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Cooley as pension-reform poster boy
By ANTHONY PIGNATARO
Recent news reports have mentioned our state public employee pension liabilities topping half a trillion dollars. This is an astronomical figure, but one that's pretty hard for most people to understand. One easy way to make it easy to comprehend is to talk about one particular public employee who's contributed to that liability – in this case, Los Angeles County District Attorney and Republican state Attorney General candidate Steve Cooley.
Much of the following is based on estimates that come from CalPERS and other government pension plans, but we do know – because the LA County Board of Supervisors approved it in 2008 – that Cooley currently makes $292,300 per year. We also know that the LA County pension formula for public safety personnel is 2.62 percent at 60. Put simply, Cooley (who's worked for the county since 1974) could retire at 60 (he's 63) making 94.32 percent (2.62 multiplied by 36 years of service) of his salary. That total — $275,697 – is Cooley's annual DA pension.
Of course, his retirement pay may actually be higher. Cooley campaign spokesman Kevin Spillane didn't return a phone call for comment by press time, but it's possible to estimate some aspects of how much money Cooley will actually get when he finally retires as DA.
"Typically folks cash out their final year vacation and compensatory time off, and it's added to final pay," said Marcia Fritz, a certified public accountant and pension reform activist in Citrus Heights. "LA County's CAFR [Comprehensive Annual Financial Report] indicates annual accruals are 20 days of vacation and 12 days of sick leave, plus he also gets to cash out management compensatory time off, generally 120 hours a year. He likely will cash out much more but pension rules limit what is included in final pay to one year's accrual."
To find out how much Cooley will actually collect in benefits, let's say he retires this year, at age 63. Social Security Administration actuarial figures show that employees who retire at that age typically collect benefits for 18 years. Given Cooley's annual benefit, that's about $4.9 million.
Now we don't know how much Cooley has actually contributed to his pension, but estimates provided by CalPERS indicates that it's probably insignificant when compared to the taxpayer-backed benefits he'll receive. CalPERS estimates that most public employees give between 5 percent to 7 percent of their salary to their pension. Erring on the side of generosity, let's say that Cooley's average salary over his 36 years of LA County service (we'll ignore the five years he spent as a reserve office with the Los Angeles Police Department) came to $150,000. Contributing 7 percent of that average each year comes to just $378,000 – a tiny fraction of his total benefit payout.
Did we mention he can double dip, too? Currently, the AG earns $151,127 a year. When added to his $275,697 annual pension, that adds up to $426,824.
Now usually, employees who retire under CalPERS can't then turn around and start working at another state job while still earning their pension. But Cooley's DA pension is under the LA County system, whereas if he gets elected attorney general his new state pension will fall under the CalPERS system.
But an interesting quirk about CalPERS is that even if Cooley was under that pension management system when he got elected AG, it would still be legal for him to collect both his retirement and his salary. That's because CalPERS has a special exemption for elected officials who get elected to different elected offices.
"[Y]ou can serve in an elective office without effect on your retirement allowance unless all or a portion of your retirement allowance is based on previous service in the same elected office," notes the CalPERS publication Employment After Retirement.
So far, Cooley's pension – and the larger issue of pension reform — has gotten virtually no traction in the AG's race, though one small exception is Orange County Republican pundit Hugh Hewitt. On April 14 of this year he sent out a Twitter message saying, "When he reitres [sic], Steve Cooley, AG candidate, will collect $275K a year in taxpayer pension for the rest of his life. Issue?"
So far, it's not.
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larry 62 26 May, 2010, 15:14
After the rest of us taxpayers leave California, who will pay his obscene pension?
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OCO 28 May, 2010, 06:36
The system won't pay b/c it is broke. The City of LA is going to file bankruptcy soon, as will Miami, Houston and San Diego….
The train wreck is here…..
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orcadrvr 28 May, 2010, 07:20
Deputy District Attorneys are not "public safety" members for retirement purposes. They have the same retirement plan (much less lucrative) as other county employees who are not police officers.
