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Dish teased a couple of weeks ago with the news that Jinx Kern, owner of the Pit Stop on Market Street, was seeking a second location, but we couldn't give specifics. This week, we've learned the search is still on, and better yet, it could be nearing completion.
"I'm negotiating with Gabe and Allie," says Kern, speaking of Gabe Silverman and Allan Cadgene, owners and developers of the Main Street Market.
"It's my fantasy, and it's a nightmare at the same time," Kern calls the laborious process of working up plans. If all goes well, however, Kern says he could be living every small business owner's dream: "I think I can finally make some money," he sighs, "which is nice to do."
Silverman seems set on making that dream happen for Kern.
"We would build him a place on the two parcels to the left of the Market building," says Silverman. The new building, which will be designed by Formworks, the architecture firm responsible for the vibrant red interior of the Blue Light Grill, will also house chic garden shop Hedge, currently located on Market Street but already in the process of moving to West Main.
In addition, Silverman says he'll add women's clothing businesses as well as hosting art shows and kid-friendly events at the Market things that "will bring people down."
The second Pit Stop space will be much larger than the original Market Streetbut then, what isn't? The new space will feature outdoor dining as well as an outdoor place to smoke the meat.
And speaking of meat, Silverman says he hopes Main Street Market's crowning glory will be an authentic meat cutter and butcher shop. In fact, he says, "We're holding the big space open" for such a business. In case you're wondering, a meat cutter is specially trained often at a culinary institute– to cut a whole side of meat, while a butcher simply packages the meat. Silverman says he hopes to recruit such a skilled tradesman, even if he has to go overseas to do it.
Super soup
Yeah, yeah, we know. It's been, like, 150 degrees for the past two months, so who wants steaming soup? Well, Dish has some news for you: it doesn't have to be steaming, and, in fact, it doesn't even have to be soup!
It had been a while since we stopped into Revolutionary Soup, which changed hands back in July. So when we dropped in a few weeks back, we were thrilled to see that not only have they maintained the selection of hot soups, they've also added cold soups to cool you down on these oppressive days.
Better yet are the wraps, no doubt inspired by new Revolutionary co-owner Alison Campbell's days as Zazu's manager. Chicken tarragon, turkey club, and curried chicken are the basic choices, and you can order them by the half we added some soup to fill us up or whole, for a heavier meal.


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US retail giant Walmart is to offer punters digital copies of each of their DVDs and Blu-rays for $2 (£1.27) a pop.
Converting a standard definition title to HD will cost $5 (£3.18), the firm said. Every digital copy is delivered through Walmart's online streaming service, Vudu.
Discs don't have to have been bought at Walmart, and you don't have to hand over your discs for good.
Vudu will tie into Hollywood's UltraViolet cross-company DRM and cloud-based film storage platform, and industry players hope that Walmart's participation will not only help to promote the notion of UV - think of it as a virtual sideboard holding your discs - but make it easier for non-techies, who might be fazed by UV's sign up process or the concepts behind it, to participate.
UV is all about encouraging folk to buy movies rather than rent them, as the likes of Netflix and Lovefilm are encouraging us to do. The carrot is the flexibiliy to access content you own on almost any device, and to buy from multiple providers without compatibility concerns.
Movie distributors make much more money from selling discs to punters than they do selling rental licences to streaming companies. They also fear that far too many of theses services' disc-rental customers adopt a 'rent and rip' behaviour, copying the DVDs and BDs for future viewing when really they should be buying them.
This kind of disc-to-digital scheme was announced by Warner Home Entertainment Group President Kevin Tsujihara a couple of weeks ago.
Not all such folk are convinced. While Walmart's programme covers discs from 20th Century Fox, Paramount, Sony, Universal and Warner, Disney content is not covered. It undoubtedly makes too much money out of disc bought as gifts rather than for personal viewing.
The Walmart scheme - likely to be taken up by other retailers in due course - will encourage folk to gain digital copies without resort to ripping discs - a faff - or resorting to Torrented copies of dubious provenance.
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Not far from the casinos of Atlantic City, a different kind of wager takes place each May along the shores of Delaware Bay.
That's when the red knot, a bird the size of a coffee cup, stakes its future on the ready abundance of eggs laid by tens of thousands of horseshoe crabs. Without enough eggs to fuel them, the long-distance fliers will have a tough time completing the last leg of their 10,000-mile trek from the southern tip of South America to their breeding grounds in the Arctic.
In recent years, the red knots' bet on the crab eggs has been more of a crapshoot than a sure thing. Scientists blame overharvesting in the 1990s for the dearth that's only recently started to reverse.
Yet they also acknowledge a wild card could be in play: Climate change.
Reds knots spend most of their time at the extreme ends of the Western Hemisphere, two areas expected to show effects from climate change most rapidly. Gregory Breese, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's project leader for the Delaware Bay Estuary Project, said modeling indicates a relationship between snow cover in the Arctic and bird survival. In addition, red knot biologists have observed that the birds are arriving one week later to winter than a decade ago in Tierra del Fuego, an archipelago off South America.
In Delaware Bay, warming waters and increased variation in weather — including more frequent and intense storm events —could throw off the delicate dance between the horseshoe crabs and red knots.
"The peak of horseshoe crabs spawning in Delaware Bay has not always aligned itself with the migration of the red knots. That could be related to climate change," Breese said.
Since the 1980s, the rufa subspecies of red knots that depend on Delaware Bay has declined dramatically from a population of more than 90,000 birds to between 15,000 and 20,000, according to Kevin Kalasz, the shorebird project coordinator for the Delaware Division of Fish and Wildlife. The population has been steady since 2003, Kalasz said.
The bird, which has a salmon-colored face and breast, is a candidate for federal protection under the Endangered Species Act.
If climate change played any role in the species decline to date, Kalasz said it was overshadowed by the impact from overharvesting the horseshoe crabs in the Delaware Bay. Now that severe restrictions on crab harvesting are in place, climate change is likely to move to the forefront as a factor in the red knots' survival.
If scientists could determine how much of the red knots' decline is due to climate change versus other factors, Kalasz said it would be possible to develop counteracting management actions. One outcome could be to replenish critical beach areas to protect the crabs spawning grounds from sea level rise.
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House Speaker John Boehner signaled on Friday he's still open to negotiations with President Barack Obama on avoiding across-the-board tax increases set to hit taxpayers Jan. 1, but sounded pessimistic about reaching a grand deal with the president.
WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker John Boehner signaled on Friday he's still open to negotiations with President Barack Obama on avoiding across-the-board tax increases set to hit taxpayers Jan. 1, but sounded pessimistic about reaching a grand deal with the president.
"How we get there, God only knows," Boehner told a Capitol Hill news conference just hours after his rank-and-file handed him a stunning tactical defeat.
The Republican leader was forced by his members to abandon legislation that would have raised taxes on millionaires. "We didn't have the votes to pass it," Boehner said glumly.
In the aftermath, Boehner said any deal with the president to avoid the looming "fiscal cliff" would require more compromise by Obama and greater involvement of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., and the minority leader, Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.
"I'm interested in solving the major problems that face our country," Boehner said. "And that means House leaders, Senate leaders and the president are going to continue to have to work together to address those concerns."
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., who stood by Boehner's side, said, "We stand ready to continue in dialogue with this president to actually fix the problem."
Boehner dismissed suggestions that the embarrassment late Thursday night over the legislation would cost him his speakership, second in line to the presidency.
"While we may have not been able to get the votes last night to avert 99.81 percent of the tax increases, I don't think — they weren't taking that out on me," he said. "They were dealing with the perception that somebody might accuse them of raising taxes."
Obama has said he will press ahead with Congress in search of a deal.
White House spokesman Jay Carney said Obama's "main priority is to ensure that taxes don't go up on 98 percent of Americans and 97 percent of small businesses," citing statistics associated with Obama's campaign promise to increase top tax rates on households earning more than $250,000 a year.
"The president will work with Congress to get this done and we are hopeful that we will be able to find a bipartisan solution quickly that protects the middle class and our economy," Carney said. Pointedly, the statement didn't say whether Obama would work with Boehner to revive stalled talks or turn first to the Democratic-controlled Senate to try to salvage the situation.
