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LEXINGTON, Va., April 10, 2014 -- Each year, right about this time, thousands of college students flock to the coast for spring break. Most of them aren't carrying bags of oyster shells.
But members of the VMI chapter of Engineers Without Borders carried plenty when they spent their spring break in South Carolina working with residents of a local fishing village to help preserve their way of life.
"The kids who are members of Engineers Without Borders came up with the idea," said Capt. John "Ned" Reister '78, the VMI faculty member who accompanied the cadets to McClellanville, S.C., a little town about 30 miles from Charleston. "They work hard."
The work on this EWB trip consisted of packing, hauling, and planting bags of recycled oyster shells. The VMI contingent filled hundreds of bags, each weighing between 30 and 40 pounds, every day and hauled them to the shoreline, where they would line the bags in the surf to create a makeshift reef. By the end of the eight-day trip, the group had packed and placed more than 1,000 bags of oyster shells.
The idea is to create an environment where more oysters, as well as other sea life, can grow and thrive. Each bag of empty shells will eventually become home to new oysters, as well as other species of ocean-going creatures.
"Eighty-five percent of the world's oyster population has disappeared," noted Riester, whose group worked with the Sewee to Santee Community Development Corp. while in South Carolina. "You lose anything, and it just impacts everything. Down there, they are doing very well, really turned it around."
Projects like this one are a major reason for that. The residents of McClellanville have been replenishing their oyster beds for several years, and as a result they have been able to maintain their way of life. That is something that was not lost on the cadets who were there helping out.
"The work we did in McClellanville was vital to both the local economy and environment," said Jacob Stetson '15. "It turns out that oysters are far more than shellfish we can eat. We learned that 85 percent of the local ocean life depends on the oyster at one point or another, either as food or as shelter for smaller creatures."
The little bivalve is more even than just a food source and a breeding ground. It also plays another vital role in the marine ecosystem.
"After three years, each bag of shells will be able to host 50 oysters, and each oyster filters 2.5 gallons of water a day," said Johnny Partin '15, president of the VMI chapter of Engineers Without Borders and the Honor Court vice president. "After three years, our reef will be able to filter 2.5 million gallons of water a day."
The group did not spend all of its time playing in the oyster beds. While there, it was also recruited to do a little community service work, like cutting down trees and power washing local homes. The cadets found that just as rewarding.
"The smaller jobs we did were important to me because it allowed me to see how meaningful a helping hand can be to people who truly need it," said Cadet Vania Murcia '17.
And that is what Engineers Without Borders is all about.
"The trip really captured the 'Without Borders' aspect of the club," Stetson said. "You certainly don't have to be an engineer, just willing to try new things, meet new people, and visit new places, but most importantly willing to help others and make our world a better place."
To see more photos, visit vmi.edu/reef.-Chris Floyd


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The Hollywood Reporter recently published a list of entertainment executive salaries, revealing once and for all what the CEOs of companies like Disney, Viacom, CBS and Discovery earn. While salaries aren't quite as sky-high as they were before the recession, these Hollywood moguls are still bringing in some serious cash. Here are some earnings highlights from the THR piece, followed by PayScale data on the average wages for employees at each parent company.
Moonves' wages were the highest in the THR report; his earnings are up 21 percent from last year.
Iger's salary is up 45 percent from his 2009 earnings and up 12 percent from his 2010 earnings. His pay package includes some $15.5 million in performance bonuses.
Murdoch doesn't need to disclose his current earnings until the fall, but in 2011, he earned 45 percent more than he did in the year prior.
Dolan's salary is down 15 percent from last year, although he did receive an $11.4 million bonus in 2011 to ease the burden.
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Valentine tip: Pauker cases
I've been getting Valentine emails with tips, tricks and gift guides since November already but I spared you the madness until now. Seven more days left until you can send that little love note, buy that gorgeous bouquet of flowers and tell your lovah lovah how much you love him/her. But Valentine's isn't just about your hubby, wifey, bf or gf. I think it's just a day where you show your loved ones what they mean to you. So go get your best friend or grandmother something nice too, they deserve it!
Oh but you don't know what to buy? Well, I would really love one of these Pauker iPhone cases for example. Their new collection consists of a few Valentine cases and if I could choose one, I think I'd pick the Infinity love sign! Why? Because it reminds me of Emily's tat in Revenge and because it's just simple and beautiful at the same time. Think it fits better with the sleek design of my iPhone 5. So hurry hurry and buy someone nice, something even nicer for only €29,99.
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David White is the National Executive Director for the Screen Actors Guild representing the needs of its members across the country.
His Town Hall appearance will cover New Media, New Platforms; Copyright Protection & Digital Theft; Promoting a Viable Entertainment Industry in Los Angeles and Beyond. Movie, television and new media fans as well as Angelenos concerned about our most well-known and widely distributed export won't want to miss this unique event.
Screen Actors Guild is the nation's largest labor union representing working actors. Established in 1933, SAG has a rich history in the American labor movement, from standing up to studios to break long-term engagement contracts in the 1940s to fighting for artists' rights amid the digital revolution sweeping the entertainment industry in the 21st century. With 20 branches nationwide, SAG represents over 125,000 actors who work in film and digital motion pictures and television programs, commercials, video games, industrials, Internet and all new media formats. The Guild exists to enhance actors' working conditions, compensation and benefits and to be a powerful, unified voice on behalf of artists' rights. SAG is a proud affiliate of the AFL-CIO. Headquartered in Los Angeles, you can visit SAG online at www.SAG.org.
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AMC Theatres offers $5 admission to see Oscar-nominated film
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It only costs a Lincoln to see "Lincoln" at select movie theaters on Presidents' Day.
AMC Theatres is offering a special $5 admission coupon for anyone who wants to see the Academy Award-nominated film.
The coupon is valid until the end of the day at the AMC Indian River 24 in Vero Beach.
"Lincoln" is a nominee for Best Picture. The 85th annual Academy Awards airs Sunday beginning at 7 p.m. on WPBF 25.
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For those who've been following it for the last few years, Toby Gard's Galleon had become something of a legend in videogame circles—though not for the right reasons. It first came into the spotlight for being the brainchild of the Tomb Raider creator, but soon turned into one of the industry's most high-profile no-shows. The game is so late, in fact, that it was originally slated to be a blockbuster on the Sega Dreamcast. Delay after delay plagued the game, and many (including myself) wondered if it would ever appear. It has, and although it arrived with a whimper, not a bang, I'm extremely glad that it materialized. In my view, Galleon is a textbook case that proves the phrase "better late than never" to be true.
The star of the game is swashbuckling sea captain Rhama Sabrier; two women, the redheaded magic user Faith, and Asian martial artist Mihoko accompany him on his journey. The trio is in pursuit of the turncoat responsible for killing Faith's father, and to prevent him from gaining power from a potent herb thought to be extinct. Their chase takes them across the high seas to several fantastic islands filled with mystical and terrible sights.
Just a few minutes past the opening scenes, Gard's influence is clearly felt, and grows stronger as progress is made through the game's seven levels. And though it is not connected in any way save for the man behind it, Galleon is without a doubt the spiritual successor and one possible evolution of what Tomb Raider might have become if Core hadn't run the series into the ground with too many sequels and not enough innovation.
In fact, just the opposite of Tomb Raider, Galleon is something of a gamer's game—a superb treat for connoisseurs containing many fresh concepts, bold ideas, excellent challenge, and an outstanding sense of restraint. Going further, I feel quite comfortable in saying that if the disc had managed to come out sooner than it did, it would have been nothing less than a landmark title setting pace for the industry. Don't believe me? Galleon features huge, expansive, and highly artistic 3D worlds requiring thought and acrobatic finesse to navigate, similar to the direction taken by Ubisoft's acclaimed Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. Galleon also sports supporting characters used in actual gameplay, not just the cutscenes, along with a basic system for controlling their actions. The end result is something akin to having more able versions of Yorda, the ghostly companion that made Sony's ICO such a masterpiece. These are just two examples, but the thing to remember is that Galleon had already incorporated these ideas before ICO or The Sands of Time ever went into production.
Besides those features, Galleon is built around a unique new type of control where the player decides the direction of the character's movement and leaves the details of getting there to the character itself. For example, I can point the camera towards a series of ledges leading to an overhang, and rather than worrying about trying to jump from ledge to ledge, Rhama will automatically grab, hop, and skip up onto the right surfaces and lift himself up in order to grab the overhang, his movements flowing naturally from one animation to the other. This new system, in conjunction with the vast areas to explore, create a fast, kinetic energy and adept feeling that isn't usually found in platform games. Instead of fearing high places and long drops, Rhama commands them boldly and takes me along for the ride.
