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I really liked this chapter, even though it was a filler. The way it told a cool story about Gildartz and his personality without using speech was really cool and I enjoyed "looking" through this chapter
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l4l Great
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l2l Bad
l1l Terrible
I really liked this chapter, even though it was a filler. The way it told a cool story about Gildartz and his personality without using speech was really cool and I enjoyed "looking" through this chapter
Something quite different than "reading". Everything made sense without the need to over think the situation. Next chapter is going to be interesting considering th title it has. I'm getting goosebumps already!
Time for guessing games!!!
I'm posting this because I believe the below possibilities were not outright discussed nor excruciatingly argued with in some of manga predictions for fairy tail regarding the oncoming 300th chapter and the rest.
1. Mystery girl. Is it Lucy or Levy? It's obvious people swiftly narrowed their choices between those two, disregarding all other unjointed categories like gender, all because Jellal said something like ".. a woman?" Yes, that could be since the exposed legs were quite skinny (and I don't even understand why I came up to a conclusion that its's also soft and delicate). What if Mashima was trying to deceptively mislead us, and that mystery girl is actually a little BOY? Yep, a boy... (I instantly thought of that Eve guy from Blue Pegasus, don't be offended but he's somewhat girly to me)
2. Potential candidates I considered as the "mystery boy". First, Zeref. The most powerful dark mage itself. Though this time, we shall be witnessing a cute, innocent (might not be), little Zeref. Why him? As we know, Zeref was found first in Tenrou island when Natsu and friends made the S-class exam. I could not help the feeling that Zeref actually sheltered himself and stayed on that island, if not for hundred years, at least he stayed there enough to suggest that the island became his "sleeping nest" (or hibernation bed if you want) for those past years. Back from atop, why a little Zeref? He said back in Tenrou that he has no plans whatsoever during that time. And that's also why he is angered when Hades woken up Acnologia (still a mystery how he unknowingly did that) Somehow, he knew Natsu very well, and since we're assuming Natsu is older than 80yrs old here, Zeref is still a mid-teen looking guy (we might know in the future if he has elixirs but let's assume for now that he has none). So I'm thinking that his growth cycle is backwards. LOL. (I know right, this is just plain silly)
3. Tenrou Island existed long ago before the guild even existed. The island was constructed as an research facility that mainly Fairy Sphere to preserve aging and prevent mortal death. The first generation slayers, namely Natsu (and friends) might have been there from the very start. No one actually knew how Natsu was born, he just showed up as a kid nurtured and fostered by Igneel. To start with, he might not be a human after all. The possibility that Natsu (and friends) were real dragons and are born as draggies should not be left out. Reverse, The possibility that Igneel (and friends) are not actually dragons but more of cursed beings (more likely a mage) seems to be appealing as well. Remember what Zeref was mentioning before the Tenrou Island arc finished itself? That Acnologia will not waste its time talking to a vermin much like we don't really want talk to vermins as such. Therefore, Acnologia and Zeref might have some interesting connections after all. Acnologia might have been the strict-type parent, and Zeref as a son, view his father as evil and boastful.
3. Zeref and Mavis was the history of the past. Mavis encompassing the holy light, while Zeref contrasts it otherwise. They might have been what we call the ancients. While Zeref can take out lives by just releasing a darkness aura from his body, Mavis was the sacrificial type, died the battle, but since I regarded them as complete opposites, Mavis is the upbringer of life (though it's still beyond my imagination as to what kind of life forms she may have produced with her power). Thrash out the setting, there are actually loads of places it can really happen - underground Lumen Etoile beneath the guild, another dimension, etc.
4. Another point I like to say, the mystery girl crying while witnessing Natsu's battle. Zeref is a proud crybaby in Tenrou arc, Zeref = "mystery girl" He might be crying because he knows it just too late for Natsu to be able to destroy him, as HIS POWERS AND EVIL CORRUPTION GRADUALLY GOES BACK. Actually, I'm more inclined to say that there's a good Zeref and a bad Zeref. Actually, I had enough of Zeref.
5. The mystery girl is Layla Heartfilia, Lucy's deceased mother. The obvious counterarguments for this is, why is she crying seeing Natsu battling the Sabertooth guys? Well, she might have been crying all the time, her said action not directly towards Natsu, but to all the members of Fairy Tail, as she knew something bad will happen as July 7 comes closer. But she's not actually a good candidate, the mystery being too little to be Layla Heartfilia.
6. Levy is more preferable than Lucy. Again, height matters considering height comparison with Jellal. Lucy would look like she got flattened by inches or so. Think of all kids that ever existed in Fairy Tail! Romeo, it might even be Wendy, that is if they're Edolas beings. But I should suggest Mashima should really abandon the idea of Edolas, as this means any loop holes in characters and plot will just be tampered up by Edolas, and that only means viewers/readers would decrease their time guessing here and there because anyone can just say, "He's from Edolas" which is very absurd and not very appealing for future climaxes in plot making.
If anyone strongly disagree, all's fine by me. After all, it's just predictions. I'm off!
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Leafs Demote Two, Promote One
JP Nikota
February 25 2012 02:30PM
The move wasn't exactly a big surprise, but it was nevertheless exciting. The Leafs waiving Jay Rosehill and Darryl Boyce was good news all around, but especially so for Matt Frattin.
Brian Burke knew that Boyce could find work elsewhere, but also knew that Matt Frattin was ready for (what appears to be) a more permanent role with the big club. It was a classy move by Burke, giving Boyce the chance to ply his trade elsewhere in the league. Of course, Burke could do so with a certain degree of confidence in the depth of his team, with youngsters pushing for bigger roles.