Boehner's attempt to retreat from a longstanding promise to maintain Bush-era tax rates for all was designed to gain at least some leverage against Obama and Senate Democrats in the fiscal cliff endgame. Thursday's drama was a major personal defeat for the speaker, who retains the respect and affection of his tea party-infused conference, but sometimes has great difficulty getting them to follow his leadership.
What Boehner called his "Plan B" was crafted to prevent tax increases set to kick in Jan. 1 on virtually every taxpayer. But it also would have provisions that would have let rates rise for those at the upper income range — a violation of long-standing Republican orthodoxy that triggered opposition inside the party.
The hope was that successful House action on the measure would force Senate Democrats to respond. But Reid made clear that Plan B would have been dead on arrival in the Senate.
The latest events leave little time for Obama and bruised lawmakers to prevent across-the-board tax increases and deep spending cuts from taking effect with the new year. Economists say the combination threatens a return to recession for an economy that has been recovering slowly from the last one.
The House will not meet again until after Christmas, if then, and the Senate is expected to meet briefly on Friday, then not reconvene until next Thursday.
In arguing for legislation with a million-dollar threshold for higher tax rates, Boehner said the president has called for protecting 98 percent of people from a tax increase. His bill would "protect 99.81 percent of the American people from an increase in taxes."
Democrats said that by keeping tax rates unchanged below $1 million — Obama has offered a compromise $400,000 level — Republicans had turned the bill into a tax break for the wealthy. They also accused Republicans of crafting their measure to impose a tax increase on 11 million middle class families.
"This is a ploy, not a plan," said Rep. Sander Levin, D-Mich. He accused Republicans of being "deeply cynical," saying the legislation would scale back some education and child tax credits.
A companion bill that was meant to build GOP support for the tax legislation called for elimination of an estimated $97 billion in cuts to the Pentagon and certain domestic programs over a decade. It cleared the House on a partisan vote of 215-209 and is an updated version of legislation that passed a little more than six months ago.
Those cuts would be replaced with savings totaling $314 billion, achieved through increases in the amount federal employees contribute toward their pensions and through cuts in social programs such as food stamps and the health care law that Obama signed earlier in his term.
Earlier in the week, Boehner and Obama had significantly narrowed their differences on a compromise to avoid the fiscal cliff.
But Republican officials said members of the GOP leadership had balked at the terms that were emerging. Democrats said Boehner's abrupt decision to shift to his Plan B — legislation drafted unilaterally by Republicans — reflected a calculation that he lacked support from his own members to win the votes needed for the type of agreement he was negotiating with the president.
By any measure, the two bills in the House were far removed from the latest offers that officials said Obama and Boehner had tendered. The two men don't seem to be that far apart.
Obama is now seeking $1.2 trillion in higher tax revenue, down from the $1.6 trillion he initially sought. He also has softened his demand for higher tax rates on household incomes so they would apply to incomes over $400,000 instead of the $250,000 he cited during his successful campaign for a new term.
He also has offered more than $800 billion in spending cuts over a decade, half of it from Medicare and Medicaid, $200 billion from farm and other benefit programs, $100 billion from defense and $100 billion from a broad swath of government accounts ranging from parks to transportation to education.
In a key concession to Republicans, the president also has agreed to slow the rise in cost-of-living increases in Social Security and other benefit programs, at a savings estimated at about $130 billion over a decade.
By contrast, Boehner's most recent offer allowed for about $940 billion in higher taxes over a decade, with higher rates for annual incomes over $1 million.


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In case if any of you planned to purchase this new "limited edition" set containing all of the released movies (Iron Man/Hulk/Captain America/Avengers):
Don't do it! I'm already returning mine. The set is made up with an extremely flimsy, tiny (the carrying handle on it is made for toddler's hands) briefcase made out of cheap painted plastic, with a cheap plastic Tesseract "cube" with inexpensive blinking LED, few "case files" (which were actually pretty decent) and movies themselves, each packaged in a cheap cardboard sleeve (which can't even hold the disk securely) and with very lame single "bonus content" on separate disk... Pretty disappointing for a supposedly "limited edition" set. Of course, I didn't really expect an exact copy of movie's briefcase made out of real aluminum for such price, but they could've done better with it or raised the price for better quality hardware...
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7 weeks later, Fong's still working to reopen
A water main break in downtown Des Moines closed Fong's Pizza before Thanksgiving, and it's going to take a couple more weeks before the restaurant can reopen.
A lot of work is being done in the basement of Fong's Pizza after water poured into the building and filled the basement from floor to the first floor joists.
"It was all the way to the rafters," said Fong's owner Dennis Epps.
The damage was extensive. Workers had to rebuild walls, add a new walk-in cooler and replace the electrical system.
Upstairs in the restaurant, the floor had to be replaced and new booths are being added.
"I was unaware that No. 1, it could happen like that downtown -- and the amount force with things thrown across the room," said Epps.
Epps said in the end the water main break may have been a blessing in disguise.
"At first I was pretty distraught about the whole thing, but you know when we opened up the first time we went king of fast and we used a lot of material that was here. We thought that was cool and neat. It was but now we have the opportunity to get new booths, a new floor so it's a big place, so it is going to be better," said Epps.
Epps said customers have been supporting the effort by phone, text and on Facebook. Most have the same message, Epps said "please open."
Epps hopes is to reopen by Jan. 26, which will marks Fong's fourth anniversary, but it could take a week or two more.


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All my friends seem to be going through something difficult right now whether it be surgery or something else. I had to make another thinking of you card today. This card I used the For Father SU Stamp. It just seemed liked the perfect image for the occassion. I also used the Fiskars Corner punch, sorry don't remember the name of it but it's one of those 4 in 1 punches (if you need to know I can get the name for you just let me know). The mats for the image were made on the cricut using the George Cartridge. It's hard to tell from the photo but I chalked the edges of the image.
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Five people died Wednesday (January 23) in a two-vehicle crash on Highway 11 .6 of a mile south of the 54-mile marker just south of Pāhala.
Responding to a 10:17 report, Kaʻū District officers determined that a 2012 Nissan four-door sedan was traveling south at the Punaluʻu bridge when it swerved to the left, crossed the center line and crashed head-on into a 2002 Ford pickup truck. The truck overturned and caught fire.
A man and woman in the truck died at the scene, as did a male driver and a male passenger in the sedan. A male child in the sedan was taken to Kaʻū Hospital and then flown to Kona Community Hospital, where he later died.
No more details are immediately available at this time.
Police initiated four negligent homicide cases and a coroner's inquest case.
The deaths were the third, fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh fatalities so far this year compared with none at this time last year.
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|[Shabelle] Reports from Dhobley town in southern Somalia say that there was a fighting in Bula Gadud village last night between Somali government forces backed by Kenyan forces and unknown assailants.
The fighting is reported to be fierce with a casualty of four deaths but the Somali national army and their Kenyan allies have succeeded in chasing the unknown assailant group from the area.
Bulo Gadud was a stronghold for Alshabab but it has recently been freed by the Somali national army with from the Kenyan contingents from the African union mission.
Meanwhile there was also a fight in an area near Tabto and Dhobley and it was an ambush attack on convoys of the hapless Somali government forces and Kenyan troops.
Residents in the area told Shabelle that one Somali soldier and e Kenyan soldier were killed in the ambush but the unknown gunnies who ambushed the allied forces have been cleared out of the area.
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You captured some great sexy scents, but other very alluring ones for women include 1) "Lady Million" by Paco Rabanne; 2) "Sensuous Nude," a musky gem from Estee Lauder; 3) Lady Gaga's "Fame;" and 4) "Loverdose" by Diesel. For him, there's 1) Christian Dior's pulse-pounding "Farenheit;" 2) Givenchy's "Play;" 3) Bvlgari's "Aqva" (not-so-innocent); and, my favorite, "Tuscany" by Aramis (which had a huge part in my falling in love with my husband)!
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I want to try so many of these, for me and my man
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I want Marry Me and Bombshell
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Guess makes great men's scents
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I would definitely agree with the Chanel Bleu De Chanel! I love that scent on a man. But with a woman, I would have to go with Flowerbomb. If I had to wear one perfume for the rest of my life it would be that!
