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Leaving was the hardest thing I've ever done
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ObamaCare: The Neutron Bomb That Will Decimate Employment
ObamaCare will act as a neutron bomb on employment in the U.S. for two basic reasons.
Longtime readers know I have repeatedly explained why healthcare, i.e. sickcare, will bankrupt the nation. Here are two of the dozens of entries I've written on sickcare:
America's Hidden 8% VAT: Sickcare (May 10, 2012)
Can Chronic Ill-Health Bring Down Great Nations? Yes It Can, Yes It Will (November 23, 2011)
I have also explained why ObamaCare's "fixes" are simulacra reforms that don't even address the systemic costs arising from the cartel-fiefdom structure of sickcare:
Why "Healthcare Reform" Is Not Reform, Part I (December 28, 2009)
Why "Healthcare Reform" Is Not Reform, Part II (December 29, 2009)
Sickcare is unsustainable for a number of interlocking reasons: defensive medicine in response to a broken malpractice system; opaque pricing; quasi-monopolies/cartels; systemic disconnect of health from food, diet and fitness; fraud and paperwork consume at least 40% of all sickcare funds; fee-for-service in a cartel system; employers being responsible for healthcare, and a fundamental absence of competition and transparency.
Please glance at these charts to see how the U.S. healthcare costs are double those of competing nations on a per capita basis. Japan provides care for a mere 36% per person of what the U.S. spends--yet millions of Americans remain uninsured or underinsured.
If you set out to design a corrupt, inefficient, wasteful, unfair, deranged and unreformable system, you would arrive at U.S. healthcare.
Sickcare ignores the structural causes of our ill-health:
86% of Workers Are Obese or Have Other Health Issue Just 1 in 7 U.S. workers is of normal weight without a chronic health problem.
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), i.e. ObamaCare, is a neutron bomb for employment. A neutron bomb is an enhanced-radiation thermonuclear weapon that famously leaves buildings, autos, etc. intact but kills all the people, even those inside buildings, vehicles, etc.
ObamaCare will act as a neutron bomb on employment in the U.S. for two basic reasons:
1. It is immensely complex, and already-marginalized small business owners will shed employees or simply close rather than have to figure out what all those thousands of pages of regulations and statutes mean to the survival of their business.
2. ObamaCare's primary mechanisms of lowering costs, insurance exchanges and technocratic selection of "best care practices," do nothing to change the systemic flaws of sickcare.
Many other commentators have already outlined how ObamaCare is driving employers to replace fulltime workers with part-time workers to avoid having to pay outrageously expensive monthly healthcare insurance premiums. In this sense, the ObamaCare neutron bomb is already decimating fulltime employment.
I see this response as a Corporate-America strategy. Corporate America has the human resources infrastructure and financial heft to figure out compliance and exploit loopholes in the insanely complex law. Small business has neither the infrastructure nor the financial resources. Small business owners will rely on the same cartels that are currently providing insurance for guidance, and of course the ObamaCare offerings will suit the financial needs of sickcare cartels.
Once small business owners see the costs of their options, some may opt to pay the penalties and others may follow the corporate strategy of turning each fulltime job into two part-time jobs to avoid paying for coverage or penalties, but many will choose instead to call it quits: either downsize to a one-person/one-household business with no employees at all, or sell/close the enterprise and escape the burdens.
What the lobbyists and attorneys who wrote the Obamacare monstrosity do not understand (because they have no exposure to or experience in the real economy) is the fragility of most small businesses: costs keep rising but revenues are stagnant. The mental and financial stresses keep rising, and ObamaCare does nothing to mitigate either source of stress.
The inside-the-Beltway types who crafted this mess have no idea of the pressures facing legitimate (non-black-market) business in America, corporate and small business alike.
ObamaCare offers even more incentives for Corporate America to offshore operations, and it provides powerful incentives to millions of marginal small businesses to shut down or shed all employees.
I am not alone in simply not wanting to waste the time, money and energy required to understand the new law and its various impacts on my business. We will cling to our already insanely expensive private healthcare insurance, which by the way has been grandfathered in: new self-employed entrepreneurs won't be able to buy the absurdly costly policy we have--they will be offered a range of even worse deals, with higher costs and less coverage.
The neutron bomb has gone off, unseen by politicos and the Elites who wrote the bill. It is already decimating fulltime employment, and it will soon add momentum to the free-fall erosion of small business growth and employment.
The strip malls and office parks will still be standing; there just won't be many employees in them.
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The Democrats are terribly worried about their ability to gain the 60 votes required for cloture in order to vote for passage of their health plan in the Senate. There are many of us, particularly on the Progressive side, who see the benefits of bringing the bill to the floor regardless of the pre-vote count and let the speeches begin!
The Republicans are griping that discussions regarding the content of the bill have not been open and transparent as promised by Candidate Obama. Committees have had meetings and administration officials have consulted experts in closed-door sessions. Now it is time for the "transparency" for which they pine.
Those bills should be brought to the floor in the state prepared by the respective committees and then allow the floor debates to be aired on C-Span. The benefits for the American people will be enormous. There in all their splendor will stand various and assorted "statesmen" in the very act of speaking for the people of their own states and giving their reasons for the direction of their impending vote.
