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NEW YORK There has been a lull. Talk of "Girls" settled down after its bombshell first season as fans took the opportunity to catch their breath.
That ends now. "Girls" is returning for its second season, Sunday at 9 p.m. EST. HBO's saga of four young women living in New York will then resume, with their struggles almost certain to inspire another round of amused if pained recognition on the part of the show's devotees.
"Girls," of course, was created by Lena Dunham, now 26, who also stars as Hannah, a would-be but none-too-successful writer living in Brooklyn. Hannah's circle of highly verbal, overanalytical chums includes Marnie, a gallery assistant played by Allison Williams; sexy self-absorbed bohemian Jessa (Jemima Kirke); and Jessa's cousin, the naive motormouth Shoshanna, whose coming-of-age in the first season included losing her virginity and accidentally smoking crack.
Shoshanna has other things going on. In the season opener, she is first glimpsed in her bedroom waving a smudge stick as she thanks "the higher powers for all the gifts I have already received: a keen mathematical mind and fairly fast-growing hair."
It's a testament to "Girls" that a moment like this feels as authentic as it is funny.
But what does it all mean? Zosia Mamet, who plays Shoshanna with frank, wide-eyed honesty, is being grilled by a reporter for surely the zillionth time. Still, she's game to help account for what makes "Girls" a show people talk about so passionately.
"This time period has been written about before, but in a very glossy way," says Mamet in a determined near-whisper. "People idealize or reminisce about their 20s, but nobody tells you beforehand that it's hard and unglamorous and often very unpleasant. What Lena has written reveals that, and it speaks to a lot of people."
Mamet, who turns 25 next month, hastens to add that she is living a much different life from Shoshanna and company. Unlike them, she found her direction early on: "By the time I was 17," she says, "I was in the flux of this crazy industry pushing to be an actress, which I wanted more than anything in the world."
Nonetheless, the trial-and-error lifestyle portrayed on "Girls" resonates for Mamet and loads of people she knows as they reach the expiration date for their precociousness.
"There's this inescapable moment in your early 20s, no matter how you get there, of feeling like everything you've known up until then is either wrong or doesn't fit," she declares, "and suddenly you're faced with this feeling of `Who the (heck) am I? How do I do life? HOW is life DONE?'"
Even the characters' well-intentioned efforts at good times are often stressful and humiliating. (And sometimes cringe-inducing for viewers, for whom "Girls," unlike most TV shows, serves as a graphic reminder that sex between young people can be shockingly un-sexy.)
In this way, among many, does the tone of "Girls" strike a perfectly unsettling balance.
"Comedy arises out of necessity, because some things are so dark that you have to laugh about it," says Mamet. "In this show there are very uncomfortable, very real situations that can make me cry and laugh at the same time."
Zosia (whose name, pronounced ZAH-shah, sounds like "Sasha" with a Z) is the daughter of actress Lindsay Crouse and playwright-filmmaker David Mamet, who split, she says, "when I was a zygote." He then married actress Rebecca Pidgeon.
Acting, therefore, "is the family business. I grew up backstage and on movie sets, and I thought they were the most magical places on Earth. But my dad, who was always very supportive, never pushed me in that direction. In the same way kids from non-artistic families who want to be actors might be told, `Well, that's odd, but whatever makes you happy is OK,' if I'd wanted to be a veterinarian, I think my dad would be like, `That's odd, but OK.'"


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Bennett Miller's Moneyball follow-up sees Steve Carell playing John du Pont, the rich heir who ended up being a paranoid schizophrenic and murdering Olympic wrestler David Schultz. Here's a first look at a balding Mark Ruffalo in a unitard for that role, with Channing Tatum alongside to play his garbage bag-toting brother Mark. As you can see here, Ruffalo is doing a pretty solid job with the part. Though, as noted in the title, he's also doing a pretty solid Brett Gelman, thus continuing his weirdly-specific trend of accidentally looking like a comedian when he's meant to be a brute too muscular to wear full pants. Classic Ruffalo.
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Remembering Ray
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It will be seven years this June since the death of Ray Charles, but several new releases suggest that neither he nor his music are in danger of being forgotten any time soon.
Not that Ray Charles Live in Concert (Concord) is new. It was, after all, first released in 1965, the year after the performances it captures were recorded at Los Angeles' Shrine Civic Auditorium. But in those days the double live album was as yet undreamt of in the philosophies of record companies, so the only version of the concert that has existed until now was the 12-song one that ABC Records edited down to fit onto 12 inches of vinyl.
The new edition adds seven songs that practically double the length of the original. And besides restoring a seven-minute version of Charles' first mainstream No. 1 hit, "Georgia on My Mind," to the program (how ABC left that one off the vinyl version is anyone's guess), it also reinstates performances of "Busted" (which had reached No. 4 in its studio incarnation) and "Two Ton Tessie," whose punch lines would probably run afoul of anti-hate-crime legislation today ("Her appendix had to come out fast. / They couldn't operate, so they had to blast") but that elicited an auditorium's worth of laughter 47 years ago. (Meanwhile, Charles' and the Raeletts' similarly borderline-insensitive imitation of a Japanese vocal group singing "Pop Goes the Weasel" on the "What'd I Say"--following "Finale" falls flat.)
Not to be outdone, Blue Note Records has released Here We Go Again: Celebrating the Genius of Ray Charles, a compendium of two 2009 concerts at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts by Willie Nelson, Wynton Marsalis, and their guest vocalist, Norah Jones.
Classy but in touch with their roots, Marsalis and his jazz quintet are the ideal musicians to recreate the vibe of a vintage Charles gig. And, were Charles alive today, Lincoln Center is exactly the sort of venue that he would be playing. But it would be hard to find singers less worthy of "celebrating" his impassioned soul-gospel vocal style than Willie Nelson and Norah Jones.
At least Nelson, who has recorded with Marsalis before and who scored a chart-topping country hit ("Seven Spanish Angels") with Charles in 1984, is comfortable with the material. Jones, on the other hand, except on "Makin' Whoopee," is doing well even to sound fully awake. Thankfully, the same can't be said of Marsalis, who, singer though he isn't, sounds fully engaged (and fully engaging) during his brief vocal turns on "Busted," "What'd I Say," and "Hit the Road Jack."
Frankly, uneven though the "celebration" is, it will have done the world a solid service if it causes lovers of Charles' genius to investigate last fall's excellent Concord revelation, Rare Genius: The Undiscovered Masters. Compiled from never-finished recordings going back to the 1970s and posthumously re-touched for maximum seamlessness by producer John Burk with help from the likes of Keb Mo and Eric Benét, it's a reminder of the Jericho-like effect that Charles' instincts and voice could have on the walls dividing genres.
The sumptuous nightclub-friendly numbers ("Wheel of Fortune"), the blues ("It Hurts to Be in Love"), the gospel-inflected funk ("I'm Gonna Keep Singin'"), the contemporary-in-any-era-sounding pop-soul ("Love's Gonna Bite You Back," "I Don't Want No One but You"), and the country ("She's Gone") one takes for granted.
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The Federal Work-Study, (FWS), program provides the opportunity for a student to earn money by working in a City College office or at an off-campus location.
Work-Study is awarded to students with "financial need". Financial need is determined by the information reported on a student's FAFSA. The CUNY Office of Student Financial Aid is responsible for assessing need and setting the parameters of how Federal funds allotted for this program are allocated.
Apply for FWS on-campus positions online at:
The guidelines for the program are:
- A student must be "placed" (hired), in a Federal Work-Study position before he/she can work and be paid.
- Freshmen (1st-time college students) and transfer students, entering in the Fall cannot use their FWS award during the preceding Summer.
- A student must be matriculated, in good academic standing and not be in default of any student loans.
- A student must be registered for at least 6 credits during the semester(s) they are working. This requirement only applies to the Fall and Spring semesters. Summer school enrollment is optional for students working during the Summer. However, in order to work during the summer students must be registered for 6 credits for Fall 2014. Students who wish to work during the Summer must come to placement on a Summer placement date.
- Students who wish to work during the Fall, Intersession or Spring semesters (academic year), should apply for a position online at the CCNY Student Employment (JobX) website, interview with prospective supervisor, and then come to the Financial Aid Office on the appropriate Eligibility Screening date. A student only needs to come to placement once per academic year.
- Students should dress for the job interview on the day scheduled by the prospective supervisor.
- Students should choose a FWS job site carefully. A student is expected to remain at the chosen job site for the entire period the contract is in effect.
- During the Fall/Spring semesters students may work up to 20 hours per week when classes are in session and during finals.
During the Summer students may work up to 35 hours per week.
During Intercession, Spring Recess and after scheduled finals are over a student may work up to 35 hours per week until:
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- If students are interested in working through the Public Service Corps., a city agency that places FWS students in different city agencies, they must bring a resume with them on one of the designated eligibility screening date.
