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Workers from TriState Utilities reline 8-inch diameter wastewater pipe from an access point at 10th and Market Streets. To prevent infiltration and exfiltration related to sewer pipes in the Rivanna Water and Sewer Authority service area would supposedly require an expenditure of 2000 million dollars, i.e. $2 billion.
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2 billion dollars ---does Tom Frederick, RWSA director, expect anyone to believe this ?
Citizen, beware the solitary data point floating in space. Absolutely no context has been provided for this blurb's assertion, other than the website of The Hook, which is hardly a reliable, unbiased source.
Looks like Brian Wheeler, reporting on a recent RSWA meeting is another source, meanwhile do hold them to be reliable ?
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@Joanna Salidas - The issue of the cost of fixing the leaking pipes was discussed at this meeting. It was reported that it would cost $2 billion over 50 years to fix ALL of the city and county's sewer lines to prevent infill and infiltration of storm water. Frederick said the RWSA, city, and ACSA jointly decided, after completing the comprehensive sewer study, to pursue a $400 million option in an effort to balance both "aggressive" repairs and added pumping/treatment capacity. He added this approach achieves the environmental goals for the project more quickly as well.
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There should always be independent accounting on all public transactions. Always, as this is a very sticky area.
Citizen, thank you for introducing another piece of data, that this price tag is over 50 years. This is not a minor piece of information and provides QUITE A BIT of context for the first piece of information.
For instance, if I told you that I would pay you $1 million to be a secretary, you'd probably say I was overpaying you. If I then told you that it would be over 50 years, you might not.
We then further read that the RWSA is actually pursuing a $400 million option, presumably over the same time frame.
So we go from $2 billion to $8 Million (with an 'M') per year.
So, while not speaking to the reliability of Brian Wheeler, I think that it is patently clear that he provides far more information and a greater context for understanding that information, just from what you copied and pasted.
The text in your comment helps me with the point I was making. When you read a "fact" in the hook, it is often out of context and incomplete. When all the facts are known and the context is shown, one is able to see that the "fact" presented in the hook is actually quite misleading.
Hope that helps and thanks for sharing.
Well if you could tap into the infrastructure and jobs bill that the president is attempting to put together, maybe some jobs could be created and the feds would pick up some of the cost.
Affordable only if we take some of Ron Pauls advice and hack the hell out of wasteful government spending.
Stop all the wars, stop aid to Israel, etc etc etc etc etc etc etc.
Or we could implement the republican party plan, ignore the will of the people, do nothing, try to make Obama look impotent, grab power in washington.
After all the misleading speeches Mr Frederick has put before local officials, after all the cozy contracts he has signed with engineering and consulting firms I really don't understand why we even entertain the thought of even listening to this guy. After he pursued Van Der Linde with the RICO act how can any right thinking person even entertain anything this guy says. There ought to be laws to protect the public from people like him.
"skinny"- don't have to try to make Obama look impotent, he has "people" who do that for him, as he has no clue as to even make that happen.
"Ignore the will of the people and grab power"? I do believe that they were elected by the electorate- and that can change if those elected republicans do not perform. We are a party (and what a party it is, but I digress) who holds those elected accountable for their actions after elected. We also hold dems accounatable too- (Perriello being a recent, local example- Robert Hurt (REPUBLICAN) may be next- and he even appears to be one of us- (but we shall see).
One thing we don't do is keep putting the same AH's in office after they have proven to not be effective- yes, there are long time repubs in office, but the count is much higher on the dem side- and they have tried for years to push through programs that have never improved anything regardless of how much they cried or how much money was printed to cover the cost of that improvement- just ask, and I will name them all.
HarryD, much of what you say is true but one thing needs to be understood. There are no more democrats and republicans. We are a one party system now. DC knows that the best way to protect the special interests is to keep the unwashed masses divided. Playing this game of left or right plays right into they're hands. We have no ability to reform anything as long as we are kept divided, they know it and depend on it. So as long as you or should I say we play this game of pointing fingers. and its your parties fault not mine, things will stay the same which is exactly what they want.
Sez Me, You should be a spokesperson for the "Occupy Wall Street" movement. The media tries to paint them with a broad brush as having no demands. Well you just nailed one of the main problems that should be vocalized into a demand.
You are right on the money. I think this is why so many in this country are angry, even though some know what the game is, we feel powerless to change it. Worse yet, the power brokers know we know and they still dont give a damn.
Just like the muslim fundamentalist movement, "Occupy" will never go away it will just get stronger.
Huja has a scheme to pay for some of this. He wants to effectively raise our already high property taxes by charging property owners a "stormwater utility fee" based on the amount of impervious surface they have. I can't have two urls in a single post, so I'll link to the youtube video where he states that in another comment.
The scheme is to sell the tax to the public as a means of reducing runoff, but there is no incentive or tax reduction for capturing water in rain barrels, rain gardens, or other retention facilities. The city requires driveways and sidewalks for new residential construction with again no incentive for designing them to reduce runoff and the city even requires administrative approval, which it doesn't grant easily for choices other than hard paved surfaces for new parking or driveway construction. They more or less force the construction of impervious surfaces and have been doing that for a long time. Now that they have you where they want you, they're going to make you pay.
The details are too much to post here, but following the link will take you to the proposed plan. Huja is the only candidate that I've heard endorse this. That's one reason why I won't be voting for him.
WRPP Advisory Committee Final Report (October 2008)
Satyendra S. Huja: Candidate for City Council
If you try hard enough, you can sort of understand what he's saying. His position on the tax for impervious surfaces is stated at about 3:16.


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To answer these questions, I did what any normal, well-adjusted individual might do: I spent the next four hours digging through paperwork to find the VIN number of every single car I've ever owned. And after that was successful, I turned to AutoCheck for an update. Here's what I discovered.
1998 BMW M3 – Crashed by Some Guy in Ohio
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2001 Toyota Prius – Crashed by a Kid in Nashville
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2002 Mercedes G500 – Absolutely Nothing at All
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2006 Lotus Elise – Driven (A Lot)
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Next week, Tennessee will start getting sales tax from online retail giant Amazon, and Hamilton County Mayor Jim Coppinger said he'd like to see the county get some of that new money.