Allow all the seniors who have been told that their benefits would be threatened by the passage of these measures understand precisely what is in the proposed legislation. Let them know without a doubt that there is no provision for "unplugging Granny."
Allow the unemployed heads of households to watch C-Span as they attempt to pay the family bills with not quite enough money while they worry about the cough that awoke them during the night. They live daily with the fear of yet another doctor's bill which could cost them their homes and force them to seek shelter elsewhere.
Allow the low-income worker who is suffering from an ache or an intermittent pain who dares not go to the doctor to have it checked out because of the high deductible required by his employer's decision to cut the coverage to save on expenses. These things may not generate enough pressure against the nay-sayers but it will certainly be remembered by the voters in each and every district next November.
Then let them stand before the final Court of the land. the people, whom they vowed to represent in the Halls of Congress and try to persuade them that the reasons they gave their fellow solons were for the good of the listeners. We have seen the Tea Baggers and the other manipulated minions of the Right with their prepared talking points. Now let the "public advocates" explain the facts to their fellow legislators and the angry voters why they should vote on their behalf rather than for the insurance companies who have filled the campaign coffers with all those lovely dollars.
"We, the people" have limited opportunity to make our needs felt and to offer direction to our representatives in Congress. The next chance for us to speak with authority will be next year. Let us really witness the performance of those who were elected to represent us and then to determine whether they have done it properly or whether some changes need to be made. That decision will only be made easier if we are allowed to see their performance in their own arena.
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News Analysis: Gloves come off as general election approaches
State and local election officials butt heads over variety of issues
With only 75 days until the November 6, 2012 General Election, more and more news stories are focusing on the increasingly contentious nature of the administration of that election — especially between state and local officials.
From voter purges to early voting to a general lack of confidence, state election officials seem to be clashing with local elections administrators on a more frequent basis as summer turns to fall.
Interestingly enough — or not — most of these state/local clashes have occurred in swing states.
One of the more high profile instances has been in Florida, where Gov. Rick Scott recently threated to remove from office Monroe County Supervisor of Elections Harry Sawyer for Sawyer's failure to agree with the state's early voting law.
Scott and several elections supervisor butted heads over the state's plans to review information from the U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security and purge voter rolls of potential non-citizens, but it never reached the height that it has over early voting.
The administration is attempting to get all counties, including five covered by the Voting Rights Act to offer eight, 12-hour days of early voting. Four of the counties agreed to the change in early voting, but Monroe did not.
"What I told them is that the days are more important than the hours," Sawyer, who has held the post for 24 years, told The Miami Herald.
According to the paper, in every election in the Keys, Sawyer said, early voting participation has increased. "It's working for us," he said. "I told them, if it's not broke, don't fix it."
In a statement released by his office, Scott said he is willing to ""take all necessary and appropriate action to ensure that the laws are faithfully executed, that supervisors are fulfilling their duties, and that the voters of this state have free and fair elections."
"He is trying to intimidate me. There's no doubt about it," Sawyer told the Herald/Times. "As of right now, this law (mandating eight days of early voting) has not been pre-cleared (in Monroe). He is going to have to wait just like the rest of us. His statement is inappropriate at this point."
On Wednesday, the state's Democrat Party accused Scott of bullying Sawyer—a Republican.
"At this point, the only person doing precisely what he's supposed to do is the Monroe County supervisor of elections," State Senator Dan Gelber told the News-Press.
Early voting is at the heart of the battle in Ohio as well where late last week Secretary of State Jon Husted suspended two Democrats from the Montgomery County board of elections for failing to comply with his directive make uniform early voting hours throughout the state.
After Democrats Thomas Ritchie Sr. and Dennis Lieberman voted to extend early voting hours beyond the state mandate, Husted, a Republican, sent the Democrats a letter saying in part:
"You therefore leave me no choice but to begin the process necessary to remove you as members of the Montgomery County Board of Elections."
Ritchie and Lieberman appeared at a hearing on Monday in attempt to stop their firing.
"To have board members in the context of a forced meeting that would violate the Sunshine Law, and requiring the board members to do essentially something that is unlawful, and penalizing them because they didn't do what you wanted them to do in this unlawful meeting is something that just doesn't seem to smell right," attorney Don McTigue argued before hearing officer Jon Allison.
Allison said he hopes to make his recommendation by the end of this week.
In Colorado, Secretary of State Scott Gessler recently issued a report giving Teller County Clerk JJ Jamison a "no confidence" evaluation. In response to his report, Gessler assigned former Arapahoe County Deputy Clerk of Elections Al Davidson to assist Jamison and her staff.
According to the Colorado Springs Gazette, Gessler's spokesperson said the secretary decided Jamison "needs additional help from a seasoned elections administrator."
"Al (Davidson) is there on our behalf," Rich Coolidge told the paper. "The secretary has mandated that he be our official election observer."
Arkansas clerks are fighting mad over comments made by Secretary of State Mark Martin's spokesman Alex Reed who, according to the El Dorado News-Times told a partisan group in Union County that he believes illegal immigrants are able to register and vote in part because of apathetic county clerks.
