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This is adapted from a novel written by a German. It was filmed in Spain with a British cast, speaking English to make it acceptable to the International (i.e. American) audience. Unfortunately it was regarded as unmarketable to the Americans.
This is an ugly tale, beautifully told. It is basically a slasher film, told from the killer's perspective. It is not about heroism or redemption.
This is a stage-play brought to life with an all-star cast.
The hero doesn't fight Death, he plays chess with the spectre! Hence the homage in Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey .
This is very contrived, but could have worked if done as a Hammer Horror effort - like Captain Kronos - Vampire Hunter - or a straight-forward fantasty effort ( Krull, Hawk the Slayer ).
The travellers are beset by a Balrog, some CGI wolves and other assorted contrivances from other films.
A knight (Sean Bean - Game Of Thrones ) visits, requesting a guide to a nearby village where the plague has not yet struck. Osmond volunteers, because he knows the knight's route will take him near to where Averill is waiting for him. However, he has gotten out of his depth.
The knight is an Inquisitor. He and his companions, including John Lynch ( ), are going to the village in order to kill the Necromancer who rules it. Yes, much like the test for witchcraft - if you do not drown then you are guilty - they assume that only satan-worshippers will be immune to the plague.
The village is run by Hob (Tim McInnerny - ). A mysterious wise woman ( Carice Van Houten ) lurks in the background, offering assistance. But who is to be trusted?
The movie has an amazing cast, for what it is. Unfortunately it is let down by the poor cinematography. Everything seems to be shot in medium frame, which means we get to see very little of the wild landscape or the impressive medieval village set. A better director could have provided much more impressive visuals, and the complete lack of on-screen spectacle means this disappointing effort is a wasted opportunity.
Amanda Seyfried lives in a medieval European village filled with Canadian actors, including Michael Shanks from Stargate SG-1 and Colonel Tigh from BSG 2003 . But the village is plagued by the plot from The Wolfman .
Inquisitor Gary Oldman ( Lost In Space ) and his heresy-fighting entourage appear, as if they wandered in from Season Of The Witch .
There is no magic in this version, our heroine relies on Girl-power. Leonardo Da Vinci also puts in an appearance.
Alice ( Caterina Scorsone ) is an American judo instructor who lives in modern-day London with her mother ( Teryl Rothery ). Her father went missing years ago, so when her boyfriend gets kidnapped she follows ...
Alice finds herself in a steampunk distopia, where humans use Wonderland nicknames and codenames. Hatter (Andrew Lee Potts - Primeval ) and the Don Quixote-looking White Knight (Matt Frewer - Max Headroom ) help her. The Queen of Hearts ( Kathy Bates ) and the King of Hearts (Colm Meaney - Star Trek: DS9 ) want to capture Alice to get her ring, which controls the magical looking glass. And Resistance leaders Dodo (Tim Curry - Rocky Horror Picture Show ) and Caterpillar (Harry Dean Stanton - Alien ) have their own agendas ...
Although Oz is a shyster with no magical powers, he runs into a trio of powerful witches. Mila Kunis falls in love with him, her sister Rachel Weitz manipulates him, and Michelle Williams straight-out uses him for her own ends. Luckily, Oz is owed a wookie life debt by a flying monkey (Zach Braff - Scrubs).
This may be a Sam Raimi film, but it is also a family-friendly blockbuster. The darker aspects of the script do not go further than anything done by Tim Burton . The 3D SPFX are at their best when the characters are flying around in the air, but otherwise add little to the film. All in all, it might be the best of a clutch of 3-D blockbusters released in Spring 2013, but it is not a terribly memorable film in its own right.
We start with a long-winded exposition on the Witches of Oz stealing the Book of Ultimate Magic from the Wizard (Christopher Lloyd - Back To The Future ). Dorothy Gale steals the book's key, then returns to Kansas. When she grows up she lives in modern day New York City. Frank L Baum never existed, and Dorothy Gale herself is in the process of writing the Oz books!
The Witches come to NYC, looking for the key. This means that the budget is not wasted on Fantasy sets, and is instead spent on talent. Luckily for Dorothy she has three male friends (including Billy Boyd - Lord of the Rings ) to help her out.
In 1844 the Shogun's relative is an evil sonovabitch, and must be stopped before he inherits even greater power. A handful of samurai are hired to assassinate him. The sword-fight that follows is about as long as the climactic gun-battle in John Woo 's Hard Boiled.
Queen Mab ( Miranda Richardson ) is now referred to as The Lady of the Lake, a dumbing-down of the original concept.
The stereotypical characters are present:
In the second two-hour segment of the mini-series, it is up to the Apprentice and his fellow tweenagers to save the folks.
Sinden and his colleagues discover a lost island peopled by Vikings, who have not advanced technologically in a thousand years. The plot then proceeds like a Doug McClure film. They must escape through a volcanic wilderness, while pursued by bloodthirsty Vikings.
Our heroes, nominally Musketeers (who use Muskets), are normally portrayed as expert swordsmen instead. But here they are James Bond type secret agents, with special skills and fancy gadgets. They include a couple of recognisable faces - Porthos (Ray Stevenson - Rome ), Athos (Matthew McFadyen - Robin Hood (2010) ) and Aramis (Luke Evans - Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug ).
There is a great supporting cast - Milady ( Milla Jovovich ), Buckingham (Orlando Bloom - Pirates of the Caribbean ) and Planchet (James Cordon - Lesbian Vampire killers ) are scene-stealers. Seriously, it is that bad. In its defence, the visuals are spectacular - if you like anachronistic pre-steampunk CGI airships blowing things up.
Unlike the book, but in common with most adaptations, we know from the very start that Long John Silver (Eddie Izzard - Mystery Men ) is up to no good. But the gentlemen who help Jim in his quest are also given more characterisation than in any previous version. Dr. Livesey (Daniel Mays - Outcasts ) is cast as a coward. Squire Trelawney (Rupert Penry-Jones - The Strain ) is a money-grubbing and brutal fool. Only good old Captain Smollett (Philip Glenister - Life on Mars ) is allowed any sense of honour or decency, in line with the character in the original book.
In Part 2 of the story our young hero, Jim-Lad, is marooned with cast-away Ben Gunn (Elijah Wood - Lord of the Rings ). Poor Gunn is haunted by memories of Captain Flint (Donald Sutherland - Don't look Now ).
Farmer (Jason Statham - Ghosts of Mars ) is a turnip-loving ... farmer. He is somehow also an expert warrior, with a boomerang and Chinese kung-fu swords (and skills to match). Farmer and his friend Ron Perlman ( Season Of the Witch ) defeat a gang of Orcs who had wiped out the proper army's best men.
Farmer's wife ( Claire Forlani ) and son take the harvest wagon to the town of Stonebridge. Strangely, it has no bridge of any kind. But strange names are the least of this film's problems. Farmer and Perlman go to rescue the damsel, en route encountering Acrobatic tree-nymph Kristanna Lokken .