- Students are required to pay Social Security tax (FICA) of 6.2% on FWS earnings under any of the following conditions:
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2004-2007 Cadillac CTS-V Performance Mods Discussion, Stock Drive Shaft rebuild kit in the works in Cadillac CTS-V Series Forum - 2004 - 2007; I just got off the phone with Stan at Rockford Driveline and he and I have been in discussion about ...
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I just got off the phone with Stan at Rockford Driveline and he and I have been in discussion about making a rebuild kit for the stock drive shaft. I have a torn CV boot, so my shaft is done unless I can get my hands on a rebuild kit. This is the email I sent him, it has all of the info about the CVs used:The driveshaft for the 2004-2007 Cadillac CTS-V is supposedly non-serviceable, but I was able to disassemble the shaft and now I'm trying to rebuild it. The shaft has 2 CV joints:
One is 100mm OD, is 6x86mm PCD bolt pattern with 10mm bolts, and has a 1" 32 spline shaft. I have a sneaking suspicion that this is the same high speed CV joint as the Pontiac Solstice listed in your catalog, as it shares the exact same differential with the CTS-V.
The other CV has the outer race welded onto the drive shaft and needs to have the metal part of the boot crimped on. The OD of that CV is 94mm, and the channel that the metal part of the boot crimps into starts about 8mm from the edge of the CV. It has the same 1" 32 spline shaft, but the inner star piece of the CV has a captive spring circlip. The small end of the CV boot needs to be about 1" diameter (caliper shows 27mm where the boot clamps).
The carrier bearing is probably vehicle specific, but if there are generic ones it looks like you can take the factory mount for the bearing apart and press a new one in. The rubber isolator's outside diameter is metal and round and is 96mm diameter and 20mm thick. The bearing itself is 30mm ID and 20mm thick.
So I would happily buy the tool to crimp the boot on and there would probably be quite a few people on the Cadillac forums that would want to refurbish their boots, joints, and carrier bearings too if we could put together a kit. We've been told that the shaft is not serviceable, and the dealership wants $1300 for a new one, and aftermarket options start at $900, so $900 for a torn CV boot is a little ridiculous. Please let me know if you can help us out!!
Stan told me that in the next couple of months, I should check back because they are adding some more products to their line of high speed CVs and boots that might be able to solve our problem. If anyone has a lead on any supplier who makes high speed CV joints, please let me know!
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Re: Stock Drive Shaft rebuild kit in the works
I have a stocker sitting in my garage. It squeaks as it goes, but works just fine. If you're in need...
Re: Stock Drive Shaft rebuild kit in the works
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Re: Stock Drive Shaft rebuild kit in the works
I may need to temporarily borrow some modified trailing arms in the future, and by temporarily borrow, I mean permanently.
Re: Stock Drive Shaft rebuild kit in the works
That's nice 'n all but in my case the carrier bearing bushing/isolator is worn out and failing causing the driveshaft to buck up and down. Otherwise my CV's are fine and actual carrier bearing is nice and quiet. If this place is going to invest time into the project they should look into a serviceable type of carrier bearing assembly that eliminates the soft rubber bushing/isolator.
Re: Stock Drive Shaft rebuild kit in the works
+1, I have a stocker with a good CV and torn boot that I've hung on to in the hopes of replacing the boot and having a spare or someone else being able to use it. I'd be interested in this becoming a reality.
Still, why refer to "out of the new Camaros" when they've been in the manual V2s for the last 5 model years?
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Several weeks on from the loya jirga national council, the streets of Kabul have an extra bustle. Whereas in January the place was deserted by 6 pm, now the curfew has been extended to midnight, and it costs only $5 to buy the password that can allow your taxi to careen through checkpoints into the early hours. The chaotic rhythms of Indian music waft over jingling bicycles and tooting cars, while chai khanas, ubiquitous teahouses, are full--as are the growing number of restaurants, frequented by the thousands of foreign aid workers and other internationals. Increasing numbers of women cross through the center of town, adorned with a light head scarf rather than the stifling blue nylon burqa. Fresh life is palpable.
But not far below the surface, the loya jirga has changed little in the country. The suave President Hamid Karzai ostensibly presides with new legitimacy over a more representative administration. But except for juggling one of the ethnic Tajik-run power ministers, the so-called Panjshiri mafia of the old Northern Alliance mujahedeen fighters remains firmly in control, not only at the top but among the practical levers of control such as police chiefs, secret service heads and army commanders.
Without his own power base, Karzai is seen by some as less a real chief executive than a liberal opposition figure against his own Cabinet--offering no apparent strategy for securing and unifying the fractious country. "The only question," according to Paul Bergne, a former British special envoy to Afghanistan, "is whether this is because he has no interest, or simply a reasonable interest, in staying alive." Especially with the exclusion from power of former King Zahir Shah, the majority Pashtuns, concentrated in the south, where the Taliban emerged, feel disfranchised and demoralized. Rubbing salt in the wound, pictures of the martyred Ahmed Shah Massoud, the rebel leader killed by the Taliban on September 9, adorn every checkpoint, office and street corner, and even prayer mats on sale in the city markets.
Soon after the loya jirga, Vice President Haji Qadeer, an ethnic Pashtun, was gunned down in front of his office by two assailants, who escaped easily. The United States quickly agreed to provide American soldiers to serve as bodyguards for a somewhat panicked Karzai--doubtless a prudent security measure, but one viewed as shameful by Afghans worried that their leader is Washington's puppet. Meanwhile, public anger over continuing deaths of Afghan civilians at the hands of US rocket fire--such as the 175 casualties at a wedding in the tense southern province of Oruzgan--compelled even Karzai himself to complain. Separate UN and US investigations into the incident have been launched, amid speculation that the reports will never be released or that the most damaging conclusions--including alleged American removal of evidence--will be redacted. International troops are seen as essential for keeping the local fighting at bay, but Pashtuns bitterly question why the bulk of civilian casualties appear to be among Pashtun-majority areas in the south.
The overwhelming majority of the country's 20 million-odd people are still poor, ill and unemployed. Basic statistics confirm that the country remains at the bottom ranking of many development indexes, whether infant mortality, girls' enrollment in primary education (under 10 percent), annual deaths from diarrhea (85,000) or chronic unemployment, which cannot even begin to be measured.
Afghan officials--facing growing pressure from their own constituents--have been raising ever sharper alarms about the pace of aid payments. According to the US special envoy, only around one-third of the $1.8 billion in aid pledged for the year at an international donors' conference in Tokyo has been released. Kabul earns tax revenues of less than 15 percent of its $600 million annual budget. As a result, most aid has been spent either on humanitarian needs or simply on the daily costs of government. There have essentially been no major reconstruction works that would pump funds into the economy and rebuild the country's devastated infrastructure.
The first postwar administration in any society is inevitably problematic. Without any conditions for democracy--too many guns and recalcitrant warlords, no free press or civic institutions for independent organizing, no functioning economy--establishing a legitimate and representative administration is not easy. As the Bush Administration insists, enormous changes have indeed taken place. Whatever the problems, conditions are vastly improved from the circumstances of only a few months ago--when the country was plagued by severe persecution and increasing food shortages with seemingly no hope. Indeed, some Afghans respond sharply to any probing questions about the costs and benefits of the US intervention. "Those are questions for a Western perspective," remarked a senior local editor. "For us, we are glad the Taliban are gone."
Yet the risks of an unattended Afghanistan remain high. The transitional administration faces an enormous challenge, aiming to pave the way for truly democratic elections in 2004 while striving to balance conflicting and often violent local interests, and struggling to sustain international support. The core conflict, however, may be between America's pursuit of Al Qaeda and Afghan democracy itself: The US military directly supports many Afghan warlords as allies in its effort to stamp out Al Qaeda and Taliban holdouts. Continuing that policy will have a devastating effect on efforts to establish democratic central government and a meaningful civil society. This is especially true considering that, despite US training efforts, the establishment of an effective Afghan national army is years away, and Washington and other Western governments repeatedly reject Afghan calls--recently joined by Senators Joseph Biden, Richard Lugar and Barbara Boxer--to extend the international security assistance force to major cities other than Kabul.
As a result, the government's authority effectively ends at the capital's edge. As a result, too, peace could be short-lived. As BBC regional specialist Behrouz Afagh-Tebrizi notes, "There is a consensus to avoid a return to war, but there has not been any change in political culture. Unless the unresolved conflict between the warlords of the 1990s is transformed into a purely political struggle, it is not hard to see Afghanistan descending back into violence."
The trial in The Hague of the first state president indicted for genocide was to be the ultimate showdown. In the culmination of a fifty-year struggle by the human rights community against impunity, the firm weight of evidence and international law would be brought to bear on one of the world's most brutal dictators, Slobodan Milosevic. But the set-piece confrontation that began on February 12--a combined case covering three wars over ten years, which is expected to last more than two years--soon ran into problems.
