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/>Finally, a poll on who people will vote for. Actually, I find it annoying that more polls do not ask which party you support (or even better vote for if an election was held today) instead of ridiculous polls on whether people want unity in the country (it is like asking people do you think kittens should be tortured – the answer is clear, but meaningless).
/>Survey Data Methodology:
/>3,667 people from 18 provinces (Bangkok, Chiang Mai, Lampang, Prae, Nakhon Sawan, Samut Sakhon, Rayong, Lopburi, Nakhom Pathom, Nonthaburi, Chonburi, Mahasarakham, Surin, Ubon Ratchathani, Nakhon Ratchasima, Phattalung, Surat Thani, Nakhon Sri Thammarat)
/>By age:
- those under 20 (5.5%),
- those aged 20-29 (21%),
- those aged 30-39 (26%),
- those aged 40-49 (25.1%)
- those aged 50+ (21.7%)
67.4% have less than a bachelor's degree, 28.9% have a bachelor's degree, 3.7% have a higher degree.
/>40.4% are traders/self-employed, 20.8% are farmers/contractors, 13.5% work for private enterprises, 11.2% are civil servants/state enterprise employees, 5.7% are housewives/househusbands/retired, 6.1% are students and 2.3% didn't specify a job/unemployed.
/>BP: You should note my general poll disclaimer about a slight Democrat lean for polls although this was one is at least a "nationwide" poll instead of a Bangkok-centric one and the survey data doesn't ridiculously oversample 18-29 year olds and undersample older voters like another recent poll. I would say it is about by about 4 points (i.e take off 2 points from the Democrats and gave that to PPP).
/>The main details of the poll are below:
/>1. Which Political Party Do You Support?
/>Democrats, 43.8% (men 39.8%, women 47.6%), PPP 39.6% (men 42.8%, women 36.5%), 16.7% other parties (men 17.4%, women 16.4%).
/>BP: Aside from the slight Democrat lean of the polls even if the Democrats were to slightly get more votes than PPP it doesn't mean the Democrats will win. There are two types of vote that each voter has, constituency vote(s) and a party vote. Last time, the Democrats won 40.44% of the party vote compared to 41.08% for PPP, but for the constituency votes the Democrats received only 30.21% compared to 36.83% for PPP. I think this question is more in relation to the party vote (source).
/>Q2. By Age:
/> | Under 20 | 20-29 | 30-39 | 40-49 | 50+ |
Dem | 41.8 | 45.2 | 47.4 | 42.3 | 40.6 |
Others | 17 | 20 | 16.3 | 15.8 | 14.5 |
/>BP: This is what I mean by the undersampling of older 50+ voters and why it disadvantages PPP.
/>Q3 By Education:
/> | Less Than Bachelors | Bachelors | More Than />Bachelors /> |
Dems | 40.1 | 52.5 | 42.5 |
Others | 15.9 | 17.4 | 26.5 |
/>It also had a vote divided up by occupation, but the formatting of the page doesn't make this clear (11 categories, but 7 numbers) so I have skipped it.
/>Q4. By region:
/> | North | Central | Northeast | South | Bkk |
Dems | 27 | 47.6 | 33.9 | 83.1 | 44.9 |
Others | 14.8 | 19.4 | 17.8 | 13.1 | 15.1 |
/>BP: I am skeptical aside from Bkk as taking a couple of provinces for each region is not necessarily indicative of the entire region, i.e the South doesn't include the Deep South where the non-Democrat parties do much better. However, it is broadly accurate (except I think PPP will do slightly better in the Central region and the Dems slightly better in the North). I can see a problem for the Democrats here and what happened to them in 2007. They win big in the South, but lose narrowly elsewhere. There are no prizes for second place (or more accurately only the first two or three winners in each multi-seat constituency become MPs) and the Democrats finished just behind in 22 constituencies – the by-election the Democrats won off PPP in Bangkok is example as the PPP candidate only pipped the Democrat candidate by less than 500 votes in December (they each received around 94,000 votes) so only needed a small swing to win this time.
/>There appears to be a small swing to the Democrats in the Central Region.
/>Question 5: Has your support changed from your previous vote?
/>For those who previously supported the Democrats 86.8% said they would do so again, 2.3% would support PPP and 10.9% would support other parties. For those who previously supported the PPP, 5.9% said they would support the Democrats, 84.3% PPP again and 9.8% other parties. For those who previously supported other parties 30.5% said they would support the Democrats, 23.3% PPP, and 46.2% other parties.
/>BP:The combination of the party vote of PPP and the Democrats at the last election was 81% and 19% for other parties and now for this poll it is 84% and 16% for other parties so there is only a small switch to the major parties. Now, you may say how can you discount the fact that
/>30.5% and 23.3% of voters who previously supported other parties are now going to vote for the Democrats and PPP respectively and as The Nation reports this "shifting loyalty is seen as a sign of growing discontent with the coalition alliance, which has failed to assume responsibility for the violent crackdown"? The statistics are slightly misleading by just looking at percentages.
/>For example, and for simplicty sake (and to save me from using the calculator or a spreadsheet) I will round up current numbers to 40% for PPP, 45% for Democrats, and 15% for other parties. 10% of PPP voters (4% of total electorate) and 10% of Democrat voters (4.5% of total electorate) are now going to vote for third parties whereas 30% of other party voters (4.5% of total electorate) will vote for the Democrats and 25% of other party voters (3.75% of total electorate) will vote for PPP. See how the swing doesn't look so large now…
/>I wish they just asked, who do you want for in your party vote at the last election? I personally think this is the most important question as it can provide a reference point on how accurate the poll is – as you can compared it directly to the party vote at the last election.
/>Question 6. Do you support PAD?
/>Yes, 34%
/>No, 34.8%
/>Want to be neutral, 31.2%
/> | North | Central | Northeast | South | Bkk |
Yes | 22.2 | 35.6 | 28.6 | 61.9 | 34.9 |
No | 46.4 /> |
33.3 | 39.1 | 10.2 | 33 |
Neutral | 31.2 | 31.1 | 32.3 /> |
27.9 | 32.1 /> |
/>BP: North and the Northeast is very much PPP land whereas the South is for the Democrats. BKK and the Central region, at least at the last election, are more split between the two. Same for those who support the PAD and those who don't.
/>Now, how many months will we have to wait until the next such poll?
/>Finally, I will integrate my comments with Chang Noi's latest op-ed "The election prospects of the Democrat Party" – one should also read this New Mandala post. Key excerpts:
At the December 23, 2007 polls, the Democrats lost decisively to the People Power Party (PPP), yet they still scored their second-best election result ever, taking 164 of the 480 seats, just over a third.
/>Only in 1976 did they win a larger proportion (114 of 279). At the 1992 poll, the last time an election led to a Democrat-headed government, they won less than a quarter.
/>How did the Democrats do so well in 2007?
/>Perhaps the most startling result was on the party list, the 80 seats decided on a vote by party. Nationwide, the Democrats trailed PPP by only 190,399 votes, and won only one fewer seat (33 against 34). At the 2001 and 2005 polls, the Democrats had won only a little over 7 million each time, and had trailed TRT by a mile. This time, both parties gained a little over 12 million votes.
/>How did the Democrats do so much better?
/>Several voters picked a minor party on the constituency vote, but then plumped for one of the two big parties (Democrats or PPP) on the party list. Possibly they made their constituency choice for "local" reasons (they liked the candidate) but their party list choice for "national" reasons (for or against Thaksin). The same thing had happened at the 2001 and 2005 polls. But this time many more people (around 15 per cent of voters) switched from small parties at the constituency vote to the two big parties at the party-list. And two out of three of these shifters moved to the Democrats, only one to PPP. That was what gave the Democrats their superior showing on the party-list poll. The shift to the Democrats was especially strong in the lower north, east, and central regions.
/>This shift has a clear implication: if the Democrats had some better candidates, they ought to do better in the constituencies.
/>BP: I also think the Democrats devoted more resources to improving their party brand and their party vote with the expectation that they will be in government.
/>It continues on the Democrat's chances:
But where?
/>The two main parties now have an electoral heartland. The TRT/PPP has the upper north and the core northeast. The Democrats have the south (excluding the Malay-Muslim far south). Over the last three polls, this geographical division has become clearer and deeper. In these heartlands, the opponent is nowhere. In the northeast, the Democrats gained a pitiful 8 per cent of the votes in the constituency polls.
/>By contrast to these heartlands, the lower north and central regions have become an electoral checkerboard. Several 3-member constituencies returned MPs from two or three parties. Neighbouring areas voted in completely different ways. In the Chao Phya plain from the hill fringe down to the sea, voters have reverted to the old pattern of selecting candidates on local grounds with less attention to party. This is where the Democrats have to fish for opportunities.
/>The return to multi-member voting has produced many more close contests. At the 2001 and 2005 polls, most winners won by a mile. The multi-member format with more parties has fragmented the vote. In several constituencies, the winners gained only 30-odd per cent, and rivals were hot on their heels.
/>If only 1 per cent of voters voted differently, 11 seats could change hands. A 5 per cent shift could change a total of 60 seats, and a 10 per cent shift could change 104. Many of these "marginal" seats are in the checkerboard region of the centre and lower north. These have to be the Democrats' targets at the next poll.
/>But what chance do they have?
/>Let's suppose that all the seats that are vulnerable to small shifts by the voters do indeed change hands.
/>If there is a 1 per cent shift, the Democrats end up with three more seats, two won from PPP and one from a small party. If there is a 5 per cent shift, the PPP loses 23 seats, and the Democrats gain 18. That would be enough to give the Democrats the chance of heading a coalition. But it's not that simple. There are also seats where the Democrats won narrowly in 2007 and are vulnerable to a slight shift in voting. They would gain 18 seats but lose 14 elsewhere. The net result would be that the PPP lose 9 seats while the Democrats gain 4 and other parties gain the other 5. If there is a 10 per cent shift in voting, the result is even more ambiguous. PPP loses 20 seats, but the Democrats gain only 3.
/>This is just a statistical exercise with not much bearing on reality. But what it shows is that small shifts in voting could change the result in contradictory ways. The Democrats have a good chance of winning some. But in others, especially in Bangkok and the east where the Democrats gained ground in 2007, the Democrats themselves are vulnerable.
/>Consider Chonburi and Rayong, the political fiefdom of Kamnan Poh. In 2005, Kamnan Poh delivered all the seats to TRT. But by 2007, Kamnan Poh had fled the country to avoid sentencing, and the Democrats won all the seats. Local opinion reckons there were two factors behind this astonishing swing: Poh's sons did not pay enough attention, and the large number of army and navy personnel in the area were mobilised to oust PPP. At provincial and municipal elections only a few months later, the Poh family candidates won by a mile. The family was paying attention and the military was not a factor.
/>The Democrats have a chance to win at the polls rather than by another "accident." But it won't be easy. At the 2007 poll, a lot of public money and public resources were mobilised behind the attempt to prevent a PPP victory. How much this benefited the Democrats is impossible to gauge. And how far it will be a factor at the next poll is unknown.
/>BP: I don't think one can underestimate the state resources devoted to trying to defeat PPP at the last election as blogged about last year – from the CNS plan to prevent the victory of the PPP (documents were confirmed to be real by the EC), PPP ads having to be submitted to the EC prior to airing etc. Then you have the resources devoted to defeat PPP, Democrat Deputy Leader Korn recently said at the FCCT that Puea Paendin outspent PPP 3-1. The result Puea Paendin won 24 seats to PPP's 233 seats – just shows you how ridiculous the charge on vote-buying being behind PPP's victory (Thanong covered Puea Paendin's massive spending months ago with voters taking the Puea Paendin money and voting for PPP). The next election will be different with PPP moving out all the junta appointed provincial governors and putting their own people in.
/>On the other hand, you will have PPP treading water as government with a poor economy – a lot will depend on how they can pinpoint his on external factors and also on PAD (and PAD links with the Democrats). I still don't think the PAD-Democrat link helps the Democrats outside of their "base" as well. Despite how weak and ineffectual the government appears now, things appear to be about the same as where they were in December 2007 election. There will likely be some realignments with some of the smaller parties consolidating or their factions (i.e Puea Paendin) joining PPP (a slight possibility of Newin splitting as well). Overall if an election was held at the end of the year, PPP will likely win a narrow victory with around 240 votes with Democrats behind at 170-175.


