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(Reuters) - Citigroup Inc (C.N) posted stronger-than-expected first-quarter results as bond trading and underwriting revenue jumped compared with the 2011 fourth quarter.
While the results were better than the company's report three months ago, profit fell 2 percent from a year earlier, reflecting the bank's difficulties as it works to boost its earnings in a sluggish global economy.
Chief Executive Vikram Pandit said the bank might not seek regulatory approval to return capital to shareholders this year after all. Citigroup received multiple bailouts during the credit crunch and was one of the few banks to have its capital return plans rejected by the Federal Reserve earlier this year.
First-quarter revenue, excluding accounting adjustments, was up 1 percent from a year earlier and 17 percent from the fourth quarter, to $20.2 billion. Investment banking revenue was hit particularly hard in North America and Europe.
Investors focused on the positives, and Citigroup's shares rose 74 cents, or 2.2 percent, at $34.15 in Monday afternoon trading.
"They continue to progress. They have headwinds that maybe only Bank of America has, but they seem to be managing those headwinds," said Gary Townsend, CEO of Hill-Townsend Capital. "It's a good quarter without being as superlative as JPMorgan's was."
JPMorgan Chase & Co (JPM.N) topped Wall Street profit expectations on Friday, helped by some of the same macro trends - a better economy and more active capital markets.
But the KBW index of bank stocks .BKX is already up more than 20 percent this year, and investors are turning their attention to determining the strength and extent of the recovery, which still lags the optimism of early last year.
Citigroup Chief Financial Officer John Gerspach said demand for loans remains soft in the United States and Europe but continues to be strong in emerging markets.
Loan growth in the first quarter was particularly strong for trade finance, he added in a conference call with reporters.
At the end of the first quarter, the bank had $619 billion of loans outstanding, after accounting for money set aside for bad loans. That was up from $617.13 billion at the end of the fourth quarter and $600.57 billion a year earlier.
Last month, Citigroup was one of only a handful of large financial institutions that failed to win approval from regulators for a dividend increase or share buyback.
Analysts have wondered if Citigroup asked to distribute too much capital or somehow erred in its calculations of the losses it would incur under stress tests conducted by the regulators.
In the weeks leading up to the setback for the capital plan, Pandit convinced analysts that Citigroup had rebuilt its balance sheet to the point that it had so much more capital than needed in an economic downturn that it would to be allowed to raise its quarterly dividend from a nominal penny a share to as much as 10 cents.
On Monday, Pandit said Citigroup was due to submit a new proposal by mid-June for managing its balance sheet to withstand hypothetical financial stresses.
New economic and market scenarios may be applied in the next review, he said, explaining that the bank is still discussing the retest with Federal Reserve officials.
Pandit told analysts on a conference call that the company may opt not to ask regulators for permission to raise the dividend or buy back stock this year.
"We need to understand the process going forward to make a determination what to include in our submission," he said.
The CEO also said the company's capital is increasing quickly enough that it does not have to sell its minority interest in its brokerage joint-venture with Morgan Stanley (MS.N).
The new test will be based on Citigroup's March 31 balance sheet, which is stronger than at the end of December, before the earlier test.
For example, Citigroup's so-called Tier 1 Common Ratio, a measure used under Basel 1 regulations, rose to 12.4 percent from 11.8 percent. And its ratio as measured under pending new Basel 3 regulations is on track to rise above 8 percent at the end of the year from its current 7.2 percent.
Pandit cautioned that the Federal Reserve looks at different capital figures than those used for Basel.
Once the bank submits a new plan for 2012, the Federal Reserve has 75 days to respond, which means the company may not get an answer until well into the third quarter of the year and not long before it has to start preparing to have its 2013 capital plan tested.
Pandit said the bank would announce by its July earnings conference call whether it was seeking to return more capital to shareholders.
In the first quarter, a set of assets the company has been selling off or running down since the financial crisis declined 29 percent from a year earlier to $209 billion, or 11 percent of total Citigroup assets.
Citigroup's first-quarter net income fell 2 percent to $2.93 billion, or 95 cents a share, from $2.99 billion, or 99 cents a share, a year earlier.
Excluding the impact of certain accounting adjustments for changes in the value of debts and credits, Citigroup earned $1.11 a share. The average Wall Street forecast was $1.00, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S.
Revenue from the company's ongoing securities trading and investment banking business declined 12 percent from the strong quarter a year earlier but rose 65 percent from the weak 2011 fourth quarter.
Expenses were down 7 percent from the previous quarter and were flat with a year earlier, reflecting seasonal factors and the company's commitment to bring costs down for the year, Gerspach said in the conference call.
Citigroup's 2011 fourth-quarter earnings missed analysts' estimates and executives were grilled over the company's control of its expenses, which rose 4 percent in the fourth quarter from the third quarter. Expense control has become an increasingly important issue for banks because their profits are being squeezed by low interest rates and tighter regulation.
