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It's easy to think that "stocks" means "do I buy a share in GM or GE?" In fact, the stock market has been around a long time, and like any other business they have come up with a lot of products to get your money. To understand the stock market at all, it's important to first understand indexes. An index is some sort of average of the price of many stocks. Indexes are important because we calculate risk relative to indexes, and we calculate our gains and losses relative to indexes. If our stock goes up and down twice as fast as an index, we say it is twice as risky an investment. If we own some stocks that go up 10%, and the indexes went up 10% at the same time, then we shouldn't think we're brilliant investors, instead we say "a raising tide lifts all ships."
Why do we use indexes? Any individual company can have a bad quarter, or a bad year. An entire sector can have a bad year. But if you track a lot of stocks, then it's thought that you are somehow tracking the economy as a whole, rather than one or two particular companies that may be doing particularly well or particularly poorly.
Probably the easiest index to understand and the one most frequently talked about is the Dow Jones Industrial Average, the DJIA or simply "the Dow." The Dow is computed by adding up the share price of the chosen 30 US companies, then multiplying by some particular number. The number is there for continuity - every few years the list of companies that make up the Dow is changed, and the multiplier changes at the same time so that on that day the Dow doesn't change. The multiplier also changes when one of the 30 companies has a stock split. Right now the 30 companies are:
|3M, Alcoa, Altria Group, American Express, American Intl Group,
Boeing, Caterpillar, Citigroup, Coca Cola, Du Pont, Exxon Mobil,
General Electric, General Motors, Hewlett Packard, Home Depot,
Honeywell, Intel, IBM, Johnson & Johnson, JP Morgan, McDonalds,
Merck, Microsoft, Pfizer, Procter & Gamble, SBC Communications,
United Tech, Verizon, Wal Mart Stores, Walt Disney
All the stocks listed are large US companies, and there are only 30 of them. Some would complain that this means the Dow is not a very diverse index. To satisfy such people, there are other indexes.
How has the Dow performed? We'll look at the value of the DOW for the last 100 years, and for the last 5 years.
As you can see above, over the last 70 years the Dow has done quite well. There was a rather striking "adjustment" starting in 1929, with the Dow bottoming out in 1932 and not fully regaining its previous high until 1955. However, as you can see neglecting minor "blips" the Dow has been on an upward trend pretty much non-stop since 1932. It's also true that the Dow did very well from 1950 to 1965, was more or less flat from 1965 to 1980, did very well again from 1980 to 2000, and has been more or less flat since 2000. Of course, if you go see a broker they will tell you how their funds performed from 1990 to today, which includes the big stock run up of the 90s. They are less likely to tell you how they did from 1999 to 2001, as it's a near certainty they lost value during this period just like everyone else. A broker will naturally chose a time period that makes him look good.
In the five year chart, we see that 'more or less flat' includes a dip where the Dow lost about 1/3 of its value. If you had gotten nervous and sold your stocks in September of 2002, you would have been doing yourself a huge disservice and someone else a big favor. On the other hand, if you had been prescient enough to sell in May '01, bought everything back in September '01, sold again in March '02, bought it back in September '02, and then held until January '04, you would have nearly tripled your money in three years, a return of about 40% per year. But no one is this good, don't even think about it.
These charts show you two important things: if you put a bunch of money in a diversified set of stocks and let it sit for 25 years, you will do quite well. If you put a bunch of money in a diversified set of stocks and take it out a couple years later, you could make money, break even, or lose your shirt, depending on which particular couple of years you happen to pick.
The Standard and Poor's 500 index is made up of the 500 largest companies in the US. Because the S&P 500 tracks 500 companies instead of 30 companies, it is called a broader index, and is thought to better represent the US economy as a whole.
There are three major, separate stock markets in the US - the New York Stock Exchange, the American Stock Exchange, and the NASDAQ 'over the counter' stock exchange. Companies listed in the NASDAQ exchange tend to be smaller or newer companies, and include Microsoft. The NASDAQ index tracks the price of 3000 companies listed on the NASDAQ exchange.
There are many other indexes of the US stock market. The must popular are the S&P 400 mid sized companies, the S&P 600 small companies, the Russell 2000 small company index, the Russell 3000 index that covers 98% of all the money in the stock market, and the Wilshire 5000, which actually covers all 9,000 plus stocks that are sold.
There are at least 39 other major stock markets that are not in the US. These include the London Stock Exchange (FTSE 100), the Japanese Stock Exchange (NIKKEI 225) and the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (Hang Seng). In the 1900s it was perhaps reasonable to focus on the US stock exchange, but in the 2000s many of the world's fastest growing companies are not in the US.


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Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
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BeschreibungThe fantastical novels of Haruki Murakami have earned him a dedicated international fan-base and recurring success in the bestseller charts. In Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, Murakami's brilliant imagination seizes on the world's most ingenious and complex invention: the human mind. Two contrasting worlds are envisaged. In 'Hard-boiled Wonderland' a 'shuffler' is at work in Tokyo, where the minds of the people have become servant to the requirements of the governmental 'system'. In the surreal realm of the 'End of the World' a 'dreamreader', sifts through memories, scattering them to oblivion. Gradually the alternate universes of the 'shuffler' and the 'dreamreader' are interwoven and Murakami's ingenious conception of the mind becomes clear. A feast for the imagination - Murakami's novel amazes, amuses and delights.
PressestimmenImmersing yourself in a Murakami novel is like entering into an Escher picture, an unsettling world of the mind where urban Japan, contemporary America and a nebulous 'wonderland' coexist; where oddly rootless characters seem real but anonymous, Two narratives intertwine: in one, a student newly arrived In a strange town is set to read the dreams locked In library skulls; in the other, a scientist is employed to keep invisible, information-stealing creatures at bay, The American narration with its Japanese words exactly captures the mood. - Rachel Redford, The Observer Murakami's demanding 1991 novel, newly available on audio, features two parallel narratives reflecting on such issues as death, paranoia, information, freedom, and choice. In the first, read by Adam Sims (After the Quake), an unnamed protagonist becomes involved with an unusually helpful reference librarian, an eccentric scientist, two dangerous thugs, and even more deadly creatures living beneath Tokyo. In the second narrative, read by actor Ian Porter, a separate protagonist finds himself in a walled town and reading the dreams of others with the aid of another librarian. The narratives are told in alternating chapters and gradually intersect. Sims masterfully conveys his hero's bewilderment at the odd circumstances of his life, while Porter is more sombre in his performance, employing a different kind of tentativeness to convey his character's uneasy adjustment to a strange new world. This unique blend of noir, sf, and fable owes a considerable debt to Jorge Luis Borges. Fans of Murakami and offbeat literary fiction will find much to like here, as will, naturally, librarians. - Michael Adams, Library Journal Murakami's two stories - which alternate, chapter by chapter - are told by two narrators, who split duties here. Ian Porter is the baritone, thoughtful and deliberative; Adam Sims is lighter spirited, flightier, and more amused by the bizarre comedy of Murakami's puzzle box. Both readers are well chosen, expertly picking their way across the minefield of this intoxicating, perplexing story. And their balancing act mimics the book's alternation of tones, styles, and stories. The recording is studded by occasional studio sound effects that are hardly necessary, but do manage to cleverly amplify the woozy, trippy disorientation of the tale. - Publishers Weekly
Untertitel: 'Contemporary Fiction'. Sprache: Englisch.
Verlag: Naxos AudioBooks
Erscheinungsdatum: April 2010
Seitenanzahl: 11 Seiten