King Burt and his African-American General lead their army to face the Orcs. The pitched battle takes place in a forest, where cavalry cannot charge and there is too much cover for archers to be effective. Luckily the Orcs are too stupid to hide behind the trees. This leads on to great shots of massed combat, with hundreds of extras in full costume. That said, the inexplicable shots of ninjas somersaulting through the trees are a bit distracting.
No sooner is a new King crowned than he sets off with a motley fellowship of misfits in order to invade the villain's fortress. Yes, he thinks of his kingly duties as an excuse to go on a heroic suicide mission.
Shockingly, this is not as bad as the original film (despite having the same director - Uwe Boll ).
The changes are mostly for the worse, making the story fit the cliches of the modern American movie. Ishmael is now the harpoonist, and Quequeg is merely a token ethnic sidekick. Rachel is Ahab's adopted daughter, a supermodel-type beauty.
The Jabberwock is a monster that prowls the wilderness and eats people. Our hero is Village blacksmith Helo ( BSG 2003, Dollhouse ).
This is a typical Asylum project, with only half a dozen speaking parts and only one recognisable face. But the script is okay, and some of the dialogue actually works!
This effort's portrayal of Vikings has about as much realism as in Pathfinder . But it isn't meant to be a documentary, it's an entertaining enough piece of work.
This film is pure style over substance. The paper-thin plot is merely an excuse for stylish violence with slo-mo, back-lighting and a smoke machine. In one respect this is high-brown fare: the Norse speak their own languages, with English subtitles. Presumably this is the main reason it did not do better financially.
Will the stone-age hunter-gatherers triumph over the strangers who only want to build farmsteads in the New World? Silly question!
Charlton Heston ( Ben Hur ) is the title character, the greatest knight in all of Spain. We follow his life through his dramatic courtship of Sophia Loren , and his noble efforts to avoid the intrigues of the Spanish court. If anything his lack of guile and subtlety makes him a bit annoying. He is portrayed as always doing the right thing, which does not actually make any sense. When the country is split by civil war he turns from one side to another repeatedly, always undermining his friends. But finally, he tries to unite them against the invading Moors �
Despite white-washing El Cid's deeds, this is not a straightforward propaganda piece. There is a group of token good Moors, who are almost as noble as Ed Cid himself. The villain is the Moroccan Emir Herbert Lom.
Longbow archer Robin Longstride (Russell Crowe - Gladiator ) pretends to be a knight, Robert of Loxley. He goes home to the Knight's father, elderly Baron (Max Von Sydow, in a role much like the one he played in Solomon Kane ). He also has to contend with feisty widow-woman ( Cate Blanchett ) who could do worse than the oafish sheriff of Nottingham (Matthew McFadyen - The 3 Musketeers )
Meanwhile, rent-a-villain Mark Strong ( Stardust ) plots to help the French King invade England.
He receives opposition from the local Reverend (Ben Kingsley - Sound of Thunder ), a powerful figure who dominates the film.
This is part comedy of errors, part journey of self-discovery for the Pastor and especially for his wife. There is an undercurrent of magical realism similar to Picnic at Hanging Rock . The magical atmosphere of the Outback, the subtle implication that the artist's models are the seductive sirens of Greek myth ...
After Dorian takes a 25-year tour of the world, he returns to discover that Henry has a Suffragette daughter ( Rebecca Hall ). But Dorian's shame over his magical portrait of sin is so great that he will kill to protect the secret.
This was adapted from the novel The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde . How ironic that Dorian's so-called sins seem to be mere induldgence in non-vanilla sex, when Wilde himself was famously convicted of homosexuality. More recently, the character of Dorian Gray was used as one of the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen .
Victorian stage magician Christian Bale ( Batman, American Psycho ) is on death row, reading the diary of his rival (Hugh Jackman - X-Men ) who describes reading Bale's journal ...
The pair started off as friends, working with Ricky Jay (a magician in X-Files ), Michael Caine ( Man Who Would Be King, Goldmember ) and Piper Perabo . But a tragic event pushes them apart, creating a deadly feud between them. Each seeks to best the other at performing a new trick, The Transported Man. Assistant Scarlet Johanssen , engineer Andy Sirkis ( LOTR, Deathwatch ) and Nikolai Tesla himself (David Bowie - The Hunger ) all play a part.
But in a battle of wits between two master illusionists, what is truth and what is illusion?
The first half introduces our protagonists. Instead of the original hero (Richard Francis Burton, Victorian hero of the British Empire) we get a Yankee astronaut from 2009. He teams up with Alice Liddell ( Emily Lloyd ), who is evidently the brains of the operation. They are enslaved by a Vandal horde led by Kevin Smith ( Xena: Warrior Princess ).
In the second half, Sam Clemens (AKA Mark Twain) faces off against the Emperor Nero. Somehow, Nero has gotten older since he died - and a lot better at sword-fighting and military strategy.
Being force-fed sugary goodness turned Hansel into a diabetic. It also seems to have prematurely aged him, because in real life Jeremy Renner ( Avengers Assemble ) is 15 years older than his supposedly twin sister, Gemma Arterton . Arterton is tougher than one would expect, in a role usually given to the likes of Milla Jovovich . But she does a good job. And she swears more than in any of her mainstream Hollywood roles so far. That said, she did a lot of near-the-knuckle stuff in low-budget Brit thriller Disappearance of Alice Creed a couple of years ago, so her potential should not be underestimated.
A Grand Witch ( Famke Janssen ) has a secret plan.
Writer Christopher McQuarrie and Director Bryan Singer deliver a mediocre CGI-fest. The 3D SPFX are at their best when the characters are swinging around on a giant Beanstalk. But didn't Puss in Boots already do this?
Abe's team include a token good vamp, a shopkeeper (Lloyd from Breakout Kings) and a Token black guy. He marries Scream Queen Mary Elizabeth Winstead , who is stuck with a very unflattering look.
The film misleadingly represents Lincoln as being primarily an Abolitionist (not a Federalist, as he was in reality). Worse, it portrays the Confederates as literally being bloodthirsty vamps.
The problem is that this story is a parody of OTT action films. But it is not even the first of its kind - it imitates Pride and Prejudice and Zombies , which had the decency to admit its own comical intent.
The film cannot seem to make its mind up. Bodies pile up, quite literally - but is this linked to Bathory herself? The overall theme of the film is that she was framed by a rival Aristocrat who wanted to seize her lands.
Dracula is a great swordsman, trained as a Jannisary (during his time as a Royal hostage) and skilled enough to take out several of the Sultan�s best men single-handedly. However, this is not enough. He makes an offer to a murderous vampire (Charles Dance - Game of Thrones ). Drac will have temporary vamp powers for 72 hours, and as long as he does not drink human blood in that time his humanity will return.
Naturally, things go wrong. Drac has to abandon his plan, and falls to darkness. However, he still manages to be the hero of the piece.
The movie is set up for a modern-day sequel, thanks to some Lost -Type exposition about an eternal battle between good and evil.