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Guess ,so amazing
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Juicy fragrances are so fresh
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I am extremely picky when it comes to the fragrances that I wear. I am loyal to Jo Malone and Tom Ford fragrances and never really deviate from them. But, I would like to sample the Lanvin "Marry Me" scent. It has peaked my interest. I agree that the VS "Bombshell" is a sexy fragrance. It just doesn't have the lasting power that I seek in a fragrance.
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I got a sample of Daisy by Marc Jacobs and I fell in love with it and it is one of the few perfumes that I wear, and one that does not aggravate hubby's sinus
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How High Oil Prices Will Permanently Cap Economic Growth
Bloomberg, 24 September 2012
For most of the last century, cheap oil powered global economic growth. But in the last decade, the price of oil has quadrupled, and that shift will permanently shackle the growth potential of the world's economies.
The countries guzzling the most oil are taking the biggest hits to potential economic growth. That's sobering news for the U.S., which consumes almost a fifth of the oil used in the world every day. Not long ago, when oil was $20 a barrel, the U.S. was the locomotive of global economic growth; the federal government was running budget surpluses; the jobless rate at the beginning of the last decade was at a 40-year low. Now, growth is stalled, the deficit is more than $1 trillion and almost 13 million Americans are unemployed.
And the U.S. isn't the only country getting squeezed. From Europe to Japan, governments are struggling to restore growth. But the economic remedies being used are doing more harm than good, based as they are on a fundamental belief that economic growth can return to its former strength. Central bankers and policy makers have failed to fully recognize the suffocating impact of $100-a-barrel oil.
Running huge budget deficits and keeping borrowing costs at record lows are only compounding current problems. These policies cannot be long-term substitutes for cheap oil because an economy can't grow if it can no longer afford to burn the fuel on which it runs. The end of growth means governments will need to radically change how economies are managed. Fiscal and monetary policies need to be recalibrated to account for slower potential growth rates.
Energy Source
Oil provides more than a third of the energy we use on the planet every day, more than any other energy source. And you can draw a straight line between oil consumption and gross-domestic-product growth. The more oil we burn, the faster the global economy grows. On average over the last four decades, a 1 percent bump in world oil consumption has led to a 2 percent increase in global GDP. That means if GDP increased 4 percent a year — as it often did before the 2008 recession — oil consumption was increasing by 2 percent a year.
At $20 a barrel, increasing annual oil consumption by 2 percent seems reasonable enough. At $100 a barrel, it becomes easier to see how a 2 percent increase in fuel consumption is enough to make an economy collapse.
Fortunately, the reverse is also true. When our economies stop growing, less oil is needed. For example, after the big decline in 2008, global oil demand actually fell for the first time since 1983. That's why the best cure for high oil prices is high oil prices. When prices rise to a level that causes an economic crash, lower prices inevitably follow. Over the last four decades, each time oil prices have spiked, the global economy has entered a recession.
Consider the first oil shock, after the Yom Kippur War in 1973, when the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries'Arab members turned off the taps on roughly 8 percent of the world's oil supply by cutting shipments to the U.S. and other Israeli allies. Crude prices spiked, and by 1974, real GDP in the U.S. had shrunk by 2.5 percent.
The second OPEC oil shock happened during Iran's revolution and the subsequent war with Iraq. Disruptions to Iranian production during the revolution sent crude prices higher, pushing the North American economy into a recession for the first half of 1980. A few months later, Iran's war with Iraq shut off 6 percent of world oil production, sending North America into a double-dip recession that began in the spring of 1981.
Kuwait Invasion
When Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait a decade later, oil prices doubled to $40 a barrel, an unheard-of level at the time. The first Gulf War disrupted almost 10 percent of the world's oil supply, sending major oil-consuming countries into a recession in the fall of 1990.
Guess what oil prices were doing in 2008, when the world fell into the deepest recession since the 1930s? From trading around $30 a barrel in 2004, oil prices marched steadily higher before hitting a peak of $147 a barrel in the summer of 2008. Unlike past oil price shocks, this time there wasn't even a supply disruption to blame. The spigot was wide open. The problem was, we could no longer afford to buy what was flowing through it.
There are many ways an oil shock can hurt an economy. When prices spike, most of us have little choice but to open our wallets. Paying more for oil means we have less cash to spend on food, shelter, furniture, clothes, travel and pretty much anything else. Expensive oil, coupled with the average American's refusal to drive less, leaves a lot less money for the rest of the economy.
Worse, when oil prices go up, so does inflation. And when inflation goes up, central banks respond by raising interest rates to keep prices in check. From 2004 to 2006, U.S. energy inflation ran at 35 percent, according to the Consumer Price Index. In turn, overall inflation, as measured by the CPI, accelerated from 1 percent to almost 6 percent. What happened next was a fivefold bump in interest rates that devastated the massively leveraged U.S. housing market. Higher rates popped the speculative housing bubble, which brought down the global economy.
Unfortunately, this pattern of oil-driven inflation is with us again. And world food prices are being affected. According to the food-price index tracked by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, the cost of food rose almost 40 percent from 2009 to the beginning of 2012. And since 2002, the FAO's food-price index, which measures a basket of five commodity groups (meat, dairy, cereals, oils and fats, and sugar), is up about 150 percent.
Food Prices
A double whammy of rising oil and food prices means inflation will be here sooner than anyone would like to think.
Rising inflation rates in China and India are a clear signal that those economies are growing at an unsustainable pace. China has made GDP growth of more than 8 percent a priority but needs to recalibrate its thinking to recognize the damping effects of high oil prices. Growth might not stall entirely, but clocking double-digit gains is no longer feasible, at least without triggering a calamitous increase in inflation. If China and India, the new engines of global economic growth, are forced to adopt anti-inflationary monetary policies, the ripple effects for resource-based economies such as Canada,Australia and Brazil will be felt in a hurry.
Triple-digit oil prices will end the lofty economic hopes of India and China, which are looking to achieve the same sort of sustained growth that North America and Europe enjoyed in the postwar era. There is an unavoidable obstacle that puts such ambitions out of reach: Today's oil isn't flowing from the same places it did yesterday. More importantly, it's not flowing at the same cost.
Conventional oil production, the easy-to-get-at stuff from the Middle East or west Texas, hasn't increased in more than five years. And that's with record crude prices giving explorers all the incentive in the world to drill. According to theInternational Energy Agency, conventional production has already peaked and is set to decline steadily over the next few decades.
That doesn't mean there won't be any more oil. New reserves are being found all the time in new places. What the decline in conventional production does mean, though, is that future economic growth will be fueled by expensive oil from nonconventional sources such as the tar sands, offshore wells in the deep waters of the world's oceans and even oil shales, which come with environmental costs that range from carbon-dioxide emissions to potential groundwater contamination.
And even if new supplies are found, what matters to the economy is the cost of getting that supply flowing. It's not enough for the global energy industry simply to find new caches of oil; the crude must be affordable. Triple-digit prices make it profitable to tap ever-more-expensive sources of oil, but the prices needed to pull this crude out of the ground will throw our economies right back into a recession.
The energy industry's task is not simply to find oil, but also to find stuff we can afford to burn. And that's where the industry is failing. Each new barrel we pull out of the ground is costing us more than the last. The resources may be there for the taking, but our economies are already telling us we can't afford the cost.
Today, the world burns about 90 million barrels of oil a day. If our economies are no longer growing, maybe we won't need any more than that. We might even need less. Maybe the oil trapped in the tar sands or under the Arctic Ocean can stay where nature put it.


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myrecordjournal.com | Dec 14, 2008
By Jeffery Kurz
WALLINGFORD – Sensors keep track of just about everything Shirley Player does in her apartment, but she's not worried that Big Brother is watching. Far from it.
"I feel very safe with it," Player said. "It's nice to know you're being watched."
Player is one of 68 residents of the Masonicare retirement community participating in a study that aims to determine whether keeping a technological eye on seniors can help them live longer independently in their own homes.
Player's place has a motion detector in the corner of each room, a sensor on her refrigerator that keeps track of her eating habits, a sensor on the medicine cabinet to see if she's taking her medications on time, and a pressure sensor underneath the mattress of her bed to track her sleeping. There would have been a sensor on the toilet, except that was determined unfeasible for the study during a pilot program this summer.
Player says her greatest worry is remembering to take the sensor on her key chain with her when she leaves her apartment. Otherwise, she said, after about a month she hardly gives the monitoring program a thought. Does she worry about it?
