text:
"richard" <[email]> wrote in message
news:[email]...

Richard my poor trucker, your intelligent is not there.  You believe HHO
will power your 80,000 lbs truck then you tell me now that I only show
you down hill video.  I tilted the camera downward to let you see the
Mercedes, that is to prove that it's a heavy car, you misunderstood the
real intention.   How about a new set of video with a camera tilting
upward toward a sky?  Will you be convinced?

I won't marry your sister if you keep thinking awkward like this.


author: Gashauler

subject: Re: Here you go, the video you requested....

text:
"theloneranger1OO" <[email]> wrote in message
news:[email]...

He didn't say anything about a 80,000lb truck, dipshit. You better get with
your friends at Heaven's Gate and join the space craft that's right behind
Hale Bopp. Just do it the same way.


author: richard

text:
On Tue, 9 Sep 2008 10:40:54 -0700, "theloneranger1OO"
<[email]> wrote:

The roadway appeared to be lower at the horizon as compared to your
location. That tells me you are on a down grade.

What you have installed is a simple electronic gadget that does
nothing than report what is happening inside your vehicle at that
moment. It does nothing to change the fuel consumption in any way.

 Now here's a little scientific challenge for you.
Install upon your vehicle a plastic one gallon container for fuel.
Usually they're installed above the hood just in front of the driver.
Best if you do this on a track.
Use only that fuel.
Drive around the track until that fuel runs out. How far did you get?
I'll bet you a $100 right here and now you ain't gonna get more than
40 miles at the most.

I've driven semis with a "fuel miser" thingy installed. That's all it
does. Reports your fuel consumption. It does nothing to the fuel.


text:
"Gashauler" <[email]> wrote in message
news:[email]...
school
magazines.

Sorry Mr. Fartman, I change my wording often without checking the phrase.
I wish I could make thing easier for your brain to understand... sorry
Ok?

Obama recommends today to clean up your education systems:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/09/09/campaign.wrap/index.html

Why don't you help America save money by brushing up on your education?
Or finish up the H2O installation on your 80,000 pound truck and show us
how it goes Ok?


author: The Honorable Dr. Rocky Roads Presiding Judge

text:
"Gashauler" <[email]> wrote in message
news:[email]...
with

That is funny coming from the Troll Jim Jones/Dave Ruff that gave this
newsgroup 80,000 lbs of Kook-aid.


text:
"richard" <[email]> wrote in message
news:[email]...
down
thing
12mpg
HHO
the

No you're wrong Richard, It's the PERMANENT FRICTION REDUCTION that you
are missing.  You didn't pick up that part, the main core to boost fuel
Efficiency.


author: Richard Gregan

subject: Re: Do Case Officers send e-mails?

text:
[There is a section of form 47 where you can opt for info to be sent
this way.

but....  not all dimia staff use them and there is a fair bit
of inconsistency by those that do.


author: aussiemigrant

subject: Re: Do Case Officers send e-mails?

text:
Do all Case Officers send e-mails to inform of the grant of the visas?

Thanks very much


author: markeh

subject: Re: Do Case Officers send e-mails?

text:
Hi aussiemigrant,

I requested that email was used and they have sent me
letters on two occasions.

Bye
Mark


author: Jay White

subject: minor's charity donation

text: Can I include my kid's (under 16) charity donation in my 1040?


author: Bill

subject: Re: minor's charity donation

text:
"Jay White" <[email]> wrote in message
news:[email]...

if you provide the funds and it is a proper tax exempt charity organization
and you file a sch. A,   yes


author: Phil Marti

subject: Re: minor's charity donation

text:
In article <[email]>, Jay White
<[email]> writes:

You have two ways of approaching this as the year goes along, depending on what
lessons you want to include as part of the deal.  Assuming you give the kid an
allowance and from that the kid makes a donation, you get no deduction.  If you
tell the kid that you're going to deduct a charitable contribution before
paying the allowance and make the contribution yourself, you can deduct it.

Phil Marti
Topeka, KS


author: Arthur Kamlet

subject: Re: minor's charity donation

text:
In article <[email]>, Bill <[email]> wrote:

Ambiguous statement.  If you paid your kid an allowance and from
that allowance he made a charitible donation, only he can claim
it, not you.

If you made a donation to the charity then he didn't and you can
claim the gift.


author: Rash D

subject: Visa Timmings

text:
Just want to know whether different nationalities are given different
priorities or does all the applications are viewed same ??

As looking through the austimeline.com I felt time for visa applications
for Indians is more than the others.

Is it beacause officer try to dig more and more information etc..

Rash


author: Lana

subject: Re: Visa Timmings

text:
It might be because applications from Asia and Africa usually get sent
to the Australian missions in the respective countries so the documents
can be checked, so maybe the delay is not caused in Adelaide, but in
Mumbai. Back when it wasn't all sent to Adelaide, the slowest ones were
the British applications.

So I don't think it is different priorities, just that once the
applications are sent to the missions, they probably take longer in
India than they do at say, my local mission, cause there are WAY more
Indians applying for visas than Brazilians, and I doubt that the Indian
mission has a lot more staff than other missions.


author: ptlabs

subject: Re: Visa Timmings

text:
Originally posted by Rash D

Statistically, there are way too many fraudulent qualifications coming
out of south Asia (Indian sub-continent) when compared to, say, EU
nations. This forces DIMIA (ASPC) and NZQA to impose additional checks
on the authenticity of sub-continental academic qualification, which
would obviously lengthen processing times for these groups of people.

Also, people from non-native English speaking backgrounds who refuse to
submit IELTS scores are often requested for their IELTS scores later
down the road, adding on delays to their timelines.

Peter


subject: Re: Visa Timmings

text:
Originally posted by Lana

I do agree with what you are saying. The no of people applying from that
country also makes the waiting period long.

Rash


subject: Re: Visa Timmings

text:
Originally posted by Lana

Not all Asians are Indians - not all Asian applications are delayed :)

Peter


author: JAJ

subject: Re: Visa Timmings

text:
London only became slow for skilled in 2001, just before the transfer
to Adelaide.  Before then London was a fairly quick post for skilled
applications.

Jeremy

This is not intended to be legal advice in any jurisdiction


author: Bob Costa

subject: Netscape Options: Doom or Die for the Stock??

text:
The article below is also available on our website at:
http://www.investorweb.com/
You may find that easier on the eyes....
************************************************************

Netscape Options:  Doom or Die for the Stock?

by Bob Costa
February 7, 1996

What now for Gold??

The last three days have shown some weakness in the gold stocks we
hold. This is the difficult challenge of playing short term swings in
the stock market, something we seldom try to do. Should we take our
profits now, while we still have some, or assume this is a short term
correction after the big run-up we just had? The correction almost had
to happen, given the amount of noise made in the media last week about
how gold was the next "hot" sector. Barron's had 4 or five articles
about gold stocks or gold companies.

Barrick Gold was the first major mining company to sell gold forward
in order to make a few dollars extra and lock in their sales price.
Now that gold lease rates are higher and gold prices are moving
higher, Barrick has reduced their forward sales by one year's
production, one third of their total futures program, and
approximately three million ounces. It is hard to know if this is
bullish or bearish for the immediate future.

Since they have indeed reduced their positions, they will not likely
be in the market again soon except for moderate amounts matched
against production. They have a publicly proclaimed distaste for price
speculation, and state that their latest buyback is a result of future
sales no longer being profitable at the higher gold lease rates. They
state that they are NOT market timers. On the other hand, their recent
buybacks probably were behind some of the price run-up, so this
pullback may just be a result of the removal of that buying pressure.
But the fundamentals have not changed.

Additionally, several other producers have recently bought back some
of their forward positions, and are not likely to want to sell them
again and risk being whipsawed (IMHO). Today's Wall Street Journal
suggested that producers would resume forward sales if prices drop
much more, in order to lock in these higher (five year high) prices.
My gut instinct is that this opinion is a contrary indicator that the
correction is just about over. We are going to sit tight a while
longer.
**************************************************************************

Netscape - Partner with the World

Some of the press announcements lately coming from Netscape remind me
of General Magic. If you don't remember General Magic, you were born
yesterday. General Magic had the operating system that couldn't fail.
Do we remember? Partner to all the big players, they not only had
co-marketing agreements, but actual investments from a huge number of
big players in the electronics industry. The theory was with so many
companies backing their "standard", it couldn't fail. Sounds like a
great plan, doesn't it? Anyone know if they are still in business?

The Internet hype has subsided a bit, at least using my thermometer.
There is still a large and growing movement towards the
interconnectivity that will yield the next round of corporate
productivity. But the frenzy is cooling. The reality is starting to
become more obvious. It will still be important, but not until some
bandwidth issues are solved. And you could check my earlier article on
Netscape for a more detailed opinion of what the next phase of the
Internet evolution (no R!!) will bring. With Microsoft giving away the
two main products Netscape hoped to sell, there is a great earnings
and sales growth (lack of) disappointment coming for Netscape
shareholders.

Monday February 12 marks the day that standardized options on Netscape
shares start trading on the American Stock Exchange. Watch for some
huge volumes, and probably some big price swings. And this subject
brings us to this weeks quiz. Which will have greater open interest
after the first week of option trading, puts or calls?