By refusing legal counsel because he rejects the legitimacy of the court, Milosevic did more than insure the image of himself sitting alone against the world. He also gave himself license to thunder, without risking cross-examination, about the Balkan wars as a Western "Nazi" conspiracy to destroy socialist Yugoslavia. "This is a political trial that has nothing to do with the law," he declared.
For procedural reasons, the judges had the case run backward, starting with Kosovo and later taking up the earlier wars in Croatia and Bosnia. This allowed Milosevic to focus initially on the NATO bombing campaign--spending many hours in his opening speech listing civilians and civilian institutions hit (and including many horribly graphic photographs) and stressing his argument that Albanians fled Western bombs, not Serbian forces.
Milosevic played to public opinion, and much of Belgrade was delighted, with a local poll giving his performance high marks and his proud wife, Mira, beaming. If the tribunal hoped to break through Serbia's deep rejection of any responsibility for the wars and atrocities, the proceedings appeared to be having the opposite effect. "He has decided to work for the Serbian people and not for himself. He has broken the media lies produced about us," boasted one parliamentarian from Milosevic's Socialist Party.
Nor has Milosevic been totally alone outside Serbia. The International Committee to Defend Slobodan Milosevic, comprising activists, lawyers and intellectuals (including Harold Pinter and Ramsey Clark) has asserted that the "kangaroo court" with its "victor's justice" is illegitimate because the UN Security Council does not have explicit authority under Chapter VII of its charter to establish tribunals. Critics of the court also focused on small errors and confused witnesses in a prosecution case that began weakly. Some Albanians who took the stand seemed lost, failing to nail down the points sought by the prosecution or appearing overwhelmed by Milosevic's aggressive questioning.
The presiding judge, who sparred so fiercely with the defendant in preliminary proceedings, settled into a routine allowing him fairly wide latitude to cross-examine witnesses, only occasionally scolding, "That is enough, Mr. Milosevic." The schedule of the prosecution's case is constantly revised, as the defendant draws out lengthy (sometimes surprisingly well-prepared) cross-examinations stressing the violence of NATO, the Kosovo Liberation Army and even Al Qaeda against innocent Serbs.
It was easy to imagine Milosevic's performance sending quivers down spines at the US State Department and European foreign ministries as he threatened to call world leaders to the stand, highlight contradictions in the West's Balkans policy as well as civilian deaths caused by its actions, and plot the judicial free-for-all Western governments most fear. Bush Administration officials, appearing before the House Foreign Relations Committee on February 28, criticized delay and mismanagement at the tribunal and called for curtailing some investigations. The comments were delivered by Pierre-Richard Prosper, ambassador at large for war crimes issues, in the very hours when NATO forces were attempting, and failing, to arrest former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic in Bosnia. (The Administration sees the arrest of Karadzic as key to its exit strategy for the Balkans and as a prerequisite for closure of the Hague tribunal on the former Yugoslavia by 2008.) Wire reports spoke of "abandoning" the UN system of tribunals and gave the impression that Prosper's view of international tribunals was not far from that of Milosevic himself. Indeed, Washington has been adamant in its rejection of the permanent International Criminal Court, and its position on prisoners from Afghanistan has raised concern in Europe over its commitment to international humanitarian law. Prosper subsequently traveled to The Hague to make more emollient, if less publicized, remarks. Whether the episode was purposefully contradictory, or a storm brewed by selective reporting, a message had been sent.
But for Milosevic, none of this matters. Playing to the media, cross-examining witnesses on tangential issues, making accusations against others (Washington, Sarajevo, Saudi Arabia) instead of addressing charges in the indictment, indeed rejecting the authority of the tribunal (while fully participating)--these are all classic defense strategies. They may influence some opinion in Belgrade and even internationally, but the only relevant audience in the tribunal's hybrid legal system is the panel of three judges who will examine the evidence against him.
Milosevic himself, in court, has several times confirmed a clear chain of military command within the Yugoslav forces. In the coming months, the prosecution can be expected to present senior witnesses from the Belgrade establishment who should go further to confirm a direct conspiracy from the top to commit crimes in Kosovo, particularly mass deportation. The Croatian and Bosnian cases are far more complex, taking place outside the territory over which Milosevic was the chief authority. But the prosecution has laid out detailed diagrams of control in what it calls a joint criminal enterprise, and by all accounts the legal teams on these cases are stronger. The record of Milosevic's responsibility for the wars in the Balkans over the past decade will be aired.
It nonetheless remains a concern that critics, both pro-Milosevic and anti-international law, will exploit the impossibility of anyone but those obsessively following the whole case (available live online at www.domovina.net) to make highly selective critiques. In doing so, they may raise their own profiles but will impede the justice and reconciliation in the region that is the underlying goal of the war crimes tribunal.


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Is it just us, or is 2010 the year of rappers heading to — and leaving — jail?
On Monday (December 13), Queens MC Ja Rule joined a select group, including Lil Wayne, T.I. and The Geto Boys' Willie D, headed to a correctional facility. Rule reached a plea deal with prosecutors in a Manhattan courtroom that will see the rapper serve two years in prison. The charges stem from a gun bust in July 2007, when both Ja and Lil Wayne were arrested separately following a concert performance.
The Murder Inc. star pleaded guilty to attempted criminal possession of a weapon, a class D felony in the second degree.
Of course, as soon as the news hit, Ja's arch enemy and fellow Queens MC 50 Cent began heckling the Murder Inc rapper.
"Damn da homie Jah Rule gotta do two years," 50 Cent tweeted. "Tell him I said don't worry I got him when he come home. Lol … Jah came out the court room yelling who the f— canceled Christmas. Lol."
Ja Rule responded to the G-Unit general with his own 140 characters in kind.
"N—a u P—Y, shut up before I smack u in yo mouth again lol!! The nerve of some n—as!" Ja tweeted.
We're not sure if the two are joking or not with the repeated use of "lol" but let's hope this is all in fun. Elsewhere, fans reacted to Ja's sentencing online.
"Bad news guys, they are sending Ja Rule to jail," @ophiona said.
"Hm, so he gets that amount of time to serve for gun charges, yet Lil Wayne gets a couple months and a whole bunch of 'Free Weezy' airtime from Drake, and T.I. gets a show on VH1 and a shorter sentence too … I guess it helps to be popular!" fan J.S. wrote on MTVNews.com.
Others made light of the MC's predicament.
"Ja Rule's going to jail: two years for a gun charge, and a life sentence for MURDAAAAAA," @ItsTheReal, the hip-hop sketch comedy duo, tweeted.
Ja Rule also reaffirmed that his forthcoming LP, The Renaissance Project, is on the way. Like T.I., Rule retitled of his project as well.
"I changed the name of my album from Venni Vetti Vecci 2010," Ja Rule told MTV2 earlier this year. "First of all, Venni Vetti Vecci was my baby; that was my first album. You can never duplicate that era, that was my whole life's work in that album up until that time."
What do you think this jail sentence will mean for Ja Rule's career? Tweet us at @MTVRapFix or tell us in a comment below!


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Rusty Nails!!!
This month, we spoke to filmmaker RUSTY NAILS (Yes, that's his name), the writer/director behind the independent feature 'ACNE', the documentary 'HIGHWAY ROBBERY' and the upcoming documentary 'DEAD ON: THE LIFE & CINEMA OF GEORGE A. ROMERO'. After screening footage at a few conventions, it's clear that Rusty's 'DEAD ON' is going to be the most extensive documentary on George Romero and the workings of the independent filmmaker. We talked to him about the troubles of getting your first film finished, why he went into documentary filmmaking, and of course his experiences with George Romero. Check it out!!! !!! - by Robg., Mike C. 9/06
What are your earliest recollections of the horror genre? Do you remember the first movie that scared you and opened your world up to horror?
I think I saw the movie 'Frogs' on TV when I was a kid and being scared by that. Then I saw a Japanese movie called 'Attack Of The Mushroom People', when I was about 4, and it scared me so much that I didn't eat mushrooms for 5 years. (laughs) I was horrified by mushrooms. I used to stay up until 2 in the morning watching everything from 'Dracula Vs. Billy The Kid' to 'Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein'.
At what point did your interest in filmmaking begin? When did you think that maybe you could start making films?
You first feature was 'ACNE'. Can you bridge the gap for us between this period of starting to make films at 12 and making your first feature length film?
Actually, it would've been great if I started out making shorts. I did go to film school, and I made some short films, but at my school there was a very strict rule that you could NOT make features. Me, being a person with no rich uncles or relatives – basically being a wage slave like most people reading this interview – I felt like before I got out of school, I'd better start using that equipment immediately.
What's the origin behind the story for 'ACNE'? I've seen the film and based on that and seeing the trailer, it seems like it's an homage to all the old 50's B-movies.
It took a few years for you to complete 'ACNE'. What was one of the most difficult obstacles?
Then I added an additional 20 minutes, which I felt were much stronger and helped solidify the story. So, I think it's very important for filmmakers to make sure that your script is good! Because a lot of times you think your first draft is perfect, but I know in my case it wasn't. Now, I really go over my scripts, because as soon as you start filming, if there are a lot of things to be changed then you're wasting a lot of people's time.