Reed, who said he was speaking to the group on his own time and not in an official capacity, is active in the state's GOP politics and a party delegate.
Following Reed's comments, the Arkansas Association of County Clerks (AACC) polled its members and found no problems with undocumented immigrants registering and voting in The Natural State.
"[R]ather than simply reacting in the heat of the moment to these comments, we thought it would be in the best interest of Arkansas taxpayers to have a conversation statewide among county clerks," Rhonda Cole, AACC president and Clark County clerk said in a statement from the group. "In doing so, we found no evidence of illegal immigrants registering to vote."
Pulaski County Clerk Larry Crane took it a step further saying that he and other clerks are owed an apology.
"I think that an apology is probably due to all of my employees, to all of the people that work so hard to make this process work, to all of the election officials that are part of it," Crane told Arkansas Matters.
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The Senate stood up Thursday for the honor of America's top commander in Iraq – with a few notable exceptions. New York Sens. Hillary Clinton and Chuck Schumer among them.
The vote was 72-25 on a resolution to "strongly condemn personal attacks on the honor and integrity of Gen. Petraeus and all members of the United States Armed Forces."
Supporting such a resolution would seem like a no-brainer – especially for someone like Clinton, who's asking voters to trust her as commander-in-chief.
Unfortunately for her, the attacks in question come from the influential far-left activist machine of MoveOn.org, which recently took out a full-page ad in The New York Times calling Petraeus a liar and a traitor.
It was a baseless smear against a brave and honorable soldier, and Clinton should have said so from the start.
Why didn't she? Let's just say that MoveOn isn't the kind of group you want to cross when you're trying to win Democratic primaries.
Other Dem White House hopefuls faced a similar dilemma. Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) also voted against the resolution; Barack Obama (D-Ill.) and Joe Biden (D-Del.) were two of the three senators to skip the vote.
How pathetic.
Schumer is chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, which raises funds for Democratic candidates in Senate races. No surprise, then, that he's not about to cross MoveOn's powerful donor base.
The Dems' public line, of course, is that the resolution itself was a distraction from the serious business of the Senate.
But it's MoveOn's influence within the Senate's majority party that makes the ad such a grave matter in the first place.
MoveOn, after all, is no dime-a-dozen fringe outfit. With 3.2 million members and deep pockets, it famously boasted after the 2006 election that it had just "bought" the Democratic Party.
So when such a group calls a man who's risked his life and career for the American people "General Betray Us," Senate Democrats have a duty to respond.
That neither Clinton, Schumer nor any of the Democratic presidential contenders could bring themselves to do that is a disgrace.


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- In addition, May Sarton: Among the Usual Days: A Portrait, Edited by Susan Sherman, ©1993 contains excerpts from many of May's letters.
I was very fortunate to be one who received mail from May. I wrote Ms. Sarton a fan letter after reading Plant Dreaming Deep in l971. She replied by postcard. That postcard and that book started me on a marvelous journey as a photographer and as a person. I will always treasure all the letters and postcards she wrote to me over 25 or so years.
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Fantasy Baseball Draft Prep: Deep League Sleepers
The definition of a reach is to pay for stats that a player has never been able to put up before. Why pay for Mike Stanton like he's going to hit 40 home runs? Even if he does hit 40, you received no extra value because that's what you paid for. It's not likely he will exceed those expectations, and if he under performs you made a bad investment.
Even if it's not smart, it's always fun to reach on a few players. Everyone has their favorite guys, their sleepers. While you probably can't lose your league by taking a shot on someone late in the draft that doesn't pan out, you can certainly help win it.
Here is my list of deep sleepers, guys ranked outside of ESPN's top 300.
Kila Ka'aihue, 1B, KC
Here is this year's Nelson Cruz, without the stolen bases. Slapped with the same AAA label as Cruz was 3 years ago, I see big things for Ka'aihue in 2011. He crushed AAA pitching in his 323 minor league at-bats in 2010 (.319/67/24/78/1.060).
His 2010 big-league numbers weren't very impressive in 180 at bats (.217/22/8/25/.702), but a .231 BAbip points to a lot of bad luck. Ka'aihue heated up in 92 September/October at bats (.261/15/6/18/.878). Extrapolate that over 550 at bats and you're looking at a very useful line of .261/90/36/108/.878 for somebody that you will be able to get in the last round of most standard mixed-league drafts.
Ka'aihue is hitting .424 with 4 HRs and 10 RBIs thus far in 33 Cactus League at-bats. He is slated to hit cleanup for the Royals, which should mean great counting stats as long as his average is respectable.
Will Venable, OF, SD
I love power/speed combo guys, and Venable fits that mold. The 28 year old hit 13 home runs and stole 29 bases in 392 at bats in 2010. He is a poor man's Shane Victorino. Venable is San Diego's starting right fielder and could approach 600 at bats. Based on last year's numbers, 600 at bats would give Venable a 20/40 season. He will hurt your batting average, however. His career average is only .252 but you can live with that, even if you get a 15/30 season from him.
