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|Release Date: January 17, 1992
|Running Time: 108 mins.
|MPAA Rating: R
|Box Office: $15,784,153.00
|Genre: Action, Adventure
Emilio Estevez
Anthony Hopkins
Mick Jagger
Rene Russo
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Summary:Set in 2009, people on the verge of death are taken to a place where their bodies are up for sale to the old and rich. People known as "Freejacks" are those who escape at the moment of their death, and are pursued by bounty-hunters.


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A key figure on the British jazz scene since the late 1970s, Alan Barnes' strong tone, assured improvisations and imaginative arranging technique have marked him out as one of the country's top players, respected by both his audience and fellow players alike. Alan has broadcast regularly over a ten-year period with the BBC Big Band and Radio Orchestra.
He played on film and television soundtracks and jingles. In 2001 and 2006 Alan received the prestigious BBC Jazz Instrumentalist of the Year award.
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Mortgage fraud, a crime that declined 56% after 2006, made a 17% rise last year. About $14 billion worth of loans last year were made with bogus information. Crooks now steal identities or find unscrupulous loan officers to pull off the crimes, since regulations for mortgages tightened up after the crisis hit.
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How to Measure Growth Rate of Plants
Six Methods:Starting with SeedsWeighing Plants: Fresh WeightWeighing Plants: Dry WeightLeaf CountMeasure Leaf Surface AreaWeight Equivalent of Leaf Surface AreaCommunity Q&A
There are several reasons for measuring your plants, such as finding the best location for them or determining the best medium, fertilizer and soil. Measuring plant growth is a very simple procedure that can be done quickly with a minimum of effort and tools. It takes just a little time and patience, especially if you are starting your plants from seeds. If you begin with seedlings or older plants, you can take measurements every 2 to 3 days until you have enough data to make a decision about location, medium or other considerations.
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Method 1
Starting with Seeds
1Dig a hole about 1 inch (2.54 cm) deep in plant container soil.
2Put a seed into the hole; check the seed package for planting specifications.
3Place your container in a sunny location and water according to the package instructions.
4Measure the plant as it grows from day to day by placing a tape measure or ruler at the base of the plant and measuring to the tip.
5Record the measurements on graph paper with days and measured data.
Method 2
Weighing Plants: Fresh Weight
1Remove your plant from its pot.
2Wash off the soil from the roots (carefully).
3Pat your plant dry (carefully) with a paper towel.
4Weigh your plant as soon as you pat it dry; do not wait for it to lose its moisture.
5Repeat the measuring technique at the end of the trial period to record the growth by weight.
Method 3
Weighing Plants: Dry Weight
1Remove your plant from its pot.
2Wash off the soil carefully from the roots.
3Pat your plant dry (carefully) with a paper towel.
4Place your plant in a 100-degree oven and heat for at least 8 to 12 hours.
5Place your plant in a plastic bag (you must keep the moisture out at this point) and allow it to cool.
6Weigh your plant when it's completely cool.
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Leaf Count
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|Release Date: April 27, 2012
|Running Time: 95 mins.
|MPAA Rating: R
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|Genre: Action, Thriller
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Summary:A second-rate cage fighter on the mixed martial arts circuit, Luke Wright lives a numbing life of routine beatings and chump change until the day he blows a rigged fight. Wanting to make an example of him, the Russian Mafia murders his family and banishes him from his life forever, leaving Luke to wander the streets of New York destitute, haunted by guilt, and tormented by the knowledge that he will always be watched, and anyone he develops a relationship with will also be killed. But when he witnesses a frightened twelve-year-old Chinese girl, Mei, being pursued by the same gangsters who killed his wife, Luke impulsively jumps to action and straight into the heart of a deadly high-stakes wa... Full Summary >>
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Synopsis: After his longtime business partner dies, Yakov Fidelman discovers that his antique furniture-restoration shop is in grave financial difficulty. He's forced to deal with his estranged son, Noah, a lawyer, who, seeing no hope for the failing store, proposes building apartments above it. One day Fidelman's new apprentice, Anton, finds a neglected piano in the workshop: an 1882 Steinway that, given a new baseboard, would be worth enough to save the store. The elegant story lines of Yossi Madmony's first feature yield a complex set of frayed character relations for which restoration proves an apt metaphor. Refinishing the piano's exterior would be worthless without replacing the cracked cast-iron board holding the string tension. Marked by restrained writing, which leaves significant details open to interpretation, Restoration depicts the rich texture of modern Israeli society. Anchored by Sasson Gabay's mesmerizing performance, Fidelman is a stoic man who uses his shop to shut out the world, clinging to the illusion that he can maintain a vanishing way of life. [Synopsis courtesy of the Sundance Institute]
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Satellites began measuring the Arctic Ocean's sea ice in 1979. The all-time lowest quantity of ice was recorded in 2007 and the second lowest was recorded this year on September 9.
Data is gathered from the Special Sensor Microwave Imager/Sounder sensor of the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program F17 satellite.
In a September 15 press release, CU-Boulder's National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) revealed the level of the Arctic sea ice content to be 1.67 million square miles, which is over 1 million square miles below the 1979-2000 September average. This is well below the long-term average and is even outside normal climate variables.
Walt Meier, NSIDC scientist of CU-Boulder, explained to Examiner the role Arctic sea ice has on Earth and how the loss of it can have a global impact: "The Arctic sea ice plays an important role in climate because the ice cover acts like a reflective shield during the 24-hour summers to prevent absorption of solar energy into the Arctic climate system. The ice is white and thus reflects most of the sun's energy that hits the Earth during summer.
"When the ice melts away and is replaced by the ocean, much more of the sun's energy is absorbed. This energy heats the ocean and heats the atmosphere. So the presence of sea ice makes the Arctic colder than it would otherwise be and the loss of sea ice is accentuating the warming trend we see.
"However, that warming is not constrained to the Arctic because the climate system is interconnected. Unlike Las Vegas, what happens in the Arctic doesn't stay in the Arctic. The cold Arctic interacts with the regions further south and this interaction helps define weather patterns. So as the Arctic changes, these weather patterns will change as well: how much it rains and where, how often cold fronts or warm fronts go through different regions, etc.
"We know that there will be such impacts, but what the impacts will be and how large they will be is still a matter of research, so we can't say at this point exactly what they will be. However, there are indications that we may be seeing some effects on mid-latitude winters such as the cold, snowy conditions experienced in the eastern U.S. and Europe the last two years. It's too early to make a direct link between the ice cover and these events, but such phenomena would not be unexpected from the changing sea ice."
The NSIDC director and CU-Boulder professor of geography, Mark Serreze, explained, in a press release, the weather conditions that were the trigger for the 2007 Arctic sea ice low levels: the Arctic, that year, experienced warmer than usual wind patterns that melted ice and condensed the floating ice into a smaller area. However, he stated, "It is interesting that this year, the second lowest sea ice extent ever recorded, that we didn't see that kind of weather pattern at all."