Preparation is the key.
So, make sure you get all your music cleared. You might want to look on line for some forms, or just look thru some independent film books to check for forms. Something that was important to me, something that I thought would give the film a bigger feel was to use a lot of locations that were necessary. We didn't force them on the film. We had 90 locations. We only paid for 2. And all together, between those two, it only came out to be $175 dollars. I feel like a lot of independent filmmakers do these films that are only in a couple of rooms in a house, and the film feels really static. I suggest to people to watch a lot of films, and pay attention to a lot of the parts that you find interesting and just see how a film can breathe with a lot of settings. Never force settings either. You're only limited by your imagination, so don't be afraid to ask people about using locations. Tell people that you'll give them credit for putting their restaurant in the credits. Gosh, I hope I'm not giving too much of a film school lesson in this interview! (laughs)
No! Not at all. I think it's great if people can come and learn from different filmmakers thru these interviews. What were the good things to come out of your experience of making 'ACNE'?
The great things about 'ACNE' were that so many people helped on the film and 98% of all the people were great. We had a really nice family. Everyone was very supportive and no one got paid. Well, one person got paid and that was the make-up man, Jason Dummeldinger who got $225 to pay his rent for one week. He wanted to work on the film, but he couldn't this one week if he couldn't pay his rent, so I paid his rent. All together, we had 300 people work on the film for free and everyone was extremely sweet. On days that we didn't have food, some of the actors would bring food and feed other people! I really suggest if you're making a no-budget film, the most important thing is to be kind, considerate and appreciative of everyone. Even though the director is "the boss", it's very important to appreciate everybody weather you're paying them or not. And also, make sure you do your best to feed them. Whether it's from a restaurant or your mom has to cook, just try to feed everybody.
What's the name of the gentleman that this documentary is about and how'd you hook up with him?
Tom Ditzler. I was a film editor on a website called SuperSphere.com, which was a great website that had music culture, videos, and a political section. So, I went up there for one of the political stories and just fell in love with that family. So, that film is just about done right now. You can learn more about it at my website www.neweyefilms.com. So, I fell in love with that project and I've been working on that for the past couple of years as I finished up 'ACNE' and got that out. So, after working on that, I went thru the trenches with 'ACNE' – my first narrative feature, but putting that together and learning how to make that, what would've been easy was to follow-up with another narrative feature, but I decided to completely throw myself off course by making a documentary. (laughs) And that's 'Highway Robbery'.
I've always found him to be interesting, and I thought a documentary about him would be great. I know there are a couple out there already - smaller ones that don't cover his entire career. And I like the ones that I've seen. But I really wanted to cover HIS story, as well as the story of the communities he's built with a few different groups of people – the Image 10 group, and the Latent Image folks, and the crews that's had from 'Martin' to 'Day Of The Dead'. I thought there would be a lot of interesting angles to that. In 'Dead On: The Life and Cinema of George A. Romero', we're covering a lot of the independent film process, as well as the communities that are sometimes built in making an independent film. George's career is the main focus of the film, but we're seeing other people's stories like John Waters and Richard Linklater and Quentin Tarantino and a number of other people. It's an investigation into the independent filmmaking process, while holding George in the spotlight.
I love the fact you're going to cover his entire career. He's got so many great films that people don't know about. Have you already spoken to people from every one of his movies?
Everyone from Stuart Gordon to Mick Garris to quite a few other filmmakers. It's nice because when I've gone to Pittsburgh or Toronto or Los Angeles or Ohio and interviewed different directors or actors or crew people, I see a lot of the same stories and feelings that my own crew had while making it. It's really nice & interesting to see the way that George progressed. Like I said, even though the film centers on George, I feel it tells all of our story.
How difficult was it to track down some of the people that have worked with George?
We were at that!
I wasn't, but my camera guys were there. I've been lucky. And so many people have digital cameras now that fortunately I'm able to catch plenty of things when I'm not around. And since I've worked with a number of these people, I trust them to get good footage. In some cases, like when Rob Zombie came to Chicago – I knew he was coming into town because I saw it in the paper, so I sent a request to his management 2 months in advance saying "We'd love to get him at the venue." They made me wait, but finally said OK and gave us 15 minutes, so it was a matter of us rushing there with the equipment, setting up in 10 minutes, then interviewing him. We felt he could be important to the piece.
I know you mentioned at your panel that you'd like to include fans in your documentary somehow. How far along are you in completing 'Dead On'?
Being a big genre fan yourself, is it surreal for you to sit down with a legend like George Romero, or even some of the people he's worked with like Stephen King?
You've done a number of conventions at this point and screened some early footage from the documentary. What's the convention experience been like from your perspective? And it seems like the audiences here are very receptive of the 'Dead On' footage. How does that affect you?
In the last 6 or so months since it's been on Go Kart Films, we've sold a lot of copies of it. For an independent film. Some people like it, some people dislike it. But it's really nice that it's getting out there. My mom called me to tell me she was at a chain record store and saw it and she walked up to the guy at the counter and said "This is my son!". And the guy at the counter said, "Whatever!" (laughs) How can that not be nice for people to appreciate something you've done?
Since you're still working on 'Dead On', I know you mentioned that you're still looking for people with stories or props or collectibles or pictures of George to contribute to the documentary. How can people contact you to take part?
Yes. If people have photos of George, I'd be interested in seeing them. So if fans would like to scan them and send them to me so I can take a look, they can email me at firstname.lastname@example.com. If they have any interesting artifacts, like old press kits or press books, hard to find stills, or any old interviews that they might have taped off TV, I'd love to see it. We have a lot of material, but we're always looking for more stuff. We'd love to find old interviews with Duane Jones. Or other people associated to George's films. Contact me thru my email, or my 'mypace' page, or go to my website www.neweyefilms.com.
We do not want DEAD ON to only cover George's horror work and DEAD ON is not a horror documentary… though we love horror movies… this movie acknowledges George as a great filmmaker and will show how his work has left a mark on many different kinds of filmmakers… so you will see a few surprises as far a people we interview.
How much of George's pre-Night Of The Living Dead work were you able to see? Is that stuff hard to track down? Because I saw some of his commercial work in your preview footage.
I've seen many of his commercials, and we're really doing out best to track down as much stuff as possible. George has given us access to some of his photos and we've been to his house a couple of times, which is very exciting. We're trying to get a lot of that early Latent Image days stuff, and this film ('Dead On') will have a lot of great stories about some of the down time moments of Latent Image and Image 10 crews.
Thanks for talking with us, Rusty. Can't wait to see 'Dead On' and 'Teenagers From Mars' and we wish you the best on all your future projects!
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Video: Personality Feature: Master Sgt. Charles Chenault
Video by Staff Sgt. Brian McGovern
Package about how when III Corps arrived in Korea for Ulchi Freedom Guardian, their first task was to construct their command post. Managing 200 people as they place more than 600 floor pieces and set up 23 tents takes an energetic and vocal leader. Staff Sgt. Brian McGovern introduces us to Master Sgt. Charles Chenault.
This work, Personality Feature: Master Sgt. Charles Chenault, by SSG Brian McGovern, identified by DVIDS, is free of known copyright restrictions under U.S. copyright law.
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Schofield had 12 kills and seven digs on Wednesday at No. 6 UCLA.
Oct. 17, 2012
LOS ANGELES - Junior outside hitter Chelsey Schofield turned in 12 kills and seven digs, but the University of Utah volleyball lost a three-set decision at No. 6 UCLA (22-25, 21-25, 18-25) in a Pac-12 Conference match on Wednesday at the John Wooden Center.
Utah (11-11, 2-7 Pac-12) outblocked UCLA, 7.0 to 4.0, but the Bruins were able to gain a .330 to .258 advantage in hitting percentage, held an 8-2 edge in service aces and a 39-33 lead in digs.
Schofield posted a team-high 12 kills to go with seven digs and a pair of blocks. She has hit double-digits in kills for the 15th time in 22 matches this season and for the 32nd time in her career. The Provo, Utah native was just three digs short of her seventh double-double performance of the season and the 15th of her career.
Junior middle blocker Erin Redd posted eight kills on 17 swings with a pair of errors for a team-high .353 hitting percentage. Redd also posted a match-high-tying four blocks.
Morgan Odale had eight kills with just one miscue on 21 attempts for a .333 efficiency. She also had six digs in the back row of the Ute defense.
Sophomore middle blocker Bailey Bateman added six kills and three blocks, while Shelby Dalton tied Redd for match-high honors with four blocks to go along with three kills.
McKenzie Odale distributed 17 assists along with three digs and a service ace. Kendall Cygan had 15 assists in addition to six digs.