Venable is hitting .292 with a home run and 2 stolen bases so far in 24 at-bats this spring. Who knows, maybe he can bring his average up around .275 this year. That would no doubt make him a top-50 roto outfielder.
Mike Morse, OF, WAS
Morse had an under the radar, breakout 2010. In 288 at bats he homered 15 times and drove in 41 runs while hitting .289 and slugging .519. Morse would be getting a lot more attention if he didn't play in Washington. He will be hitting in a lineup that is a lot better than it has been. The lineup boasts young hopefuls Ian Desmond and Roger Bernadina along with veterans Ryan Zimmerman, Jayson Werth, and Adam LaRoche. If Morse can hit in the middle of that lineup he will be an extremely valuable (and cheap) fantasy asset.
Morse is competing with Roger Bernadina for the team's LF job this spring, but Jim Riggleman said that if the season ended today the job would be Morse's. He has 5 home runs with 11 RBIs and a .429 average in 35 at-bats.
Chipper Jones, 3B, ATL
Sure, Chipper is coming off major knee surgery and is 38 years old, but he is still Atlanta's 3-hole hitter. Even though his power is mostly gone, he should still score a lot of runs and have a lot of RBI opportunities. He is in the middle of a lineup that includes Martin Prado, Brian McCann, Dan Uggla and Jason Heyward so he is bound to have some fantasy value as long as his batting average is respectable. We all know his injury history, though, so you should expect no more than 125 games played from Chipper in 2011.
Chipper is doing well so far this spring. He is hitting .375 and slugging .650 so far in 40 at-bats. He has 2 home runs, 5 doubles, and 9 RBIs.
You will likely be mocked if you take Jones, but he's not a bad guy to have to fill in on Mondays and Thursdays when some teams have the day off. He can also be a nice injury fill-in at a very scarce position.
Mike Minor, SP, ATL
Minor, the 7th overall pick of the 2009 draft out of Vanderbilt, got out of the gate fast after his August call-up in 2010. In his first 4 starts he went 3-0 with 26 K's in 23 innings, including a 12 strikeout performance against the Cubs. After a strong start, Minor appeared to be pitching on fumes down the stretch. His ERA ballooned up to 5.98 and he finished with a 1.57 WHIP. A ridiculous .396 BAbip played a major factor in his disappointing finish.
Minor flew through the Braves' system, pitching just 21 games between AA and AAA, posting a 3.44 ERA, a 1.16 WHIP and 146 Ks in 120.1 innings. Minor is competing with Brandon Beachy for the fifth spot in the Braves' rotation, but he has the pedigree and the upside to win the job. Also in his favor is the fact that the Braves are lacking a southpaw in their rotation and that is something they desperately need.
So far this spring Minor has given up just one run in 10 innings. He has a 1.10 WHIP with 7 strikeouts and is holding hitters to a .189 average. I'll put my money on Minor winning the job.
Jonathon Niese, SP, NYM
After a rough start, the lefty had a terrific middle of the season. In 10 June/July starts, Niese posted a 2.58 ERA and a 1.10 WHIP with 51 strikeouts in 66.2 innings of work. Niese battled with fatigue down the stretch and the rookie ended up with a 4.20 ERA, a 1.46 WHIP, and a 7.7 K/9. He said he worked out differently this offseason to help keep his stamina the whole season. Niese pitches in a pitcher's paradise and is only 24 years old so I definitely expect some growth.
It appears Niese is ready to take the next step. In 11.1 Grapefruit league innings, he has 10 Ks with a 1.59 ERA and a 1.06 WHIP so far.
Tim Stauffer, SP/RP, SD
The ex-reliever had a chance to start for the Padres down the stretch last year, and he certainly didn't disappoint. In seven starts, Stauffer posted a 1.83 ERA and a 1.04 WHIP in 39.1 innings. His K/9 did drop from 7.9 as a reliever to 5.3 as a starter so that is cause for concern. Stauffer struck out 6.5 per nine in 14 starts in 2009 so maybe that's what we should expect from him in 2011. Strikeout ratio aside, Stauffer will most definitely help out your ratios.
In 13.2 innings so far this spring, Stauffer has a high 3.95 ERA but his WHIP is only 1.10 so his ERA is out of whack. He has struck out 10 batters, a K/9 of 6.6.
Kyle McClellan, SP/RP, STL
McClellan has been a standout reliever for the Cardinals the last three seasons. The 26 year old had great ratios in 2010 (2.27 ERA / 1.08 WHIP) and is being stretched out to be the team's 5th starter. So far McClellan has taken advantage of this opportunity. In 12 innings this spring, he's only allowed one run and 9 base runners. Tony La Russa has acknowledged McClellan as the team's 5th starter so it seems to be his job to lose.
Assuming he keeps the job throughout the season, McClellan will be a valuable fantasy commodity. Like Stauffer, he won't give you too many strikeouts (around 7 Ks per 9) but he should help your ratios a lot. Unlike Staufer, he should win a fair amount of games pitching for the Cardinals.
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My 2002 Montana's windshield wipers are in the up position when off.