Leafs fans haven't had long to relish this kind of situation.
The waiving of Rosehill, however, signalled that the Leafs are headed further and further away from having so-called enforcers on their roster. As much as Brian Burke seems to loathe the idea of a team without several sherrifs to keep law and order, having Mike Brown and a whole cast of players that can take care of themselves seems to be more than good enough. The best teams, it seems, seem to have several players that can play and fight. This is just another promising sign for the Leafs.
Now, it's true that Ron Wilson has recently accorded less ice time to the likes of David Steckel, but a recent downturn in overall team play probably has lead Wilson to play his top six even more, in the hopes of evening up the score in games where the Leafs trail. Moreover, that the Leafs have waived two players and only called up one suggests that the Leafs are positioning themselves to make a deal. What kind remains to be seen.
For Matt Frattin, the time to firmly establish himself as an NHL player is ripe. After scoring 9 goals in his last 12 games with the Marlies, he seems to have convinced Brian Burke that the same player that was kicked off his University of North Dakota hockey team really has turned things around. Here's hoping, Matt.
Note to leafs Nation. Your dmen are actually paid to block shots. Could someone tell me how many blocked shots you had last night against Washington? Smid has more blocked shots in one game by himself than your pathetic D had the whole game. Softtttttttt. Luke Shenn Softttt. The only guy I would keep is Jake Gardiner. Your playoff hopes rest on a group of D not willing to give themselves up. Selfish to the extreme. Good luck with that.
February 26 2012, 06:14PM
Actually, if your D are blocking shots they aren't doing their jobs because they haven't cleared the puck out of the zone.
Smid blocks so many shots because your team is awful and is constantly pegged in their own zone.
Also, it's Luke Schenn. Don't forget the 'C' although with Horcoff as your skipper I know why you might have a mental block around that letter.

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Death and taxes may be prominently linked, but many Americans face divorce long before death, and a divorce can be almost as, well, taxing. If you're careful, it's possible to divorce and not face major tax bills. But a surprising number of tax flubs are committed every year in this area, even by professionals. Very slight differences in mechanics can yield huge tax differences for one or both spouses. What's more, your divorce lawyer may not be competent to address these tax rules so you may need a tax advisor.
Here are 10 things about taxes and divorce you should know:
1. Property settlements are tax-free.
If you divide property between spouses (or within limits, even after marriage), Section 1041 of the tax code says there's no tax to either party. Enacted in 1984, this provision reversed a Supreme Court case that ruled property divisions were taxable. This tax-free rule means you can divvy up property between spouses however you want. (That's provided they're both citizens; if one isn't a citizen, there may be income and gift tax issues.) But when you divide property, you'd better consider future taxes and the tax basis of the property in addition to its fair market value.
Example: Al and Betty are getting divorced and own a home worth $5 million, which they bought 30 years ago for $200,000. Betty is awarded the house. A year later Betty sells the house for $5 million. She has a whopping gain of $4.8 million, all of which is taxable to her!
Al and Betty might have cash, securities and other assets to divide, some with a high basis, some with a low basis. It can be more equitable for each spouse to take a mix of high and low basis assets.
2. Transfers "incident to divorce" are covered.
All transfers between spouses during marriage are covered by Section 1041 and transfers "incident to divorce" are covered, too. A transfer is incident to divorce if it occurs within one year after the marriage ceases, or if it is "related" to cessation of the marriage. Any transfer more than one year after the end of the marriage is open to scrutiny by the Internal Revenue Service, but if the divorce or separation instrument requires that transfer, it is probably covered. Any transfer more than six years after the end of the marriage is presumed to be outside Section 1041, but this presumption can be rebutted with documentation.
3. Sometimes you'll want to avoid tax-free transfers.
If the parties want to sell assets to each other as part of their divorce, can they do so? Yes, but unless you do it very carefully the sale won't be effective for tax purposes.
Example: Harry and Wanda are divorcing in a community property state. They own a house worth $1 million with a basis of $200,000, and various other assets they split equally. Under community property law, Harry already owns half the house. Harry "purchases" Wanda's interest in the house from her for $500,000 by borrowing from a bank. Two years later Harry sells the house for $1.1 million. Harry's tax basis is still $200,000, so he's got a whopping $900,000 gain.
Under limited circumstances you can orchestrate a true sale to avoid this, but you usually need a third party to help and a competent tax lawyer.
4. Unmarried couples don't qualify.
Section 1041 only applies to married couples, so cohabiting couples do not qualify. In some states you can have a lawful marriage as common law, so what constitutes marriage varies.
Example: Billy and Betty have been married for seven years in California and amicably divorce, only to find that unbeknown to them both, Billy's divorce from his first wife wasn't final when he "wed" Betty seven years before! Under California law, their marriage is void, so Section 1041 cannot apply. If they divide property, it is taxable as a sale for its fair market value even though no money changes hands. One of them will have taxable income with no cash to pay the tax.
Outside marriage, dividing property usually triggers taxes. That makes resolving palimony and cohabitation cases tough from a tax viewpoint. In extreme cases some people actually get married so they can promptly get divorced to take advantage of Section 1041! (For a real-life example, click here.) For the financial reasons many older couples are choosing to live together, without marrying, click here.
5. Businesses and retirement accounts are tricky.
If you're dividing a business, beware. If one party buys out the other, there are different ways to get stung.