The Bruins took four of the first five points in the opener, but Utah countered with three straight scores to force the first tie of the match at four points apiece. There would be one more tie (5-5) before UCLA went on a 5-2 tear to grab a 10-7 edge. The Utes would pull to within one (12-11), but UCLA would quickly build its lead up to six, 18-12, with a 6-1 run before going on to a 25-22 win in the opening frame. Schofield had five kills on 10 swings for a .500 efficiency as the Utes hit .233 on the attack, compared to a .293 mark for the Bruins. Utah did earn a 3.0-1.0 advantage in blocking over UCLA in the first set. The Utes are now 1-8 this season when dropping the opening set of a match.
There were a trio of ties in the following frame before a 5-1 run sprung the Utes to their first lead of the match at 6-4, who would go on to lead by as many as three (8-5). Utah maintained its three-point edge until the 13-10 mark, before five straight Bruin scores gave the lead back to the home team at 15-13. The Utes battled back with a 4-1 spurt to regain the lead at 17-16 and the action would be tied two more times (at 17 and 18) before three straight Bruin points gave UCLA a 21-18 lead en route to a 25-21 second-set victory.
Nine ties occurred at the start of the third frame, the last one coming at 10-10, before the Bruins took six of the next seven points to assume a 16-11 lead. UCLA led by as many as eight (21-13) on the way to a 25-18 win to clinch the match.
No. 6 UCLA (14-4, 6-3 Pac-12) was led by 18 kills from Tabi Love and Becca Strehlow, who put up 41 assists and 11 assists.
The Utes are back in action Friday at 6 p.m. PT against No. 7 USC. Action from the Galen Center will be televised live regionally on the Pac-12 Network and live audio can be heard at www.usctrojans.com/allaccess.


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Why is the United States so worked up about the creation of 1,600 new housing units within an exclusively Jewish area in what William Kristol, with characteristic désinvolture,* calls "North Jerusalem"?
Whether by design or subconscious emotion, the Obama Administration's reaction goes back to that moment in 2009 when Israel "sandbagged" the U.S. into implicitly taking East Jerusalem out of the negotiating equation.
You will recall Hillary Clinton's categoric statement that no new settlements or expansion of existing ones would be acceptable to the U.S. This was followed by Benjamin Netanyahu's offer to freeze settlement construction (with some caveats) for a 10-month period - excepting East Jerusalem however. In effect, the U.S. backed down, while lauding, through the voice of the same Ms. Clinton on October 31, 2009, the Israeli offer as "unprecedented." Arab opinion was aghast.
Now, however, comes another opportunity, an opportunity to set things straight. The exclusively Jewish area (Ramat Shlomo), is described as being "a few yards" inside East Jerusalem, but it is nevertheless in East Jerusalem and therefore part of "territories" from which Israel forces were summoned by UN Security Council Resolution 242 to leave following their conquests in the Six Day War of June 1967. Though Israel six years later "annexed" the part of Jerusalem (East Jerusalem) occupied by Jordan prior to the war, this action has never been accepted, either by the U.S. or the internatonal community.
Therefore, East Jerusalem remains disputed territory and subject to "final status" negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority. That is not, however, the way Mr. Netanyahu and the members of his hard-line coalition see it. To them, Jerusalem must remain undivided and excusively in the hands of...Israel.
The Middle East Quartet (the U.S., the U.N., the E.U. and Russia) met today in Moscow and urged the Government of Israel to "freeze all settlement activity." The Quartet, which included Hillary Clinton as the U.S. representative, set a bold target for a final deal with the Palestinians by 2012. Condemming the new settlement plan, the Quartet noted that Israel's annexation of East Jerusalem was not recognized by the International Community, and the issue had to be resolved through negotiations.
It remains to be seen whether the U.S. will stand firm on the Ramat Shlomo dispute and thereby re-inject East Jerusalem back into the negotiations, or will find a way, as has happened so many times in the past, to back off from the issue.
*Désinvolture is an untranslatable French word that is somewhere between insouciance and arrogance.
Editor's Note: Charles Cogan was the chief of the Near East South Asia Division in the Directorate of Operations of the CIA from August 1979 to August 1984. From September 1984 until July 1989 he was CIA Chief in Paris. He is currently an Associate at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard's Kennedy School. His most recent book, "La République de Dieu," (Éditions Jacob-Duvernet, 2008), is a collection of essays on the idea of God; on evangelism ("La République de Dieu"); on Islamic fundamentalism ("L'Islam médiéval"); followed by chapters analyzing a number of conflicts between the Muslim world and the non-Muslim world.


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Hey guys,
Thanksgiving is getting closer and I dont seem to have anything to do as of today. There is no planned route but I would like to do something along the lines of a 200 +/- mile N.Ga tour in 3 days. And example of the route could be:
Day 1 (Friday) - Dahlonega - Helen GA = 54 "very hilly". Reverse Union Gap, Reverse Wolf Pen Gap, Jacks Gap and Unicoi Gap (6-7k ft. climb)
Day 2 (saturday) - Helen - Blue Ridge GA = 64 miles "very hilly" Hogpen Gap, Wolfpen Gap
Day 3 (sunday) - Blue Ridge - Dahlonega GA = 66 miles Rolling Terrain - Reverse Neels Gap
Total = 184 miles and I believe around 15k-20k ft of climb!!!
Helen GA
Blue Ridge GA
Dahlonega GA
DeSoto falls in Blood mountain
It's not a race but it isnt exactly touring. More like a really informal staged event. It is plenty challenging but I believe it will be worth it with the fall folliage and beautifull sceneries. Tons of good beer and maybe some moonshine?
I know this is a long shot but if people are interested it would be really cool :)


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harsh adjective (UNKIND)
C1 unpleasant, unkind, cruel, or more severe than is necessary: harsh criticism The children had had a harsh upbringing. We thought the punishment was rather harsh for such a minor offence. "There is no alternative," she said in a harsh voice. He said some harsh words (= spoke unkindly) about his brother.
More examples
- The harsh light revealed every crevice and wrinkle in his face.
- In a harsh economic climate, raises for teachers have become a lightning rod for criticism.
- The book confronts the harsh social and political realities of the world today.
- The prison sentence seemed rather harsh, considering the triviality of the offence.
- The people rebelled against the harsh new government.
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harsh adjective (TOO STRONG)
The qualities of colour
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Images: POW/MIA recovery efforts in Vietnam [Image 1 of 11]
Photo by Staff Sgt. Adelita Mead
Local Vietnamese men assisting the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command and the Vietnam Office for Seeking Missing Persons, use shovels to remove sediment from a stream bed in Binh Dinh province, Vietnam, March 15, 2012. The sediment will be screened and carefully inspected for any sign of osseous material or other evidence that can help identify a soldier missing from the Vietnam Conflict. JPAC's mission is to conduct global search, recovery and laboratory operations to identify unaccounted-for Americans from past conflicts in order to support the Department of Defense's personnel accounting efforts.
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi today issued a set of guidelines to the BJP MPs, asking them to do research on issues, have good conduct in Parliament, not to talk to media like "spokespersons" and avoid sychophancy like touching his feet.
Addressing a meeting of the BJP Parliamentary Party here, he made it clear to the MPs that they should not let complacency eclipse the party's performance which catapulted it to power.
He underscored the fact that BJP is no longer in the opposition and its MPs have a far bigger responsibility in taking the message of the government to the grassroots level and highlight its programmes.
"Achha adhyayan, acharan aur sahaj sampark" (good research, conduct and contact)" was Narendra Modi's message to his party colleagues in his 20-minute speech in the Central Hall of Parliament.
The Prime Minister asked them to attend the sessions of Parliament full-time and come prepared after thorough research on issues and maintain dignity in the "temple of democracy".
He also urged them to come armed with knowledge and do their homework properly before participating in Parliament debates. He said being present during debates will be a good learning ground for them on various issues.
Sources said the Prime Minister also asked the MPs not to talk to the media as spokespersons of the party but raise the issues of their own area and constituency with them instead.
Narendra Modi also emphasised that he does not approve of sychophancy like people touching his feet and asked them to instead do hard work as Parliamentarians.
"Don't touch my feet," he told them.
Sources said Modi asked party MPs to do good work for the common people as they all have to be elected again in 2019. He said he himself, being a first-time MP, has to learn a lot from Parliament and so should the other new MPs do.
The Prime Minister asked them to be punctual in attending Parliament and help in the smooth running of the House.
Modi also lauded the elevation of Sumitra Mahajan as the Speaker of Lok Sabha, saying she is the first woman in the BJP to reach that level.
BJP patriarch L K Advani, in his address, asked BJP MPs to continue to work for the welfare of the common people and consolidate on the gains as the party had come a long way from mere two MPs to the


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After crossing the 25,000-mark in early trade, the BSE Sensex retreated to end with a marginal rise of 23.53 points at a fresh record close of 24,716.88 today on massive profit-booking ahead of the swearing-in of Narendra Modi as PM.
The 30-share index surged 482 points to hit day's high of 25,175.22 boosted by power, PSU, capital goods, auto and realty sector stocks. In previous two sessions, it had rallied 395 points.
