heading to Hong Kong or Singapore instead."
But the new Singapore isn't only about partying. In a city that long considered a cultural event something you found in a movie theater or a shopping mall, Singapore's government is spending hundreds of millions of dollars on museums, cultural festivals and the arts. It even subsidizes avant-garde theater that sometimes dares touch on sensitive or controversial subjects. Performers such as Eric Clapton, Bobby McFerrin, the St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra and the Vienna Boys' Choir have appeared at the $390 million Esplanade Theatres on the Bay, which sits on the site of an old British gun battery. No one in the Esplanade audience even seemed to notice that the guest conductor of the National Orchestra, Jacoma Bairos, had a ponytail. This in a country where authorities a generation ago could deny entry to long-haired male travelers. Recently, so many people were on hand for a Vatican exhibition at the Asian Civilizations Museum that doors were kept open round-the-clock to accommodate last day procrastinators. The director, sensing a marketing opportunity, showed up at midnight in a housecoat to address the crowd.
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I stopped paying attention to Time many years ago. My twin brother and I, already plotting our emigration to the United States, subscribed as college students in England in the 1960's to get some sense of this world-straddling "indispensable nation"—as Clinton administration Secretary of State Madeleine Albright later called it, possibly not for our reasons—and also because our English liberal professors assured us it was written by "Cold Warriors."
(We were puzzled to find no sign of this. We were also puzzled by the extraordinary behemoths reported to be common in American college football. As Baby Boomers who clearly remembered the Labour government's extension of food rationing until well after World War II, we decided it must be the orange juice.)
But now my American anchor-baby teenage son reads Time as a substitute for conversation while scarfing down breakfast before school. (Oddly, he doesn't like orange juice.) So I got to see this item in the April 20 treezine: "Undocumented And Undeterred: A rough economy and tough enforcement have put unprecedented stress on illegal immigrants. What one Oregon town tells us about why they're staying, by Nathan Thornburgh."
It was mostly the usual twaddle, insisting that eliminating America's illegal ("undocumented") immigrant population is, literally, unthinkable. This only confirms repeated opinion-poll findings, including the April 20 Rasmussen Reports, which indicated that there exists an enormous gulf on this issue between Americans and what Rasmussen calls the "political class." (Rasmussen reported that 66 percent of Americans think it is "Very Important" that illegal immigration be dealt with—but only 32 percent of the "political class" agreed.)
Some aspects of Thornburgh's brief for national liquidation caught my attention. For example:
As tempting as it is in places like St. Helens to try to send the illegal immigrants packing, it would be a bit like letting AIG or GM collapse: it might feel good and it might be morally justified, but in the long run it would just increase the misery on Main Street. Like it or not, with more than 10 million Margaritos [the illegal-alien hero of Thornburgh's sob-story lead] from coast to coast, illegal America is simply too big to fail.
Now, I realize that there are differing opinions at Chronicles about the wisdom of allowing the flaky financial superstructure (as opposed to the sound productive foundation) of worthy Midwestern industrial enterprises to "collapse." But there can be no disagreement that, as an analog for illegal immigration, Time's comparison is absurd. There are some ten to twenty million illegal immigrants in the United States, but they are overwhelmingly unskilled, and many are children; thus, their total economic output is relatively small—probably less than one percent of the U.S. Gross Domestic Product. (That's not net of their costs to the American taxpayer, through schools, hospital emergency rooms, etc.) A systematic rooting out of illegal immigrants, similar to President Eisenhower's very successful Operation Wetback, would cause, at most, economic ripples, many of which would cancel each other out.
Actually, the Time story was far from the worst immigration-enthusiast story I've ever seen. It conceded fairly that "there is a sincerity to the most ardent activists against illegal immigration in St. Helens, a sense that their town is trapped in the swale of a very bad economic cycle and that the undocumented workers might be making things worse." It profiled an heroic local activist, Wayne Mayo, who organized a local ballot measure to fine employers of illegal aliens: "He was outspent and outorganized by regional activist groups—he raised $430, they raised more than $70,000—but his proposal still won by 15 percentage points."
Karl Rove and assorted Republican campaign consultants, call your offices! (On second thought, don't bother.)