On one hand, people use options to speculate by doing "naked"
transactions. They can buy puts or calls, or sell puts or calls,
without owning the underlying stock. They are simply speculating that
the subsequent movement in price will be greater than the volatility
and time premium built into the price of the option. With Netscape,
you can bet that the volatility premium will be HUGE, based on its
recent price movements. So will this group of speculators be betting
that the stock will go up a lot or that it will go down a lot? Which
would you choose?

On the other hand, people who already own the stock can use options as
part of a portfolio management strategy. They can sell calls against
shares that they own, in order to capture the time and volatility
premiums. They can buy puts, in order to protect the shares they own
against a price drop or collapse. If they buy puts, remember they will
be paying a big premium for this insurance. Where will this group of
hedgers be in the picture?

On the other hand, there are the professional traders. They don't care
much which way the market goes. They will keep their positions
relatively market neutral, and will capture the time premium.
They do this by doing offsetting transactions. If someone wants to buy
a call, they sell that person the call option. But they also buy the
stock and buy a put option. (call this scenario A). Likewise if
someone want to sell a call, they buy the call option, short sell the
stock and sell a put option. (call this scenario B). These are the two
basic transactions that happen. So in the case of a customer
(speculator or hedger) who wants to buy a put, the dealer uses
scenario B and sells the put, short sells the stock and buys a call
option.

This dealer arbitrage tends to keep things on a fairly even keel, but
prices and premiums can get a bit out of whack in fast markets. In
very fast markets, dealers can withdraw from one side of a transaction
while they get their positions back in balance.

So going back to this weeks quiz question, will the majority of
speculators and hedgers be buying puts, buying calls, selling puts, or
selling calls? My best guess is that most people will bet the price of
Netscape stock will fall. They do this by buying puts or by selling
calls. Notice that both of these options use the same stock
transaction (sell the stock) to complete the dealer arbitrage. So if I
am right, a dealer will find it easy to complete two thirds of this
transaction (by selling the puts and buying the calls)

A couple of weeks ago, Barron;s quoted Jim Rogers as saying that
Netscape was on his list of favorite shorts, but that no shares were
available for shorting. I can't help but wonder what this will do to
the dealers arbitrage efforts. It may keep them out of the market
entirely. Does this mean that you will not be able to buy a put option
on Netscape? Or will there be lots of sellers who would like to get
their put exercised and end up owning the stock? Or will there
suddenly be stock available for shorting, and a massive price swing to
match it?

Another big question is: how much volume will this represent relative
to the stock volume? The AMEX has put initial position limits of
25,000 shares (250 option contracts) per account. Will this be
adequate to keep things orderly?

It all seems to be a bit confusing. There are many factors that come
into play here. It could be very interesting to watch.
*****************************************************************************

 As always, I encourage anyone with comments to direct them to me at
[email].
Praise, additional comments, and thoughtful disagreement are all
welcome with equal enthusiasm.

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author: [redacted]

subject: The Net at the Millenium

text:
In article <[email]>
[email] (alpha) writes:

I'm sticking by my prediction, which nobody yet has agreed with: by
1/1/01 it will ALL - anything digitizable, broadcast TV, cable, sattv,
radio, telephone, fax - be on the Net.

Another 1/1/01 prediction: BETTER THAN REALITY computer animation,
using visual psychology in the same way that audio processors make
recordiongs better than the original performance.  Made this prediction
in 1976.

Mike


subject: Re: The Net at the Millenium

text:
In article <[email]>
[email] (PAR) writes:

One place to start is with cable companies and cable equipment
manufactuers. The biggest hurdle to the all-in-one Net is bandwidth,
but most of disposable-income America has cable drops about 3.5 mHz
wide. You can pump a lot of multiplexed data down such lines, and with
the bill signed the other day, you can bet that cable companies will.
Network companies like 3Com are already poised to shift their focus
into the cable world.

Last year Larry Ellison of Oracle engaged his NCube supercomputer
company in partnerships in a technology aimed at delivering 10,000
different video signals from PPV digital storage.

This tide will raise a lot of boats. But if I had to pick one, it would
be Sun. On 2/2 they announced a set of inexpensive RISC chips optimized
to handle Java code, which is also theirs. I think these are going to
turn out to be the 8080s and 80x86s of the next ten years; the
design-in cost will be low enough that every set-top box, TV, and
toaster will have one in it.  If I were designing the ultimate
lash-together company, it would be Apple-Oracle-Sun for a comprehensive
set of technologies and software that extended from supercomputers to
one-lung systems like my Quadra 605.

Mike


author: alpha

subject: Re: Netscape Options: Doom or Die for the Stock??

text:
as a person who has worked with web page designers, i know this:
Netscape is setting the html standards for communicating, making
transactions, instilling exciting new visual ellements, etc.

in other words, they are the cutting edge.  If you design something
for the Web, and want to be among the best, you plan around Netscape 2.0.
while other browsers wait for standards, Netscape is setting them.

Imagine this-- what if it were the early fifties, and there was one
tv broadcaster who had 90% of the market share, and everyone wanted
to be there and nowhere else?  Do you know there is a good reason why
Microsoft will be giving away there product? it is not as good.
Who wants it?

General Magic only WISHES it could have been like Netscape is now.
GM had promise. Netscape has the future of the Web in it's hands.
BIG difference.  GM had many competitors. Netscape has none of any
significance.  Netscape has more than "backers". They have dynamic revenue
growth--90% market share in an exponentially exploding business.

i would not be betting against a company who is reporting 80% gross revenue
increases quarter over quarter.  but i'll let you. all those short positions
will only serve to add fuel to the fire on subsequent rallies.

good luck!


text:
In article <4fbuk8$[email]>
[email] (Bob Costa) writes:

GM is still around - they have licensed some of their technology to
various players in the handheld personal communicator market - another
solution looking for a problem, as I see it.

If Sun gets its act together and gets Java out on Windows 95 and MacOS
7.5, 1996 could be the breakout year for Java-enhanced Netscape.  (Java
is an HTML compatible extension that lets you download "applets", or
miniature applications, that perform interactive tasks on your computer
in  real time. )

Mike


author: AFund

text:
Yes one might need an astrologer to help here.
Well our 1996 Mantra (profitable year-long strategies) is:

Buy IHI, Sell Nscp

Todate:  SPX  615    649
IHI         1,45           2,29
NSCP     139           132 (66)

Our other big tech dog was Pixr which has long been dead-- NSCP will join.
We won't be placing our short term trading advice for NSCP next week on
our web,but the intermediate term picture is clear and boldly proclaimed
and that is NSCP IS NOT A $1000 STOCK- BUT A VIRTUAL TULIP.
Henry Weingarten ASTROLOGERS FUND  "Always a Stellar Performance"
Email: [email]   212/949-7275  Fax: 212/949-7274
350 Lexington Ave #402 NY NY 10016-0909
If you have a interest in Financial Astrology, read our forum on the
International Business Journal at:
http://www.ids.net/starbridge/afund and of course, our forthcoming book:
INVESTING BY THE STARS  McGraw Hill Publishers April 1996


author: SHADOWI

text:
Netscape options forcasted to be heavy with buyers buying puts? Would it
be true that Netscape would drag down all the other internet stocks? How
do you feel about NetCom (NETC). recently seen fall from 38 to 28 within
10 days. Some say it's falling to 15-17. Is it a good bet if nestscape is
forcasted to slip that buying a put on NETC will be very prosperous or in
your opinion has NETC fallen to much already from $96 to now @28?


subject: A fire danger?

text:
I'm in the Washington, DC area and nine days ago hurricane
Isabel blew down a record number of trees (and branches)
for this region.

Since then, Arlington County, Va. has been taking all the
trees, leaves and trimmings to a central location for
mulching. They have FOUR TIMES the average amount of
mulch piled up! They are offering free mulch to anyone
who wants it .... and on the local TV news they claim
if enough people do not pick it up soon, within 10 days
it will become hot and catch on fire. I've never heard of
this process ..... I though something would have to be
ignited (on purpose) in order to catch fire.

Can anyone explain their statement?

Thanks.

(ken)


author: Brian Humphrey

subject: Re: A fire danger?

text:
<[email]> wrote....

Their statements are not hyperbole. The potential for so-called "spontaneous
combustion" of mulch is very real. These fires can also be a genuine
challenge to extinguish. Here are but a few of many examples...

http://www.airburners.com/Data/spontaneous_combustion_ign_mulch.pdf

http://mailman.cloudnet.com/pipermail/compost/2002-November/010032.html

http://wastenot.enr.state.nc.us/SWHOME/emcombus.html

http://www.freeplants.com/free-article-toxic-mulch.htm

http://64.123.246.64/DDD/story/1037710.html

http://www.mastercomposter.com/archive/arc_TOC.html

http://csf.colorado.edu/archive/1997/compost/msg05637.html

Respectfully Yours in Safety and Service,

Brian Humphrey
Firefighter/Paramedic
Public Information Officer
Los Angeles Fire Department

E-Mail: [email]
LAFD Website: http://www.lafd.org


author: W.D. Peckenpaugh

subject: Re: A fire danger?

text:
<[email]> wrote in message
news:[email]...