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When I was at BYU I worked at the Mechanical shop. Lest you’re like me and think the mechanical shop means I worked on cars, let me correct you. The mechanical shop was the term for the HVAC department. I fixed, installed, and worked on the heating and cooling units in the buildings on campus.
Because of that I was in the most random parts of the most random buildings. Nothing was off limits – from the most gaurded chemistry labs to the highest administrators offices – I saw it all.
One building I went to was this random ware house. We had to fix some duct work in the ceiling. I don’t even remember where this building was – it wasn’t part of the main campus. And it was a top secret building – you had to have permission – like high level permission – and a temple recommend – to even enter it.
After we were done with our work, my boss (not a student, but a career-level middle-older gentleman whose name I can’t even remember now), told me he’d show me what was going on in the building below the rafters.
So we went downstairs to the floor of the warehouse – where panel after panel was set up. The most esteemed BYU professors/artists were working on the murals for the Nauvoo temple that was being built at the time.
My boss introduced me as “artsy” and one of the artist’s stopped and took me on a tour, showing me the beautiful paintings that would soon paper the walls of the historically significant Nauvoo temple.
“You know, if you want, you could come and help us with these paintings. You can work on them with us” the artist invited.
Um, I don’t have a car, and I’m really busy,
and um . . . I don’t think it would really work.
And so I never returned to that secret warehouse. I never saw those murals again until they were installed and Wyatt drove across the country to attend the dedication of that temple.
I told Wyatt that story last week after the Provo open house.
“What?!” he almost yelled at me. He was absolutely incredulous that I passed up the opportunity to have my brush strokes on a painting in the Nauvoo temple. “You may not have done much, but you could have at least painted a leaf. And then you could say – see that leaf? That leaf, right there. I painted that!”
Instead, all I have is this LAME tale-for-tuesday to share with you.
I was telling this story to my real-artist-friend, Brittany Scott and she told me she had the exact same experience – she was invited as a student by one of the professors to work on the murals for the Sacramento temple. But she felt so intimidated and overwhelmed by the prospect that she too, passed it up. And now she feels that regret as well. See, I’m not the only one. And if she, who actually took art classes, and grew up to be this amazing artist, felt overwhelmed by it, then maybe I’m not so far off center after all. 😉

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Students will be encouraged to borrow from high-street banks to cover their tuition fees, under proposals considered by the government as a way out of the funding crisis facing higher education.
With more universities than expected charging the maximum of £9,000 a year for tuition, universities minister David Willetts is seeking a way to reduce the liabilities of the government-backed Student Loans Company by turning to the UK's major banks to provide loans at preferable rates.
Universities UK, which represents universities, has been consulted. Its president, Sir Steve Smith, who is vice-chancellor of Exeter University, said the proposal to allow banks to exploit the student market carried huge risks and could create a two-tier education system.
He said the Department for Business Innovation and Skills had proposed that students taking private loans would be counted outside the allotment of places each university is given by the government, making them attractive to colleges aiming to increase their cash flow.
Smith said the consequent risk of a two-tier higher education system had "nasty" implications. "They [the government] have talked to us about that, but the trouble is that it has the obvious objection that it looks awfully like those people buying their way in."
Smith, who said be had been in talks with several banks over the issue, added: "The trouble is that it is really difficult to come up with a system that doesn't make it really difficult for people who attend less high-ranking institutions where the students don't earn the money [to repay the loans]."
The Observer understands that Willetts held talks with Spanish bank Santander last month over private student loans, an issue which threatens to embarrass the minister as he prepares to unveil his delayed white paper on the future of higher education.
Last month Willetts was forced to defend himself from accusations that he was favouring the rich when he suggested that students who missed out on a place at the university of their choice after 2012 would still be able to attend the course if they paid up front.
Banks are keen to recruit students as clients because they tend to stay loyal as they become more wealthy. A spokesman for Santander, Carlos Leira, said the bank was "very keen" on developing its discussions with the government. He said: "You are absolutely right that Santander has been in talks with David Willetts because we are very keen on developing sensible banking for students.
"There is nothing set in stone yet, we are looking at different possibilities. We do have a loan at the moment for MBA students, but that is a tiny bit of what we want to do."
Smith said banks would only become involved if either the government or, more likely, the universities accepted liability for unpaid loans.
He added: "Banks are interested only if the university takes the risk, the government takes the risk, or they do it only for a select few institutions. So you can imagine 10 institutions where the returns could be high, they could do a really good deal for our students."
The government has an estimated £1bn black hole in its finances following the decision by most universities to charge the maximum tuition fees.
Shadow universities minister Gareth Thomas said the latest policy proposal was born out of desperation. "It's now even clearer that the huge hole in the government's higher education budget is driving policy on universities, as ministers look at ever more madcap plans to plug their funding gap," he said.
"I am all for more private finance in public services, but the banks deciding who gets a student loan or not is a recipe for a two-tier university system, helping a few lucky ones while leaving the majority to fend for themselves and quite clearly it hasn't been thought through."
More controversial proposals will be aired next week. At present, universities are restricted to a quota of undergraduates in each intake and fined if they go beyond this. The government is expected to allow them to exceed quotas if they recruit the additional numbers from students who achieve grades AAB or higher at A-level in response to the outcry over high-attaining A-level pupils failing to get a place at their favoured university.

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São Paulo state IT workers union SindPD has called for its members to strike beginning Monday (Mar 28) as the employers union Seprosp has rejected a proposal from Brazilian work ministry MPT, which had stepped in as mediator, according to a release from SindPD.
The workers union had accepted an MPT request to put the strike off until the ministry could attempt to reach a compromise between the two parties.
SindPD also accepted the MPT recommendation for a linear increase in salaries of 8.6%, a food subsidy of 12 reais (US$7.20) a day for an eight-hour day (and an extra 6 reais for overtime work), implementation of a profit sharing plan and salary floors for IT analysts and programmers.
Seprosp countered with an offer of a 7.5% raise and an 8-real food subsidy only for companies with over 200 employees. It refused to accept a mandatory profit sharing plan or salary floors.
"The employers union has made it clear that it doesn't respect the worker, that it wants to exploit us to the maximum in order to increase production and profits. Companies in the sector had stratospheric profits [last year] and the outlook for this year is positive," said SindPD president Antonio Neto. "Because of that, in response to their intransigence and lack of respect, we're going to strike."
Since no agreement was reached, SindPD said it has returned to its original demands - an 11.9% increase in salaries, implementation of a profit sharing plan and a food subsidy of 15 reais a day.


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Canadian hip-hop artist Drake, whose debut album “Thank Me Later” last year debuted at No. 1 and produced the hits “Over,” "Miss Me” featuring Lil Wayne) and Fancy" (featuring Swizz Beatz and T.I.), will play Stroudsburg’s Sherman Theater on May 27, the venue just announced.
Tickets to the show are $50 for general admission. They are on sale to theater members now and go on sale to the public at noon April 1 at www.ShermanTheater.com or by visiting the Sherman box office at 524 Main St., Stroudsburg during normal business hours.
“Thank Me Later” was released a year after Drake first topped the charts with a single, “The Best I Ever had,” which since has gone platinum, then had two more high-charting R&B and rap singles, "Successful" (featuring Trey Songz and Lil Wayne) and "Forever" (feat. Kanye West, Lil Wayne and Eminem).
The album produced the hits “Miss Me” (featuring Lil Wayne),” which went to No. 2 on the rap charts and became a cross-over Top 15 hit, and “Fancy” (featuring Swizz Beatz and T.I.), which topped the rap chart. The album has since gone platinum.
He also was featured on Rhianna's chart-topping single "What's My Name?"
Drake was nominated for the 2010 Grammy Award for Best New Artist, but lost to Esperanza Spalding. He also was nominated for Best Rap Album, Best rap Solo Performance for “Over” and Best Rap Performance By A Duo Or Group for “Fancy.”
He has a new disc, "Take Care," due out in September.
The show is the second big announcement of a hip-hop artist in two weeks. Earlier this month, the venue announced it has scheduled pop hip/hopper Mike Posner, who had a Top 10 song this summer with “Cooler Than Me,” for an April 7 show.
For more information, got to www.shermantheater.com.
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JOHN J. MOSER has been around long enough to have seen the original Ramones in a small club in New Jersey, U2 from the fourth row of a theater and Bob Dylan's born-again tours. But he also has the number for All-American Rejects' Nick Wheeler on his cell phone, wrote the first story ever done on Jack's Mannequin and hung out in Wiz Khalifa's hotel room.
JODI DUCKETT: As The Morning Call's assistant features editor responsible for entertainment, she spends a lot of time surveying the music landscape and sizing up the Valley's festivals and club scene. She's no expert, but enjoys it all — especially artists who resonated in her younger years, such as Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, Tracy Chapman, Santana and Joni Mitchell.
KATHY LAUER-WILLIAMS enjoys all types of music, from roots rock and folk to classical and opera. Music has been a constant backdrop to her life since she first sat on the steps listening to her mother’s Broadway LPs when she was 2. Since becoming a mother herself, she has become well-versed on the growing genre of kindie rock and, with her son in tow, can boast she has seen a majority of the current kid’s performers from Dan Zanes to They Might Be Giants.
STEPHANIE SIGAFOOS: A Jersey native raised in Northeast PA, she was reared in a house littered with 8-tracks, 45s and cassette tapes of The Beatles, Elvis, Meatloaf and Billy Joel. She also grew up on the sounds of Reba McEntire, Garth Brooks and Tim McGraw and can be found traversing the countryside in search of the sounds of a steel guitar. A fan of today's 'new country,' she digs mainstream/country-pop crossovers like Lady Antebellum and Sugarland and other artists that illustrate the genre's diversity.