The elements I've mentioned alone would be more than enough to make an above-average game, but Galleon goes further with level design and puzzles that remain interesting and intriguing throughout the length of the adventure. There's a sense of maturity; of an intelligence and taste rippling beneath the polygon exteriors of the tropical volcanoes, coral reef castles, and shattered cities floating in the sky. Instead of reveling in the usual clichés, these designs strike out in their own direction and challenge the standard approach to navigation and exploration, making me deal with each area in new ways.
The best example of this was a small segment of the game called the Room of Death. Filled with a series of spikes, buzzsaws, and blowtorches, my first instinct was to nail a split-second window of opportunity between the perils and try to leap through unscathed. I realized I was playing a different sort of game when I stepped back and really took a good look at my surroundings. Above the sharp edges and spinning metal was a small cave entrance, and by having Rhama scurry up the side of the wall and crouch into the opening, I bypassed the room entirely. Finding that route was almost as though the developers were winking at me knowingly and saying that such pedestrian obstacles were beneath them.
I have almost nothing negative to say about the game, though there are a few wayward bits held over from Gard's former work that haven't been completely left behind. For example, combat has historically been one of the worst parts of the Tomb Raider experience, and the same could be said for Galleon. Rhama's skills include proficiency with hand-to-hand, swords, and one-shot pistols, but the interaction with enemies and hit detection aren't as tight as they could be. The game also has a bad (and surprisingly archaic) habit of spawning enemies in ambush points, at times even letting them appear out of thin air. Things like this can be disappointing, but in light of how much the game gets right, it's not too hard to forgive.
I had contemplated ending this review without discussing the visuals, but along with its delinquent timeline, Galleon has also become a bit infamous for its graphics. Clearly, work on the game was begun in a different era and I'd bet that the screenshots on the back of the box have been enough to discourage many people who would most likely enjoy the gameplay. The character models and some parts of the environments are indeed very rough and angular, but after only a few minutes I stopped seeing what they didn't have and started seeing what they did; a charm and coherence within the context of Galleon's world that was impossible to ignore. The game is unquestionably well-realized, and regardless of Rhama's low polygon count, watching the captain execute a series of leaps, grabs and landings miles above the ground is a joy to watch.
I found Galleon to be an exquisite experience from start to finish. Its huge set pieces, impressive vistas, and engaging mechanics are as strong as the sense of personality and creatorship behind them. It's clear to see the potential for how great Galleon could, and would, have been had it been able to avoid the pitfalls and problems that delayed it for what is essentially an eternity in videogame terms. It's just a terrible shame that the things it would have pioneered in the past have already been done by other games in the years between its conception and birth. Adding insult to injury, most players won't bother to give it a second glance when comparing the graphics to the current wave of techno-candy and high-octane sequels. Galleon's vision is amazing, its design was literally a huge leap ahead of its contemporaries, and I applaud the work without reservation. But there's just no way around one unavoidable fact—its brilliance will likely go unrecognized because it simply took too long to arrive.


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Big bells of red, yellow, purple and orange, long skinny cayennes, little red-hot bullets, oval jalapeños and stubby ramshorns—few other vegetables display such an array of shapes, sizes and colours. What all peppers have in common, though, is a love of heat and sun. Add to that an ability to fruit abundantly in large pots, and you have one of the very best vegetables for container growing.
Native to the warmer parts of South America, peppers thrive in Texas, Mexico and the West Indies, where the plants may reach small shrub size. But beyond the "banana belt" of southern Ontario and B.C.'s Okanagan Valley, these heat lovers can be a stretch across much of Canada. It's all a matter of degrees. In windswept gardens, where soil is cool and heavy, peppers may sit and shiver for weeks. But set a young plant in a big pot of light, nourishing soil, in the warmest, sunniest spot you can find— a deck or balcony sheltered by a south- facing wall, or even a greenhouse bench—and watch it grow. A location change of even a few metres can make the difference between a meagre harvest and a bumper crop.
When to start your peppers
Any gardener who has grown tomatoes successfully from seed can manage peppers, keeping in mind that pepper seeds and plants move a whole lot slower. Late winter, i.e., mid to late March, is the time to start. Push three or four seeds a half-centimetre deep into loose moist soil—all-purpose starting mix is fine—in 8- to 10-centimetre pots. Loosely drape a sheet of clear plastic over the pots and put them someplace quite warm; small sprouts should push through in about 10 days. Once seedlings show true leaves (the second set of leaves to emerge), pinch out all but one sturdy seedling. This rough-and-ready "thinning" eliminates the job of transplanting, a step that may set seedlings back.


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The Grand Haven VFW is hosting their 5th Annual Soup and Slider Festival and contest March 8, 2014 at the Grand Haven VFW located at 20 N. First Street in downtown Grand Haven. Several vendors will compete for Best Soup and Slider and People's Choice for Best Soup and Slider.
Event rundown:
Open to the public
Admission is free
9:00 AM: Bar open to the public and serving $2.00 Bloody Marys until 11:00 AM.
Michigan craft beer, domestics, and mixed drinks served from 9:00 AM until end of event.
Must be 21 years of age or older to purchase alcohol
11:00 AM-4:00 PM: Live entertainment with vendors serving their best soup and sliders
Soup $1.00 per bowl
Sliders $2.00 per slider
50/50 raffle during the day
Judges vote for Best Soup and Slider along with public voting for People's Choice. Trophies presentation
All proceeds to benefit veterans and veterans programs
Recipes featured on Take Five:
"American Pride Bloody Mary"
-Fill mason jar with ice
-Add three shots of vodka
-Fill with Zing Zang Bloody Mary mix,
leaving some room for goodies
-Add a splash of Worcestershire sauce
-Depending on how spicy you desire add a few drops of Tabasco sauce and 1/2 teaspoon of Horseradish sauce
-Garnish with a skewer of meat and cheese as well as a skewer of assorted pickled veggies and a pickle
"Orange Creamsickle" - A taste of summer after a rough winter
-Fill glass with ice
-Add a shot of Orange flavored vodka
-Fill with Sprite or Sierra Mist
-Add a splash of Grenadine (This smooths the taste)
Garnish with an orange slice
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Then And NowBy Posted: Jul 18, 2008
In honor of ONE LIFE TO LIVE's 40th anniversary, here's a look at just a handful of Soap Opera Digest covers featuring some of the show's hottest stars. For more anniversary coverage, be sure to pick up the July 22 issue of Digest, on sale this week.January 1977: Erika Slezak and Lee Patterson posed for the cover as Viki and Joe fought to make their marriage work the second time around. Meanwhile, Slezak shared how she met future husband Brian Davies in "Erika Slezak: Surprised By Love!"
Update: Slezak and Davies married the following year and will celebrate their 30th anniversary this year.
March 17, 1981: Digest asked, "Can Asa Corral This Filly?" referring to the May/December romance of Asa (Phil Carey) and Samantha (Julie Montgomery). Asa wooed reluctant Sam by throwing her a birthday "barbecue to end all barbecues" in Southampton and succeeded in getting her to break up with her unfaithful boyfriend, Mick.
Update: Asa made Sam Wife No. 2 that same year, but it didn't last. During the show's 35th anniversary episode in 2003, Asa told great-granddaughter Sarah, "Eh ... she was a little too young."
July 26, 1988: Digest paid tribute to OLTL's 20 years on the air with an array of vintage photos, cast member musings and this fabulous cover shot of Bob Woods (Bo), John Loprieno (ex-Cord), James DePaiva (ex-Max) and Andrea Evans (Tina). Creator Agnes Nixon recalled Ernest Graves's (ex-Victor) problem learning lines: "He would write his lines everywhere. On his finger. In one scene he had to point his finger at Anthony Ponzini [ex-Charlie]. Ponzini said to him, 'If you're gonna write a line on your finger, write my line.' "
Update: Twenty years later, Nixon shared that same story while speaking a Paley Center tribute to the show. She is also scheduled to appear on OLTL for the first time as Viki makes her second trip to Heaven the week of July 21.