"I never do," she said.
"If it will help somebody else, that's what my goal is," said the 87-year-old Player, who lives at the Masonic Health Care Center independent living complex, in one of the A. Norman Johnson Apartments.


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Miscellaneous thoughts about miscellaneous matters
Debtors love inflation. The more they owe, the more inflation they want. That is because inflated dollars cost less, so the debtors can repay the same nominal amount for a lower value. That works whether you are a real estate developer or the U.S.A. The U.S. Treasury and the Federal Reserve Bank have been encouraging high inflation for a long time, so that the Treasury can pay off bonds with cheaper dollars. If inflation is running at average rate of 2.68% per annum, thirty year bonds can be paid
Updated 04-16-2019 at 05:05 PM by PeterL
Donald Trump has made a lot of his skill in negotiation and making deals. He hasn't been crowing about that recently, but there still are implicit claims. Those claims don't stand up to scrutiny, and he seems to have been more skilled at stealing than in dealing.
A large amount of his money he gained through bankruptcy court, rather than through doing business. There are questions as to how many bankruptcies he has had. He admits to four, but there have been at least six, and if one
Updated 10-21-2017 at 08:32 PM by PeterL
There is a lot more ambition in politics than intelligence or good sense. This isnt just a modern problem, but the ancients were also afflicted by politicians with big egos and small brains. That combination tends to lead to people thinking that their preferences are actually best for everyone, without realizing that personal preferences are just that, personal and preferences. Just as different people prefer different foods so it is with politics. And Im not referring to the great divide between
Donald Trump seems to be trying to get as much mileage as possible from his business experience. I wont belittle that experience. As happens to many real estate developers, Trump or his business entities have gone into bankruptcy several times, and that would be useful experience for a U.S. President, since the government is heavily indebted. Someday, the Fed may stop creating money, and the Treasury may have to default on the billions in debts.
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Today, at Least, Britannica Rules the Web
Congratulations to Wikipedia for going dark for a day in protest of the "online piracy" bills being considered in Congress.
But what do we do for information today? You know, we've gotten used to being able to find information now. So here's an idea: Try the original encyclopedia, the one written (in most cases, ahem) by scholars and experts, Britannica.
You could start with their article on libertarianism. Or indeed their article on censorship. And then move on to the columns that I wrote there for most of 2011, on such topics as the debt ceiling crisis, the French Revolution, the founding documents of the United States and the Communist Party of China, the false charge of isolationism, marriage equality in 1967 and 2011, government waste ("this is the business you have chosen"), the Stonewall protests, the triumph of feminism, and why Keynes threw towels on the floor. Good heavens — that ought to keep you busy on Wednesday.
And then Thursday at noon, as Wikipedia and other sites reopen, you can go down to Capitol Hill at noon to see a panel of experts explain what's wrong with the bills that the websites are protesting.


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Early morning is the best time to discover the wildlife living on and around Towers Hill. You will see several species of macropods such as the Eastern Grey Kangaroo, the Whiptail and the Allied Rock Wallabies. Watch as the Wedge-tailed Eagles hunt their prey.
Towers Hill comes to life in the evening with the Ghosts after Dark film screened in the Amphitheatre. Admission fees apply. Tickets can be purchased at the Visitor Information Centre.
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At least three times in the past five weeks, the state police have attended law enforcement conferences where they discussed details of the Dec. 14 Newtown school shooting investigation, state records show.
State police have gone to conferences in Las Vegas and New Orleans, state records show. A third conference was held in mid-February at Foxwoods Resort Casino.
On Thursday, with criticism mounting of the state police for revealing details of their probe, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy called on the chief state's attorney to release more information about the case by next week.
"Like many others, I was disappointed and angered to learn that certain information about the Newtown shooting had been leaked, specifically with concern for the victims' families who may have been hearing this news for the first time," Malloy said.
Malloy was referring to a story over the weekend in the New York Daily News that quoted an unnamed police chief. The chief had attended a briefing by Col. Danny Stebbins last Friday in New Orleans at the International Association of Chiefs of Police Conference.
At that conference, according to the Daily News, Stebbins told the audience that the shooter, Adam Lanza, had been collecting data on mass murderers for years and had generated a 7-foot by 4-foot spreadsheet with details such as the number of people killed and the guns used by each killer.
State police have been regularly briefing the families of the 20 children and six women killed by Lanza at Sandy Hook Elementary School. One family member contacted Thursday said none of the families was told of the spreadsheet.
The last update for the families from state police was about two weeks ago, or more than a week before Stebbins went to New Orleans.
The families, first-responders and teachers were told at that meeting in Newtown that police had found articles about Norwegian mass murderer Anders Breivik, as well as other mass murderers, in Lanza's computer room. They were told that the police theory is that Lanza wanted to outdo Breivik.
As the news broke about the spreadsheet, legislators criticized Stebbins and the state police for leaking details of the case at an out-of-state convention, while steadfastly refusing to update lawmakers who are trying to craft bills as a result of the massacre.
"I think all of us — I'll speak for myself — were taken aback and frankly outraged [at the disclosures] as we had been meeting hour after hour, trying to craft a reasonable compromise, and are entitled to all information possible," said House Republican leader Larry Cafero.
Cafero said it is "irresponsible" for Stebbins to be "in New Orleans at a conference, telling many strangers what was found at that scene," when legislators and the families lack the same information. He said Stebbins needs to "issue an interim report — orally or written. I would prefer it done in writing. We are entitled to that information."
The New Orleans conference was not the first one that Stebbins has attended. He also spoke at an FBI-sponsored conference at Foxwoods in mid-February where he mentioned Lanza's interest in Breivik, but did not go into details about the spreadsheet, according to two sources.
The third conference, in Las Vegas earlier this month, run by the California Homicide Investigators Association, was attended by three state police officials directly involved in the Newtown investigation. Lt. David DelVacchio, who runs the Western District Crime Squad, which is overseeing the Newtown investigation; Lt. William Baldwin Jr.; and Det. Joshua Pattberg all attended the Las Vegas conference, state police spokesman Lt. J. Paul Vance confirmed.
Vance said the three gave a presentation on lessons learned from emergency responders' initial response to the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting and other tactical issues.
Malloy contacted Chief State's Attorney Kevin Kane Thursday and requested that prosecutors consider releasing additional information and provide a status of the investigation by March 29. Police have said they don't expect a final report to be finished until mid-June at the earliest.
"As to what information can reasonably be shared at this time — that is a question that must be left to the state's attorney and other law enforcement," Malloy said. "As a former prosecutor, I'm sensitive to the need for an independent investigation and believe that we must allow their work to continue without any undue interference."
Sources said it is likely that Danbury State's Attorney Stephen Sedensky, who is in charge of the investigation, will issue a short, written interim report.
Malloy went on to say that he is "bewildered" as to why lawmakers require a special briefing before taking a position on potential legislation related to the massacre. He said all they needed to know what that Lanza, using a Bushmaster AR-15 rifle, blasted his way into the Sandy Hook Elementary School and murdered 26 people, including 20 first-graders in two classrooms, before killing himself.
Much of what else the Daily News reported that Stebbins said at the convention has previously been reported. The Courant and CBS News had reported Lanza's infatuation with Breivik. Those reports came after Stebbins traveled to Washington, D.C., to brief political leaders there.
The Courant had also reported months ago that Lanza, while wearing ear plugs, had switched out magazines frequently firing sometimes only half of the 30-round magazines before reloading.
That move is typical one for video gamers, who learn quickly in the games never to enter a new room without a full magazine in case there is a firefight.
The Courant also reported that state police told the families that Nancy Lanza had a vault that she kept all of her guns in and that they do not know whether Adam Lanza had the combination to open it or if Nancy Lanza had left the vault open.
Lanza killed his mother, shooting her four times in the head while she slept, before driving to the elementary school that he attended as a little boy. He shot his way into the school through the front glass and then proceeded to kill Principal Dawn Hochsprung and psychologist Mary Sherlach before entering classrooms and gunning down the children and four other women.


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This weather is too hot to handle
Monday's heat didn't set a record, but residents and officials didn't wait to find out if it would.
They found ways to keep cool.