Someone steals the lightning bolt of Zeus (Sean Bean - Game of Thrones ), who in turn blames Neptune (Kevin McKidd - Rome ). Percy (short for Perseus) is Neptune's illegitimate and unknowing son, who lives in NYC with his mom ( Catherine Keener ) and her slobbish BF (Joe Pantoliano - The Matrix ).
Pierce Brosnan ( The World Is Not Enough ), unconvincingly disguised as a greybeard in a wheelchair, sends Percy to the Demi-Gods's training camp so he can master his gifts. He gets a love interest ( Alexandra Daddario ), a daughter of Athena. But since all Gods are related, thus all Demi-Gods are too ... So he is upholding the ancient Greek tradition of incest.
The teenagers train with metal blades and no tuition - But at least they can heal minor wounds.
The trio (Percy, the babe and the token black guy) go on a quest to find 3 magic pearls to get into the Underworld. They encounter Medusa ( Uma Thurman , who was Aphrodite in Baron Munchausen ). Hades (Steve Coogan - Night At The Museum ) is cast in the villain's role, equating Tartarus with hell. Persephone ( Rosario Dawson ) is a nympho, although the token Satyr is toned down to PG level to make this a kiddie-friendly film.
The studio threw money at this - there is lots of CGI and big-name stars - in the hope it would be the new Harry Potter . But they forgot that Harry Potter was a world-famous International publishing phenomenon before it was a movie. And it had something of a moral centre, while this has none. The post-credits sequence shows the protagonist using his superpowers for personal gain (well, to even a childish score with lethal consequences).
Percy Jackson (Logan Lerman - Noah ) and Annabeth ( Alexandra Daddario ) head off on an unauthorised quest together, along with the Token Black Guy and Percy's clumsy one-eyed brother Tyson. They encounter a few celebrity cameos, such as Yvette Nicole Brown (Community) and Missi Pyle . They get some magical gadgets from Hermes (Nathan Fillion - Firefly ), who can make time for them but not for his own son. They also encounter some monsters that are actually quite impressive, considering they are CGI.
There are some villains who want to use the fleece to revive their ancestor Kronos (Robert Knepper - Stargate: Universe: Season 2 ), King of the Titans, so he can destroy Olympus. This is the ultimate form of teenage rebellion, and the Olympian Gods are a bunch of deadbeat parents who can make time for infinite vengeance but abandon their children on a world plagued by horrible monsters.
There is a violent sub-species of vamp known as the Vampanese, led by Ray Stevenson ( Rome ). They want to start a war and wipe out the vamps.
Eventually Balthazar finds Merlin's sucessor in - where else - modern-day New York City. Unfortunately for him, it is a skinny nerdy kid from a few Judd Apatow films. As the title of the film suggests, there is a compulsory homage to the classic Mickey Mouse cartoon. However, our nerdy hero is genre-blind insofar as he has obviously never seen the cartoon!
Horvath wants to rescue Morgana so they can destroy the world together. He gets a Johnny Rotten-looking sidekick to help him.
In the Holy Land circa 30CE, Israelite Aristocrat Judah Ben-Hur (Charlton Heston - Planet of the Apes, Omega Man, Soylent Green ) is betrayed by his boyhood friend, Messalla (Stephen Boyd - Fantastic Voyage ). Our hero is cast into ignominy as a galley slave, where he serves under Jack Hawkins (Bridge on the River Kwai). In the second act he gets the chance to defeat Messalla in a chariot race. Finally he can return to the Holy Land to help Jesus heal some Lepers. Just in time for the Crucifixion.
The only other film to win this many Oscars was Titanic by James Cameron . It has been said that Cameron didn't necessarily use the BEST tech, just the most expensive. The same can probably be said of Ben Hur. But the difference is, Ben Hur is so SLOW. It drags horribly. The film is three hours long, though the book is under 200 pages. It could have been adapted into a mere 90 minutes. In contrast, Cleopatra Is a similar length of film, but is much better paced.
In the Holy Land circa 30CE, Israelite Aristocrat Judah Ben-Hur (Klaus from Vampire Diaries ) is betrayed by his boyhood friend, Messalla, and anti-Roman Zealot David (Marc Warren - Hogfather ). Our hero is cast into ignominy as a galley slave, while his sister ( Kristen Kreuk ) and mother ( Alex Kingston ) are imprisoned in a leper's cell.
Eventually, our hero gets the chance to defeat Messalla in a chariot race. Kris Holden-Reid ( Lost Girl ) has to be removed from the running first. The race scene was the biggest expenditure of the Charleton Heston version, but this is shot on the cheap for television. The crashes are made more dramatic by the constant use of slo-mo.
Everything is wrapped up just in time for the Crucifixion.
However, this is not just a slam-bash action film like Wyler's version. It is what Wallace's book was supposedly intended to be - a tale of two warring brothers (a metaphor for the American Civil War), put to the plot of The Count of Monte Cristo (a wrongly imprisoned man seeks revenge) and mixed in with some genuine Xian redemption (cue a cameo role for Jesus of Nazareth himself).
There is much about this film that is distracting. The cast are mostly unknowns (except for Nora from How I Met Your Mother), and the maxim of No stars, just talent only works with arthouse films and never with mega-budget blockbusters. The story, as has been pointed out, strays massively from previous versions. However, if watched through until the end it is actually quite a good effort.
This film was the first to feature and Oscar-winning performance from an African-American man. Naturally, it has been condemned as racist because he does not play a violent gun-toting thug! It demands a remake, with Samuel L Jackson as Uncle Remus. I got a bedtime story for ya, child. Get the f*ck to sleep!
8 years later, Valjean and Javert bump into each other. Valjean is a respectable businessman, but Javert begins to suspect him. Valjean could easily escape, but is held back by his compassion for dying prostitute Fantine ( Anne Hathaway ). He promises to care for her daughter, who is being cared for by Sacha Baron Cohen and Helena Bonham Carter (still in character from the OTHER 19th Century musical they did together, Sweeney Todd ).
Over a decade later, the daughter has grown up to be Amanda Seyfried , who falls in love-at-first-sight with a young man. Unfortunately he is indulging in childish rebellion against his bourgeois family, and joins a student revolution. Their only plan is to set up a roadblock in a slum, then shoot any soldiers they can see. Valjean gets dragged into this stupidity, trying to save his foster-daughter's BF. Javert, of course, tries to save his country from the murderous anarchists.
The film has come in for a bit of criticism because of the singing. Virtually all dialogue is sung, not spoken - but in a Musical, that is not a bad thing. The singing was done live on set, not looped in an ADR booth in post-production. Russell Crowe's performance is flat - but that is the kind of person Javert comes across as being. He is dour, unimaginative, and only obeying orders.
The real discovery of the film is Manx actress Samantha Barks , who steals scenes as the second tragic heroine, Eponine. Her part is actually cut down from the stage play, in which she appears as near equal to Fantine. But Ms Barks, despite virtually her only credit being stage performances of this part, acquits herself as an equal of Anne Hathaway.
Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman - Hitch-Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy ) is recruited by Gandalf the Wizard. He joins a dozen Dwarves on their quest to kill a dragon and reclaim their home. En route, they encounter Goblins and other monsters. Lots of stabbings and violent death ensue - but to get a PG-13 rating, there is no blood!
The problem with the story is that it has been overly padded out. This film only takes up the first six chapters of the book, which has been split in three to make it a LOTR-style trilogy. Radaghast the Brown (Sylvester McCoy - Dr Who ) only gets mentioned in passing in the original book. Here, extensive scenes featuring him have been shoe-horned into the story. This pads out the running time, but adds nothing to the actual story. If anything, this added distraction just makes the story drag.
The Dwarves encounter the Wood Elves. The Elf-King (Lee Pace - Pushing Daisies ) is a sociopath, and his son Legolas (Orlando Bloom - Pirates of the Carribean ) insults Gimli's father. Tauriel ( Evangeline Lilly ) is Captain of the Guard, and starts to fall for Kili the Dwarf (Aidan Turner - Being Human ). The Elves barely get a mention in the book, while now they get to do huge cartoonish battle scenes where they wipe out dozens of Orcs.
Gandalf ventures off to meet Radaghast the Brown (Sylvester McCoy - Dr Who ) to fight the Necromancer, who only gets mentioned in the original book. Here, extensive scenes featuring him have been shoe-horned into the story. This pads out the running time, but adds nothing to the actual story. If anything, this added distraction just makes the story drag.
When the Dwarves get to Laketown, Bard (Luke Evans - Three Musketeers ) tries to involve them in his Socialist uprising against the oafish Mayor (Stephen Fry - ). And when they get to the Mountain, Bilbo has to face Smaug (Benedict Cumberbach - Star Trek: Into Darkness ).
Despite there being literally an army of dwarves from the Iron Hills present, the fact that Thorin refuses to abandon his post is made a big deal of. An extra dozen dwarves would hardly turn the tide of battle against thousands of orcs. Likewise, the human mayor�s toadie is treated like a villain for his cowardice. But he can hardly be blamed for staying out of harm�s way - he would be a liability to anyone who fought beside him.
Finally, the Dwarf Champions take on the Orc Champions. Legolas gets to run on stones in mid-air (like Wylie E. Coyote), and the laws of physics are generally ignored. This cartoonishness removes all suspension of disbelief, damaging the film even more.
An evil Wizard (Torin Thatcher - Lost in Space ) curses the Princess. Sinbad and his crew sail off to the wizard's island, where they must fight their way past the giant claymation monsters so they can defeat the Wizard and save the Princess.
They are joined by a feisty princess in a slave-girl outfit. Wow, that's original. But then, Sinbad is not something that should be associated with originality.
The merry men are pursued by a bald-headed necromancer and his sidekick, some kind of leopard-man. Like characters from the 1970s movies.
While the minotaur of the title is an enormous carnivorous CGI Bull, there are plenty of man-beasts for Sinbad and his friends to fight.
A gang of Somali pirates hijack an oil tanker in the Indian Ocean. The shipping company's owner, a descendant of Sinbad, personally takes the ransom to the delivery point.
This then leads Sinbad to encounter CGI monsters, as an updated version of the original movies.


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Yet another outfit from this summer. I figure I need to get them in before it's winter and completely out of place! I really like this top. However, I think the gold buttons might be a little too flashy and I'm thinking about switching them out with white ones. But then I'm afraid if I do that, then the top will look a little plain. Quite the pickle. I guess I'll just have to try it and see! I'll report back on the button change, maybe even with some pictures. That is, if it looks better!


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Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chihuahua
|Archdiocese of Chihuahua
Archidioecesis Chihuahuensis
Arquidiócesis de Chihuahua
Catedral Metropolitana
|Ecclesiastical province
|Province of Chihuahua
|Chihuahua, Chihuahua
|28,565 sq mi (73,980 km2)
- Total
- Catholics
(as of 2006)
1,176,000 (89%)
|Roman Catholic
|Roman Rite
|23 June 1891 (127 years ago)
|Metropolitan Cathedral of the Holy Cross, Our Lady of Regla and St. Francis of Assisi
|Current leadership
|Metropolitan Archbishop
|Constancio Miranda Weckmann
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chihuahua[1][1] (Latin: Archidioecesis Chihuahuensis) is a diocese of the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church in Mexico.
Early history[edit]
Erected in 1891 from the Diocese of Durango,[2] the diocese consisted of the State of Chihuahua in its entirety. The Durango Diocese had been erected in 1620 as the diocese for the entire northern area of New Spain and is considered a mother diocese-Sonora[2], St Louis[3], New Mexico[4][5] and Chihuahua were formed from Durango as population expanded in the 18th and 19th centuries.
Because of the laws promulgated by the liberal government of President Benito Juárez, the Constitution of 1857 and the Mexican Revolution, which, taken together, had the effect of disenfranchising the Catholic clergy and large swaths of Catholic laity, studying for the priesthood became a difficult proposition for candidates in Chihuahua, and, indeed, in all of Mexico. Many of Chihuahuas priests were trained at the seminaries in El Paso, TX, Santa Fe, NM, and Phoenix, AZ. One of them, Fr. Pedro Maldonado was ordained in the Cathedral of El Paso in 1918, martyred in 1937, and canonised by Pope John Paul II in 2000 [6].
The diocese was elevated to the level of Archdiocese on 22 November 1958 by Bl. Pope John XXIII[7], and now is the metropolitan of the following suffragan dioceses within the Ecclesiastical Province of Chihuahua: Ciudad Juárez[8], Cuauhtémoc-Madera[9], Nuevo Casas Grandes[10], Parral[11] and Tarahumara[12]. All of these suffragan dioceses were formed from Chihuahua, and are located within the physical boundaries of the State of Chihuahua.
The archdiocese encompasses 73,956 square kilometers in the center of the state, and as of 2006, contained 1,176,000 Catholics, 59 parishes, 131 priests and 10 permanent deacons.[1] The archepiscopal see is the Metropolitan Cathedral of the Holy Cross, Our Lady of Regla, and St Francis of Assisi.
The Most Reverend Constancio Miranda Weckmann [13] was named by Pope Benedict XVI[14] as archbishop on 29 September 2009, and installed on 19 November 2009, succeeding the Most Reverend José Fernández Arteaga [15], who had retired. Fernández had been appointed archbishop by Bl. Pope John Paul II[16] in 1992; his predecessor, Don Adalberto Almeida y Merino[17], passed from this life on 21 June 2008, at the age of 92 at his home in Colonia Nombre de Dios, Chihuahua.
- José de Jesús Ortíz y Rodríguez [18](10 Jun 1893 Appointed – 16 Sep 1901 Appointed, Archbishop of Guadalajara, Jalisco)†
- Nicolás Pérez Gavilán y Echeverría [19](20 Feb 1902 Appointed – 3 Dec 1919 Died)†
- Antonio Guízar y Valencia [20] (20 Jul 1920 Appointed – 24 Aug 1969 Retired)† *
- Adalberto Almeida y Merino[21] (24 Aug 1969 Appointed – 24 Jun 1991 Retired)†
- José Fernández Arteaga [22] (24 Jun 1991 Appointed – 28 September 2009 Retired)
- Constancio Miranda Weckmann [23](28 September 2009 Appointed – Present)
- Antonio Guízar was the younger brother of St Rafael Guízar Valencia [24].