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VANCOUVER — The B.C. government’s decision to continue with the Site C dam is the wrong direction for jobs, the environment and First Nations’ rights and title, the David Suzuki Foundation says.
“The Site C dam is not the best climate change solution and will produce more carbon pollution than renewable energy alternatives,” said Foundation Western Canada director-general Jay Ritchlin. Site C had more significant negative environmental effects than any other project ever approved under the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act. “The Peace region has the province’s best wind resources, and we’re wasting the opportunity to expand the wind-energy industry,” Ritchlin said.
The Foundation has long argued that the megadam betrays Canada’s commitment under the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. “We were looking for recognition from the province for its support of the UN declaration, but moving ahead fails the West Moberly and Prophet River First Nations, which did not consent to the development,” Ritchlin said. The land of Treaty 8 nations and farmers will be flooded by the dam.
“This is a lost opportunity for B.C. to create long-term sustainable renewable energy jobs that position the province as a leader in the energy economy,” Ritchlin said. “Focusing on renewables like wind energy and geothermal is the most cost-effective approach and best serves B.C. citizens, but sadly, we’re stuck with an expensive megaproject instead.”
Research from UBC opposes the decision and shows that renewable energy alternatives, remediation activities and energy efficiency programs outperform Site C employment numbers. Over the project’s life, renewable energy options would have created far more jobs. The BC Utilities Commission analyzed renewable energy options and found they would create 22 to 50 per cent more employment through to 2030. “Not only do we miss the opportunity to grow renewable energy jobs that reduce carbon emissions, but we destroy ecosystems, farmland and a First Nation’s treaty-protected way of life,” Ritchlin said.
Two years of remediation and 10 years of monitoring were expected to create nearly 10,000 jobs. Spending on conservation programs alone would have created 30 jobs for every $1 million spent, making it the most effective way to create employment.
Continuing with the project is bad news for ecosystems and farmland. Foundation research estimates ecosystem services from nature in the Peace watershed are conservatively worth $7.9 billion to $8.6 billion a year.
“The Site C dam should never have been approved in the first place. Now we’re throwing more money at bad public policy. British Columbians would have been better off without this megaproject,” Ritchlin said.
For more information or to arrange an interview, please contact:
Theresa Beer, David Suzuki Foundation, 778-874-3396, firstname.lastname@example.org


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Keith's pull up bar
Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2007 1:17 pm
Here are some pics of my homemade pull up bar, if anyone is interested. The whole thing cost me around 15 bucks and took about 20 minutes to assemble and adjust.
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Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, after causing controversy with bitterly anti-Semitic remarks at a July rally in Washington, has deeply divided black and Jewish leaders here with his plans for a major speech Saturday.
After several meetings described as friendly but emotional, including some with Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley, Jewish leaders say they have failed to persuade black leaders to join them in denouncing Farrakhan before his appearance at what they expect to be a full house of 18,000 at The Forum.
"I am dismayed," said Rabbi Marvin Hier, dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center here, which documents and searches for Nazi war criminals. "I can't understand any reluctance, black or white, to respond to someone like Louis Farrakhan. He has shown the world that he is an international ambassador of hate."
The Los Angeles area has the second largest Jewish community in the country, estimated at 600,000 of its 8 million residents. Jews and the city's 1 million blacks have cooperated closely in electing Democrats such as Bradley to office. But there have been tensions between the two groups, and those tensions are being exacerbated by Farrakhan's appearance.
Irv Rubin, national chairman of the Jewish Defense League, said he will announce a series of demonstrations against Farrakhan and the Forum event at a news conference Wednesday outside the Beverly Hills home of Jerry Buss, owner of The Forum, the Los Angeles Lakers and the Los Angeles Kings.
"The black leadership is scared stiff by Farrakhan's popularity and his power," Rubin said.
Hier said a long Monday meeting, chaired by Los Angeles Urban League President John Mack, included several prominent black and Jewish leaders and failed to resolve their tactical disagreement. He said black leaders indicated that they could not comment before they heard Farrakhan speak and felt that any pre-speech publicity would only swell Farrakhan's audience.
Mack and other black leaders who attended the meeting could not be reached for comment.
Willis Edwards, president of the Beverly Hills-Hollywood NAACP, did not attend and said, "I prefer not to comment . . . because I don't know what [Farrakhan] is going to speak about . . . . I think leaders get too excited about what she said or he said. Jewish leaders have a right to say what they want to say. Minister Farrakhan has the right to say what he wants to say."
A full-page advertisement denouncing Farrakhan and signed by several religious and political leaders is scheduled to appear in Friday's Los Angeles Times.
Bradley spokeswoman Ali Webb said the mayor will have no statement until Saturday morning. "He is pursuing a separate strategy," she said.
Repeating techniques that drew nearly 10,000 people to his July 22 speech at the Washington Convention Center, Farrakhan supporters, including a new local group called Friends for the Benefit of Economic Unity (FBEU), have spread leaflets throughout black neighborhoods here announcing the Saturday speech.
The FBEU also has announced a Friday night fund-raiser hosted by former football star Jim Brown to honor several black community leaders. Two announced honorees, singer Stevie Wonder and state assembly member Maxine Waters, have said they will not attend.
FBEU secretary Linda Evans said the Nation of Islam was a sponsor of the group, which she said raises money "to set up job training and job banks for minorities and poor people." She said black leaders who have agreed to attend the fund-raiser include Compton Mayor Walter Tucker, Inglewood City Council member Danny Tabor, and Thomas Kilgore, a Baptist minister close to Bradley.
Jewish leaders here have listened to a tape of the Washington speech and say it reveals Farrakhan as an electrifying speaker who is likely to draw large audiences even if black leaders ignore him. In the speech he said, "I'm not backing down from the Jews because I know their wickedness. I'm not separating just Zionists out, because the Zionists are the outgrowth of Jewish transgression."
Washington Mayor Marion Barry on Monday told city religious leaders that Farrakhan's "anti-Semitic impeachments . . . . didn't help our city at all." Barry spoke out after Jewish leaders implored him to respond. He said he did not speak out earlier because "I don't like to create a situation . . . . I don't think we ought to react to everyone."


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PLANNING COMMISSION HEARING ~ WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2020 AT 5:30 P.M.
Hood River Armory Building ~ 1590 12th Street, Hood River, OR
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The Hood River County Planning Commission will consider an appeal filed by Thrive Hood River of the County Planning Director's decision to grant a fifth I-year extension of an approved commercial land use permit involving an outdoor concert venue and commercial event site located at the former Dee Mill site.