On Jan. 1, a delayed 2012 state law will start requiring the company, which operates distribution centers in Chattanooga and Cleveland, to collect the 7 percent state tax and a 2.5 percent local option sales tax on all its sales.
Before the law, it was the responsibility of buyers to send sales tax to the state -- but few did. The sales tax rate is not increasing, but a large chunk of revenue that has eluded taxation will be taxed under the law.
Legislative analysts expect the collection to inject $17.5 million into state government coffers annually and to funnel an additional $7.4 million to the state's 95 counties and numerous municipalities, based on 2011 figures.
But Coppinger said it's a good time to look at how the Internet tax money is distributed.
"They are going to start collecting it. All I'm saying is when they make a distribution model for that money, county governments would like to be included," he said.
But Rep. Gerald McCormick said there likely won't be much pie to go around.
"The whole reasoning behind [the law] is that the state was losing -- and the local governments were losing -- money on the sales tax, because people started shopping on the Internet instead of at brick-and-mortar stores," McCormick said.
In Tennessee, counties and municipalities send collected sales tax to the state. Counties can get a small portion of local option tax back, but municipalities get the local option and a state-shared tax portion back.
In 2013, the county budgeted $3 million of local option sales tax revenue, according to County Finance Administrator Louis Wright. It received $2.9 million.
Meanwhile, the city of Chattanooga -- which has more businesses than the unincorporated county does -- collected a projected $39 million in local option tax, and received $11.5 million in state-shared sales tax, according to its 2014 budget.
David Seivers, executive director of the Tennessee County Services Association, said the Internet sales tax could help level the playing field.
"In Tennessee, counties don't get any sales tax -- they get the local option, but the majority of that goes into municipalities," Seivers said.
"That was great 100 years ago, but now the counties are the ones providing education, waste treatment and the bulk of the services. If Internet tax is collected, we're saying that's a perfect opportunity to say -- no harm, no foul -- let's look at how this new revenue is distributed."
Coppinger said the costs of government increase every year, but revenue -- except what has been gained from growth -- has not.
"Money could go toward improving infrastructure to make way for new developments like a new industrial park," Coppinger said. "When you look at just the costs of running government -- take fuel costs. If there's an increase in fuel that goes into other products such as asphalt."
He's not asking for special treatment.
"All counties have generally the same issue when it comes to revenues," Coppinger said. "I wouldn't ask for a private act or something like that. This would be something that could be done for all counties."
But McCormick said Amazon will be collecting a tax that residents should have been sending to the state anyway. It's not new money -- it's money the state should have been getting all along.
"In the short run, I really don't see the state taking that money that it was already owed and giving it out to the counties," McCormick said.
But Coppinger says it seems like a new revenue stream to him.
"The Internet users' fee is something that's new," he said. "It'll be new money, and I was just trying to get new money for the county. My only position on that was to say that there's new dollars that will be made."
Citing the sales tax revenue disparity between counties and municipalities, McCormick said the whole system might need an overhaul -- but again -- it's not likely to happen next session, which begins in January.
"Short of an overhaul of the whole system that took into account what the cities get compared to the counties, that would take some time, and I don't see that happening in the next few months of the session," McCormick said.
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I spent the entire last commercial break trying to figure out what I was going to say...
couldnt do it...
lets see... butters says aww you lived to cartman... cartman thinks he was only white person on earth... kyle drinks pee... Randy volunteers to get peed on...
poor kyle...
and kenny died...
this is the Meh episode of the run (for me)...
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At the last minute of the episode, he is seen to the right of the Cop after Kyle and the boys are handed a banana. He is seen in the close up of the Fire marshal (left) and a Police officer (right). The alien becomes visible once a scientist moves off screen.
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This episode was okay... a little too much potty humor for me. Though I did get a kick out of Butters's "Aww, you survived?" line near the end. 6/10.
So, as far as this season goes, my favorites were WTF and Dances With Smurfs.
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mo303564 wrote:Butters to Cartman: Ahh man, you survived!!
LOL, that is definately going down as one of my favorite lines.
Poor Kenny! Drowning in pee can't be a fun way to go. How humilitating for the little guy!
I was really looking forward to Kenny taking his hood off - and he did! It was quite clever how the animators kept him turned around the entire time! LOL!
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Cartmans song was good.
"I think I even saw a native ameericaaaan... gross."
Kyle got really annoying.
Randy is much better in smaller doses.
"I have only two modes, at war with something, or having sex with it. There is no middle ground"
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Lol, Randy take the antidote was priceless and perfection ^^ who wouldn't like him.
I'll get this one a nice 9/10 because I love it how Kyle reacts about Pee ^^
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Butters reaction to seeing Cartman had survived was funny. Kyle's hatred of pee and bananas; that wasn't an entirely surprising gag. Repeated peeing on the monkeys was alright.
There was one aspect to the b story with Fatass I found interesting. Cartman embodied the mindset of a small percentage of white people who feel threatened by minorities. With a surging latino population and now a half black president, they're all like "oh noes, we're loosing the country..." These are people that actually believe non-white people will start persecuting white people.
It's ridiculous but one can see grumblings like this from certain Faux News personalities. There was that story from Chicago earlier this year; some black kid beat up a white kid while other black kids "cheered him on". And Faux News-ees are like, "This is Obama's America... blah, blah, blah, I'm a racist but I'm pretending not to be while I accuse other people of reverse racism..."
Anyway, great job this run overall. On to season 14!
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All in all, this episode gave me some nice laughs all with the monkeys, Cartman's time with the minorities (his song was very amusing, as well) and the other boys' encounter with Pi Pi, but I felt that they had a little too much going on with all of these sub-plots to really fully enjoy either groups' endeavors. However that may be, I'm still satisfied with this season finale to tide over until next year in March.
Anyway, my personal highlights were Cartman's imagination scene of a "minority country" and the lines with the other boys explaining to Kyle about their dealings with peeing, such as "You don't wash your hands after you pee?!" "...well, not all the time." (personally, I wash my hands all the time and don't mind too much if everyone else doesn't always do the same, but it was funny seeing Kyle's overreaction to the sad truth )
Thanks a bunch for a great 13th season, M&T, and I'm looking forward to seeing the new face on South Park come next year. Here's to hoping it will be another awesome season.