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I don't know if there is an exception for the elected District Attorney that would put him in the category of "public safety", but I doubt it. He spent many years as a Deputy District Attorney, and was therefore a member of the County retirement plan (non-safety), at least for those twenty years or so.
I doubt it all suddenly was converted to a public safety plan. -
SkippingDog 28 May, 2010, 08:49
@ Orcadrvr –
Don't confuse them with facts. They already have their little minds made up.
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BIll 28 May, 2010, 09:11
Even if you use the non safety employee formula, the number is still obscene. You are just arguing how obscene. Civil service was never meant to be a promise to make millionaires.
Every single public safety worker who work over 20 years and retires will have a million dollar pension. That is a fact.
Public service for people like Cooley who double dip is nothing more than a scam. The Republicans need to distance themselves from people like Cooley if they want to keep what little credibility they have left.
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SkippingDog 28 May, 2010, 12:17
So Bill, I guess your argument is that no government retiree should ever have a pension that exceeds $40k per year? No matter what they've done, what their final pay was, or how long they performed their duties? Good luck with that.
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Vosht 28 May, 2010, 14:58
Uh, yes? Especially when they contribute 0-10% of their own personal salary into the fund?
Here's how you tell if public pensions/salaries are bad. Take the equivalent private sector position skillset compensation. Subtract 20%, since the public sector needs, and if I might borrow from our brilliant leaders and their union puppet masters 'the best and the brightest'. Is the public sector position still ridiculously more attractive? Yes? Guess what? YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG. Period.
But then again, I don't blame idiots for being greedy and making stupid decisions. I blame lazy americans for not getting involved until it hits their wallets.
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RinSac 28 May, 2010, 16:53
All of this ignores the fact that as part of an employee's yearly compensation, the gov't entity makes matching contributions equal to about 3x of the employee's contribution. So, Cooley's pension "account" likely has well over $1 million in base contributions. I know most on this site don't believe this, but in years when there aren't apocolyptic stock market meltdowns, the pension funds do very well, thank you very much. It's the miracle of compound interest.
Oh, and that $500 billion figure that folks throw around about CalPERS? Do your homework — it was cooked up by a few grad students at Stanford using hugely false assumptions … oh, and did you know their professor is a embittered ex Member of the Assembly?
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trubluvet 31 May, 2010, 07:59
Gee, Steve Cooley runs one of the largest law firms in the country. Why don't you compare his pay and pension to the heads of even substantially smaller firms throughout the US. Cooley's pay and pension would pale in comparison.
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OCO 31 May, 2010, 17:55
Even if you use the non safety employee formula, the number is still obscene. You are just arguing how obscene. Civil service was never meant to be a promise to make millionaires.
====================Don't confuse them with facts. They already have their little minds made up.
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OCO 31 May, 2010, 17:58
Gee, Steve Cooley runs one of the largest law firms in the country
===========Hey Perry Mason Jr. the DA is NOT a "law firm", it is the DA.
And since you seem to think lawyers make so much money try to wrap your brain around the fact that in the real world Cooley would be making, AT BEST, $100K per year if he were in the private sector-working 80 hour work weeks with NO benefits.
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SkippingDog 2 June, 2010, 08:42
OCO spouting nonsense again. The DA is in fact a law firm. Denying that only proves that you're completely clueless about the work they do in that office. In any comparable private law practice, Cooley would be making something approaching or equal to seven figures. Even in the current economy, first year associates in large firms are making $165k. Read California Lawyer or the ABA Journal for details.
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Dave 2 June, 2010, 09:59
If the DA is a Law firm then He should be dis-bared just like Harris hides evidence. Read http://www.scribd.com/doc/26656019/10-02-09-One-Unnamed-District-Attorney-Deputy-et-al-v-County-of-Los-Angeles-et-al-Complaint-against-Los-Angeles-District-Attorney-Steve-Cooley
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SkippingDog 2 June, 2010, 16:23
If that can be proven, you're certainly correct. However, making the claim in a lawsuit filing doesn't necessarily make it so. You might try a little critical thinking sometime.