VIS news release[edit]
The text of the Vatican Information Service news release regarding the appointment of Archbishop Miranda, dated 29 September 2009, reads as follows:
VATICAN CITY, 29 SEP 2009 (VIS) - The Holy Father appointed Bishop Constancio Miranda Weckmann of Atlacomulco, Mexico, as metropolitan archbishop of Chihuahua (area 73,956, population 1,351,777, Catholics 1,205,174, priests 136, permanent deacons 10, religious 226), Mexico. The archbishop-elect was born in Las Cruces, Mexico in 1952, he was ordained a priest in 1977 and consecrated a bishop in 1998. He succeeds Archbishop Jose Fernandez Arteaga, whose resignation from the pastoral care of the same archdiocese the Holy Father accepted, upon having reached the age limit.[25]
- ^ a b "Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chihuahua". Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved November 19, 2009.
- ^ "Archdiocese of Durango". Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney.
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Less than 100 meters from the water's edge, Cabarita Ferry, Marina and swimming pools this property is all about lifestyle. Situated in a prime corner position with east, west and unobstructed north orientation the block is perfectly situated to harness sunshine maximising solar access all year round.
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U.S. airlines, which last year brought in $257 million a day in passenger revenue, have been grounded since Tuesday. The largest carriers already were forecast to lose as much as $2.6 billion this year, a figure that may widen as demand falls. European analysts said British Airways PLC and Deutsche Lufthansa AG also may lower their profit outlooks, and airline shares including Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd. fell in Asia.
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Perfume developer and co-founder of niche fragrance brand Le Labo Edouard Roschi, always had a good brain. But after finishing a rigorous chemistry degree in Switzerland, he didn't fancy going to work as a scientific researcher. He had a creative streak, too, and looked for a job that was sufficiently left-brain/right-brain, leading him to the world of fragrance. "A friend told me about a company [Firmenich] that developed scents and gave me a tour. I found it fascinating to open a little brown bottle that smelled of a freshly cut football field, or another that smelled of hot chocolate. I was amazed by the possibility of capturing such incredible, affective universes in a chemical mixture. That was, I think, my first encounter with perfumes."
Firmenich, where Roschi got his first job after completing 6 months of compulsory Swiss military service, is one of those behind-the-scenes flavour and fragrance developers (for products as varied as floor cleaner, body lotion and fine fragrance) that underpin many of the consumer-facing perfume products on the shop floor. Their work, developing fragrances with 'noses' and discovering new ingredients, whether in laboratory experiments or through exploring territories to find natural sources, is one of the engines of the perfume industry.
Roschi is not a perfumer. He is a perfume developer, which, as he explains, is about defining the creative direction of a fragrance and taking it from kernel of an idea to its neatly packaged place on the shelf of a department store. "We have a clear vision of what our creations will be, but we are not the ones that do the blending. We work directly with perfumers who have had that training and, together, we come up with the mixture we put in the bottle. To make a parallel with the film industry, we are the directors and the perfumer is the director of photography. He or she is the one who is behind the camera, who turns the director's vision into film. The perfumer translates our artistic vision into a chemical recipe."
During his time at Armani, where he met future business partner Fabrice Penot, Roschi honed his skills in creating and bringing new perfumes to market. "He was in charge of developing its niche brands and managing one of the largest franchises, Acqua di Gio, and I was in charge of the Emporio Armani brand. We were developing entire concepts. It starts from identifying the story that you want to share with the clients, to briefing design agencies for the bottle, perfumers for the perfume, imagining how that story can be told to journalists [and] setting it up in points of sale and distribution channels. It starts from nothing; from 'What can I do for this year's launch?' to the production and selling of a bottle that translates that initial vision."
Working at Armani was an essential stepping stone in the development of Roschi's career and creative point of view. "When you first start for a big brand you are not critical, because you are building your expertise and studying the market to see how things are done and why they are done. After a few years you build a critical awareness and only then can you have your own authentic point of view, rather than what someone else has told you is beautiful or cool. It doesn't come that easily; it comes with practice, study and discipline. You reach a point where you know why something is going to be successful."
Roschi and Penot became close during monthly trips to Italy to present ideas to Mr. Armani and, while sharing flights and cabs, began dreaming of launching their own brand. "We became friends and after several years, we decided that we were tired of how things were done at Armani and we said, 'Well, we might have a different story we want to tell' and that's when we started brainstorming ideas. After 4 years of working for Giorgio Armani we decided that it was time to spread our wings and take a leap of faith and tell our own story."
After the pair left, they did not waste time in creating Le Labo as co-founders and co-artistic directors, launching their first store in New York in 2006, a year after they resigned from Armani. They funded the venture themselves, with the help of a few friends who contributed seed money, and in the following decade, during which the brand has grown internationally, received no further investment.
At a time, when the market for niche perfumes was gathering pace, in response to consumer boredom with the big brand scents that defined the 1990s (CK1, Tommy Girl, etcetera), Roschi and Penot spotted a gap in the market for a brand that immersed consumers in the experience of the perfumer's laboratory (hence the, name, Le Labo). Roschi recounts: "What was missing then was the charming and romantic aspect of the perfumer's work, which was overcast by marketing. People were trying to get attention through funky packaging and crazy adverts, but they were forgetting what was extremely sexy and still is today is the perfumer's work — the craftsmanship that's behind the work, and his or her expertise — the ingredients, their origin, the people that pick them, how they picked them how they transformed their vision into a perfume. The whole scenery of a perfumer's lab is very evocative by itself."
Le Labo stores, of which there are now 12, (six in the US, two in London, two in Paris, one in Japan and one in Hong Kong with more in the pipeline), are equipped to compose fragrances for consumers on the spot. "The store looks and functions like a perfumers lab. You can see the perfume model being blended, you can smell the ingredients that are sitting on the shelf, you can see them in their different states. You're welcomed by our lab technicians who are experts in blending and the presence of the perfumer is felt through the setting itself, the beakers and bottles."
Of course, fragrances themselves take years to develop, so what the consumer sees before them in a Le Labo store is not the invention of a perfume, but the mixing of a perfume. "The day-to-day work of a perfumer probably would not interest a lot of people anyway, because it would be like going back to organic chemistry classes. It's a fine balance," said Roschi.
Unusually, he identifies "imperfection" as a key feature of the fragrances that he and Penot devise. "We like to manage — or not manage — imperfection. We like things that are beautiful because they are imperfect. It means rough versus polished and leaving room for something to emerge that's unexpected. It could be surprising, in that you overdose on one ingredient. If there is not enough of a disparity within the ingredients in the perfume, then you can't hang on to it — like with polished vinyl versus a rough piece of wood."