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'American Buffalo' launches AtticRep's seventh season in fine style
Updated 4:19 pm, Thursday, December 20, 2012
The trouble starts with a nickel.
It's not just any nickel, of course. As AtticRep's staging of David Mamet's "American Buffalo" opens, junk dealer Don (David Connelly) is nursing a grudge against a guy who found the apparently valuable nickel in the shop and purchased it for far less it was worth. To avenge this injustice, Don and his minion Bob (Cris Boneta) plot to steal the guy's coin collection. When Don's twitchy buddy Teach (Ross Everett Olsaver) worms his way into the plan, talking Don into dropping Bob out of the whole thing, the groundwork is laid for the play's violent denouement.
The fight, which bubbles up and explodes in a frightening burst, is the only action in the play. It's mostly the three guys, sitting around talking. They share wisdom — the importance of breakfast, what makes someone a great card player — and grievances — that nickel, being called out for swiping a piece of toast from a mutual friend's plate. And they plan the theft.
In an interview a few weeks ago, Connelly said he saw a lot of comedy in the piece, and that he'd like to see the play done by a legendary comedy duo —Laurel and Hardy, say, or Abbott and Costello. And, as performed by this particular trio, there is sometimes a "who's on first" feel to the exchanges.
Directed by Rick Frederick, all three actors give textured, fully realized performances. Connelly conveys the nurturing aspect of Don — taking delight in schooling Bob, tugging at the younger man's hoodie to move him around the shop to where he wants him to be. There's also a hint, even in those scenes, of an icier side to his nature, a part of his personality that springs to the fore when the plan seems to have taken a dark turn in the second act.
Olsaver plays Teach with a jittery energy that serves Mamet's rhythms well. He delivers his dialogue — particularly his opening monologue — with rat-a-tat-tat speed, and is rarely still.
Boneta fits into the mix well. He plays Bob's vulnerability well while also giving the sense that there is more to him than meets the eye.
Production designer Jeremiah Teutsch has done a masterful job with the set, giving it just enough clutter to get the point across without the junk overwhelming the actors. (The chipped ceiling tiles and rusted-out toy cars suspended from the ceiling are a particularly nice touch.)
The play gets AtticRep's seventh season off to a terrific start.
"American Buffalo" can be seen at 8 p.m. Thursdays-Saturdays, 2:30 p.m. Sundays through Dec. 30 at the Attic Theatre at Trinity University, 1 Trinity Place. Tickets cost $10 to $25. Call 210-999-8524 for reservations or visit atticrep.org to buy tickets online.
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Manhattan School of Music President to Step Down
Thursday, March 29, 2012 - 10:10 AM
Manhattan School of Music president Robert Sirota announced Wednesday he will step down this fall in order to devote more time to composing.
"For almost my entire professional career, I have divided my time between two vocations: school administrator and composer," said Sirota in a statement. "Running music schools has been extremely rewarding, but it is now time for me to focus my energies on doing what I became a musician for in the first place."
Sirota's music has been increasingly heard around New York. His Triptych (2009) was performed as part of the Trinity Church's commemoration of the 10th anniversary of 9/11 in September, and his opera Holy Women was performed a month later at Corpus Christi Church. His 1988 chamber opera The Clever Mistress is to be performed in April at Symphony Space.
Sirota, 62, has been credited with raising the profile of the Manhattan School at 122nd St. and Broadway as it sought to escape the large shadow of the Juilliard School, 50 blocks to its south. He has built new programs in contemporary music and entrepreneurship, created a summer voice institute, purchased new Steinway pianos, and overseen the final stages of the school's facility expansion.
His tenure has not been without discord. Earlier this month, the school's newly unionized pre-college teachers organized a demonstration outside the school to protest low wages. They are attempting to raise their hourly rate to $60 an hour, claiming over half of them earn less than $50 an hour. The school is quoted in The New York Times as offering a two percent increase for the first year and a 1.75 percent increase for the following two years.
Sirota will leave behind some significant perks, among them, a lavish 3,000-square-foot presidential penthouse adorned with designer furniture, fine paintings and a 1,500-square-foot terrace overlooking the Hudson River. The apartment was part of a $70 million tower that opened in the fall of 2001 and which provides living quarters for 380 students.
Sirota, a native of New York City, was recruited in 2005 to replace Marta Casals Istomin, who retired after 13 years in the position. He will remain a "special advisor" as the school searches for a successor.
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I meant to state that the concert, BRING HIM HOME, which I sang last week at the New Life Expo at the New Yorker Hotel, I will repeat at the Lake Hiawatha, NJ Library on Nokomis Avenue tomorrow, Saturday March 31st, from 1 to 4 PM. The NJ event is free to the attendees.
ROBERT SIROTA is making a good decision to devote his time to composing. As an alumnus of both Juilliard and Manhattan and having studied beyond those institutions with Maestri Fausto Cleva and Laszlo Halasz, both of whom were general managers of major opera companies, I knew first hand how all the micromanaging left little time for other pursuits such as in their cases conducting operas in other venues. As an opera composer, "Shakespeare" and "The Political Shakespeare," I am also prioritizing my time toallow for the composing. I am singing a concert titled BRING HIM HOME. The selections relate to our times with the tragic warfare, famine, hate and greed that are omnipresent in our world-wide societies on all continents. Songs such as Bring Him Home from the Broadway musical Les Miserables, The House I Live In, This Land is Your Land and The Impossible Dream and their like will be the ingredients of this program advocating peace and brotherhood, sung and given spoken commentary by me. I am the director of the Richard Wagner Music Drama Institute. At my website, www.WagnerOpera.com, one may download free 37 complete selections from the hundred I have sung in four three hour long solo concerts in the main hall, the Isaac Stern Auditorium of Carnegie Hall. They are all LIVE performances.
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eWeek.com has an article called 10 Signs Your Company Wants You Gone. It's worth the read, especially as the jobs market heads deeper into recession.