However, the index started losing momentum towards the close and briefly slipped into negative territory to touch a low of 24,433.90. It recovered marginally to end 23.53 points, or 0.10 per cent, higher at 24,716.88, surpassing its closing of 24,693.35 on Friday. Intra-day, it swung over 741 points.
BHEL, Tata Power and GAIL led the 18 losers in Sensex while M&M, Sesa Sterlite and Wipro were among the 12 gainers.
The 50-share NSE Nifty after regaining the key 7,500-mark to hit day's high of 7,504.00, succumbed to emergence of profit-booking at prevailing levels. It gave up all gain to close at 7,359.05, a fall of 8.05 points or 0.11 per cent.
Meanwhile the rupee, in the forex market, also turned weak and was trading 29 paise lower at 58.81 after strengthening to a 11-month high of 58.40 against US dollar.
Stock brokers said investors who were sitting gains became cautious and locked in gains in recent outperformers such as power, PSUs, realty, oil and gas and banking sector stocks. Sensex has gained over 2,200 points this month so far.
Modi, who will be sworn is as Prime Minister this evening, is likely to head a 45-member Union Council of Ministers including 24 with Cabinet rank.
Sectorally, the BSE Realty index suffered the most by falling 5.22 per cent, followed by Power index 2.94 per cent.
The Consumer Durables index ended 2 per cent lower and Oil and Gas index fell 1.55 per cent.
However, Auto index continued its upmove and ended 1.47 per cent, Capital Goods index (up 0.56 per cent) and IT index (up 1.46 per cent).
Sanjay Sachdev, Chairman, ZyFin Capital: The current market valuations are at 14x to 15x forward earnings vs. the LTA of 15.8x. Depending on the reform trajectory and macro recovery, we believe markets could sustain the positive momentum in long run. Sectors we believe have a positive outlook are Education, Infrastructure, E&C, Power and Housing Finance. With most expecting India's GDP to grow


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A Tucson area Demo:
I will be at Starizona 5757 N. Oracle Rd · Tucson, Arizona (520) 292-5010

On Saturday March 21 st. from 4 to 11 pm
Starizona will scopes set-up in the parking lot and many bring there own. A good time to try out that special Eyepiece you always wanted...
-I will have the 60, 76, 85, 102, on Tele Vue mounts one with Sky Tour...
-A 127is an 60is on a CGE and an NP 101 set up with all the ETHOS to use..
-All the eyepieces, Dioptrx, ParaCorr to try in your own scope if you like.
I expect to see all of you there !
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March 17, 2011, Dallas.
At about 11:30 PM a local man on a bicycle was struck by a car on Buckner Blvd. while crossing the I-30 freeway. Witnesses said he was traveling in the right lane rather than on the wide shoulder, and that he had blinking lights and reflectors.
A "trained crash investigator" from the Dallas Police Department said the blame for the accident rests with the cyclist. "It's just common sense; You are begging for trouble if you ride in the roadway when there is a good shoulder nearby."
The cyclist was taken to Baylor hospital and released. The motorist was shaken up but refused medical treatment at the scene.
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If you wonder what that funny "BUÉK!" means, here is the answer: "Boldog Újévet Kívánok!" In English, "I wish you a Happy New Year!" And, of course, the piggy is supposed to bring us luck!
With best wishes to all of my readers for the coming year.
There have been TV debates in Hungary ever since 1998 when Viktor Orbán and Fidesz insisted on one. The Young Democrats imitated the American presidential debates. In general, Fidesz politicians learned a lot from the Americans when it came to campaign strategy and practice. In 1998 one could bet on the young vigorous Viktor Orbán winning the debate over Gyula Horn, an old MSZMP politician. Indeed, the polls conducted right after the event showed that Horn had lost and Orbán had won. Nonetheless MSZP still came out on top in the first round of the elections. In the end Orbán won only with the … Read the rest
After twenty years of ever growing dissatisfaction with the welfare system as it was developed at the time of the change of regime, a few tentative voices can be heard that question the current practice of doling out monthly cash welfare payments without knowing how much people actually need and how much they are getting from a variety of uncoordinated sources.
I wouldn't be surprised if the impetus for taking a second look at the current system came after Zsolt Szepessy, mayor of Monok, took things into his own hands and announced that as of … Read the rest
I wrote almost a year ago twice at length about László Kövér, the second or perhaps, according to some, the first man of Fidesz. First on January 15, 2009 when I gave some background about his family, his upbringing, and his political beliefs. A day later, on January 16, I summarized a speech he gave in Makó, a town in southern Hungary. It was a pretty outrageous speech but Kövér is known for making intemperate speeches. Often he doesn't stick to the "official" party line and, because of the high position … Read the rest
I've been reading two books of late, cycling between them. I began with József Debreczeni's reinterpretation of his political portrait of Viktor Orbán, left that unfinished and moved on to Péter Kende's book on the trial of Attila Kulcsár, whose Ponzi scheme was fortunately not of Madoffian proportions. Once I finished Kende's book I returned to Debreczeni's Arcmás.
I've already devoted three pieces to this book, with the underlying motif of debunking the alleged transformation of the good guy into the bad guy. I don't believe in such fundamental personality changes. Most likely today's Viktor Orbán … Read the rest
It's not exactly a brand new story but it still reverberates in the Hungarian media. The last time it came up was on "Ma Reggel," MTV's early morning program, the day before Christmas. I guess this discussion, if you can call it that, seemed appropriate for the holidays. Two priests and Dr. Lajos Papp, a former cardiac surgeon and a spokesman for the Hungarian far right, were invited to talk with Kriszta Jegyes-Tóth, a former anchorwoman of the now defunct "Napkelte."
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A rather handsome tree on Kossuth Square in front of the Parliament Building.
This time of the year families get together and celebrate. Mostly by eating. And that inspired me to look around on the Internet for blogs by enterprising Hungarian cooks. Not professional chefs but ordinary mortals who like to cook. Here is, for example, Limara's bakery that specializes in bread making. The author tells us that she is a mother of two who became a housewife out of necessity. A couple of years ago she received a breadmaker and … Read the rest


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Cross-posted from Appalachian Voices
By Bill Kovarik and Jason Coleman
If there is a poster child for music, art and recreational tourism in Appalachia, it would have to be Floyd, Virginia.
For most of the 20th century, Floyd County was just another sleepy farming community along the Blue Ridge Parkway, known for little more than high-octane moonshine.
But over the past two or three decades, as retirees and other refugees from urban life settled here, a thriving music, arts and crafts scene came together in a dozen different venues.
By Jillian Randel
Virginia, with all its natural wonders, is not immune to the same threats as neighboring states, West Virginia and Kentucky. Mountaintop removal practices plague the southwestern part of the state. A permit is currently pending for Ison Rock Ridge, a surface mine that, in addition to exacerbating health effects associated with current surface mining practices, would destroy three miles of streams and fill nine valleys with more than 11 million cubic yards of rock and dirt. Visit: samsva.org for more information.
Today you can find concerts, gallery openings, wine tastings, art classes, renewable energy workshops, poetry readings and local theater productions going on more or less constantly.
Floyd's musical reputation goes back to the dawn of the bluegrass era. In the 1980s, local bluegrass bands began playing at the Floyd Country Store every Friday night. The store became a fixture of bluegrass culture and, recently, an important anchor for the "Crooked Trail" heritage music tourism route through southwestern Virginia.
Another major contributor to the music scene is Floyd Fest, celebrating its tenth anniversary this year. Kris Hodges and Erica Johnson, restaurant owners in Floyd, wanted to bring world-class entertainment to the New River Valley. What began in 2001 as a gathering of 1,500 like-minded rock and bluegrass lovers has grown to about 12,000 people enjoying entertainment from around the world.
"Our vision was to produce a world music festival for the entire family and that's not just a catch phrase, we mean it," said Linda DeVito, operations director for Across the Way Productions. "We pride ourselves in the fact that most of us have kids, we wanted to provide a festival where a patron, even us, would feel comfortable in bringing our kids to."
Still other music venues include the Dogtown Roadhouse with concerts every weekend, the June Bug music education center and the National Music Festival, a classical music festival starting this May that, organizers hope, will be an annual event.
Floyd is also known as a Mecca for serious artists and crafts folk, and their anchor is the Jacksonville Center—an old barn near town that was converted ten years ago into an art studio with a gallery featuring pottery, textiles, painting and crafts shows.
According to Lydeana Martin, the county's community and economic development director, music and arts tourism brings an estimated $18 million a year and at least 200 jobs to Floyd.
Efforts to take advantage of tourism and broaden the county's economic base include an expanded farmers' market and two new county task forces to address land policy and agriculture and forest economic viability.
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Equity Markets In The 21st Century: +1.39% Annualized Real Return
Via Doug Short of Advisor Perspectives,
Here is a update in response to a standing request from David England, a retired professor now actively educating investors through his Trader's Eye website. In his presentations, he likes to disprove the standard message of Wall Street, "Don't worry! The market will always come back." I furnished David with some charts, and I now share them with regular visitors to my Advisor Perspectives pages.