To note, a further concern is that the last five years have also been the five lowest recordings of Arctic sea ice.
By the first week of October, NSIDC will produce an analysis of the 2011 findings and a comparison to the previous yearly data.
NSIDC is part of CU-Boulder's Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Studies (CIRES) and is funded by NASA, the National Science Foundation (NSF), the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), as well as other federal agencies. Competitive grants and contracts are part of the process of gaining project funding and CU-Boulder and CIRES are a collaborative research entity.
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The new HP Pavilion p6010in Desktop PC is powered by the Intel Pentium Dual Core E2220 Processor and nVidia nForce 430 chipset.It run the Windows Vista Home Basic for superior digital entertainment and advanced features.It sports a 2GB RAM ,500GB SATA hard disk,NVIDIA® GeForce® 7100 Graphics,and a SuperMulti SATA optical Drive with Lightscribe Technology and double layer support.
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- Monitor: 18.5-inch TFT (HP)
- Memory:2GB DDR2 (up to 4GB)
- Hard disk drive:320 GB SATA 7200 rpm
- Optical drive:SuperMulti SATA Drive with Lightscribe Technology, Double Layer (8.5GB)
- Graphic : NVIDIA® GeForce® 7100 Graphics,TurboCache with 128MB dedicated graphics memory
- External I/O ports:6 USB 2.0 ports, 2 PS/2, 10/100 LAN
- Expansion slots:1 PCI Express (x16), 2 PCI Express (x1), 1 PCI
- Memory card device:15in1 memory card reader
- Network interface:Integrated 10/100 BaseT network interface (Broadband Ready)
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- Product weight:9.79 kg
- Product dimensions:429 (L) x 177 (W) x 387 (H) mm
- Keyboard:HP Keyboard USB and HP Optical, 2-button USB scroller mouse
- Warranty:3 year limited (3 years part, 3 year onsite) warranty with up-and-running phone support for first 30 days
Price:The new HP Pavilion p6010in Desktop PC will cost Rs.31,900 in India.
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Virtue ethics has emerged from a rich history, in which both Aristotle and Aquinas have played an important role, to become one of the fastest-growing fields in contemporary ethics. In this volume of newly commissioned essays, leading moral philosophers offer a comprehensive overview of virtue ethics. They examine the theoretical structure of virtue ethics and its place in contemporary moral theory and other topics discussed include the history of virtue-based approaches to ethics, what makes these approaches distinctive, what they can say about specific practical issues and where we can expect them to go in the future. This Companion will be useful to students of virtue ethics and the history of ethics and to others who want to understand how virtue ethics is changing the face of contemporary moral philosophy.
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You can tell a lot about a group of musicians by the name they give themselves. The Dirty River Boys make music with the type of sound and texture that is soaked in the realities of the hard-scrabble city they call home in the far west Texas desert. Members Nino Cooper, Travis Stearns and Marco Gutierrez are quickly becoming known for their rousing live shows and debut release Long Cold Fall, both of which feature the boys winning three-part harmonies and stout acoustic instrumentation.
It takes determination and talent to make waves when you come from the dust and dirt of El Paso, but the Dirty River Boys are continually proving they are up to the challenge. By utilizing traditional folk instruments with rock and bluegrass arrangements, they are blazing a trail paved by their own, unique style of music.
The Dirty River Boys style blows away any preconceived notions of what acoustic music can be. Harmonicas and fiddles cut melodies that blend with furious licks spilling from guitars and mandolins alongside explosive percussive rhythms all combined to create a whirling dervish of musicality.


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May 03, 2011 08:00 AM by Lisa Princ
Sunday night on NBC's America's Next Great Restaurant we watched as Jamawn Woods took home the win as his healthy soul food won over the investors as well as the diners making Soul Daddy a reality for the dad of three. In a press conference earlier, Jamawn talks about taking home the win – keep reading for all the details!
America's Next Great Restaurant fans watched as Jamawn Woods won the the ultimate prize last night in the season finale. After the finale, Jamawn, along with Lorena Garcia took some time to chat with the press today about the win. Here is what they wanted to share with everyone.
Question: Jamawn, at what point did you think you may be able to win it, and Lorena, when did you think Jamawn had a chance to win it?
Lorena Garcia: I had a feeling since the 3rd week of the show when I saw Jamawn's food. He's a team player and he had his people down perfect. To me it was a no brainer.
Jamawn Woods: For me it was the episode when I made the gumbo. I started off with wings and waffles and when I expanded that and saw that people liked it I thought I may have a chance to win this thing.
Question: How involved were you Jamawn in the final design of the restaurant and the menu?
Jamawn Woods: I was very involved – that is one thing I love and respect about the investors, they let me do my thing. The restaurant has to be where you will see and feel me when you walk in. You'll get that when you walk into Soul Daddy. You'll get that healthier version of soul food as well.
Question: When did you find out that you won, and what city will you be relocating to?
Jamawn Woods: I found out 2 weeks ago that I was the winner, and as far as the moving it is still up in the air. I am still talking to my fiance about where we want to move.
Question: Do you think you will ever open a restaurant in your home town of Detroit?
Jamawn Woods: That is definitely important to me, but riight now I am just focused on these three restaurants. I need to make sure they are running well and all the Soul Daddy fans and customers are happy with the food first.
Question: Can you tell us about the evolution of your concept?
Jamawn Woods: The change came back to the gumbo…it hit me like 'how long can I make wings and waffles before they kick me off'. In that episode I had a talk with Lorena and she said attention to detail and a healthier menu would be better. Once I took her advice I changed my concept a bit and felt good about it.
Question: When we saw the reveal last night, the restaurant looked different than what you had originally envisioned, can you explain?
Jamawn Woods: They kept a lot of my ideas, pictures, a mural of me, and jazz things, but they put their little twist on it as well.
Question: You're a family man, how does it feel to feed so many families?
Jamawn Woods: It feels good to feed so many. I am showing America and families that you can eat soul food that is healthy.
Question: What was the most important thing you learned about yourself?
Jamawn Woods: That I just stayed true to myself. I always try to be the same person and stay true to my guns and I saw the investors and people fall is love with me. I stayed true to me.
Question: What was the biggest challenge in making your concept healthy?
Jamawn Woods: Doing my research and showing the judges that my concept of healthier soul food could be made and could be a winning concept.
Question: Will we see your fried chicken back on the menu?
Jamawn Woods: Right now we are trying out the healthier version of soul food, but who knows in a few months someone may want some fried chicken. We'll see where it goes.
Question: Lorena, what was the biggest factor is choosing a winner?
Lorena Garcia: I was looking for passion and commitment in the contestants and Jamawn showed that throughout the competition. I believe you have to be committed and passionate about your idea, so that was extremely important to me. Then when he took his menu and made it healthier it was a winning formula for me.