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General Forums >> General Discussions >> Police and Fire budget cuts
Police and Fire budget cuts
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Posted over 5 years ago In one North Carolina town, some residents may not get an answer to their 911 calls because the police are running out of gas money. In a town council meeting Tuesday night, Smithfield, North Carolina Police Chief Michael Scott will ask officials to let him use $30,000 meant for police supplies and gas for patrol cars, the Raleigh News and Observer reports. If he doesn't get the money, Smith said the police force may stop responding to some 911 calls and investigating misdemeanors because he's already cut patrols. Smithfield isn't the only town looking for ways to cut costs to contend with budget woes. High unemployment and a struggling housing market have pushed more then half of US cities to cut, boost fees or cancel infrastructure projects, according to the National League of Cities. The situation has gotten so dire that deep state and local budget cuts may be slowing economic growth, according to The Associated Press. City officials in Allen Park, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit, announced Tuesday that they would lay off more then 30 police officers, firefighters and city workers, the Detroit Free Press reports. In Santa Ana, California a budget analysis found that the city may need to take steps including closing some fire stations at night to close a projected $30 million budget gap, according to Voice of OC. One county is taking what some might argue is a more extreme approach to deficit reduction. Officials in Camden County, Georgia hiring prison inmates as firefighters last month to curb costs. In Smithfield, town council members say there's no way the police will be forced to stop performing necessary services, even in tight economic times. "I think we need to uncover every rock and every stone to see other areas where we could save some money," Councilman Perry Harris told the News and Observer. Unreal. I agree they should be looking to other areas before they resort to cutting police and fire jobs. You wouldn't go in there for a million bucks...A Cop does it for less...A Reserve does it for free.... |
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| Posted over 5 years ago Okay. Nation wide problem. |
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| Posted over 5 years ago uncledennis1 says ... Just thought some parts were pretty shocking...like hiring inmates to be firefighters. Just caught my eye, thought Id share. You wouldn't go in there for a million bucks...A Cop does it for less...A Reserve does it for free.... |
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| Posted over 5 years ago This is a nationwide problem but that caught my eye also. I do believe that is a first, prison inmates as firefighters. Who would have thought that. |
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| Posted over 5 years ago A goverment's first duty is to protect its citizens. Makes me wonder what their budget looks like! |
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| Posted over 5 years ago No surprise as it sickens me too. Why cut the very agencies tasked with protecting and providing emergency treatment? Nature of government everywhere and its been going on for decades or perhaps a century or two? Inmates as fire fighters is not all that uncommon I have seen it in the midwest, the difference being that these inmates are on a "Work Release or Trustee" program and they are tasked with going out on brush fires and or grass fires to cut breaks and or provide extra manpower on an apparatus. Just as long as they don't deputize em I think we wil be okay... |
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| Posted over 5 years ago this topic makes me nuts. in my area we have 3% of all our untilities taxed for police and fire protection. also in 1992 we voted a 1% increase in all our sales tax for fire and police service. yet they have closed our local jail and terminated police and police personnel. who knows where the money is going that was ear marked for our police and fire. here in california we also use inmates in fire fighting. |
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| Posted over 5 years ago Spectre3 says ... The same type of person that said FireFighters could mow empty lots because the just sit around most the time. |


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Recently there was a great little post about 5 questions husbands should ask their wives. Good questions.
Of course I starting thinking about what kind of questions we wives should ask our husbands, but more than that, I immediately thought of questions we should not ask them. Here are five questions a wife should never, in my opinion anyway, ask her husband. (And if you already have, I hope you just laugh at yourself now that I bring it up and not get mad at me.)
#1 Do you think I am fat?
What a terrible question! You should figure out the answer yourself by looking in the mirror or checking the scale, because if he says, " Yes, dear, you are a little pudgy," he's automatically in the doghouse. How insensitive! If he says,"No" (like a good husband should), he may still be in trouble if you think he might be fudging. Other questions in this category include, "Do I look old? Am I ugly?" Ugly? No. Stupid? Yes.
#2 Do you think Susie (or Sandy or Sally) is attractive?
If he says, "Yes, she's gorgeous," then what? Most of the time the next question is, "Do you think she's prettier than I am?" Now we have gone from bad to worse! Now he's in an impossible situation, and you are being way too self-absorbed. But if he hems and haws ("Well, I'm not really sure. She's kind of pretty I think…") then you'll be tempted to think he's not being honest. What possible good can come from having this Read More


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Officials have been concerned because visitors now must enter the building through a rear door and sign a log.
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Bonino called up to Ducks, Jacques sent down
October 31st, 2011, 12:23 pm by Eric Stephens, Staff writerWASHINGTON -- The Ducks called up center Nick Bonino from Syracuse of the American Hockey League and assigned winger Jean-Francois Jacques back to the Crunch.
Bonino will be on the Ducks' roster for the first time this season. The 23-year-old product of Boston University leads the Crunch with 11 points and has a plus-4 rating in nine games.
Bonino went scoreless in 26 games with the Ducks last season after scoring his first and only NHL goal on March 29, 2010 against Dallas after finishing his third and final season with the Terriers.
Jacques, who finished serving a five-game NHL suspension this weekend, has yet to appear in a regular-season game for the Ducks. He has three goals and three assists in six games with Syracuse, with all but one assist taking place in his last two AHL contests.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — An analysis by the Social Security Administration says a bipartisan immigration bill pending in the Senate would boost the retirement program's trust fund by adding millions of taxpayers to the economy.
The finding comes in a letter to Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., who requested the analysis, from Stephen C. Gross, chief actuary for the agency.
It could provide a boost for the immigration bill, which has been attacked by some conservatives as overly costly, as the Senate Judiciary Committee prepares to begin amending the measure on Thursday.
The analysis says the bill would add more than $300 billion in net additional revenues to Social Security and Medicare over the coming decade.
Gross writes that the overall effect of the bill on the long-range trust fund balance "will be positive."