May 28, 1991: After facing multiple obstacles (e.g., Hunter, Jake's commitment issues, Carlo), Jake (Joe Lando) and Megan (Jessica Tuck) finally made it to the altar. In the behind-the-scenes wedding coverage, their portrayers admitted to not getting along initially. "Even when we hated each other, it still came out that there was something there," shared Lando. "Somewhere along the line, we hit it off."
Update: Jake and Megan's love story was short-lived, as Megan succumbed to lupus in 1992. The unforgettable scene of Megan dying in his arms, after looking at the tree they planted on their wedding day, is still one of the hottest retro OLTL clips on YouTube.
July 6, 1993: Leading ladies Slezak, Robin Strasser (Dorian) and Karen Witter (then-Tina) graced the cover for OLTL's 25th Anniversary. Woods lamented Bo's bad luck with women and revealed that he wore a higher-heeled pair of cowboy boots when playing opposite statuesque Shelly Burch (ex-Delila). Slezak also shared that it was her idea for Viki's alter Niki Smith to wear a red wig.
Update: Bo continues to have bad luck with women (see the 2002 update) and Viki has managed to stifle Niki for the most part.
October 24, 1995: After two years of playing Todd, Roger Howarth decided to walk, explaining to Digest that he wholeheartedly disagreed with the unrealistic shift from Todd Manning, the serial rapist/psychopath who terrorized Marty and countless others, to the redeemable Todd Lord and called it "a fantasy." He also insisted that he would not be working in daytime in the foreseeable future.
Update: Howarth returned to OLTL the following year and proceeded to come and go as Todd until joining AS THE WORLD TURNS as Paul in 2003.
May 6, 1997: Digest explored the complicated history between Todd, Patrick (Thorsten Kaye), Marty (Susan Haskell) and Blair (Kassie DePaiva), as well as the equally complex tale that led to Blair losing Patrick's baby. In a sidebar, Howarth praised new Head Writers Claire and Matt Labine for staying true to the history of Todd. When asked if it's possible for Todd to be happy, he asserted, "No. He'll always get in his own way — or something else will get in his way."
Update: OLTL's cooking up another deliciously complicated story for Todd, Marty and Blair, while Patrick died off-screen.
November 14, 2000: Ben's (Mark Derwin) troublesome past was poised to catch up with him as Viki and Ben prepared to say their I do's. While Slezak claimed it would be Viki's last wedding, the actress was thrilled to be wearing her first real bridal gown, after donning everything from an "afternoon tea dress" to a red dress and matching coat for Viki's previous seven weddings. "The original Viki — Gillian Spencer — wore a big, white wedding dress for [Viki and Joe's 1970 wedding]," noted the actress. "But until now, I'd never gotten to wear one!"
Update: Ben was shot at by a hit man at the reception, but not wounded. In 2004, however, he died. Viki has not married since, but will briefly reunite with her late hubby in heaven.
February 19, 2002: Twisted triangle Troy (Ty Treadway), Lindsay (Catherine Hickland, l.) and Nora (Hillary B. Smith) made the cover story as Troy sought to expose Lindsay's role in Nora's kidnapping. The article listed Lindsay's myriad crimes, noting, "Lindsay has gotten away with everything but murder."
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Report: Jason Giambi, Roger Clemens 'Routinely' Drank Beer in Yankees Dugout
Apparently, there isn't much difference between an MLB dugout and your local pub.
According to the "two veteran clubhouse insiders" who were interviewed by The Daily News, many MLB players -- including members of the prestigious New York Yankees -- would knock a few pops back during games.
"Jason Giambi and Roger Clemens would routinely drink beer on the dugout bench when they played for the Yankees, passing back and forth what Giambi called his 'protein shake' -- code for a cup of beer," reportersTeri Thompson and Michael O'Keeffe wrote on Thursday.
"Rally beers are big in the clubhouse," one insider told them. "Guys would drink them all the time, on the bench, in the clubhouse, in the training room. It's common."
Another report indicates that a former Red Sox and Yankee, Jose Canseco, reportedly drank a can of light beer before each home run during at least one of his two three-home run games. According to Baseball-Reference.com, Canseco bagged his first three-homer game against the Blue Jays on July 3, 1994. He did the feat again on June 13, 1998 when his Rangers beat the Mariners, 17-9.
One of The Daily News' sources even calls out the Mets for being boozed up during ballgames.
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Rajinikanth offers prayers at Kalikambal temple
The frequent visit to hospital for treatment has broken down Rajinikanth partially. Ever since, he started shooting for his highly anticipated movie, 'Rana' he was hospitalized twice. Seeking the permission of hospital authority, Rajinikanth visited the nearest Kalikambal temple and performed puja for his speedy recovery.
A source from the hospital revealed, "Rajinikanth took permission from the doctors treating him to visit the Kalikambal temple to perform a special pooja. Soon after the ritual was over he headed back to the hospital and is under observation."
Another source revealed, " Rajini wants to go home soon and therefore he prayed at the temple for a speedy recovery. The superstar is also upset about his illness affecting Rana shoot schedule. He wants to get well soon so as to not inconvenience anybody."
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DUBAI: Corporation Bank and global remittance and foreign exchange company UAE Exchange have entered into an agreement to offer FLASHremit services to customers.
The pact will enable customers to now send money real time to their beneficiaries' bank accounts in Corporation Bank.
The service will enable money transfer to bank account 'within minutes' and also intimate both sender and receiver through SMS on account credit.


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Metallica- S&M
1. The Ecstasy of Gold
2. The Call of Ktulu
3. Master of Puppets
4. Of Wolf and Man
5. The Thing That Should Not Be
6. Fuel
7. The Memory Remains
8. No Leaf Clover
9. Hero of The Day
10. Devil's Dance
11. Bleeding Me
12. Nothing Else Matters
13. Until it Sleeps
14. For Whom The Bell Tolls
15. -Human
16. Wherever I May Roam
17. The Outlaw Torn
18. Sad But True
19. One
20. Enter Sandman
21. Battery
So, around this time I had heard Metallica on the radio and liked some stuff but didn't really invest in them. Then a friend on my school bus (I credit the long school bus ride for introducing me to a lot of music) said if I like Metallica then check this out: Metallica playing a concert with a orchestra and I remember thinking: LOL A ROCK BAND PLAYING WITH A SISSY ORCHESTRA LOL GAYZ. Boy was I wrong
Say what you will about Metallica but this release was a highlight; many bands have done the show with an orchestra backing and Metallica made it work; a lot of credit goes to Michael Kamen and the San Francisco Orchestra, the whole album feels powerful, and once I gave it a chance, it turned me onto the band and pushed me to go after their other releases, starting with Ride the Lightning. One of my all time favorite live albums, S&M gave me the unusual route to Metallica
Today's score 9/10
07/19-Rob Zombie/Korn
08/06-Weird Al
I'm not the biggest fan of S&M. It just seems like most songs have Metallica doing their own thing and the symphony doing theirs. It doesn't seem like they try to play off one another too much, which is too bad.
That said, I fucking love No Leaf Clover.
05/27 - Visceral Disgorge
05/28 - Horrendous
05/29 - Hellbringer
05/30 - Denouncement Pyre
09/02 - God Is An Astronaut
I have really been enjoying the evolution concept of this thread.
I seem to know a number of people who got into Metallica via S&M. To me it is a very interesting record - a few songs work fantastically others not so much. However, Metallica is one of the few metal bands that pulled off playing with an orchestra to have the outcome be a very listenable and enjoyable record throughout.
04/05 - Kataklysm, Aborted
04/08 - Carcass, Gorguts, TBDM
04/23 - Behemoth
04/24 - Nile
No leaf clover is cool and the rest is shit.