Question: What are you most looking forward to and/or concerned about Jamawn?
Jamawn Woods: I am looking forward to feedback from the customers, I want to make sure they come in and are enjoying the food. I am worrying about bad business, that is one of the main concerns in the restaurant business.
Question: What is one thing that you learned that you didn't know in your small business?
Jamawn Woods: I took for granted detail, I got that from Lorena, one small thing can blow your service.
Question: How are you going to market to those who do not think of soul food as healthy?
Jamawn Woods: That's what it is, those like that don't crave soul food are my focal point. I want to make them realize that it can be healthy. The goal is to get you into Soul Daddy and once you're in you'll love it.
Congratulations once again to Jamawn and Soul Daddy!Did the investors make the right decision? Comment below and share your thoughts with us!
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A Spring Hill, Florida couple have been accused of pirating video games, and have been arrested by Hernando County Sheriffs. The couple, 25-year-old Javian-Jamal Moore and his wife, 27-year-old Lakeria Monique Moore, were both charged with organized fraud. Javian-Jamal Moore is being held at the Hernando County Jail on a $5,000 bond. His wife was released on her own recognizance so she could care for their children. Police were led to the couple by an anonymous tip.
The anonymous caller said that a craigslist ad was offering modding for a Nintendo video game system (we assume Wii) that would allow the user to install pirated software. The couple was apparently charging $195 for this "service." Detectives contacted Nintendo and the Electronic Software Association (ESA) about the allegations, who in turn asked the sheriff's office to prosecute the couple for their crimes.
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Democratic representatives recently said that the Bush tax cut was not "compassionate conservatism." These same people campaigned against the idea of a compassionate conservative for president, but now that we have one in office and the idea has become more popular, Democrats are trying to define it to fit their mold. We hope that President Bush and the Republicans in Congress don't allow the opposition to define what a true compassionate conservative really is ("Making the case," March 10). - Joel & Martha Markwat, Grand Rapids, Mich.
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Your cover photo of President Bush caught my eye by accentuating the positive. Of course, my admiration for George W. enters into my assessment, but I also commend you for the photo of Rep. Gephardt in the same article. People in the public eye deserve to be honestly portrayed. - Elizabeth Richman, Alsea, Ore.
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I have especially appreciated WORLD's coverage of and commentary on President Bush's new faith-based initiatives. Personally, I desire to see as little direct government involvement with religious organizations as possible, and so the column regarding the use of social service vouchers was most welcome ("Angel in the details," March 10). On the other hand, I believe that the Scriptures seem to indicate that government is, in some way, to become a helper for the kingdom of God, not an active hindrance to it. At least we are wrestling with these questions. That is far better than the de facto support and encouragement of the religion of secularism which has become government policy after so many decades of abuse of the so-called principle of "separation of church and state." - William Shishko, Malverne, N.Y.
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Marvin Olasky's opinion that "social vouchers" are the best way to solve sticky problems of church and state that could arise from President Bush's faith-based initiative proposals has just one problem: Many Republicans and practically all Democrats are loath to allow people that much control over their own money. - Jackie Horton, Thousand Oaks, Calif.
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President Bush's plan for equal funding of faith-based groups is a waste of effort. It will only further increase federal spending and waste precious political energy. Mr. Bush ought to do everything he can to reduce (eventually to nothing) all federal funding of social welfare groups so that individuals and organizations can fund the programs they believe in. - John D. Stein, Elizabethtown, Pa.
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Thank you to Joel Belz for speaking the truth in love in "Elephant in the room" (March 10). In today's culture, speaking out against divorce is not popular. We have allowed the standard to be lowered and lowered as we make "exceptions" to biblical teaching. The banner of marriage has been trampled in the mud and it is time we lift it high, out of the mire, and pray for God's rain of mercy to wash it while we say to the world, "By God's grace, we will no longer look at divorce and remarriage as an accepted part of the Christian life." May God forgive us. - Robert Mitchell, Greenwood, Del.
That was then
I strongly agree with "Elephant in the room." Some evangelical churches even appoint divorced men as elders without hesitation. We used to believe a church that did that was in real trouble. - Fletcher W. McDowell, Muncie, Ind.
WORLD asserts that National Religious Broadcasters (NRB) decided to disaffiliate from the National Association of Evangelicals (NAE) over a series of misunderstandings and other issues ("A no-fault divorce?" March 10). However, NRB's 93 board members and the Executive Committee were well informed of NRB's concerns over several NAE issues well ahead of the Feb. 10 vote, which was unanimous. The suggestion that NRB is not interested in theological accountability is simply absurd; the solid Bible teachers and denominations on our board will keep us accountable. We are willing to work with the NAE on issues of common interest, and we wish them well as they pursue their mission. - Karl Stoll
Vice President of Communications, NRB, Manassas, Va.
What would Jesus read?
Is there some way to get an update on news and issues without reading about the creepy and vile things in movies, or without having pornography brought into our living room ("Out of the dungeon," March 10)? Would Jesus let His family read these things? Please cancel our subscription. - Henry & Gwen Hertzler, Bainbridge, N.Y.
Aim for the heart
Gene Edward Veith's column on the promotion of sex in our culture was right on target. I would add that parents and children should be more concerned with the heart attitudes of stars who entertain them, not just outside appearances. We need to pray for people like Britney Spears and the young minds and hearts who are influenced by them. - Susan Peisker, Cedar Park, Texas
What's in it for us?
It is tragic to think that American intervention to assist suffering and oppressed people must first pass the "Is there oil there for us?" test ("'This needs to stop. Now.'" March 10). - Walt Wyatt, Schertz, Texas
Weapon against violence
Kudos for an excellent article on the tragedy and horror of domestic violence ("Mental prisons," March 10). My heart breaks for these lost souls and their children. But for the sake of the American husband, I would like to point out that, despite the persistent myth that domestic violence is no respecter of circumstances, according to a 1999 study from Rutgers University, when couples cohabit (as opposed to getting married), this increases the risk of domestic violence for women. Further, the risk of physical and sexual abuse for children is 20 times more likely if biological parents are cohabiting and 33 times more likely if the male is not the natural father. So the promotion of marriage, along with the absolutely necessary personal relationship with Jesus Christ, is one of our greatest weapons against domestic violence. - Sonja Bochow, Atco, N.J.
Role call
Safe havens and candlelight vigils are just bandages for a societal cancer ("Give me shelter," March 10). We need to accept our rightful roles. Men must quit wimping out or tyrannizing and give the loving leadership intended by God, while women should stop usurping authority and be submissive, even wearing modest clothing. If we in the church will not lead the way, this society will succumb to the cancer despite the bandages. - Ron & Dayle Johnson, Amesbury, Mass.
