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Caldeira tells Yale e360: Thinking of geoengineering as a substitute for emissions reduction is analogous to saying, ˜Now that Ive got the seatbelts on, I can just take my hands off the wheel and turn around and talk to people in the back seat. Its crazy…. If I had to wager, I would wager that we would never deploy any geoengineering system."
Yale Environment 360: I want to start with this little dust-up over SuperFreakonomics. In the book, you are quoted as saying, when it comes to global warming, "Carbon dioxide is not the right villain." Is that accurate?
Ken Caldeira: That is not accurate. I don't believe I said anything remotely like that because I believe that we should be outlawing the production of devices that emit carbon dioxide, and I don't think we can solve this carbon climate problem unless we drastically reduce our carbon dioxide emissions very soon.
e360: They also write that you are convinced that human activity is responsible for "some" global warming. What does that mean?
Caldeira: I don't think we can say with certainty whether we're responsible for 90 percent of it or we might be responsible for 110 percent of it. But the vast majority of global warming, I believe, is due to human release of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere.
e360: Another thing that plays in to the same kind of sensibility is the idea [which the book quotes Caldeira saying] that the "doubling of CO2 traps less than 2 percent of the outgoing radiation emitted by the Earth." When that's phrased like that, it makes it sound like it's not really much of a problem.
Caldeira: You should think of the whole global warming problem as a 1 percent problem, at least for doubling of CO2. In absolute temperature Kelvin "" scientists like to use the Kelvin scale "" the current Earth temperature is around 288 degrees Kelvin, and a 3-degree warming on top of that is basically a one-percent additional warming. And so this whole issue of climate change, when viewed from an Earth-system perspective, is a story about 1 percents and 2 percents. Two percent might sound like a small number, but that's the difference between a much hotter world, and the kind of world we're accustomed to….
e360: Overall, do you feel like your work has been accurately and fairly represented in this book?
Caldeira: The main misrepresentation is the quote that says that CO2 is not "the right villain." Now, again, I don't use "villain" talk myself, but if you say what's the primary gas responsible for the planetary warming, I would say it's carbon dioxide.
Now, there's a tougher question when it comes to the other statements that are attributed to me. All of those other statements are based in fact and based on studies that either I have published or other scientists have published. And if we pull back to the case of the biosphere taking up 70 percent of CO2 "" well, yes, we have a published study that said that. It also presented results saying that we might warm up the planet enough to risk melting Antarctica ultimately. And so there is a selective use of quotes.
If you spend several hours talking to somebody and they take a half-dozen things and put it in a book, then it's going to be in the context and framing of arguments that the authors are trying to make. And so the actual statements attributed to me are based on fact, but the contexts and the framing of those issues are very different from the context and framing that I would put those same facts in…
So I think that the casual reader can … come up with a misimpression of what I believe and what I feel about things.
None of Caldeira's statements in this recent Yale e360 interview are a surprise if you read my original, accurate debunking — Error-riddled 'Superfreakonomics': New book pushes global cooling myths, sheer illogic, and "patent nonsense" "" and the primary climatologist it relies on, Ken Caldeira, says "it is an inaccurate portrayal of me" and "misleading" in "many" places.
And this all matches the Bloomberg interview of Dubner and Caldeira, which also backed up my reporting on error-riddled Superfreakonomics:
Caldeira, like the vast majority of climate scientists, believes cutting carbon dioxide and other greenhouse-gas emissions is our only real chance to avoid runaway climate change.
"Carbon dioxide is the right villain," Caldeira wrote on his Web site in reply. He told Joe Romm, the respected climate blogger who broke the story, that he had objected to the "wrong villain" line but Dubner and Levitt didn't correct it; instead, they added the "incredibly foolish" quote, a half step in the right direction. Caldeira gave the same account to me.
Levitt and Dubner do say that the book "overstates" Caldeira's position. That's a weasel word: The book claims the opposite of what Caldeira believes. Caldeira told me the book contains "many errors" in addition to the "major error" of misstating his scientific opinion on carbon dioxide's role"¦.
Although this made a lot of news, it really isn't news. Anyone who spends a great deal of time reading Caldeira's work, communicating with and listening to him, as I have, would know instantly how directly at odds his views are with the entire Superfreakonomics chapter.
More newsworthy is Caldeira's longer elaboration on his views of geoengineering and what the world's overall approach to global warming should be:
e360: Let's talk a little bit more broadly about geoengineering. I was struck by something one of the authors said on NPR the other day "" that he got interested in geoengineering when he realized that the problem with global warming is not that there is too much carbon in the air; it's that it is too hot. Do you agree with that?
Caldeira: The reason it is too hot is that there is too much carbon dioxide in the air. Now the carbon dioxide itself, of course, has big negative implications for ocean acidification and ecosystems, including coral reefs. So there are direct CO2 effects.
But I think if we had some magic thing that would reverse all effects of CO2 perfectly, then you could say, "Well the problem is not CO2." But nobody really expects that we are going to have some magic, perfect CO2 nullifier. And it's clear to me that if we continue allowing greenhouse gas concentration to grow in the atmosphere, and try to engineer our climate to counteract those effects, that as the greenhouse gases accumulate, and our counteracting system grows ever larger and larger, that the risk of some kind of catastrophic failure of this offsetting "" or the imperfections in this offsetting "" would grow in time and the net result would be pretty negative, I would imagine.
So, I do see CO2 as the problem. I think to present it as if, "Well, it not's really CO2, but the effects of CO2," it's like if you got shot by a bullet and you said, "Well, it wasn't really the bullet that was the problem, it was just that I happened to have this hole through my body…"
e360: Right. Well, a lot of people think of geoengineering as a quick and cheap fix for global warming. Is it?
Caldeira: Let's pretend for a moment that putting dust in the stratosphere is easy to do and works reasonably well. And let's say the United States and England and the "Coalition of the Willing" decided to go ahead and deploy this system, and that China or India then went into a decade or two of deep drought. Whether the system caused that drought or not, I think the Chinese or the Indians would rightly suspect that the reason they have this drought and ensuing famines might be due to this system that was put up by these other countries. And you could easily imagine that there would be a great amount of political tension, and possibly even leading to warfare. So I think just the political dimensions and the governance dimensions of these geoengineering options suggest that we would be very reluctant to deploy these things, even if we thought they worked more or less perfectly.
Another example is that, in many climate model simulations, the area around Egypt tends to get wetter with global warming. And so what if you do this geoengineering scheme and it takes away water from countries that didn't have water a few centuries ago? Are they are going to be happy you're doing this? So I think just the political problems associated with perceived winners and losers are so great that a politician is not going to want to deal with these problems.
Then, of course, the system is not going to work perfectly. First of all, it's not going to address the issues of ocean acidification. It's not going to perfectly offset global warming, so you'll have some residual effects. So, I look at these geoengineering options as something we would only want to consider if our backs were really up against the wall, and where all these environmental and political risks seem worth taking because the alternatives look so frightening.
e360: I know that some scientists have suggested that there should be some kind of taboo on geoengineering research. But I know that you've been outspoken in the need for a federally-funded geoengineering research program. Can you explain that?