Staind- Break the Cycle
Don't worry I'm not letting this die, it has been very busy for me but I will keep this going
1. "Open Your Eyes"
2. "Pressure"
3. "Fade"
4. "It's Been Awhile"
5. "Change"
6. "Can't Believe"
7. "Epiphany"
8. "Suffer"
9. "Safe Place"
10. "For You"
11. "Outside"
12. "Waste"
13. "Take It"
I feel like the one band that just exploded in 2001 more than anyone else not just in metal but all music was Staind with Break the Cycle; I had no clue who these guys were outside of hearing Mudshovel a couple times and not connecting the dots that these were the same guys. This is the album I enjoyed the most in 2001 and also got the most work out of my CD player. BTC is a great mix of heavy tracks like Open Your Eyes, Can't Believe and Suffer along with very radio friendly hits like Outside and of course It's Been a While. Like them or not you have to admit Aaron Lewis has a serious set of pipes on him, and the band is not afraid to go after darker lyrical material with drugs, suicide and depression being major themes here which was perfect for the 10th grade me. It is too bad that they did so good on this album because for me everything thing else they did after this did not come close. As stated in my concert review of the Family Values tour Staind was a great live band and the material played off BTC translated very well live. I don't get quite as much when I listen to this today, but I give this album credit for not just evolving my musical tastes, but giving me a safer outlet for my TEEN ANGST GOD NO ONE LIKES ME back in the day
Today's score 8.5/10
07/19-Rob Zombie/Korn
08/06-Weird Al
Deftones- White Pony
1. "Back to School (Mini Maggit)"
2. "Feiticeira"
3. "Digital Bath"
4. "Elite"
5. "RX Queen"
6. "Street Carp"
7. "Teenager"
8. "Knife Prty"
9. "Korea"
10. "Passenger"
11. "Change (In the House of Flies)"
12. "Pink Maggit"
(note: this is the re-issue version with "Back to School (Mini Maggit) included which was released in 2001 while the album itself was released in 2000)
So going back to when I got The Matrix soundtrack I really liked My Own Summer (shove it) but never pursued the Deftones until 2001 when I saw the video for Back to School (Mini Maggit) and Change (In the House of Flies). I honestly only got the album for those two songs and never really got into the rest of the album but that is not to say the album is weak; in fact if I were to give it a proper listen I'm sure I would love it, as I did sample the other songs but I was in a one track mindset and only really focused on songs I had heard on the radio or watched on TV. I don't really listen to Deftones today but they are a good band and perhaps one day I will dive into them
Today's score 8/10
EDIT: Holy shit the picture is big I don't know why I use Wikipedia for uploading the album covers; if a mod can fix it be my guest
07/19-Rob Zombie/Korn
08/06-Weird Al
Don't trip, bro. I always post gigantic album pics on my "50 Greatest Hip Hop album" thread. It's all good!
8/31 - Sleep
11/10 - Judas Priest
11/14 - Slayer
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Guest Post: Europe Is Drowning Under Too Much Government
Submitted by Alasdair Macleaod via Peak Prosperity,
The Christmas and New Year's break, when Europe shuts down and stops thinking, is now well and truly over, and we are reawakening to the same old problems: Greece, Spain, Cyprus, Portugal, Italy, France... all with their hands out for money from Germany, Holland, Finland, and Austria.
The holiday from the banking crisis, which was the result of the determination of the ECB to put a lid on it, is also over, with yields on the supplicant countries' debt rising again.
However, joining the bad news list is the United Kingdom. Ominously, the pound is sliding in the foreign exchange markets, providing a very tricky background for Chancellor Osborne's budget on March 20th. I shall examine the UK's position later, but first let's update ourselves on developments in the Eurozone.
The reality is that all the problems of the Eurozone are still with us, despite the fall in bond yields and their modest subsequent recovery. There is now the likelihood that we are about to enter the final phase of the end of the Eurozone experiment, with far wider consequences. So we need to pick up the story where we left off.
First, let's look at the trend of government-debt-to-GDP for selected countries (the numbers are from the ECB):
As we can see, government deficits for these countries took off from the time of the banking crisis and are still increasing beyond the charts' cut-off point into 2012. They reflect poor economic performance, a lack of desire to slash government spending, and contracting bank credit. Only Spain and France were below Carmen Reinhart and Ken Rogoff's tipping point of 90% government debt-to-GDP (see their book, This Time is Different), but in Spain's case for 2012, if you add in €27bn raised to pay the backlog of bills incurred by regional governments and the €40bn so far (and rising) to bail out the mortgage banks, today Spain is closer to 100% debt to GDP, and France's is now over 90%.
Bank credit continues to be withdrawn by European cross-border lenders, as the figures from the Bank for International Settlements, which run from the time of the banking crisis, show in the next chart:
This is a deflating credit bubble. Italy, France, and Ireland have seen the largest withdrawals. Italy has been pursuing aggressive tax collection, driving wealth abroad and deterring economic activity, Ireland has seen a contraction in its financial centre, but France is the surprise suggesting that deflationary forces are stronger than generally understood. The decline in bank lending from European banks has been compensated for by generous Americans, presumably too-big-to-fail banks on instruction from the Fed, putting up an extra $850bn in the first three quarters of 2009. Meanwhile, UK banks have maintained business as usual, slightly increasing their exposure from 2009 onwards. This is shown in the next chart.
Of course, domestic bank lending in all of these countries, with the possible exception of France, has equally been constrained by capital flight from domestic banks, reflected in TARGET2 balances building up in Germany, Netherlands, Luxembourg, and Finland, as shown in the next chart.[1]
This capital flight has come from the other countries on this chart, and interestingly, there is early evidence that money is now leaving France.
Overall the pressure has come off these imbalances, the natural consequence of a pause in the flow of bad news perhaps, and reflecting the ECB's success in bringing back a degree of stability. This is also reflected in the next chart, which groups central bank loans to credit institutions in the weak, the strong, and others:
We can clearly see the effect of last year's crisis on the GIIPS banks, but there is also a worrying pick-up in France, which makes up the bulk of "others".
This quick tour of European statistics sets the scene. It is clear that some short-term stability has returned, but there is not enough evidence that the underlying position has actually changed. One should bear in mind that European politicians and their economic advisers, with very few exceptions, do not understand markets, and believe that they mostly require confidence. While there is some short-term truth in this belief as recent market performance suggests, the European political establishment appears to go further, believing that confidence is everything. The current economic strategy is therefore little more substantive than to talk markets up.
The reality behind this short-term façade is very different. As time marches on, government employees have to be paid and welfare distributed. Those combined government deficits for the Eurozone need feeding by extra taxes and borrowing at the rate of $40bn per month and rising. And this is only part of the story; along with as central governments, regional governments, cities, and towns (particularly in the periphery) are in deep trouble and have even suspended salaries for employees such as doctors and teachers, as well as payments for essential services.
General government in the Eurozone (which for statistical purposes includes regional and local governments) takes up approximately 50% of GDP. This is the Eurozone's weakness: The productive capacity of its economy is overwhelmed by the burden of too much government.
Now go back to the first chart, showing the trend of government-debt-to-GDP for selected countries, and worry. It is indicative not only of the suffocating burden of government debt, but because government dominates individual economies, it is also tells us that their private sectors cannot backstop this debt through future taxes.
Therefore there's no way economic recovery will provide the get-out-of-jail card for the weaker group of countries. The transfer of wealth from a relatively limited private sector to high-spending governments is no solution, as France has found out. If you raise taxes to balance the books, taxpayers walk.
Welfare Costs
No one in Europe mentions escalating welfare costs. So far as I am aware, there are no estimates for the net present value of future welfare costs for Eurozone countries, such as the one by Professor Kotlikoff of Boston University for the United States. The element of "baby-boomers" in European demographics varies, but the state pensions, healthcare costs, and other benefits are very high, as shown in the following table (data mostly supplied by the OECD "Pensions at a glance 2011"). Over the last year, pension costs as a proportion of GDP will have risen above these figures due to the increasing retirement rate, and even more sharply in those countries where GDP has fallen. These figures will therefore be under-estimates for the current position.
We know from Professor Kotlikoff's estimates that the net present value of the US's future welfare costs rose $11 trillion in 2012, we also know that free healthcare in the eurozone is more advanced – meaning more expensive - than in the US. With the eurozone's public pension costs on average nearly twice that of the US, we can see that the baby-boomer and longevity problems faced by the United States are nothing compared with key Eurozone countries. It is also important to note that the cost on government finances of a retiring wage-earner is two-fold: The state loses tax revenue and gains a cost.
The only Eurozone countries in the table with lower pension costs are Ireland and the Netherlands, both smaller population countries. Furthermore, all Eurozone countries, with the exception of Ireland, have a higher proportion of pensioners than the OECD average, implying again that future welfare costs are substantially greater than those of the U.S.
The level of unemployment (the last column) must be taken into account as well, because an unemployed person does not pay the taxes to fund pensions. The countries with a high level of unemployment and higher-than-average numbers of pensioners as a proportion of the working population are in deep trouble. The worst, in descending order, are Greece, Italy, Spain, Portugal, and France. Furthermore, Spain, and Ireland have raided their public pension funds to support general government finances.
We can therefore conclude that even if somehow the Eurozone extracts itself from its current difficulties it will have to address the burden of these future welfare costs as a matter of urgency.