If you've ever had a compost pile, and have turned and churned it, you may
have noticed that it seemed warmer on the inside of the pile than the
outside. Decomposition of organic material is an exothermic process (i.e.,
the chemical reactions involved produce heat). Your compost pile isn't
likely to spontaneously ignite, as the amount of material is usually too
small to reach the "critical mass" of heat generation. But, in huge
municipal or commercial composting operations (as well as storage of hay in
bails or rolls) the heat from decomposing material can build up and, under
the right conditions, lead to combustion.

Bill


author: reg-john

subject: Re: A fire danger?

text:
We had this situation last year at a local council depot. 6 months previous,
we had big storms and lots of trees were knocked down. this much pile would
have been about 10metres tall and 50 in circumference. we responded there to
find a side of it alight, easy enough to put out the flames but on digging
down a little, we realised how hard it was going to be to put out. We
eventually got in a big front end loader thing to spread it all out, where
it was all hosed down with 1.5inch hose. the operation took 2 days to
complete.

<[email]> wrote in message
news:[email]...


subject: Re: A fire danger?

text:
Brian Humphrey wrote:

Amazing! Thanks for the references. I never suspected anything
like this could happen. This part was clear to understand:

Lets hope this doesn't happen. Our region has been so unusual
this year I can't even imagine what's next? We've had two unusual
storms since August (including Isabel) where power in many areas
was out for a week ..... and now that I've bought a new 5,000
(6250 surge) watt generator, it probably (??) won't go out
again .... that would be a good thing!

(ken)


author: Howard Aubrey

subject: Re: A fire danger?

text:
<[email]> wrote in message
news:[email]...
may
(i.e.,
in
under

Good answers, so I won't be redundant.  The natural heating is an important
part of the mulching process, it kills the weed seeds!

cheers....

HJA


author: Paul Hyde

subject: National Tenants Looking For Retail Space

text:
If anyone has reatial space that they need to lease, please contact me, as I
have avialable to anyone a list of virtually all National Retail chains that
are looking to expand in every U. S. state.
e-mail at [email]


subject: Re: National Tenants Looking For Retail Space

text:
In article <[email]>, Paul Hyde <[email]>
writes:

Dear  Paul,
I  work  for  a  company  that  has  many  retail  spaces  available.
 Some  of  the  best  spaces  in  Florida,  prime  high  volume
spaces  for  many  uses.  All in  newly  rebuilt  buildings.  If  you
 have  a  list  and  want  to  share  it  with  me  please  call  :
Michael  Hughes  @  (813) 966- 2618
in  Sarasota,  Florida.  Prime  locations  available  on  St.
Armands  Circle.   Thanks !


author: Sidney Stecher

text:
I want to encourage your effort to use this system to make contact with
develpers. I do not have the need at the moment but as a developer, I
appreciate your
efforts.


author: Shirley

subject: Jeremy Clarkson

text:
What a tosser!

He came on national TV and said "Breastfeeding in public is
disgusting".

Again, what a tosser.

Shirley
"Hippy earth mother" to Jacob - born 22/2/2000 - drug free home
birth
www.cottam27.freeserve.co.uk/Jacob.htm


author: Julii Brainard

subject: Re: Jeremy Clarkson

text:
What do you expect from a man who spends most of his time expressing
sexual desire for the combustion engine?  :-)

I think formula feeding is disgusting.  Powdered milk?  Cheap vegetable
oil?  Lots of dextrose?  Yum yum!!  (... er, not).  :-)
-j

Shirley wrote:


author: krys

subject: Re: Jeremy Clarkson

text:
"Shirley" <[email]> wrote in message
news:8tstom$6ov$[email]...

Yep - I agree.  Not that you'd expect anything else.  And the woman who he
was interviewing didn't really help, now did she?  Especially as it
originally appeared that she was there to argue the opposite opinion.

I have to say though that I am usually a big fan of his.  You kind of have
to take him for what he is.  Whether or not you agree with him - at least he
isn't politically correct for the sake of it! :)  He could of just as easily
said that he liked breastfeeding as it meant he could see more breasts in
public - just as offensive! :)

Jennifer T
mother to DS(22/4/98) and DD(13/5/00)


author: Alison Tooth

subject: Re: Jeremy Clarkson

text:
krys wrote:

I thought he did say that as well at some point!

Actually, when he started his monologue, I was laughing, because it
seemed *so* OTT, that it had to be taking the piss. (Not sure the
cheering men in the audience saw it that way though ...) Although I
thought the 'scoring formula' sketch was pretty stupid - what did he say
- "powdered milk is the most powerful sedative on the planet" or
something.

But when Jane Moore came on, it just went past the limits of my SOH. (At
least she admitted that she was a wimp for giving up after 2 days, and
that she was "probably doing it wrong".)

And was there actually any point to this? Has Jane Moore been writing
about bfing or what? Did Clarkson just get up one morning and decide
that attacking bfing would be a good way to fill half his show? It was
*strange*.

And I only turned it on to see Ben Elton!

Alison


subject: rants

text:
another of my friend with still not low cd4 (290) with no symptoms of
AIDS has started meds. and the side effects are very bad headaches.
what makes him choose to take meds?

DEPRESSION.

I guess it is the same for most


author: Death

subject: Re: rants

text:
<[email]> wrote in message
news:[email]...

Depression didn't lower his cd4 count


author: Martin

subject: Re: rants

text:
On Thu, 17 Jan 2008 18:05:55 -0800 (PST), "[email]"
<[email]> wrote:

Depression and bad headaches will be the least of their worries once
the other side-effects of HIV miracle pills kick in.

Once a patient begins popping HIV pills emphasis changes from CD4
counts to viral load.

It would be more sensible for your friend to seek treatment for their
depression, rather than HIV.  Worrying about HIV drug failure,
detectable viral load and nasty drug side-effects isn't going to make
their depression any easier.

My experience of HIV consultants is that they're a little too eager to
persuade patients into a lifetime of pill popping.  It's probably a
funding thing: more pill poppers, more cash.

HIV drugs are like Pringles - Once you pop you can't stop.


author: Maxwell Hamilton

subject: Re: rants

text:
Death wrote:

... but his cd4 count did not cause symptoms while meds did

Max


subject: Re: rants

text:
"Maxwell Hamilton" <[email]> wrote in message
news:fmptp9$u33$02$[email]...
Death wrote:

A lowered cd4 cell count has not caused any symtoms in and
of itself that I know of. It will be the (after effect of an infection)
after a lowered cd4 count.

Many people are depressed and take no meds at all.
If undepressed people took depression meds, do you
think their cd4 cell count would drop?


author: Ric Smith

subject: MFS ones student loan

text:
Two people, each with W-2.  Just married. One owes student
loan acquired before marriage.  Will FMS attach both
spouses' returns on just the one who owes the loan.  Each of
their SSNs will be on each other's return.

Ricardo Smith, EA

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author: Herb Smith

subject: Re: MFS ones student loan

text:
[email] (Ric Smith) wrote:

If they file separately, only the refund of the spouse with
the outstanding loan will be offset.

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author: Dave Woods, EA

subject: Re: MFS ones student loan

text:
"Ric Smith" <[email]> wrote:

Only the spouse who owes the money.


author: Arthur Kamlet

subject: Re: MFS ones student loan

text:
Ric Smith <[email]> wrote:

TP has an offset on record.

The offset will be applied to TP's MFS refund, or to the MFJ
refund.  Offset is not applied to Spouse's MFS refund.

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author: JAJ

subject: Re: UK Police clearances

text:
Police checks from country of current residence are normally valid for
12 months.  There is more flexibility if it's a country of former
residence - but it's down to case officer's discretion and if you've
been back there a lot (or it's your country of citizenship) then you
likely will have to do the checks again.

Jeremy

Originally
posted by onepommie
As far as I know,it is still 12 months. We had
a few problems and went over 12 months,so had to do them again


subject: Re: UK Police clearances

text:
As you may have passed the 12 month mark by the time your visa is
decided, I'd play safe and apply for one and not wait to be asked (which
will cause a delay).

Jeremy

Originally posted by LC_GH

citizen curenlty in Aus.  I will have lived in Aus for a total of 10
months by the time apply for my de facto visa (I am returning to the Uk
& will apply from there).
Just wondering, will I need to obtain &
submit Aus police clearance certificates?


subject: Re: UK Police clearances

text:
Just a quick query - do UK police clearances have a length of time for
which they are valid for?

I am applying for my de facto visa in
December from the UK and was wondering if I applied for my police
clearance now, whether it would still be valid come the time of my
application. I know that with the medicals & x-rays they are valid for
12 months but was unsure about the police checks.

Any advice greatly
appreciated.

Laura


subject: Re: UK Police clearances

text:
Thanks for the advice.

I forgot to mention that I am a UK citizen
curenlty in Aus.  I will have lived in Aus for a total of 10 months by
the time apply for my de facto visa (I am returning to the Uk & will
apply from there).

Just wondering, will I need to obtain & submit Aus
police clearance certificates?


subject: Re: UK Police clearances

text:
Originally posted by JAJ
month mark by the time your visa is decided, I'd play safe and apply for
one and not wait to be asked (which will cause a delay).