Caldeira: Yes, I think we don't know right now whether these kinds of approaches have the potential to reduce risk or not. In our climate models, the amount of climate change can be reduced by these kinds of approaches, but the climate models are an imperfect reflection of reality, and they don't consider the kinds of political risks that I was mentioning before. And so I think we just have to say we don't know whether these options can really reduce overall risk"¦
Let's say geoengineering doesn't work, and that it would add to risk. It seems to me it would be worth having a research program to demonstrate that beyond a reasonable doubt so we can all forget about this and move on.
On the other hand, if these options do have the potential to reduce risk, then it seems to me that we would like to have the option to reduce that risk should a time come where that would seem necessary. I kind of think of these geoengineering options as seeing, "Well, can we invent some kind of seatbelts for our climate system?" We need to drive the climate system carefully, we need to greatly reduce emissions. But even if we're driving carefully we still run the risk of getting into an accident. And seatbelts can potentially reduce the damage when we're in an accident.
But the reason I'm concerned about geoengineering is because I am so concerned about greenhouse gas emissions, and so, again, I'm in favor of essentially making greenhouse gas-emitting devices illegal. But I don't think we're going to reduce emissions fast enough to make me feel that we're not running some really grave risks. And so I think we need to develop options to diminish those risks.
And it's not just geoengineering. I'm much in favor of a very broad-spectrum approach. I think one of the things we saw with the subprime mortgage crisis is that a few million people in the United States defaulted on their mortgages and we have a worldwide economic crisis. I think we have to assume that climate change damage will be a much bigger amplitude than a few million mortgage defaults.
If there's some kind of climate crisis in Southeast Asia, is that going to amplify and shake the whole global economic system? This is the kind of thing that Jim Lovelock is afraid of, that you'll have "economic migrants" resulting from climate change that will ultimately destabilize modern civilization.
And so I think we also need to be doing research in how do we make our society more robust, so that these local climate damages won't turn into global problems. We need to be doing basic adaptation planning; we need to look at geoengineering options. But the main thing we need to do is work to eliminate carbon dioxide emissions.
But thinking of geoengineering as a substitute for emissions reduction is analogous to saying, "Now that I've got the seatbelts on, I can't just take my hands off the wheel and turn around and talk to people in the back seat." It's crazy.
The authors of SuperFreakonomics simply never understood what the chief climatologist they interviewed believed about the central thesis of their chapter, As Bloomberg reported last week:
Caldeira, who is researching the idea [of aerosol geoengineering], argues that it can succeed only if we first reduce emissions. Otherwise, he says, geoengineering can't begin to cope with the collateral damage, such as acidic oceans killing off shellfish.
Levitt and Dubner ignore his view and champion his work as a permanent substitute for emissions cuts. When I told Dubner that Caldeira doesn't believe geoengineering can work without cutting emissions, he was baffled. "I don't understand how that could be," he said. In other words, the Freakonomics guys just flunked climate science.
And ironically, the "polymath's polymath" contrarian's contrarian apparently agrees with Caldeira in opposing the geoengineering-only approach — although Nathan Myhrvold apparently never understood what the Superfreaks actually wrote in their chapter and the Superfreaks apparently never understood what the former Microsoft CTO actually believed! See Nathan Myhrvold jumps the shark "" and jumps ship on Levitt and Dubner (on their blog!) asserting: "Geoengineering is proposed only as a last resort to try to reduce or cope with the even greater harms of global warming! "¦ The point of the chapter in SuperFreakonomics is that geoengineering might be good insurance in case we don't get global warming under control." Did he even read the book?
One final quote that I think might surprise a great many people who don't know Caldeira, who got their entire misimpression of him from Superfreakonomics:
If I had to wager, I would wager that we would never deploy any geoengineering system….
If you want to know what Caldeira thinks will happen, you can listen to Caldeira's entire interview with journalist Jeff Goodell on the Yale e360 website.
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7 Responses to Caldeira tells Yale e360: Thinking of geoengineering as a substitute for emissions reduction is analogous to saying, ˜Now that Ive got the seatbelts on, I can just take my hands off the wheel and turn around and talk to people in the back seat. Its crazy…. If I had to wager, I would wager that we would never deploy any geoengineering system."
Yes, AND . . .
Excellent piece.
Yet, there is a growing need to actually prompt improvement in the mainstream media regarding climate change and all of this stuff.
I'm not joking, of course. But, importantly, the aim can't be merely to critique the media and then be sidelined as they continue "business as usual". The aim has to be real positive change.
Consider: With the rather insufficient understanding (on the part of key portions of the public) regarding global warming itself, and when The New York Times can't even see fit to give prominent coverage to an urgent letter sent by eighteen scientific organizations to the U.S. Senate, how in the heck can we even begin to hope that people will understand the basic stupidity of relying on geoengineering as any sort of responsible replacement to the essential need to address the source of the problem itself. The unwise and uninformed idea of geoengineering as an excuse not to make the necessary changes in CO2 emissions is just too "tempting" and a bit too "believable" (in a science fiction sense) that the media will have to improve its ability to convey real understanding, or else we will perhaps go down this silly path.
So, to me, a big challenge is still the media. And, that challenge is big enough that complaints and criticisms that don't actually bring about the required changes do little good. We — people at large — need to find ways to actually prompt the media to improve on these things.
As always, because it's an important subject, I need to mention Bio-energy with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS).
This strategy is often lumped in with geoengineering, but it is really in a category of its own: benign geoengineering meant to actually reduce atmospheric CO2 levels, and doing so while producing electricity at a profit.
Check it out:
Bio-energy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) is a greenhouse gas mitigation technology which produces negative carbon emissions by combining biomass use with carbon capture and storage.[1] It was pointed out in the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) as a key technology for reaching low carbon dioxide atmospheric concentration targets.[2] The negative emissions that can be produced by BECCS has been estimated by the Royal Society to be equivalent to a 50 to 150 ppm decrease in global atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations.[3]
The concept of BECCS is drawn from the integration of biomass processing industries or biomass fuelled power plants with carbon capture and storage. BECCS is a form of bio-energy with carbon storage(BECS). BECS also includes other technologies such as biochar and biomass burial.[1]
Aerosol based geoengineering does not address ocean acidification, for example, and relies on adding another factor to a complicated system already spiraling out of control. BECCS just sequesters CO2, and allows the system to heal itself.
Seatbelts are fine, but introducing another complicating factor into a complex situation already spiraling out of control means we are more likely to hang ourselves on our seatbelts than have them actually work, IMO.
Superfreakonomics seems like a product of a strategy to introduce confusion into the debate, and frankly I suspect covert, indirect funding by fossil fuel corporations.
I really wish I could argue with you about the media and show you and everyone else here why you're being unduly pessimistic, but I can't. In fact, I think the media is the fulcrum of the problem (the money the fossil fuel interests and stink tanks can throw into feeding denialism being the lever), and as long as that very powerful agent in our society continues to treat climate change deniers vastly better than it does the "HIV doesn't cause AIDS" people, the "we never landed on the moon" crowd, etc., they will serve as an immensely effective enabler of those want to resist desperately needed change.