P.S. I don't know for sure, but did anyone else spot the alien on the right at the last scene for a split second, or was it actually someplace else?
Edit: Yep, I've just confirmed it for myself after watching the rerun tonight; the alien's in the parking lot scene right at the end. Looked funny with shades, swimming trunks & holding a banana. LoL
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"Aww, you lived?" Lol that was a priceless line Butters gave. And Kyle, whats wrong with bananas? They are absolutely delicious.
I liked that song Cartman sung, I so think that should be download-able.
And Kenny drowning in the pee tidal wave, perfection.
7/10 for this ep.
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Thursday, August 25, 2011
Notes on John Carpenter's THE WARD
The script by brothers Michael and Shawn Rasmussen attends the commitment of Kristen (Amber Heard) to a mental hospital following her apprehension at the scene of a house she's burned down. Installed in the experimental psych program of Dr. Stringer (MAD MEN's Jared Harris), she is surrounded there by some fairly predictable patient types (Danielle Panabaker as a beautiful scheming narcissist, Mamie Gummer as a plain hostile lesbian, Laura-Leigh as a toy-hugging child-woman, and Lyndsy Fonseca as the first to go), Kristen becomes alert to a vicious ghost (Mika Boorem) haunting her hospital ward. If the script isn't particularly ground-breaking in terms of dialogue or characterization, it keeps the viewer guessing right up to its nicely surprising explanation of events -- which, in a funny way, makes the audience feel as mentally ill as anyone onscreen -- and its traditional approach is a big part of its appeal. The story is set in 1966, when the laws governing the treatment of mental patients were more lax than they are today, making this particular story possible; in keeping with its era, cursing is kept to a minimum and the visual storytelling largely eschews CGI and staccato AVID-style editing to return to what might be called the classic principals of genre technique.
Aside from my unreserved admiration for THE THING (1982), my amusement with THEY LIVE and his sluggishly amiable Hawks pastiche ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13 (1976), my adamant if inexplicable fascination with PRINCE OF DARKNESS (1987), and my healthy respect for the atmosphere in THE FOG (1980), I've never really bought into Carpenter as a "master of horror." He's always been more of an able technician than an auteur. That said, what horror films have become over the past decade has done a lot to alienate me from the genre, so I found THE WARD consistently entertaining because it plays like a master lesson in how to use today's technological advantages (it was shot digitally, then transfered to three-perf 35mm) hand-in-hand with those tried-and-true techniques which form the very essence of cinematic experience. One could define such techniques as those which distinguish film from television -- or, worse still, films that look and play like television, as has increasingly become the norm. This is not a film about sensation, it's about story-telling. It's not about shocking one's sensibilities, it's about surprising them. It's not about doing most of the job digitally in post, it's about being prepared on the set.
It's an interesting paradox. While I wouldn't place THE WARD above, say, HALLOWEEN (1978) as an example of Carpenter's work, HALLOWEEN has never convinced me of Carpenter's mastery of the genre, but in a strange way, THE WARD does.
THE WARD is available from Arc Entertainment on DVD and Blu-ray, as well as digital download.
Friday, August 19, 2011
"Pass The Marmalade": Jimmy Sangster (1927-2011)
Jimmy Sangster, who died this morning at the age of 83, tempts summation in comic book lingo: you could say he was the Stan Lee of Silver Age horror, the writer responsible for THE CURSE OF FRANKENSTEIN (1957) and DRACULA (US: HORROR OF DRACULA, 1958), both directed by Terence Fisher for Hammer Film Productions, Ltd. -- the two films which turned the tide of horror cinema in the mid-1950s and made it a commercial genre once again after a near-decade of failing returns.
Sangster wasn't a quippy writer like Stan Lee, but he similarly revitalized a classic form of storytelling that was, at the time, becoming ossified as the motion picture medium progressed into widescreen and Technicolor. What he brought to vampire films alone is immeasurable, and he achieved what he did in part by returning to the classic texts of Mary Shelley and Bram Stoker. Under his byline, Hammer's Frankenstein films (including THE REVENGE OF FRANKENSTEIN, 1959) became the chronicle of Baron Victor Frankenstein, and his creations reflected his own blind spots, his own narcissism. Also under his byline, Hammer's Dracula films (including THE BRIDES OF DRACULA, 1960, and DRACULA - PRINCE OF DARKNESS, 1965) kept the Count himself largely offscreen, but were as imbued with his malign aura as the original novel. Most importantly, however, Sangster took us deeper into the concepts those authors gave us. In (HORROR OF) DRACULA, when Jonathan Harker discovers the mark of a vampire on his own throat, self-consciousness enters the genre: What is vampirism, when it is transfered to our protagonist and narrator?
John Van Eyssen adds an existential dimension to Jonathan Harker in HORROR OF DRACULA.
We also see Professor Van Helsing graduating in DRACULA from academic knowledge of vampirism to becoming its active adversary; he is not always ahead of the game, he is sometimes taken by surprise, and in BRIDES is even victimized and left to save his own soul. His Baron Frankenstein is a brilliant autodidact and visionary, an elitist maverick, whose blue-blooded sense of privilege often proves the downfall of the higher purpose for which he spills so much common red blood.