I will be leaving Australia after living here for only 10
months  (December-October) & making my application in the UK in
December.  Would I still need Aus police clearances?  If so, would
copies do (as I had to get them for work purposes over here - department
of justice).

Any advice appreciated.


author: onepommie

subject: Re: UK Police clearances

text:
As far as I know,it is still 12 months. We had a few problems and went
over 12 months,so had to do them again


author: SuperSeagulls

subject: Re: UK Police clearances

text:
I think it is up to the CO's discretion. I was there for 10 months, my
partner for 11 and we were not asked for Aus checks.

SS


author: mlbonner

subject: Re: UK Police clearances

text:
Originally posted by SuperSeagulls
the CO's discretion. I was there for 10 months, my partner for 11 and we
were not asked for Aus checks.

Likewise - I was
there for just over a year in total (over 3 years) and depsite applying
for them, was never asked for them.  There are people on here who were
there for 50 weeks and needed them.  IMO if you were there for 11months+
you'd be better off spending the $30 and getting them done now (you can
always send you application off without them if you didnt want to wait)
in case they are requested.

You get Australian ones here if you're
interested.
http://www.immi.gov.au/allforms/pdf/1101.pdf


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text:
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author: Andy Neill

subject: Hypothetical

text:
Hi there!
I'd like some information on a hypothetical situation.
What happens to the candidate's citizenship application if the candidate
moved to the US on a K-1 visa and currently has a valid Green Card, and the
couple separates?  The couple has been married for three years.
Can the candidate still become a citizen?
Andy


author: Michael E. Piston

subject: Re: Hypothetical

text:
Generally speaking, as long as the "candidate" married the US citizen
in
"good faith" (with the intention of living with the USC indefinitely
as his/her spouse) a subsequent divorce will not cause the candidate
to lose permanent resident status. However, if the candidate's
conditional permanent resident status was still not lifted at the time
of the divorce, he would have to apply for a waiver of the joint
petition requirement with the BCIS (formerly INS).

Michael E. Piston
Attorney at Law
4000 Livernois
Troy, MI 48098
248/680-0600
[email]

Nothing written here is intended as legal advice nor to create an
attorney-client relationship.


author: lairdside

subject: Re: Hypothetical

text:
Originally posted by Andy Neill

All of the above and I believe the 3 year expedite requires that you be
living in marital union with the USC until Naturalization is complete.
Provided everything else is ok worse case scenario is that you have to
wait until you've been a PR for 5 years before you can naturalize.


author: alflaw

subject: Re: Hypothetical

text:
[email] (Michael E. Piston) wrote in message news:<[email]>...

True as far as you went, however the question was about citizenship.

Spouses of U.S. Citizens, who gained permanent residence based on the
marital relationship, are normally eligible to naturalize after three
years of permaenent residence, so long as they are living in marital
union at the time of making application see 8 USC 1430(a).

If not living in marital union it reverts to the normal five year rule
8 USC 1427.


author: [redacted]

subject: Re: Freight traffic USA/Europe (was: Odd Railroad Car Specifications)

text:
In article <[email]>,
Hans-Joachim Zierke <[email]> wrote:

Hajo, in my original message I was talking about a GE 25 ton industrial
locomotive hauling two boxcars.  These locomotives are in general not
capable of movement above about 25 mph, and generally are operated a lot
slower than that.

We have several lines in our area that currently see vital freight
services, but are only industry to mainline type connections.  Usually,
these are single locomotives moving a few freight cars at 10 mph or so.
They aren't huge multi-locomotive 100 car trains, or even 20 car trains
moving at 30 mph, but their services are vital for their industry.

As to why such freight operations should be integrated into light rail,
the problem is that rescheduling the freight operations makes switching
the industries involved take place at passenger convenience, not at
freight customer convenience.  These small railraods exist mostly because
the customer wants service at a particular time of day, or other specific
service that the large railroad companies were unwilling to provide.  In
other words, it isn't necessarily the best in terms of the overall scheme
of operations to move the freight operations to after-hours.  Witness the
New Jersey diesel light rail line, which closes up at a very early hour to
facilitate freight operations.

Lets take an example from our local area:

The Portland & Western operates the westernmost remnant of the Oreogn
Electric between Forest Grove and Hillsboro.  Between Hillsboro and
Beaverton, the line is now operated as WestSide MAX.  The Forest Grove to
Hillsboro section sees occasional freight service and never sees much of
anything really heavy in terms of freight trains.  Passenger traffic
between the two points is probably not enough to demand anything beyond 15
minute headways.  If wire were strung above the line, it wouldn't be so
very difficult to conceive of this as an extension of the WestSide light
rail line.  Putting a slow, industrial locomotive powered train on the
line might slow down the light rail trains, except: there is only about 7
miles of track that separates the two cities.  Suppose our switcher, on
those days it needs to operate, leaves Forest Grove directly behind one
light rail train.  Even at only 10 mph, the freight train is already 1/3
of the way through its trip (only about 2.5 miles) by the time the next
light rail train is ready to leave Forest Grove.  So, it goes into a
siding at that point.  Since these are transit trains operating at a
reliable headway, it is possible to predict at about what points the
freight will need to get out of the way.  By the time the third train is
ready to depart Forest Grove, the freight train has moved 5 miles.  By the
time the fourth train is ready to depart Forest Grove, the freight crew
has already entered the main line in Hillsboro and is no longer a concern.

So, instead of building a triple track line, as currently required to do
this service under today's regulations (and actually done in Beaverton to
provide occasional switching service to an industry there), it would
instead be necessary to build two middle-of-line sidings for the freight
to get out of the way at vital points.  Maybe the industrial switcher used
to move the cars should be equipped with Automatic Train Stop just as an
additional level of insurance.

I'm not necessarily suggesting that we go out and convert the line to
mixed operation right now.  However, the option could never be considered
under the current regulations.

What I am suggesting is that the FRA's regulations about rail transit and
freight railroads intermixing needs to be based on the actual threat level
represented by the trains used on the line, rather than if they are
engaged in intercity commerce or not.


author: Hans-Joachim Zierke

subject: Freight + Light Rail (was: Freight traffic USA/Europe)

text:
[email] schrieb:

We have a communication problem here ...  ;-)

I was imagining some suburban line with 79 mph operation. For this kind
of traffic, some flavour of automatic train protection should be used, if it
is operated in high density. No matter wether freight or not.

/IF/ automatic train protection is used, it doesn't matter a lot, wether
freights are 200 tons or 20000 tons (there is a small rest of risk by
major screwup, like closed air cocks plus missing brake check).

If we are talking about streetcar speeds instead, it is indeed possible,
to operate some small slow freight, and for the risk of humans failing,
trust into the streetcar brakes and the slow movement of the freight. While
this won't fit too well to most of the European regulations as well
(streetcar track is commonly built to 10 - 15 tons axleload over here, so
the problem does not exist), you have logical arguments indeed.

Looking at a map, I hope that this would be a > 60 mph service. In
Europe, it could be 60 mph, but in the USA, it needs to be faster, because
average speed of the automobile is faster than in Europe.

For such operation, I would call Automatic Train Stop advisable. (Yes, I
know about the problem, that such thing isn't standardized for the USA.)

You want to put in several switches. Have a look at a pricelist for
these, especially when being part of the interlocking. If you want to
start a train with a very short headway within signaled territory, you
need short blocks, which is another cost riser.

All this is justified, if there is need for it. But your problem is
solved much easier: Move those boxcars at 40 mph or more, and get out of
the way, please. No switch needed, no siding needed, nothing.

You can buy an 80 ton 60 mph switcher at much lower cost than the
switches plus signaling.

If a working automatic train stop is in use, the threat level is not much
different for 200 ton or 20000 ton freights traveling at 10 mph or 60
mph. The possibility, to implement such systems, is the fundamental
difference in the safety concepts for road and rail.

If some freight cars are hauled via streetcar track operated at streetcar
speeds, your argument is valid, yes.

Hans-Joachim


author: Greg Gritton

subject: Re: Freight + Light Rail

text:
Hans-Joachim Zierke wrote:

West of Hillsboro there is only about a mile or two of "greenfields"
until you get to the outskirts of Cornelius, and Cornelius is adjacent
to Forest Grove.  So, MAX's maximum 55mph operation should work fine,
although it would be nice to have a little bit more space between
the stops to boost average speeds some.

It would be very nice to have MAX service in Forest Grove (where I
live).  When the west side MAX was built, there were discussions
about taking it all the way out there.  Unfortunately, the current
regulatory environment makes it very expensive to build on a per
mile basis, so I am not holding my breath to get it any time soon.
(The fact that the mayor is pusing for a "Streetcar" instead of MAX
service doesn't help either.)

Sincerely,

Greg Gritton


subject: Re: Freight + Light Rail (was: Freight traffic USA/Europe)

text:
In article <[email]>,
Hans-Joachim Zierke <[email]> wrote:

Unfortunately, this is not the case.  The light rail trains are only
capable of about 55 mph when the wheels are new.  At the end of the wheel
life, the maximum speed has dropped to about 52-53 mph.  Operation through
downtown Hillsboro is in city streets at about 25 mph.  Through Beaverton
the route has several tight curves where it divides from the ex-Oregon
Electric main line route and goes around several buildings.  Speeds
through all that are not particularly fast either.  The rest of the line
is 55 mph in almost all areas, with a few sections of slower running.