Interesting that Caldeira highlights the importance of adaptation. Why don't we see more discussion of adaptation on ClimateProgress? Just curious, since we're definitely going to overshoot and see significant impacts from warming, whether or not we get CO2 emissions under control.
[JR: I don't spend most of my time focusing on "adaptation" because future generations are going to have a lot of time to work on adaptation if we don't focus laser light on mitigation. But I have written a number of posts on "adaptation," including this recent one.]
Why is it that the same people who denied global warming are the biggest supporters of magic geoengineering fixes? These guys will say anything.
This is the most nuanced piece I've yet read about geo-engineering and I thank Jeff Goodell (I've been meaning to follow up since our Aspen dinner, Jeff) and Joe for publishing this.
This is consistent with what I've been asking my panelists Kevin Trenberth, Brian Toon and many others about geo-engineering. Trenberth gets the big picture about as well as anyone and Toon specializes in clouds, aerosols and particulates and has been lead author on many of the nuclear winter studies. They both felt the same, that there would be such tremendous unforeseen consequences in addition to the ones Caldeira expertly raises, that in the end geo-engineering could do much more harm than good.
Also the psychology of thinking we don't have to reduce CO2 might be most dangerous of all, as this seatbelt-allowing-reckless-driving metaphor illustrates.
At lunch over a year ago Steven Schneider and others I respect feel we need geo-engineering research but implementation only as a last resort.
No top climate scientist I respect like those above has been gung-ho for geo-engineering, but I've been meaning to ask atmospheric chemists Susan Solomon and Paul Crutzen as well as James Lovelock and Jim Hansen, because theirs are the additional opinions I would respect most.
Does anyone know their latest statements about geo-engineering?
Forgetting about how unlikely it is that any of these geo-engineering so-called solutions would actually work and not cause more problems than they solved, how come nobody ever talks realistically about what it would cost?
Right now the big hold-up for serious emissions reduction is the never-ending cry that "we can't afford it." But the cost for some last-minute hail Mary geo-engineering stunt would be so much more than what we are talking about for emissions reduction and would have to be paid all at once instead of spread over 20 years like emission reduction. If we "can't afford" to reduce emissions over two decades, how would we ever afford the up-front cost of a massive geo-engineering stunt?


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Morgan Drexen Inc., a provider of debt-relief services to consumers through law firms, charged illegal upfront fees and deceived clients, according to a lawsuit filed by the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
The Costa Mesa, California-based firm misled thousands of customers with claims they wouldn't be charged upfront fees and would be debt-free in months, the CFPB said in a statement. The lawsuit, filed today in U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, said Morgan Drexen advertised debt-relief services and used a network of attorneys nationwide that turned over most of their clients' fees to the firm.
"This company took advantage of people who were struggling," said CFPB Director Richard Cordray, in a statement today. "The company charged consumers illegal fees and deceived them about the services provided. We will hold them accountable for these actions."
U.S. law bans debt-relief providers from charging for their services before a debt is settled or reduced. The company was charging such fees and also charged for bankruptcy services without performing any significant work, the agency said, adding that Morgan Drexen had more than 22,000 customers since October 2010.
The firm filed a lawsuit last month to block the CFPB probe, claiming the bureau is unconstitutional. The CFPB lacks the accountability the Constitution requires for a government agency and the law provides no definition of the unfair and deceptive practices the bureau is supposed to police, according to the company's lawsuit.
"CFPB has chosen to engage in procedural gamesmanship by opening a new front to the lawsuit," the company said in an e-mailed statement today. "This is disruptive and inefficient and distracts from what we should be doing, which is preparing to present arguments to the D.C. court on the constitutionality of the CFPB structure."

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Classic Oyster Stew
- Drain oysters, reserving liquor. Inspect oysters and remove any bit of shell. Set aside oysters and liquor.
- In medium saucepan heat milk and cream just to simmering; keep warm.
- In Dutch oven heat 4 tablespoons of the butter over medium heat. When butter is melted and bubbling, add onion, celery, and 1/2 teaspoon of the salt, stirring well to coat in butter. Cook slowly, about 10 minutes, stirring often until onion is tender and translucent. Sprinkle flour over vegetable mixture. Cook 2 minutes more, stirring well to blend in the flour. Slowly whisk in the hot milk and cream; ring mixture back to a low simmer, stirring occasionally.
- Meanwhile, in a 12-inch nonstick skillet heat remaining 3 tablespoons butter over medium heat until hot and bubbly. Add drained oysters in a single layer. Sprinkle remaining salt and a few grinds of black pepper. Cook just until oysters begin to curl around the edges and gills are slightly exposed. Transfer oysters to the milk mixture in Dutch oven. Turn off heat.
- Add oyster liquor to hot skillet. Cook 2 to 3 minutes, until liquor comes to boiling. Immediately transfer to stew in Dutch oven; stir. Sprinkle cayenne and stir in. Cover and let stand for 10 minutes. Sprinkle servings with parsley.
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Twenty-five years ago, when Dr. Binayak Sen and his wife Ilina moved to the remote Adivasi area of what is now the state of Chhattisgarh in central India, they never imagined the situation they would find themselves in today. "It was love at first sight for me," Dr. Ilina Sen remembers. "I was attracted by the culture and the women. They are strong women there. But their way of life is being destroyed."
So is her husband's. For over a year, this pediatrician, who has spent his entire career serving the poorest of the poor in Chhattisgarh, has been imprisoned for alleged ties with Maoist rebels. Binayak Sen denies the charges, and human-rights activists in India and around the world support his cause. Recently, twenty-two Nobel laureates sent an open letter to the government of India demanding his immediate release. Demonstrations were held all over India on May 13, the first anniversary of his arrest. So far, however, the government isn't budging. According to activists here in India, it's not likely to any time soon. "The government is sending us all a message," says Aruna Roy, a well-known activist and the winner of the Magsaysay Award (the Asian Nobel Prize). "This is what happens if you raise your voice about human rights."
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SANTA MONICA, Calif. (MCT) — When architect Kai Cole began designing her Mediterranean-style Santa Monica home, she weighed all the usual concerns — space, light, flow — along with one quite specific to her family's needs: where to hold the Shakespeare readings.
Cole and her husband, "The Avengers" director Joss Whedon, have hosted impromptu Sunday afternoon gatherings of friends to perform the Bard's plays since the late 1990s, when Whedon was producing the TV show "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and he and his cast craved a creative outlet far removed from the program's fantasy world of demon-killing high school students.
So when she was trying to figure out what to do with a pitched corner of the backyard that overlooks a country club, Cole envisioned it as an open-air performance space and set rock slab seats in a few tiers around a semi-circular grass stage, a la Sophocles.
"I came back from being away on a movie and Kai was like, 'I built an amphitheater. Is that OK?' " Whedon said. "When she designed the house we talked about having people come and paint. There's a potting wheel, a sprung dance floor. We were always wanting to invite creativity into and through the house."