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Dave 2 June, 2010, 22:38
I have the proof. Straight from Steve Ipsen, but no one will touch the story yet. In fact tomorrow will tell the whole story. All I have been doing is critical thinking for the past 4 weeks and tomorrow we will see how well this is thought out. The story goes down in San Fernando Court at 8:30 AM when a motion will presented to Judge Cohen. Others will tell you there is no way he will grant the motion since he has denied every previous motion for the past 6 months. I myself, am optimistic, you see I know the law of averages is on our side. Not to mention we have one hell of a argument. The motion for a retrial will be made due to multiple conflict's of interest the head prosecutor and his office have regarding this case. Ill give you a teaser. One of the conflicts directly involves The ADDA case and Brady material. Our argument, People v Eubanks (1996) 14 cal.4th 580, Long story short these conflicts are grounds for prosecutorial recusal of not only the deputy DA, but the entire prosecutors office. Looks like a change of venue or a dismissal. Stay tuned
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Chinhokelly 13 September, 2010, 16:46
You can extrapolate the salary of a civil service worker or elected official into a very large number, but in this case the salary is public information, legal and easily attainable by anyone who passes the State Bar, passes the application for deputy district attorney (or deputy public defender), promotes through the various ranks, attains double-digit civil service seniority and wins election to one of the highest positions in any county three times…so what does his salary have to do with his ability to put crooks in jail? Besides, someone who can run the largest DA Office in the country with the headaches of 1000 civil service-protected prosecutors, 300 civil service-protected cops and 500 civil service-protected support staff seems a bargain at $292K. Compare that to someone who runs one of the smaller DA offices of a major American city with NO CIVIL SERVICE PROTECTED staff for only $76K less.
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Well seeing Christianity and Islam I felt I might as well round out the "Big 3". Pretty much this should be a topic for you discuss your feelings ideas and ask questions. I ask that you avoid National Socialist thoughts I'm fine with dislike or hatred of the religion but the National Socailist ideas and beliefs revolving around Judaism are misinformed to say the least. Personally I feel the Judaism has to be the one of the most persecuted religions throughout history. Seemingly every era of man passed that of the Neolithic has had a society that has dislike the Jews immensely. This maybe to early on prothelatizing or some other reason. I'm interested in your thoughts.
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So...why are European moods move from nonchalant to cynical when it comes to Jews? Basically inconsistently applied cheap collectivism and ingrained hateful prejudice. Besides my personal experience with my European friends, which was bleak seeing how normal anti-Jewish sentiment is, here are some other takes: "Schoolchildren in France have nothing to do with the construction of settlements on the West Bank or anything else that the government of Israel may or may not do. The fact that so many otherwise sensible people accept this kind of muddled collectivism (all Jews are complicit in and responsible for what any Jew does) shows just how widespread anti-Semitism still is." source "....Non-Jewish colleagues and friends tell me they haven't noticed the change...To them I say, check out social media - where you are either for the Palestinians or for the Jews. The tweeting after the murder of the Jewish hostages, to the tune of "Serves the Jews right. They need to stop murdering Palestinian babies" was chilling indeed." [source] In short: maybe there's a logic to anti-Semitic violence. Maybe it's just a reaction to Israeli or as Wilcox put it, "Jewish" wickedness. Maybe you deserve it. Wilcox expressed a common view in right-thinking sections of society: that anti-Semitism isn't quite as bad as other forms of racism because it's often misfired anger with Israel. [source I always use to think about a catch phrase I could tell my European friends given the amount of pure horseshit I take from them, possibility best would have been, that perhaps they haven't changed much over time, but many Jews did and that our fate is more related than what it use to be.