Part three
Cal Thomas's column regarding government waste reminded me of an aphorism from comedian Will Rogers: "Government programs have three parts: A beginning, a middle, and no end" ("Trim the fat," March 10). - Richard H. Engelmann, Cincinnati, Ohio
A brilliant solution
Unable to reconcile science and religion in his genius mind, as many intelligent design scientists already have, Stephen Jay Gould offers two separate but equal "magisteria" for religion and science ("Noma? No chance," March 10). Such agreed-upon mutual respect and noninterference is a brilliant solution. Perhaps we should go a step further and have separate but equal creationist and evolutionist water fountains, restrooms, and restaurants (of course, the real problem would be which group sits at the back of the bus). Or could it be that Mr. Gould is running scared because he is beginning to see the logical impossibility of his own system and does not want to be confused by the facts? - Gary S. Karwoski, Riverside, Ill.
I have thoroughly enjoyed WORLD since I have been a subscriber, but your "Life issues" special edition (Feb. 24) topped them all. I didn't put it down until I finished, and I am going to pass it around to others. One part that really stood out was the explanation in "Weeping about our families" of Numbers 11:10, that "Moses heard the nation weeping about its families" means that the Israelites were "crying about the laws regulating sexual behavior that God had just issued at Mount Sinai." It really doesn't matter what nationality we are or the era we live in, this is a common human trait. We struggle to believe our God knows best and have difficulty choosing to obey His commands. - Pat Friend, Marlin, Wash.
The "Bestsellers" listed in the March 10 issue were hardcover books.
The illustration of Ralph Waldo Emerson is actually Henry David Thoreau (Feb. 24, p. 11). - The Editors


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The Best Thus FarI have used all of the products that are on the market , I want name the products but this is the best Thus far coverage is very natural looking and colors are excellent matches to the new colors and natural colors on the Market today ( and most of all you get more product for your money )Aug 24, 2006Man Of Honor / Ga
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Product ReviewI think the product works very well. However sometimes it comes out of the container to fast. I think the holes should be smaller. I also think the site shouls provide links to permanent hair replacement sites for women. There seems to a ton for men but none for women.Aug 15, 2006Sg / New Hampshire
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Do Not Waste Your TimeIt makes a mess and it shakes of extreemly easy. I cant go through the day worrying about someone or something touching my head.Aug 8, 2006Nick
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As Good As Toppikim a woman whos been using this for a couple weeks now and really like it since it covers well and is pretty easy to throw on. i dont find it terribly messy and even if it flakes a bit, its very easily wiped off. the only minus to these fiber products is you completely cover your part line, which i think looks sorta unnatural, unless you wear your hair in a way that you have no part, like many men (or your hairs in a ponytail). i try to remedy that problem by scratching _very_ carefully at the part to remove a little extra fibers...it seems to work.Aug 1, 2006Ayumi / SJ, CA
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Too Flaky.... Not So Funny When You Scratch Your Head!organin ...i purchased this product after i ran out of toppik... at first, i was really impressed... but then, i started to notice that the flakes wouldnt stick to my scalp - and yes, i used the hairspray recommended by toppik.... so, all in all, i have stopped using it and re-ordered toppik.... i do not recomend this product.Jul 17, 2006Cs
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Very Good, But 1 Worry...This is the first hair thickening fiber Ive used, and its helped a lot--its so nice to not have people stare at you because youre a woman with thinning hair whose scalp is showing through. But I have one worry. When you shake it on your head, the fibers seem to float around in the air and Im worried about inhaling them, as I dont know what they might do to your lungs with long-term use. Just today, I decided to put the container right next to my scalp and just gently shake it on, and that seemed to cut down on the number of fibers in the air. I see there are lots of other products to try, too, so I may do that, as the light brown color I got was kind of reddish, and my hair is paler brown and graying.Jul 4, 2006Esther
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AwesomeI really dont write reviews for anything but after being a Toppik user for 4 years I felt I had to. Organin is great. The color match (Black) is better than Toppik and it covers better also. The only draw backs are you have to use a good hair spray to keep it in place and the bottle (for me anyway) doesnt last as long as Toppik. But as far as doing the job it is supposed to do, I give it an A+.Jun 23, 2006J. Kelly
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Wow!!!!!what A Difference!!!I went on this website by accident because I ALWAYS go into ask.com about hair loss.It bought me to this sight.I did not know there were so many hair covering products out there.THE only one I knew about was Toppikk,because it is nationally advertised.I have been using it since1998.IT has been a life saver but I saw this Organin on the website and the price made me decide to give it a try.At first I was a little puzzled how it looked when I ordered it and used it. It looked kind of clumpy and flaked off easy even with the Fulmore product I USE from the toppik company.It flaked so much I spent a lot of time back and forth in the mirror and was not satisfied.So I thought about returning it for a refund ,but decided to give it one more try.I WASHED everything out of my hair (Fullmore and all)and decided to try using it again.Thats when I FOUND my solution.I put the product on a very very little at a time.Thats when I NOTICED A MUCH MORE NATRUAL look.Then I STOPPED and was very pleased in the way I used it.Here is the kEY.I think when we used these products we have a tendecy to overuse them.I was using way to much that is why I was not happy with the look!!Now that I use it gradually I can not even tell I am using this product.So the reason I am going to switch from toppikk is because it is a better product.The color on Organin(black)is darker and you do not see any mixed pigments in it.Toppikks black color looks gray and and dusty,and when you put it on you can see a rusty red color in your hair.That is why I USE THE Fulmore in conjunction with it,just so I CAN GET the darker look.Using the Organin I DO not have to use it because organin is jet black and looks so much more natrual.So this is what I choose to do.My advice to all is to take a mirror outside and look in it after you use the products that you are using because this is the same way people will see you oustside.IT WILL SHOW YOU EVERYTHING.The outside light is better than the room lights inside your house.This is how I FOUND out what my problem was!!! O yeah I have severe hair loss and yet I ONLY have to use this product once a week!!!!!Jun 8, 2006Edl
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Wow!My hair is thinning due to a condition called PCOS. Im 25 and this was the hardest symptom for me to deal with. Organin makes it impossible to see that my hair is thin! It masks the hairloss perfectly. Even when my scalp sweats, it stays in place and is so easy to use. 2 thumbs way up!Jun 5, 2006Abigail
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Organin For Thinning HairI really have nothing else to compare this product to ,but that is alright for now as I am thankful that it covered my scalp where it is thinning and I really found no problem with it. I am very careful though not to use it all over my head as I do not know if it really does get all over the pillow case and I dont feel the need to put it all over my scalp only what I see on the top of my scalp on top right in the front crown area though my hair is thinning all over this seems to be the worst place. I find this whole procedure depressing meaning that I had no idea that I would have to ever go through this. I am trying so many things but right now to no avail. This is all too devasting to me and I am sure to many who are like myself a woman loosing her hair . I feel bad for all of us . I am however thankful that I found this product Organin as it seems to cover quite well and no one even notices. Sure a few specles got on my face and under my nails but I just brushed them off, it doesnt stain anything . I will stick with this because right now it gives me some confidense that I can look in the mirror and not see my scalp and you cant notice that I am wearing this product. I will purchase this again and in the meantime just keep hoping and praying my hair will grow back ,thankfully it is shoulder length and I can hide it with a style and organin.May 18, 2006Anonymous / Massachusetts
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QE3 = Jobs for Wall St
So what are the Primary Dealers/banks doing with the QE money (besides bidding up commodities and stock prices)? According to Michael, they're gambling in foreign currencies and interest rate arbitrage. Essentially none of the money went into the US economy. So how's it going to create jobs? It's not. Lending for real estate? - more fiction. ~ Ilene
QE3 = Jobs for Wall St
Courtesy of Michael Hudson
PAUL JAY, SENIOR EDITOR, TRNN: Welcome to The Real News Network. I'm Paul Jay in Baltimore.