The timetable shows approximately half an hour (28 - 29 minutes or so)
between the furthest station in Hillsboro (Hatfield) and the Beaverton
Transit Center.

Several months ago you thought I was crazy when I suggesting that MAX
speeds really should be higher....

MAX already uses quite short blocks.

I am aware that switches are expensive, but MAX already uses center of
double track sidings for emergency train storage, in the event that a
light rail train dies mid-route.  Since this is an even more rare
occurance than switching traffic on the ex-OE line, I would think that it
would be possible to utilize this space for actual useful traffic from
time to time.

Also, there appear to be active mid-route freight customers, so that some
of thse switches may be necessary anyway for the freight traffic.  Using
those switching locations as a pull-out point for the freight might be
possible.

Certainly, that is the case in certain situations.  However, now you are
talking about situations where public perception may get in the way of
implementation.

In order to make my point, I wanted to make it clear that there are
certain situations (10 mph industrial switcher with two cars) that occur
in freight operation that are closer to light rail in terms of train
length and stopping distance than regular main line operations.  Treating
the two car industrial train exactly the same as 15,000 ton coal trains on
the main line, as the FRA does in this case, doesn't make sense sometimes.

Let's move on to a less hypothetical situation:

In Beaverton there is an auto parts distribution house that receives auto
parts by railroad.  Because the original access was from the Oregon
Electric main line, and because the customer made a lot of noise about the
prospect of losing freight service with the sale of the Oregon Electric
line to TriMet, they were the one customer on the line that retained
freight service.  (General Motors is the type of company that local
politicians listen to when it starts grumbling about not being able to get
freight railroad service.)  In order to retain the freight service, there
is a triple track line that runs for about 3/4 of a mile - two MAX tracks
and a third track that is freight.  Several times a week, a train of 1-2
cars operating at a very slow speed make their way over that third track
into the auto parts distribution house.  Considering that switching of the
cars only takes place during MAX off-peak hours, it would not have been
much of a stretch to operate those short trains over the MAX line.  Even
at only 10 mph, those trains would only have occupied the MAX main line
for about 5 minutes.  With really good dispatching, and planning around
MAX stopping at the Beaverton Creek station that exists halfway through
this section of the line, they could probably have even operated during
MAX peak periods without too much of a problem.  Certainly, such an
operation would not have interfered with the half-hour headways that occur
on that section of MAX after about 10:30 at night.

On the other hand, General Motors was probably not too sorry to have
caused the increase in construction cost of the light rail line by a few
million $ due to the need for an extra track through that area.


author: David Barts

text:
[email] ([email]) wrote in message news:<[email]>...

SFAIK, it would be legal for those short freights to use the same
tracks MAX uses, as long as neigher freights nor MAX use the tracks at
the same times.  I.e. if MAX service doesn't run between 1 and 5 AM,
freight service could during those hours.  I believe the San Diego
light rail system has at least one segment that uses this kind of
time-based track sharing with freight.

Here's an article that references the freight usage of the San DIego
light rail trackage: http://www.railwayage.com/dec99/intransit.html .


text:
In article <[email]>,
[email] (David Barts) wrote:

Yes, that also happens on this new New Jersey diesel light rail line.

However, San Diego used to have freight service allowed during the times
that light rail was operating.  Under current regulations that can not
happen.

There isn't that much available time at night when MAX isn't operating,
and chances are that GM would prefer to have its parts arrive during hours
that are more convenient for their operations.


subject: PC 3.5" game sale

text:
PC 3.5" game sale.  Shipping is free to anywhere in the US.
Email offers to [email].

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author: Kathryn Simpson

subject: Re: Heavy Armor

text:
"Big Gun" <[email]> wrote in message
news:[email]...

Can I nominate you? The job may be vacant soon. <g>

Did these changes start when Bush did, or has it really been an evolving
policy?

I ask because I know that Navy contracting and paring down DOD workforce
started long before the Bush Administration.


author: Big Gun

subject: Re: Heavy Armor

text:
On Tue, 18 May 2004 14:39:38 GMT, "Kathryn Simpson"
<[email]> wrote:

What you are refering to started when the first Bush was in office. It
was the drawdown which continued under Clinton. If you recall Clinton
and the Contract with America balanced the budget... That was done
primarily with something known as the "Total Force Concept". We
removed about a million active duty personnel form the rolls and
converted their positions to Reserve or NG jobe. This allowed us to
not have to subsidize their benefits and only pay them when we needed
them...

Now we have the most used Reserve/NG force in history.

You are right here, but as stated above you are remembering the
drawdown. There's always some form of transformation or evelution
going on in the military but not the way it is today.

Look up something called the "Third Wave" for more info on paring down
the DOD workforce; civilians included.


subject: Re: Heavy Armor

text:
On Tue, 18 May 2004 14:39:38 GMT, "Kathryn Simpson"
<[email]> wrote:

I decided to go ahead and help you out...

http://www.hqda.army.mil/acsimweb/ca/third_wave.htm

The news articles are the most interesting thing on the page.
Everything else is just legalese and DOD regulatory guidance.


subject: Re: Heavy Armor

text:
Thanks for the articles. They basically imply that the Army is doing the
same thing that the Navy is doing, much to the shagrin of military people
with brains.

Right now there is a very large project at PSNS that is being completely
devastated by having temporary contractors come in and do what civilian DOD
workers have previously been doing for generations.  The rework is high, the
delays are costly, and the Navy is fuming.

I'm really hoping that they get a message from this.   There must be
continuity.  If there isn't continuity in the workforce then a contractor's
bid is basically just a pipe dream.

It works for research and development.  It does not work for maintenance and
operations.


author: S C ®EENPLAY /\/\ ASTER

subject: Please help me with this?

text:
Why do most movies start out good or great, but then go to the
crappers?  I mean the writers managed to catch my interest, by why could
they not keep it?
"THe Client" started out just great,  Then slowly, but surely it kind of
turned simple like a so so cop Tv show.

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 screenplays?

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author: D C

subject: Re: Please help me with this?

text:
----------
In article <[email]>,
[email] (S C ï¿½EENPLAY /\\/\\ ASTER) wrote:

I gather seven out of ten films lose money overall. The film process that
looks so glamorous from the outside is mainly seven or so morons hobnobbing
over cups of coffee. You wonder why films don't grab you?

I have noticed especially a huge plunge in the standards of American series.
"When I was a lad" as they say, there were same great western series
running, each one almost guaranteed to have high editorial standards. There
were black and white cinema films, of steely integrity, dealing with social
issues. The last ten-fifteen years have seen a great rise in technical
prowess and a terrible dearth of ideas.

They say it was the age of accountants that did for the golden age in LA.
There seems a US search for ideas abroad at the moment, where film makers
ironically ever more ape US cinematic traits.

Good luck with your viewing.


author: Reallycoolz

subject: Re: Please help me with this?

text:
Ten page rule!

They spent most of their energy and passion making the first ten pages great.

Less labour spent on the rest, sadly. Or at least,  less man/woman hours per
page.

wonder 21


author: RonB

subject: Re: Please help me with this?

text:
On Tue 25 Feb 2003 11:24:38p, S C ï¿½EENPLAY /\/\ ASTER, allegedly
scribed:

Probably because the plot isn't that good, but you don't know that yet
in the first ten minutes, because everything is just getting set up.

One of my favorite comedy writers is the late Douglas Adams. Some of
his "scenes" and situations are so hilarious it's incredible. But he
also had a lot of dry (boring) pages where he was just mechanically
linking scenes, especially in his later books. And his plots weren't
always that strong. I think movie writers sometimes come up with an
interesting visual that grabs your attention, but really don't have a
good explanation or good plot to support it -- so the movie degenerates
from that point on.

I don't know. Sometimes movies go the other way. They take way too long
to get started, but have a strong enough story to end convincingly.
(Providing you waited around long enough to get to the ending.) I'm
guessing that, sometimes, one person has too much authority and no one
is allowed to tell him/her what doesn't work.


author: WRabkin

subject: Re: Please help me with this?

text:
My partner, who is in many ways an intelligent man and in all ways an excellent
writer has one -- well, one salient -- quirk. He'll come across some speciman
of junk food he loved as a ten year old. A Twinkie. A Hostess cupcake.
Screaming Yellow Zonkers. And he'll buy a bunch of them, remember how much he
loved them as a boy.

Then he'll try one.

Now this has happened over and over again through the years, and he's still
never prepared for the shock and disappointment that comes from trying a
childhood treat with a more sophisticated adult palate.

There are plenty of shows I loved as a kid, and I do my damndest not to see
them again when they hit TVLand. Because the fact is, most of them are not very
good. To an adult eye, what once seemed brilliant is often cliched, sloppy, or
just plain terrible.

Sometimes nostalgia alone is enough to get us past this. Phantom of the
Paradise was, for reasons only many expensive shrinks could ever figure out,
was one of the seminal movies of my teen years -- I must have seen it 20 times.
And whenever I've watched it since, I've been swept up in the same emotions it
generated in my younger self. Only this last time did I finally notice that the
entire last third is entirely incoherent. Even so, I still loved it.