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TIRANA, Albania – Albania has returned home to a heroes' welcome from a European Championship qualifier in Serbia that was abandoned after an Albanian nationalist banner was flown over the stadium, sparking violence between players and fans.
Up to 3,000 flag-waving supporters gathered outside Tirana's airport early Wednesday.
Prime Minister Edi Rama, who is abroad, praised players on his Twitter page for "the pride and joy they gave us."
The referee halted the scoreless Group I match in the 41st minute when a Serbian player grabbed the banner — that carried a map of Albania enlarged to include chunks of all its neighbors — and Albanian players tried to protect it.
Rama is due to visit Belgrade next week, the first by an Albanian prime minister in 68 years.


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The group was greeted by Princess Mia upon their return to New Ryn. The princess asked the group to follow her into her home to discuss something important. Upon entering the home, the group was surprised to see the angelic woman that they had previously spoke to.
The woman, named Cerissa, explained that there was a lot of trouble brewing in the world. She indicated that Princess Mia was correct – the artifact in the old world is dangerously close to being discovered.
The princess once again explained that she felt that the exotic woman on the island was a key component to moving forward. Cerissa agreed, and offered to send the group to the island. The group agreed, and they were whisked away with magic.
The group arrived on the jungle island and quickly began to look about. Gwyll acclimated himself to the land, and was able to determine that there were beasts to the northwest. The group traveled a bit to the south, and then heard what sounded like a large creature moving about.
The group tried to sneak about, and eventually came face-to-face with a massive humanoid creature that wielded a tree as a weapon. After a quick battle, including a moment when Xavian climbed onto the creature's back, and the creature threw Xavian through the air where he crushed into a tree, the party was successful.
The group continued onto the west where they discovered a river. As they attempted to cross the river, humanoid creatures emerged from underneath the water to attack the group. The group was able to defeat the creatures without suffering too much damage.
The group then discovered a magical barrier of some sorts, and decided to follow it around, looking for an opening. As the group traveled further to the north, they came under attack by large serpents that moved quickly through the water. The group was able to defeat the serpents.
As the group was unable to discover any openings in the magical barrier, the group traveled to the north, where they discovered several humanoids. The group engaged the creatures in combat, and the battle wasn't going the group's way.
From behind the group, they heard a loud voice boom out that told them to get inside the barrier. The group strategically retreated back behind the now open magical barrier.
Once inside, the group discovered a very exotic and eccentric woman that had an odd way of speaking. The woman gave information to the group, including the fact that she had the ability to transfer people from the current world to the Old World. One member of the group asked that if they were transferred back to the Old World, wouldn't they be in great danger?
The woman indicated that they would be, which is why the group needs to gather all of their strength in this world, and take all of their allies back into the Old World to help fight against the old enemy there.
The woman also offered a second option – bring her the blood of the brothers, the flesh of the servant, the soul of the weakling. The group decided that they would engage on the first path – gathering allies.
The woman then told the group to ready themselves, and transformed into a large demon-type creature. The group attacked her, and suffered a return attack against themselves whenever they struck her. In addition, their attacks didn't seem to have any effect on the demon.
The group then traveled around to various collections of energy around the area, touching the areas, and if able to withstand the powers, becoming somewhat enhanced. The demon did not seem to attack the group as they ran around gather the energies.
After collecting all three energy sources and feeling capable of now striking the demon, some of the group members attacked them demon. When the demon was struck, it unleashed a blast of incredibly powerful energy that knocked all of the group members down to the ground.
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The woman then presented a couple of options to the group. Travel to the fantadon empire to try to make an alliance with them, or travel to the eqar area to bring more of the tribes under the alliance with New Ryn.
The group indicated that a separate group was traveling to the eqar area, so they decided to have the woman transfer them to the fantadon empire.
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Things To Do in Champagne ValleyChampagne Castle Big Five Hikes
Where? Champagne Castle, Drakensberg, KwaZulu Natal
When? Booking is essential.
How? Call +27 (0)36 468-1063
How much? Price on request
Overnight? Overnight at accommodation in Champagne Valley, in KwaZulu Natal
Start: Champagne Castle Hotel
Finish: Champagne Castle Hotel
Duration: Varies per trail
Fitness: difficult
Our tip: if you want your name on the honours' board in the hotel you'll need to climb all five peaks, but you'll receive a certificate for every peak conquered
Champagne Castle, called such after the bottle of bubbly carried up the mountain by the first people to ascend the peak, that was then accidentally broken, is renowned for five 'big' peak hikes that are at once a mountaineering challenge and a feat.
They are: Matterhorn, Gatberg, Amphlett, Sterkhorn and Champagne Castle (the third highest peak in the 'berg).
At 1 995 metres is the easiest of the hikes, although the route has eroded somewhat. Advantages are that you will be back in time for lunch if you set off at about 9am, and you can do this hike unguided.
Also known as Intunja, or eye of the needle, for the hole through its base, estimated at about 9 metres in diameter. It is one of the most dominent peaks of the Champagne Castle area. Hikers often include this peak on other hikes, like the one to Zulu cave, heading over the back ridge and up Gatberg, before going back down to Monk's Cowl.
Is 2 620 metres high, and a challenge; more of a mountain scramble than a hike.
At 2906 metres, is a demanding climb possible in a day, but regarded more as a rock climb than a hike (more for mountaineers than walkers). The path is eroded initially and not easy to follow, and when it reaches the rocky terrain it peters out completely. Follow the occasional cairn to the top, where you squeeze through a narrow chimney and scale a high rockface before making the summit.
Champagne Castle
At 3377 metres, this is one of the highest peaks in the 'berg. There are various routes to the summit, and the hike usually takes a few days (although the incredibly fit can do it in a day, they do miss out on drinking in the views), but the favoured route is over Gray's Pass.
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Associations in California have four basic options in dealing with delinquent assessments: Inaction, small claims court, non-judicial foreclosure, or judicial foreclosure.
Inaction: The drawbacks of inaction are self-evident. Until the association pursues the debt, most often it will not be collected. Inaction may be not only unfair to the other members who pay their fair share, but could also be a breach of the board's duties.
Small claims court: This method involves no attorneys, and is quick. However, the association can only pursue claims of $2,500 to $5,000 twice a year. After that, it is limited to a maximum of $2,500 per claim. Small claims court can be unpredictable, and often the case is not decided by a judge but by a 'pro tem' volunteer attorney who may know nothing about common interest development law. The results are not appealable if small claims court gives the plaintiff association a bad decision, but the defendant debtor can appeal.
Non-judicial foreclosure: This method involves no attorneys. The association takes away the debtor's property, without court supervision. The foreclosure process involves various notices to the owner and waiting periods, and concludes with the association owning the property. The Association cannot pursue any deficit if the property does not have enough equity to cover the debt.
Judicial foreclosure: This method involves filing a lawsuit. In this lawsuit, the association pursues both ownership of the property (judicial foreclosure) and an award of money damages.