Example: Jim and Jane founded Funbook, a social networking site. When they divorce, Jim has Funbook buy out Jane's shares (a stock redemption, for the company buys back its own shares). Jane may think this is a tax-free property division. Jim may think this was a taxable sale. It may be either, depending on the facts. Plus, the IRS may treat Jim as receiving a constructive dividend, meaning he's taxed, too. These tax traps are avoidable, but you must plan ahead and move cautiously.
Retirement accounts can also be troublesome. They may be tax-free now, but someday when they start paying out, they'll be taxed. Plus, if you take out money early, it can be painful.
Example: Boris has three IRAs and is awarded all three in his divorce from Natasha. He withdraws $100,000 from the IRAs and sends it to Natasha so she can pay her taxes. Boris assumes the withdrawals are tax free because he was required to give Natasha $100,000 under his divorce decree (but it did not require him to transfer an interest in the IRAs). Boris will probably be taxed on the $100,000 withdrawal, plus a penalty.
The division of workplace 401(k)s also requires care. These can be split without triggering immediate tax, but only if it's done as part of a divorce settled with a Qualified Domestic Relations Order.
6. Alimony has tax consequences.
Alimony (also called spousal support) is tax deductible to the payor and taxable income to the payee. To qualify as alimony, payments must be made under a decree of divorce, separate maintenance or written separation agreement. Payments can be directly to the spouse or to a third-party (on behalf of the spouse), but the agreement must be very clear the payments are alimony.
But beware: Just because something is labeled alimony or spousal support in your divorce documents doesn't mean it is alimony for tax purposes. The payments must meet other tests; they cannot be made while the payor and payee are part of the same household, and must be restricted in duration, not extending beyond the payee's death. Also, payor and payee can't file joint tax returns in the same year alimony is paid.
7. Beware audits and in-kind alimony.
There are many tax disputes about alimony. In fact, it is such a fertile ground of confusion that the IRS routinely audits both parties after a divorce. An audit is likely to be triggered if one party deducts "alimony" and the other does not include it in income. Such inconsistencies spell trouble, often for both parties. The IRS doesn't have to be consistent in its two audits!
There are also many disputes about what qualifies as alimony. It's possible to designate mortgage payments, car payments, educational expenses and lawyer's fees as alimony, but the rules are technical so be careful.
8. Past due alimony can be a tax mess.
The tax rules get even more complicated–involving tax recapture–when alimony is past due. Most of the controversy focuses on confusion between alimony and child support, which can become even murkier when there are arrearages. This segues nicely into our next topic, child support.
9. Child support isn't deductible or taxable.
Child support payments are not income to the child or to the custodial spouse. They are also not deductible by the payor spouse. Once again, there is common confusion, often leading to tax audits of one or both parties.
Example: Melvin and Beulah get divorced, and Beulah gets custody of little Johnny. Melvin pays a flat $10,000 per month to support them and deducts it on his tax return. Beulah does not report it as income, treating it all as child support. What's the result? We need more facts here, but Beulah is probably right and Melvin is probably wrong. Alternatively, the amount would have to be divided between alimony and child support. Their divorce agreement should have been clearer, explicitly dividing the amount between alimony and child support.
10. Dependency exemptions require careful handling.
You'd be surprised how frequently there are disputes about who is entitled to claim a child as a dependent. With joint custody, which is increasingly common, only one parent can claim the dependency exemption. The parties should agree. Surprisingly, even if only one spouse has custody, that spouse can give up the dependency exemption and allow the other spouse to claim it. It may be worth more to the noncustodial parent depending on his or her tax situation. (For more on dependency exemptions and divorce, click here.)
The bottom line.
Divorce isn't easy for anyone, even with today's no-fault divorce laws. The last thing you need is tax problems, too. Often, these tax problems don't become clear until a year or more after a divorce, and by then they can be difficult and expensive to fix. If you address the tax issues up front, while you're negotiating terms of a divorce, you'll usually end up spending less money and sleeping much better.
Robert W. Wood is a tax lawyer with a nationwide practice. The author of more than 30 books, including Taxation of Damage Awards & Settlement Payments (4th Ed. 2009, taxinstitute.com), he can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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P.O. Box 620
Green River, Utah 84525
Separate sealed BIDS for the construction of the Sewer Treatment
System Updates: Chlorination System & Land Application Project, 2013
will be received by Green River City at the Green River City Office at
460 East Main Street - PO Box 620 - Green River, Utah until 2:00 p.m.,
November 12, 2013 , and then opened and publicly read aloud.
A bid bond in the amount of five percent (5%) of the bid, made
payable to the Owner, will accompany the Bid.
Major items of work:
1. 2-inch Dia. PVC, Class 200 1,630 L.F.
2. 6-inch Dia. PVC, Class 200 1,895 L.F.
3. Barb Wire Fence 2,200 L.F.
4. Chlorination Building & System 1 Lump Sum
The Owner reserves the right to reject any or all bids or to waive
any formality or technicality in any bid in the interest of the City.
Prospective bidders shall assemble at Green River City Hall, November
4 , 2013, at 10:00 a.m., for the group showing, at 460 East Main
Street - Green River, Utah.
Attendance at the project pre-site-show meeting and site-show is
mandatory and a prerequisite to submitting a bid for the project.
Bidding Contractors, or a duly authorized representative, must arrive
at the site for the said meeting and site-showing.