But that doesn't mean it's less flawed than whatever movie the 2003 equivalent
of my adolescent self -- poor kid -- is loving right now.

Sometimes, what you loved "when you were a lad" has less to do with the
qualities that prevailed than the fact you were, indeed, a lad.

On the other hand, as I type this, I'm listening to a Roxy Music album I first
bought 30 years ago -- and it's still brilliant. Go figure.


subject: Re: Please help me with this?

text:
RonB, I understand what you're saying and I know you understand.
But what about all those pro writers?  Why would they write crap when
they know their careers hang in the balance?
  I find it funny when the nobodies always seem to bust out with great
new stories. Brent Hanley, M. Night Shyamalan, David Cronenberg, and
others did or are doing good in their youth.  I know for a fact a mature
writer can bury most younger ones, but it's as if most of the older guys
have lost that hunger and write stuff like "The Client".

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 screenplays?

Email:  [email]  or check this:
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subject: Re: Please help me with this?

text:
RonB, I think great scenes can help out a plot, even a basic plot like
in "Carllito's Way".  Gangster wants to retire in paradise, but first
has to tie up some lose ends that could cost him his future.

  "The Client" could have went in any direction with some great twists
like in "Carllito's Way".

  The Mob would have whacked all loose ends and left no time for
questioning or seeing if anybody really knew anything.
So, most of the film should of had the witness keeping from getting
whacked while he built a nervous relationship with the lawyer who is
fighting from become a drunk again knowing she might get whacked in the
process.  That big mouth lawyer should have gotten whacked just as fast
as the other lawyer, so that should have been in the ending.

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screenplays will master screenplay writing.

J. Valdez

Dedicated to the truth.

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 screenplays?

Email:  [email]  or check this:
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author: Dena Jo

subject: Re: Please help me with this?

text:
[email] (WRabkin) wrote:

Which one?  The first three (up through Stranded) are among my favorite
albums of all time.


subject: Re: Please help me with this?

text:
S C ï¿½EENPLAY /\/\ ASTER wrote:

Well, actually, it makes sense. If you're a new writer trying to break
in (at the top level) then your story had better be extra special. Once
you've got a blockbuster (or two) under your belt, the studio can make
money because of your name. Unfortunately, there is also a good chance
that you will have too much leeway, and get away with writing drek.
Which --ahem-- I think was the case with M. Night and "Signs." It
probably goes deeper than that. I'm not in the business so I just have
to go by heresay, but there seems to be the opposite problem, movies
being made by committee and (unfortunately) I get the impression the
bean counters don't want to take chances. If such&such formula worked
last time, by golly, it'll work now! (I thought the opening scene(?) in
"The Majestic" was hilarious -- how they reworking the poor writer's
script with ridiculous changes.)


author: Setarcos

subject: Re: Please help me with this?

text:
That's interesting to say, but I'm sure Grisham wouldn't have appreciated
it.


subject: Re: Please help me with this?

text:
It was, indeed, Stranded.

And what a thrill it was to see them reunited on their recent tour. I've seen
Ferry a bunch of times over the years, but this was among the best shows I've
ever seen.


subject: Re: Please help me with this?

text:
On 4 Mar 2003 05:26:05 GMT, Dena Jo <[email]> wrote:

My fav is "Avalon".  Still great after all these years.

Doug

---

Life is a river.  If you ain't gettin' your feet wet...
you're not playin' hard enough.


subject: Re: Please help me with this?

text:
Yes, the Majestic seemed to tell like it is.
But there have got to be plenty of people with common sense.  I think
most people in general can tell if a movie is going to go bad.  I think
there is a guaranteed formula, but has too much to do with good old
fashion hard work that the suits in the Wood try to avoid most of the
time.  I mean, I could have a perfect formula for beer, but if I'm a
lazy brew meister, I'll end up with some so so beer.

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subject: Re: Please help me with this?

text:
Setarcos, what the movie just like the film?  I would think the
novelist has more to offer in the story since he sell mucho books.

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subject: Re: Please help me with this?

text:
[email] (WRabkin) wrote:

Stranded is my favorite Roxy Music album.  Every song is great.  You can
still feel the Eno influence without it being completely Enoesque.


subject: Re: Please help me with this?

text:
On Wed 26 Feb 2003 04:23:43a, S C ï¿½EENPLAY /\/\ ASTER, allegedly
scribed:

Not necessarily. It's easy to tell when someone else's project is going
bad, but it's harder to see it in your own work. Kind of like a typo is
easy to pick out when you're reading someone else's message, but you'll
often miss it in your own message. Your mind fills in the missing word
because you know what you're trying to say. Same thing with stories --
you understand the back story while writing and you think you've given
enough information for others to understand, but you may not have.
There should be someone to tell the writer, producer, director, "hey
you missed this...", but if he/she is important enough with a big
enough ego, everyone is afraid to stand up and say -- "that's just not
working." Neal and Steven Weller went into this a little a few months
ago.


author: Schlockhack

subject: 40 Best Directors


author: Steven J. Weller

subject: Re: 40 Best Directors

text:
On Apr 8, 1:18ï¿½pm, Schlockhack <[email]> wrote:

Got as far as #1 - David Lynch.  An art-school-damaged hack who's been
remaking An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge because he doesn't have any
stories of his own to tell, as #1?  Not really interested in their
ideas for the remaining 39.

--
Life Continues, Despite
Evidence to the Contrary

Steven


subject: Re: 40 Best Directors

text:
On Apr 12, 8:50ï¿½pm, Remysun <[email]> wrote:

Sorry - not buyin' the premise, not buyin' the bit.  Bay's not much of
a director but he's also not really a writer; he's not trying to say
anything other than what the script says, and the scripts for most of
Bay's films are pretty clear.  Ham-fisted, but clear.  Lynch is
throwing up random inkblots, which isn't ambiguous - it's
meaningless.  Ambiguity may be our business, but pointlessness isn't.
To extend your Hamlet example, opinions will differ on whether he's
nuts or faking it, but the actor (and arguably, the director) have to
know.  They don't have to tell anyone else, and it's going to vary
from one production to another (different artists will have different
interpretations of the same text) but if THEY don't know, then they're
not able to out any meaning into what they're doing.  Without at least
some actual meaning, the whole thing's pointless - just an inkblot.

By the way, the Rorschach test has largely been discredited as a
meaningful diagnostic tool: http://www.deltabravo.net/custody/rorschach.php

--
Life Continues, Despite
Evidence to the Contrary

Steven


subject: Re: 40 Best Directors

text:
On Apr 13, 2:19ï¿½pm, Alan Brooks <[email]> wrote:

One of those 'agree to disagree' things, I'll wager.  I think Lynch
used to be quite interesting, but he lost it with Season 2 of Twin
Peaks, when he discovered that he didn't actually have to mean
anything with what he's saying.  People are still willing to give him
credit for depth when he's delivering just smoke and mirrors, but like
a faith healer (in an odd way) he's discovered how to frame what he's
doing in such a way that he doesn't have to justify anything.

No question that he's obsessive in getting things to look exactly the
way he wants them to.  He's a talented technician behind the camera,
but as a writer and storyteller?  He's coasting on the fact that
people will excuse his failings as simply being "Lynchian."  Does
Cafe' Silencio mean anything?  Not to Lynch, so it means whatever you
want it to mean.  Just like the inkblots in the Rorschach test.

--
Life Continues, Despite
Evidence to the Contrary

Steven


author: Remysun

subject: Re: 40 Best Directors

text:
On Apr 13, 5:37ï¿½pm, "Steven J. Weller" <[email]>
wrote:

Woah, woah, woah, do not blame Lynch for Season 2. They never planned
on revealing the murderer, but the network forced them to, and that
left them with nothing to hang their everyone is suspect motif.
Without that, the show fell apart. I don't mind you blaming him for
the tons of stuff I have not yet seen, but don't blame him for that.


subject: Re: The Rorschach Test

text:
On Apr 14, 2:55ï¿½am, Martin B <[email]> wrote:

Sounds like the test he gave you wasn't a Rorschach test, but
something maybe based on the same idea.  What I generally dislike
about these kinds of tests (diagnostically speaking) is that there's
no real baseline for comparison.  It's a way of randomizing in order
to get an unconsidered look at what the subject's thinking about, but
aside from the differences between someone who sees penises in every
inkblot and someone who sees vaginas in every inkblot (and someone who
only sees butterflies in every inkblot), it only gives you a point at
which to start your own subjective analysis of the subject.
Unfortunately, a lot of practitioners don't 'get' that part of the
dynamic; they think it's more like a multiple choice test with a
single 'right' answer and a series of 'wrong' answers.

-- Steven


subject: Re: 40 Best Directors

text:
On Apr 13, 4:47ï¿½pm, Alan Brooks <[email]> wrote:

Not sayin' Lynch is a bad person, just that Season 2 seems to be the
point at which his artistic career when south.  I was told (by a
fairly reliable source) that at some point before the end of Season 1,
there actually WAS a concrete solution to the mystery.  Whether it
would have made it to air or not is anybody's guess, but the answer
wasn't un-knowable; it was just unknown.  When the network ordered a
2nd season, it came as a bit of a shock to all involved - no one
really expected the thing to stay on the air for the whole 1st
season.  They were stuck having to come up with 20-odd hours' worth of
additional story, and couldn't use the original solution, so they had
to ramp up the weird and lose the logic (dream or otherwise).