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Lot 356: Alexander Calvelli (1963 Frankfurt am Main) (F)
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Description: Alexander Calvelli (1963 Frankfurt am Main) (F) Gasworks Charlottenburg, Berlin, 1990, acrylic on canvas, 64 cm x 86 cm, signed


text: Arctic archaeological sites are now falling into the seaAlasdair Wilkins9/09/12 3:00pmFiled to: ArchaeologyAlaskaClimate ChangeeskimoLittle ice ageSciSciencetweetFb13EditPromoteShare to KinjaToggle Conversation toolsGo to permalinkClimate change likely means problems for our future, but it's also capable of doing damage to the past. A 500-year-old Alaskan site was first revealed as the ice melted, but now erosion is pulling the site into the sea.AdvertisementThe site, known as Nunalleq, belongs to that of the Yup'ik Eskimos culture, which once dominated an area of land roughly the size of Minnesota. They have remained largely absent from the archaeological record until artifacts began appearing out of the ground near the village of Quinhagak. It's kind of an archaeological catch-22: if the warmer climate hadn't melted the ice, we likely never would have discovered the site in the first place. But that same process is destroying the soil just as quickly as archaeologists can uncover its secrets.University of Aberdeen researcher Dr. Rich Knecht explained the problem to the BBC:Advertisement"It's preserved by permafrost, and the permafrost is melting due to climate change. As it melts, it exposes the very soft soil to marine erosion: the shoreline retreats and the sites get damaged. This year, we were shocked by the amount of destruction. There were artifacts as big as tables thrown up on the bank by a single storm on a high tide. These storm periods are now lasting weeks longer because of the lack of ice cover. The sea ice cover is at a record low right now and continuing to drop, and every time that happens the site is at more at risk."It seems bitterly appropriate that the archaeology of Nunalleq suggests a site that has always been defined by climate change. The site was occupied between 1350 and 1650, which means it coincides with the onset of the Little Ice Age, which would have forced the Yup'ik to adapt very quickly to the sudden, dramatic shift in climate. Dr. Kate Britton explains:"By analyzing strands of the hair of multiple individuals, we're getting this picture of a very mixed and generalized economy incorporating salmon, caribou and other animal species. This is in the earlier phase of the site and we're now working on the younger sites which will give us a clear idea of how the people's diet was adapting to changes in climatic conditions which would have affected species availability. We can take this evidence and get an idea of what sort of changes were happening in the Bering Sea ecosystem and what sorts of changes were going on in terms of people's subsistence."Dr. Knecht argues the site is "a story of resilience in the face of very rapid climate change." For more on this story, check out BBC News. Image by the Bering Land Bridge National Preserve via Flickr.Reply13 repliesLeave a reply


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COLUMBUS — A federal court today reinstated early voting on the three days immediately preceding the election, striking down a state law that reduced voting hours.
The ruling from U.S. District Court Judge Peter C. Economus was an extension of the lawsuit filed by President Barack Obama's re-election campaign and Democrats in 2012. The judge issued an order prohibiting Republican Secretary of State Jon Husted from enforcing a law that closed the doors to in-person early voting at 6 p.m. on the Friday before Election Day.
The court had determined that the law had unconstitutionally treated military voters, who could vote on these days, differently from all other voters.
The judge left it to Mr. Husted, however, to set uniform statewide hours for voting on those days.
The court granted a preliminary injunction restoring the early voting days for the 2012 election. This decision makes that permanent for subsequent elections. The judge noted that legislation since passed by the General Assembly did not restore those days.
"The loss of the three final days of early for non(military) voters goes to the heart of (the amended state law's) constitutional deficiencies as determined by the court in 2012 and today,," Judge Economus wrote. "…the Ohio Revised Code still contains differing and inconsistent in-person early voting deadlines for (military and other) voters."