After a couple of years with storms that brought too much wind, rain or snow, people seemed ready to show the heat some respect, and to heed the message from Gov. Dannel P. Malloy: "A few simple steps can greatly reduce heat-related issues, especially for the elderly, the very young and people with respiratory ailments who are more susceptible to the effects of high temperatures," said the governor in a press release.
Many local towns reached the mid-90s in the afternoon. By that time, towns had opened cooling centers in senior centers, schools and libraries. But relatively few people made use of them on the first day of a predicted week of high temperatures. A lot more took themselves and their children to the beach.
In Salem, the Congregational Church's sign proclaimed "It's hot! Come in to cool off." School construction workers lounged under shady trees during their break and families packed the parking lot at Salem Valley Farms Ice Cream. The most popular destination was Gardner Lake State Park, which drew in people from nearby cities and towns.
"I actually came to get away from the ocean," said Tammi Henrie of Mystic, who said her two daughters, ages 6 and 7, are afraid of sea creatures like crabs.
Her girls were among the kids splashing in the park's roped-off swimming area. Amid calls of "Marco!" and "Polo!" little boys hit each other with noodles and families held water gun fights.
The water on Monday afternoon was "beautiful," said Antonio Guitrez of Norwich. He was sprawled on a beach chair in the shade with his girlfriend, Maria, while his children, Leo and Ariana, played in the lake.
Montville teenagers Shea Badalucca, 14, and Lindsey Staplins, 13, spread out beach towels in an empty corner and explained they weren't there for the water.
"We're here to tan," said Badalucca.
Keeping it cool indoors
According to the Associated Press, New England's power grid operator says demand for electricity could close in on a seven-year record as businesses and individuals crank up their air conditioners to cope with the weeklong heat wave.
ISO-New England says the record for power use was 28,130 megawatts on Aug. 2, 2006. ISO said Monday that demand for 27,900 megawatts is possible on Thursday.
Spokeswoman Marcia Blomberg says ISO expects to have enough power to meet demand, but there's a potential that a surplus of more than 2,000 megawatts could run thin. The Holyoke-based grid operator says it may seek emergency electricity from other regions or ask businesses to reduce power use.
Connecticut Light & Power reported very few outages during the day, with only a few towns reported to have any at all.
Although Norwich Public Utilities had not issued energy conservation requests, Public Works Director Barry Ellison asked city employees to shut off unnecessary lights and limit use of small appliances. Public works street crews will work from 6 a.m. to 2 p.m. this week to avoid the hottest hours of the day.
Lee Ann Gomes, human services social work supervisor, said Norwich Rotary awarded her agency a $500 grant to pay for a few air conditioners for medically needy Norwich residents.
"We're trying to respond to heat-related issues on a case by case basis," Gomes said.
An air conditioning compressor failure affecting the third and fourth floors at Norwich City Hall sent some employees elsewhere to work, but a replacement is expected this morning.
All wet
By 1:30 p.m. Monday more than 580 cars were parked at the Ocean Beach Park parking lot in New London, and General Manager Dave Sugrue said he expected twice as many people today as normal — 5,000 in the daytime and 6,000 in the evening.
"Yeah, this is what we wait for, you know, nobody else likes to hear it," Sugrue said. "We like brown grass."
He said the park had to open up the second parking gate, which is unusual on a Monday. To park a vehicle and visit costs $15 per day during the week and $20 on the weekend. A season's parking pass for a non-New London resident is $90.
"This is how we pay our bills," he said.
Dedra Jackson of Hartford said she was down at the park with her twin nephews from Kentucky to escape the heat.
"In Hartford, it's brutal, it's like 94 degrees but hazy, hot and humid," she said. "It feels like 102."
Friends Eddy Santos and Chris Agustin of Plainville visited Ocean Beach for the first time on Monday and said it was nice but too hot to walk on the sand.
"The sand was burning so we gave up playing volleyball," Santos said.
In Norwich, Jessica Hernandez and her two children, Mark, 6, and David, 8, could either swelter in their two-bedroom apartment or go to the Spaulding Pond public beach at Mohegan Park.
"It's too hot to keep the kids in a hot apartment," said Hernandez. "We can take a dip at the beach and get shade under the trees."
About two dozen families were at the beach. An outdoor thermometer at the Chelsea Groton Bank on West Main Street said it was 95 degrees.
Air-conditioning helps
Joseph Sastre, Groton's director of emergency management, said the town posted bulletins on its Facebook page and website suggesting people visit buildings such as the Groton Public Library, Groton Senior Center, stores and malls to get cool.
But Sastre said temperatures along the shoreline should be cooler than in inland towns.
"Barring any large-scale power outage or anything, I think we're going to be OK locally," Sastre said.
Jerry Lokken, manager of recreation services for Groton, said his department made plans at the beginning of summer to deal with hot days, and each of the three day camp sites — S.B. Butler Elementary School, Claude Chester Elementary School and William Seely School — has classrooms that are air-conditioned. He said the camps are modifying activities for the 250 children enrolled so they're less strenuous.
The Connecticut Tigers minor league baseball team hosted children from recreation camps throughout the region at Dodd Memorial Stadium Monday. Team General Manager C.J. Knudsen said there were no heat-related incidents, despite the on-field temperature reading of 101 degrees for much of the 12-inning, 3½-hour game.
Day staff writers Deborah Straszheim and Claire Bessette also contributed to this story.
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BDN caught up to Duke Defensive Lineman Sydney Sarmiento earlier this week to get his thoughts on the upcoming game with Clemson on Saturday in Wallace Wade Stadium.
You guys have a tough game this week against Clemson and their explosive athletes. What are your initial thoughts on playing them.
It's a great team, you can't take anything away from them, a great team. We are going to have our work cut out for us.
Duke did not get the results they wanted in the loss to Florida State. How can the team bounce back from that kind of performance?
Just forget about what happened in the past and move on because Clemson will present new challenges to us we didn't see last week and we are going to have to improve on what we didn't do well this week.
Duke is already bowl eligible but still going for other honors. Was last week a bit of a wake up call?
I feel like it was a big wake up and we have to get back to fundamentals and what we do well and stay on top of our game.
The defensive line has improved their play this season. How do you impact the many younger players around you?
We have challenged ourselves this season unlike we did a year ago and that's one thing I am trying to do with the younger guys. Like in the Virginia game where they were running all over us in the first half, we stepped up and stopped them in the second.
How much did it help for Duke Football to have great crowd support in the big win over UNC and is it important for the team that the students turn out in force again?
It was important and it surprised me during the game because that's the loudest it's been since I've been at Duke with the exception of maybe the Alabama game. It was a great atmosphere that lifted me up to play even better and more. It's more of a sense of pride at home and the five game winning streak is important but we understand we have our work cut out for us this week.


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Thursday's Child: Petrin Hill, Prague
25 comments:
- Ruth said...
Looks like a beautiful city - it is on my list of places to go!
- March 29, 2012 at 4:03 PM
- Bonnie said...
Beautiful! I love pictures of rooftops. How wonderful that you have exposed your daughters to such wonderful experiences. Bonnie
- March 29, 2012 at 4:56 PM
- Carol said...
The views are stunning! Looks like a wonderful and terrific place to visit.
- March 29, 2012 at 4:59 PM
- Valerie Gamine said...
I love all those red roofs! (Rooves sounds better for some reason.) :D The Petrin Lookout Tower does look like a mini version of the Eiffel Tower. What a gorgeous place to visit! And another that I'd never heard of until now.
- March 29, 2012 at 6:04 PM
- Unknown said...
What an incredible tower! Beautiful place to visit as well.
- March 29, 2012 at 6:39 PM
- Jemi Fraser said...
What a beautiful place! Your daughter chose very well :)
- March 29, 2012 at 7:13 PM
- Unknown said...
I would love to visit, the views are stunning!
- March 29, 2012 at 8:02 PM
- Gloria Baker said...
Wow amazing pictures!!
- March 29, 2012 at 8:18 PM
- Velva said...
Prague is on my bucket list of European cities that we want to visit. Children who learn to travel early often become great travelers when they are older. More importantly they gain a passion for seeing the world.
- March 29, 2012 at 9:32 PM
- GratefulPrayerThankfulHeart said...
Your youngest daughter picked a beautiful place to visit. Your pictures are so exciting to see!