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Let me move the discussion to this thread if you want to have it. Written by Slayer666 on 20.03.2015 at 18:37 Subset sum problems? Hate those things. Yes, we all know better than to judge by background alone. Unfortunately (naturally) I still have family in Europe (UK) who have to triple check that they are not wearing anything that will identify them as Jewish when they leave the house to central town thanks to the left's modern thugs which mainly consist out of Muslims, and yet if you read the Journalism they constantly blame the far-right while trying to rationalize the former. Perhaps more unfortunately my girl friend is studying in Europe (Hungry). She has been harassed five times by her own professors and slurred as a Jew this and that while taking tests, the only time anyone actually 'stood up' for her was a female professor who told her later "don't take it personally, they (certain Hungarians) hate anything that isn't Magyar". The problem is not a "vocal minority", it's the ideas that are held in mainstream Europe. "Racism" is a matter of propositional belief. I've spoken to Neo-Nazis who were less prejudiced towards Jews, who I had to correct on one issue compared than an Irish friend who's a self-proclaimed left "progressive". For anyone with a clear concept of what's "racist" it isn't surprising, but in European tribal politics it sounds as if it is. Quote: I would take it easy, a conversation on metalstorm won't change the face of global politics. It would be really fascinating if you actually explain for once how it is "retarded' instead of getting into a tantrum and loading it with terms taken out of a neo-Nazi/racial anthropology websites, terms by the way the article does not even mention or imply. Like I said several times, "white guilt/pride"are unwarranted, for better or worst (and that it's a little more complicated). The left (like one girl who posted here, "hating being white" ages ago) and right ("so pride of being white") collectivists taking direct credit for the deeds of dead people is fantastic.
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Today, Jewish graves were vandalized and human remains from them were scattered in Hungary. One in a statistic of hundreds of yearly cases that include verbal abuse in the streets, violence, rape, murder, vandalism and the continues ideological justification and rationalization. Written by deadone on 23.03.2015 at 03:22 an important note: he was probably referring to the racist vocal minority, not to Jews or blacks. Written by deadone on 23.03.2015 at 03:22 My Arab-Jewish grandmother never heard of those books neither those blood libels. Today in Muslim majority countries where literacy rates are low you can still find the books Mein Kampf and The Elders of Zion in the markets and TV, and are often quoted by parliament members. It is, like in Australia a European export. The last 'official' blood-libel in Europe toke place in 1913 - Menahem Mendel Beilis was blamed for murdering 13-year-old for Jewish blood ritual. Now days Swedish journalist blames the Israeli government of harvesting organs while Norwegian Johan Galtung invokes US Neo-Nazi and The Elders of Zion. Like every good lie they try to savor what they can of it. An ex-minister from the Dutch government claims that all world issues revolve around Israel. Europeans are willing to give up their own rights in order to maintain their previous templates. The only nation condemned in UN for women's right violations in their annual meeting was - you guessed it right, Israel. The EU of course abstained. Austin Dacey, a representative to the United Nations for the International Humanist and Ethical Union (as an Atheist I follow it) was trying to combat international Blasphemy laws for years in the UN but was unable too, you guessed the reason why correctly: the panel was entirely politicized. France was the biggest supporter up to the 60's of Israel. Eventually you missed out a reason was played a roll at the 60's and that's Arab oil. You could write volumes about it, eventually maybe summarize it in one statistical law: Regression toward the mean.
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18.04.2015 - 14:09 Written by Bad English on 18.04.2015 at 03:47 Let me use an 'extreme' example to illustrate a point. Imagine a group of people that read Harry Potter and think it's real. Do you think the problem is with their cognitive faculties i.e. how they interpret the content of the book or the book itself? So some countries have banned Mein Kampf but left the rest of it is in place. The same tribalism and ideologies; Marxists tend to reduce everything to class, Anarchists to central government and anti-Semites to Jews. Hearing Europeans echoing these notions is troubling and trying to rationalize it is while keeping face "we just care about human rights (in and of itself)" is even worst. UK television which produces programs like "Is the time coming to lay the Holocaust to rest?" which it's entire aim is to minimize and forget while keeping anchors like Tim Wilcox ("Palestinians suffered hugely at Jewish hands" told to a random French couple after the events in Paris). With Europeans spreading their hate from Arab markets where Mien Kamft and The Elders of Zion are best sellers, to South Africa where I grew up and today universities in the US - they still have the nerve to reduce it to an epiphenomena of the Arab-Israeli conflict. Eventually when enough Jews leave Europe perhaps Europeans will have the first chance in history to be judged by their own sense of 'justice'. The imaginary one like Tim's Wilcox, which does not depend on time and place as factors but reduces people to a vulgar collective to be judged as.