What struck me most about the Time story, however, was not its human-interest huffing and puffing—that's par for the course in immigration-enthusiast reporting—but its profound economic illiteracy. This aspect is distressing to me as a journalist, because the consensus among labor economists has not altered since I reported the state of the technical debate in relatively simple English in my book Alien Nation: Common Sense About America's Immigration Disaster in 1995.
First, the immense influx of immigrants inadvertently unleashed by the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, and the simultaneous collapse of the southern border, may raise GDP somewhat—but the bulk of that is captured by the immigrants themselves in the form of wages. Hence the Time article's anecdotes of happy illegals, which the author evidently expects to be compelling.
Second, the influx has been, in aggregate, of nugatory net benefit to native-born Americans. Thus, while immigration may not have caused the collapse of the Oregon timber industry, it certainly has not been a cure.
Third, immigration interacts with government transfer-payment systems to impose a net loss on taxpayers. In some parts of the United States, this is really serious. In California it exceeded $1,000 per year for every native-born American household as long ago as 1996, according to the National Research Council's report The New Americans.
This point is completely lost on Time's Thornburgh. One reason his illegal-alien hero Margarito refuses to leave Oregon is that his autistic son gets 24 hours of special education in St. Helens, compared with only 1 in Mexico. Tragic—but who's paying?
Fourth, while immigration does not benefit native-born Americans in the aggregate, it does cause a significant redistribution of wealth among Americans—shifting as much as two percent of GDP from labor to capital, basically by beating down wages.
Showing restraint unusual for an immigration-enthusiast sob story, Thornburgh didn't quote any local employers saying what good (meaning cheap) workers the immigrants are. (That may be because he was shocked by the low pay Margarito received for cleaning out the back of a St. Helens store, although such exploitation—the job was obviously off the books—is precisely the point.) But Thornburgh doesn't have to quote anyone. As a member of the mainstream media elite, he can interview himself every time he uses his expense account in a Manhattan restaurant.
I reviewed the state of the "economics of immigration" debate in a long interview with Harvard's George Borjas, the preeminent authority in the field and himself a Cuban immigrant, which was published in the compendium Immigration and the American Future (Chronicles Press, 2007).
Borjas reported no serious challenge to the consensus, which he played a considerable part in developing. We discussed a 2005 paper by economists Gianmarco Ottaviano and Giovanni Peri (Rethinking the Gains From Immigration: Theory and Evidence From the U.S., published by the National Bureau of Economic Research), which purported to find that immigrants had actually increased the wages of the native-born and which, not coincidentally, had received a lot of publicity. Borjas criticized the paper on technical grounds. (The authors have subsequently retreated.) We also discussed a 2002 paper by economists Donald R. Davis and David E. Weinstein (Technological Superiority and the Losses From Immigration, NBER), which suggested that immigration was inflicting a much larger loss on native-born Americans than had previously been thought and which, again not coincidentally, had received almost no publicity at all. Here, Borjas respectfully punted, saying that the result of the study was important but derived from trade theory, which was alien to him as a labor economist. He added that the authors had a hard time getting the paper published and that, as far as he knew, no Ph.D. students were doing the research necessary to confirm the theory.
Even the ivory tower is not totally unswayed by the political pressures that shape the mainstream media—but it has, at least, acquitted itself more honorably. Thus, the conclusions of The New Americans—essentially what I outlined above—have never been reported in the Wall Street Journal.
More recently, Borjas himself has returned to the broader question of immigration's economic utility. In The Analytics of the Wage Effect of Immigration (March 2009, NBER), he argues not only that the short-run effects of immigration must be negative for wages but that the long-run effects may also be negative, depending on the effect of immigration on the consumer base. In other words, the damage to American workers may be, for practical purposes, permanent.
For me, the ultimate question about the economics of immigration has always been whether it secures some economic benefit for Americans that they could not secure for themselves. Regardless of the details of its impact, is it necessary?
Somewhat surprisingly, there is no debate about this at all, perhaps because the question is so rarely asked. I once got Julian Simon, who never really has been replaced as the designated immigration-enthusiast go-to economist since his premature death in 1997, to concede the point. "I've never said it's necessary," Simon replied (Forbes, August 30, 1993).