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I have had my Montana since 2002, 125K+ miles. There are some annoyances and warts, I never worry about taking it anywhere in any weather.
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I have 2002 Extended Montana Van which I bought new. I've had it 7 years now it has 85000 miles on it and this years I've spent over $3000.00 on it so far. Few year A/C quit blowing cold air it was a leak in condenser at seam which cost like $1200 to fix. This year the transmission started shifting rough when engine got warm, they overhauled valve body for $1800.00 everything else looked good in transmission at 82,000 miles. Few months later intake manaifold started leaking antifreeze cost $900.00 and now the A/C water is not draining properly, it's soaking the drivers floor really bad in which I took to dealer they had for day and tell me they got hose unplugged but still something blocking the water from draining and want $1500.00 to take dash a part. I got found a GM Tech to do it at his home. I getting ready to sell vehicle now it's time. It was good car up to 6 years old. When they start getting old it's starting to nickel and time me.
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2002 Pontiac Montana, 67,000 miles and the air quits. Mechanics estimate $1200-$1500. Will never buy another GM product. I'm a firm believer that vehicles should not have major mechanical problems, no matter the age, with fewer than 100,000 miles.
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I wanted to support the American car makers and steer away from foreign car makers. Bought it used with 11,000 miles. Now have 111,000 miles. so far replaced the AC compressor (blown gasket), Condensor coil (poor weld), 3 wheel bearings, rear shocks, intake manifold gaskets 3 times, 2 alternators, 2 batteries, computor, OX sensor, Head gaskets/valve grind. Now driving around with a DVR because the dealer can't solve electrical trouble, driving down the road and engine dies, gas gage goes to empty and computor locks the engine so it will not even try to start, now with code P0122 and P0452 dealer replaced battery, alternator, burnt pins on back of instement cluster. now waiting for the next time it dies so trouble can be recorded on the DVR. One fix worth shareing is with the headlights, operate on the fixture and remove the shelding around the bulb and using a different bulb but you will have to switch 2 wires in the socket, ground will be on the wrong pin some work but the improvement is worth it
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By on 3/29/09 | Bruce, WI
Works just like it should, Bought it brand new a few minor things have gone wrong but they were all taken care of in the first 3 years and were repaired under warranty.
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The Biggest Loser – Starts Sunday On TEN
This clip reminded me how bad the trainers are at acting. The scene is from the premiere of The Biggest Loser where the coaches are allegedly secretly spying on the contestants to see all their eating bad habits.
The first episode is traditionally where the viewer gasps at their excessive weight and their gluttonous eating habits before we emotionally engage with their weight loss journey.
The good news is a little bird has told me that early in the episode there is a extended time where Commando has his top off hopefully I did not just dream that piece of information. And why isn't THAT in the promos?
The blurb for next week's episode:
Sunday, March 17, 6.45pm
Tonight, the contestants have no idea the trainers are spying on them from a surveillance van outside their houses. Will terrible food habits and sedentary lifestyles be all they uncover? Then, thinking they are on their way to The Biggest Loser house, the families are taken to an arena in front of 3000 fans to pledge their promise to themselves and each other. With the emotional weight lifted, comes another twist: arriving in bushland they must take a leap of faith and jump off a 10-metre high cliff and swim to collect their ticket into the house. No jump, no ticket, no The Biggest Loser journey.
Monday, March 18, 7.30pm
It's the first weigh-in of the season and guaranteed to be one of the most emotional and powerful weigh-ins in The Biggest Loser history, with some children weighing in heavier than their parents. After finding out their starting weights, it's time for the contestants to start getting that number down with their very first workout. Who will break down? Then, one by one the trainers and Dr. Swan show the children what they would look like by the time they reach their parents' age. The health ramifications hit home for the contestants.
Tuesday, March 19, 7.30pm
Hayley Lewis pays a surprise visit to the house and reveals that if all seven family couples can lose a combined total of 100 kilograms this week, nobody will be eliminated. All contestants must work together to achieve this target. With that said, it's time to get stuck into a challenge of epic proportions: arriving at Camden Airport the contestants have to pull a skip which has been weighted to match their combined body weight. They must pull the skip 500 metres in the ultimate race against a fighter jet.
It looks like the parent and child format could make it an interesting series.
The Biggest Loser Australia on TEN Sunday night at 6.45pm then Monday and Tuesday at 7.30pm
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- 1 Golo i Wesolo { 03.14.13 at 6:20 pm }
"Tonight, the contestants have no idea the trainers are spying on them from a surveillance van outside their houses."
Isn't that classified as stalking? The fact that the contestants have "no idea" that somebody is secretly video taping their daily routine suggests that it would be.
I know that the contestants are clued in on this – "no idea" my ass – but what kind of message is that sending to our youth? That it's perfectly okay to stalk other people?
I love the values (or lack thereof) that reality TV is teaching our kids these days.
- 2 brain dead dave { 03.14.13 at 7:50 pm }
No , it's not classified as stalking, troll.
- 3 Remued { 03.14.13 at 9:23 pm }
Hopefully The Commando is shirtless AND proving his strength somehow.