Whedon's new movie takes that domestic impulse a step further — he shot the film, a black-and-white contemporary adaptation of Shakespeare's "Much Ado About Nothing," at home.
A tart romantic comedy chronicling two pairs of lovers, Whedon's "Much Ado" retains the 16th century language but places its characters in a modern world.
"We wanted to make it accessible and fun and hip and approachable for a modern viewer," said Alexis Denisof, a "Buffy" alumnus who plays the sharp-tongued Benedick and who participated in many of Whedon's backyard readings over the years. "We're not standing around in tights and ruffled shirts. We're telling a cool, sexy story with guys in sharp suits."
Filmed in secret over 12 days while Whedon was on a break from "Avengers," the movie is homemade in a multitude of ways. The crew shot in Whedon and Cole's kitchen and children's bedrooms, and cast and crew members often spent the night during production. Family friends cooked for the movie's big party scene, and dirty wine glasses from a real party supplied the props for the fictional morning after.
Nearly every actor in "Much Ado" has at least two credits from the so-called Whedonverse — Denisof ("Buffy," "Angel," "Avengers") and Amy Acker ("Angel," "Dollhouse," "The Cabin in the Woods") play Benedick and Beatrice, the play's wry, sparring couple; Fran Kranz ("Dollhouse," "The Cabin in the Woods") and newcomer Jillian Morgese are its wide-eyed lovers Claudio and Hero; and Nathan Fillion ("Buffy," "Firefly," "Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog") and Tom Lenk ("Buffy," "Angel," "The Cabin in the Woods") are the comically incompetent constable Dogberry and his loyal sidekick Verges.
Making a film as a break from making a bigger film might seem peculiar, but not in this household. "I relate to my friends usually through work," Whedon said. "I'm a workaholic. Part of making the movie wasn't just reconnecting with my artistic roots, it was reconnecting with my house and my friends. It was a true homecoming. It was the best way to get them all to spend 12 days with me."
The idea for "Much Ado" came from Cole, a producer on the film. A graduate of the Southern California Institute of Architecture, she has designed her family's last three houses and run a small textile company while raising the couple's 8-year-old daughter, Squire, and 10-year-old son, Arden. Tall, warm, with a faint Massachusetts accent, Cole has a habit of collecting artistic people — after she met a couple of Cirque du Soleil performers at a party one night, she had them over to her house to teach her and her son trapeze.
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Police General Who Predicted 10,000 Deaths Removed
MANILA—The police general who announced on Sunday that the most powerful storm to slam the Philippines in two decades could have claimed 10,000 lives has been removed from his post.
Col. Reuben Sindac, spokesman for the Philippines National Police, confirmed to the Wall Street Journal on Thursday that Chief Superintendent Elmer Soria was removed as head of the regional office that oversees police operations in the central Philippines, where Typhoon Haiyan, locally called Yolanda, unleashed her gale-force winds and whipped up 15-foot-high storm surges before leaving the country Saturday.
"We all know for one thing, Police Chief Supt. Elmer Soria has been through a lot for the past days and may be experiencing what you call 'acute stress reaction,'" said Col. Sindac. "As such, it was deemed by higher headquarters that he might need to go through a stress debriefing."
Mr. Soria declined to comment further on the move, saying on Monday that it was a "command decision."
His comment came just two days after Haiyan inflicted incalculable damage on dozens of provinces, and was widely picked up by media organizations covering what seems to be the biggest news story in the world at the moment. It also piqued the interest of President Benigno Aquino III, who sought to downplay the shockingly high number, claiming it could add to the stress on relatives—here and abroad—of those living in devastated areas.
Mr. Aquino told CNN:
"Ten thousand I think is too much and perhaps that was brought about by, how should I put it, being in the center of the destruction. There was emotional trauma involved in that particular estimate, quoting both a police and a local government official. They were too close to the incident. They have no basis for it. The figure I have now is 2,000 but this still might get higher. We're hoping to be able to contact something like 29 municipalities left wherein we have to establish their numbers, especially the missing. But so far 2,000 to 2,500 is the figure we're working on as far as death is concerned."
As of late Thursday, the official death count stood at 2,357, but many believe that number could still rise, with many places ravaged by Haiyan yet to be reached by rescue and relief workers.
Asked if the controversial projection figured in Mr. Soria's removal, Col. Sindac replied: "More than just for that reason."
Police general Henry Losanes, the former director of the PNP Maritime Group, will replace Mr. Soria said Col. Sindac, calling Mr. Losanes, someone "not affected by the recent chain of events."
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6 November 2015 1:51 PM, PST | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
Henry Selick to team with Key & Peele for new animated stop-motion film
It has been awhile since director Henry Selick made Coraline, one of the better animated films in years, and he has been looking to move on to a new project. While Disney and Laika have both passed on The Shadow King by Selick, it looks like a famous duo will help the director get his next project made.
According to Variety, Key & Peele are set to help create a new animated feature with Selick that will be called Wendell and Wild. The site adds that the project is in the early stages with the duo and Selick ironing out creative details while looking for a distributor at the moment.
Selick spoke about the project, telling Variety that:
"'Wendell and Wild' is a comedy about two scheming demon brothers who must face their arch-nemesis, the demon-dusting nun Sister Helly, »
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Screen Daily has learned that Noomi Rapace is in talks to star as Amy Winehouse in a movie about the late British soul singer. August Rush director Kirsten Sheridan will helm the biopic (working title Amy Winehouse) and Sheridan also wrote the film's script. According to the site, "Music rights are currently in negotiation on the development project." An Asif Kapadia-directed... Read More »
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Not to be confused with Asif Kapadia's acclaimed documentary about the late singer that released earlier this year, Screen Daily has revealed that a second Amy Winehouse biopic has entered pre-production. Irish filmmaker Kirsten Sheridan (Dollhouse, August Rush) will write and direct the biographical feature, which has its crosshairs placed on The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo starlet Noomi Rapace to assume the title role.
Understood to be in the very early stages, source close to the project claim that Rapace is "in talks" to star as the record-breaking songstress, who tragically passed away from alcohol poisoning in July 2011. She was 27. No word yet on an official title for the new drama, though we imagine it won't stray too far from the instantly recognizable – and therefore easily marketable – name of the late soul singer.
Despite its critical and commercial success, Kapadia's biopic was the subject of intense »
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The team behind an upcoming biopic of British singer Amy Winehouse are reportedly in talks with Noomi Rapace (Prometheus) to play the role of the controversial star.
See Also: Noomi Rapace to play opera singer Maria Callas in new biopic
See Also: Amy Winehouse doc set to become the UK's highest-grossing British documentary
Screen Daily reports that the film from writer-director Kirsten Sheridan (August Rush) is attempting to negotiate with the in-demand Swede, who has Prometheus 2 on the horizon.
The news comes hot on the heels of Asif Kapadia's Amy, which became the highest-grossing British documentary of all time earlier this year.
That film came under fire from Winehouse's family – especially from father Mitch, who is reportedly putting together another film project about his daughter.