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Persuade DC Comics to continue the John Constantine: Hellblazer series
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John Constantine has always been one of the anchor characters in the Vertigo-line of comics for many many years. After the original Hellblazer comic book title ended with issue 300 in 2013, many reiterations of the character had been featured in other more mainstream comic titles, but it lacked the thought-provoking and sophisticated storytelling that the original comic book series had.
When DC Comics re-launched a new John Constantine: Hellblazer ongoing series in 2019 under the Sandman Universe/Black Label imprint, it brought back the original essence of the character from the 1988 series to the modern world, much to the approval and adoration of fans. The ongoing series was and still is the most well-received comic book in the market, with an average rating of 9.3.
Recently, DC Comics announced that they have decided to discontinue the new ongoing series after issue 12 due to the lack of sales, which is extremely disappointing, as John Constantine remains the clear favourite among all the comic books published under the Sandman Universe/Black Label imprint.
I would like DC Comics to re-think their decision and continue to publish the John Constantine: Hellblazer series.
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Coulda Been Country: The Allman Brothers Dickey Betts' Great Southern Songs
The Allman Brothers band receives attention for its southern rock tendencies, but its secret weapon was, for a time, the country inflections brought forth by guitarist Dickey Betts.
Allman Brothers Band: After The CrashDistributor: Sexy Intellectual
Cast: Duane Allman, Dickey Betts, Gregg Allman
US Release Date: 2016-02-16
UK Release Date: 2016-02-16
A recent unauthorized documentary about the Allman Brothers Band lays out a point that many of us have considered but maybe few of us have said out loud: For a moment in time, the Macon, Georgia collective had in its ranks one of the greatest country songwriters in America. His rural tendencies and compositional genius were instrumental in the band’s ability to survive its darkest hours.
But one member would step forward with the classics that would momentarily propel the band into the future. If that future wasn’t as bright as some of the music would imply, it hardly mattered. For a moment in time, Dickey Betts saved the Allmans. During the early albums his country-inflected leads would serve as a perfect foil to Duane’s swampy, soul-slathered lines. His writing would prove some of the most diverse within the band and provide the group with some of its most commercially successful material.
Betts’ “Les Brers in A Minor” can be seen as a perfect amalgamation of the early Allman’s aesthetic. Its chordal structure, melody and timbre recall the intersection of jazz and classical music heard in John Coltrane’s rendering of pieces such as “Greensleeves”. It’s evidence of a writer with knowledge of classical motifs, with greater compositional acumen than many of his contemporaries. The juxtaposition of these ideas alongside the “low” nature of the music appearing in a rock setting makes the tune all the more a triumph.
That something so tidily structured arrives on an album that stretches the boundaries of eclecticism is yet another twist in the long saga of the Allman Brothers Band. Released in early 1972, the album Eat a Peach features live performances culled from dates at the Fillmore East a year earlier that spotlight the group’s jazzier proclivities. There are blues covers soaked in Gregg-style grit and surprises such as Dickey Betts’ gorgeous “Blue Sky”. A rare expression of unbridled joy within the Allman’s oeuvre, the song is one of the last to feature Duane on guitar. Betts sells the song, written for his then-wife, with an innocence in his voice and a melody that lifts skyward in all the right places.


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David Crosby's new solo album, his first such release in two decades, is called Croz.
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January 26, 2014 A prolific collaborator, Crosby says a good song is better off shared than strategically set aside. His new solo studio album, Croz, is his first such release in two decades.
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December 19, 2006 On David Crosby's "Song with No Words (Tree with No Leaves)," a piano gently rumbles, while vocal harmonies, stacked atop each other for maximum choir effect, melt over the instruments. The result is part choral music, part stoner rock; it's easy to imagine the joint being passed from one musician to the next.
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AdaSky has developed a thermal imaging camera it says could improve the accuracy of autonomous driving system at a cost that is affordable.
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The Tesla Autopilot program has yet another new leader — its fourth in a little more than 7 months. Working for Elon Musk may pay well, but it is no bed of roses.
A tiny AI bot embedded in a scarf worn by Elon Musk has wormed its way into Trump’s brain.
Elon Musk told the World Government Summit in Dubai this week that humans will need to develop new ways to interface with computers in order to remain relevant in the future.
The Toyota Concept-i, first displayed at CES 2017, is a look at what Toyota engineers think a self driving car with artificial intelligence may look like in 2030. Check out the video for more.
Honda will bring a new connected urban mobility transport concept called NeuV to the CES 2017 show. The NeuV has an artificial intelligence “emotion engine” that will help drivers and passengers to form a deeper emotional bond with their transportation device.
Nvidia has been providing graphic interface computers to Tesla Motors since the first Model S rolled off the assembly line in 2012. It was Nvidia that made the enormous 17″ touchscreen in the Model S possible. Now it is continuing its relationship with Tesla by supplying what it calls “a supercomputer in a box” to […]
Starting in early 2017, Japanese customers can buy Kirobo Mini, a 4″ robot with artificial intelligence that can keep drivers company and offer advice while they drive. The robot cost $390.
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Promobot, an artificial intelligence device capable of machine learning, wandered beyond its boundaries into a nearby roadway. Hundreds of selfies resulted.
The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation has nominated Elon Musk for its Luddite of the Year Award because of his stance against unconstrained artificial intelligence research.
Formula E will add a new feature as early as next year — robotic racing. Take the drivers out of the cars and replace them with artificial intelligence.
Motobot is a robot that rides motorcycles. Created by Yamaha, it is capable of learning using artificial intelligence to master any production motorcycle.
The Nissan IDS concept features artificial intelligence technology and autonomous driving systems built into an electric car with 250 miles of range.
When the Google autonomous car made headlines around the globe a few months ago, everyone started thinking about a brave new automotive world. A world in which our cars drive themselves, eliminating traffic accidents and freeing us to practice yoga or think great thoughts during our morning commute. For proponents of autonomous cars, the future was […]


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YouTube obliged not to host content that violates Indian laws: HC
YouTube is obliged not to host any content that violates Indian laws, the Delhi high court has said.india Updated: Aug 14, 2016 18:55 IST
YouTube is obliged not to host any content that violates Indian laws, the Delhi high court has said.
“There could be complaints regarding some material on the website of YouTube which by their very nature require it to act immediately,” the HC said.
The ruling came on Tata Sky’s plea for removal of videos from YouTube on how to crack the encryption of set top boxes.
“In terms of Rule 3(1)(e) of the Information Technology Intermediaries Guidelines, YouTube is obliged not to host content that violates any law for the time being in force,” Justice Muralidhar said.
In cases that require immediate action, the online portal should not insist upon the complainant to demonstrate that the complaint falls in the categories identified by it for taking action, he added.
In an interim order, the HC had on August 27 directed the video-sharing website to remove the content objected to by Tata Sky.
YouTube had on Wednesday told the HC that it had complied with the order and removed the URLs of the said objectionable videos. Had Tata Sky not been unclear about the kind of violation that took place, YouTube may have acted even more promptly to remove the offending content, it claimed.
Tata Sky had contended that the website was legally obliged to act with promptitude once it was clear that the videos were illegal.
The HC said YouTube’s review team appeared to have “got into a bind about correctly categorising” the complaint “instead of actually taking a call on whether the nature of the content required taking down”.
The court said: “If it (YouTube) had focused on the latter aspect, the need for Tata Sky to have approached this court for relief could have been avoided”.
Since YouTube had already removed the offending URLs and said it would act promptly on such complaints in the future, the court disposed of Tata Sky’s petition.