In Lynch's place, I probably would have done the same thing.  But his
output, post-TP, has been... well, what it's been.

--
Life Continues, Despite
Evidence to the Contrary

Steven


subject: Re: 40 Best Directors

text:
On Apr 14, 1:45ï¿½pm, "Steven J. Weller" <[email]>
wrote:

Are you sure that was different from the European ending that they
shot for the pilot?


author: Alan Brooks

subject: Re: 40 Best Directors

text:
On Mon, 9 Apr 2012 13:40:12 -0400, Steven J. Weller wrote
(in article <jlv6ts$elm$[email]>):

You should read David Foster Wallace's essay on Lynch, written while on set
during the shooting of "Lost Highway".  He totally gets Lynch (or 'got' him,
before he hung himself, perhaps at least partly in despair at nobody else
getting Lynch).

You'll either end up really appreciating Lynch or hating Wallace as much as
you hate Lynch.  The essay is included in "A Supposedly Fun Thing I Will
Never Do Again".

                Alan Brooks
---------------------------
A Schmuck with an Underwood

-- The Year of
   the Trial Size
   Dove Bar.

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subject: Re: 40 Best Directors

text:
On Apr 9, 1:40ï¿½pm, "Steven J. Weller" <[email]>
wrote:

Nobody noticed, but Schlock posted on the 22nd anniversary of Twin
Peaks debut. I'm alright with Lynch as a top choice, although his
revolution was through what he did to television. Watercooler
television stopped being soap gossip and evolved into the cultural
asides in Northern Exposure, and the WTFs of X-Files, Alias, Fringe,
and Lost.

And after hearing my film prof dissect the opening of Blue Velvet,
it's beyond just throwing shit and seeing if it sticks to the wall.


subject: Re: 40 Best Directors

text:
On Apr 10, 6:55ï¿½pm, Alan Brooks <[email]> wrote:

Found it on the web:
http://www.lynchnet.com/lh/lhpremiere.html
...and while I'm still reading it, I ran across this quote, that
pretty much sums it up:
"The Band-Aid on the neck of Pulp Fiction's Marcellus Wallace-
unexplained, visually incongruous, and featured prominently in three
separate setups-is textbook Lynch."
In a sense, it really IS "textbook Lynch," in that it's entirely
meaningless.  Ving Rhames has a scar on the back of his neck, and
Tarantino thought it might be distracting, as he was planning on
showing Rhames (who's real first name is Irving, which explains why
he's gone for something a little tougher-sounding) from behind for
several shots.  It was too difficult to cover the scar cosmetically,
and it was too early to erase the scar digitally, so the last-minute,
we-need-to-do-something solution was just to put a band-aid over it.

And a legend was born.

--
Life Continues, Despite
Evidence to the Contrary

Steven


subject: Re: 40 Best Directors

text:
On Apr 11, 2:55ï¿½pm, Alan Brooks <[email]> wrote:

In France (supposedly), you can't name your child anything that's not
already the name of a Catholic saint - the gov't won't let you.  Seems
kinda' harsh, especially with such a large and growing Muslim
population, but sometimes parents do need a little bit of council,
where naming their offspring is concerned.  Percival?  Really?  I'm
sure it was a long-standing family tradition and all, but...
PERCIVAL?!  Did it never occur to anybody that this kid was going to
have to live with that name?

Finished the essay on Lynch, and am singularly un-impressed.  A lot of
it comes from having been on the inside of film production, but
writers who aren't familiar with how a film set works seem to read a
LOT into the mostly-blue-collar crap that goes into getting a picture
up.  About 99% of what he thought of as "Lynchian" would have been
exactly the same on any of Pauley Shore's assorted masterpieces.  It's
just the nature of the work, regardless of the subject matter.  It's a
little like seeing witchcraft and demons in modern technology; it's
really just this little chromium switch, here, not the Power of the
Ancients At Work.

--
Life Continues, Despite
Evidence to the Contrary

Steven


subject: Re: 40 Best Directors

text:
On Apr 12, 12:01ï¿½pm, Alan Brooks <[email]> wrote:

It seemed - to me - like the sort of standard newbie-on-the-set
article, but a lot of what he ascribes to Lynch's genius is, indeed,
about un-clarity in this, fractured that, and vague ambiguousness in
the other.  My personal take is that Lynch is all of those things, but
that while he once had something going on behind them, he no longer
seems to.

By way of analogy, a lot of people argue about what's in the Pulp
Fiction briefcase - but raising the issue pretty much takes as a given
that there's an answer.  That it's something, more or less specific,
and that if you just pay close enough attention you can figure out the
clues and understand what Tarantino was getting at.  But Tarantino
himself has cop'd to the fact that it's nothing.  It was originally
supposed to be the stolen diamonds from Reservoir Dogs but as the
project progressed, that seemed too mundane.  So they made it nothing
in particular; just a glow that visually referenced the nuclear
McGuffen from Kiss Me Deadly.  People are debating the answer to a
question that's already been answered, and the answer is, "nothing in
particular - just a cool visual."

Much of Lynch's later work has struck me, and continues to strike me,
as kind-of cool visuals that don't have a lot going on underneath
them.  People want to argue about what Mulholland Drive really means,
but the answer is that even Lynch doesn't know what it really means,
so it doesn't really mean much of anything.  He's just found that by
keeping his mouth shut in creative ways, he can get credit for depth
when all he's really offering is cinematic inkblots.

One man's opinion, as always.

--
Life Continues, Despite
Evidence to the Contrary

Synepherine Nyquill Weller


subject: Re: 40 Best Directors

text:
On Apr 12, 5:19ï¿½pm, "Steven J. Weller" <[email]>
wrote:

But that's the beauty of our medium. In other professions, like
doctors, lawyers, and engineers, there can only be one way to
interpret what is presented. In our medium, is Hamlet insane, or
faking it? Ambiguity is our livelihood, it's what keeps the
conversation going after the movie's over.

And if we can agree that Michael Bay is pretty shitty, we can move on
to the antithesis being something, and it doesn't get more
antithetical than David Lynch.


author: Martin B

subject: The Rorschach Test

text:
On 13/04/2012 11:27 PM, Steven J. Weller wrote:

I read the article with some interest. When I was in high school I had
no idea what I wanted to do after school. So my stepfather arranged with
his golfing buddy, who was an HR guy on the mines, to give me an
aptitude test.

This was illegal. Tests were for mine employees only, so he was doing us
a big favour.

I went in on Saturday morning when there was no one in the office. He
handed me a series of cards with inkblots on them, and asked me to
classify them as animal, vegetable, or mineral.

Some looked vaguely like butterflies, some like plants, and some like
machinery, so those were easy.

But some looked like nothing. So I asked him if it was okay to turn the
cards around. He said yes, so I twisted and turned until I saw something
in the blot.

The cards were numbered in the bottom right-hand corner. I think at Card
8 I realised I had seen this card before. It was Card 2 turned
upside-down. It turned out there were six cards, followed by the same
six, only upside down.

I thought the guy doing the test had made a mistake. Because if you can
turn them any way, you have to give the same answer the second time
around. After that my heart wasn't in it, and I didn't believe the
results would have any meaning.

A couple of days later my stepfather gave me the results. I wasn't
interested in them. He asked why I wasn't interested. I didn't want to
tell him that his golfing buddy who had done us a big favour had made a
stuff-up, but eventually he got the story out of me.

He consulted with his buddy, who confirmed it was okay to turn the cards
around, but I still didn't believe him and didn't take note of what the
test said.

 From memory (this was 50 years ago) the results were in any case rather
vague. They didn't tell you anything you couldn't get from a five-minute
interview.

 From the article I see you CAN turn the cards around, in fact are
expected to, so may stepfather's golfing buddy was correct and I was
wrong. But the article shows ten different cards, not two identical sets
of six. That makes a difference. The blots in the article are also
fancier than I remember. The ones I saw were more solid and "ink
blotty", and didn't come in colour. (Again, very distant memory.)

--
Martin B


subject: Re: 40 Best Directors

text:
On Fri, 13 Apr 2012 18:59:37 -0400, Remysun wrote
(in article <jmab4p$src$[email]>):

Roughly what I was going to say.  TV's a weird beast, and series's that you
mean to only run a short time will often go longer because 1) the network is
shocked to find there's an audience for that shite and 2) they back the money
truck up to your front door.

You can't blame a guy for cashing a check with his name on it.

                Alan Brooks
---------------------------
A Schmuck with an Underwood

-- Cash, Johnny Cash.
   So this check
   is made out
   to me.