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21.04.2015 - 12:49 Written by Bad English on 18.04.2015 at 14:14 After hundreds of years trying to 'make it right' with Europeans concerning the "Jewish Question" they were only failed solutions which included integration, assimilation, genocide and today Jewish political autonomy which is now demonized by the own people who forcefully expelled and then butchered my extended family who brought it about. One of Israel's national writers, Amos Oz (translated into 42 languages, got every important award but the Nobel prize) says "Out there, in the world, all the walls were covered with graffiti: 'Yids, go back to Palestine,' so we came back to Palestine, and now the worldatlarge [sic] shouts at us: 'Yids, get out of Palestine.'" Yesterday I tutored three girls from the Nederlands. I asked her "Why did u leave the Netherlands?" - "My Mom wanted to" - "Did she say why?" - "Europe is not a good place for Jews anymore". So no, if Europeans think Jews will let their children grow up with them snarling behind their shoulders in their hate festivals, they won't be any "next day".


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Coordinates: 46°13′N 24°39′E / 46.217°N 24.650°E | |
Country | Romania |
County | Sibiu County |
Population (2011)[1] | 3,248 |
Time zone | EET (UTC+2) |
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Laslea (German: Grosslasseln; Hungarian: Szászszentlászló) is a commune located in Sibiu County, Romania. It is composed of five villages: Florești, Laslea, Mălâncrav, Nou Săsesc and Roandola.
At the 2011 census, 61% of inhabitants were Romanians, 30% Roma, 7.5% Germans and 1% Hungarians. At the 2002 census, 76.2% were Romanian Orthodox, 7.2% Pentecostal, 5.7% Evangelical Lutheran, 5.2% Seventh-day Adventist, 2.6% Evangelical Church of Augustan Confession and 1.2% Baptist.
In Romanian | In German | In Hungarian |
Florești | Felsendorf | Földszin |
Laslea | Grosslasseln | Szászszentlászló |
Mălâncrav | Malmkrog | Almakerék |
Nou Săsesc | Neudorf | Apaújfalu |
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Mălâncrav is a village in Laslea commune. An asphalt road of 13 km leads to the village. In the village there is a small community of Transylvanian Saxons.
Here some of the most significant Gothic murals in Transylvania aside from those at Ghelința in Covasna County are found.[citation needed]
The Saxon Romanesque Lutheran church has early 14th-century Gothic murals in the apse. 15th-century ones are found in the nave and a 15th-century late Gothic altar.[citation needed]
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In 2006, The Prince of Wales bought and restored two 18th century Transylvanian Saxon houses in the villages of Mălâncrav and Viscri to help protect the unique way of life that has existed for hundreds of years and promote sustainable tourism.
The buildings have been sensitively restored and converted into guesthouses for tourists. They remain in keeping with the surrounding architecture and feature a number of Transylvanian antiques but with modern facilities where possible.
The renovation of these buildings has helped provide a sustainable future for the people of rural Transylvania while also enabling residents to maintain their traditional way of life.
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Holy Hungarians, Bishop Gellert, Ladislaus I of Hungary, Unknown, Stephen I of Hungary, his son Holy Prince Emericus
Coordinates: 46°13′N 24°39′E / 46.217°N 24.650°E
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Over the course of Pokémon: Liquid Crystal's Development, it's received a few Awards from different communities where it used to be maintained.