Ben Bernanke, the head of the Federal Reserve, announced a few days ago QE3, quantitative easing three, and now he says they're going to continue to buy assets, multibillion dollars of purchases, until the unemployment rate goes down. He was then followed by the European Central Bank and the central bank of Japan that are introducing their own monetary stimulus policies.
Now joining us to discuss how effective all this might be is Michael Hudson. Michael's a former Wall Street financial analyst and now a distinguished research professor of economics at the University of Missouri–Kansas City. And his latest book just out is The Bubble and Beyond. Thanks very much for joining us, Michael.
MICHAEL HUDSON, RESEARCH PROFESSOR, UMKC: Thank you very much, Paul.
JAY: So for those that haven't followed this, explain what QE3 is, and then let's talk about whether you think it might be effective.
HUDSON: QE3 was basically a program for the Federal Reserve to give money to the banks until Beethoven writes his 10th Symphony. There is no connection to employment whatsoever.
The QE2 was $800 billion, and all of QE2 was used by the banks to speculate on foreign currencies and interest rate arbitrage. Most was used—lent to the BRIC countries—Brazil, Russia, India, and China. You could—the banks borrowed 0.25 percent and lent money to Brazil at 11 percent and pocketed the interest rate arbitrage. All this $800 billion, so much went out that it pushed up the value of Brazil's cruzeiro, so that banks made a foreign exchange profit on top of the interest rate arbitrage. None of this money went into the U.S. economy.
And in today—when Bernanke was told that, he argued, well, we have to give the banks enough money so they can be lending out for real estate again. This was absolute nonsense. Today's Wall Street Journal has a chart: "Mortgage loans fall to 16-year low". The chart shows that the banks have lent less and less in mortgage refinancing. So the banks have not lent the money either for mortgages—.
JAY: Okay. Back up just one step. So what is supposed to be Bernanke's logic? If, I mean, they buy assets from the banks, essentially, bonds of various kinds. Is that right? And the theory Bernanke gives is this gives liquidity to the banks so that they're going to loan money to small businesses and such and that's supposed to create jobs. I mean, that's what he says publicly anyway.
HUDSON: Right. The cover story of the giveaway to the banks is that if the Federal Reserve makes loans to the banks, unlimited amounts more than $800 billion for QE2, the banks will have enough money that they can afford to lend more mortgage money to bid up real estate prices to try to reinflate the bubble and that they can lend to small businesses. The reality is that ever since QE1 and QE2, every time there's a loan, the banks reduce their loans to businesses, they reduce their mortgage loans, there's less mortgage refinancing, and in fact, the banks use the money to gamble, mainly abroad in foreign currency and interest rate arbitrage, trying to earn the money back by lending to Brazil, Russia, India, and China.
JAY: Right. And is part of the issue here is that the underlying—or at least one of the underlying issues is there's still such a lack of real demand in the economy that they don't see—they'd have no inducement to make these loans, so it's better to go speculate?
HUDSON: Well, the question is: what is demand? Certainly, small business wants to borrow. There are a lot of small businessmen that are able to borrow. The banks say: I'm sorry, we're only lending to the big companies that have assets to foreclose upon. We're not in the business of lending to expand production. We're not in the business of lending to employ labor. That's not what banks do. We lend against collateral, and your collateral mainly is real estate, and real estate is still so much a negative equity that we're not going to lend. And, in fact, if you look at the statistics that have been quoted, the banks have lent less on real estate each year, even on credit cards. The banks have very sharply reduced their credit card exposure by 22 percent in the last few years, so that they're not lending to the U.S. economy at all. This is all just a fiction, that the banks are going to lend.
JAY: Okay. So Bernanke sees this. I mean, it was clear from QE1 and QE2 that it didn't have this employment effect, and he can see that. So I guess my question is: is jobs really the objective, or are they worried about another major financial collapse and this is actually more about the financial system stability than it is about jobs, even though they use that language?
HUDSON: They are worried about Mr. Obama's job. The Wall Street Journal pointed out today that for the first time—in the past, the Federal Reserve has always flooded the economy with money whenever a Republican president was up for reelection. So they used to joke that the Federal Reserve was the 13th—the 13th district was the Republican National Committee. This is the first time that the Federal Reserve is flooding money trying to get a Democrat reelected. So the objective is not jobs for employees; it's jobs, really, for the current administration and its campaign contributors.
JAY: But for it to have that effect of reelecting President Obama, it would have to have some impact on people's lives. I mean, there have to be some effect of all this liquidity in terms of jobs or something, or otherwise why would anyone reelect President Obama?
HUDSON: Well, the liquidity is not going into the U.S. economy, it's not going into the industrial market, it's not going to small business, it's not going to real estate. And all of this is available every quarter in the Federal Reserve's own balance sheets of U.S. economy. They trace what the banks are lending for, and it's not to create jobs. Once again, that's not what banks do.
JAY: So this is what I'm getting at, then, then. For Bernanke to throw more money at the banks this way—and what I'm asking is 'cause they fear a really deep global recession, given what's happening in Europe and other—you know, in general a slowdown, and somehow they're throwing money into banks 'cause they're worried about banking collapse more than jobs. I mean, do you think what I'm saying makes sense?
HUDSON: No, it's not a bank. The banks are in no danger of collapse for the insured things. The banks that are in danger are the five big banks that made huge derivative gambles. Eighty percent of the derivatives are done by the five largest banks, and they are—they've made a big gamble that stock markets and real estate prices are going to go up.
But at the same time, the banks are looking forward to a depression. For them, the financial crisis we're having today in Greece and the eurozone is a bonanza for the banks. In fact, yesterday's Financial Times came out and had the head of the privatization unit in Greece saying he's now offering a bonanza to the creditors, European creditors, to come and buy Greece's oil and gas rights and its export sectors and tourism sectors.