- Tom Beasley
5 November 2015 7:25 AM, PST | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
It's been four years since Amy Winehouse tragically passed away, all too young, at the age of twenty-seven, but 2015 has been something of a celebration of her life. Earlier this year, Asif Kapadia released his documentary "Amy" which spun the tale of singer's life with carefully constructed archival footage, and now, Winehouse is getting the big screen biopic treatment. Read More: Review: Asif Kapadia's Powerful Amy Winehouse Documentary 'Amy' Screen Daily reports that Noomi Rapace ("Prometheus," "The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo") is in talks to player the artist in the untitled picture. Kirsten Sheridan ("August Rush") has written the script and will direct the picture that will tell the tale about the singer's life. The all important music rights are currently being negotiated, but as we've learned from other biopics that have spent years in development, it's not always an easy process to sort out, especially when estate's get. »
- Kevin Jagernauth
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One of the top 25 grossing documentaries of all-time, we called Asif Kapadia's Amy "a devastating, infuriating and sometimes breathtaking watch," one that "finds some startling truths lurking behind all the music, tabloids and nonsense" when it comes to the late singer's downfall and tragic death. On the heels of the successful film's digital release, word has now arrived her life will once again be seen on screen, this time in biopic form.
According to ScreenDaily, The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo and Prometheus star Noomi Rapace is currently in talks to take the role of Amy Winehouse in a forthcoming biopic. Jim Sheridan's daughter Kirsten Sheridan (August Rush) has completed a script which she'll direct and plans are underway to license the late singer's music. Unfortunately, there's no details if this will take a look at a specific time in her all-too-short 27-year »
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Original Swedish "The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo" trilogy star Noomi Rapace is in talks to star as iconic UK soul singer Amy Winehouse in a biopic about the late artist at Subotica Films and City Entertainment.
Winehouse, known for her distinct voice and hit album Back To Black, died in 2011 at the age of 27 following a much publicized battle with drink and drugs. Kirsten Sheridan ("August Rush") has written the script and is due to direct the feature.
Music rights are currently in negotiations for the in-development project. The film comes on the heels of Asif Kapadia's "Amy" documentary which proved both a box-office and critical hit.
Rapace is to soon reprise her role as Elizabeth Shaw in Ridley Scott's "Prometheus" sequel and will star opposite Christian Bale in Michael Mann's Enzo Ferrari biopic.
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5 November 2015 7:00 AM, PST | ScreenDaily | See recent ScreenDaily news »
Exclusive: The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo lead in talks to star as iconic UK soul singer.
Noomi Rapace (Prometheus, The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo) is in talks to play the late British soul icon Amy Winehouse in a script biopic that is gathering steam at the Afm.
August Rush director Kirsten Sheridan has written the script and is due to direct the feature, a UTA/CAA package that the two agencies are co-repping, which has a handful of sales companies and financiers circling.
Producers are Dublin–based Subotica Films, producers of Jake Paltrow's Young Ones and Jimi Hendrix music biopic Jimi: All Is by My Side, and Us outfit City Entertainment, exec-producers of NBC mini-series Rosemary's Baby.
Music rights are currently in negotiation on the development project.
The script for Amy Winehouse (working title) comes hot on the heels of Asif Kapadia's successful Winehouse documentary Amy, the box office »
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To celebrate the release of Mad Men: The Complete Collection, which will arrive on Blu-ray and DVD on 2nd November, we have a copy of the Deluxe Collector's Edition to give away on Blu-Ray. We also have 3 prizes of The Complete Final Season on DVD to give away as runner-up prizes, all courtesy of Lionsgate Home Entertainment.
One of the most iconic, celebrated and influential TV series of recent years finally comes to an end this autumn with the release of Mad Men – The Final Season: Part 2 and Mad Men – The Complete Final Season are available on Blu-ray and DVD from October 19th, whilst Mad Men: The Complete Collection and Mad Men – Deluxe Collector's Edition are available on 2nd November, courtesy of Lionsgate Home Entertainment.
The concluding part of Mad Men's seventh season sees Don Draper (Jon Hamm – Bridesmaids, TV's Black Mirror) resuming his »
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Cannes — John Woo, whose credits include "Mission Impossible II" and "Face/Off," is to produce a original scripted television series titled "Cognition" in partnership with Catalyst Global Media, the television and film production company led by Charlotte Walls and Al Hardiman.
The show is a neo-noir crime thriller covering two serial killer investigations set in two very stylistically contrasting worlds — the vast and desolate lands of America's declining mid-West, and the thriving and overpopulated streets of the Far East.
The series is centered around Travis Augustine, an American ex-detective who has travelled to the Far East for a cutting-edge, untested medical procedure to cure his cancer. The theory: trauma manifests itself into illness. The cure: delete the memories associated with the trauma. As Travis recounts the memories from a failed all-consuming 10-year serial killer investigation as part of his treatment, copycat crimes start to take place on the streets of an Asian metropolis, »
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12 August 2015 5:23 AM, PDT | ScreenDaily | See recent ScreenDaily news »
Industry veteran to take executive producer and producer duties at new firm.
Chris Moll, who stepped down as head of film at Creative England in April, has resurfaced at burgeoning film and TV production company Catalyst Global Media.
Moll has been hired to takes on both executive producer and producer duties at the London-based firm, which launched in May.
Reporting to Catalyst co-founder and CEO Charlotte Walls, Moll will be charged with sourcing high-quality, commercially viable projects for Catalyst's development and production slate.
He will also be responsible for expanding the company's national and international partnerships with key talent, producers, agents, publishers and financiers, and identifying new opportunities for collaboration across film, television, digital and music.
Walls said: "Chris brings tremendous strength as an award-winning film producer and seasoned entertainment executive with passion and vision for current projects and the future of Catalyst."
Moll said he would help build "a slate focused on both creative »
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22 July 2015 12:40 PM, PDT | E! Online | See recent E! Online news »
Remember the little boy who starred opposite Johnny Depp in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory? It's been 10 years since Tim Burton's Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory remake hit theaters, but former child star Freddie Highmore is all grown up now! Highmore, who you might also remember from 2004's Finding Neverland and 2007's August Rush, is 23, and as you can see from the cover of Attitude magazine's Summer 2015 issue, he's definitely not a little boy anymore! The handsome Brit, who currently stars as Norman Bates on A&E's Bates Motel, acknowledged his mature new look. "I think in a way, being judged as a sex symbol and being famous almost go hand in hand but it is »
2 February 2015 3:48 PM, PST | MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news »
Ender's Game star Asa Butterfield has signed on to star in the sci-fi adventure Out of This World for Relativity Media. Relativity Studios is behind the project, which has Peter Chelsom (Hector and the Search for Happiness) set to direct. The story begins with a billionaire entrepreneur's mission to colonize Mars, which results in a female astronaut becoming pregnant on the planet.
The astronaut died during childbirth, but her infant son was raised in secrecy on Mars. 16 years later, after returning to Earth, the teenage boy (Asa Butterfield) enlists the help of a mission specialist and connects with a young woman he has been communicating with. They both set off on a road trip across America to find the father he never knew.