Annual Hack Award
The Annual Hack Award is an Award given to a hack which has been chosen to be the best of the current year out of all actively maintained hacks on the community. This Award was given to Pokémon: Liquid Crystal at the time when Beta 1.1 was first released on Pokémon Hackers Online, a popular ROM Hacking forum.
Hack of the Month
The Hack of the Month is a competition which goes on at the Pokécommunity forums. A group of people will vote the best hacks from the month, and the public will vote for the best one. In April 2009, on the 25th Pokémon: Liquid Crystal 2.1 was released on the Forums there. It was given this award on the same month.
Hack of the Year
Hack of the Year is one of the biggest ROM Hacking competitions on the Pokécommunity Forums. They give various Awards to different hacks under a set amount of categories. In 2010, Pokémon: Liquid Crystal received first place for the Best Gameplay Award, along with some other Awards too.


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Amy has been raising money to finance a research project in Ireland, which I posted about last month. She has been sending out updates and brewing all sorts of ideas. I thought I would share her latest (and last?) letter with you below. Of particular interest, perhaps, to those of you in the eastern United States, who might be able to attend her classes, but there is much more besides.
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Workaholic Saeki is a 50-year-old marketing rep for an ad agency. He's just won a lucrative new contract to promote the Internet startup GigaForce, his 24-year-old daughter is about to be married, and he sees nothing but smooth sailing ahead. Then in early autumn he begins to experience memory lapses, dizziness, and hallucinations. His wife Emiko thinks it might be stress-induced depression and urges him to see a psychiatrist, who diagnoses him with early-onset Alzheimer's. Saeki briefly considers suicide, but decides instead to accept whatever help medical science has to offer and live out his life with the woman who has stood by him through 25 years of marriage. He attempts to carry on with business as usual, hoping to at least make it through the January launch of the GigaForce campaign and his daughter's wedding at the end of the same month, but his memory problems lead to increasingly frequent errors and tardiness. One of his subordinates observes him taking an Alzheimer's medication at work and informs his superior, who pressures him to accept voluntary retirement. He refuses and is demoted, but once his daughter's wedding is over, he submits his resignation. Two months later his daughter gives him a granddaughter, but his illness continues to progress. By the end of April he has reached the state he most feared: he no longer recognizes his wife . . . A wrenching tale of a man struggling to go on with his life in the face of a devastating illness. The film version of the book, produced by and starring Ken Watanabe, won a Japan Academy Prize for Excellence in 2006.
Author: | Hiroshi Ogiwara |
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ISBN 978-4334743314 387 pages 10.6 x 15.0 cm / 4.2 x 6.0 in (WxH) |
Category: | Fiction |
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Bangla Movie Juari Starring Vaaniya, Pasha, Mrinal Mukherjee, Rama Prasad Banik
Tags: Mrinal Mukherjee, Pasha, VaaniyaPosted on June 4, 2011 by admin in Calcutta Movies
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Cast – Vaaniya, Pasha, Mrinal Mukherjee, Rama Prasad Banik, Barun Chakraborty, Avik, Arijit, Amit Sarkar, Debu Ghosh, Kallan Chattopadhyay, Dr Shankar Ghosh
Director – Panna Hossain
Produced by – Kishore Chandrana
Story by – Rupak Saha
Screenplay by – Panna Hossain
Editing by – Asit Basu
Music Director – Samir Somu
Distributed by – Chandrana Films
Release Year – 2009
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ajharul islam Says:
June 5th, 2011 at 7:43 amreally nice movie
syed Says:
June 12th, 2011 at 2:17 amone of the shit movie
Subhadeep Says:
August 20th, 2011 at 2:43 pmKhub baje movie. director 'PANNA HOUSEN' is a most 3rd class Director in Brngali Movie.