And The New York Times yesterday pointed out that all of the €31.5 billion in new aid is not going to be spent on the Greek people any more than the American QE3 is spent here; it's going to be given to the Greek banks to help pull them out of their negative equity and all of their bad real estate mortgages. And that really is the same situation here.
The big banks weren't able to stick all of their customers and their counterparties with all of the junk mortgages that they bought, and they're still stuck with the junk mortgages that they thought they could cheat their customers on. So you're bailing out their ability, really, to profiteer off the economy and sell all of the junk mortgages that they've got from Countrywide Financial and the other big fraudulent, criminalized financial agencies.
So what is happening is just it's as if the crooks have taken over the economy and are trying to bail themselves out of the mess that they're in, so that they can somehow re-bid up real estate prices to restore the happy bubble economy that led to all these problems to begin with. So it's just let us do it all over again. And, of course, the end of this will be yet another bailout in QE4 and QE5, and we're still going to be waiting for Beethoven to write the 10th Symphony.
JAY: Thanks for joining us, Michael.
Note: My blog has largely moved to the Market Shadows website. ~ Ilene
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Cougar, if class war it be then there can only be one of two outcomes in the long-term. One is anger fed by the former middle class and working poor who find themselves robbed, and as in Russia in 1917 or France at the end of the 18th century, rise and do to the elite what history shows is not only possible but likely. Less likely but still possible is a modern return to feudalism made possible only by private armies and incredible technologies that the masses have no idea already exists. But, the latter requires a very large reduction in population because feudalism requires that the 99% ruled by the 1% be at subsistence levels, and the carrying capacity of such a system is far lower than the current population, less than half at least.
The US housing market was inflated by monetary policies in the '80s and '90s. Said housing market will now be bought off the banks holding the paper using inflated fiat printed for the purpose.
This is somewhat circular, notice. It's almost not even interesting. Where it becomes interesting is that home owners paying loans are paying into a huge bubble with wages stagnated back to some time in the '70s.
So in some ways, the housing bubble ends up being a way to sponge up the excess capital of the middle-class, who don't know how to use capital anyway. That would certainly be the reasoning of the banker class who afterall invented money and capital in the first place and for their own uses, not ours.
Not sure where that line of thought was headed. But I do sense a pattern of asymetric class warfare at play.
Concepts that have been abandoned by the unelected financial aristocracy:
A level playing field.
Mark to Market accounting.
Earning interest on savings.
Realizing losses on bad investment.
The two tier society of super-rich and everyone else has been established and is creeping into the day to day. BBC had an interesting radio topic discussing line queing and the stratification of rich/poor. At some theme parks you can buy priority wrist bands which will get you to the front of the line quicker without having to stand in line. Of course you pay a lot extra for that. A clogged highway has priority speed lanes used only by those that can afford to pay extra. Priority seating on airplanes. Special passes that get you quickly through the usual Custom lines when crossing a border. And so it goes.
Soon we will see priority gasoline lanes for those with monthly passes.
With unlimited money creation comes unlimited price rises. The very wealthy where money is no object will still sustain their lifestyle. As for the rest of us..... we are just another abandoned concept.
What they have done, TPTB, Bankers and Fed with tacit but full support from the political sphere, is create out of nothing but ink and paper (electronic blips or real cash) a permanent over class which includes around 1% of the population that is so far beyond the rest of us in both annual income and untaxed dynastic wealth that we all might just as well shrug our collective shoulders and admit once and for all that they are in every respect an aristocracy and we are their property, except that in aristocracies of old there was an obligation on the part of the nobility to take minimum care of the populations under them and that is no longer the case.
Now I see the relevance of the book/movie, The Hunger Games. What Suzanne Collins did in that book was to take the sectors of our society and equate them to actual geographic locations, there were the districts 1 thru 13 (12 really with district 13 having been intentionally destroyed as a demonstration of power by the elite) and the Capital populated by what we would call the 1%. The districts all had a specialty in their utility, District 12 for example was the region once called Appalachia and provided the coal, it was also the poorest district, but the Capital kept all 12 districts poor.
The analogy doesn't stop there, good read, though written with a teen audience in mind. Parts of it resonated with what we all discuss every day here, and I honestly believe that the recent moves by the Fed are both an admission that the world as we knew it failed, and partly as the poison to kill that world in which upward mobility and a vibrant middle class thrived. And whether it was an accidental death by misadventure or a deliberate murder plot they still killed the economics of justice and equality and freedom.
What we are facing is the irreversible termination of an "experiment" in economics that lasted a couple hundred years and which worked beautifully for a while, but which also ultimately proved it had no defenses against greed. My personal sentiment is that we could have kept the economic miracle alive, but the day the first "free trade" deal was struck was the step we took over the edge of the slippery slope that demanded we go ever further downward, and the process will take just long enough that memories of how good we used to have it will have faded to the point where we no longer can rely on those remembered happier days to motivate rebellion against the greedy aristocrats who have enslaved us. It is sad to see GenX graduating from college with tens or hundreds of thousands in debt they will never be able to pay off and they accept it as if it is NORMAL. Even if a few malcontents who see what is happening to us post at places on the web like ZH it will not reverse what they have done, and I am glad I will not live to see the world they are making.
The only segment of today's housing report that was positive was the rise median new home sales, but only for expensive housing. Can you say NEW YORK and WASHINGTON DC???????????
Good one QE-Elite I don't know why the whole thing is not put together by some enterprising reporter and broken on the nightly news oh wait I guess I do know why they obviously report what they are told now days.
Federal Reserve policies favor the rich
4th year of record high Banker Bonuses coming up....i can smell it.
But, but, but... as long as The Fed is around, your S.S. and Medicare will always be there for you, and the price of your home will never come down.
Well, I suppose two out of three isn't bad. The Fed will just have to steal from the future to make the S.S. and Medicare thang work. After all, what have future generations ever done for us? But it'll be there for you!
I don't know about anyone else but I fully trust the Government. All those people in the three branches of Government pledged their sacred honor, family fortunes, their very lives, in order to gain and keep power. It's not like a few Corporations gave them tons and tons of campaign money(way above what I as a living breathing person am allowed to donate) in order to gain influence and power.
its a criminal wealth transfer mechanism done right under the sheeps noses. But hey.lookey over there! Iphones for everyone.
Beethoven? Isn't he a little old to be writting Symphonies? Geez, we might have to wait a long time for that tenth Symphony. Did he even start working on it yet?
Shhhh! The maestro is decomposing!
QEternity in reality = Unlimited MONEY for Wall St. Cronies at a HUGE Bargain even the LameStreamMedia is conceding that fact (see below) but as I pointed out several times on site this was planned months ago for connected insiders like warren buffoon and obamas pal and supporter life long democrat lloyd blankfein.Fed Actions Help Lenders' Profits More Than Homebuyers
Warren Buffett: I'd Buy Up 200,000 Homes, Houses Better Investment Than Stocks At Today's Rates
About 6 million borrowers will lose their homes in the next five years because of inability to pay their mortgages, creating demand for as many as 4 million new rental households, according to Scott Simon, head of mortgage bonds at Pacific Investment Management Co. in Newport Beach, California. If funds spend $6 billion on foreclosures, that buys only about 40,000 homes at $150,000 apiece, leaving plenty more for investors of all size to buy rental housing, he said.