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Whether it is the opening line, the first paragraph or the first few pages, the beginning of a story must draw a reader in, entice her or him to read on, to sink deep into the world the writer has created. Each of the following books opens in different way be it philosophical musing, lyrical … Continue reading Openings
Londoners are crowding into the streets, celebrating, watching the river procession as Elizabeth Tudor makes her way by barge to the Tower of London in preparation for her coronation. Meanwhile, in the backstreets of Southwark, a kindhearted prostitute with pale skin and red hair is brutally murdered. Nineteen-year-old Kate Haywood is the daughter of a … Continue reading Book Review – Murder at Westminster Abbey by Amanda Carmack
1549. Edward VI, the eleven-year-old son of Henry VIII has been on the throne two years. The country is effectively run by the Lord Protector, Edward Somerset. The preceding decade has seen war with Scotland, inflation, unemployment, rising rents and declining wages. A sense of grievance is swelling among the common people against the imposition … Continue reading Book Review – Tombland by C.J. Sansom
Set in the fictional village of Oakham, Somerset, The Western Wind starts on Shrove Tuesday 1491. This is Day 4 of the story as this novel is told backwards over four days from Shrove Tuesday to the previous Saturday. It is the first person narrative of the parish priest, John Reve, a gentle and compassionate man … Continue reading Book Review – The Western Wind by Samantha Harvey
The Innocents is set in the American West in 1868. 'The Innocents' are Nat Quinn and Jake Conroy, a nephew and uncle team, who rob only banks and railways and are courteous to the ordinary people they may discommode during the course of a robbery. Abigail McKay, a Scottish woman, has spent weeks travelling by … Continue reading Book Review – The Innocents by C A Asbrey
A year ago today I published Forsaking All Other, an Elizabethan love story set against the war in the Netherlands abroad and Catholic plots at home. Forsaking All Other has been almost continuously in the top 50 bestsellers in Amazon’s Tudor Historical Romance Category for the last eight months – and for a brief shining … Continue reading It’s My Book’s Birthday!
The Heir’s Tale is the first book in the series, The Soldiers of Fortune, tracing the fortunes of the sons of the Earl of Somerton following the Battle of Poitiers. In 1357, Ancelin Montfort, the Earl’s second son, returns home bringing with him the news of his elder brother John’s death in that battle. Ancelin … Continue reading Book Review – The Heir’s Tale by April Munday
Call of the Curlew begins on 30 December 2015. 86-year-old Virginia Wrathmell has known for years that one New Year’s Eve she will walk onto the marsh and meet her end there. She has been waiting for a sign. The sign has now appeared on her doorstep in the form of a fragile curlew’s skull. … Continue reading Book Review – Call of the Curlew by Elizabeth Brooks
The Lady of the Tower imagines the life of Lucy St John, a descendant of Margaret Beauchamp (maternal grandmother of Henry VII), from 1603 as she emerges from girlhood to 1630 when she was wife of the Keeper of the Tower of London. With the death of Lucy’s mother five years earlier, the family has been … Continue reading Book Review – The Lady of the Tower by Elizabeth St John
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NJ Spotlight TV presents highlights of Gov. Chris Christie's budget address, as well as the responses of several Democratic lawmakers, including Assemblyman Louis Greenwald (D-Camden), majority leader, Assembly Speaker Sheila Oliver (D-Essex), and Sen. Barbara Buono (D-Middlesex), the Democratic gubernatorial candidate.
Casino tax revenues are predicted to almost double in Gov. Chris Christie’s FY2014 budget, growing from $235.4 million to $435.8 million -- which would make it the highest year for casino tax receipts since before 2008.
How can Christie make such an optimistic claim? Internet gaming. On Tuesday, Christie signed a revised version of an Internet gambling bill that would allow Atlantic City casinos to operate online games in restricted areas. Revenues from online gambling would be taxed like other casino revenues.
The Christie administration is estimating that the state will garner about $180 million in new tax revenue from online gambling. It is also touting new marketing efforts by Atlantic City to turn around the fortunes of the beleaguered gambling resort. Casino revenues have steadily declined in the past five years due to increased competition.» Click here for the full post
Carmen Barbosa says she has felt invisible since coming to the United States about eight years ago.
Speaking through an interpreter, the diminutive Costa Rican immigrant explained that she lacked identification, which has made it difficult to interact with the larger community.
“Everywhere you go you need an ID,” she said on a recent Saturday afternoon in the offices of the» Click here for the full post
Perhaps New Jersey is getting it right after all, in its efforts to nurture an offshore wind industry along its coast.
Aby the Natural Resources Defense Council suggests that the state’s proposal to finance offshore wind by offering developers Offshore Renewable Energy Certificates (ORECs) for the electricity their turbines produce ought to be copied by other states along the Eastern Seaboard.
The findings may bolster the state's efforts to promote offshore wind when it is struggling to get developers, electric utilities, and power suppliers to line up behind the latest version of a funding mechanism to jumpstart its efforts. The plan, developed by a state-retained consultant, won afrom various stakeholders last week in a meeting with state regulators. » Click here for the full post
Nearly 60 districts will be eligible for federal recovery grants to help cover the costs of damage inflicted by Hurricane Sandy, the state said yesterday.
The state Department of Education released athat will be eligible to apply for $1.25 million in grants from the U.S. Department of Education’s Project School Emergency Response to Violence (SERV) program, a program created almost a decade ago to address school safety.
The funds can be applied to a variety of short- and long-term costs, from overtime and substitutes to emergency transportation, the announcement said. The districts have until March 21 to apply.» Click here for the full post
Rutgers University -- long a center for research into childhood autism -- could also become a leader in studying the challenges faced by autistic adults.
Two families with children with autism are endowing a faculty position at the New Jersey school that will be dedicated to academic research on adult autism and to training people who will provide services to these adults.
Stanley Messer, dean of the Rutgers Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology, said the new chair will dovetail with ongoing state efforts to treat children with autism with applied behavior analysis -- an intensive approach to modifying behavior – and to help families of adults with autism once they no longer attend school.» Click here for the full post
On the eve of Gov. Chris Christie’s budget address, a far smaller crowd than the one expected in the Statehouse today came to Newark last night to hear two key figures involved in the landmark Abbott v. Burke rulings on equitable school funding.
Speaking to about 20 people gathered at Rutgers Law School were Paul Tractenberg, founding director of the Newark-based Education Law Center, which has led the school-funding litigation for more than 40 years, and former state Supreme Court Chief Justice Deborah Poritz, who served 10 years on the state’s top court and wrote two of the Abbott case’s 21 opinions to date.» Click here for the full post
Verizon invested $627 million in New Jersey's wireline and IT infrastructure last year, according to the telecommunications giant, which said that will ensure the state stays in front when it comes to state-of-the-art communications for consumers and businesses.
Verizon recently sent out press releases hailing its investments in a variety of states, and New Jersey appears to be at the forefront. The telco company says it has invested $525 million in Pennsylvania; $600 million in Maryland and Washington D.C., combined; $347 million in Florida; $1.5 billion in New York and Connecticut combined; $752 million in Virginia; and $105 million in Delaware.» Click here for the full post


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Driven by fears of the rapidly-spreading Corona-virus, Italians in the Lombardy region have begun stockpiling food and basic necessities, leaving shops in a post-apocalyptic-looking state.
Supermarket shelves were stripped in mere hours as stocks ran low and queues lengthened, as evidenced by eyewitness footage from Milan.
Some wistfully joked that it was almost pleasant to be living through what they dubbed a “Zombie Apocalypse.” Tourist attractions in Milan are closed for two weeks.
Schools and museums have been closed, events such as the Venice Carnival have been cancelled while Fashion designer Giorgio Armani reportedly held a closed-door event to conclude Milan Fashion Week on Sunday by streaming his latest collection from an empty theater.
Roughly a dozen northern Italian towns have been placed on lock-down as the total number of infected in Italy stands at over 150.
Later on Sunday, officials closed theaters, cinemas and other public places like pubs and clubs for at least seven days, the majority of which are located in the densely populated region around Milan.
The Corona-virus crisis in Italy has shocked Europeans, jumping from fewer than five known cases before Thursday to over 150 by the end of the weekend.
The Corona-virus has infected more than 78,000 worldwide and killed more than 2,400, many of whom died in China.
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This the way the elite will get rid off the small enterprises and the Chinese whom invest in them?
So the US banks derailed those small businesses and sucked $7 trillion out of them bankruptcies?