While on the subject of welfare and pensions, it is worth mentioning the impact on Scandinavian countries with their exceptionally high taxes, which vary from Norway's 57.9% of GDP to Sweden's 51.4%. These countries, which everyone assumes are financially stable, will be badly hit by the demographic time-bomb.
So far, welfare has not been a headline issue anywhere and until fairly recently politicians have stayed off the subject. However, it is now being recognised as a growing problem to which there is no easy solution. Properly accounted for with reasonable provisions made, it is obvious that including the net present value of these future commitments true government deficits are multiples higher than officially stated.
Eurozone Politics
The political balance has changed substantially over the last year, from the cosy days when Merkel met Sarkozy and Monti kept the Italians in order. First, Sarkozy was dumped by the French electorate, which preferred welfare to austerity, and now Monti has been dumped for similar reasons. The idea that Chancellor Merkel can trade greater fiscal control over the Eurozone debtors for her own electoral support in Germany has been disproved. The ramifications of the hung Parliament in Rome are likely to be profound, not least in Berlin.
Germany faces full elections in September this year, and it will be difficult for Chancellor Merkel to win, given that her party, the Christian Democrats, did badly in the local German elections in January. The German voter has generally been more concerned with Germany's relative economic success, bringing low unemployment, than the intractable problem of supporting other Eurozone nations. This may be changing, with Germany's more dynamic export markets – China, Russia, and the other emerging economies – slowing somewhat. If this trend continues and unemployment rises, the Christian Democrats will find it a struggle to get re-elected.
For this reason, it is likely that Merkel's room for manoeuvre will be increasingly limited. It is apparent to the German voter that the government has no prospect of recovering money lent to the Eurozone periphery through the banks, reflected in TARGET2 balances, nor directly through the European Stability Mechanism (ESM). So far, the ESM has only lent €40bn to Spain to recapitalise the Spanish mortgage banks, but the demands on the ESM are bound to increase. Germany's contribution to date is €21.72bn, which can be increased, if required, to €190bn.
Given Merkel's political difficulties, she is likely to be slow to subscribe Germany's full commitment and can use the excuse that she can only be expected to match the other large contributors – who are by the way, France, Italy, and Spain. It is likely to be a political virtue for her to take a tougher line.
It would therefore be a mistake to think that Germany is going to continue to fund profligate governments. Since the ECB has already created the precedent (quote from Mr Draghi: "Whatever it takes"), the ECB will have to end up creating the money required.
In Part II - Europe: Welcome to the Domino Effect, we conclude therefore that the Eurozone is now on track for a hyper-inflationary outcome, rather than a deflationary collapse, similar to prospects for the other major currencies. Its collective banking system is also extremely vulnerable to shocks with accumulated bad debts from prior bubbles and prospective bad debts from insolvent government debts.
To understand how this will play out, one needs to understand the likely future in store for each of the most unfluential, unstable players in this unfolding melodrama: Spain, Italy, France – and a recent addition, the UK.
Click here to read Part II of this report (free executive summary; enrollment required for full access).
[1] This and the next chart are reproduced with kind permission from the Institute of Empirical Economic Research, Osnabruck University.
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Flee to the Golden Deutche Mark, Germany, flee..
a video about government: http://vimeo.com/31304149
Government is not the problem, it is the symptom of the problem.
The problem is that governments are run by a private international banking cartel that controls the definition and issuance of currency and credit.
From that lens, government's primary role IS TO ESCALATE THE AMOUNT OF "BANKER WIDGETS" (DEBT) THAT CAN BE FOISTED UPON THE GULLIBLE CITIZENRY.
If buggy whip manufatcurers ran the world, every solution to every problem would be more buggy whips.
That alone tells you WHO RUNS THE WORLD knowing that every "solution" is more "banker widgets" (debt).
Debt Money Tyranny is their modern day Trojan Horse - even better it works its evil in a near complete covert manner...
Until this information, THIS REALITY, goes mainstream, we don't stand a chance.
These criminals literally RENT AMERICAN AND THE WORLD ITS MONEY SUPPLY AND COLLECT INTEREST UPON IT.
Why? Because they RIGGED THE SYSYEM AND WE ARE IGNORANT SCHMUCKS - AND WE'VE BEEN CONDITIONED TO 1. RATHER ENJOY SCHMUCK STATUS OR 2. BE SO PATHETIC WE STAND DOWN AS OUR COMMUNITIES ARE GANG RAPED AROUND US.
Give it some time and your daughters and/or grand daughters will be whoring themselves out for a few bucks just to eat when these criminals are done with you.
Who knows, may a Rothschild will dress down and take your daughter for a $10 ride - the new royalty doesn't have to rape the peasant girls, they put them in poverty so they line up to f* 'em with a smile!
Spread the word - the hard work of visually depicitng the method of operation has already been done.
Your part is easy.
Only fools believe our problems can be solved politically. That is the assumption when people say 'Government is not the problem'. They are fully corrupt accesory to crime. Those who replace them will be fully corrupt in time.
The ONLY way out is to not have government that can be corrupted. That means minimal government and a monetary system that can not be leveraged and conjured!
Germany should do what many of us ZH said a long time ago : tell the bankrupt EU to go fark themselves, go back to the Deutschmark.
The real question of all this : how many European people are gonna have to die before freedom reigns in Europe? A million? 10 million? 100 million?
Germany should follow Bernankrugmanpig's lead, since IT fixed everything. Here's just a short case study as to how it's done:
Just looking at the S&P; it has gained 128% since the lows put in as of March of 2009, compliments of...
....wait for it....
...the 1.5 trillion USD companies listed on the S&P 500 have expended in buying back their own shares of stock (why wouldn't they when they can float a 3 year corporate bond for 1%?).
"In this run-up, nearly all the buying has come from companies repurchasing their own stock in an effort to boost its value. Companies in the S&P 500 have bought $1.5 trillion since the Great Recession began in December 2007."
See Dow closes at all-time [nominal] high, beating 2007 record
I'm trying to find similar ratios for the Fab 30 Dow and the Nasdaq, but I'd imagine it's roughly proportionate on a market cap ratio basis, as that excerpt suggests.
So, the Fed has printed trillions from thin air, distributed this money base to Primary Dealers and banking/financial entities at near zero cost basis to "invest" (aka speculate, aka gamble), while at the same time, the Federal Reserve has swapped Treasuries for shitty assets banks and financial firms wouldn't otherwise be able to unload (aka "a way above fair market value transaction"), and corporations that are publicly traded on the Dow, Nasdaq & S&P500 have used near free loans to buy back a record amount of their own shares.
And that's your rally in a nutshell, which will end in tears for nearly every person who has purchased or will purchase anything stock "market" related with their own money; aka same as it's always been, but this one is the a 10 trillion dollar bubble inflated in 4 years that will ultimately (once the extreme leverage being utilized, even by recent, historical standards, is accounted for) dwarf the 2000 bust and the 2008 bust.
With a depression-esque economic backdrop, where nearly 1/2 of new cars sold are based on loans provided to individuals with subprime credit ratings (car buyers taking out bigger loans, set new record; 44% of new car loans provided to subprime credit applicants in Q4), the Federal Government (via FHA) guaranteeing 90% of all new home mortgages (FHA inches closer and closer to bailout), an unemployment rate that would easily exceed 15% if the same metric to calculate it during the 1980s were being used today by the BLS (Alternative Measures of the Unemployment Rate), a trillion dollar Student Loan Bubble underway, consumer debt rising to record 2.77 trillion USD , real wages & benefits falling, and the government and quasi-governmental agencies working hand in hand with the Financial/Banking complex to allow these financial & banking entities to get new, even greater leeway in valuing (unicorn & rainbow methodology) their assets, while the BLS and other governmental and Federal Reserve-related (is the Fed governmental or not? It depends on who is asking and why, according to the Fed) also manipulating every statistical economic data point, from the rate of inflation to the rate of GDP growth (which would show contraction for quite a few quarters, including the last one, if it weren't for understating inflation via statistical manipulation)...
...all is well.
Antal Fekete with some interesting thoughts on Germany, gold repatriation and backwardation:
Will Germany make its way to her "finest hour"?
h/t ChanceIs
If the Germans do that, how will the German banks survive? You do know that the austerity being forced on the peripheral countries is solely to bail out the corrupt and insolvent German banks, right?
To the posters here familiar with Kafka's "In the Penal Colony".