- March 29, 2012 at 9:46 PM
- Neesie said...
That view is amazing Beth and well worth the leg stretch...says she sitting comfy in her chair! ;)
I think its fantastic to show our children all these beautiful interesting places.
- March 29, 2012 at 9:47 PM
The tower is awesome! I always loved picking out things to do on family trips.
- March 29, 2012 at 10:13 PM
- Cindy said...
I do love your photos. Due to poor health, multiple back surgeries, I will only visit these amazing places virtually. Thank you for sharing.
- March 29, 2012 at 10:28 PM
I just love the sea of red rooftops in some places in Europe. So different from the browns that I am accustomed to. The maze of mirrors sounds like a great way to entertain the kids for an afternoon.
- March 29, 2012 at 11:44 PM
- Anna said...
This looks like a lovely place, and even adults need a break from churches and museums sometimes :) I love your approach to family travel.
- March 30, 2012 at 1:29 AM
- Yummy said...
Thanks for sharing your lovely photos. Eastern Europe is one area of the world I've never really traveled to.
- March 30, 2012 at 2:29 AM
I love looking down at big cities. It makes me wonder what's going on everywhere and I feel the energy of the city even from a distance. That's a great view.
- March 30, 2012 at 6:40 AM
- Belinda said...
Those are stunning views! My goodness, sounds like a return trip needed!
- March 30, 2012 at 7:03 AM
- From the Kitchen said...
What a joy to visit with you this morning. The photos and prose have taken me away for a bit.
- March 30, 2012 at 7:35 AM
- Elaine said...
I have enjoyed this series of park visits so much, Beth. The view from the tower is breathtaking.
- March 30, 2012 at 11:18 AM
- Cucina49 said...
I'm really loving your travel posts--I need to go to the Czech Republic at some point!
- March 30, 2012 at 4:06 PM
- Ashlea Taylor said...
Wow, what a beatiful place! I would love to visit Prague!
- March 30, 2012 at 4:22 PM
Thank you for sharing! Wow all those roofs nearly the same colour :)
- March 30, 2012 at 6:29 PM
- Rita said...
What a beautiful spot Beth! Love your travel tours; great shots.
- March 31, 2012 at 6:36 PM
- Jay Smith said...
That's awesome! Loved the loft and the architecture. Now even more excited to travel to Prague as I have planned Prague city breaks this year. Thanks for sharing here.
- April 4, 2012 at 8:15 AM


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My name is George Marquez, District Director for Human and Organizational Development.
Today I am honored to be speaking to Mr. Larry James, President and Chief Executive Officer for City Square.
Mr. James, thank you for taking the time to be with me today and for sharing your thoughts on Dallas County with us.
Larry James: Great to be here.
GM: What are the greatest challenges that you see facing Dallas County today?
LJ: Dallas County is going through a real social change that bifurcates the community, and the optics uh, are really um, an illusion.
Because Dallas is a boom city right now.
Our mayor and our county judge have both made statements indicating, you know, how well things are going in terms of the overall economy of the region, especially as compared to other parts of the country or even other parts of the state of Texas.
However uh, our mayor has also said that out beyond five, six, seven years things seem really uncertain.
And he says that because of this growing underclass of folk who work hard, but whose skill sets do not match with the jobs that are open and seeking employ uh, uh, employ, employees to fill those jobs.
So there is, Dallas is really a tale of two cities, or maybe better, the untold tale of one city that's forgotten.
And it's the city that's lost in the southern sector, where people live in the midst of grinding stress, where children struggle.
Where food insecurity uh, is very, very prevalent.
And in the, in the surround that I just described, people don't have the psychic space they need to really make progress.
And so a lot of studies have indicated that stress becomes toxic when poverty is just unrelenting.
And that's what we have in Dallas.
And, and I had a young man come over several years ago now.
He was going to run for the school board.
And he said what's the number one problem facing DISD?
And I said, that's real simple.
And you say what's poverty got to do with education, I say well just everything in terms of a students ability to achieve.
And so we have got to get a handle on our precious neighbors who live at the bottom.
We can no longer forget them.
We can no longer decide not to see them.
We've got to engage across this community.
And that's the other thing.
Poverty is migrating.
If you look at the map that compares the realities, you'll see the spread of poverty into the suburban communities as well.
That's the biggest problem, that's the biggest challenge.
GM: What do you see as Dallas County's greatest strengths?
LJ: We have many strengths in the county.
Optimism the economic vitality that I described a moment ago, that while not reaching everyone is reaching many.
And so there are many resources that are available to us to solve very difficult problems.
If we had the political will and the community will to engage these resources, the optimism, the opportunity.
If we can get our training to a level that begins to lift people into the openness that is, that is this opportunity, I think we have a chance to rea
But it's going to take political will.
It's going to take a grassroots movement.
It's going to take a pervasive understanding of our challenges, to take advantage of our great opportunities.
I mean, if you look at the economic engine that is DFW airport, just take the airport.
That's an amazing story.
And we continue to thrive because of that a public institution that's so important to us.
You could say the same thing about DART.
You can say the same thing about Dallas Country Community College District.
We have so many resources at our beck and call.
And so that, that's our, that's our opportunity.
And that's what makes the poverty such a paradox.
Because there's such opportunity here, but at the same time, we're facing this poverty that's crushing people.
GM: As a follow up, what opportunities do you see on the horizon?
LJ: Uh, that depends.
We currently have, as I mentioned, a job gap between the skills sets of those who are unemployed, seeking employment, and the requirements of these jobs that are open.
If our training protocols and commitments can keep pace with the different kinds of jobs that are now available, we're going to see increasing number of people move in at that opportunity.
Because of inadequate education and training it's been experienced by many of our neighbors, unfortunately, a lot of those jobs are going to be filled by people who are imported to take them.
We gotta figure that out.
And, and that's what makes your work so important to our county and to our whole community.
If we can close that gap.
If we can increase skills at the bottom to be able to reach those opportunities, then we're going to have a new burst of growth and opportunity but we're not there yet.
We're a long way from there.
Here's a statistic that may seem irrelevant, but I think there's a connection.
41% of people who live Dallas lease their housing.
That tells you something about a persons financial capacity and their ability to grasp opportunity, to build equity, to build wealth.
Take the next steps, right?
GM: Mm-hm.
LJ: That is much higher. That renter statistic is much higher than across the nation.
But I think it's an indication of the capacity of our workforce.
We've got to improve that so the wealth can be achieved and can be enjoyed.
But it's a big challenge.
It's a big challenge.
There are other issue that also mitigate against the growth of wealth and family in households.
Health care is a huge issue.
We need to expand Medicaid.
It's a no-brainer from a business standpoint.
I mean.
Forget the politics.
I mean it's, it's even beyond just the issue of health.
It's really about wellness and creating a new kind of environment in which people can live.
If I don't have access in a routine manner to health care.
I'm going to have all kinds of other problems.
But all these things are interrelated.
I mean it's not just one thing, but everything has a connection to the other thing, and so it's complex.
And yet, I think again, with the political will, with the determination to take advantage of our many opportunities, we have a chance to really make things much better.
GM: If you could build Dallas County from day one, what would it look like?
LJ: Um, that's a great question.
We've been known to say around here that we're trying to build Mayberry.
LJ: Uh, you know in Mayberry it was kind of like where I grew up, I grew up in Richardson and when we moved to Richardson, Texas there were 1,200 people in the community.
I could ride my bike from one end of the city to the other end and along the way, I'd meet probably a half a dozen people who knew me and who knew my dad.
And so I couldn't act up much.
It was a close knit community.
But it was also an adverse community, and people with lots of wherewithal financially, live very close to people who didn't have much.
There was a, there was a proximity about the community that allowed all of us to see a diversity of life.
Now, and while there was a uniformity about that community, the socioeconomic divide that we see here in Dallas that's measured by miles, it just didn't exist in Richardson.
We gotta get back to building neighborhoods like that.
We've gotta get back to, to mixed income folk, mixed income solutions to community development.
We've got to resist the temptation to put all the low income housing in one part of town and all of the upper end housing in another part of town.
That seems rather idealistic, but there are ways with incentives and with public leadership to make that happen.
You know, we're been trying to do that in the downtown sector.
There's a resurgence in downtown Dallas, a residential in, insurgence.