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Hop on these Midwestern trollies
for historic and entertaining city tours.
By Patsy Bell Hobson
|One of the best ways to get oriented in a new town or vacation spot is to take a trolley tour. These tours make the most of precious vacation time and give a relaxing and often entertaining overview of the town’s history and layout.
In Hannibal, Mo., Atchison and Fort Scott in Kansas, and Eureka Springs, Ark., the trolley depot is the best first stop in town.
Hannibal on wheels
Public transportation has always been part of Hannibal’s charm. First came horse-drawn streetcars, followed by the electric models. Today, Hannibal offers two great orientation choices: the trolley and a sightseeing train.
The Hannibal Trolley Company tours relate Hannibal’s history while offering a majestic view of the mighty Mississippi and glimpses of several historic attractions. Trolley drivers narrate the tour and spin a Mark Twain or Huck Finn yarn or two. Riders meet at the depot at 220 N. Main St. Trolley tickets are: $7.50 for adults, $7 for senior citizens and $4 for children 512. For additional information, call (573) 221-1161.
Twainland Express highlights the best of historic Hannibal. The trolley and the “train” (a tram made to look like a little train) have similar routes, though the train tour has a richer historical presentation. Expert guides combine colorful anecdotes, humorous stories, and well-researched historical facts to provide a fun and educational tour. Pick up the tour next to the Mark Twain Dinette (400 N. Third St.). Train tickets are $7.60 for adults, $7.35 for seniors and $5.40 for children 516. Family rates are available. Call 1-800-786-5193.
After one of these tours, see Mark Twain’s Boyhood Home (208 Hill St.); the home of his sweetheart Becky Thatcher (211 Hill St.); explore the Mark Twain Cave on state Highway 79; and count all the steps up to an inland lighthouse. Or enjoy coffee or ice cream treats in the park while the mighty Mississippi rolls by. Try Java Jive (211 N. Main St.) for coffee, cappuccino or an espresso. Becky’s Old Fashioned Ice Cream Parlor & Emporium (318 N. Main St.) serves old-fashioned sodas, malts and banana splits.
More substantial meals are served at Lula Belle’s restaurant (111 Bird St.), the old location of the town brothel during the early 1900s.
Atchison’s creepy crawly trolley
There’s no better way to experience the charms of Atchison than from the trolley. Hop aboard at the visitors’ center in the Santa Fe Depot (200 S. 10th St.) and enjoy a 45-minute tour narrated by a friendly, knowledgeable driver.
As the trolley travels along the city’s brick streets, passengers discover the city’s Victorian homes and dramatic views of the Missouri River. The trolley tours depart every hour. Tickets are $4 for adults and $2 for children 412 years. For hours or more details, call 1-800-234-1854.
After the trolley tour, stop by Nell Hill’s (501 Commercial) for home decor shopping. Have lunch at Marigold Bakery & Café (715 Commercial) and dine on gourmet soups, fresh sandwiches and just-baked pies. Ball Brothers’ Gift Shop (504 Commercial) offers unique gifts, plus an old-time soda fountain. Make early reservations and stay overnight in Atchison at St. Martin’s Bed & Breakfast (324 Santa Fe St.), then allow yourself to be treated like royalty.
Ride the “Creepy Crawly Trolley” ($8) in September and October to experience what has been called “the most haunted town in Kansas.” The week before Christmas, climb aboard the Trolley Tour of Lights ($5 for adults, $2 for children) and get into the spirit of the holiday season with a tour past the city’s festive Christmas lights and displays. Early reservations are required for the seasonal tours.
Sit back and relax as Dolly the Trolley rolls through Fort Scott’s Historic District. Trolley tours ($5 for adults, $3.50 for children 316) begin at the visitor center (231 E. Wall) where there are walking tour maps and brochures.
See the Fort Scott National Historic Site, which dates to the 1840s; the Fort Scott National Cemetery, one of the original designated by President Abraham Lincoln in 1862; many Victorian mansions; and the restored Victorian downtown that’s full of architecturally significant commercial buildings.
Join the costumed “ghost host” for the “Fort Scott: Believe it or Not” tours and ride through the community for a brief encounter with spooky legends and eerie folk tales. Reservations for the popular tour fill up fast. Tours will run Oct. 1731, MondaySaturday and are $5.
From Dec. 522, join an evening trolley tour of homes and neighborhoods lighted for the holiday season on the “Dolly HollyDay Tours.” Tickets are $5. Call 1-800-245-3678.
After you step off the trolley, stay for the evening in Fort Scott at the Lyons’ Victorian Mansion Bed & Breakfast and Spa (742 S. National). Be sure to make advance reservations at this romantic and popular hideaway.
Several tasty restaurants with good food and good service are right on Main Street, including El Charro’s Mexican Restaurant (22 S. Main) and Main Street Chop House (12 S. Main).
Eureka Springs: “carless” vacation
In the 1890s, Eureka Springs had an electric trolley system. Today, the latest version of mass transit in Eureka Springs is a new fleet of gasoline-powered, open-air trolleys.
There are 101 trolley stops located throughout town, so you are never very far from your destination. Trolleys stop about every 15 or 20 minutes at the front door or near every hotel, motel and bed-and-breakfast in Eureka Springs. All the restaurants and major attractions are near trolley stops. Trolleys and routes are matched up by using colored signs on the trolleys that correspond to color-coded routes.
There are two major ticket centers: the visitor information center (137-A West Van Buren) and the downtown depot (66 S. Main St.). Fares are $4 for adults and $1 for children 711 years.
Narrated tours of the downtown historic district are offered through Oct. 30 from the visitor center off state Highway 62 west on trams. Fares are $8.50 for adults, $4 for children 412.
Charming and convenient, trolley tours are an asset to a city and a welcome sign to any visitor.
Patsy Bell Hobson is a contributor from Liberty, Mo.
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Former Birmingham City midfielder Morgaro Gomis has returned to the UK permanently after being offered a deal by Scottish outfit Falkirk.
Gomis, who is now 33, is believed to have signed a one-year deal with the Bairns as they look for a return to the Scottish Championship.
The former Senegal international had spent the end of last season at Dundee United - his third spell at Tannadice - after stays in Malaysia and then Oman.
Gomis, who carries a rather eclectic CV, was signed by Chris Hughton during his only summer as Blues boss in 2011, as the club oversaw an extensive turnover in personnel following the club’s relegation from the Premier League.
He made 24 appearances under Hughton in his debut campaign, including Europa League matches, as he competed for a place with Keith Fahey, Wade Elliott and Guirane N’Daw.
In his second campaign, under Lee Clark, football was a little more sporadic for Gomis, and he was released the following summer.
As well as Dundee United, Gomis has played previously for Hearts and Cowdenbeath north of the border, while he started his career in the English non-league after leaving Montellier in France as a teenager.
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Local authorities will soon be able to increase council tax bills by up to 5.99% without consulting residents, the government has announced.
Currently, councils are required to hold a local referendum if they want to raise council tax rates by more than 1.99%. However, this cap will be increased from April 2018, meaning councils will be able to implement a 2.99% rise without holding a vote.
Councils can also implement a further 3% increase in council tax to fund the costs of social care, meaning some people could see their council tax bill rise by 5.99% in the 2018/19 tax year.
The Department for Communities and Local Government says increasing the cap will allow councils to raise more money to pay for public services while still protecting residents from large tax increases.
Communities secretary Sajid Javid says: “I am aware of the pressures facing councils and this is why I am giving them more flexibility, so they have greater control over the money they raise to address local needs.
“This strikes a balance between giving councils the ability to make decisions to meet pressures and ensure that our most vulnerable in society get the support they need while protecting residents against excessive council tax bill rises.”
However, the chairman of the Local Government Association, Lord Porter, has urged the government to scrap the cap altogether.
“Greater flexibility for local authorities in setting council tax levels will give some councils the option of raising extra money to offset some of the financial pressures they face next year,” he says.
“With no other national tax subject to referenda, the council tax referendum limit needs to be abolished so councils and their communities can decide how under-pressure local services are paid for, with residents able to democratically hold their council to account through the ballot box.”