&Investors With Ties To Buffett, Soros, Obama Plan Mortgage Eminent Domain Grab
MORGAN STANLEY: We Could See QE4 By The End Of The Year
A Huge Housing Bargain -- but Not for You
NEW YORK (RealMoney) -- The largest transfer of wealth from the public to private sector is about to begin. The federal government will be bulk-selling the massive portfolio of foreclosed homes now owned by HUD, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to private investors -- vulture funds.
These homes, which are now the property of the U.S. government, the U.S. taxpayer, U.S. citizens collectively, are going to be sold to private investor conglomerates at extraordinarily large discounts to real value.
You and I will not be allowed to participate. These investors will come from the private-equity and hedge-fund community, Goldman Sachs (GS ) and its derivatives, as well as foreign sovereign wealth funds that can bring a billion dollars or more to each transaction.
In the process, these investors will instantaneously become the largest improved real estate owners and landlords in the world. The U.S. taxpayer will get pennies on the dollar for these homes and then be allowed to rent them back at market rates.
On Wednesday, the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the U.S. Treasury Department issued a Request for Information(RFI) concerning the disposition of the inventory of foreclosed homes owned by the federal government.
An RFI is ostensibly a way for the federal government to get input from the private sector on how to accomplish the goals laid out in the request. But that's really just a facade, as the RFI was structured by the investors to begin with.
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Fascinating that among the severest critics of the Fed and QE, those who see it as part of a process of disaster leading to hyper-inflation -
Those like the great investor and gold guru Jim Sinclair, yet say that Bernanke really has no other choice now except to follow his un-avoidable road to disaster.
For Sinclair, the derivatives monster has already destroyed the Western world financial system ... our doom is sealed, and there is no path of escape even if Bernanke was not a corrupt tool of the bankster class. Sinclair writes:
« QE1 and QE2 were not failures. Do you have any idea what the world would have looked like if every major bank in the Western financial world broke?
It is easy to be a naysayer and say let the banks go broke, but you have no idea how hard it would have hit you and yours and maybe gold and silver.
This is not to say that Debt Monetization, which QE represents, is correct, but it was the only tool available to central banks that would create infinite cash for the Fed and Treasury to use in a totally discretionary manner. Governments, because of the size of their debt, were incapable of applying the better tool for reviving economic activity, which is fiscal stimulation. ...
Please stop listening to those that tell you QE will have no effect. They are "Ignorant to Infinity." QE3 is going to have an unprecedented effect, as it is now simultaneous and global in scope. ...
OTC derivative manufacturers and distributors sold fraudulent paper to almost every entity as clients of the Western world financial system. Inherently the OTC derivatives manufacturers and distributors had part of the transaction on their books. No problem as long as the entire scam was a "Daisy Chain," a connected set of transactions that has the appearance of risk but when all netted out equals almost zero.
Until Lehman was flushed, and flushed it was, most all OTC derivatives could have been netted to zero in a derivative resurrection bank. Losers would have rejoiced and winners would have declared war. However when Lehman was forced into bankruptcy it broke the "Daisy Chain" (a chain of near risk-less transactions when netted) of the OTC derivatives scam. At this point winners had won huge and loser had lost huge and there was no longer a means of repair to the quadrillion dollar scam. The problem has no practical solution other than transferring all losing paper to the balance sheet of the Federal Reserve ... »
- Jim Sinclair, MineSet
"Do you have any idea how much worse it would have been if we hadn't given XYZ that next fix of methamphetamines? Why, there would have been robberies, broken windows, arguments. No, we could not let XYZ go through a night without his/her fix, we had to get more methamphetamines to address their addiction."
The people who are supposed to be protecting the American people's money and assets have been reduced to liars and charlatans, who tell us their gift to the favored few is for our own good. When the truth is too dangerous to be spoken in public, it's obvious these private institutions are no longer a public benefit.
I agree with everything but the word reduced
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What a hoot. Was up until 3:00 last night. It is all so clear now.
I would agree a BANKRUPTCY of this magnitude (nobody goes "broke" in a fiat system. Bailouts are the norm.) would have a sight to behold. Our political classes have intentionally denuded our Judicial Branches of their very real technical expertise's in this regard...they were able to get through the Lehman incineration...at great labor from what I've read. The beauty of a bank however is that they're not that complicated. Once the bond holders are declared worthless then the pain stops for everyone and we can all go about the business of lending at TRUE reduced risk....namely with collapsed prices and less money. Interest rates we now know were going to zero anyways. Instead the you know who have gone "full on keep the debt super-cycle alive!" Is this the most expensive recovery in History? Obviously yes. It's also one of the least thought through ironically enough. We're at war but "if the system collapses it will be a war in the Streets"? Really? Not plausible. So now instead of banks going bankrupt (as is normal in the world of TRUE free market capitalism) we have California. Huh? Have we STILL not thought this through? Oh, I forgot. "The thought police have got this all figured out....
About the 10th symphony,
I think that just as the world is deleveraging, Beethoven is decomposing
Beethoven is a great analogy given that our leaders are deaf


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BOSTON Occupy Boston protesters who brought a large, fire-resistant military tent for their camp have taken it away after the city refused to allow it.
Fire officials and inspectors turned the tent aside Monday during a noontime scene planned by the protesters, who said they wanted to make a point.
"So this was completely on purpose," said protester David Lenhert, 19, of Framingham. "We knew exactly that this was going to happen. And it was all about just having all the cameras there, all the people there, and showing everybody how ridiculous the city is being."
The officials said protesters don't have a permit for the 10-person tent, and repeated that they aren't allowed to make a permanent camp.
Protesters said they're trying to address fire safety concerns the city raised in a court hearing last week. The protesters are asking a judge to bar the city from clearing out the camp. The city says it has no immediate plans to do that.
Occupy members clashed with police last week over an attempt to bring an industrial sink to camp.
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High School District Superintendent Dr. Bill Heidenreich said he learned from that experience, and wanted to let parents know early that the transportation options for their children could change next year. "We're being proactively transparent by saying this is a possibility," he said. "No decision is really made until July."
The deadline for transportation requests is April 1, and after that there will be a request for bids, Heidenreich explained. Then, he said, officials will choose the most economical and efficient method. With some changes to bus routes and schedules offered by Veolia Transportation, which manages the Nassau InterCounty Express bus system, Heidenreich said, there are potential savings in the use of public buses.
Mary Rose Bosko, one of the organizers of last week's meeting and a parent of two children who attend parochial schools, urged parents to write personal, heartfelt letters to Board of Education trustees, and to focus on safety.