Allan Loeb (21, Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, The Dilemma) wrote the original screenplay, with Peter Chelsom and Tinker Lindsay (Hector and the Search for Happiness) providing the most recent revisions. »
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Nuri Sahin Scenario..
Obviously something we don't necessarily have to worry about for some time, but I certainly think it is well worth thinking about or noting.. His future with LFC..
In all the initial Sahin rumors and when I said he was definitely coming on loan, I also said I don't believe a word of anything Joselina says, unless he's talking Barcelona which makes him hover on the border of lunacy, but in that, he said there was no chance of Sahin staying permanently.. I didn't buy that statement whatsoever..
3 reasons, Brendan Rodgers a good friend / understudy, Sahin having a say in the matter, and Madrid's roster of CM or Central attackers - Khedira, Xabi (still capable of several years), Diarra, Modric, Essien, Ozil, Kaka and even Coentrao sometimes plays there.. Sahin will always find it extremely difficult to have a regular spot over any of them, especially considering Khedira and Ozil are both very young and fantastic players, and then you have Modric still a young lad, with the others older but very capable
Having said that, and the point of the post is that Joselina came out today and said what I had thought all along, that Sahin would be available to us for sale, but at what cost.. that's the question.. He paid 7 something (in the link below) and presuming Sahin continues to improve and play as he has done, he seems capable of 10 goals or more, in addition to becoming a key to our club.. So, how much does his cost go up..? 10M, 15M, not crazy figures, but we'll have to see.. And I know some will say don't waste the money or over consider it with Shelvey, but I would say he's only 3 years older and is far more proven, and Shelvey seems like he's more of our future Gerrard, while Sahin is that smooth, elogant play maker with a lovely left peg.. Just something worth reading and pondering.. (I'd probably entertain selling Henderson to raise the funds, and make Spearing a sale as well)
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He is a nice fluid and graceful player, if anything a bit soft. When you play in midfield with Lucas Leiva, you can get away with it! I hope we make the move permanent, I feel we have enough in the middle of the park to contend for the title, its just a left back and 2 strikers away from a very good side!
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I'd hope we make it permanent, and there is a chance, because I can't see him ever getting into the Real Madrid side. He seems an elegant steady eddie, less likely to grab headlines than others, but able to be incisive and keep the game ticking in our favour, whilst chipping in with the odd goal. I like him. As always it'll be a financial decision, and we'll need to sell to buy. So it will depend on who we can sell, how much for, and if there are any other positions that need securing before we focus on Sahin and the CM area.


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Inmate found hanged at Central Prison
Published: Sunday, August 5, 2007 at 11:38 p.m.
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An inmate at Central Prison was found hanged in a janitor's closet Sunday night, the Department of Correction said.
A statement from the department said the body of Eric Queen, 28, was discovered around 7 p.m. by a corrections officer making rounds at the prison. Queen was pronounced dead in the prison's emergency room at 7:19 p.m.
The department will conduct its own internal investigation, and the State Bureau of Investigation has also been called in to investigate, as is routine in unnatural inmate deaths.
Queen was convicted of two counts of first-degree murder, one count of attempted murder and several other charges in connection with the August 1998 murders of Susan Moore and Tracy Lambert in Cumberland County.
Debra Cheeseborough was shot several times in the same incident, but survived.
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Deutsche Bank's Biggest Deal in Decade May Hurt Profit
Deutsche Bank AG's plan to build a German consumer-banking powerhouse with the $8.9 billion purchase of Deutsche Postbank AG, its biggest takeover in a decade, may end up weighing on profitability.
While the takeover will more than double Deutsche Bank's German retail clients and add about 1,100 branches, the Frankfurt-based company may struggle to boost earnings in a market dominated by savings banks and cooperative lenders.
"German retail banking isn't very lucrative," said Daniel Hupfer, who helps manage about $45 billion at M.M. Warburg in Hamburg, including shares of Deutsche Bank. "You can add size, but it's a market where you can't make a lot of money because there are so many competitors."
Germany has almost 2,000 credit institutions, five times as many as the U.K. and almost three times as many as France, figures from the European Central Bank show. The splintered market has typically held German banks "to low risk-adjusted returns," Moody's Investors Service said Oct. 14, reiterating a negative outlook on the industry. Deutsche Bank will report a third-quarter loss tomorrow as it writes down its existing stake in Postbank by about 2.3 billion euros ($3.2 billion), the company said Sept. 21.
Deutsche Bank raised 10.2 billion euros this month to finance its bid for a controlling stake in Postbank and to meet stricter capital rules. Germany's biggest bank has fallen 10 percent since Sept. 9, when Bloomberg News first reported it was considering a share sale. The stock dropped 2.2 percent to 40.95 euros as of 1:48 p.m. in Frankfurt trading today.
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Chief Executive Officer Josef Ackermann is building up his consumer-banking and asset-management operations to counterbalance the investment bank, where earnings are more vulnerable to financial market swings. Since 2006, Deutsche Bank acquired Berliner Bank AG, Nuremberg-based Norisbank AG and private wealth manager Sal. Oppenheim Group, as well as a 30 percent stake in Bonn-based Postbank.
Postbank's pretax return on equity, a measure of profitability, was 8.3 percent in the first half of 2010, lagging behind the 22 percent return at Deutsche Bank as a whole, and the investment bank's ROE of 42 percent, company reports show. Deutsche Bank's profitability exceeded Postbank's every year since 2004, with the exception of 2008, when both lost money.
'Intense Competition'
"This takeover isn't a particularly good idea," said Dirk Becker, an analyst at Kepler Capital Markets in Frankfurt, who recommends selling Deutsche Bank and Postbank shares. "Postbank's main product is a free checking account. What's the benefit for Deutsche Bank to have fee-free accounts?"
Germany's 431 savings banks held 48 percent of all savings deposits in 2009, according to the nation's savings banks association. They're followed by the 1,156 cooperative lenders, with 29 percent of deposits and large commercial banks, such as Postbank, Deutsche Bank and Commerzbank AG, with 13 percent.
The country's lenders are struggling with "fragmentation, overcapacities and intense competition," Moody's said. Commerzbank, which acquired unprofitable Dresdner Bank for about 5 billion euros in January 2009, remains far from its earnings goal for the consumer-banking unit. The division posted an operating profit of 49 million euros in the first half of this year, compared with its 2012 target of about 1 billion euros.
The Frankfurt-based lender, which is still integrating Dresdner's operations, has blamed "declining deposit margins" and customers' "dwindling securities activity."
Better Than 'Perceived'
Deutsche Bank may report a third-quarter loss of 1.47 billion euros, according to an estimate of 12 analysts surveyed by Bloomberg News. The consumer unit, led by Rainer Neske, 46, probably had pretax profit of 213 million euros, after 423 million euros in the first half, analysts said.
Earnings at the investment bank, led by Anshu Jain, 47, may amount to 938 million euros before tax, following profit of 3.37 billion euros in the first half, the survey showed.