The CONTRACT DOCUMENTS may be examined at the office of the Engineer:
Johansen & Tuttle Engineering, Inc. 90 South 100 East - Castle Dale,
Utah 84513 . Contract documents may be obtained at the Site Show upon
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October 18, 2013
Pat Brady, Mayor
Green River City
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Boston, the Worst Sports City in America
The '67 Sound
September 27 2011 10:42AM
Leafs Nation responds to Grantland's Stephen Marche . By '67 Sound, concept courtesy Danny Gray.
Dateline: Boston, September 27, 2001. As another fruitless baseball season draws to a close, Hub fans, it's time to face the sad reality: Boston is the worst sports city in America.
The evidence is undeniable. Despite adding the $160 million man, Manny Ramirez, in the offseason the Red Sox long ago fell out of playoff contention, thus extending their 83-year long World Series drought. Nonetheless the mindless masses continue to fill creaky Fenway Park near to capacity. The Yawkey Trust has proven time and time again that it has no real interest in winning, nor should it when generations have supported this feckless team notwithstanding its demonstrated incompetence.*
Matters are only bleaker away from Fenway, where at least the Red Sox seem likely to squeak over the .500 mark. The Patriots are already 0-2, and seem destined for another losing season with their fates tied to perennial under-achiever Drew Bledsoe, and no replacement in sight. Robert Kraft is unlikely to turn around this embattled franchise if his hiring of Bill Belichick, a coach so inept he essentially drove the Browns out of Cleveland, is any indication. From all appearances, Kraft's purchase of the team merely delayed the relocation that seemed almost certain three years ago, and seems more likely with every loss.**
Nor can Beantowners turn to the Bruins for solace. Their proud string of playoff appearances broken five years ago, they missed the playoffs for the second straight year. Much like the Sox, the Bruins' avaricious owner Jeremy Jacobs can sleep securely in his ermine-trimmed sheets knowing that the fans will continue to fill the building with no regard for the team's lack of success. Nor, frankly, do the fans deserve any better. They have never truly warmed to skill players like Joe Thornton, as the team plays to the masses by bringing in talentless goons like Marty McSorley, Ken Baumgartner and Andrei Nazarov in recent years.***
Finally, and most pathetically, are the Celtics, coming off an unimaginable six straight years out of the playoffs. The roster consists of Paul Pierce surrounded by a group of has-beens and never-weres, and another losing season seems almost assured. The Curse of Len Bias may someday rank among the Curse of the Bambino in sporting lore, as the Celtics futility since his death continues to this day with no end in sight.****
What all these disasters have in common is only one thing: Boston. Is it our inferiority complex that dooms our teams to failure? Is it our overly complacent fanbase? Is it our not-always-latent racism? Whatever it is, the only certainty seems to be the incompetence of Boston sports teams.*****
* Led by Manny Ramirez, the Sox would go on to win two of the next six World Series and establish themselves as perennial contenders.
** Led by the unheralded Tom Brady, the Patriots would win the Super Bowl in the 2001, 2003 and 2004 seasons.
*** The Bruins would make the playoffs eight of the next ten years, winning four division titles and a Stanley Cup.
**** Led by Paul Pierce, the Celtics would make the playoffs eight of the next ten years, winning five division titles, two Eastern Conference titles and one NBA Championship.
***** Boston is currently widely considered the best sports city in America. The point is not that Toronto is likely to experience a run of success comparable to that enjoyed by Boston the past ten years. The point is that blaming a city or its fans for the failings of its professional sports teams is narrative-driven tripe of the worst kind. For more on this issue, please read Down Goes Brown's and Michael Forbes' still sadly relevant gems.
You forgot to attack the city and it's politics and blame the failing of government on a hockey team.
September 27 2011, 11:05AM
Excellent execution here. I understand why people write things like the piece at Grantland (page hits) but they offer no real insight.
September 27 2011, 05:46PM
Thank you for writing this.
I'm an Oiler fan and the past few years, understandably, have seen a fair share of people saying, sometimes verbatim, that nobody would ever want to play here and that any stars we stumble upon will certainly decide to leave for more successful or metropolitan climates the first chance they get. They have often gone on to cite the cliched "Deadmonton" slurs. Vancouver fans, of late, have been among the most vocal and I have noticed that the level of belligerence is directly related to the percieved success of the city's teams.
But the reverse of this, that the team's success can mask what is, essentially, an unpleasant living environment, never seems to dawn on people. Detroit is certainly no urban eden, yet the team performs well and so players are drawn to it. For many cities, success breeds acclaim. Ottawa is a lovely city, but not many players asked to be traded there in the early 90s. Other cities never lack player interest, but it isn't necessarily to the team's advantage; Phoenix had this reputation for a long time.
September 28 2011, 03:09PM
Indeed, I used the Detroit argument on Twitter recently. For the kind of player I would want, organizational strength is more likely to matter than the city.
Agreed. Phoenix and other warm climate expansion cities used their environment to lure free agent players when they started up and eventually had to backtrack on that strategy because it created a "country-club" atmosphere. Even Toronto relied on that prior to the lockout and all without any success to show for it.
The best teams are the ones that are built to win, it sounds like a banal tautology, but it resonates when you emphasize the word "built", and that care has to be paid not only to the stats sheet and the namebar but also the quality of player. The '94 Rangers weren't exactly all-world talent, they were good, but it was the unquantifiable quality of their leader that made the difference.
The details of the city matter for a player with a family who looks at schools and crime rates and neighbourhoods, but even those details can be subjective to the player. What one person finds attractive the other might find off-putting. Nylander's wife didn't want Edmonton, and it turns out that we were better off not wanting Nylander. Or his wife.