Specifically, David had asked for real (inflation-adjusted) charts of the S&P 500, Dow 30, and Nasdaq Composite. So I created two overlays — one with the nominal price, excluding dividends, and the other with the price adjusted for inflation based on the Consumer Price Index for Urban Consumers (which I usually just refer to as the CPI). The charts below have been updated through the July 3rd close.
The charts require little explanation. So far the 21st Century has not been especially kind to equity investors. Yes, markets usually do bounce back, but often in time frames that defy optimistic expectations.
The charts above are based on price only. But what about dividends? Would the inclusion of dividends make a significant difference? I'll close this post with a reprint of my latest chart update of the S&P 500 total return on a $1,000 investment at the 2000 high.
Total return, including reinvested dividends, certainly looks better, but the real (inflation-adjusted) purchasing power of that $1,000 is currently, over 14 years later, only 218 dollars above break-even. That equates to a 1.39% annualized real return.
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The sheeple dollar cost average in every 2 weeks via their 401k. I wonder how much better a chart illustrating that would look?
They also panic out at the bottom and they miss most of the rally before they buy back in... usually near the top.
agreed. the average investor rate of return is awful for those reasons. But a random 1k investment in 2000 with no additions just does not seem like a great representation of the market returns for the average guy either. But this is why we need skynet in place and the 401k's in the hands of a fiduciary that won't let the sheeple's emotions get the better of them. So they can enjoy the 8% annual avg return.
Can't wait to see that chart 10 years from now with July 3rd, 2014 as the starting point.
We should start it at July 20th (well monday the 21st). Lagarde says the blue pengiun goes bowling at midnight on the 20th. so we should go from there.
Fuck that orange bitch and her numbered freak show.
Gold bitch.
And with shadow stat numbers?
And are dividends included inthe SPY?
One guy on here had the honesty to say he would take a run at her. I admire his honesty and that's probably how you would have to do it. It would have to start with an open field tackle.
OK. I'm flexible on that.
Regarding the 401k stuff.... good luck getting plan sponsors to give up their 404(c) safe harbor protection. That's the provision in ERISA that absolves plan sponsors of any liability for losses (or lack of gains) if they offer the participants the ability to choose on their own from a menu of investment choices that can "materially alter their expected risk/return profile."
Stop hijacking the thread with 401k/market stuff. How would you go about taking a run at lagarde? I think the guy is right and you literally have to go with a running start. However the sock full of quarters is not a terrible idea.
Look, I'm basically a whore anyway. Pay me enough, I'll nail anything. Without the financial incentive, sorry, no tickie no washie.
To answer your question- Rohipnol in skin-permeating form dropped into her tanning lotion. OK? Ya happy now?
assuming they sold today instead of waiting for the next crash to sell (like they will)
Well, what if you don't have a tax exempt account and you sell? Now you are going to get taxed, what is it 15% or is it back to 20% long term capital gains. Even at 15% times the nominal 40% increase means you gotta pay %15 of the nominal "profit". Now after taxes you didn't make no stinkin' real profit. That leaves you down. Now that is not much to be down in buying power, but you sure as hell ain't up! As for mutual funds with yearly expenses? Oh yeah, with mutual funds you would have gotten hit with capital gains taxes all the years you held while the market was tanking and everyone bailed out but you?
Is the math I did in my head correct?
So the stock market is the perfect inflation hedge? /s off
Welcome to the 1% bitchez!!
BTFATH in 2000, didn't seem such a great strategy. 2014 is different, BTFATH?
and 2009-2014 annualized return is ~20%. so fucking what?
See my post below.
As in all things, good or perfect TIMING is indispensable.
Long term averages over many years are not very helpful in deciding what to do, or don't, except maybe beisobol.
What does it mean that Arnie Palmer could drive a ball 350 yds many decades ago consistently? If he had the clubs and balls available to him in 2000 he'd likely have a 400 yd average, and if he ad today's burners he could swing it as fast as Woods or better for 450 yards.
If you're going to bet on him now (he being the same age as he was back then) which 'average' are you going to go with??
I'll take his 'average' over the short term of about 3 yrs. Anything older than that is only a very rough guide to his performance, and the Markets'.
OMG CNBC just dug up BIRINYI
Germany's plan to bring back the nation's gold reserves to Frankfurt by 2020 has fizzled, and instead has for now decided to leave $635 billion of gold in US vaults.
Home to the world's second largest gold reserves, worth $141 billion, Germany only keeps about one third of its gold 'at home', the rest is abroad. 45 percent is in the US Federal Reserve in New York, 13 percent in London, 11 percent in Paris, and only 31 percent in the Bundesbank in Frankfurt.
"The Americans are taking good care of our gold, we have no reasons for mistrust," Nobert Barthle, the German Parliament Budget spokesman, told RT.
Why do I see Kevin Bacon saying "remain calm" after reading that?
So Germany, after public outcry decides to repatriate gold and after a pittance is moved decide it is better held in NYC?
I wonder if they think anyone is falling for that line of BS?
So, that attack against the French bank served a dual purpose?
I thought Bloomberg ran that same story, then some German guy came out and refuted that.
Uh, sure. Of course, this is predicated on the CPI being a realistic number, not some phony, manipulated, government propaganda scam. :-O
Imagine how much worse things are IN REALITY. Holy cow...
Haha... yeah, using their bogus inflation numbers and and the very top of this latest bubble, they can only boast 1.39% annual real return... who would be so stupid to play this game? Oh yeah... just about anyone with some extra Monopoly Money. Fucking pathetic...
Planet of the Apes
Yes the 2000 peak was very high and broke the old saw that it doesn't matter when you invest.
But if you even spread that acquisition over any four quarters, it would probably boost the yield over 2%. Still not soaring riches, but 2% real growth over inflation is OK.
In 2000 you could buy 4 pounds of pasta for $1 or 4000 pounds for $1000 now its $5 for 3 pounds or 4, 12oz pak for $5. That same $1000 investment in dry box pasta would now be worth $6,664.
So hows that for a return, or a loss to purchasing power.
Yawnnnnn, ...sounds like fodder for brokers to go and sell more VA's to the masses and get their 7% rips..
these charts mean nothing, it's easy to take a top and say no return.
take the low of mid-March 2003 and do the same exercice.
You take the TOP,i take the BOTTOM ---> zero-sum game


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This weekend I am literally in between jobs. This Friday I worked the last day at the assignment that I have had for the last few years, working as a self-employed contractor. On Monday I become an employee of Diversify in Malmö here in Sweden. I am going to be a part of their effort to establish themselves in the .NET consulting field in the Öresund area. My job will be divided between consulting work for clients and help in building the business by taking part in recruiting, building the .NET team and help spreading the word about our competence in various ways.
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June 21, 2007
Fran Simon
Michael DeMocker
The case against Enron and its culture of corporate corruption was driven by a single question.
Sean Berkowitz speaks with round, Midwestern vowels. The way he pronounces the "o" in the words "Enron," "dollars," "stock" and "confidence" suggests the rugged, big-shouldered dialect of his native Chicago. "Enron is now synonymous with the largest-scale corporate fraud scandal in history," Berkowitz (A&S '89) relates to a room filled with eager Tulane undergraduates. "Anytime you use that word, it's a dirty word -- 'Enron' and 'scandal' almost go together."
Berkowitz knows what he's talking about. He served as director of the government's Enron Task Force and lead prosecutor of the 2006 trial of Enron chief executive Jeffrey Skilling and Enron chair Kenneth Lay. It was the trial of the fledging century and it put Berkowitz and his team of prosecutors onto the nation's stage.
But at this moment, Berkowitz is playing to a much smaller venue, delivering the dean's colloquium in Cudd Hall on the Tulane uptown campus.
It has been less than six months since the jury delivered Skilling and Lay a guilty verdict and Berkowitz has returned to his alma mater ostensibly to discuss the case with students, but more than anything it is to show his support of the students whom Berkowitz considers heroes because they returned to Tulane and New Orleans despite the grand discouragement of Hurricane Katrina.
In rapid-fire lawyerspeak, as though commanding a courtroom, Berkowitz ticks off the merits of Enron: The company was named Fortune magazine's "most innovative company in America" six years in a row. Enron was No. 7 of the largest companies listed as the Fortune 500 and its stock was listed as one of "10 Stocks to Last the Decade." Analysts around the world rated Enron stock a strong "buy" -- the "it" stock of the '90s. "In the mid-1990s until 2001, Enron was perceived as one of the finest companies in America," Berkowitz tells the students.
"What went wrong? What happened with this company that was so good and so wonderful -- which was thought of as an unbelievable company -- that caused it to be so onerously fraudulent?" There are no easy answers.