Consumer banking in Germany is "much better than normally perceived in the world," Ackermann said at a conference last month. The country has a "healthy macro-environment, with a very large retail market with lower risk," he said. Buying Postbank "allows for a similar success story as seen in investment banking during the last 10 years, coming from a very low level and building up to a top-size position," he said.
Spokesman Michael Lermer reiterated that Deutsche Bank and Postbank together would be the retail market leader in Germany among commercial banks, and among the leaders in Europe.
Profit Target
Deutsche Bank, which is offering 25 euros a share in cash to Postbank investors, initially agreed to buy a stake in September 2008 from Deutsche Post AG, and then renegotiated the transaction in January 2009 after the collapse of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. roiled markets. Deutsche Bank also holds a mandatory exchangeable bond for a 27.4 percent stake and an option to buy Deutsche Post's remaining 12.1 percent holding.
Deutsche Bank, which said it's making the bid for Postbank now to minimize the price, expects the full takeover to cost about 6.4 billion euros if all outstanding shareholders accept the 25 euro bid. It's the biggest purchase since the $9 billion acquisition of New York-based Bankers Trust Corp. in 1999.
Ackermann, 62, set a target to boost pretax profit at the retail business, including Postbank, to 3 billion euros by 2015-2016, from 458 million euros last year. Germany's savings banks, which have more than six times as many branches as Deutsche Bank and Postbank together, had a combined pretax profit of 4.9 billion euros last year.
In Germany, 55 percent of customers cite price as a reason for switching lenders, compared with 16 percent in the U.K. and France, a study by consulting firm Ernst & Young LLP showed.
"There's harsh competition in the retail-banking market that's hurting margins," said Olaf Kayser, an analyst at Landesbank Baden-Wuerttemberg in Mainz, Germany. "There is not much more that can be done in terms of external growth."


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I took the Gold as that's what they offered at the time, guess I am spending enough to rate more now. I'm pretty much making 1 point on all purchases on most AMEX as I use other cards for flights, gas etc. but even at that it's a LOT of points over the year.
I'll look at the platinum specific perks again but I think I might pass as all of the travel perks are covered on another card anyhow. Even with the 25,000 points valued at $.01 per point the bonus does not cover the annual fee.
Now if this was a stepping stone to the allusive Centurion for Business... I'm kidding! If I balk at $450 yearly fee I would die over $7,500 up front and $5,000 a year. But we can dream...


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Skip to comments.Guns and Stuff(estates)
Posted on 06/01/2012 4:56:14 AM PDT by marktwain
When people die they leave behind an estate. An estate is what you owned at the time of your death. It can be real property, land and the buildings that sit on land, or it can be personal property. Thats stuff. After youve paid off all the bills and expenses, whats left is residue. Thats what gets divided up amongst the heirs. If theres going to be a dispute it usually comes from distributing that stuff.
Its been my experience that if heirs are going to argue its over the small stuff. In particular, women argue over jewelry and antiques and men argue about guns and tools. Frequently people either dont say who they want to get certain items or they give the same thing to more than one person. Old folks tend to give things to whoever is in the room at the time and then forget who they gave it too.
Here are a couple of tips to minimize arguments after youre gone. First, big items can be put into your will. By big I mean items of real value that will still be around when you die. Dont put cars, appliances, or things like that in a will unless youre planning on dying tomorrow. By the time you die that new Buick will have been melted down and turned into a dishwasher. Stick to the big stuff.
Make a list of items and who is supposed to get them and attach it to your will. This gives your Personal Representative [what we used to call an Executor or Administrator] guidance on who gets what.
Finally, a tip on guns. Guns are rarely worth what people think theyre worth. To men, however, theres some emotional connection that makes them fight like crazy over some old gun you could buy at Jays for a hundred bucks. To avoid these arguments do this: With your will or on some other paper write down who is to get each gun. List it by make and serial number. Then take a small piece of paper and write that persons name on it in your own handwriting. Unscrew the two little screws that hold the butt plate on the gun and put the paper underneath. Put the screws back in. Put in your will or on the paper you made that the person whos supposed to get a particular gun has their name under the butt plate. That should end the arguments over the guns. I learned that little trick in a lawsuit in Midland that ended when we found out that the names were under the butt plates of about 60 Browning shotguns that the deceased had collected. Unfortunately, he hadnt written down that the names were there. Be sure and let everyone know where the names are.
Most estates are closed with minimal problems. If youve made a few simple preparations like a will and some written directions, it will make things a lot easier on your heirs after youre gone.
If at all possible *move* them B4 the owner passes ...otherwise the ATF gets involved...and we all know what that means.
Were any of them pre-NFA firearms? That is when it can get *sticky*.
Agreed, the article had good advice but your personal experience shows an even better way to deal with gifting of "stuff" of all kinds. The author's statement on the overvaluing of guns is correct in many cases but he chose a poor example with the Browning shotgun collection. None of those would fall into the category of being available for a hundred bucks at a local outlet.
That's been my experience and it has worked out very well.
Historically, Mom distributes Dad's guns before his death and everyone is happy. Which us why you don't see that many guns being a part of estates. The idea of putting a name under the butt plate is a great one, however, if you don't have the ability to do this.
Good article.
And the #1 rule, never, ever, never-ever have more than one (1) personal representative (estate administrator), this creates more problems, power grabs, out of control issues than you can imagine. Everyone thinks this is the more fair way to do things but it is the worst mistake to make. Imagine 4 Generals and no troops that's what happens.
Walked into a "family" meeting one night to list a house and the four administrators (all siblings - 2 male and 2 female) in 4 corners of the kitchen, NOT TALKING! I have had 2 sisters rolling on the ground fighting (from a very upstanding family) or at least I thought so.
Sorry, I could go on and on and on.............
While working one day I met a man at the house I was working on. He seemed subdued and about to weather a storm. He explained that his wife and her sisters were in the house fighting over who got what of their deceased mother's possessions. "I won't let them tear themselves apart," he said. "I just left their mother's house. I sold everything in it to a guy who purchases such things. I have the check with me and the stuff is already loaded up and hauled away. Now they can hate me but they won't hate each other."
An intelligent and brave man indeed.
Fortunatly, the deceased had clued in the sole survivor and the executor (fortunately a good friend and not a hired gun) beforehand and the "property" was not declared in the estate, nor was it found when the estate was ditributed. Had there been no suvivor or heir it would have been VERY tricky.
As it was, I had no clue what actually happened to it. It might be at the bottom of a flooded mineshaft someplace. Which is a pity.
What is it with firearms and quarry ponds, tippy canoes and mine shafts? ;D
I dunno, but I keep thinking about investing in a good magnet and a length of stout rope. :-)
Boy oh boy, what a bunch of lawsuits available on this one.
The wife is in Probate law. The stories.......good Lord, the stories.