And so we've tried to provide affordable housing in this facility, right in the middle of downtown Dallas.
We'd like to other projects.
They're very difficult to do.
And so, there's going to have to be again a political will, a vision.
Your, your question assumes that someone has a vision as to how it might be.
There's a lot of randomness about this community that needs to be aligned and focused, to achieve better public outcomes for its citizens.
But that takes a lot of political courage and a lot of political will and it's not going to happen overnight.
GM: Is there any other information that you would like to share with us today?
LJ: I really appreciate what you do.
I have for a long time.
We, we've had a partnership of the, community college district for a number of years.
As a matter of fact, we have one of your professors who works with us every day in our workforce training endeavors in a get ready to work class – Charles Barnes.
But we have appreciated the opportunity that you bring to thousands of people, to young people, who otherwise wouldn't have an opportunity to continue their education.
It seems very accessible.
There seems to be a commitment to make it even more accessible and affordable.
Thanks to DART you can get there.
So I commend your work.
I'm also very grateful for institutions like Parkland Health and Hospital System who bring an opportunity to experience wellness to so many thousands of people.
You know, between 2000 and 2012 the City of Dallas grew by 5%.
That's modest growth over that 13 year period.
During that same time, though, poverty increased by 41%.
And so it's a huge challenge that we face.
And we, we cannot ignore it.
We have to, we have to step up to the challenge and begin to do things differently.
If we do that we're going to have a great city going forward for the foreseeable future.
If we don't, we're really at a tipping point and if we tip the wrong way then getting back is going to be much, much more difficult.
And so we're all in the together.
I hope we can find ways to work more closely with you and with others in the city who care about its future.
GM: Thank you so much for spending the time with us today and to bring your insight into Dallas County to us.
LJ: Thanks a lot for having me.
Been good to be with you.


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My former employers, Joel and Ethan Coen, have a new movie out today. The New York papers gave "Intolerable Cruelty," a screwball comedy featuring George Clooney and Cathering Zeta-Jones, glowing notices. I've seen the ads for the movies, and it hasn't really looked too great from what I can tell. They sure aren't billing it as a Coen Brother film, just like Woody Allen's latest wasn't marketed as a Woody Allen movie. But looks can be deceiving, as Times film critic Elvis Mitchell confirmed in his review:
Between a lethargic trailer propped up by "Gimme Some Lovin' " and the mainstream-sentimentalist producer Brian ("A Beautiful Mind") Grazer's name on the credits, there's plenty of reason for an involuntary recoil toward the Coen Brothers' fearsomely titled new movie, "Intolerable Cruelty." But the film is not shudder-worthy. Instead, it's something not seen in movie theaters for a long time: an intelligent, modern screwball comedy, a minor classic on the order of competent, fast-talking curve balls about deception and greed like Mitchell Leisen's "Easy Living" and Billy Wilder's "Major and the Minor."
The last time the boys tried to make a commerical film—"The Hudsucker Proxy"—it bombed. Ethan used to say that maybe 1,000 people actually paid to see it in the theater. So what did they do next? They were going to make "The Big Lebowski"—the movie I eventually worked on–but John Goodman was unavailable at the time. So they went ahead and made a low-budget crime caper about sad sack criminals in North Dakata.
I remember one of their old friends telling me that he emplored the guys not to make "Fargo." "You guys just had a major flop and now you are going to make a movie that exactly twelve people are going to want to see." Of course, "Fargo" turned out to be a fluke smash, and since then, I think Joel and Ethan make whatever movie they can get financed (they usually have at least a half a dozen scripts which they've penned, to choose from).
I hope the new one is good. The boys are currently in L.A. filming a remake of the Alec Guiness comedy "The Ladykillers," which stars Tom Hanks.


text: I'll admit to being a little slow. Or perhaps I've just made the sad mistake of comparing myself to the nearly wired-from-birth kids of today – a reason that helps me delight in 13-year-old Scott Campbell's decision to slum it with Sony's now archaic original Walkman for a few days. My first cassette tape player nearly fit in the overly baggy sk8tr jeans of my 14-year-old self; the fact that one leg of my jeans could swallow my entirep waist unfortunately didn't help the tape player to comfortably fit into a pocket. Nearly everyone over 20 is likely to have at least held one of these for a few minutes. But a hallowed few have owned and collected cassette tape players, debated their sound quality in forums and still promote the classic portable platform. Scott, on the other hand, had no idea there was another side to a cassette tape!


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Sunday, 28 February 2010
Fantasy Sprung
Before the concert, I'd been hoping that Adam would change up his look a little as he'd been wearing lots of dark colours under a trenchcoat. My wish was granted, with a new hairdo and a most fabulous costume. From the photos it looks like he had some blue dreads put in, instantly giving off a hippie vibe, especially with those tie-dye jeans. The full costume with the huge floaty sleeves and Zodiac vulture-feathers on his shoulders make him look like a desert-dwelling witch from a nomadic tribe, albeit of the glam variety. The first video I saw was WLL without these though, and my initial impression was of an inhabitant of a far-off exotic island, hair adorned with tropical flora and feathers, and lei around his neck. Or maybe that was just from the heat given out from that performance!
Here's my video selection so far in set order. All the videos are now here as an EMBEDDED PLAYLIST. I'll be updating it as better versions turn up.
I absolutely have to comment on the most incredible psychedelic arrangement and performance of WLL, which I think must be one of the sexiest things I've ever seen or heard. There's a lot that's reminiscent of Jim Morrison. There were no overt sexual gestures but what he achieved was purely with his voice and stage presence and was so sizzling hot. Whereas the previous renditions were pure sex of the sordid aggressive rip-your-clothes-off encounter, this one was a long slow hedonistic tripped-out throw-your-phone-away all-day love-in, teetering on the edge of blissful agony. His voice works you up and down, knowing when to stop you from boiling over but keeping you simmering, effortlessly stroking and teasing you into spasms of ecstasy. Whew! If I can manage to tear myself away, get my breath back and string together some coherent thoughts, I'll be back later.
Posted by Adam Bombed (Lambosessed) at 14:46 11 comments
Labels: Adam Lambert, Concert, For Your Entertainment, FS WLL, Review, Video, Whataya Want From Me
Friday, 19 February 2010
DonorsChoose Live Chat
To make things easier for you, I've summarised the video so you'll know where to go to in order to re-watch your favourite parts:
00:00 - 10:00
- Who would be Adam's partner on the Amazing Race
- What he plans to do with his tour jacket
- His on vs off-stage persona
- Helping up and coming artists
- His favourite dessert
- Assembling the band
- What never fails to make him smile
- What songs he'd like to cover on tour
- His favourite thing about each band member
- Which instrument he'd like to be expert at playing
- How he writes songs
- What other star sign Adam would be
- Shooting a video for each song
- Future American Idol appearances
- How often he dyes his hair
- The best and worst pick-up lines
- His most memorable Burning Man experience
- How it feels to have his songs sung back to him
- The most difficult song to sing live
- Whether he walks/talks/sings in his sleep
- Fever lyrics
- Going back to natural look/hair colour
- The craziest thing to have happened on stage
- Being in another reality show
- The most interesting critique written about Adam's album
- What he does when feeling insecure
- Coconut drink 'plug'
- Going back to his old apartment
- Crushes on cartoon characters
- What artists make him happy when he is sad
- How Jewish he is
- Whether he gets paid for photoshoots
- 'Can't let you go' - new song on UK album
- His cooking skills
- Getting another tattoo
- Which gadgets he can't live without
- Advice he would give himself at ages 13, 18 and 21
- How Allison and Kris influenced Adam on American Idol
- How he feels about his image coming before the music
- 'This is live, calm down, conspiracy theorists!'