After his first screenwriting credit (Joseph Losey's A MAN ON THE BEACH, 1955), Sangster's list of screenplay credentials form an impressive overview of Britain's contribution to fantastic cinema over four decades: X - THE UNKNOWN (1956), BLOOD OF THE VAMPIRE (1958), THE MUMMY (1959), THE MAN WHO COULD CHEAT DEATH (1959), THE HELLFIRE CLUB (1959), JACK THE RIPPER (1960), THE TERROR OF THE TONGS (1960), TASTE OF FEAR (aka SCREAM OF FEAR, 1961), THE PIRATES OF BLOOD RIVER (1961), MANIAC (1963), PARANOIAC (1963), HYSTERIA (1964), THE DEVIL-SHIP PIRATES (1964), THE NANNY (1965, his personal favorite), the Bulldog Drummond adventure DEADLIER THAN THE MALE (1967), THE ANNIVERSARY (1967), CRESCENDO (1970), Curtis Harrington's WHOEVER SLEW AUNTIE ROO? (1971), FEAR IN THE NIGHT (1971), THE LEGACY (1979) and John Huston's only foray into the genre, PHOBIA (1980). He also directed two Hammer films during their early '70s transitional period, the darkly comic HORROR OF FRANKENSTEIN (1970) and LUST FOR A VAMPIRE (1971). He also wrote several espionage novels, numerous teleplays and series scripts (including some for KOLCHAK THE NIGHT STALKER and WONDER WOMAN), and two self-effacing volumes of autobiography, the awkwardly titled DO YOU WANT IT GOOD OR TUESDAY? (1997) and INSIDE HAMMER (2001).
Joe Dante once observed that Warner Bros' advertising tag "THE CURSE OF FRANKENSTEIN Will Haunt You Forever!" proved truer for a generation of filmgoers than their publicity department could ever have anticipated. Who could forget the Baron (Peter Cushing), supposedly bent on creating life, coldbloodedly sending his servant girl (Valerie Gaunt) to her doom at the hands of his Creature (Christopher Lee) -- because he has impregnated her? Or its glimpses of disembodied body parts -- the cinema's first in full color -- with one particularly gruesome moment dissolving to the breakfast table and the Baron's tension-shattering request "Pass the marmalade"?
Or Jonathan Harker's (John Van Eyssen's) foolhardy mistake in (HORROR OF) DRACULA when he opts to stake the vampire bride (Valerie Gaunt) who bit him before destroying Dracula himself (Christopher Lee)? Or its classic final confrontation between Dracula and Van Helsing (which Peter Cushing improved on-set by suggesting his hero run along a tabletop and tear down a curtain to let in lethal sunlight)?
Few scenes in 1950s horror are as shocking as the high society soirée in THE REVENGE OF FRANKENSTEIN where Karl (Michael Gwynn), his misshapenness returning (and worsening to cannibalistic tendencies) after a failed cured by the Baron (Peter Cushing), crashes through the glass doors of the event AND the anonymity of the respected "Dr. Stein" in a plea for help. Likewise, few scenes of the period are as uplifting as the finale in which the Baron's associate, Dr. Hans Kleve (Francis Mathews), must use the skill he has acquired from the Baron to save his life, when his charity ward patients, learning his real identity, turn on his kindness and tear him to bits.
Andree Melly doesn't stay dead in THE BRIDES OF DRACULA.
Perhaps no other vampire film mines quite so much fresh and inventive territory as THE BRIDES OF DRACULA, a Sangster script subsequently revised by two other writers, Peter Bryan and Edward Percey. In the absence of Christopher Lee, one of Dracula's disciples, Baron Meinster (David Peel) is kept imprisoned in his chateau by his doting mother (Martita Hunt), who lures young women there to feed his appetites, and perhaps to impose a kind of heterosexuality on an existence that was destroyed by socializing with men of loose morals. Here, the Baron -- once freed -- not only vampirizes his own mother, who then consents to her own destruction, but the Baron's old nanny (Freda Jackson) comes unhinged and marauds as a madly cackling midwife to the Undead, lying on the ground and helping to "birth" new vampires from their burial grounds. Here, even Van Helsing is bitten, and in an unforgettable demonstration of righteous resolve, he purifies his own neck wound with a red-hot poker and douses it with Holy water.
Sangster wrote DRACULA - PRINCE OF DARKNESS under some duress, hid behind a pseudonym ("John Sansom") to write it, and claimed he never saw it... and yet the first half of the film is enthralling, with the startling means of Dracula's resurrection and Barbara Shelley's effective transition from prim Victorian vacationer with a schedule to keep to a snarling, libido-liberated vampire bride among its many recommendations.
Ralph Bates and David Prowse in HORROR OF FRANKENSTEIN.
Sangster's films as a director were, by his own admission, less than satisfying. He loved making HORROR OF FRANKENSTEIN, calling it the happiest six weeks of his career, but he felt the result was "so lighthearted, its feet didn't touch the ground." He blamed producer interference for eroding his confidence on the set of LUST FOR A VAMPIRE, which he did not bother to supervise in its cutting or post-production. Both films, hobbled by a cheapness that no longer had Hammer's once-ingenious art director Bernard Robinson to disguise it, nevertheless have their moments and some likewise unforgettable images -- for example, Countess Carmilla Karnstein (Yutte Stensgaard), sitting erect and topless in her coffin, a victim's blood staining her bare breasts, or the young Baron (Ralph Bates) activating a severed hand with electricity so that it offers the old two-pronged salute.
"As a writer, I delivered my finished script and then went on to something new," he wrote in his autobiography. "Around six months later the picture would hit the screen. By then I'd forgotten I'd even written it."
Fortunately for the rest of us, THE CURSE OF FRANKENSTEIN will haunt us forever.
Thursday, August 18, 2011
"No, Mr. Bond - I Expect You To Die!"
The pictures accompanying the recent reports about Gérard Dépardieu peeing on the plane confirm that he is finally ripe to play Auric Goldfinger. No thanks necessary, just send me my 10 per cent.
Wednesday, August 10, 2011
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That number will reach 7.18 million terabytes by 2005. That goes a long way toward explaining why U.K. IT research firm Butler Group predicts that storage hardware will account for two-thirds of the total annual IT hardware budget by 2003.
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The band Oberhofer is, essentially, a vehicle for its main man, Brad Oberhofer – still a relative youngster at 21 years old. There are other band members, but it's Brad's character that drives the album. It's his ebullient charm, it's his melody, it's his heartbreak. From the opening piano line, it becomes apparent that Time Capsules II is an album rich with endearing naïvety; a commercial release on a mission to cheer you.
At the core of Time Capsules II is a broken heart, though Oberhofer has left all of the classic signifiers of heartbreak behind. It's as though he somehow got fast-tracked through the post-relationship catharsis process before he even opened the door to the recording studio… you need to pay serious attention to recognise that this boy needs a hug, a stiff drink and a better girlfriend. The resulting sound is not too far from the way you might imagine The Cribs would sound if they grew up somewhere a little sunnier than Wakefield; imagine the Jarman brothers, but wasted on vitamin D.