If it's not necessary, why does America's political class insist on it? Why are Americans being required to transform themselves for nothing—and even to pay for the privilege?
Peter Brimelow is the editor of VDare.com and author of Alien Nation: Common Sense About America's Immigration Disaster, which can be downloaded for free at his site.
This article first appeared in the June 2009 issue of Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture.
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The communist playwright Berthold Brecht once commented about the solution to the woes of the East German red government of the 1950s was to elect a new people. That is what the Democrats wish to do today. The Democrats haven't won a plurality of white votes in presidential elections since 1964 so it is in the interests of the Democratic Party to re-mold America into a majority-minority country. To make this easier to swallow, most white Democrats feel comfortable wallowing in self-hatred and white guilt. A majority-minority America not only makes Democrats more electable, it helps salve the neurosis of white liberals.
As for the Republicans, the stupid party as Samuel Francis trenchantly noted, much of their elite supports higher immigration in order to lower wages and increase profits for their companies and industries. They have no loyalty to the core American population groups. Their loyalty is only to money. Of course, if the Democrats begin to dominate the American government in the 2000s like Sweden's Social Democrats dominated that country's government in the 1900s, the profits of the Republican elite will be taxed away. And the Democrats will dominate the American government if America becomes a majority-minority nation. As Karl Marx once noted, the capitalists will sell the rope that will eventually be used to hang them. And so the Republican elite so fervently work to destroy themselves. That is why they are the stupid party.
Last week I watched a YouTube video made by a repoter in Liberia. This American colony of West Africa is truly horrendous to say the least. This prompted me to do a Google search of Liberia's national IQ, the result is not flattering because its average IQ is 65, placing it above only Sierra Leone -- 64, and Sao Tome --59. The highest West African IQ was 75 which matched the West Indian/Carribean nations. So 13% of the voting public is pretty dim, yet their offspring still qualify for college with preferential set-asides. Mexicans don't fare much better they (and other Central American nations) are in the 87 range. Another 10% dragging down the American average to 98, placing it below Poland at 99. So much for dumb Polacks!
However, the higher national IQs among Europeans has not done much to change anything for the better amidst the present security of welfare state socialism. Maybe our future is exactly as Mike Judge predicted in his horrific film, Idiocracy. Our supposedly well-educated elites must really want social destruction to maintain for themselves the strings of power. And Western Europe has either swallowed the bait of self-loathing, or have simply become money grubbers with lots of electronic toys, and no children to be their responsible future. The first step is to have three or more children and not worry about paying the college education that would probably poison their brains.
These stories never seem to mention the huge amount of money that is sent out of the US, money which not only doesn't contribute to our economy but acts like a trade deficit.
I agree with Mr Stanton, that is, assuming that he is talking about immigrants who continually send money to relatives back home. It may not be as big a problem as the sending of jobs, facilities, and infrastructure overseas, but it is a big drain, sucking blood out of our body politic.
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You are the most entertainingly offensive writer I've come across in along time. I got a huge laugh over your quip about LBJ sending all the southern riff-raff north to piss in the stairwells of big city high-rises. As one who passed many times uder the gunports, I mean windows, of Chicago's Cabrini Green housing project back in its glory days before the yups started moving in - who'd have ever thought that jogging soccermoms chugging along behind five hundred dollar baby carriages could have pushed out a population of stone killers, stone-cold pushers, and their vicious women - I appreciated that explaination of how they got there.
Growing up in Chicago, Polack jokes were always in the air, and they seemed to take it in stride, but
once they got Poped, being a Catholic I felt constrained to lay off. But there's nothing stopping us now!I can't count how many times I've kicked myself for not sitting down with my father and getting from him his story of arriving in Baltimore harbor as a six-year old on a steamship, or his first impression on arriving at Chicago's North Avenue "German Broadway", or asking if he had any memory of the 1908 World Champion Cubs, or if he knew what led his father to make the decision to come to America. When I think of how much that man loved America, how hard he strove to become an American, how painfully he distanced himself from his Germanic heritage, and then I see the crowds of today's heedless, unassimilated, ungrateful illegal immigrants that are turning Chicago into the Lower East Side, it fills me with anger at the betrayal of him and the multitudes of other legal immigrants like him for whom being called an American was one of their proudest achievements.