- 4 Veronicali { 03.15.13 at 8:33 am }
Dr Swan shows the kids – and their boy/girlfriends – what they'll look like at their parents' age. Heh, should be good.
The first ep looks like a tear fest, though :/
- 5 Bianca Heron { 03.18.13 at 10:25 am }
Does anyone know where in Australia the 10 metre cliff is? A few mates want to do it!
- 6 A.P { 03.18.13 at 10:32 am }
No, but the house is in Dural so maybe it was somewhere not too far from there?
- 8 Joseph Skyrim { 03.18.13 at 10:44 am }
Saw a little of this before the MCP finale and two thoughts:
About the "spying" – the contestants probably already signed an "I'm ok to be on TV" clause by the time those hidden cameras got installed (otherwise what, they installed cameras on everyone that applied?). No way will the show be dumb enough not to have papers indicating otherwise, so basically they (contestants) agreed to it indirectly.
Cliff jump – I'm afraid of heights but I'm -more- afraid of water. That stuff seriously tries to kill me continously if in large volumes. Good on them for jumping. I'd probably jump (eventually) too, but methinks some of those lifesaver dudes would then need to save me since I literally sink like a rock. Eek. x.x
- 9 brain dead dave { 03.18.13 at 10:44 am }
I thought the Anthony Robbins Seminar vibe with the pumped crowd for the mea culpa /hard luck stories event was very over the top.
Even with the "proper supervision' , one of those fatties almost landed on their co -jumper at Cholesterol Cliff. Without attempting bombs at all ,there were still some huge splashes. I have had massive experience at jumping from these kinds of heights into the River Murray, it really helps to face these kind of fears when a lot of alcohol has been consumed.
A lot happened. AlreadY the fatties have faced
*fear of heights
*fear of water
*fear of public speaking.
- 10 A.P { 03.18.13 at 11:05 am }
It was very Americanized I thought, and I love the name Cholesterol Cliff BDD, very good!
What parent would let their kid eat a whole tub of ice cream in one go?
- 11 Blossom { 03.19.13 at 10:51 pm }
Tonight when Jess said " I've never finished anything" my son turned to me and said "well she finished off that tub of ice-cream"! Made me laugh so hard. I SO wish Michelle Bridges had said that to her!
- 12 Anonymous { 03.21.13 at 4:24 pm }
Reality Raver- Yes they are aware of that, i didn't say they were going to do it alone. BUT they are VERY experienced and have done higher, plenty of times. Thanks i found out where it is, Wattamolla for anyone else interested
- 13 Bianca Heron { 03.21.13 at 4:26 pm }
Sorry, that comment was from me lol
- 14 A.P { 03.21.13 at 5:23 pm }
Oh thats interesting @12, I used to go there as a kid with my parents, it was a great little swimming spot but I don't remember the cliff though.
Perhaps we only stayed in the safe part to play.


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Philip Wilson accomplishes two things in The Bright Rose, the first of which is translating early and middle High German verse in a way which both reads as fresh and hews close to the original texts: Arc's parallel texts here give a clear idea of the sound patterns within the original text, and in some cases vocabulary, which Wilson has rendered as close as possible to the original. As Early and Middle High German is quite a niche field (and, Wilson notes, very few Early High German texts survive), managing to convey to the general reader how this translation captures the original text is an impressive feat.
The second accomplishment is choosing a selection texts which establish the character of German verse in the 480-year period in which he is working; a blurb makes clear that Wilson is interested in conveying how 'human nature may not have changed as much as the German language has', and he succeeds in this. He does this via a selection of texts which offer snapshots of different styles: a fragment of the earliest surviving Old High German poem, the Hildesbrandlied, in which a father and son face each other on the battlefield, initially unaware of the other's identity; a set of charming invocations against threats such as bees, imps, and your horses getting ill; and when he reaches the middle High German period, a series of love lyrics on the returning theme of lover's being parted by the dawn.
Perhaps one of the most resonant of these is Wolfram von Eschenbach's poem in which the watchman who has smuggled in the male lover arrives to warn the pair that dawn is approaching, and he should leave. As in the Hildesbrandlied, the story is incomplete, but whereas in the earlier poem it is a fragment in von Eschenbach's poem it speaks to the developing narrative sophistication of medieval German verse. The previous poems have made clear how 'lovers being parted by the dawn' is a narrative trope within the verse of the period, so the reader can see how Eschenbach is playing with this form.
The final poem Wilson choses to include also plays with this form: Steinmar's 'Love outside the court' also features some lovers parted by the dawn, but unlike the ladies and knights in the earlier poems, they are a servant and a maid in a cowshed.
All in all, Wilson manages to create both an impressive translation, and, through his careful curation of the verse he has chosen to translate, illuminate the reader about an area of poetry they have probably not encountered before, and leave them curious as to what else exists in early German poetry.