Musically, Oberhofer strike a neat balance between the youthful exuberance of a teen gang thrashing wildly at their instruments and a troupe of trained musicians, carefully honing their art. The crux of what makes this album great is the force with which the simplest of emotions are conveyed. It's pretty bog standard relationship fodder, but Oberhofer have a way of making each song sound like the world premiere of a new emotion, traipsing heartbreak up the red carpet to a fanfare and an adoring crowd: "you're pushing me away from you and there's nothing I can do / and I can't fight all of your battles for you." It's fitting, because heartbreak never feels old or familiar; it cuts a fresh wound every time, the heart has no muscle memory.
The overriding feeling, listening to Oberhofer may well be one of head-patting sympathy, for the cutesy naivety expressed herein but it's worth noting a serious sense of ambition, too. When he sings "I wanna build a house with you, a house with you, so we can be alone" it sounds first and foremost as though it were written for a Sesame Street segment on house building. There's more than base emotion knocking around though; these are well-crafted songs, precise and cultured.
There really isn't much not to like about Time Capsules II; it would take a lot of energy to summon up any hatred for it, like hating a new-born puppy, or your own child. 'HEART,' the first track, sets a near-breakneck pace that is somehow maintained for the duration. "I don't know what you think when you're sleeping / I hope soon I'll dream with you," sings Brad, in the carefree manner of someone who can sleep easy knowing that they get to pour their heartbreak into a song. After all, he who laughs last laughs loudest and he who writes songs always gets to laugh last.
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How many people have used the 'Restricted list', thinking their newly 'friended' boss will not see all of those disparaging comments made about work, only to find out later that Facebook removed those restrictions without permission?
As sites like Reasonstohate.com continue to expose the dangers of posting publicly, Facebook seems to be in a never-ending attempt to reassure the public that they take privacy seriously. In their latest attempt, they've taken a page out of Google +'s book and implemented easier to use "lists", which are similar to circles. Lists allow Facebook users some granular control over their posts, allowing work friends to see work posts, and neighbors to see neighbor posts, and prevent those worlds for colliding with each other. Unfortunately, there's a major defect in the way one of these lists work.
Adding friends to lists
When you send a person a friend request on Facebook, you're also given the opportunity to add that person to your lists, at the same time. That means you can invite a person to be your friend, and classify them as a friend, neighbor, or even add them to the restricted list.
What's the Restricted list?
The Restricted list is a special list created by Facebook. Let's hear it directly from them:
When you add someone to your Restricted list, they will only be able to see yourPublic content or posts of yours that you tag them in. So if you put your boss on your Restricted list, post a photo and choose Friends as the audience, your boss (and anyone else on Restricted) won't see that photo. However, if you add a tag of your boss to the photo, we'll let them know they're in it. If someone else tries to tag your boss in one of your photos, you'll get to approve this tag from your pending posts.
What's the problem?
When you send someone a friend request, you can also add them to multiple lists at the same time. For instance, when I add a neighbor I don't know real well, I might add them to "Neighbors" and also to "Restricted". This allows me to be friends with them and see their posts, but they'll only see a limited amount of my posts instead of some of the more personal posts I've made. Unfortunately, as soon as that person accepts my friend request, they're automatically removed from the Restricted by Facebook. The other groups are left in place, but the Restricted group is removed. This unfortunately means that any new 'Restricted' friends have access to my whole Facebook history until I remember to go and re-add them to the Restricted list. Go ahead! Try it.
I'm unsure if this is intentional functionality (If it is, it's horrifically stupid) or if it's a software bug. Either way, it's a major limitation on the Restricted functionality. Facebook touts it as a way to keep private things private, but they automatically remove that barrier under conditions not made clear in their documentation.
How many people have used the Restricted list, thinking their newly added boss will not see all of those disparaging comments made about work?


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Thursday, January 06, 2011
Interview: Catching Up With Ben McKenzie
Daytime Dial: It must have been quite a roller coaster for you and the other stars of the show: First NBC cancels it, then TNT picks it up. What was your reaction when you heard the news that TNT was giving "Southland" new life?
Ben McKenzie: It was great! I think the fans really were an enormous part of why we exist today. It's very unusual for a show to have a second life, especially after it's already aired for an entire season on another network. It's very rare, and we're incredibly thankful to all the fans. I wouldn't have this job if it weren't for them. I'd be waiting tables again, which would really suck.
DD: "Southland" seems to be a better fit with TNT as well, a network known for its great, cutting-edge, lifelike dramas.
BM: It's certainly not one of the old-fogey networks, that's for sure. We've been able to make the episodes we've wanted to make. TNT has been very supportive and interested in what we're doing, but they have not gotten in the way of anything, as far as I know. They really want to support the show and promote it. It just feels right.
DD: What initially attracted you to the part of Ben Sherman?
BM: I was interested in who the guy was, and I was very interested in the world that was being portrayed, because it felt like a much more realistic world. Kind of a darker take on a cop show than what we've seen before. This show seemed very different. Once we started shooting and I saw the footage -- it had exceeded my expectations.
DD: As Ben develops as a police officer/character, what are some new things that you've found that you enjoy portraying?
BM: I like seeing him understand the world a little more. I like seeing him grow up on camera and become a man. Before, he was a kid, and he's kind of exiting that phase. There's something fun about a character's growth being that significant. Especially over that short amount of time -- it's only been 13 episodes. It's really rewarding to see it.
DD: What can fans look forward to in season three?
BM: It'll be the same show you've seen before. It's just going to be a little bit more focused on the four principal characters left: Ben, Lydia, Sammy and John. It's pretty aggressive; it's gonna double-down on the aggressiveness. In terms of my character, the dynamic has changed yet again between John and Ben. It's more of a peer-to-peer relationship than it's been in the past. Although Ben will still mess up and John will criticize him brutally for that, he's got a little more freedom to do some of his own work. The relationship between John and Ben will deepen even farther when John sort of falls apart from his pain-pill addiction.