What message would you have the machine tattoo/write into Ben Bernanke's back?
"Gold bitchez"?
"QE 4evah"?
"Shit that hurts".
"Fuck, that REALLY fucking hurts".
One of the few places WORSE to start a business than the USA: Europe!
Typical Xero-Hedge hatchet job, long on ultra-reactionary politics short on facts, surprising the source is from Chris Martenson rather than von Mises Inc:
"General government in the Eurozone (which for statistical purposes includes regional and local governments) takes up approximately 50% of GDP. This is the Eurozone's weakness: The productive capacity of its economy is overwhelmed by the burden of too much government."
On the other side of the fence there is the accusation that the productive capacity of the economy is overwhelmed by the burden of crooked bankers and other finance criminals.
Set the productive capacity of the economy free ... to make more automobiles and tract houses, more strip malls and gigantic highrise towers, oversized ships and airports, militaries and 'institutions' ... More! More! More ...!
The real problem in the economy besides the distracting noises from people who should know better is there is no such thing as productive capacity, gross output does not equal net output, in fact zero-productive capacity is self-evident! If enterprises could pay their own way, they would certainly have so by now ... there would be no crisis as the repayment of debts would be a matter of deploying greater numbers of productive machines.
Instead, more machines = more debts. There have been industrial endeavors for 400 years, during which time no industrial enterprise has ever come close to paying its own way ... during which time every single enterprise has been subsidized by exponentially increasing debt. As a fact, our modern money is itself debt, it cannot be anything else for our industrial economy cannot survive within its means.
So much for 'honest money' ... we have a dishonest economy, why should the money be any different?
All of this is obvious to a child, as clear as the nose on your face: the industrial economies of this world are bankrupting themselves all at once, now, at the same time together for the same reason: they cannot borrow because they cannot repay! Nations, firms, individuals must borrow continuously so as to roll over previous rounds of debts, all are now inundated with accumulated debt service costs.
Additionally, there is the cost of fuel to waste pointlessly, fuel that is now too valuable to burn up for nothing, stranding hundreds of trillion$ worth of sunk capital 'investment' ... a billion automobiles, a billion miles of roads to nowhere, billions of useless 'buildings' billions of hated giant governments, trillions in 'investments' all in the wrong places, stone heads on Easter Island.
Which is where we are going to wind up.
Well you are partially right, but mostly wrong.
Value is created through labor. Dirt becomes ore, ore becomes metal, metal becomes tools or girders or whatever. At each stage of the process the utility for people increases. In other words "value" is created through the labor put into it.
In a real economy value is only trade for value. Money is only created proportionate to the value available and the money is used as a convenient exchange mechanism only.
However, along the way the clever ones figured out that they could create as much money as they want and then they could not only sell money as a mechanism for the exchange of value, but as the main store of value as well. In doing this, they found out also that people would pay them money to be lent money. And this as you inadvertantly pointed out is where the problem started. When money is created sole for the purpose of creating debt and interest is paid there is never enough MONEY (not value) in the system to pay back all of the money created. It is a mathematical impossibility. Therefore there MUST be inflation so that interest can be paid and a growth paradigm is also created because for businesses to pay back the money they owe, they must grow.
The falasy with your arguments is both in tht assumptions you use such as: "If enterprises could pay their own way, they would certainly have so by now" and in fact there was a time in the 1960 where a large number of companies were becoming debt free ... which is the absolutely worst thing that could happen for the banks. The banks would both lose the control they have over the corporations AND they would lose a large source of income (government being the largest source of income). The banks had to find a way to subvert the corporations that were becoming debt free and they did this by both corrupting company executives and making them part of an inner circle of massively overpaid parasites AND by promoting through multiple avenues the idea that ownership of assets was an inefficient use of capital. Instead companies should be judged based on how much money they made off of money (debt .. or OPM). The banks baking sure a company's stock price was highest for those companies that did exactly what the bankers wanted (findamentals be daned) ... and the financialization bubble was started... 30+ years later the chickens are coming to roost and know-it-alls such as yourself are spouting untruths, as if they are fact and must always be.
You also said that if enterprises could pay their own way "there would be no crisis as the repayment of debts would be a matter of deploying greater numbers of productive machines." Obviously this is not true for two reasons: 1. mathematically debt plus interest can never be paid in full by debt alone. 2. There are perverse incentives in the market which drive company executives and their interconnected boards to degrade the balance sheet of the company and take on debt to give the illusion of growth (through malinvestment and acquisition) for the benefit of the financial economy and the masters on and behind Wall Street.
The reason it will all eventually fail and disillusioned people will get very angry is because "money is debt. money is not value". In the end,those that hold the debt of others (created out of thin air), will make a claim on all value. Right now they are buying the value with fiat debt based money. In essence they are paying people with a promise that the Fed is breaking every day by devaluing the money.
The whole fuckin' world is drowning under too much government.
Ah shit! Is that why we are in an economic depression? Too much government? I thought it was because the financial services industry ran amok as the result of deregulation (less government) and then socialized all their private debt.
The oligarchs love clowns like you.
WTF are you talkin' about? How many government employees, who produce nothing and are a drag on the productive members of society, do YOU think we need?
So firemen, police officers and teachers are not productive citizens adding value to our economy? These "government employees" don't buy private sector products? Come on man! Think through things to their logical conclusion.
They deregulated credit to provide funding for Big Government through sales taxes and income tax at the same time letting corporations off the hook. It was done to finance a shift away from Corporate Taxes and to fund Producer Inflation. Britain had a dry run in 1972-75 before Thatcher did a re-run in 1986 and let the system explode on the back of N Sea Oil Petro-currency
-1000 Accounting 101.
U serious? Didn't anyone ever tell you that big government is a much to blame as any bank out there? The entire mortgage scam was largely due to the governement essentially forcing banks to lend to unsound borrowers on a massive scale, and all the insane behavior of Fannie and Freddie, Harold Raines etc. and the wacky politically correct multiculti crap about how 'everyone needs to own a home" and if you don't lend to minorities you're racist, etc.
So are you saying government gets none of the blame? And are you for Amtrack-style healthcare and ever-increasing public-service benefits with nobody to pay for it but the private sector?
Please explain. This is ZeroHedge not the NY Times - thx!!
An unusual rendition of Woodstock from Joni Mitchell
The only way that UK unemployment figure is right is if it doesn't include those without a British passport.
The private sector has been shafted to within an inch of it's sorry life across the continent. I'm not even sure if Belgium has a private sector... I think Spain had one for a while, well, when overweight lobster red Brits abroad could still afford to visit with their disgusting progeny and turn endless English breakfasts into endless rivers of running vomit by way of what ever local piss they were serving up in stinking English style Spanish boozers.
And the European Parliment? Where 'value for money' doesn't appear in any of the cross-border-we're-all-best-freinds-now-reacharound bullshit to bullshit translation phrasebooks? You could jail half of those greasy expense fraud bastards and not see a single percentage point drop in productivity.
In the Treaty of Lisbon, Europe defines its economic system as "social market economy", not caiitalism or free exchange. It is soft fascism. They have the amount of government they want. They would rather die than give up their form of fasciam. They may get their wish.
The USA is being waterboarded by too much government.
And Obama models the future of the US to be just like Europe. What does that tell you?
Europe has a 50% youth unemployment rate. "Yes we can!"
Its not to much Goverment... the problem is a dysfunctional Goverment in southern europe.
nothern europe hasnt less Goverment, it just works way better and is much stronger, because it works FOR the people and not for the elite.
Government isn't really the issue here. It has worked in northern Europe because they have had strong industry and innovative ideas. Globalism is destroying their ability to compete too, so northern Europe is going down as well.
At least Europe is starting to get a proper grip on the finance industry.
Regulate bonuses today, hive off investment banking tomorrow.
In the Netherlands +40.000 signatures calling for a referendum on the EU have been collected. The parliament is now obligated to discuss this. They of course don't like this kind of civil activity. Allowing a referendum creates uncertainty but disregarding it will certainly piss off the voters. The result of a possible referendum by the way can be ignored but would piss off voters yet even more.
Joe, the article is about "Europe drowning under too much government", i.e. it's about gov costs - the EU itself costs something like less than EUR 300 per head and year
having said that I'm always in favour of referendums
So what? Are you to decide who writes what? Sounds a bit like the recommendation given to the EC to appoint media supervisors who have the power to fine and sack journalists in Europe. That is why people want referendums: they are fed up with invisible burocrats in Brussels telling them what to do and how much to pay for it. Because as you probably know, the Dutch per capita pay to most to the EU.