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|dlp sets (10:20am est wed mar 09 2005)
dlp sets are really nice. like most rear-projection, they're a little more sensitive to viewing angle than other types, but the quality is excellent, and it keeps getting better with each new rev of ti's chip. i'd definitely buy one again if i needed another set. – by tv geek
|lcos technologies are catching on (10:38am est wed mar 09 2005)
jvc's proven d-ila sets are becoming more and more popular (a custom lcos implementation using 3 image chips, non-organic, and reflective rather than transmissive lcd) as well as sony's sxrd which is also another custom lcos implementation.
dlp still has problems with the "rainbow effect" by using a single image chip and a moving color wheel and moving tiny mirrors. dlp looks nice, but has too many moving parts that can go bad.
additionally, ffter samsung unveiled the 82″ tft lcd, plasma might as well kiss it's butt goodbye … no longer an excuse about lcds not matching plasma's size … plasma organic characteristics (shorter life span) just can't hang on for much longer. – by anon
|82 in tft (10:52am est wed mar 09 2005)
no word on availabity, or weight on this new lcd from samsung, specs are great however. supposed to provide a 180 deg viewing angle. this may indeed be the death of plasma and dlp both! – by infraredandy
|dlp demand may pick up (11:40am est wed mar 09 2005)
the trend for new designs is to use 3 dlp chips instead of one and to junk the color wheel (shades of cbs's original color process from the 1950's, being crushed by rca's 3 gun technology).
the key to gaining market would be cheaper dlp chips. – by old timer
|for the record… (11:46am est wed mar 09 2005)
dlp's real future probably lies in both cinema and forward projection home theatre. the 82 inch tft (and one presumes, all smaller tft's) are of course compelling for the home, for business and for all applications where their size, mass, cost and so on make sense. no doubt about it. we also can expect even larger tfts out, if competition and super-sizing take effect.
but, when you're trying to economically display a 120 inch, a 240 inch ultra-high brightness image for either entertainment or presentation (or advertisement, etc), projection remains king. and the king of that is the incredibly manufactured sea-of-mirrors of the dlp chip.
i recall hearing that the british are setting up 120 new 'digital theaters', utilizing what is essentially just 1080ni "dvd" type projection tech, off a trio of dlp chips, r, g & b. movies are distributed to the theatres in firewire enclosures! (how cool is that?), and cost 1/50th the distribution price. further, the 'media' is wipe-able, encrypted (per site), and so forth. with "light" compression, a full-length 3 hour film fits in about 72 gb, 6 channel sound and all.
but for poor ol' t.i., although their market is secure, the realization that they really may now have lost forever most of the rear-projection home/consumer market is a bear. commercial, baby … or bust.
– by goatguy
|i agree with goatguy (12:27pm est wed mar 09 2005)
dlp will dominate front projection for the forseable future but nobody "wants" a rear projector, they simply settle for it. and at smaller sizes, you can actually get lcd or plasma cheaper than dlp and at large sizes the dlp box is just too bulky.
– by mrx_tlo
|mrx_tlo and anon (4:48pm est wed mar 09 2005)
late last year, my 46″ dlp tv went for ~$2500. that was at least $1000 cheaper than any equivalently sized lcd or plasma set i could find. as for bulky, hardly. my dlp set is a scant 70 lbs and only 14 inches deep. both of these numbers are smaller than my old 27″ crt and not too far off from lcd or plasma. i also haven't noticed any of this so-called rainbow effect, but i obviously can't vouch for reliability since i've only had the set for five months. what i can vouch for is that tom brady throwing a touchdown to deion branch looked pretty damn good on my set. – by tv geek
|my sony wega 50inch… (7:01pm est wed mar 09 2005)
uses rear projection lcd at a resolution higher than dlp (more veritical lines). it wasn't too expensive either ($2.5k). i really couldn't care which tech they use (as long as it has good longevity).
ti really needs new products… they need to compete for my dolla. – by vtdh
|goatguy (4:02am est thu mar 10 2005)
we all love goat guy, your the best, worship the goat moo moo – by goat lover
|dlps are cheap (9:25am est thu mar 10 2005)
you can get samsungs 50″ dlp for ~$2200-2300 right now. in fact, i'm considering getting one before the "tuner" mandate comes down the pike.
rainbows can be an issue, but not everyone sees them, and they don't bother many who do. i personally have never seen a rainbow though my viewing has been limited to store room floors so far.
while a 3 chip dlp would solve this issue, it would introduce convergence issues and seriously boost the price because of the increased optical train complexity.
i'm not saying that it wouldn't be a gorgeous solution, but a 3 chip dlp would most likely be priced out of the consumer market…as it stands now anyways. – by ozy
|cost of dlp chip? (1:38am est mon sep 12 2005)
how can i find out what a dlp chip costs to manufacture and what ti is selling them for? – by dc


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We open with the fallout from last week's Rose Ceremony. In case anyone in the room had been wondering, Gia decided to tell everyone that she was the one who tried to get Kiptyn voted out and she openly blamed Nikki for screwing it up. She should have spent that time painting a target on her back, it would have been more efficient. Of course, Gia conveniently forgot that she originally screwed the whole thing up by not giving a rose to Craig. Not that you care, you're too busy watching Cee-Lo's new video.