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Skip to comments.Lisa Jackson's Freudian Slip (EPA Princess she is to "level the playing field" for solar and wind)
Posted on 11/22/2011 8:28:38 AM PST by Recovering_Democrat
Psychoanalysis is usually the wrong way to understand politics, but the Obama Administration may be reviving the field with its Freudian slips. The latest to land on the couch is Environmental Protection Agency chief Lisa Jackson, who gave an unintentionally candid interview this weekend with Thalia Assuras of Energy Now News.
(Excerpt) Read more at online.wsj.com ...
When pressed, Ms. Jackson went on to say that "No, I can't say what a business will decide to do. Some businesses are investing in nuclear, some are looking at natural gas. There are states that are leading the way on solar or wind....What EPA's role is to do is to level the playing field so that pollution costs are not exported to the population but rather companies have to look at the pollution potential of any fuel or any process or any plant or any utility when they're making investment decisions." [WSJ emphasis.]
...What Ms. Jackson really means is that she is trying to make coal--the workhorse of U.S. electric power--artificially more expensive.
Which fits right into UN Agenda 21's goal of reducing the human population of Mother Earth to 500,000,000 global elite and their servants.
Perhaps she'd like to have an artificial yardstick jammed up her butt.
All I can say is that most things the EPA does are subversive to our way of life and intrusive on our liberties. Instant reaction to EPA and Ms. Instant reaction to Ms. Jackson and her windmills = Stupid.
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You are correct. But those remaining elite will want slaves, not servants. Agenda 21 has to be ejected. It is being implemented in every corner of the US and the world.
Goodness.....you should post that in the main forum. I wouldn't have seen that. :-)
I just did...
It is always about the agenda with these people. Never about what is good for the country.
Maniacs, all of them.
somehow I remember and old USSC where the use of regulation to effect a prohibition was struck down. You could only do X if you had a tax stamp and only the government could issue said tax stamp and no stamps are ever issued.
The purpose of "green energy" is to make energy costs so high that we are driven back to stone age methods of food production, in which case billions of people will starve."
We needn't go back that far. Just prior to the industrial revolution. Give the people iron, at least.
If existance is fabricated it isn't natural. These Leftist's with their peculiar, inhibited perspectives are fabricating existance for all of humanity.
WE have to stop their insane meddling in our very real, and natural existance.
Their foundation is their ideology, and that isn't something we can do much about other than educate our young, but we can destroy the tool they developed to enslave mankind on this Earth, and that is the U.N.
Defund the U.N., and toss their asses out of the United States period. Stop the States, and the local governments from adhering to the ICLEA. We're that close to being consumed.
Please post this to its own thread. This is big!
A government owned economy is Feudalism...
I guess she would happy with a king or queen....
Indeed! Thorium Salt reactors are the future and are a heck of a lot closer than Fusion, or some of the not ready for primetime renewables...
More like Communism.
[ Feudalism?
More like Communism. ]
No, Communism always devolves into Fuedalism with the Party Elite ruling over everyone like kings and queens and dukes and earls.
They may call it communism, but it is very much a Feudal system with Communist makeup.
We could level the playing field by bulldozing the EPA and salting the earth.
Pray for America
At one time, I would have thought that that kind of statement was just "radical". Not now. At the very least the House should outright defund this monstrosity immediately until it's full intentions are made public to all. This agency no longer serves a useful purpose for the American people and it should be abolished in its entirety...it's totally useless group...unless you're a communist.
The Strategy: http://www.neweconomics.org/sites/neweconomics.org/files/Great_Transition_0.pdf
The Great Transition - the Great Revaluing - make good things cheap and bad things expensive. Building social and environmental value should be the central goal of policy-making; the Great Redistribution - redistribution of both income and wealth would create value as resources are moved from those who do not need them to those who do. Goal to share working hours and tasks more equally. Foster a redistribution of ownership to create a form of economic democracy, where company shares are progressively transferred to employees in a resurgence of mutual and co-operative ownership forms. Great Rebalancing - markets but where pricing reflects true social and environmental costs and benefits, and a broader definition of "public goods" Great Localisation moving real power away from the centre to devolved "democratic" (stakeholder) bodies. Great Reskilling returning to appropriate scale for agriculture, manufacturing and the arts. Great Economic Irrigation taxing environmental and social bads such as pollution, consumption and short-term speculation. consumption taxes reflecting the social and environmental costs of goods Great Interdependence wealth transfer to developing countries.
It long ago stopped being about public safety and is now a full fledged Political arm of the Fascist Democrats and their fellow travelers. Same as the Dept of EDU, etc etc.
Reduce the carbon footprint: burn Liberals instead of coal.
No, that would be an oligarchy or plutarchy.
The two modern classics on feudalism are The History of Feudalism by David Herlihy (Jun 1979) and Fiefs and Vassals: The Medieval Evidence Reinterpreted by Susan Reynolds (Jun 20, 1996). You might want to take a look at those.
Yep when Obama came into office our electric bills were $65 a month during the winter.This last bill was $139 and nothing here has changed except the cost. That is twice what we paid before and our home is mostly natural gas and under 1200 sf.
How much you want to bet that "nef" (another iteration of Fabian socialist lunatics, IMO) was bought and paid for by....SOROS?;)
"The Laws of Thermodynamics."
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Facebook expanded its ever-growing advertising and tracking reach this week with new integration between the giant social network and Atlas, an advertising platform it purchased from Microsoft. The company now lets advertisers target you across all of your devices and on participating websites, based on characteristics from your Facebook profile such as age, gender, and location. It will also attempt to track the products you buy both online and off, in order to measure the ads' effects on our purchases.