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Brad Pitt tells Parade why he won't marry Angie, his fears for his family and his fave spot for sex.
In the chat Brad shares never-before-heard revelations into his relationship with Angelina Jolie (for the last time they are not married) and what he's like as a family man. In typical fashion he also gives just a little TMI on their favorite spot to have sex. The full interview comes out on Sunday and an advance version will go live on Parade's Web site this Friday. Meantime, we've got some of the highlights:
When someone asked me why Angie and I don't get married, I replied, 'Maybe we'll get married when it's legal for everyone else.' I believe everyone should have the same rights. They say gay marriage ruins families and hurts kids. Well, I've had the privilege of seeing my gay friends being parents and watching their kids grow up in a loving environment...Just the other night, I heard this TV reverend say that Angie and I were setting a bad example because we were living out of wedlock, and people should not be duped by us! It made me laugh.
His biggest concern is his family's wellbeing:
My real fear at this point is the safety and health of Angie and the kids. The fear of losing them is what keeps me up at night.
He feels fatherhood is an adventure that makes a man less selfish and more humble:
I took the path of not having kids—now it's time for family. Children are a dominant value in my life now, and they weren't before. They were always something I thought I'd get around to having when the time was right. It wasn't what I was really seeking. In a way, I think I had to go and exhaust me before I could be good at being a parent. This family is full of life! There are laughs, aggravations, irritations, but at the end of the day, it's fun. When life is really good, it's messy.
He regards his architecture hobby as being good for his sex life:
[The secret stone grotto behind my pool's waterfall] is a great place to have sex.
Check out Parade.com tomorrow for the complete interview.
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Bollywood veteran Sunny Deol, whose recent film “Gadar 2” received an overwhelming response from audiences, has spoken out about the rumors surrounding his fee demands. Reports in the past few weeks suggested that Sunny Deol was asking for a whopping ₹50 crore per film following the success of his latest release. In an interview with India TV, the actor clarified his stance on the matter and shed light on his approach to film fees.
When asked if he had indeed demanded ₹50 crore for a film, Sunny Deol emphasized that the ultimate decision regarding an actor’s fee rests with the producer. He stated, “Look, it’s the producer who will decide how much to pay depending on how much he earns.” The actor continued to explain that he prefers not to be a financial burden on producers and values working on projects where his presence enhances rather than strains the production.
Sunny Deol’s remarks come in response to the speculations that arose as “Gadar 2” garnered significant attention and success at the box office. The film, directed by Anil Sharma, marked a milestone by approaching the ₹500 crore mark in box office collections. Reports had suggested that despite the film’s impressive box office performance, it may not have turned a significant profit due to substantial investments in its production.
Director Anil Sharma had previously refuted these rumors, mentioning in an interview with Lehren Retro that Sunny Deol had made certain compromises regarding his fee for the film. Instead of demanding a substantial fee, the actor reportedly chose to reinvest that money into the film’s production, ensuring its overall quality and success.
“Gadar 2,” a sequel to the 2001 hit “Gadar Ek Prem Katha,” features Sunny Deol reprising his iconic role as Tara Singh. The film also stars Ameesha Patel and Utkarsh Sharma, who returned to their roles as Sakeena and Jeete, respectively. Set against the backdrop of the 1970s, “Gadar 2” explores the social and political tensions between India and Pakistan, adding depth to its compelling narrative.
Sunny Deol’s pragmatic approach to film fees reflects his commitment to creating successful and meaningful cinematic experiences while considering the financial aspects of filmmaking. His dedication to striking a balance between quality and budget is evident in his decisions as an actor and producer in the ever-evolving landscape of Indian cinema.
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Mayfair celebrating Chinese Lunar New Year on Feb. 16
Shoppers at Mayfair this weekend may find the place looking more festive than usual. To celebrate the end of winter and the arrival of Chinese New Year, the mall will host its second Chinese Lunar New Year celebration from 11 a.m. until 2 p.m. on Saturday.
Which explains the food samples, dancers and tai chi demonstrations.
The ShaoLin Center Lion Dance Team will perform the Chinese Lion Dance from 11 to 11:30 a.m., followed by a martial arts demonstration and cultural arts presentation. At 12:30 p.m., P.F. Chang's China Bistro will present the Terra Cotta Warriors of Xian and offer food samples and more until 2 p.m. See www.mayfairmall.com.
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MIGRANTS/CLANDESTINES: The Sea of Herod
curated by Marcella Guerrieri
Sunday, 18 October – h 4.30 pm / 5.00 pm
Fortezza da Basso, Spadolini Pavilion, Theatre Area
Images, numbers, stories.
Images of daily chronicles, of flees towards paths of hope along harsh and dangerous routes.Destinations that are unknown as are the days of travel on unsuitable and unsafe vehicles, used to reach hostile landing places with wagons, cages, walls, barbed wire, and boundaries, which treatises and conventions were supposed to eliminate and forever ban.
Images of ill-fated human beings who are trying to escape from impossible lives with no certainty for the present and no chance of survival for the future.
Their number continues to increase, day after day, hour after hour, thus feeding the endless progression of a counter of sorrow. One million refugees in Jordan, one million in Lebanon, two millions in Turkey. Turkey, a stage between the East an Europe, a continent whose cultural areas have shared roots yet different asylum policies. Openings and closures. Open and closed boundaries. Travel stories. A beginning and an end: the start of a journey, and the end of hope. There is no more hope for Aylan, his mother, his father, his “brothers and sisters”, and all the mothers and fathers of “little Aylans”, forever children lost in the Mediterranean, the Sea of Herod.
Ideally composed of five sections, this collective work gives shape to a visual dialogue in which the bare narration of the present virtually becomes poetry recited by the artists, whose “modulated voices” have unique “timbres”. As in Bertolt Brecht’s Refugee Dialogues the artists’ “speeches” bear witness to a
present that is becoming history. Indeed, they ignite a discussion about social issues and the destiny of the Western world, who is silent, inactive, confused, and lost between banality and dominant thought.
The result is an open, inclusive dialogue aimed at redesigning possible models for coexistence and asylum as well as giving ground to culturally plural societies with a future to share.
This event has been organised in memory of Anna Masala, foremost Italian Turcologyst and Professor of Turkish Language and Literature at the Università La Sapienza in Rome, to whom many other scholars owe their passion for the Orient and Turkey.
(photo Nilüfer Ergin “Rari Nantes – Le voci mute”)


Bryce Lausier, who spearheaded Hampden Academy’s drive to the Class A boys basketball state championship this season, is headed to New Hampshire next season.
The 6-foot-4 guard, who was recently named Mr. Maine Basketball, Maine’s Gatorate Player of the Year and was selected as the Kennebec Valley Athletic Conference Class A Player of the Year, has committed to attend St. Anselm College in Manchester, New Hampshire.
Lausier will be a scholarship player for the Division II Hawks, who compete in the Northeast 10 Conference. He is expected to sign his National Letter of Intent once the signing period is reinstated sometime after April 15.
“They have a great academic program there that I can pursue and then the basketball program, they’re a top team in Division II,” Lausier said. “They compete [for a championship] every year and I thought I could try and make a difference at that school.”
NLI signings were suspended by the Collegiate Commissioners Association, which administers the program, to comply with an NCAA emergency mandate enacted on March 13 to institute a recruiting dead period because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Lausier said he had a great conversation with St. Anselm coach Keith Dickson.
“Coach Dickson’s been around for 34 seasons, so he knows what it takes to win games,” Lausier said. “I really enjoyed the conversation and thought that St. Anselm was a school that I could have success at, so it was honestly an easy decision for me.”
Lausier said he also received a scholarship offer from Franklin Pierce College, another New Hampshire school that competes in the Northeast 10 and was recruited by a handful of New England Small College Athletic Conference programs.
Lausier averaged a KVAC-best 27.7 points per game while leading coach Russ Bartlett’s Broncos to a 21-1 record. He was named the outstanding player-sportsman of the regional tournament after helping Hampden Academy post three come-from-behind victories en route to its second A North title in three years.
Lausier then scored 23 points in the state championship game as Hampden used a 23-1 second-half run to rally past York 65-56 and capture the program’s first gold ball since 2015.
St. Anselm is coming off a 21-8 season during which it won the Northeast 10 championship and earned a berth in the NCAA Division II Men’s Basketball Championship.
The Hawks were seeded fourth in the East Regional scheduled in Bridgeport, Connecticut, but the tournament was canceled by the NCAA amid concerns about the coronavirus. St. Anselm ended the campaign on an 11-game winning streak.
Lausier joins a program that loses six seniors to graduation, including five guards.
“Only one was in the rotation,” he explained. “There were only three scholarships available and I just happened to be one of them. I think if I work hard in the offseason and during the season, I could make an impact.”
Like students from across Maine and around the country, Lausier is trying to adapt to taking classes via computer and finding ways to get in some productive physical activity.
“Now it’s sitting around in my house just with my family,” said Lausier, who has found one outlet.
He and good friend Henry Westrich, a standout basketball player at Bangor High School, have been working out together on their own in Glenburn. They visit the home of a friend that is equipped with a full gym in the basement.
“Me and [Henry] go to the gym together. We’ve only gone from our houses to the gym in 2 1/2 weeks now,” Lausier said. “We’ve only been in contact with each other and our families.”
In the meantime, he has been able to keep up with his school work while hoping for an end to the coronavirus threat in time to return to school to finish his senior year.
“I want to have the senior trip and I want to have graduation. Hopefully, we’ll end up having it,” said Lausier, who doesn’t play a spring sport but feels for his fellow Hampden Academy athletes.
“The poor kids that are baseball, track and tennis players, I feel bad for them.”