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The officiating minister for the service for Barry Young Jr., which was published in Tuesday's Daily Journal, has been changed. Officiating will be Bro. Junior Ritchie.
June Davis
HAMILTON – June Newell Davis, 76, died Monday, Oct. 1, 2012, at Oak Tree Plantation in Amory. She was born June 17, 1936, to Jasper Columbus Newell and Hazel Morrison Newell in Ecru. She was a lifelong resident of Hamilton, where she was a homemaker. She graduated from Hamilton School and Draughn's Business College in Jackson.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Friday in the Tisdale-Lann Memorial Chapel in Aberdeen with Bro. Tim McMillian officiating. Burial will be in New Prospect Cemetery.
Survivors include two daughters, Susan Houk (Danny) of Hamilton and Janie Carol Streukens (John) of Cochrane, Alberta, Canada; one son, Bill Davis (Sheila) of Aberdeen; seven grandchildren, Tim Houk, Scott Houk, Josh Houk, Stacey Moore, Ashley Breaux, Nick Streukens and Haley Streukens; and five great-grandchildren, Isaac Houk, Ethan Andrew Houk, Molly Houk, William Houk and Braley Moore.
She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Fred Davis; one sister, Edith Newell; and one brother, Jay Newell.
Pallbearers will be Tim Houk, Scott Houk, Josh Houk, Brad Moore, Will Breaux and Brandon Davis.
Visitation will be from 4 until 8 p.m. Thursday at the Tisdale-Lann Memorial Funeral Home in Aberdeen.
Sign the register and leave condolences online at www.tisdal elannmemorial.com.
Deborah Young
NETTLETON – Deborah West Young, 53, died on Monday, Oct. 1, 2012, at North Mississippi Medical Center. Born on March 31, 1959, in St. Louis, Mo., she was a daughter of the late Helen Louise Davis West Patton and Harvey T. West. She attended Nettleton schools. On Sept. 19, 1975, she married Donny Young. Before becoming a homemaker, she worked at Stanley Hardware. Strong in her faith, she was a member of New Vision Worship Center. She always looked forward to spending time with her family and watching her grandchildren in their church drama performances. She enjoyed cooking, playing bingo, fishing, cleaning, and listening to gospel and country music.
She is survived by her husband of 37 years, Donny Young of Nettleton; daughter and caregiver, Brandy Pickle (Jeff) of Nettleton; son, Steven Young (Dawyon Johnson) of Nettleton; sisters, Janie Merrell (Roland) of Shannon, Mary Catt (James) of New Albany, Sherry White (Jody) of Detroit, Ala., Brenda Guyton (John) of Amory and Tammy Allen (Sam) of Amory; brothers, Harvey West (Tessie) of Amory, Keith West (Nancey) of Nettleton and Kenneth West (Rita) of Nettleton; grandchildren, Katlin Renfro, Summer Renfro, Austin Renfro, Jaslyn Young and Ayla Johnson, all of Nettleton; a host of nieces and nephews; and special friend, Sherry Jones.
In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by a daughter, Angela Young; stepdad, Bob Patton; sisters, Rebecca Sue West, Bonnie Lee West and Linda Faye West Haywood; brothers, Treyton and Darren Lewis West; father-in-law; and grandparents.
A celebration of life service will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday at E.E. Pickle Funeral Home with Bro. Jesse Strider and Bro. Vance Kimble officiating. Burial will follow in Pine Grove Cemetery.
Pallbearers will be Anthony West, Darrell Haywood, Tim Seller, John McDonald, David Westmoreland, Bobby Allred and Rick Matthews. Honorary pallbearers will be James Holloway, Roland Merrell and Danny Leach.
Visitation will be from 5 to 8 p.m. today at the funeral home and continue until the service hour on Thursday.
Memories and condolences may be shared with the family at eepicklefuneralhome.com.
Hubert Prince Sr.
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. – James Hubert Prince Sr., 90, died Sunday, Sept. 30, 2012, at Munson Medical Center in Traverse City, Mich. Arrangements are incomplete and will be announced later by McMillan Funeral Home in Booneville.
Visitation will be from 5 to 9 p.m. Friday at the funeral home.
Robert Wadin
SHANNON – Robert Edward Wadin, 67, died Wednesday, Sept. 26, 2012, at North Mississippi Medical Center. He was born May 31, 1945, in Somerville, N.J., to Reinhardt Adam Wadin and Hilda Mansch Wadin. He served his country in the U.S. Army from 1962 to 1965. An accomplished writer, he had four books published during his lifetime. He was an avid history buff, stamp collector and enjoyed bike riding, dogs and all animals. He was a Methodist and a resident of Shannon for the past several years.
A memorial service with military honors will be at 10 a.m. today at Lee Memorial Funeral Home Chapel with Bro. Jimmy Henry officiating. Inurnment will be in the Lee Memorial Park Mausoleum.
Survivors include his brother, Jim Wadin, and a nephew, Andy Wadin, both of Lake Forest, Calif.
He was preceded in death by his parents.
Visitation will follow after the service.
Memorials may be made to the Tupelo-Lee Humane Society.
For online condolences and guest registry, visit www.leememorialonline.com.
Sarah Palmer
BATESVILLE – Sarah Reed Palmer, 84, passed away Tuesday, Oct. 2, 2012, at Methodist University Hospital in Memphis.
Services will be at 11 a.m. Thursday at Wells Funeral Home Chapel in Batesville. Burial will follow in Forrest Memorial Park Cemetery.
Visitation will be from 10 a.m. to service time Thursday.
Timothy Sims
HOLLY SPRINGS – Timothy Sims, 80, died Sunday, Sept. 30, 2012, at his home.
Services will be at 1 p.m. Thursday at New Dimension Salt & Light Ministries of Holly Springs. Burial will be in Charity Hill Cemetery at Lake Center. Serenity Funeral Home of Holly Springs is in charge of the arrangements.
Visitation will be from 2 to 7 p.m. today at the funeral home.
Frances Rhea
WEST POINT – Frances Uithoven Rhea, 95, died Tuesday, Oct. 2, 2012, at her daughter's home in Montgomery, Ala. Arrangements are incomplete and will be announced later by Calvert Funeral Home of West Point.
Faye Miller
BOONEVILLE – Flora Faye Miller, 82, died Monday, Oct. 1, 2012, at her residence. She was born Jan. 17, 1930, in Tippah County. She was factory worker and she was a founding member of Lakeview Bible Church. She enjoyed sewing, growing flowers in her garden, listening to gospel music, and spending time with her family and church friends.
Services will be at 11 a.m. today at the Booneville Funeral Home Chapel, with Bro. Johnny Hamblin and Bro. Terry Scott officiating. Burial will be in Lakeview Cemetery.
She is survived by two sons, Eugene Miller and Anthony Miller (Karen), all of Booneville; two brothers, Jasper Prentiss (Altia) and Pete Prentiss (Eva), all of Booneville; two sisters, Dorothy Spencer (William) and Catherine Lewis (Noah), all of Booneville; and an aunt, Ruby Davis of Jumpertown.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Delmous Miller; her parents, William and Sarah Malinda Chaffin Prentiss; two sisters, Evelyn Thomas and Pearl Simmons; and a brother, James Prentiss.
Pallbearers are Wesley Spencer, James Prentiss Jr., Doug Prentiss, Alan Prentiss, Chris Prentiss and James Wilhite.
Billie Spradling
FULTON – Billie Sue Spradling died Tuesday, Oct. 2, 2012, at Countrywood Plantation Assisted Living in Mantachie. She was born June 1, 1924, in the Ozark community to Jim and Amanda Weatherford Ivy. She was a member of East Fulton Baptist Church. She owned and operated Billie's Beauty Shop for 50 years. She was an avid walker.
Services will be at 11 a.m. Thursday at the McNeece-Morris Funeral Home Chapel in Fulton with Bro. Grover Laird officiating. Burial will be in Itawamba Memorial Gardens.
Survivors include two sons, Jackie Spradling (Janice) of Fulton and Billy T. "Butch" Spradling of Pontotoc; one sister, Aletha Kirksey of Tupelo; two grandchildren, Susan Sheffield (Derek) and Amanda Scruggs (Jay); and four great-grandchildren, Wes Sheffield, Christian Sheffield, Mack Scruggs and Mary Scruggs.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Billy Turner Spradling, who died in 1992; her parents; six sisters, Rebecca Patton, Thelma Stedham, Evelyn Smith, Larue Waddle, Tabbie Walker and Inez Huddleston; and two brothers, Troy Ivy and Erskin Ivy.
Pallbearers will be Derek Sheffield, Wes Sheffield, Christian Sheffield, Jay Scruggs, Mack Scruggs, Stanley Joe Spradling, Ken Coleman and Gary Walker.
Visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. today and from 7 a.m. until service time Thursday at McNeece-Morris Funeral Home in Fulton.
In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made in memory of Billie Spradling to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, 501 St. Jude Place, Memphis, TN 38105-1942.
Online condolences may be expressed at www.mcneecemorri sfuneralhome.com.
Billy Bowles Sr.
VARDAMAN – Billy Edward Bowles Sr., 73, died Monday, Oct. 1, 2012, at his home. He was born June 5, 1939, in Calhoun County. He was a retired truck driver for International Paper. He enjoyed fishing and hunting, and he loved his grandchildren.
Graveside services will be at 2 p.m. today at Taylor Cemetery in Vardaman with Bro. Sherman Adams officiating. Pryor Funeral Home of Calhoun City is in charge of the arrangements.
Survivors include his wife, Mary Ethel Taylor Bowles; two daughters, Angela (Kenneth) Coleman of Houlka and Christy (Daniel) Williams of Vardaman; one sister, Ann (Travis) Malone of Bruce; two brothers, Frank Bowles of Tennessee and Phillip (Gerri) Bowles of Tupelo; four grandchildren, Cody McClain, Lori McClain, Saige Williams and Baylee Williams; and a host of nieces and nephews.
He was preceded in death by a son, Billy Edward Bowles Jr.; his parents, Herman A. Bowles and Alene Ramage Bowles; and a brother, Allen Bowles.
Pallbearers will be Daniel Williams, Kenny Coleman, Cody McClain, Robert McClain, Jerry McClain and Larry Long.
Visitation will be from 11 a.m. to service time today at the funeral home.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be sent to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis.
Online condolences may be left at www.pryorfuneralhome.com
Bobby Holloway
PONTOTOC – Bobby Rex Holloway, 66, died Monday, Oct. 1, 2012, at North Mississippi Medical Center. He was a retired plumber, electrician and heavy equipment operator. A loving husband and father, he loved to hunt, fish and watch wrestling.
Services will be at 11 a.m. today at Tutor Memorial Funeral Home in Pontotoc with Bro. Benny Randolph and Bro. Wayne Ward officiating. Burial will be in Post Oak Cemetery.
Survivors include his wife, Joyce Mathis Holloway; his children, Terrena Dendy (Jason), Tina Swindle (Rickey), Pam Sneed (Barry), Debbie Williams (Jim) and Brad Holloway (Amanda); his father, Cortis Holloway; one brother, Rickey Hooker (Phyllis) and Johnny Holloway (Charlotte); and grandchildren, Tina Lynn Pace (Dennis), Rickey Lynn Swindle (Jennifer), Chris Duffie (Kayla), Kyle Holloway, Bailey Holloway, Autumn Carroll and Samantha Edwards.
He was preceded in death by a son, Timothy Rex Holloway; his mother, Mavee Ferguson Hooker; his grandparents, Ona and Duey Holloway, and Connie and Morris Ferguson; and a brother, Jimmy Joe Holloway.
Pallbearers will be Kyle Holloway, Bailey Holloway, Rickey Lynn Swindle, Rickey Swindle, Chris Duffie and Dennis Pace.
Honorary pallbearers will be Horace Kitchens, Leo Mask, Randy Roberts, Calvin Ferguson, Calvin Swindle and Mason Jones.
Visitation will continue from 10 a.m. to service time today.
Mildred Smith
HAMILTON – Mildred Hale Smith, 98, died Monday, Oct. 1, 2012, at Gilmore Memorial Hospital in Amory. She was born June 3, 1914, to Walter Morgan Smith and Lizzie Johnson Smith in Hamilton. She was a graduate of Hamilton High School and Jackson Commercial College in Jackson. She was a member of Hamilton Presbyterian Church, where she taught Sunday school for several years. She was a kindergarten teacher for 20 years and retired as librarian from the Hamilton Library after 17 years.
A graveside service will be at 1 p.m. today at Center Hill Cemetery in Hamilton with Dr. Cheatham and Charles Caldwell officiating. Tisdale-Lann Memorial Funeral Home in Aberdeen will be in charge of the services.
She is survived by her cousins.
Sign the register and leave condolences online at www.tisdalelannmemorial.com.
Phyllis Mooney
BOONEVILLE – Phyllis Ann Mooney, 55, died Saturday, Sept. 29, 2012, in Hamilton, Ala. She was born July 24, 1957, in Zion, Ill. She was a homemaker, and she was a Baptist. She enjoyed spending time with family, especially her grandchildren.
Services will be at 2 p.m. today at the Booneville Funeral Home Chapel with Bro. Shane Eaton and Bro. Tim Blakney officiating. Burial will be in Blackland Cemetery.
She is survived by a son, Jason Lovell (Cammy) of Kossuth; a daughter, Melanie Riddle (Michael) of Booneville; two brothers, Richard Eaton of Hamilton, Ala., and David Holder of Booneville; a sister, Cathy Fleming (David) of Saltillo; and two grandchildren, Tyler Riddle of Booneville and Kaitlin Lovell of Kossuth.
She was preceded in death by her parents, W.E. and Irene Eaton Mayo Eaton.
Pallbearers are Roger Dickey, David Holder, Corey Shane Eaton, Michael Riddle, Brian Fleming and Shane Eaton.