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As reported last week in the Wall Street Journal, Google has banned the privacy and security app Disconnect Mobile from the play store. By doing so, Google has shown once again that it cares more about allowing third-parties to monetize the tracking of its users than about allowing those users to ensure their own security and privacy. The banned app, Disconnect Mobile, is designed to stop non-consensual third party trackers on Android (much like EFF's Privacy Badger does in Firefox or Chrome).
Yesterday, ProPublica reported on new research by a team at KU Leuven and Princeton on canvas fingerprinting. One of the most intrusive users of the technology is a company called AddThis, who are employing it in "shadowing visitors to thousands of top websites, from WhiteHouse.gov to YouPorn.com." Canvas fingerprinting allows sites to get even more identifying information than we had previously warned about with our Panopticlick fingerprinting experiment.
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2) Place bulb in hole and cover with soil, firming soil with fingers.
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WE'RE HEARING that anyone interested in finance should walk on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange and see the opening trading bell rung at least once in their lives.
One such opportunity to cross this off the bucket list happened last Monday, when mortgage technology vendor Ellie Mae got to ring the opening bell.
They have been ringing an opening bell on the NYSE since 1871 and a brass bell since 1903. These days, this just involves pressing a button (green, as it happens), but there's no mistaking a venerable tradition.
There's also no doubt that the trading floor of the NYSE is one of the cathedrals of commerce, especially with that 70-foot ceiling. It's smaller than you might imagine, about the size of a medium-sized exhibit hall. And with electronic trading, it is much more subdued than you remember from those frantic mosh pit trading scenes in the movies. The overhead boards around the trading posts (arranged into roughly circular kiosks) are all prominently sponsored by advertisers, but how can you object to that in this bastion of capitalism?
Ellie Mae CEO Sig Anderman (congratulations, Sig and crew) and thrilled applauding family members, company executives and investors got the market started Feb. 4 on the actually fairly small balcony above the CNBC remote studio, where the cable channel's "Squawk on the Street" show was underway.
When the Ellie Mae crowd came down to the floor, there was a demonstration of a stock sale at the Knight Trading area. Patrick King, Ellie Mae's market maker there, bought some shares (Sig was the buyer) in a transaction that took just seconds. ELLI was trading at about 20.88 at the moment (it ended up showing a decline for the day but was ranked last year's best-performing stock on the exchange).
There was also the chance to visit the remarkable NYSE Board Room (it is about the size of a basketball court with a table large enough for fifty) and hear stories about some of its artifacts. The clock in the room is the oldest piece of furniture at the exchange and used to be the official timer of the trading day. That explains why the minute hand is so much bigger than usual!
There's also an urn that was a gift from Russian Czar Nicholas II after a $1 billion financing which was used to build the Trans Siberian Railroad a century ago. (Imagine how much that $1 billion would be worth today!) The next Russian government promptly defaulted on the bonds. The story is that when Mikhail Gorbachev visited the exchange many decades later, he asked that the urn be returned to Russia. The NYSE agreed, providing the Soviets made good the bondholders!
There was also a story about a terrorist attack attempted in the horse-and-buggy days but since the exchange is still, unfortunately, a terror target, they might want to retire that one (just as they never show disaster movies on airlines).
Still, it was quite an interesting time and something that anyone interested in finance should do once. Unfortunately, mortgage-related IPOs have been few and far between since the collapse, so you'll have to keep a sharp eye open for your opportunity.
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Superstorm Sandy is the theme for this year's Ocean Fun Days Science Fair scheduled for June 8 at Island Beach State Park and Sandy Hook on June 9. The competition, open to third through sixth grade students from Monmouth and Ocean Counties, has become one of the most popular components of Ocean Fun Days, a family-oriented, educational celebration that features exhibits, classes, nature tours, and children's activities all about New Jersey's coastal environment. This year marks the 10th anniversary of Ocean Fun Days, a cooperative project of founding partner New Jersey Natural Gas, the New Jersey Sea Grant Consortium, the NJDEP, the NJ Division of Parks and Forestry and NOAA.
Student teams are being challenged this year to create projects related to the science behind Superstorm Sandy. Potential project ideas are as wide-ranging as the storm itself and teams can consider researching the many factors that may have influenced Sandy's intensity such as warmer ocean temperatures and rising sea-levels to methods and solutions for future protection and preparedness such as most effective ways to protect beaches and other coastal areas to building design features that may best survive a storm.
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Canada continues winning ways in EuropeMONTPELLIER, France (March 21, 2013) – Louis-Pierre Mainville of Notre-Dame-de-l'Isle, Que., scored 18 points and Dustin Schneider of Brandon, Man., was a standout in the setter position as Canada's Fulltime Training Centre (FTC) team defeated Montpellier of the French Pro A league 25-23, 21-25, 25-18, 25-18 in an exhibition men's volleyball match on Thursday.
The performances of Mainville and Schneider are great news for the Canadian national team with the selection camp and World League season set to begin at the end of May. Both are recovering from serious knee injuries.
"We're hoping they can be 100 percent physically by the time the selection camp starts," said Canada's FTC head coach Vincent Pichette. "Their level of play is very good right now. Dustin provided diversity in our attack and it was a great experience for our young players."