The EU is an overlay as you well know Ghordius. French Government is a huge cost burden and that is in addition to the EU. So let us not pretend that the EU is the Government of Europe it is simply an alibi for Politicians to act out Bilderberg Group fantasies
interesting end: "In Part II - Europe: Welcome to the Domino Effect, we conclude therefore that the Eurozone is now on track for a hyper-inflationary outcome, rather than a deflationary collapse, similar to prospects for the other major currencies."
let's put it this way: before the eurozone enters hyper territory, there are a few other major currencies that are long dead


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Robbery of Wells Fargo Bank Branch in Philadelphia
|FBI Philadelphia January 03, 2014
The Philadelphia Police Department and the FBI are seeking the public's assistance to identify and locate the subject responsible for the robbery today of the Wells Fargo Bank branch located at 340-350 South 2nd Street in the Society Hill section of the city.
At approximately 12:23 p.m., the subject entered the bank, handed a teller a demand note, and made a verbal bomb threat. He also assaulted and robbed an elderly female customer. After obtaining an undisclosed amount of cash from the teller, the subject fled the area of the bank on foot. He was last seen heading north on 2nd Street.
The female assault victim suffered minor injuries to her lip and knee but declined medical attention.
The subject is described as a white male in his mid to late 30s, approximately 5'7"-5'8" tall, thin build, with a brown beard and mustache. He wore a dark-colored zip-front hooded jacket, blue jeans, a burgundy baseball cap with unknown logo, and light-colored gloves.
This subject is considered armed and dangerous. Anyone with information about this robbery or this subject is urged to call the FBI at 215-418-4000 or the Philadelphia Police Department. There may be a reward for information leading to this subject's capture; tipsters can remain anonymous.


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Review: Google Docs
In his latest review for Startups, Mark Needham assesses Google Docs, the search giant's online alternative to Microsoft Office
When you're running a small business, it's very easy to get stuck with the technology you know. While large corporations tend to have regular training and updating of skills for managers, it's tempting to keep flogging the same computer and telephony kit you bought years ago, until suddenly you find that another business you visit or a friend you meet at a dinner party is using newer techniques that are leaving you looking as old-fashioned and slow as the IT used in most NHS hospitals.
I have always been interested in new technologies, not just shiny new gadgets, but things that simplify the way we previously did something. The buzzword of the moment in the computing trade press is "cloud computing" or "software as a service". It is easiest to explain these terms with an example. A few years ago if you, or your child, wanted to play a computer game, you usually had to go to a shop, buy either a CD or a specially protected computer chip, and install it on your computer.
You paid once, in advance, for the physical item. Today, if your kids want to play a computer game, they usually want you to type your credit card details into a website which will let them reach the higher levels they are denied access to as free visitors, and if you are not careful it will continue billing you every month forever. This is software as a service.
Fortunately, there are many examples of online business services which are usually free or significantly cheaper than the option of buying a whole software package. Google Docs, a group of free programs which anybody who creates a Google Mail or Gmail identity can use, is one such service.
It includes rather simplified equivalents of Microsoft's Word, Excel and PowerPoint programs, which you use online, directly from a web browser. You can either upload your existing documents, or create new documents on it.
The documents are stored on Google's servers, and you can log on and update them from anywhere with an internet connection. You can update them from a PC or a Mac and, crucially, you can allow other people to log in and use the same document.
Having several copies of the same document lying around on my hard disk has often led me to amend the wrong version, before realising what I had done and then having to do it again to the right version.
Google Docs allows me to upload the master document to Google's servers. Other people can then work on the master document, at the same time if required, or I can update something and then ask my colleague to review it. It is much more efficient than emailing spreadsheets to and fro.
However, while Google documents are easy to use, they lack the advanced features which users of Microsoft Office are accustomed to. The spreadsheet, in particular, is very light compared to Excel. The most glaring difference is that typing text which is too long for the visible spreadsheet cell will not overflow the text into the next cell – the end of your sentence just disappears behind the cell boundary. This is a disability which Excel overcame sometime in the 1980s.
The presentations program is similarly weak in handling PowerPoint presentations – some colours or boundaries seemed to just disappear when I tried uploading a corporate presentation to it.
But if you need a way of storing documents offsite and collaborating with colleagues at a distance, Google Docs is hard not to like. It is free for individual use, and I have used it for over two years without ever having seen significant downtime.
There is a corporate version where, for a fee, Google's software can be applied to documents on a corporate server but for a small team, the free version can go a long way.
Price: Free Likely impact on your business: 7/10 Likely impact on you: 6/10 Usability: 7/10 Pro: A free alternative to MS Office, available anywhere Con: Spreadsheet is weak, and there are incompatibilities with Office
Mark Needham is the founder of Widget.co.uk , a specialist B2B distributor of consumer electronic goods. His book, 66 Plots Updated was written entirely on Google Docs.


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Surviving The Hate; Boystown takes place in Boystown, Chicago during the 2010 Chicago Pride Parade. This book shows how the "different" people in Chicago stand up for themselves. Included are quotes by artists, musicians and even politicians.
Steffanie Baseley is a 19 year old student and photographer based in the Northern Chicago area. She has recently started to cover the LGBT community and has found it as a passion of hers. Her first and only book is "Surviving the Hate; Boystown."
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Hiya, Pinkies, and happy Healthy Thursday. I'm no longer soliciting questions for my book, What's Up Down There? Questions You'd Only Ask Your Gynecologist If She Was Your Best Friend, but your questions keep rolling in, so I thought I'd answer a few of them here. Here you go!
I really adore my lover, but I'm just never in the mood anymore. I don't want to lose him. Is there anything I can do to turn my juices on?
I hear you, sister. This is a tough one. Sex drive in women is a complex beast. While men may need little more than a pretty smile to get them in the mood, most women require more. Factors that can contribute to decreased libido include (among others):
Unlike men, who may pop a Viagra or put on a porn video to get in the mood, a woman's libido is fussy. A few questions I'd like to know about you:
Do you masturbate? Does that still feel sexy to you?
Are you able to orgasm, either by yourself or with a partner?
Are you on birth control pills or other medications?
Have you hit menopause?
Do you feel safe and happy in your relationship?
How do you feel about your body image?
Take this quiz to help you determine what might be affecting your desire. If masturbation is still fun and you're able to orgasm, chances are that it's more psychological than physical. If you're on the Pill or menopausal, it could be hormonal. If you're feeling unsafe or unloved in your relationship, or if you're constantly dissing your body, these factors can take a toll and are worth discussing with a therapist.
If decreased sexual arousal distresses you, talk to your doctor, who can investigate whether there's a medical reason for your low libido. Ask your doctor whether switching the brand of your birth control pill or trying another form of contraception might help. If you are menopausal, have had your ovaries removed, undergone chemotherapy, or are breastfeeding, talk to your doctor about whether systemic or local hormones might help you.
If your doctor gives you the clean bill of health, here are a few tips you might try to give your libido a boost.
Keep in mind that every woman is unique, so no one thing works for every individual. But the more you set the intention to spice up your sex life, the more likely you are to succeed. Do you want your sex drive to improve? Say so. Talk to your girlfriends. Write about it in your journal. Commit to it. Then, with an open mind, set forth. You just might be surprised.
What about you Pinkies? What works for you? The collective wisdom of all of us is much more powerful than my one opinion. Let's talk about sex! Don't be shy...
Big Pink love to you all,
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Lissa Rankin, MD's book What' s Up Down There? Questions You'd Only Ask Your Gynecologist If She Was Your Best Friend will be published by St. Martin's Press in Fall, 2010. To make an appointment with Dr. Lissa, call CLEAR Center of Health, the integrative medicine practice where she works in Mill Valley, CA.
Thank you all for sharing your experiences. I've learned that we're all vastly different, after talking about this to thousands of patients. Some of my patients swear that their basically sexless marriages are filled with love and mutual admiration, while others dissolve over time because they simply fail to connect and are often tempted elsewhere. Isn't it lovely that we can all be so diverse and yet share so much?
I am with you on the relationship thing. When I hear about people who have little to no sex in their marriage I have to wonder if there is not more to it than a lack of drive. And I must say that when I started meditating I begin to really enjoy it again, but it has continued to get better because my husband and I made a conscious effort to reconnect.