As the third and final lead prosecutor on the Enron case, Berkowitz, who had served as a federal prosecutor since 1998, picked up the investigation in 2003 and delved deeply into the corporate culture at Enron, interviewing hundreds of former Enron employees and executives, always asking "why?" "Enron was viewed as an unbelievably innovative company and it was held up as an example of what was right with America." Look around the room and you can see it has happened.
Just as he must have enthralled the jury during the trial, Berkowitz, with his broad face, open demeanor and straightforward manner, has captivated the students. And Berkowitz knows it. Now he can begin to walk them through the mistakes that brought down the paragon of corporate America. In the next hour, Berkowitz trots out anecdote after anecdote, character after character, as he draws a high-resolution image of both the Enron culture and the key information he and his team used to win the case.
It's a fascinating telling and you almost overlook the fact that Berkowitz has left himself entirely out of the tale. He's enigmatic that way -- a showman who away from the courtroom is more comfortable outside the glow of the spotlight. Berkowitz has gone on record describing Skilling and Lay as the brightest guys in the room. He could have been talking about himself. Not that he'd ever do that. He'll let you figure that out on your own.
To his embarrassment, Berkowitz became a media darling in the wake of the Enron case. Despite his disdain for the limelight you can find Berkowitz in a feature spread of Fortune magazine, along with two other lawyers of the prosecution team. The three were included in the magazine's "Portraits of Power" photo portfolio. If there is any irony in this, it is not the only instance.
When he headed off from his home in Chicago to attend Tulane University, Berkowitz was set to go to business school, where the best and the brightest students were clamoring to go to work for companies like Enron.
Though initially fervent to pursue a business degree, in his freshman year Berkowitz was persuaded to change course by a faculty adviser who laid out the evidence that a liberal arts major would provide a broader skill set of reading, writing and learning how to analyze any issue.
It made sense to Berkowitz, who had an eye on ultimately getting a law degree. Later his liberal arts background proved helpful at Harvard Law School, where he graduated cum laude. Besides, Berkowitz doesn't seem to be a dollars-and-cents kind of guy. Rather, he seems the kind of guy who likes to understand the nuts and bolts of the human experience.
"Imagine sitting in a room with the CEO and CFO of Enron," Berkowitz tells the students in explaining the corporate culture of Enron. "They say to you, 'Two plus two is five.' You're sitting there and you think, 'My math isn't all that great, but I think two plus two is four.' But you're scared because you don't want them to think you're stupid ... so you sit in the room and you're getting paid a million dollars a year, and your stock options are worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, and they go around the room and they say, 'Two plus two is five, right?' People look at each other and nobody has the courage -- and there certainly isn't an attitude that encourages people to speak up. People feel if they speak up they will be viewed as stupid or dumb and moved out the door."
Berkowitz figures that although Enron seemed perfect on paper, the actual culture of the company was corrupt. "There was an arrogance and an attitude of not asking questions at the company that caused people to make decisions that were unbelievably bad decisions." If Berkowitz holds contempt for Skilling, Lay and the rank and file who for whatever reasons carried out the carefully planned accounting fraud that bilked shareholders out of millions of dollars, it doesn't surface in his straightforward manner as he hashes out key elements of the case.
Led by the innovative Jeffrey Skilling, Enron mastered creative accounting, manipulation of corporate law, and downplaying financial information to stakeholders. Kenneth Lay was beloved and trusted by his employees and applauded for philanthropy in Houston but he was not upstanding with his own workforce and the public. Paradoxically, Enron's company slogan was "Ask Why" but the Enron leaders discouraged employees from asking questions.
After poring through hundreds of thousands of documents, talking to hundreds of people who worked at Enron, and hearing the explanations of those who pled guilty to crimes, Berkowitz concludes that the poster child of corporate America was sullied by greed, arrogance, pride and hubris. All of which led to a degree of carelessness, too.
During the trial, Skilling and Lay relied on their memories of events, often saying, "I don't recall." In presenting the evidence, Berkowitz and the prosecution team took a different tack, meticulously scrutinizing electronic calendars, computers and tape-recorded phone conversations, looking for "digitrails" to show the jury that what the Enron executives did and what they said were diametrically different.
Naomi Berkowitz, Sean's mother, sat proudly in the courtroom when her son made the closing arguments in the trial of Jeffrey Skilling and Kenneth Lay. Seeing her there was the highpoint of the trial, says Berkowitz, who brightens when he speaks of her. Berkowitz's parents divorced when he was 9, and while his father remained active in his life, Berkowitz respects the challenges his mother faced in raising three children while working full-time and earning an MBA. (More irony, if you're still looking.)
Berkowitz says he admires his mother's work ethic and how she was devoted to instilling values in her children. Naomi made clear the importance of giving back to the community in which one lives. It was a lesson that was not lost on her son Sean.
As executive director of the American Brain Tumor Association, Naomi Berkowitz convinced her son to fundraise for the nonprofit organization, in addition to his other charitable work.
Today, he also is active on the board of the Chicago Area Project, a nonprofit organization that provides funding, resources and training for at-risk youth in the Chicago area. Berkowitz learned early to be a team player, being his older brother's advocate rather than reveling in sibling rivalry.
The trait is evident when he talks about his team of 10 talented federal prosecutors who are passionate litigators from across the country. It was a team that had spent years of painstaking investigation, obtained more than 20 convictions and negotiated more than $150 million in restitution orders for the victims.
The trial had consumed four months, with Skilling and Lay spending more than $100 million on their defense. And it all boiled down to closing arguments. Now, with the eyes of the nation -- and his mom -- looking on, it was time to summarize. Berkowitz knew he had to reduce the facts to black-and-white terms, so the jurors would focus not on the impossibly complex series of accounting maneuvers but simply on right or wrong.
To crystallize the issue, Berkowitz used black-and-white cardboard that displayed the word "TRUTH" on one side and "LIES" on the other. "You get to decide whether they told truth or lies, black and white," he told the jury. "Don't let the defendants, with their high-paid experts and their lawyers, buy their way out of this. I'm asking you to send them a message that it's not all right. You can't buy justice. You have to earn it." The jury decided Skilling and Lay indeed told lies and they were convicted.
The judge gave Skilling a minimum of 24 years in prison on 19 charges of fraud, conspiracy, false statements and insider trading, though there will be an appeal later this year. Lay, who was convicted of six counts of conspiracy and fraud, died before sentencing. Berkowitz told the media that the Enron case would send a clear message to business people: "You can't lie to shareholders. You can't put yourselves in front of your employees' interests. No matter how rich and powerful you are, you have to play by the rules."
Berkowitz says he is gratified by the partial restitution amounting to $45 million that will be doled out to shareholders if Skilling loses his appeal. "I was pleased that we were able to recover tens of millions of dollars for the victims through our prosecution," Berkowitz says. "If Jeff Skilling ultimately is left with very little assets at the end of the day, I think that's appropriate. It's important to focus on the victims and to make sure that we recover as much money as we could for the people who lost their retirements, though these people will never be made whole."
Following the historic trial, Congress passed sweeping reforms and stiffened penalties for white-collar crimes.
The largest, most powerful law firms courted Berkowitz after the Enron trial, but he has chosen to return to his hometown of Chicago, where he is now working in the private sector in the local office of Latham & Watkins, an international firm with 24 offices worldwide. Having spent eight years as a federal prosecutor working on all sorts of cases, Berkowitz says it was time for him to move on.
Like Watergate, the quintessential political scandal of modern America, the Enron debacle and ensuing trial is bound to become a major motion picture one day. In a movie version, who would star as the third and final lead prosecutor? Ever the lawyer, Berkowitz refuses to take the bait. "I hope and believe that Enron will not be the pinnacle of my career," Berkowitz says with a smile. "I would prefer that my life not be made into a film. I think it's an unfinished story. I'm not yet 40. I have a lot left to do and to accomplish."
Fran Simon is managing editor in the Office of University Publications.
Spring 2007
Tulane University, New Orleans, LA 70118 504-865-5000 firstname.lastname@example.com


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Crash Time 4 The Syndicate PC Game Highly Compress (PC/ENG/2011/Repack By THE RAIN)
English | Platform: PC | Release: 2011 | Publisher: Crave Entertainment | Developer: Synetic | 485 MB
Genre: Racing
This new installment of Crash Time is raising the racing series to a whole new level. The use of new technologies, the first ongoing storyline and a multi-platform development qualifies Crash Time as a true next-gen title. This version gives you a completely free scenario featuring interactive and destructable surroundings.


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On a typical weekday, Chicagoans will pass dozens of children with their backpacks heading to school.
But what many don't know is that there are 15,000 Chicago Public Schools students who are self-identified as homeless. Of that, about 1,700 live in shelters, according to a study done by the National Center on Family Homelessness. This number has tripled in the last 10 years.
Martin Elliott, a 10-year-old fifth grader at Gregory Math and Science Elementary, is one of the many homeless children in Chicago. But thanks to an after-school tutoring organization called Chicago HOPES, Banks has hope for the future.


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