Marc Howatson of Victoria added 12 points and Rudy Verhoeff of Calgary 10. Montpellier plays in France's top pro league and is tied for eighth place. The top-eight advance to the playoffs and Montpellier plays is final regular season match on the weekend.
"We played much better than yesterday," said Pichette. Canada defeated a Pro B team in four sets as well. "Our service reception was stable and organized. Our service, service reception and counter-attack are three aspects we are really focusing on, on this tour.
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I have been dissappointed with this from day one. The picture quality is poor. Dark fuzzy and lacking in color. Nothing good to say here. Then the sound card popped. I'm gonna replace with a Panasonic plasma monitor for the same money.
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This is one great TV. After comparing the various TV's, I found this one to offer the best value. It is much lower in cost compared to other 32" LCD TV's. It's got a bunch of connections and they're easy to get to. It doesn't weigh too much, but is nice and stable. The sound is a little poor, the speakers don't offer much in the way of bass. All in all, this is an excellent tv.
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Bought this TV at the end of Jan.. It's got every input method I could imagine. It's really good to hook up the TV to a computer and play movies and dvd's. The price is also great. It's a very nice TV overall. If it has a more powerful audio system, it would be perfect.
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This TV is great! I bought mine from circuit city for $1099 (had them match a price I found online for another local store) - really a good deal for that price. The picture quality is great though I'd say the Sharp Aquos is better...but for the price difference between the two I'd buy the Magnavox (also same as the Philips since it is the same company) again any day. Plus once you get it home it the slight difference between the two doesn't matter. When I looked at it at the store side by side with the other LCD's there was very little difference. The picture is clear and bright. I think this TV looks better appearance-wise than the other sets in its class too. My favorite thing is the remote is so easy to use. Never even had to look at the instruction manual. The one bad thing I have to say about it is that it is missing an HDMI input. It has just the one DVI and 2 sets of RCA and 2 S-Video jacks and of course your standard coaxial connection. It does have a monitor input though which is a plus! Ever since I got this thing I stopped watching TV on my 60inch TV downstairs...hehe - much prefer sitting in my bed staring at this beauty instead. So if you want the absolute best for a 32" LCD this Magnavox may not be for you. If you want something more reasonably priced with good quality then no need to go any further.
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Skip to comments.'Don't Ask Don't Tell' Cost Taxpayers Nearly $400 Million, GAO Reports
Posted on 01/24/2011 7:44:22 PM PST by Slippery Jim
ABC News' Devin Dwyer reports: One month after President Obama signed a repeal of "don't ask, don't tell," government accountants have finished tallying up how much the policy cost taxpayers during the 16 years it was in effect.
The nonpartisan Government Accountability Office said in a report released Thursday that each discharge of a gay or lesbian service member over the past six years alone cost $52,800, including administrative costs and costs to recruit and train a replacement....
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As usual, when the GAO is fed garbage, it faithfully spits out garbage. What would be the cost of open shenanigans?
For once, it sounds like we got a bargain...
Yeppers. It would have cost $4,000,000,000 to find enough homos to replace all the straight troops who don't want to serve with them.
Complete and utter Bull####!
My son is in the Air Force. Over 20. Yikes! I'm getting old. He was telling me how they throw people out these days for almost anything. I couldn't believe it. I'm not buying this bull**** GAO "report". This is just propaganda to help push their homosexual agenda.
We need a study of assaults and incidents after one year. Then we need to ban homosexuals from destroying the military. This will not work. Have we just lost our minds? And get these women to the BACK!! We are about to fight the communists Chinese.
Those numbers are crap.
JAG officers (and overhead) are FIXED COSTS. Whether you discharge 1 or 100,000 for any reason whatsoever, the "cost" is the same.
This is true for all of government.
Utter bullshit
You signed up today to feed us with this left wing bile? There is no cost associated with the policy. The costs are created by homosexuals lying their way into the ranks, then rump riding against the rules.
Ozone is in your future!
Homo agenda ping required!
We must remember how the GAO report stated a savings for nationalized health care. That was done because the Dims shoveled a load of garbage at the GAO and they, by law, had to use those fake numbers.
I'd bet there was ozone in his past.
Slippery is a troll - no doubt about it. IMO a retread. Perhaps a recent zottee.
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The latest government BS to support the repeal of DADT.
I just told him how I feel about his stench on yesterday on "who reads FR.." thread.
He won't last long...start running, quick!
Yup. We think alike. Imagine that! :-)
Why, am I chopped liver?
Posting history sure looks like an agenda to me.
And lying politicians are costing us BILLIONS AND BILLIONS, BONEHEADS!!!!!
Never mind the fraud of the government services and the FED and Fannie and Freddie,....on and on and on................
Nope. I just have a relationship with lj that I haven't forged with you yet.
I don't like women! LOL! Your whole ping list are chasing me out of the building! LOL!!!!! Just kiddin' ;) OK?
Yeah yeah yeah. That's why you wanted it pinged. LOL
Mind meld. It's a FR thang.
They didn't figure how much was saved when they had to dismiss homosexuals when they harassed the straights. NOW it will cost the service millions to get rid of the creeps and more likely it will be Christians (bigots) who will be kicked out because they didn't succumb to the little gestures of love. The military is preventing freedom of religion because they are making the Bible into hate speech.
Homosexuality is all about sex and lust.....just the fact that they are so promiscuous proves it NEVER is about devotion and love for another person. That is why it is such a disgusting act (aside from the diseases and damage)....no honor or character for people who engage in those acts and think it "good". It always ends up in rampant pederasty, like Afghanistan, the Greeks and ancient Japanese.