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Gormley Gallery Hosts Photography Exhibit: "The Path to Accuracy is Silence"
January 13, 2011
Gormley Gallery at College of Notre Dame of Maryland is hosting "The Path to Accuracy is Silence," an exhibit of the photography of Brian Patrick Miller. The collection includes both portraits and groups of individuals, and traces Miller's personal history of travel, chance meetings, and engaging people in unfamiliar territory. His work has been exhibited widely, most recently at Himmelfarb Gallery; Tai Sophia Institute in Laurel, MD.
"In photography, the pathway to achieving accuracy, the method, is through silence. It is a path and an attempt to describe the nature of my vision as it relates to my inner perceptions," said Mr. Miller.
The exhibit will run from February 7 through March 18, 2011. Gormley Gallery hosts an opening reception on Saturday, February 12 from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. An artist's talk is scheduled for March 2 at noon.
Admission to Gormley Gallery is free. Regular gallery hours are 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., Monday through Friday (call 410.435.0100 for weekend hours). The gallery is located in Fourier Hall at College of Notre Dame, 4701 North Charles Street in Baltimore.
Gormley Gallery is supported by a grant from the Maryland State Arts Council, an organization dedicated to cultivating a vibrant cultural community where the arts thrive. An agency of the Department of Business and Economic Development, the MSAC provides financial support and technical assistance to nonprofit organizations, unites of government, colleges and universities for arts activities. For additional information visit ndm.edu /gormleygallery.
College of Notre Dame is recognized for its commitment to a liberal arts education, including strong teacher preparation and nursing degree programs and small class sizes. The Women's College, the first Catholic college for women in the United States to award the four-year baccalaureate degree, offers 29 undergraduate majors. Notre Dame was named to the "Great Schools, Great Prices" listing in America's Best Colleges 2010. In fall 2009 the College welcomed its inaugural class to the School of Pharmacy. Weekend and Accelerated colleges offer part-time programs for working women and men. Graduate Studies in education, nursing, management, communication and liberal studies provide students with a focused contemporary curriculum. Visit ndm.edu for more information.


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Lot 238: WHITE GLAZED DISH
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The Unit objectives are to conduct world-class fisheries and aquatic science research of interest to cooperators, educate and train students at the Master's degree level in fisheries and aquatic sciences, and provide extension services in fisheries and aquatic resource management. Areas of study that have been emphasized by the Unit during the past 30 years include: fish biology; fisheries management; conservation genetics; fish habitat analysis, design, and modeling; stock identification and assessment; Great Lakes fisheries; limnology; integrated land-water linkages; aquatic toxicology; and aquatic entomology.
The Unit has a special interest in understanding how ecosystem processes are altered by anthropogenic activities having conducted several multidisciplinary projects assessing linkages between aquatic and terrestrial environments, and how to conserve genetic resources across landscapes.


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Springsteen's 'Glory Days' Was A True Story
A few years ago, I asked Tom Johnston of the Doobie Brothers, "Where do you get the inspiration for your songs?". His reply, "What goes on, you know, life".
This is very clearly the case with Bruce Springsteen. His 1980 hit "The River" was inspired by his sister's unplanned pregnancy, and subsequent rush into marriage. Yahoo Music reports "Glory Days", from the 1984 multi- platinum "Born In THe USA" was a bout a teammate, with home "The Boss" had played Babe Ruth League Baseball. Joe DePugh was a star pitcher who was offered a tryout with the L.A. Dodgers. DePugh nicknamed Springsteen 'Saddie", because Bruce wasn't a talented player. Their lives took divergant paths after graduation, and a chance meeting at a New Jersey bar provided the inspiration for the song.
"He said, 'Always remember, I love you,' not like some corny Budweiser commercial, but a real sentimental thing," -Joe DePugh
Lately, I've been wondering about Bruce's plans for the E-Street Band in the wake of the recent death of Saxman Clarence Clemons.


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"Gripping, intriguing - I wanted more!"
The dramatisation of this audiobook is quite excellent. I was hoping it was unabridged, but even being abridged the listening did not leave me disappointed. An excellent summary, exciting delivery, excellent story.
Actually I did listen to it all in one sitting! I was going to go take a nap, but put that off so I could finish listening! It was worth it.
I will say that the volume is rather quiet - I had to turn up my speakers all the way - but then i suppose they are not the most high-tech speakers out there, either.
God bless! And read more Dante!!
"Dante's Inferno"
This audible is very well narrated and keep me listening all the through without stopping!
This classic was my first - can't wait to pick another of so many titles.
"Instant Hypnotic-state"
I love most translation of Dante's Inferno but this is definitely in my top 3. My only complaint is that it's too short but it has high replay value.
"Great dramatic effect"
Any one wanting to hear the tale would greatly appreciate the way it has been told here.
"Dante's Inferno"
Humans boiling in human feces eternally.
Boy God sure is a barrel of laughs.
Good soundtrack to play on your front lawn during halloween.
Also the source of most of todays "Hell" teachings.
Good work Dante - you scared the bejesus out of everyone who doesn't read their bibles or have spiritual antennaes.
"It'll make you consider your actions carefully..."
Dante's Inferno is a masterpiece upon which many other books and lore are built.
The idea is interesting and the way he creates this world for the reader is excellent! It makes you think about the things you've done - do your actions fall into one of the 9 categories...?
The performance was great but the sound was horrible in a number of spots, where the background sound effects overtook the narrator. But you still get the gist of the story.
"Hell? What's that? Let Dante show you!"
This is one of the few books recorded in a dramatized format and it's well worth the listen! The actors and sound effects pictured the journey in a great way and induced me into another reality, one created by Dante. If you enjoy one narrator this recording has 4 AND a supporting cast. It depicts the journey in the way Alighieri pictured it in his mind, spooky.
This is the base of Dan Brown's "Inferno", both authors are very descriptive and very creative. If you're going to buy Brown's new novel or have this poem but haven't bought "Inferno" it's a great companion! The mystery of death, the sequence of life, the journey taken to unmask it all is a book you'll enjoy as much as I did; another great novel by Brown and a definite classic by Alighieri.
"Greeeeat book!"
absolutely loved it! wish it was longer. Listened to it twice! I highly recommended entertaining from start to finish
"Dante's Inferno"
It was interesting but hard to follow. The narrator made it hard to figure out who was talking and made it kind of confusing.
"Out of Material -"
This book could not be more boring. Same conventions in all his books. The back bone of Dontes' was so boring I had to force myself to keep going. I dont mind a history lesson if it is a side note, not the focus.
It was a modification of previous books. He adds a young woman here, a few old friends there , shazaam - new story.
Reader was fine.
waste of money. Find something else.
"Superb dramatisation of a classic text."
This terrific dramatization by Roger Elsgood of Dante's timeless classic is brought to life with a stellar cast - not only the great, late Corin Redgrave, but Alex Jennings, Laurie Anderson, and the God of Hellfire himself - Arthur Brown together with a specially composed score by the legendary Scanner add a depth of character to this story of a search for a lost love and a quest for eternal redemption. Wonderful.