DD: As you look back on the past seasons, what have been some of your favorite moments?
BM: There are so many. I remember being in the jungle last season for the season opener filming a really big riot scene that had my adrenaline skyrocket. I remember being in the hospital for the end of the pilot and having a scene with a young girl, about her brother being shot and that being kind of a nice capper for the end of the pilot. And I had a good feeling that we had just finished something that I hoped ultimately was a strong pilot. And this season, the season opener, we have a bank heist in Hollywood with a huge shootout across Hollywood Boulevard. That was really thrilling.
Wednesday, January 05, 2011
ABC Daytime and TV Land Crossover Event
ABC Daytime and TV Land have joined forces to create an unprecedented network event where characters from "All My Children" and "Hot in Cleveland" cross over to continue a storyline established on last season's "Hot in Cleveland." The story revolves around Wendie Malick's character, Victoria Chase, and her industry-nemesis, Susan Lucci. The two-part "Hot in Cleveland" episodes will air on TV Land on February 16 and 23 at 10:00 p.m., ET/PT, and the "All My Children" episode will air on ABC at 1:00 p.m., ET/12:00 p.m., PT on February 24.
"All My Children's" Emmy Award® winners Susan Lucci, Michael E. Knight and Darnell Williams will appear as themselves on "Hot in Cleveland," and Golden Globe® winner Wendie Malick, as her "Hot in Cleveland" character Victoria Chase, will appear on "All My Children" as Gertie, a housekeeper who ends up moonlighting as a bartender at Confusion after Erica Kane fires her.
"We are thrilled Victoria Chase will join the cast of 'All My Children' – there are very few actresses who could pull off a dual role performance as BOTH a maid and bartender. We hope she is up to the challenge," teased Julie Carruthers, executive producer, "All My Children." Brian Frons, president, Daytime, Disney/ABC Television Group, joked: "There is only room for one Erica Kane in Pine Valley, and Victoria Chase will unfortunately find that out the hard way." Frons went on to say, "This is a unique opportunity to raise awareness of both shows with similar demos, and we expect each other's viewers to follow from one show to the next."
"We're so happy that Victoria Chase will finally get to show 'All My Children' fans why she is a soap superstar," responds Larry W. Jones, president, TV Land. "We're so excited to partner with 'All My Children' to bring to life this classic TV form when television worlds collide."


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Las Vegas Auto Glass – What Should I know?
Simply put, this is glass that you would find in an automobile. Not too many know that in Las Vegas there are two major forms of auto glass. Each one is used on certain windows in the automobile. Both types of auto glass are more impact resistant and stronger than regular glass.
What Are the Different Kinds Of Windshield Replacement Las Vegas Services that are Available?
Laminated safety glass-this glass is generally used on a car's windshield. It is comprised of a couple of pieces of glass that has a slim layer of vinyl. The glass is then heated and pressed together in an autoclave, which is a type of oven. When this glass receives a tough impact it will shatter also but usually the shattered pieces will stick to the vinyl and not fall on the ground.
If the windshield just has a tiny vein or nick, the auto glass professional may be able to repair the tiny vein or nick to keep it from spreading further. The repair will generally take fewer than thirty minutes in Las Vegas. The vein or nick is cleaned thoroughly and dried. Resin is injected and a material like Mylar is used to hold it in place. The professional cures the resin by using an ultraviolet light.
How Does Windshield Repair Work? - Auto Glass Repairs Explained
Broken windshields can be a major pain. From chips and cracks to complete spiderwebs, damaged automotive glass is a serious issue no matter the extent of the problem. That's because even tiny dings and splits in your windshield can grow into vision-obscuring messes. However, windshield replacement isn't the only solution when you have damaged auto glass. Smaller flaws can actually be repaired invisibly to restore both strength and an unobstructed view to your windshield. Here's how it works.
The first step to any windshield repair is an evaluation of the damage. The chip or crack should be examined for size and depth as well as location to determine whether it is a candidate for repair. Most flaws up to 6 inches long can be fixed with the typical resin auto glass repair. However, keep in mind that this type of solution only works when just the top layer of glass is fractured. Modern windshields are composed of two layers of glass with a rubber membrane laminated in between; the repair can only resolve issues with the first layer of glass, so if both layers are damaged, or you have a hole that goes all the way through, it's time to start learning about windshield replacement, not repairs. Also, some cracks that are around the perimeter of the windscreen can be difficult or impossible to correct, so make sure that the damage is located in a repairable place.
Once you've determined that the window glass can be repaired, the fix itself is relatively easy. Taking approximately 30 minutes, windshield chip repair is both simple and affordable. Using a special, sunlight-cured resin, the auto glass shop technician will inject the epoxy directly into the chip or crack using specialized tools. This completely fills the damage and ensures a smooth finish. The resin dries completely clear, helping the repair blend in to the surrounding windshield and almost totally hiding where the problem was. Natural sunlight dries the windshield crack repair to a waterproof, strong state that reinforces the windscreen and dependably prevents the crack or chip from ever spreading. Windshield glass repair offers a reliable solution for both sturdiness and aesthetics.
Windshield repairs are also super convenient, as most auto glass shops can actually come to you. Because the resin cures in sunlight and the special tools used to apply it are quite portable, you won't have to take your car or truck into the shop to have it fixed. Instead, technicians can be sent to you for mobile glass repair right in your driveway or even your workplace's parking lot.
The best time to get a cracked windshield repaired is right now. Substantial research data shows that warm temperatures, cold temperatures, temperature shifts, and even rough road surfaces and speed bumps are all likely to exacerbate your car window glass's damage. Remember, windshield crack repair only works for fissures up to 6 inches long, so if you put off calling the auto glass shop, the crack may grow to the point where windshield replacement is your only option. Save yourself the hassle and the money by bringing in an auto glass repair pro today to take a look. Providing structural support and practically invisible performance, resin car window repairs can help get your windshield back to first-class condition quickly and affordably.