Our military will be void of honor and character and no different than the pagan Greeks and Romans...the atheist Russians who made Patton puke and the Odin worshipping homosexual Nazi troops....So disgusting how they hide the true facts about the effect of the promotion of such evil, ugly demeaning acts on the morality where ever it occurs, like the Weimar Republic. The Bible describes Sodom and Gomorrah and it was no uglier than the Weimar Republic. It was well known that the National Vice of Germany in the 20's was rampant homosexuality. Every government official from other countries were warned to watch their back when they had to interact with Germans.
We need to get back to the Christian paradigm that we used to be under for two hundred years. It is aligned with Natural Law Theory and perfect for a free and just people. We need to get back to right and wrong. You cannot teach young children that evil acts are good. Moral relativism has to be abolished in the schools....John Dewey put it in the curricula...that is why we now have such immorality in society. it creates an immoral people who will end up like the Roman Empire. If it wasn't for Christianity, Western Civ would have died. No pagan, atheist, islamic, etc., societies could ever create the type of free-for-everyone country we had. It is not possible.
Morality is the fundamental element which can only be transmitted to children through an intact family where the mother thinks children are more important than her "job". Raising children is the most important job in this nation and the Marxists have been destroying the family to destroy the morality of the children and make women think raising children is drudgery. Now mothers have no values, but very superficial ones because of the lack of knowledge because the schools were ruined by the cultural Marxists starting in the 30's.
The leftists have found a simple way of neutering and destroying what was once the best military force in the world...which was their real intent all along.
Triple mind meld.
I propose a solution to this shortfall.
Defund Planned Parenthood entirely. Government has no business being involved in any way, pro or con, between what goes on with a woman and her abortionist.
You bet!
Goodnight FRiends!
He should have left the building last night.
Good night.
Of course we'll never know the net cost - or maybe benefit - of the policy because the study didn't look at the costs of the distractions, inefficiencies and personal conflicts which were avoided with the policy in place......
Oh, he just slipped out the back door...
Hmmmm from what I understand the military never stops recruiting and training!
How many druggies were bounced out? The cost of each new hire to use 0b0z0's words was an investment. A drug free service man/woman is an investment versus a druggie.
Now our military can't discharge open homosexuals, we as taxpayers will be picking up the cost of housing and medical care for their serial partners.
Then, when the number of aids cases explode with the active duty gays and their serial sexual partners, it will cost about $100,000 per year for each identified aids case.
There will be no disclosure of present aids or other serious medical problems of the new dependents, and those costs will be budget breakers for the military in a few years.
Last but not least, any druggie or loser on active duty will holler discrimination when the military tries to get rid of them for not being a good soldier/sailor/marine/airman/coastie. So the bad stuff will stay on active duty as no one will dare get rid of the scum because of legal procedures against those trying to enforce the MCJ.
LOL! I quite agree. $400 million is essentially pocket change in this area.
Why won't the GAy-O tell us the cost of implementing open sodomy in our military? Even the costs so far?
We'll never hear about this - ever.
Political correctness has truly come of age.
Slippery? As in KY "personal lubricant"?
The expenses incurred by keeping gays in the military is likely to be at least an order of magnitude higher than the cost of discharging them. The solution would be to expend greater efforts to not recruit them in the first place.
I was wondering when some troll would post this propaganda...
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It will cost a lot more to repeal. Also I'm sure that these costs are inflated. If you do some searching you you will find that the GAO has been steadily increasing these costs also they don't adjust for those troops that don't require replacements which is bogus anyway since the armed forces is consistently training new recruits. If this is the standard for costs then why not give us the cost for discharging any and all troops for whatever reason? The reason they don't is that discharges under DADT is a very small percentage of total discharges and the vast majority of discharges are a result not merely from discovering sexual orientation but in conjunction with unwanted advances etc. It is a red herring designed like a magician's trick to get you to focus on one thing while ignoring the magician's slight of hand. The cost to eject slightly overweight recruits I'm sure is much more expensive since homosexuals are such a small percentage of the military. Right now for example the air-force is in the process of cutting 6000 airmen so gay airmen caught having indiscriminate anal sex placing them and their fellow soldiers at risk of serious sexual disease plus placing tax payers at risk of financing long term care for the spectrum of sexual diseases including AIDs which such individuals are at a high risk of getting. It had been estimated that the long term potential cost to the military related to HIV & AIDs could be billions of dollars. I think that is what I dislike the most about these phony numbers games. If we are going to take estimates that inflate the costs of discharging homosexuals many of whom were discovered because of accosting their bunk-mates in the middle of the night or being found frequenting gay clubs taking part in high risk behavior then it should also be considered the costs related to dealing with the cost of open homosexuality in the military something which the media both conservative and otherwise are too cowardly to address.
About 60 percent of the new HIV infections in the military are from homosexual contact. The military up to this point had a lower incidence of HIV than the general population. I expect that to change as the lavender brigade takes over. The British experience is that the homos setup little butt bang clans which often includes the initiation of new recruits that they believe can be forced into submission. Lesbians have a history of being aggressive too often targeting straight girls. That's our new military.
In a discussion of the end of DADT on our local newspaper web site, I mentioned that the military would now be freer to prosecute homosexual harassment, the way they did TAIL HOOK.
Someone responded with a story about a female friend who had been complaining about the harassment she was receiving in the military from a lesbian in her barrack. She said that the woman was threatening to rape her. She took her complaint to her CO and was told to deal with it herself because he didn't want the problems that the complaint cause him.
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