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Is The Sims 2 is finally coming to a close after a 10 year run?
The Sims 2 has been around for the last 10 years and only now has EA decided to stop giving it technical support, starting on the 22nd of July. Sims 2 players who own the digital version via Origin will be provided with The Sims 2 – Ultimate Collection for free. This includes all the expansion packs and stuff packs that have been released over its 10 year cycle.
"Going forward, EA will no longer be providing any new content or making any additional technical updates to The Sims 2."
"The Sims 2 Ultimate Collection is being given out to any gamer who purchased and registered a digital version of The Sims 2."
This is not a farewell to the classic Sims 2 as people are still able to play it happily. EA have decided its time to give up supporting it, leaving the final state of the game as it is now. EA still ask those who have issues with the game to contact EA Help. However, EA will most likely only assist in set-up and installation issues, not in-game technical issues.
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First, A Salutation to Hanuman Hanuman, the "monkey grammarian" of Octavio Paz's book by the same name, stands beautifully in the Asian Art Museum in...
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Venky's open letter to fans
Now that the season has ended, we would like to put on record our thanks to Gary Bowyer and the players for their hard work and dedication in what was a season of stability and one in which we could see real progress and promise for the future.
You the fans, too, have played a huge part in that and we want to say a special thank you for the support and commitment you have once again shown to Blackburn Rovers.
Many supporters have contacted us this season in recognition of the hard work and passion of the team and that has been welcomed.
Our family is fully aware of how difficult the past few years have been for everyone who has affection for our great club, we are deeply sorry we haven't, so far, been able to bring the success we all desire for Rovers.
That said, our commitment has and will not waiver. We have learned some very valuable and costly lessons in our quest to make you, the fans, happy and proud of Rovers and the desire to achieve our mutual dream will benefit from that.
In Gary Bowyer, we have a manager who wants to build a strong, talented team, one to get us back to the Premier League as soon as is possible.
We also feel that off the field, the management and staff is a committed and dedicated workforce, which will complement and support Gary and the players.
We, like many clubs, face the challenge of the impending Financial Fair Play rules and we will do all that is necessary to comply with that, whilst continuing to assist Gary in his pursuit of success.
We are truly thankful of the support you give to the manager and the team and we want to repay that by our continued commitment in Blackburn Rovers.
The club will be working hard throughout the summer on a number of initiatives in readiness for next season in order to make Ewood Park an exciting place to be.
We look forward to next season with great anticipation and excitement; in the meantime we trust you will have a fantastic and enjoyable summer.
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'You've Got Mail' (1998)
Cafe Lalo, 201 W. 83rd St., 212-496-6031
Satisfy your sweet tooth at this Upper West Side coffeeshop and dessert bar. The self-proclaimed "most famous café in NYC" was featured as the backdrop for a chance meeting between Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan's characters. Open into the wee hours of the morning, the European décor and quiet ambiance make a perfect setting for a first date.
'The Devil Wears Prada' (2006)
Craft Restaurant, 43 E. 19th St., 212-780-0880
Andy has dinner at the Tom Colicchio restaurant with her father, who expresses concerns about her career/living situation, and she gets an emergency call from her overbearing boss, Miranda. If you go to sample the star chef's greenmarket fare, hopefully your boss doesn't interrupt.
'The Muppets Take Manhattan' (1984)
Sardi's, 234 W. 44th St., 212-221-8440
Sardi's has been a favorite in the city for the past 90 years, so much so that the Italian restaurant managed to snag a central role in "The Muppets Take Manhattan." Who could forget the scene where Kermit replaces Liza Minnelli's picture with his own green face, much to her own chagrin? You can enjoy a piece of childhood nostalgia by visiting Sardi's for classic dishes like steak tartar and cannelloni au gratin.
'Saturday Night Fever' (1977)
Lenny's Pizza, 1969 86th St., Brooklyn, 718-946-1292
There's always been a debate as to where you can find the best New York pizza, and it looks like Lenny's Pizza might have a leg up on the competition after gaining national exposure in the classic disco film. The way Tony chows down on two slices as he strolls on 86th Street makes it hard to imagine there's a better tasting pizza in the city. You can still relive your memories from the '70s at Lenny's in Bensonhurst.
'Friends With Benefits' (2011)
Pershing Square Cafe, 90 E. 42nd St., 212-286-9600
Jaime and Dylan agree to "start over" with their relationship at this east side-meets-west side eatery, parked right across from Grand Central, which boasts "the busiest and best breakfast in New York."
'Wall Street' (1987)
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The 21 Club, where greedy moneygrubber Gordon Gekko and his apprentice Bud Fox would meet in "Wall Street," once functioned as a Prohibition-era speakeasy. Visit for true meat-and-potato dishes — before you know it, you'll be discussing some of the finer things in life.
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'When Harry Met Sally' (1989)
Katz's Delicatessen, 205 E. Houston St., 212-254-2246
Houston Street eatery Katz's Deli has been a favorite of native New Yorkers since the early 20th century, but it wasn't until 1989 that the rest of the world caught a glimpse of the revered restaurant for the first time. A classic in every sense of the word, Katz has a wide selection of traditional diner favorites from burgers to pastrami sandwiches. If you're ever wondering what to order, just look to the table next to you and say, "I'll have what she's having."


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Arts Council of Wales is responsible for funding and developing the arts in Wales.
Arts Council of Wales is an independent charity, established by Royal Charter in 1994. Its members are appointed by the Welsh Government's Cabinet Secretary for Economy and Infrastructure.
Our principal sponsor is the Welsh Government. We also distribute funding from the National Lottery and raise additional money where we can from a variety of public and private sector sources.
We are the country's funding and development organisation for the arts.
Working together with the Welsh Government, we are able to show how the arts are helping to meet the Government's policy ambitions.
Our staff members are based in Colwyn Bay, Carmarthen and Cardiff Bay.
Our vision is of a creative Wales where the arts are central to the life and wellbeing of the nation.
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Lindy Booth was born on April 2, 1979, in Oakville, Ontario, Canada. She played "Riley Grant" on the Disney Channel series, The Famous Jett Jackson (1998) (and "Agent Hawk" in the show-within-a-show, "Silverstone"). Other credits include guest-starring as different characters in two different episodes of the A&E Network series, A Nero Wolfe Mystery...
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Cherkesogai (Russian: Черкесогаи) or Circassian Armenians (Armenian: չերքեզահայեր[1] cherk'ezahayer; Russian: черкесские армяне; Kabardian/Adyghe: Адыгэ-ермэлы) sometimes referred to as Ermeli (Kabardian/Adyghe: ермэлы), Mountainous Armenians (Russian: горские армяне), Kuban Armenians (Russian: закубанские армяне)[2] are ethnic Armenians who inhabit Russia's Krasnodar Krai and Republic of Adyghea since the end of 15th century that spoke the Adyghe language (currently, most of them speak Russian as their first language), apart from other Armenians living in the region. They reside mostly in the cities of Armavir and Maykop. Total number of Cherkosogai Armenians is about 50 thousand people (2008 estimation)[citation needed]. According to Russian 2002 Census 230 Armenians speak Adyghe language and 222 speak Kabardian language as native.[3]
Since the early medieval characteristic form of settlement of the Armenian ethnic group becomes the diaspora. Over time, North Caucasus and Transcaucasus becomes an important and sometimes compact center of Armenian settlement. The impetus for the emigration of Armenians from their historical homeland. It was believed that the majority of Armenians emigrated to the Kuban in the 15th century from Crimea and where finally formed a vassal of Turkish Crimean Khanate and living conditions prevailing there other Christians have deteriorated sharply.
According to some sources, 1475, when the Turks finally seized control up to the Genoese of the Catholic and Orthodox Principality of Theodoro and began to exterminate the civilian population, Armenians began to move actively to the Ukraine, Moldova and Poland. Some Armenians found refuge among the Circassians and Abkhazians. Armenians settlers, having lived in the mountains for 300 years, picked up the language, manners, customs, particularly of life, the entire way of life of Circassians, among whom they settled, but have retained their ethnic identity and Christian faith – the Armenian Apostolic Church. As a result of the interpenetration of the two cultures formed a completely new ethnic group of Cherkosogai.
- ^ Arakelyan, Hranush (1980). "Չերքեզահայերի էթնիկ ինքնագիտակցության հարցի շուրջ [On the self-identity of Circassian Armenians]" (in Armenian). Yerevan: Institute of Archeology and Ethnography, Armenian National Academy of Sciences.
- ^ (Russian) Л.В. Бурыкина. Черкесогаи Северо-Западного Кавказа в XIX в.
- ^ 2002 All-Russia Population Census: Language (except Russian) population of the most numerous nationalities (with a population of 400 thousand people or more) Archived 9 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine.