- 'Welcome to the jungle!' plant scene (34:00)
- How the room-mates got picked on AI
- Aesthetics he'd like to include in his music videos
- Cheetos vs ramen
- His drink of choice at an open bar
- His favourite jewellery
- How often he dyes his eyebrows
- How to get more men to dance
- What Adam would do during a zombie apocalypse
- His strengths
- Secret talents
- His feelings towards female fans over 40
- How he defines his eye and hair colour
- Exercise regimes
- His song 'Voodoo'
- Why he didn't wear sunglasses during the group dance
- 'Bonus round! This just in!' - questions to: firstname.lastname@example.com
- His thoughts about soulmates
- Icelandic artists
- Whether Adam has seen ontd_ai
- Setting up a fan club
- An inappropriate question that he can't answer
- Whether he will perform more covers/unreleased songs at upcoming gigs
- His thoughts on sporks
- What he thinks of plaid
It's a very insightful chat with great questions interspersed light snark and plenty of gif-making material. I noted that he not only compliments his fans for their resourcefulness but also at various points gives us gentle reminders not to get too crazy on him. Adam speaks very openly and I love the honesty and familiarity with which he addresses us. There's a load of info to digest, some of my picks for the most interesting are:
- The band being a temporary one with Tommy initially auditioning for guitar, not bass
- Adam's strong beliefs on the astrological make-up of the band
- Wanting to cover 'Sweet Child O' Mine' and 'Enter Sandman'
- How he uses melodies to emphasise certain lyrics in the songwriting process
- Choosing songs because of their strong visual element
- 'Can't Let You Go' being an indie/emo rock song with powerful vocals
- Being averse to junk food but also not being a great cook
- Kris being unhappy about being left to duet with Danny Gokey
- His jewellery being very organised with dividers in his drawers
- Psychology as a career path if he couldn't sing
- 'Voodoo' being a dark industrial disco song with a hard electro beat and light breathy vocals
- His lack of sunglasses during disco week's group dance was unintentional
- He will be involved in setting up his new fan club, which Leila will probably run
Posted by Adam Bombed (Lambosessed) at 04:08 26 comments
Labels: Adam Lambert, Interview, Video
Tuesday, 16 February 2010
I Heart Acoustic Adam
Rather than embed each video separately and to save you from waiting for the page to load, I've embedded a playlist with the clips in set order.
Adam has the ability to re-invigorate and extend the life of those songs we've grown tired of, and as I'd grown a little tired of hearing 'Whataya Want From Me?' over and over on the publicity circuit, these acoustic versions came at a welcome time. His voice is so delicately light and silky, and each rendition is unique in melodic improvisations. As for the person blathering on the phone, rude and ungrateful bitch should've given her ticket to someone more deserving.
Who would've thought I'd be so thrilled to hear Mad World again after the 50+ different performances of the AI tour? This is a beautiful version with a nice change in 'I went to school' and a startling crescendo on 'Best I've ever had'. We've already heard an acoustic guitar version of Mad World during a corporate gig but this has a considerably different arrangement and a different feel. This is why I think Adam has longevity - as soon as things start to stagnate, our Magical Remix Machine gets to work and wows us over and over again.
Fever edit:
After hours of work all I got was out-of-synch audio and stuttering on this edit because my little laptop can't actually cope with such high resolution video. Well, I'm glad I can at least watch it on YouTube! Though not quite to the same extent as the Wild Idol gig, it's a pleasure to watch Adam increasingly let loose on stage with such a physical performance. It's all very OTT and hilarious at times when he acts out the lyrics. He's bursting with energy as he dances and shakes his way through the performance with stellar vocals and feel-good factor. What I find interesting is his reaction just after he finishes which you can see clearly in this video. He pauses for a moment with a stunned look on his face, perhaps slowly gauging and registering the audience reaction before switching out of performance mode with a big smile.
Posted by Adam Bombed (Lambosessed) at 21:10 10 comments
Saturday, 13 February 2010
Adam, Rock My World!
Well I did tune in to the cellcast but soon gave up. It seems like it was the best concert yet judging by those twitter rumours going around and the available video. Our Wild Idol Adam was truly on fire. He seemed so uninhibited, liberally dishing out his improvisations. He was extra glittery, shimmering from head-to-toe No time to go through each one in detail, heck I haven't even finished Gridlock yet but here are the best videos so far:
(Click here for Whole Lotta Love camera lick video)
Posted by Adam Bombed (Lambosessed) at 16:47 12 comments
What a Session!
AI finale, which I described as "...looked like a detective in a fabulous Glambert universe where the most serious crimes possible to commit, for which he was head of investigations, were crimes against fashion. Yes, I'd happily commit a fashion crime in order to get arrested by Adam before getting styled...". This one is less sparkly and more utilitarian though, and I realised that it's rare we get to see Adam performing without a jacket on so we can see his lithe figure. The sound on these is much better than from any of the TV show performances and he's pitch perfect. One thing that I found a little annoying though, was the cameraman's fixation with Lisa. I don't have time at the moment to write about all of these individually, but Soaked - #%*^!!! That voice is truly a marvel.
Posted by Adam Bombed (Lambosessed) at 16:13 1 comments
Catching Up
Part of the problem of writing about the Adam world while I was away is that, unlike everything else on this site, I didn't feel the excitement and anticipation in real-time and as a result there's definitely something missing. I didn't go through the process of celebrating confirmed gigs, speculating during the drum-roll over things like songs, appearance and fashion stylings, and didn't get to share the experiences with you all as they happened. I also missed gauging the reactions and reading the positive media responses in the aftermath. That's something I need to keep up the obsession - it's no fun without you. Gorging my solitary self on the mountain of tasties in a short space of time meant that everything got blurred and I wasn't able to associate distinctive emotions or memories to each of the events. It's much better in smaller regular bites and that's why it was probably so easy to get hooked in the first place during AI's regular routine. This obsession is part choice, part addiction. When I came back after having gone cold turkey for so long, I could easily have chosen to be just a regular fan. What makes me a bit of a nutcase is the ethusiasm of the community, which I choose to continue to be a part of.
The highlights for me include the performances and a couple of interviews (Lyndsey Parker porch interview for the detailed chat about the music, Jessi Cruickshank's fun interview and game), though there seemed to be a shitload of them all going over the same old territory like the AMAs, being gay, Lady Gaga, meeting Oprah and meeting Madonna which all got rather tedious. It was annoying to spend such a long time listening to the same things over and over because they were so time-consuming but there were useful bits of info such as the possibility of Adam doing his first tour solo. And let's not forget his fashionista gig at the Grammys which he was a little too kind for and the Canadian TV appearances.
The first of the many Adam Lambert goodies that came along was the music video for Whataya Want From Me? for which I'd already been partially spoiled during the shooting.
The video to me is biographical and seems to represent the time around the AMA fallout but on a more personal level. He's letting us see a side that we don't see or even think about. Conveying the message of the song, Adam is pleading for patience and understanding as he sorts himself out. The colours and spaces we see Adam in are bleak and sombre. Adam is a joyless solitary figure in his cold sparsely furnished home that he hasn't been able to make comfortable, which tells us that his rapid rise to fame hasn't allowed him time to tend to it. The high walls of the garden resemble a fortress, furthering his isolation. He hasn't even had time to even look after himself or his heart, expressing anger, regret and frustration at the observer. When we see that, behind the contrasting performer and pap encounters, we feel sympathy and come to realise that it's not all glitz, glamour and smiles. Who the observer is has been left open to interpretation, but if it is his fans he brings us in closer. The last shot of a hint of a smile on getting into bed with him reassures us that everything will be OK and sums up his optimistic nature.
I would have liked to have seen something a little more abstract and less real, with Adam indulging in some elaborate costumes. I originally had in mind a variety like some of his Halloween ones, maybe a clown, a robot, an alien, a magician, perhaps one in drag. At the start we can't really see who it is and the camera pans to each one in a trippy and slightly frightening manner. It slows as the performances end to differing audience reactions and feelings from our entertainer. Then at each dressing room mirror we slowly see him emerging from under the make-up as the characters in their various guises converge, and so do their moods to reveal Adam at his vulnerable core. Well, I didn't get what I had imagined, but the video as it stands is beautifully shot with plenty of Adam camera time looking his best with a loud and clear message.
One of the first things that struck me about Adam's appearance on Oprah was how androgynous his hair and make-up was, making him look particularly pretty. He was charming during the interview. The emphasis was on him during the polished performances where the band were lowered from the stage platform. It was great to see the audience singing along.
This was my favourite of all the performances and such a joy to watch. Adam performing Strut aptly seemed very confident, giving off a rockstar vibe, dazzling us with his fun energy, his dancing and astonishing vocals. He commanded the stage like no other.
Posted by Adam Bombed (Lambosessed) at 15:57 0 comments
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