Subhadeep Says:
August 20th, 2011 at 2:52 pm'PANNA HOUSEN' 1jon amon Director je Direction er kicchu bojhe na.Taka nosto kore Producer er.Meyeder acting er jonno chance debe bole Physically harassment kore. 'PASHA' C\O PANNA HOUSEN most 3rd class Actor.
king Says:
September 16th, 2011 at 7:21 amdear subhadeep do you have any personal grudge over panna hossain? ap kaun hae bhai? Kya ap itna frustrated hae ki dusra ke ware main itna false baatein likhte ho?
sania Says:
September 16th, 2011 at 7:30 amits entertaining film….enjoyed a lot. Thanks for uploading this film in this site. Good one.
sania Says:
September 16th, 2011 at 7:41 amJUARI is indeed an entertaining film with good acting by Pasha.
sania Says:
September 16th, 2011 at 7:43 amPlease don't post any abusive comment in this site and please also don't use this site to express your personal grudge against anyone. Jusri is a good movie.
Pradip Says:
September 21st, 2011 at 2:40 amuncultured, unprofessional, uneducated
Swapan Says:
September 21st, 2011 at 9:32 pmGood action film… Pasha is good in fight sequences
Ria Says:
September 21st, 2011 at 9:34 pmyah ur right Swapan… its an entertainning action film. Enjoyed the film……


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Andy Revkin is an award-winning journalist whose life work has centered on reporting about the environment and climate change. He spoke to producer Mike Osborne about his early seafaring adventures, how he got his start in journalism, and his view that climate change is a symptom of a much bigger story about our species coming of age on a finite planet. We also have a short bonus segment featuring David Biello, who has just published a new book about the Anthropocene titled "The Unnatural World: The Race to Remake Civilization in Earth's Newest Age."
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On the Precipice
Sometime in the near geological future, the landscape of life on earth as we know it will be transformed. It's a mass extinction, and it's only happened five times before in Earth's history. There have been severe ice ages, perplexing loses of oxygen from our oceans, massive volcanic eruptions, meteor impacts. And now, we're on the precipice of a sixth mass extinction… and it's nothing like our planet has ever seen before. In Season 8's final episode, producer Miles Traer dives into the sixth mass extinction: Are we in it? What can the previous mass extinctions teach us about what's going on today? And how is it going to affect not just our lives, but the long term trajectory of human evolution? Paleobiologist Jonathan Payne takes us back into the geologic past and searches for biological patterns hidden in the rock record. In the previous moments of ecological chaos, Payne finds a surprising trend that no longer holds true today. Then, biologist Rodolfo Dirzo takes us into the heart of complex ecosystems to find out why large animals are so crucial for their health and survival. Based on experiments in the tropics and in East Africa, he shares what he's seen when those large animals disappear.
Environmental Icon David Suzuki
This week we bring you an intergenerational conversation featuring David Suzuki, who is a Canadian scientist, activist, and media figure. Since the 1970s, Suzuki has hosted both radio and television shows about the natural world and environmental issues. A self-described "elder," Suzuki shares his views and long-term perspective on environmentalism with our producer Mike Osborne. Their wide-ranging conversation spans climate change, energy, shortfalls of the environmental movement, and the evolving relationship between humans and Earth's ecosystems.
Evolution of Venom
"In Asia or Africa around 60 million years ago, snakes became more venomous, though scientists aren't quite sure why then and there." Sometimes understanding global environmental change requires that we simply know how nature works. And not just the pleasant side of nature, but all of it. When we look back through the wonders of Darwinian evolution, we gain a deeper appreciation for certain aspects of the natural world that seem… uncomfortable: things like snakes, spiders, jellyfish, Komodo Dragons, and tiny caterpillars that can easily kill humans. This week, scientist Christie Wilcox takes us on a journey through the evolution of the chemical cocktails we call "venom," which she wrote about in her new book called, "Venomous: How Earth's Deadliest Creatures Mastered Biochemistry." Travel along from venom's earliest formation, its evolution into a potent weapon, and its further transformation by doctors today as a potentially revolutionary tool in developing new medicines.
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