Windshield Replacement: What Everyone Needs To Know
When there are windshield cracks the owner may be able to fix it themselves using a kit or have a professional auto glass technician do the job. The kit has all the tools that are necessary to fix the crack, including the resin. One thing to note is that these cracked windshield kits will only work on little holes or dings or thin small cracks. With larger cracks, they may not disappear no matter how many treatments are applied. For long or deep windshield cracks or ones that do not respond to treatment with the kit, should be taken to an auto glass repair shop to have the windshield replaced or fixed. When they look at it, they can tell you if it is repairable or needs to be replaced. Most insurance companies will take care of the repair or replacement.
• Once it has hardened you can remove the tool
• Check the crack to see if you need to repeat the treatment. If it is a deep crack, you may need to do it again.
• Once you are satisfied with the repair of the windshield cracks you should take a soft dry cloth and polish the area so the resin solution will match the glass around it as much as it can. If you were fixing a small crack it could become almost unrecognizable and appear new to the naked eye but if it is a large crack it could look slightly warped in the area where it was fixed.


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As one of the bestselling country music stars of all time, Reba McEntire is used to delivering hit after hit. Now she's going for follow-up success on TV.
After six highly rated seasons as the star of the WB sitcom "Reba," which earned her a Golden Globe nomination, McEntire spent the next half-dozen years repeatedly hitting the top of the country charts as she focused most of her attention on her music career. Now she's back on the small screen with the ABC sitcom "Malibu Country," playing a divorced mom who relocates from Nashville to the California coast in an effort to start her life – and her country music career – anew. And if her real-life TV stardom proves as durable as her radio airplay and download dominance, McEntire promises she'll work twice as hard to stay on top.
Were you hearing from your music fans that they wanted you back on TV?
Oh, definitely, and when we announced that we were going to do 'Malibu Country' they were ecstatic. My fans have always been very loyal and very nice to travel with me, whether that's Broadway, television, movies, whatever.
What appeals to you about doing comedy?
It entertains me, totally. I love to be entertained, and we've got the best writers. They come up with new lines for me to say and I totally enjoy it. It's entertaining to me, and so if I'm entertained I can entertain other people…I think I'm going to appreciate it more. I don't know if I appreciated it as much. I missed it for six years, so I'm going to appreciate it and work harder and be there better.
Would you ever consider doing one of the singing competition shows, where you'd be a judge?
No. I like this a lot better! I could not tell someone that they do not sing well or that they're not good at something. That's not my personality. I only sang on 'American Idol' – that's what I do best. That's what I'm going to stick with.
Do any of your Nashville buddies ask about being on the new sitcom?
No, they haven't yet – I hope they will! I hope that they'll come on and do guest stars and all of that. Dolly Parton would be the first on my list. I just love Dolly. I've always been a huge fan; Blake Shelton – I think he would be a hoot. Kelly Clarkson, of course; Tim McGraw and Faith Hill; Vince Gill. There's just lots of them – any of them.
What do you love about what's happening in country music right now?
Country music has changed so much. The regime is not like it was two years ago, at all. The players have changed, and I'm not sure if we're going to have those superstars that last forever. It seems to me that it's a little bit more like the pop world where they may be having several singles, but I don't know if they're going to have the longevity. That will be what we'll have to see in ten years.
It's the technology that's really changed our business drastically. Everybody is scrambling to try and catch up and make sure that the talented people who write the songs, who publish the songs are getting paid instead of the pirating and duplication when they're not getting paid. So, it's tearing our industry apart, unfortunately, and there's a lot of talented people not getting their money's worth.
What's the biggest struggle for you, career-wise?
Maintaining. Maintaining is the hardest thing in my position, where I am right now. I enjoy the success. I enjoy traveling. I enjoy touring. I enjoy doing television shows, movies, Broadway. There's not enough time in the day for me, but to be able to continue doing that, keeping your health right, that's the challenge.
Do you fear the day when it's all gone?
I don't fear that. I'll be very grateful with what I've gotten to do and I know that it'll be my time that I don't get to do it anymore. So, that's why I said I'm getting a second chance on this television show. I appreciate it more now and I will work twice as hard on this one as I did the other one.
Is there something that you haven't done yet that you want to do?
The things that I really want to do – like, the personal end of it – is I want to get a motorhome or a bus and start at the very south tip of California and go all the way up to Alaska. I want to travel. I know that sounds silly because that's all I do, but I do love to travel. I want to stop and smell the roses while I'm traveling.
Are you the kind that wants to stop at the world's biggest ball of twine and all those kinds of roadside attractions along the way?
Yes, and take a picture with it!
"Malibu Country" airs Friday nights at 8.30 p.m. ET on ABC


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New quota aimed at stripping refugee status raises concerns among advocates
OTTAWA — The Canada Border Services Agency has set a quota to try to strip at least 875 refugees of their status this fiscal year — four-and-a-half times last year's target — in a move one immigration expert calls "absolutely outrageous."
According to an operational bulletin obtained by Vancouver immigration lawyer and policy analyst Richard Kurland through access to information legislation, the CBSA identified the "cessation and vacation of refugee status" as one of "five enforcement and intelligence priorities" for 2013-14.
As such, it plans to refer a "minimum" of 875 cases a year to the Immigration and Refugee Board (IRB) tasked with adjudicating such cases. It also wants to boost the number of cessation and vacation hearings held before the IRB each year and to ensure those stripped of status are deported "as soon as possible."
"Placing a greater focus on these cases will enable the government to improve the integrity of the refugee system," CBSA spokeswoman Patrizia Giolti wrote in an email, noting refugee laws adopted two years ago "provide for enhanced focus on investigating these types of cases."
Refugee status can be ceased or vacated — in other words taken away — if an individual misrepresented facts in their application, if they were found to have returned to the country they claim was persecuting them, or if the circumstances in their country of origin have changed.
According to the CBSA, 192 such cases were referred to the IRB last year. Meanwhile, IRB figures from 2011 show 115 cases were finalized. The majority were vacation requests — those involving misrepresentation — and most were allowed, leading to the stripping of status.
The decision, however, has baffled refugee advocates, infuriated immigration experts and raised resource concerns for the IRB.