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David O Russell's latest film Silver Linings Playbook has been getting some great Oscar buzz after winning awards at the Toronto and Hamptons film festivals. The Weinstein Company just released a new trailer for the film starring Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence, Julia Stiles, Chris Tucker and Robert DeNiro.
Silver Linings Playbook follows a former teacher named Pat (Cooper) who has spent four years in a mental institution after discovering his wife was unfaithful. Now, Pat is living with his parents and trying to reconcile with his ex-wife, only to find he is falling for a woman whose husband recently died.
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Ivo van Hove Renovates The Little Foxes, Lucy Thurber's Bottom of the World Drifts Downward
The Belgian director Ivo van Hove loves great playwriting. This may tempt those who disliked his previous New York productions to mutter, "Each man kills the thing he loves," but van Hove's passion for the scripts he chooses to animate is clearly both genuine and intense, however misguided you consider his results.
The proof, as shown in his latest work, Lillian Hellman's The Little Foxes (New York Theatre Workshop), is that his choices alter with the material. He's no theory-peddler, racking every play on the same Procrustean bed of abstract notions, nor is he a new-style hack reducing all texts to one set of Eurotrash clichés. In his way, which will never be to everyone's taste, he is only looking for the best means of animating what he finds on the page.
The Little Foxes displays his idea of those means as lucidly as anything he's done. Familiar not only from repeated revivals, but from William Wyler's classic film version and from Marc Blitzstein's "Broadway opera" adaptation, Regina, Hellman's 1939 drama is an intimate, tautly constructed work in the classic "well-made play" form. Like Hedda Gabler and A Streetcar Named Desire, the two greater plays on which van Hove and his leading actress here, Elizabeth Marvel, previously collaborated, Foxes centers on a "wicked" woman, whose destructive actions seem to stem partly from her desperate situation, partly from a long process of being victimized as a woman, and partly from inner drives less easily fathomed.
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In Foxes, the heroine's inner drive manifests itself as greed. Though comfortably off, Regina Giddens (Marvel) has been deprived all her life of her own choices. Now, finally, through a shady deal to exploit the local labor force, she and her brothers have a chance at immense wealth, bringing her freedom of action. Only her ailing banker spouse, Horace (Christopher Evan Welch), stands in their way.
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Hellman's play is all business, a set of deals and counter-deals carried on within the family circle, attended by the deep mixture of love and loathing that Regina and her two siblings, forceful Ben (Marton Csokas) and pusillanimous Oscar (Thomas Jay Ryan), feel for each other. Abetted by Oscar's rascally son, Leo (Nick Westrate), the brothers plot to cut Regina out of the scheme. Further reversals enable her to cut herself back in, at their cost. In the process, Horace dies, Regina irrevocably alienates her daughter, Zan (Cristin Milioti), and every skeleton in the family closet gets a sound rattling. Hellman is emphatic, maybe over-emphatic, about who's good and who's bad in this clan, but she takes pains to give her villains both a credible psychology and an individuality that keeps them from seeming merely malign puppets. Hers is best-quality melodrama, its wider moral applications still relevant today.
And today is where van Hove places it, with no concessions to naturalism, history, or Hellman's stage directions. Jan Versweyveld's set is no Southern mansion but a stark dark-walled box with a white ceiling. A second black box within it stands in for a mantelpiece; the ornate Victorian frame over it contains not a painting but a video screen, on which scenes taking place upstairs are sometimes projected. Instead of a fireplace, under this mantel stands the play's all-important staircase, its use kept to a minimum.
Minimalist music throbs under key moments; familiar contemporary songs (Randy Newman, John Lennon) comment on climaxes. Apart from Horace, white-shirted and barefoot, and Oscar's unhappy wife, Birdie (Tina Benko), in red, nearly everyone wears black. The dialogue is carried on alternately in a casual murmur at the edge of audibility, or in a frenzied shriek. All lines containing the racist N-word, which Hellman's characters use in the casual way of Southerners circa 1900, are shouted. The staging's physicality is brutish: Where Hellman's Oscar slaps Birdie's face once, van Hove's punches her repeatedly in the stomach; Regina shoves Ben up against a wall and pummels him.
This coarsening doesn't actually ruin the play, in part because Hellman constructed it so sturdily, and in part because van Hove has assembled a cast strong enough to capture audience interest even through the crude obviousness of his chosen style. One could easily imagine them playing the piece as Hellman expected to see it, and you may often wish they were doing so. Yet that isn't the whole story. We've learned to expect magic from Marvel, who can build layers of meaning and pathos out of the merest mutter; high-quality work from artists like Welch, Csokas, or Lynda Gravatt as the housekeeper, Addie, is no surprise. But Benko finds unexpected variety inside van Hove's rigid conception of Birdie; Ryan's Oscar has a delicacy new to his range. Clearly, van Hove has found ways to release their creativity. Now if he could only realize that we've long since gotten the points on which he pounds so heavily; we want to see the rest of the play, too. Impressed as I grudgingly am with his results, the review I'd most like to read of his work would be Lillian Hellman's.
Lucy Thurber's Bottom of the World (Atlantic Stage 2) is melodrama, too, less polished than Hellman's and of a more personal kind. A young woman novelist (Jessica Love) has been killed; her half-sister (Crystal A. Dickinson), paralyzed by grief, relives conversations with her, alternating with scenes from the dead woman's just-published novel, in which the semi-siblings' bond has been transposed into the stormy relations of two young men (Brendan Griffin and Brandon J. Dirden) caught up in a love triangle in a rural New England farm town. A subplot graphs the marital tempests of the grieving sister's best friend's parents (Kristin Griffith and Peter Maloney).
Impressive in its ambitions, Thurber's script has many strong passages in what's becoming her signature style: tenderness edged with razor blades. Regrettably, it also has long passages that tread familiar, almost cliché'd, ground while its focus drifts aimlessly among its multiple plots. It needs, and probably deserves, another draft. Caitriona McLaughlin's production struggles to give it shape; as with Little Foxes, the solution often involves pointless screaming.
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NORTHWICH Victoria fans are planning to mark their favourite club's next birthday by inviting former players to an on-pitch party.
A supporters' association team will take on one made up of familiar faces from Vics' recent past in a one-off game at Griffiths Park, in Rudheath, on Sunday, May 18. Kick off is 5pm.
Among those asked to take part are goalkeeper Dean Greygoose, Football Conference North title-winners Chris Williams and Michael Carr, and FA Trophy finalists Derek Ward and Ian Cooke.
Phil Dowd, a match official in the Premier League, will act as referee.
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Arthur Darvill has lent his musical talent to a new play being developed at the Peterborough Key Theatre; reviewing I Heart Peterborough, Mark Pearson said: "The script is backed by music from guitarist Arthur Darvill who loops comforting sounds while strumming a backing line. It has Vampire Weekend's African feel to it at times." [Peterborough Today, 2 Dec 2011]
6'7" actor Spencer Wilding makes his second appearance in Doctor Who this coming Christmas, having previously played the Minotaur in The God Complex. "It's great working with the likes of Matt Smith - he's such a cool Doctor Who. And it's such a great production." [Rhyl Journal, 7 Dec 2011]
TV critic, writer and fan Charlie Brooker discusses if he would write for Doctor Who: "Well if Doctor Who approached you, that's something you'd have to consider, isn't it? That's like getting an invitation to a particular party. That's an interesting one, in that part of the appeal of Doctor Who is that it's so different each week - even though you know you're going to get the Doctor and, broadly speaking, you know he's going to face a foe. But there's a lot of ideas that go on in it and the scenario changes, so there's a lot of room for creating things within it." [Digital Spy, 2 Dec 2011]
In one of those fact-meets-fiction moments, the BBC have announced that news correspondent Huw Edwards will front the 2012 Olympics Opening Ceremony, a role he undertook in the Tenth Doctor Olympic story Fear Her back in 2006! No news on David Tennant lighting the Flame at the Games so far ... [BBC Media Centre, 2 Dec 2011]
Russell T Davies has suspended work on his current television projects in order to look after his partner, who is currently undergoing chemotherapy. "It was a simple decision: he's more important. Showtime was lovely. They were like: your boyfriend needs to get well. The BBC was the same. I don't know when I'll start work again. I've got see how Andrew's health goes." [Pink News, 5 Dec 2011]


text: Dear BMW, Why Did You Retire the S54B32 Engine?Peter Orosz8/25/10 3:30pmFiled to: Engine PornBmwS54B32BMW Straight Sixbmw s54b32bmw enginesBMW M CoupeClown ShoeBMW Clown Shoe3321EditPromoteShare to KinjaToggle Conversation toolsGo to permalink Unable to resist the lure of ever-increasing cylinder counts, BMW stuck a V8 in its current M3. The act marked the beginning of the end for their greatest straight six ever: the S54B32. Advertisement Yes, V8's are wonderful, but truly excellent straight sixes are rarer. Perhaps it's the unwieldy length, perhaps the lack of prestige, but the straight six is on its way out. What makes the S54B32 so wonderful is not the mountain of engineering awards. Not the incredible g's its poor valves must resist at maximum revs. Not the horsepower-to-displacement ratio of a 1960's Formula One car. Advertisement What makes the S54B32 so wonderful is the noise. It's the only engine this side of supercar lunacy that has such a—for lack of a better word—voluminous sound. You'll know it when you're around one when the air around you suddenly fills with this high-grade metallic substance, this gray-blue vapor of noise that fills an S54B32's surroundings with such fearful urgency.What makes this even sadder is that BMW was fully aware of what they had on their hands. Can you imagine any other car company making an ad like this?Showing nothing but the noise of an engine as it races down the rev range.The S54B32 showed up in the very last M Coupés—a.k.a. Clown Shoes—starred in the E46 M3 and played its swan song in the Z4M. You can still buy it new in a Wiesmann, that skeumorph excuse for a British roadster, but you wouldn't want to be seen in one, would you? If you have one, go for a drive. And don't be miserly with the throttle.Reply332 repliesLeave a reply