Why is judicial foreclosure more advantageous to your association?In a declining or flat real estate market, the threat of foreclosure is less significant – many properties are 'upside down' with no equity, so members have less reason to pay.
With such powerful reasons to pursue judicial foreclosure, why is this not the primary method of choice by California's 45,000 common interest developments? There are two reasons, and each is addressed by the ROcollect program.
The first is the fear of unlimited attorney fees, and the second is the normal law firm practice of billing on an ongoing basis for services.
The ROcollect program mitigates the major concerns which inhibit associations from pursuing the most advantageous remedy.
What about those cases where the homeowner retains counsel and countersues? Does that prove the judicial approach is more expensive? No, because those members would have retained counsel to sue to attempt to stop the foreclosure anyway' and normally in that scenario they sue not only the association but the manager and the foreclosure company.
When attorney fees are deferred and can be kept controlled, judicial foreclosure is the clear choice.
The ROcollect approach is judicial foreclosure, supervised by the lawyers at Richardson Ober PC, one of the state's top common interest development law firms.Once an association engages the ROcollect program, its matters are assigned to a Collection Manager, who monitors the progress of a file from beginning to end, and who is the primary point of contact for questions which are not of a legal nature. Questions of a legal nature are handled by the Richardson Ober PC attorney advising your association.
The process begins most efficiently through use of ROcollect.com, a web site devoted to the management of your collection matters. New delinquency matters are quickly and easily uploaded through the web site, and are immediately electronically forwarded to the designated Collection Manager supervising your association's matters.
Once the matter is referred to Richardson Ober PC for handling, authorized persons in the association (often the manager and one or two directors) may at any time check the progress of any collection matter, and through a simple process retrieve a status report on each and every open file. Copies of any document created during the collection process are easily retrieved and printed by any authorized user. The effect is that the client has '24/7′ access to its file.
When a matter reaches the point of judgment or foreclosure motion, the association has the benefit of Richardson Ober PC attorney advice on the association's options.
When the matter results in payment to the association, the funds are placed in the firm client trust account. No funds are disbursed until the client has in writing authorized the release of the association funds, as well as Richardson Ober PC fees. Of course, the late fees and interest are the association's, not the law firms.
Myth #1. 'It takes longer'. This is not true. Most matters are uncontested, and the uncontested judicial foreclosure takes about the same time as the normal non-judicial foreclosure process. In fact, once the lawsuit papers are served, the delinquent owner only has 30 days to respond, or default judgment papers can be filed.
Myth #2. 'Far too expensive'. Again, not necessarily true, and certainly not true with ROcollect. Some law firms do treat assessment collection cases as if they were normal business lawsuits, and 'run the meter'. If the law firm is not extremely efficient in its handling of the files, its fees will be more. However, if the law firm works on high efficiency, it can charge much less for the work. Further, if, as with ROcollect, most of the fees are task-based, the cost for most of the tasks are capped by the nature of the fixed task-based fee.
Myth #3. 'We can't afford to pursue these claims'. This is a myth. Judicial foreclosure by a highly efficient law firm should cost about the same as a non-judicial matter.
Myth #4. 'We will have to pay each month'. Not true. With ROcollect, the fees are deferred to when the owner pays, or when a judgment is obtained from the court (whichever is first).
Myth #5. 'I cannot get status reports when I need them'. Perhaps this is true with some assessment collection companies. Using ROcollect.com, status reports are constantly available — and can be created by the client or manager with about three mouse clicks. The status reports can then be printed, or simply e-mailed to the Board.
Try Richardson Ober PC and ROcollect, and see for yourself the advantages.
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New Medical Device Tax is pushing manufacturers to lay off employees…but, it may only be temporary.
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The Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) was designed to ensure that it would not add to the national deficit. In order to expand health care coverage to 27 million Americans while not adding to the nation's deficit, revenue enhancements were designed within the ACA in order to meet those increased expenditures. To accomplish this task, the ACA set forth to reduce medicare payments and apply new/increased taxes on industries that would benefit from the health care expansion: hospitals, health insurance providers and manufacturers of medical devices.
Beginning in 2013, medical device manufacturers are imposed a 2.3% excise tax on the sale of any taxable medical device manufactured or imported (exemptions are made to devices that retail for less than $100 in addition to other designated devices: eyeglasses, hearing aids and other devices that are generally purchased at retail by individuals).
The imposition of a 2.3% excise tax has been a contentious issue (especially among the medical device lobbying groups) as the fears associated with the excise tax would lead to off-shoring of medical device manufacturing, would limit research and innovation and lead to increased prices shifted to the consumer to cover the additional cost of manufacturing.
The fear surrounding the excise tax providing businesses an incentive to move their manufacturing off-shore does not seem to be a credible threat. The excise tax applies to imported manufactured medical devices in addition to devices manufactured domestically. The only incentive that could be credible to move production off-shore would be in relation to the associated labor costs overseas. The excise tax actually instead provides an incentive for medical device manufacturing to remain domestically as the excise tax does not apply to exported medical devices.
The fear the excise tax would retard medical device innovation as well seems to be not as credible as a threat as may have been promoted. Currently, the innovative research arm of medical device production has been in a rut for the past few years (so has big pharma as well). The rationale for this "rut" as it were is not one associated with new taxes or a regulatory climate, but instead is a self inflicted type of slowed innovation in the market. Innovations in the medical device market have been negligible to small changes to existing devices as investments in R&D have not yielded substantial results. To the contrary, new regulatory conditions established by the ACA in fact may provide incentive or competitive pressure for medical device manufacturers to invest and produce innovations as Government pressures to lower cost of health care.
A third concern deals with "cost shifting" in which the 2.3% excise tax will force manufacturers to pass on those additional cost to consumers through the prices of associated medical devices. While the concern is probable, the medical device market is highly competitive and there is a great deal of manufacturers that compete with one another to provide medical devices. Therefore, medical devices that are applicable to the medical device excise tax are highly sensitive to price; in order to remain competitive in the market, manufacturers will more than likely be unable to fully pass on the 2.3% excise tax on to consumers as other manufactures could then undercut the cost of the manufacture that decides to "cost shift". Treatment for health conditions is elective and physicians can select alternative treatment methods for patients. If shifting the excise tax on to consumers is pursued and results in significantly increased prices for produced medical devices than consumers and physicians can elect to pursue other treatment options and forgo selection of the medical device that may have been used in the treatment.
Given these three concerns, one additional concern should be highlighted. As the 2.3% excise tax can increase the cost of production for a medical device manufacturer and medical devices are price sensitive in the highly competitive market, manufactures can elect to reduce other associated cost in the manufacturing process such as labor.
Stryker Corps. a medical device manufacturer based in Colorado announced in 2011 that it would move forward with reducing its workforce by 5% (estimated at 1,000 positions) and finish the layoffs by the end of 2012. Stryker's CEO stated that the layoffs were in direct relation to the imposed cost of the medical device excise tax of 2.3%. Stryker estimated that the 2.3% medical device excise tax would cost the manufacturer over $100 Million in owed taxes to the Federal Government. Due to the highly competitive nature of the medical device market and the associated price sensitivity of manufactured devices, Stryker opted instead to reduce other associated cost in its production; in this case, that cost was labor.