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Typically architects work with a contract (memo of understanding, letter form of agreement, contract but never, ever, on a verbal handshake… riiihhhttt!) which delineates the services to be performed and the fee to be paid. Frequently the contract also defines the "how and when" that payments are to be made.
Did you know that if an architect requires payment at completion of the services, there are more avenues available when payments go wrong? Did you know that if an architect allows payment to be made within some duration after work is completed, credit has been extended and a different set of "rules" apply when trying to secure payment?
I have a question from Rebecca, an architect in St. Louis. She says her firm (which does primarily small residential projects) has had more requests to pay architectural fees by credit card. Normally they say they don't and they work out a payment plan. With the tight economy, they are trying to evaluate whether accepting credit cards and/or Paypal would help their business.
For starters, my personal view: They should be called "charge" cards and not "credit" cards – a charge card is paid off every month (I think it's this mindset that has caused a big portion of the entire country becoming over extended; please think about it.). With that said, let's discuss accepting credit cards. Philosophically professional services would be similar to "going to home improvement store and buying materials"… might we not want to stay head and shoulders above that? But considering the convenience issue, doctors accept credit cards (attorneys and CPAs do not). Determine your own stance on the issue.
Have you ever had a dispute with a merchant? If you have, and you couldn't work it out and you charged the purchase, you could execute "charge back" rights within a specified period after incurring the cost (i.e., 90 days or so). Consider what your policy will be if a client pays for architectural services by charge card, gets contractor pricing on the project, and later decides he/she doesn't like something that was drawn. Will he/she contact their charge card company and ask for a credit?
The cost to accept charge cards can well offset a slim profit margin. Contact the bank that holds your business accounts and ask about its fees. Also contact your local "warehouse" store (Costco offers credit card processing for a percentage less than most banks).
I'm all for finding alternate ways to do business that makes sense and solves a real problem. I think the problem should be clearly stated and the philosophy to solve it should be sound, then the solution will become evident.


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The flesh of cucumbers is primarily composed of water but also contains vitamin C and caffeic acid, both of which help soothe skin irritations and reduce swelling-which is why cucumbers are often used to help swollen eyes and sunburn.
Mixed Greens Salad
Most lettuce greens contain 94 percent water, making it a low-energy density food. In other words, you'll feel fuller on fewer calories and lose weight faster.
Tomato Sauce
It may vary depending on the brand, but most store-bought tomato sauces are about 90 percent water. Plus, one half-cup serving of tomato sauce has only 50 calories and zero grams of fat.
With 95 percent water by weight, Zucchini is one of the most hydrating vegetables you can eat.
A healthy serving has less than 25 calories and is an excellent source of folate, potassium, and vitamins A and C.
Bell Peppers
Colorful bell peppers are 92 percent water, yet they're still rich sources of some of the best nutrients available, including vitamin C, thiamine, vitamin B6, beta carotene, and folic acid.
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The first uranium discoveries were made in the western province of Salamanca in 1957 - 1958. Subsequently other finds were made further to the south and, in one instance, in central Spain. Production began in 1959 and by the end of 2002, a cumulative total of over 6 000 tonnes had been produced. Ore mining ceased in December 2000 and the production of uranium concentrates was terminated 2 years later. In January 2007 a Canadian company, Mawson Resources, applied for two exploration permits in the La Haba district of Extremadura in south-western Spain.
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Gabapentin in the Prevention of Nausea and Vomiting Induced by Chemotherapy
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Gabapentin is an antiepileptic drug. Its antiemetic effect is demonstrated after laparoscopic surgery, but it is not yet known whether gabapentin is effective in preventing chemotherapy induced emesis.
The purpose of this study is to determine whether the addition of gabapentin to dexamethasone plus ondansetron increase the control of chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting.