The Competition — Kissing
In the kissing competition, the women were blindfolded and each guy kissed them. Afterwards, the girl voted on which guy was the best kisser. The guys were given numbers so that there was no cheating. They flipped the scenario for the guys. This way everyone gets to make out twice. That's a lot of spit swapping. The guy and girl with the most votes wins the rose and the title of Best Kisser. I would totally win this game. I'm a great kisser. Ask my wife. Or better yet, make out with me the next time you see me.
Gia gets all freaked out about the game because she knows there's now a target on her back and she has a boyfriend she's crazy. Once she sees how all the girls are going to town on the guys she breaks down in tears and calls everyone "porn stars." It's clear she doesn't watch porn. Porn stars almost never kiss, I'm told.
After Elizabeth is kissed by the Weatherman she says, "I just realized how gross this is." Even though she was blindfolded, she knew it was him. They should have given him a box to stand on or something. When it's her turn to kiss a blindfolded Weatherman, she practically eats his face and then spits into the pool in disgust. Does Tina Fey write the script for her character? She is the perfect Mean Girl.
Ashley takes herself out of the competition because she is a high school teacher who is worried about losing the respect of her students for kissing all of the guys. And yet she has no problems being on the show in the first place.
Natalie thinks she's got this one locked up because she's got no problems making out with anyone. She joins Elizabeth and Tenley who are clearly trying way too hard. There's a fine line between a passionate kiss and Hannibal Lecter.
David and Peyton win the roses. The face munching trio looks shocked.
The First Date — David, Nikki, Krisily, Natalie
David chose three girls to go to Vegas with him. By the way, does anyone remember when it used to be Las Vegas? Natalie immediately declared that she is "ready to get crazy" and that she "will do anything to win." As they made their way to the airport I got excited that we might get a glimpse of Helicopter only to be let down when they all piled in to a private jet.
They are led to a private, topless pool which they have all to themselves. Natalie can't wait to get naked and Nikki actually puts on another shirt. Krisily is now infatuated with David thanks to his kiss and she spends the whole time acting like a teenager with her first crush. By the time Natalie whips off her top it's clear that the other two girls have been completely forgotten. Who would have guessed that women can use their boobs to get what they want?
At night, they all go to a huge villa but David only gets to keep one of the girls for dinner. They all act shocked even though the exact same thing happened on the dates last week. He picks Natalie. On the ride home, Krisily whines about missed opportunities and Nikki wonders aloud if they should have gone topless. I think we all know that answer.
During dinner, David gets a "Fantasy Suite" card. They waste no time deciding that they are going to stay together in the suite and eff like rabbits. I guess Natalie is over Jesse B. David and Natalie decide that they are not going to tell anyone that they are a couple. In fact, they are going to actively deceive the rest of the house by telling a lame story about how they both fell asleep.
The Second Date — Peyton, Kovacs, Kiptyn, Jesse B
Peyton decides that she needs to rethink her strategy. She picks the guys who are on the inside and decides to try to win them over on their date to the drag strip. By "drag strip" I actually mean a real drag strip, not something dirty like you were originally thinking. Going to a drag strip sounds about as romantic as it actually is. They spend most of their time in completely separate cars.
Jesse B is girl crazy. He's like a kid in a candy store. He's interested in any girl that shows interest in him. It's clear that he's going to get the rose even though they spend most of the date showing us clips of Elizabeth and Tenley nervously worrying about their guys (Kovacs and Kiptyn, respectively) being seduced by Peyton. Much to the producers' chagrin, Peyton doesn't even make much of an effort to seduce Kovacs and Kiptyn, but the whole thing makes the two guys realize that having a girlfriend is not a good position to be in. I'm not sure how people tell Kovacs and Kiptyn apart. When they are standing side by side I can't tell you who is who.
Jesse B gets the rose and gets to enjoy the Fantasy Suite in The Bachelor Pad with Peyton. It doesn't get much more awkward than watching two people try to decide on the Fantasy Suite while two other dudes—who look exactly alike—stand there staring at you.
Post-Date Scheming
Kovacs finally realizes that Elizabeth is going to screw him. He knows that he can't trust her and she tells him that she can't be trusted. He's slowly figuring out what we've known all along. She's crazy.
Gia and Wes are smitten with one another. Wes breaks out the guitar. Gia melts and says, "I never heard a song that I related to." Have you ever heard a song before? She then calls Wes "the modern day Shakespeare except better and cuter." She's definitely going to break up with her boyfriend after this. Is there any man that would stay with her after seeing this? She might as well just hook up with Wes and close the case.
Thanks to his new crush, Wes is working on everyone in order to save Gia. Gia tries to convince Kiptyn to help save her by lying to him about trying to get him voted off. When he says that she "rounded up the girls" she pretends to be hurt an offended that she has been accused of such a thing. You know, that thing she admitted to right after last week's Rose Ceremony. She making a run at Elizabeth's Crazy Queen title.
The Rose Ceremony
The girls waste no time sending the Weatherman home. It's been clear from the beginning that he's not cool enough for the cool kids. Due to Wes's scheming, there is a tie between Gia and Elizabeth. Since David won the rose, he gets to break the tie. He chooses to save Elizabeth and she gets to retain her Crazy Queen crown. Of course, Wes now has a target on his back.