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It's a great pity that Debussy's collection of journalism, Monsieur Croche the Dilettante Hater, is not longer than its 70 pages. You can find it in a cheap old Dover paperback called Three Classics in the Aesthetics of Music. Monsieur Croche was an imaginary interlocutor who valued plain and honest speaking, but Debussy dispenses with the need for him rather early on. The plain style however remains.
Some of the pronouncements could be mistaken for mere bluster: "One can no more compel the masses to love beauty than one can decently ask them to stand on their heads." But the article on "The People's Theatre" is proof that Debussy had thought hard about what popular opera might be, if it were to be worth pursuing. It might be a rediscovery of Greek tragedy, "strengthening its primitive musical setting by means of the infinite resources of the modern orchestra and a chorus of innumerable voices".
Or it might take some hints from "the entertainments arranged by the Javanese princes, where the fascination of speech without words, that is to say of pantomime, almost attains perfection, since it is rendered by action and not by formulas". At all events, people's theatre should be "suited both in its essence and in its staging to the greatest possible number".
We may strongly disagree with Debussy, when he says, for instance, that "Berlioz was never, properly speaking, a stage-musician," but we have to stop and ask what it is exactly we are disagreeing with. If the issue is not much more than a particular attempt to adapt The Damnation of Faust to the stage, he may well have been right. If Debussy could not see how The Trojans, despite its real beauties, might be successfully performed, he was not alone. "One might say without irony that Berlioz has always been the favourite musician of those who do not know much about music." Well, here is an insult that some of us are going to have to learn how to live with.
"To endeavour to overthrow those whom they imitate," says Debussy, "is the first principle of wisdom with certain artists, who call such reprehensible methods the struggle for art." He goes on: "In art the struggle is more often against oneself alone and victories so achieved are perhaps the finest. By a curious irony, however, we are afraid of a victory over ourselves ... " There is great truth in this.
I have been listening to Debussy's three "Chansons de Bilitis," on Dawn Upshaw's recent album, Voices of Light. Everyone who explores this part of the repertoire must be prepared to put up with some - putting it politely - uneven verse. The poems by a certain Charles Van Lerberghe for Fauré's "La Chanson d'Ève" are no better than they ought to be. They give Fauré and Upshaw something to float off from, but they do not repay close attention, indeed they frustrate it. Why should Eve, on the first day in Paradise, yearn for death? Forget the words, then, is the best policy, but it is a shame to have to forget the words.
The "Chansons de Bilitis" that here survive are the remains of a Hellenistic literary hoax by Pierre Louÿs (he invented the spelling to improve on the surname Louis). Valéry said at Louÿs's graveside that Debussy "found in Louÿs support, counsel, even instruction or essential insights into literature - in short, the invaluable mainstay of his career in all its aspect, at all times, in all its difficulties, even those of fame". But Louÿs is today remembered for fantasies of non-existent Sapphists, as in the "Chansons de Bilitis," and as the author behind Buñuel's That Obscure Object of Desire.
The first song, "Pan's Flute," is inspired by a well-known homoerotic classical marble group, adapted suggestively for the situation of a young girl: "He teaches me to play, sitting on his lap, but I tremble a bit. He plays it after me, so softly that I can barely hear him. We have nothing to say to each other, so close are we; but our songs try to answer each other, and by turns our mouths meet on the flute."
And in the second, the lover tells the girl: "Last night I had a dream. Your hair was around my neck. Your hair was like a black collar around my neck and upon my chest. I caressed it and it was mine, and we were bound together thus forever, by the same hair, mouth against mouth, as two laurels often have but one root." This is all very steamy.
The pseudo-classical simile ("as two laurels often have but one root") is a good example of poetic nonsense. Two laurels never have but one root, for if they did they would be but one laurel. Nevertheless, an unscrupulous lover might well pass off such reasoning. Louÿs certainly gives Debussy something to work on, something to which the listener always returns with a frisson (the last word of the poem). One comes away with a strong sense of this unscrupulous wooing, for which the older lover would undoubtedly today be locked up. To Debussy and Valéry it seems to have appeared like high-mindedness.


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Today, we are thrilled to host the first ever blog discussion of Silence by Debra Webb. I love the Faces of Evil series and am eagerly awaiting in the next installment. Lucky me, Vicious releases on November 25. In the meantime, let’s talk about Silence…
Ten years ago…
Special Agent Jess Harris has closed another tough case and now she’s determined to make it home to spend Christmas with her only family, her sister. Jess needs a break and taking it far away from work is the only way to keep her mind off the many faces of evil waiting in the stack of case files on her desk.
Running into the past wasn’t part of the plan…
Daniel Burnett was Jess’s first love. She’d fallen hard for him in high school. Together they’d gone off to college with big dreams. But not all dreams come true. Jess hasn’t seen Dan in ten years when they run into each other on Christmas Eve night…yet no force on earth can keep them apart.
Silence takes place 10 years before Obsession. What do you think would have been different if Jess had stayed that Christmas morning?
Do you think the timing would have been right for them to stay together?
How does Silence change Jess and Lily’s relationship?
Please respond in the comments. Feel free to add any other questions you’d like to explore.
By the very nature of a book club discussion, the following will contain spoilers for Silence and all the previous Faces of Evil books. Those that have been lucky enough to read Vicious in advance, please refrain from adding any events from that novel to the discussion.


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Samples of calf pericardium, cut from the pericardial sac in two perpendicular directions, longitudinally, or from root to apex, or transversely, were subjected to tensile testing.
The pericardium had previously been treated for 24 h with 0.625% glu-taraldehyde (pH 7.4) prepared from a commercially available solution of 25% glutaraldehyde (Merck) at a ratio of 1/50 (w/v), in 0.1 M sodium phosphate buffer. Then 60 samples, 30 cut in longitudinal direction (series LP) and 30 cut transversely (series TP), were cut in half and glued with Glubran 2, with an overlap of 0.5 cm (for a total surface area of 1 cm2). Twelve additional samples, 6 longitudinal (series LC) and 6 transverse (series TC), were used as controls.
The samples were stored until the assay at 4 °C in saline (0.9% NaCl) plus two antibiotics: streptomycin at a concentration of 333 |xg/mL and penicillin at a concentration of 2000 U/mL. Six samples each from series LP and TP were subjected to uniaxial tensile testing, always in the direction of the principal axis of the sample, until rupture 7, 30, 60, 90, and 120 days after being glued. The controls were assayed on day 7. The trials were performed on an Instron TTG4 tensile tester (Instron Ltd., High Wycombe, Buck, U.K.), which determines tensile stress and the elongation, or strain, it produces.
The mean results at rupture in kilogram, according to the load being exerted by the machine at that moment, are shown in Tables 9.6 and 9.7. While Table 9.6 shows a statistically significant loss of resistance in the glued samples when compared with the controls on day 7, Table 9.7 demonstrates that the results in the glued samples assayed up to and on day 120 do not change significantly, indicating the stability of the bond.
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