This a another blog called "Steph in the City", I just surfed on. Very quirky 1950s image here with caption: "Marriage? No thanks, I can't mate in captivity".
Just sharing the chuckle..
A decade or so ago here in Australia, was a televised comedy show, a debate about sex, featuring our top comedic talents, including Judith Lucy, Elle McFeast (Libby Gore) and others I can't remember their names.
The profoundest wisdom is always delivered in the context of humour. When addressing the variances in a woman's sexual desire/drive, Elle McFeast quipped that nothing kills a woman's sex drive more than Resentment. I sense this shade of hatred/envy also kills a man's sexual drive.
Back in the 80s, when I was undergoing regular OB/GYN appointments, I mentioned a concern to my lovely male doctor, that during sex with my then partner, I was noticing that I was 'drier' and wondered if there was a physical reason for that. A result of the diathermy and procedures I had been through.
My male doctor sensitively and tactfully suggested that the reasons for my vaginal dryness may be deeper and lie within my true feelings for my partner. Your body never lies. Hidden resentment - it cuts both ways.
There is a saying that sex is 10% of a good relationship and 90% of a bad relationship. My former marriage was virtually sexless. I used to kid myself that we had a good relationship because sex was such a small part of it.
What have I learned? That saying is total BS!
You are so right on, Leslee. That is absolutely true and, as always, so well put. Thank you for sharing your ever-valuable wisdom. I gotta start meditating more! My honey will be happy! xoxo
For me I have to say that a lot changed after I started meditating. In my life, meditation has been the cure for so many things. (I also lost a lot of weight after I started meditating.) Basically the stress in my life was affecting my libido and my eating habits. A key I think is to be mindful during sex...when your mind starts to wander put it back on the moment. Give your mental attention on whatever part of you is getting the physical attention. For me my problem was that I was rarely mentally present...I was always thinking about my to-do list. I have done a complete 180 as far as my sex drive. Now I'm the one who gets turned down...
Amen, sister! Thanks for trusting us and sharing. xoxo
Lissa--You are very welcome girl!! Let me know if I can further assist you in any way!!
You know studies do show that Women want sex more then men do. I find it odd..but in my case I guess there is an exception. LOL!
But then again you have many men with different personalities!! Take my hubby for instance..he is a complete opposite of me...I am out there and he is well...not..lol!!
However..in the sac we are on the same page..he knows what I like and I know what he likes and I usually know when he wants it without him even making a move!!!
It is also nice to change it up a bit...do new things and keep him guessing for whats next...but do keep it pleasurable!!
Oh, thanks so much for your feedback, Heather! Funny timing, since I'm sitting here at my computer about to answer the question submitted for my book "I want sex all the time but my husband doesn't seem the least bit intersted. Am i the only woman in the world who has to beg a guy for a little nookie?"
I think it's SO helpful to talk about this stuff and take the taboo away. Hearing what other women experience helps normalize it. And good for you for OWNING your sexuality, even when he's not in the mood. You go girl. You've just inspired my answer to that question! xoxo
Well...I am a very sexual being..lol..
Although My husband is not!! Which can be a bummer at times however...I do still masturbate and it is a total pleasure to me!! I fantasize about my husband and I just do my thang...
However, My husband and I do tend to make "sex dates" reason being..it's a lot more fun that way. We have young kids so its not always easy for us to get our groove on. So when we make our dates it actually builds up anticipation until the point of the deed! Flirting all day and discreetly groping each other throughout the day also feeds into our sexual desires!!
Then once it is time for us to get busy...it is amazing!!! I do recommend doing it earlier in the day or in the morning...you both have more energy to put into and are able to pleasure each other to the fullest extent!!
Get it on Girlfriends!!
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Vince Vaughn denies Aniston romanceVince Vaughn has scotched rumours of romance with Jennifer Aniston - after claiming he doesn't want a steady girlfriend.
The handsome actor, who was said to be dating his beautiful co-star while shooting new movie 'The Break-Up', has confessed he loves one-night stands too much to settle down.
He admitted: "I'm not that good at giving myself over to a relationship.
"I've never been big on having to go home with the same girl every night."
He added of one night stands: "There are no rules, it's fun."
Earlier this week, Vince and the former 'Friends' beauty were photographed canoodling in a Chicago park.
An onlooker was quoted in Britain's Daily Mirror newspaper as saying: "They seemed very comfortable in each other's company and were quite spontaneous when they hugged."
Another witness told Britain's Daily Mail newspaper: "They were being photographed by a friend on a small pocket camera and they were also taking pictures of themselves.
"Although they appeared to be hamming it up for the camera, there was definitely a frisson of flirtation. They were holding on to each other for much longer than they needed to and they could not stop grinning at each other."
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We are not going for the obvious here. Sure, maybe on everyone else's list Hearst Castle would be number one, but not ours. Not that we don't think Hearst Castle is cool, they just don't even let you swim in the pool.
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How fucking dumb do you have to be to try to pretend that a 50,000 person rally is actually 2 million people? How dumb do you have to be to run with that story long after it's been proven rankly bullcrap? How dumb do you have to be to try to substitute others' rally photos and National Park Service estimates for your own to pretend that your protest was "the largest event held in Washington, D.C., ever"?
These questions have no answers because Conservatives are too stupid to fathom.
Bloggers claim photo shows millions at "tea party" protest
…So supporters of Saturday's "tea party" protests against President Barack Obama were quick to highlight their big turnout. To bolster countless claims on blogs and Facebook, many posted a photograph that showed a gargantuan crowd sprawling from Capitol Hill down the National Mall to the Washington Monument.
But it turns out the photo is more than 10 years old, apparently taken during a 1997 Promise Keepers rally…
Pete Piringer, public affairs officer for the D.C. Fire and Emergency Department, said the local government no longer provides official crowd estimates because they can become politicized. But the day of the rally, Piringer unofficially told one reporter that he thought between 60,000 and 75,000 people had shown up.
"It was in no way an official estimate," he said.
We asked Piringer whether there were enough protesters to fill the National Mall, as depicted in the photograph.
"It was an impressive crowd," he said. But after marching down Pennsylvania Avenue to the Capitol, the crowd "only filled the Capitol grounds, maybe up to Third Street," he said.
Yet the photograph so widely posted showed the crowd sprawling all the way to the Washington Monument, which is bordered by 15th and and 17th Streets.
There's another problem with the photograph: It doesn't include the National Museum of the American Indian, a building located at the corner of Fourth Street and Independence Avenue that opened on Sept. 14, 2004. (Looking at the photograph, the building should be in the upper right hand corner of the National Mall, next to the Air and Space Museum.) That means the picture was taken before the museum opened exactly five years ago. So clearly the photo doesn't show the "tea party" crowd from the Sept. 12 protest…
My friend's cousin said there were 4 million people there
…Several conservative blogs have been quoting National Park Service spokesman "Dan Bana" as saying the 9/12 protest was "the largest event held in Washington, D.C., ever." This appears to be a repurposing of this quote from David Barna (who, unlike Dan Bana, appears to be a real person):
David Barna, a Park Service spokesman, said the agency did not conduct its own count. Instead, it will use a Washington Post account that said 1.8 million people gathered on the US Capitol grounds, National Mall, and parade route.
"It is a record," Barna said. "We believe it is the largest event held in Washington, D.C., ever."
Very impressive! Unfortunately, as Little Green Footballs pointed out, that quote was actually about the inauguration:
This is so pathetic I don't know whether to laugh or cry.
Dozens – if not hundreds – of right wing blogs are running with this quote, portraying it as a statement about the tea party held last weekend: 'We believe it is the largest event held in Washington, D.C., ever.'
The quote is from January. The National Park Service spokesman was talking about Barack Obama's inauguration.
Pam Geller quoted "Dan Bana" as saying this on Saturday. She cited Thomas Lifson at American "Thinker," who also calls him "Dan Bana." In keeping with his fellow conservatives, Lifson doesn't feel the need to provide a link for his outlandish crowd estimates:
Despite mainstream media attempts to characterize turnout as in the thousands, a spokesman for the National Park Service, Dan Bana, is quoted as saying "It is a record…. We believe it is the largest event held in Washington, D.C., ever."
True, "Dan Bana" definitely "is quoted" as saying this. By whom? Well, Thomas Lifson.
Imaginary ABC News reports, unnamed universities, invented quotes, and for safe keeping, the journalistic equivalent of "I heard this one dude say…