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author: Marjan Alcevski

subject: Re: The Rorschach Test

text:
On 04/14/2012 07:39 PM, Steven J. Weller wrote:

Yes, but what do they expect when they keep showing me those blobbed
penis images?


subject: Re: 40 Best Directors

text:
On Apr 9, 12:40ï¿½pm, Alan Brooks <[email]> wrote:

I'll look for it, but I don't really "hate" Lynch; I'm just
unimpressed.  He's like many, many artists throughout history, in that
he had some success early on and that made some folks forgive him his
excesses and excentricities.  Now he's pretty much all excesses and
excentricities, with nothing much underneath them to prop them up.
Like with Kubrick and Eyes Wide Shut, I'm just not prepared to tell
the emperor that his new invisible suit becomes him, just because he
used to wear such stylish clothes.  Mulholland Drive was long, dull,
pretentious, and - most importantly - a salvage job; just a way to
milk a little money out of something that cost a bit but was being
thrown into the landfill.  It ended up as a fairly ordinary "death
dream" story, in the vein of An Occurance at Owl Creek Bridge - which
was also the underlying story of Lost Highway.  If you're really
calling Lynch the Best Director in <whatever the sample group was>,
after Inland Empire, Mulholland Drive, The Straight Story, Lost
Highway, Fire Walk With Me, Wild At Heart, Blue Velvet, Dune, The
Elephant Man and Eraserhead, you've pretty much drunk the kool-aid*.
Sure, there are some good and even great films on that list, but...
the Best Director?  Not so much.

--
Life Continues, Despite
Evidence to the Contrary

Steven

*credit to Lloyd Press


subject: Re: 40 Best Directors

text:
On Apr 10, 6:15ï¿½pm, Remysun <[email]> wrote:

But Blue Velvet was 26 years ago.  No argument that Lynch was, once, a
great writer and director.  He definitely earned the reputation he's
been coasting on these last few years, but the real break-point, for
me at least, was Mulholland Drive.  He was hired to - very
specifically - recreate the Twin Peaks 'vibe' for another primetime
network series.  He did so but the network didn't bite, and then Canal
+ threw some extra money his way to expand the pieces out into a
feature-length product.  Pieces that were supposed to pay off over the
course of 20-odd one-hour episodes (to the extent that anything Lynch
does 'pays off') became a glorious Rorschach test for the audience.
What does it all mean?  Whatever you want it to.

--
Life Continues, Despite
Evidence to the Contrary

Steven


subject: Re: 40 Best Directors

text:
On Wed, 11 Apr 2012 14:04:57 -0400, Steven J. Weller wrote
(in article <jm4h49$6vb$[email]>):

I had a high school friend named Rocky -- defensive end on our Division I
undefeated HS football team Go Spartans.  When we were seniors one of the new
teachers read off the attendance roll before Rocky had time to intervene, and
we finally all learned his actual first name: Percival.

Of course, it being high school 'n all, we were mature about it.

                Alan Brooks
---------------------------
A Schmuck with an Underwood

-- Maybe you're
   the plucky
   comic relief.

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author: MC

subject: Re: 40 Best Directors

text:
In article <jm6df0$p6o$[email]>,
 "Steven J. Weller" <[email]> wrote:

I don't think that's *quite* right. Catholicism isn't the issue. I think
the rules are in place to prevent offence to others - can't call the kid
Adolf Hitler Dupont - and/or likely to cause embarrassment and suffering
to the child - can't call the kid Fifi Trixibelle Peaches Aileen Wuornos
Duprï¿½.

--

"If you can, tell me something happy."
- Marybones


subject: Re: 40 Best Directors

text:
On Thu, 12 Apr 2012 07:14:41 -0400, Steven J. Weller wrote
(in article <jm6df0$p6o$[email]>):

I think the Scandinavian countries and Denmark are like that as well, with
the traditional-names only.  Read an article about it after the sudden rash
of celebrity baby names came out a couple years ago (Apple, Brooklyn, Blue,
Rimshot (Okay, I made up that last one)).  So in Finland you could name your
kid Og, but not Billie.

Sure dat.  But the gist of the article didn't have to do so much with his
on-set experience as with the final effects Lynch gets on the screen; his
fracturing of identity, his blurring of lines between life and death, all
that artistic statement stuff.  My own, admitted, on-set naivety in no way
diminishes my insights into finished film (unless you could how I think
in-frame booms are intentional).

                Alan Brooks
---------------------------
A Schmuck with an Underwood

-- Ari-Pekka Mika-Matti Brooks

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subject: Re: 40 Best Directors

text:
On 12/04/2012 01:14 PM, Steven J. Weller wrote:

I also heard that, as an explanation of why so many French people have
double-barrelled first names, like Jean-Claude, or Paul-Henri. There
aren't enough first names to go around.

But Wikipedia says otherwise.

Traditionally, most people were given names from the Roman Catholic
calendar of saints...  However, people from immigrant communities often
choose names from their own culture. Furthermore, in recent decades it
has become common to use first names of foreign origin

--
Martin B


subject: Re: 40 Best Directors

text:
On 12/04/2012 01:14 PM, Steven J. Weller wrote:

My sister had two middle names, one chosen by my mother, and one by my
father.

My mother chose Jean, from her favourite actress Norma Jean (Marilyn
Monroe).

My father chose Whalley, from a supposed ancestor who achieved brief
fame in the 1600s. (I later learned we probably weren't related at all.)

Naturally, my sister hated the name Whalley with a bitter passion. When
she was ten years old she discovered you could change your name legally,
and started a defiance campaign which only ended when my father admitted
defeat and got the name Whalley removed from the records.

--
Martin B


subject: Re: 40 Best Directors

text:
On Thu, 12 Apr 2012 17:19:27 -0400, Steven J. Weller wrote
(in article <jm7gsv$4sn$[email]>):

A certain kind of art is all about opening possibilities in your mind, and I
think Lynch makes that kind of art.  You could contrast him with Spielberg,
whom I like for exactly the opposite reason: A Spielberg film take control of
you and doesn't give you any leeway to feel anything except what the movie is
designed to make you feel.  Spielberg isn't about opening up possibilities,
he's about nailing everything down as tightly as possible.

Lynch, admittedly, isn't good at resolving things.  But you can't reduce his
work to just a lot of on-set disorganization that results in chaotic
storytelling.  He does multiple takes until he gets what he's looking for and
he assembles his best takes to acheive what he wants to say.  I don't think
it bothers him that most of his work isn't clear to most people because,
while I think he's going for something, that thing isn't clarity (the same
way a post-modern writer isn't going for shelf space near the checkout at
Wall Mart).

I agree with you that the 'mystery' contents of the briefcase in "Pulp
Fiction" was just a badly done cheat.  Same with the 'mysterious' whispered
words at the end of "Lost in Translation"; you *know* when the filmmaker is
cheating and trying to magically turn a story problem into a style.  That
criticism doesn't appertain to Lynch.

                Alan Brooks
---------------------------
A Schmuck with an Underwood

-- Ezekiel 25:17

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subject: Re: The Rorschach Test

text:
On 15/04/2012 02:11 PM, Marjan Alcevski wrote:

Pervert. They looked like vaginas.

But I was the age where I couldn't admit I knew what a vagina looked like.

--
Martin B


subject: Re: 40 Best Directors

text:
On Tue, 10 Apr 2012 16:24:26 -0400, Steven J. Weller wrote
(in article <jm24tq$3bm$[email]>):

Hm.

This just makes me want to repeat that you should, at your next opportunity,
get the DFW book ASFTIWNDA and read the David Lynch entry (also read the
nominative essay near the back of the book because it's great.

Wallace acknowledges all your points and much much worse.  He points out that
Lynch is great at building complexity but doesn't have a clue how to resolve.
 At the same time he teases out what is authentic and artistic in a Lynch
film, and makes you want to watch all of them again with your DFW glasses on.

                Alan Brooks
---------------------------
A Schmuck with an Underwood

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subject: Re: 40 Best Directors

text:
In article <jm8laa$9$[email]>,
 Martin B <[email]> wrote:

In Quebec there is a huge trend for (mainly French, married and
unmarried) couples to double-barrel their surnames - which presumably
will have some troublesome results when their kids get married.

--

"If you can, tell me something happy."
- Marybones


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author: "derek"

subject: story focus

text:
Well, sort of. I'm impressed with how threads change topic.
These are some recent shifs:
Spielberg/Hanks airport film becomes Atkins diet and calories
Tashonda streetcar becomes line dancing.
Perversity becomes Will Rodgers' orgasms (ok, ready when you are...)
On-topic birthdays becomes Stevie Ray Vaughan
Communication becomes parasites
Readers' fees becomes golf
Is anybody there becomes calibrating Brick's pistol
(To sate Fropessor Garble's rage, read: "Are anybody there...")
People's baldness becomes very bad lines.
Rewriting becomes naked puppets
Whereas Alan Smithee becomes naked puppies (mmmm...)
It's 3.22a.m. L.A. time becomes all sorts of strange stuff, as it should...

Whereas:
Elia Kazan stayed right on topic.
As did the pledge of oath. Or is it oath of pledge? Try pledge of
allegiance?
Harry Potter
Screenwriter beheaded
Movie Magic Screenwriter (except for a small subthread where it became
vegetables and Ibuprofen - go figure)
House of Cards stayed good on exploring villains and fear
Initial images in screenplays
Alfred Hitchcock
Intro narration

There you have it. That should leave little doubt in anybody's mind.
-derek

"Sometimes a majority simply means all the fools are on the same side."


author: Ovum

subject: Re: story focus

text:
Derek writes:

Thread hijacking is a delicate art.

For example: does the fact that "Dodgeball" made more money in its opening
weekend than "The Terminal" signify the fall of western civilization?

:-)

Lois

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