"I'm extremely alarmed to see quotas being attached to proceedings of this nature," said Sharry Aiken, immigration law professor at Queen's University in Kingston, Ont. "Refugee status is an individuated, adjudicated situation based on individual circumstances and certainly, should facts come to light that should suggest cessation/vacation procedures are in order, that's appropriate, but the very notion that an arbitrary number can be picked out of a hat for instituting these proceedings is absolutely outrageous."
Although final decisions are made by a "quasi-judicial" body that's supposed to be impervious to political interference, she argues the quota is certainly in keeping with a string of new laws, and government rhetoric, that suggest the Conservatives are "keen on rescinding the welcome mat for refugees."
Such quotas are also "likely to lead to serious backlogs" for the IRB, she added.
While the government would not say whether the quota has anything to do with a commitment by former immigration minister Jason Kenney last spring to review the status of refugees whose home countries have experienced a regime change, Aiken said that kind of attitude is cause for concern.
Kenney cited the case of Egyptian nationals who received refugee status due to their membership in the Muslim Brotherhood, a previously outlawed group that came to power after the revolution. At the time, Kenney said members should "be delighted to go back and participate in the government of their party," however, months later the group was ousted and returned to its former status.
"There's supposed to be a pretty high test for circumstances changing. It's not just a new government or the end of the war. It's supposed to be fundamental, lasting, durable changes," she said, noting Kenney's comments were rash.
"Just because something has shifted overnight doesn't mean that what you were afraid of yesterday is no longer a concern today."
Under the Protecting Canada's Immigration System Act, which became law in June 2012, losing refugee status means the automatic loss of permanent residency as well. The chief protection against removal from Canada is to obtain citizenship, but the government has also made that more difficult and processing backlogs have left many waiting years to be naturalized.
Canadian Council for Refugees executive director Janet Dench believes many of these cases have been flagged when individuals apply for citizenship and are asked to account for their travels. Citing a pair of cases that have come to her attention, she does not believe an Iranian woman returning home briefly to care for a sick relative is reason enough to strip her of her status and suggests Canada is doing a disservice by trying to revoke the status of an established businessman who's employing Canadians.
Apart from those suspected of fraud, she's left "scratching (her) head" trying to figure out what the government is "trying to achieve" given all the money that's spent on integrating refugees, and anticipates a disconnect between what the CBSA refers and what are true cessation/vacation cases as determined by the IRB.
"The IRB is likely to have to turn down a lot of these applications depending on how they apply the rules," she said.


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Monday morning with Alex WilliamsŌĆÖ cartoons,29th July 2013
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recently I've registered some new domains, because a lot of ISP's were refusing mail from my free domains (no-ip and dyndns).
However, by registering these new domains, I now also have MX records (mail.mydomain.net)
Is it nececary to configure this in Exim somewhere? Maybe as primary mail domain? Or is it sufficient to just have an MX record referring to my A record in DNS?
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As part of the Creative Suite Developer Summit we've been showing off some sample code that illustrates just how easy certain workflows become when you move into Flash. One of these, that was shown at the session on Connecting the Creative Suite to Web Services (go here to watch), illustrates how you can connect up the Creative Suite to Google Maps and Flickr.
This sample shows an extension built to run in Photoshop, InDesign and Bridge CS5 (and could easily be extended to any product in the Suite). It connects to Google Maps to show location information, and Flickr to show relevant images – with the data used to power those searches customised based on the application the extension runs in. So, in Photoshop this will check the geolocation of the current image (extracted via XMP) and show the images taken nearby. In InDesign it will instead take the location from the machine's IP address and search based on keywords using the user's last sentence. Bridge provides a combination of both, where location comes from the XMP and the keywords come from the image tags.
The best part of this is how cheap integration is with these external systems. Google Maps Flex SDK, for example, requires a single MXML entry to create a map, with an additional call into that object being enough to change the positioning of the map;
<maps:Map xmlns:maps="com.google.maps.*"
id="map" width="263″ height="229″
x="30″ y="10″/>
this.map.setCenter(location,15, MapType.NORMAL_MAP_TYPE);
For Flickr there are plenty of SDK options available, including one for ActionScript, but for the purposes of this I've chosen to roll my own calls. This uses a network communications library provided with Extension Builder, which lets us use the minimal amount of code to make a quick call across the network to retrieve the relevant data;
var request:HttpRequest = new HttpRequest(HttpRequest.GET, "http://api.flickr.com", "/services/rest/");
request.setParam("method", "flickr.photos.search");
request.setParam("api_key", FLICKR_KEY);
request.setParam("lat", latLon.lat());
request.setParam("lon", latLon.lng());
if (response.succeeded() || response.get_Status() == 0)
if (response.isParseable())
// success: XML or JSON response
var xml:XML = new XML(response.getBodyText());
for each (var photo:XML in xml.photos.photo) {
If you'd like to try this out, you can grab the Extension Builder project here. You'll need to drop the Google Maps Flex SWC (available here) into the libs folder, and enter your own API key for both the Maps service and Flickr.
I've also made it available as a ZXP (here), and as a zip for Bridge (here) the contents of which should be unzipped into your Bridge CS5 user startup scripts folder.


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The liveliest part of the debate was at the beginning, when Mitt went after Newt—and Republicans all over America watched with fascinated horror at the thought that these are the two GOP frontrunners. The only spectacle in American politics more off-putting than Newt Gingrich in self-righteous defense mode is Mitt Romney in self-righteous attack mode. I thought Mitt's attacks were somewhat more dishonest than Newt's defenses were disingenuous, but it was good to move on to the rest of the debate, where little further damage was done.By the way, Mitch Daniels was my original, provisional choice for the GOP nomination, in part because I'm sentimental about Indiana. Kristol's recent Mitchomania interests me!
My conclusion: If Mitch Daniels's effective tax rate is 30 percent rather than 15 percent, and if he was never paid $1.6 million by Freddie Mac, he can be the next president.
I'm working on slogans playing off the similarity between the names Mitt and Mitch... but I keep including the word "bitch," so I'll spare you the examples.


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Design InfosAll PSD files layered and easy to customize, and I hope this helps Infos are more about the template. Design grid system were made in 1080. Layers can be customized to the desired changes.
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