Condition | Intervention | Phase |
Vomiting Cisplatin Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols |
Drug: Placebo Drug: Gabapentin |
Phase 3 |
Study Type: | Interventional |
Study Design: | Allocation: Randomized Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment Masking: Double Blind (Subject, Caregiver, Investigator) Primary Purpose: Treatment |
Official Title: | Clinical Trial of Gabapentin in the Prevention of Nausea Ond Vomiting Induced by Chemotherapy, a Randomized, Double-blind, Placebo Controled Study |
- Proportional of patients with complete response (CR) during chemotherapy course 1 (0-120h). The CR will be defined as no emetic episodes and no nausea episodes. [ Time Frame: 6 days ] [ Designated as safety issue: Yes ]
- Proportion of patients with CR during acute phase (0-24 hours) after administration of chemotherapy course 1 [ Time Frame: 1 day ] [ Designated as safety issue: Yes ]
- Proportion of patients with CR during delayed-onset phase (24-120 hours) after administration of chemotherapy course 1 [ Time Frame: 6 days ] [ Designated as safety issue: Yes ]
- Quality of life and the impact of nausea and vomiting on day 6 with the nausea subscale on the Functional Living Index-emesis questionnaire [ Time Frame: 6 days ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- Time to treatment failure based on time to first emetic episode or time to first use of rescue medication [ Time Frame: 5 days ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- Severity of nausea daily and during chemotherapy course 1 (0-120 hours) [ Time Frame: 5 days ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
Estimated Enrollment: | 80 |
Study Start Date: | January 2009 |
Estimated Study Completion Date: | July 2010 |
Estimated Primary Completion Date: | July 2010 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure) |
Arms | Assigned Interventions |
Placebo Comparator: Control group
Dexamethasone 10mg + Ondansetron 8mg + Ranitidine 50mg , IV, before chemotherapy infusion (D1) Dexamethasone 8mg orally 24h (day 2) and 48h (day 3) after chemotherapy Placebo:
Drug: Placebo
Placebo, given orally
Experimental: Gabapentin
Dexamethasone 10mg + Ondansetron 8mg + Ranitidine 50mg , IV, before chemotherapy infusion (D1) Dexamethasone 8mg orally 24h (day 2) and 48h (day 3) after chemotherapy Gabapentin 300mg:
Drug: Gabapentin
Gabapentin 300mg, orally
Ages Eligible for Study: | 18 Years and older |
Genders Eligible for Study: | Both |
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | No |
Inclusion Criteria:
- First course of chemotherapy ( cisplatin or doxorubicin at a dose of at least 50mg per square meter)
- Written informed consent must be obtained before initiating the protocol procedures
Exclusion Criteria:
- Nausea and vomiting within the past 1 day
- Gastrointestinal obstruction
- Concurrent use of opioid
- Patients with brain metastases
- History of allergic or other adverse reaction to gabapentin
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Contact: Elie Fiss | 551149935427 | firstname.lastname@example.com |
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Faculdade de Medicina do ABC | Recruiting |
Santo André, São Paulo, Brazil, 09060-650 | |
Contact: Helio Pinczowski 55114993-5491 firstname.lastname@example.com |
Study Director: | Auro del Giglio, phD | Faculdade de Medicina do ABC |
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Additional publications automatically indexed to this study by ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier (NCT Number):
Responsible Party: | Felipe Melo Cruz, Faculdade de Medicina do ABC |
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT01052844 History of Changes |
Other Study ID Numbers: | ABC-2009 |
Study First Received: | December 17, 2009 |
Last Updated: | January 19, 2010 |
Health Authority: | Brazil: National Committee of Ethics in Research |
Keywords provided by Faculdade de Medicina do ABC:
Vomiting Antiemetics Dexamethasone Cisplatin Antineoplastic combined chemotherapy protocols |
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Vomiting Signs and Symptoms, Digestive Signs and Symptoms Dexamethasone Gabapentin Anti-Inflammatory Agents Therapeutic Uses Pharmacologic Actions Antiemetics Autonomic Agents Peripheral Nervous System Agents Physiological Effects of Drugs Central Nervous System Agents Gastrointestinal Agents Glucocorticoids |
Hormones Hormones, Hormone Substitutes, and Hormone Antagonists Antineoplastic Agents, Hormonal Antineoplastic Agents Analgesics Sensory System Agents Anticonvulsants Antiparkinson Agents Anti-Dyskinesia Agents Calcium Channel Blockers Membrane Transport Modulators Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action Cardiovascular Agents Anti-Anxiety Agents Tranquilizing Agents |
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on December 11, 2013