Pat Stryker and Jon Stryker are the owners of Stryker Corp. who inherited the business from their father Homer Stryker who was an accomplished surgeon and founder of the company. Pat and Jon are major Democratic party contributors; Pat donated $175,100 to pro Obama super PAC and Democratic candidates including Obama. Jon donated $2,066,000 to Democratic super PAC and Democratic candidates. Though Pat and Jon are owners of Stryker Corps. they are not involved in the operations of the company.
Though Stryker Corps. reduced 5% of its global workforce as a result of the medical device excise tax, analysts state that the expansion of health care to 27 million Americans under the ACA will greatly benefit those industries involved in health care. The medical device manufacturing industry (as a whole) reports annual sales of $106 Billion to $116 Billion annually. Those sales are expected to grow as more individuals have access to healthcare and will need associated health needs including medical devices.
The ACA has not fully gone into affect, two weeks from now the open exchanges (where individuals can compare health care plans and purchase health care from across the nation among a wide variety of providers) will go into affect and the individual mandate will begin in 2014 followed by the employer mandate in 2015. By this time, the ACA will be in full effect and millions of new individuals will be a part of the health care market.
The Stryker Corps. layoffs may have happened relatively early before full implementation of the ACA, but given the likelihood of increases in medical related industries those jobs could return in addition to even more given the demand for medical devices when 27 million more individuals are seeking medical care.
Courtesy of The Colorado Observer
Courtesy of American's for Tax Reform
Courtesy of The Center for Budget and Policy Priorities
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So if you're interested in embarking on your own freelance writing adventures, or if you're merely interested in reading about the inconveniences and hardships of the career path in order to bolster your already-immense admiration for me, keep in mind that:
Before I embarked on a freelance writing career, I specialized in writing exactly two things: fiction and snarky blog posts. That's about it. Now, how much of a paying, for-hire market do you suppose there is for either of those things?
If you answered with hysterical laughter followed by gentle sobbing, you're right!
"But wait!" you shout, because you're obviously very passionate about this topic, "what about ghostwriting?" Sure, fiction ghostwriting exists, but it's not what you expect - there's no "write an awesome fantasy novel and reap the sweet, sweet benefits when your wealthy patron gets it published". Almost every listing you'll ever see for a freelance fiction writing job goes something like this:
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Even those jobs are few and far between; should you actually accept one, you'll become the poster's personal writer on a string. You'll be expected to take the half-baked "Japanese teenagers trapped in a love dodecahedron" idea you were handed and hammer out a coherent plot, while simultaneously fielding all the suggestions, ideas, changes, character descriptions, edits and embellishments that are emailed to you around the clock. Even if you pull it off and create a literary masterpiece, you may find yourself the target of the poster's wrath when they realize that publishers won't touch ghostwritten fiction with a generously long pole.
Let's say you're getting $8.00 to write a 400-word article, and you can type 60 words per minute. Even if you take five minutes to plan the article and two minutes to sit around and fantasize about the day that Alan Rickman will burst through your door to take you away from this provincial life, you should be able to crank out articles quickly enough to earn yourself a decent living... right?
You are stuck in a catch-22 before you even start.
If you've ever searched for any kind of gainful employment at any point in your life, you already know this one - to get a job, you need experience, and to get experience, you need a job. That's especially true of writers. As a freelance writer, your entire career hinges on your reputation - when you're competing with dozens of other writers, it's tough to convince an employer to hire you if they've never heard of you and don't know anything about you.
Freelance writing careers can be fickle; sometimes, you'll finish off all of your existing jobs and just won't be able to find another right away. Freelance work has a very high turnover rate; your joblessness may last a few hours, a few days, or longer. Unfortunately, you've got cat food and internet porn bills to pay, and you might not be able to afford to just sit at your computer in your underwear for a few days, waiting for work to come along. Well, there is steady work out there, but you're not going to like it.
If you've flipped on a news broadcast on any slow news day, you might have learned that the only thing bigger than mommy and daddy's dream of seeing junior go off to Harvard is mommy and daddy's bank account.
The 'essay writer for hire' business is booming, as students from middle school to the late years of PhD programs discover the joys of cheating to get ahead. And since teachers don't seem to find it at all suspicious that students who have to sound out the tricky words in class can suddenly write like James Joyce, the trend shows no signs of slowing down. For a freelance writer, it's tempting. The work is easy and decent-paying; all you really need is a copy of The Catcher in the Rye and you can make yourself a comfortable living by joining an essay mill or going it alone. All you need is a feeble conscience and a little disclaimer saying that students really shouldn't hand in your products to their teachers, because gosh, that's not very honest, and you can pretend that your work isn't morally questionable.
Now the big question is, have I ever done a student's homework for money? I don't think I have, but I can't be sure. Remember, freelance job boards are filled with everything from tech start-ups looking for someone to write their blog posts, to wealthy old perverts looking for custom Blues Clues erotic fanfiction. You can't always be certain who you're really writing for. Sure, that article on obsessive compulsive disorder might be for a mental health website, or it might get handed in as homework to a college professor. It's not always easy to tell.
You might work for terrible people.
I need to put a preface on this section: I've been very lucky in my freelance writing career, and thus far, all of my clients have been professional, courteous, and upstanding. I don't have any personal horror stories to tell. My freelancing friends, however, have not been so lucky.
The worst kind of client is one who straight up rips you off. You slave over a project for hours or days, making sure that every phrase is worded properly and every bit of punctuation is in the right place. You turn that sucker in and wait for your payment, but it never arrives. Weeks pass, your emails to the client go unanswered, and all the other contact information you were given turns out to be fake. You've been duped. These clients are awful, but fortunately, they're easy to avoid. Scam artists prey on the 'Golly gee, mister, you want to pay little ol' me to write? This is a dream come true!' mentality that makes beginners too timid to make demands of their clients. Here's a demand you should always be making: use an Escrow service. Escrow services - which are built in features of most freelancing job boards like Elance - act as an impartial third party to your transaction. The client gives your pay to the service before the job starts, and when you show the service that the job is finished, they release the money to you. Yes, they take a small percentage for themselves, but it's not a lot to pay for peace of mind.
You've fallen victim to a middleman. There are a surprising number of groups and individuals out there who seem to sustain themselves solely by taking on high-paying jobs from clients and then outsourcing them to other, lower-paid writers and keeping the difference. It's despicable, and the real client has no idea that only half of their money is going to the person who really wrote their articles, while the rest gets pocketed by some random jackass who may or may not actually know how to write.


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US President Barack Obama has asked the Syrian Government to stop repressing its citizens, after at least 170 people were killed in three weeks of pro-democracy protests that has shaken the regime of President Bashar Assad.
Asking the regime to listen to the voices of its people who are calling for meaningful political and economic reforms, Obama said, "Until now, the Syrian government has not addressed the legitimate aspirations of the Syrian people. More