Bosko also asked parents to call the superintendent's office this Thursday, asking that the transportation changes be reconsidered. "If we all call on the same day," she said, "we're going to get his attention."
Sharon Daly, whose daughter graduated from parochial school, put together a petition. Parents were asked to gather signatures after Masses on March 3 at the three local Catholic churches.
Daly also expressed her concerns about safety, noting that Sacred Heart Academy is on Hempstead Turnpike, recently cited as one of the most dangerous roads in the region. Having students wait for a bus along the road, or potentially having to cross it to catch a bus, worries her greatly, she said.
McMahon cautioned parents about adopting an "us against them" mentality, noting that the high school district is also considering cuts that would affect its own students. More than a dozen teachers could lose their jobs, and extracurricular activities and three sports teams may be on the chopping block.
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I confirmed with the district that not only does this potentially affect those children attending the High Schools listed above, but also 7th and 8th grade students attending area parochial schools. To ask a 12-year old to ride a public bus is irresponsible and potentially dangerous.
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We've been paying our school taxes for over 15 years now and we have a say on where our money goes... We want to keep school buses fully operational. Thank you!
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Indie Roundup is your weekly guide to what's new and upcoming in the independent film world. (Clockwise from upper left: Videocracy, The Greatest, Crazy Heart, Prodigal Sons,)
Deals. The past seven days have been busy, according to our friends at indieWIRE. Erik Gandini's documentary Videocracy will open in New York City on February 12, via its deal with Lorber Films, and will then roll out across the country. The film examines the media culture in Italy; Todd Brown at Twitch calls it "riveting viewing, at times bizarre, at other times horrifying, but always impossible to turn away from." NSFW trailer after the jump.
Theatrical rights to Shana Feste's The Greatest were picked up by Paladin, which plans a late March release followed by an early April expansion. Pierce Brosnan and Susan Sarandon star as parents dealing with the tragic death of their teenage son; Carey Mulligan (An Education) gives a "sharp, honest" performance as the girlfriend left behind, according to Eric D. Snider, who felt the movie itself is "an uncomfortable misfire."
Kimberly Reed's prize-winning doc Prodigal Sons was acquired by First Run Features, which will release it in late February. Prodigal Sons "sees the filmmaker grappling with her insecurities as a trans person outside her comfort zone," wrote Ed Gonzalez in The Village Voice. "Reed's high school reunion forces her to reconnect with the community that knew her only as a basketball-playing jock, but her struggle doesn't end there."
George A. Romero's latest zombie flick, Survival of the Dead, landed a deal with Magnet Releasing, the genre releasing arm of Magnolia Pictures. Mike Bracken at our sister site Horror Squad has the details and a clip.
After the jump: Crazy numbers.
Indie Weekend Box Office. The overall per-theater earnings crown was nabbed by Rob Marshall's musical Nine ($64,308), trailed by the monster release of James Cameron's Avatar ($22,313), according to Box Office Mojo.
Featuring neither sexy dancing girls (as far as I know) nor big blue aliens (as far as I know), Crazy Heart, written and directed by Scott Cooper, drew very respectably, averaging $20,666 at the four theaters where it opened. Jeff Bridges stars as country music singer Bad Blake, who has seen better days, and hopes to see a few more with the help of journalist Maggie Gyllenhaal. Robert Duvall and Colin Farrell also appear. Bridges has been nominated for a Golden Globe for his performance.
Period drama The Young Victoria did just OK, averaging $8,003 at 20 theaters. Our own Monika Bartyzel says it "almost works beautifully, but ultimately falls victim to poor framing and the throes of dramatic romance." Emily Blunt, Miranda Richardson, Mark Strong, and Jim Broadbent star; Jean-Marc Vallee (the brilliant C.R.A.Z.Y.) directed.
Two limited expansions performed well, ahead of their wider openings on Friday. Jason Reitman's latest studio release, Up in the Air, rode a wave of critical plaudits to a sumptuous $18,344 average at 175 theaters. Pedro Almodovar's Broken Embraces had more modest returns, with a per-theater average of $6,833 in 30 engagements.
Two other films in their second week of release ended up with about the same average, slightly more than $15,000: Tom Ford's A Single Man (at nine theaters) and Peter Jackson's The Lovely Bones (at three theaters). Jackson's film is facing the bigger challenge, since it reportedly had a budget of $100 million (?!) and has received mixed critical notices. It opens wide on January 15.
Trailers. Only one this week: the revealing, chilling, NSFW trailer for Videocracy.
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Op-ed: Israel missed opportunity to extensively damage Hamas' national infrastructure, creating even greater deterrence
Giora Eiland
Published: 11.25.12, 21:28 / Israel Opinion
Giora Eiland
I believe that the political and military echelon were wrong about the use of Israel's
aerial efforts. The most important mistake stems from the incorrect definition which divides the attacked targets into only two types: Clear military targets, which are legal, and other targets, which are civilian and therefore must not be bombed.
The correct division is into three groups, with the third group – located between the two aforementioned types – consisting of national infrastructure targets. Such targets, which include government buildings, fuel caches, communication centers, bridges and the power system, are legitimate in the event of a military conflict between two countries, and this was the exact situation between us and Hamas.
Israel is not fighting terror organizations but a state. Gaza became a de facto independent state in as early as 2007, and that's a good thing. Israel is always better off facing a political entity which serves as a clear address, both for deterrence purposes and for an agreement, than a situation in which the government is formally in the hands of one body but the ability to use fire is in the hands of others.
Because Gaza is a state which initiated ongoing rocket fire on Israel, in a military conflict the right thing to do is to hit all the targets serving the rival regime and allowing it to continue controlling and conducting a war against us.
As we wrongly divided the targets into only two types, an erroneous identity has been created between two terms by which the only meaning of "expanding the operation" is a ground offensive. The operation can and should be expanded against the state of Gaza, yet not necessarily through a ground offensive but by causing much greater damage to the infrastructure there.
The IDF is worthy of all praise for the damage inflicted to Hamas' rockets and the small number of uninvolved casualties. Nonetheless, we missed an opportunity to extensively damage Hamas' ruling abilities, guaranteeing even greater deterrence, which was the main goal of the operation.
Giora Eiland is a retired IDF major-general and former head of the National Security Council


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I like your over all look. I'm not such an expert myself, but since no one else has commented. I like you stippling for desert. I see two dune symbols/brushes and I think they both look very good. My only suggestion would be to use more of them in a pattern to look more like dune wave patterns. perhaps. just one dune in isolation can be mistaken for a hill I think. The settlement symbols are a good choice. But the thin clean lines on those symbols look a little too clean for your map style. You might want to blur them just a little, maybe widen the lines a pixel and otherwise muss up a bit. I'm not sure how but they don't look hand drawn as they are.
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