My Sis-In-Law's elderly cousin, who had a modest collection of guns, died alone in another state - one in the northeast with very tight gun control. He left everything to her and she knew he had some nice guns - a .44 revolver, a 1911, etc. When he died she got a call from a local police dept. detective who informed her of the death, gave her a list of the guns they were going to take into custody and told her what she would have to do to take possession. She had to get permits in her home state for each pistol, etc.
When she got all the paperwork completed and traveled to the other state to clear up the estate and take possession of the guns there was nothing but three of the least expensive guns in police custody. The valuable ones had disappeared - and there was no paperwork to show they had ever been taken into custody.
The detective told her that the original list he read to her was only the state record showing what weapons permits were issued to her deceased cousin. He said he had no knowledge of what was actually found on the premises.
She spoke with the police sergeant who investigated the death and he told her he only found the three guns they had in custody and had no knowledge of any other guns.
The cousin was old when he died, had not traveled out of state for years and had kept all the permits up to date. Of course, it was illegal to sell the guns to anyone else in the state until they had a permit for that specific gun so there would have been a paper trail for any in-state sale as well.
He had never reported any of the guns as lost or stolen.
There were no records to show the missing guns were ever sold or transferred.
He never canceled any of the permits which was required if he sold the guns.
So who has the guns?
Then I will put a sticker with a name, on the back of everything.............
one of these days............
One of these days?
How about this weekend or ASAP?
My father had only discussed starting work on his will and trust when he unexspectly died of a heart attack. The family had a history of longevity, so no big rush.
His 8 brothers and sisters have all outlived him by 20 to 30 years. The 30 + years of fighting, the lawyers, a questionable executor and the court battles that followed his death could have been eliminated to a large degree.
In addition there are fences that will probably never be mended between the heirs.
The best time to get started is today, because there are no guarantees you will wake up in the morning.
The local police have the guns of course. There isn't much question is there?
LOL! I exaggerated the .......one of these days..... to let you know how hard it is to do but....how much... I know we needed to do it.
QFT and wisdom -- BTDT with only one small blowup between my cousin and me but there were also some lingering resentments over some of the distributions in my uncle's will. The worst thing was it could have all been avoided with a trust (as I advocated and my cousin opposed) while saving about $30k for the estate. OTOH, the distribution of household "stuff" (as well as the house itself) was well-handled because we had agreed very early on that there would be an auction where family members could be bidders to buy what they desired. The money was coming back to them anyway. Few showed up...I was mildly surprised.
I have mine listed as to who gets what and a spreadsheet for my wife giving her cost of the firearm and a fair market price. As posted most are not going to appreciate greatly in value, but certain models and makes will be worth more than I paid for them: Colts, especially revolvers and early automatics and WWII surplus rifles, Garands and Carbines. and those I noted for her. Most of my firearms will go to my children and some nephews.
My mother-in-law is just distributing a lot of her stuff to her children ahead of time. Saves a lot of confusion, and reduces the clutter in her condo.
This is one major reason why I will make sure that I distribute most of my collection of "stuff" to suitable recipients at the point where I am too old to appreciate the stuff.
The banditos with the badges.
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I am going to build a computer soon, and instead of buying a pre-built case I am planning to build my own case; either closed and built with wood and plexiglas, or open and built with just wood.
My question is, would either of those materials or an open-air case be unsafe for the components as far as ESD?
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A few months ago I promised to tell you about the strange little postcard I received from a company giving away free cases of orange juice. The company's name is 151 WFI.
After playing phone tag with me for weeks, 151 WFI finally came to my home with a case of free orange juice. The catch: I must agree to let 151 WFI test my tap water for impurities, then listen to a sales pitch for water-softening equipment.
Albert Solis was the man sent by 151 WFI to test my water. He proved that it's full of all sorts of unhealthy junk, including minerals, salts, chloride and maybe tomato particles, which I already knew. He showed that using soft water reduces the amount of detergent needed in laundry, reduces residues in fabrics, reduces dry skin and eliminates the need to "lug a jug" of bottled water from the grocery every week. I was impressed.
But I'm also from Missouri, the Show Me State, and I'm naturally skeptical of arguments designed to open my wallet. I want to hear from unbiased people who've used tap water and then switched to softened water for washing, cooking, bathing and such.
Does softened water really save money on laundry products? Does it help dry skin? Is it worth the cost? Write or e-mail me at the address below.
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The other morning I happened to glance out my window and see, sitting in a parking lot across the street, a roadrunner. This would not seem unusual if I lived in Lake Tanglewood or Bishop Hills.
But I live downtown, in the heart of the city. What's a roadrunner doing here?
While I watched, the bird pecked the sparrow it was holding into bite-sized lumps and swallowed them. Then it disappeared from view, running south on Harrison at a pretty good clip. The next day it appeared again, sitting on top of my garage.
Some people think roadrunners bring good luck. I doubt that, as did the sparrow. But just in case, I'm putting money in the Texas Lottery this week.
Did you send cash to high school graduates in June? I did. Recalling how it felt to be 18 years old and starting college, I refrained from buying luggage or Crockpots for the graduates on my list. I just sent money.
That was June. Out of eight checks sent, can you guess how many acknowledgments I've received? Six? Four?
Would you believe two? I'm not one to whine about how kids today aren't learning manners. I just think it's a bad business decision on the part of anyone receiving unsolicited cash in the mail not to grease the skid it arrived on. There might be more where that came from.
These kids are all 18 years old. In five or so years, probably half of them will get married, and I'll get another invitation. I'll pull out the gift notebook (which I keep to ensure that siblings receive equal treatment), and I'll see that I never was thanked for the graduation check. This might dampen my enthusiasm for sending more money.
Funny thing is, I like giving money to kids. They're all swell young people, and it makes me feel good to think I'm helping them in some small way. I don't get bent out of shape if a gushy thank you note isn't in my box right away.
But six out of eight nonrespondents is sobering. Parents, it's late August - do you know where your kids' thank you notes are?
Any way you look at it, this has been a summer of road construction in Amarillo. Thanks to the drought, most projects are ahead of schedule.
Take the Western Street sewer project. Please! (Badaboom). Not long ago, it seemed that project would stretch out for years. Deep trenches ran from I-40 to 34th, blocking traffic, closing businesses, fraying nerves.
Now we're told that as soon as the striping is finished, Western Street will open again with fine new sewers, a rebuilt roadbed and smooth new blacktop. If we cuss at paving companies when they inconvenience us, it's only fair that we pat them on the back when they bring a project in ahead of schedule.
I'll go one step further: I'll plant a big kiss on the cheek of every paving company president I happen to meet, if her firm is ahead of schedule.
A big front-page headline earlier this month quoted Ret. Col. Paul Tibbets, the man whose B-29 dropped the bomb on Hiroshima, as saying, "It was a beautiful morning" when his 10-man crew let loose the first atomic weapon.
Without debating the morality of incinerating 60,000 mostly women, children and senior citizens - who had about as much to do with starting that war as Tibbets did - I think it's chilling to remark on the beauty of that morning.
It's like the Japanese Zero pilots saying the U.S.S. Arizona was beautiful before they sent our sleeping sailors to the bottom of Pearl Harbor. It just seems like a bizarre comment.
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