The bank's latest results were boosted by a $1.2 billion release of bad-loan reserves. Delinquency rates for its North American credit card and retail banking customers declined 31 percent from a year earlier. International consumer credit costs fell 3 percent.
Reporting by David Henry in New York and Rick Rothacker in Charlotte, North Carolina. Editing by John Wallace and Paritosh Bansal.


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Friday, November 11, 2011
November is the Month for Writers
NaNoWriMo - A Fiction Marathon
The event that I am most familiar with is called NaNoWriMo which stands for National Novel Writing Month. This fiction writing event encourages novelists and other fiction writers to write 50,000 words in the month of November. The goal is quantity not quality. Writers are told to focus on writing and not to go back and edit. That can be done after the month is over. This program is well organized with local support people who set-up "write-ins" and other gatherings to motivate the writers.
Write NonFiction in November
The Write NonFiction in November event is new to me. This is one blogger's response to NaNoWriMo. This event is likely not as large as the fiction one but it does seem like there is a good crowd participating.
I had planned on being a rebel non-fiction writer in the NaNoWriMo until a colleague told me about this event. The main goal for me is to find something that will really get me writing. If I can fit in with this group then perhaps that is a better place for me.
Blogging with NaBloPoMo
The third event in November is called National Blog Posting Month (hence NaBloPoMo) and is sponsored by BlogHer. I learned about this event from genealogist Michael Hait, CG who participated last year and is also doing it again this year. This event is geared toward getting bloggers to write every day for a month. The website provides blogging prompts to give bloggers some suggested topics. (please note that the Geneabloggers website provides writing prompts for genealogy bloggers every day of the year)
Whatever your genre preference is for writing, take advantage of the support you will get and join one of these events. If not this year, mark it on your calendar for next year. You may end up finishing up that book you've been working on!
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I am participating in NaBloPoMo. Being a relatively new blogger, I am always looking for fresh topics and motivation to blog. It has been really tough, however, to write something worth reading every single day. But the Geneablogger prompts are helpful as are others such as Sepia Saturday. My problem is that I over-think everything. I can't just sit and type, letting my thoughts flow willy-nilly. I have to think it over for a long time before actually putting pen to paper (or fingers to keyboard).ReplyDelete
I also participate in two writer's groups with a family history focus; one of them is online using a G+ hangout. We have to adjust our guidelines a little to make the hangout flow smoothly, but it is an awesome way to meet "face-to-face" with folks living on opposite sides of town or who are traveling and don't want to miss a meeting.
I learned yesterday that is is also National memoir Writing Month. I'm participating in National blog writing month and so far so good. guess i better go write something for today.ReplyDelete


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Money-Saving Meals Made Easy
Cooking meat at a low temperature over time can make tough cuts tender, and the best cuts for these meals just happen to be the least expensive. Stick with shank, shoulder, round, rump and brisket for the most flavorful dishes.
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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 30 diseños de 10 diseñadores freelance.
I've already hold a contest for the design of pulpTunes, which is a desktop software for accessing your iTunes music remotely.
This contest is for the redesign of pulpTunes' homepage, http://www.pulptunes.com
I'm NOT looking for this homepage to look like the software itself. I'm looking for a web 2.0 feeling, something like http://www.hab.la : big fonts, big icons, white background with lots of space and short paragraphs.
You should use pulpTune's logo, located here: http://www.pulptunes.com/app_libs/i…_title.png
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Page Sections:
- big paragraph to the left with a short explanation of the software witha link to the features section, with the screenshot to the right, justlike in hab.la
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From that must-have new investment to our favourite boutique hotel – here's what's on our radar this week. TGIF.
Kickstart Janurary with this delicious recipe from Madeline Shaw's new book, READY, STEADY, GLOW Fast, Fresh Food Designed for Real Life.
Pan-fried trout with cucumber, apple and dill salad (serves two)
1 cucumber, peeled, halved and cut into ½ cm semicircles
1 tbsp Dijon mustard
1 tbsp fresh dill, chopped (or 1tsp dried)
1/4 tbsp apple cider vinegar
2 tbsp olive oil
1 large avocado, peeled and stoned
1 apple, peeled and cored
1 shallot, finely minced
1 tbsp coconut oil or butter
2 tbsp capers, plus extra to serve
2 trout fillets
salt, to taste
The sweetness of the apple really goes well with this strong-flavoured fish, but if you can't find trout fillets you could use salmon instead. Although capers are known to be high in sodium, they add an extra burst of flavour, which is just what the fish needs.
Place the cucumber slices in a colander, sprinkle with salt and let them sit for 10–15 minutes to draw out the excess water while you prepare the rest of the dish.
Make the dressing by mixing the mustard, dill, vinegar and olive oil together with pinch of salt. Thinly slice the avocado and apple and throw into the dressing to stop them browning, along with the shallots, stirring well to combine.
Heat the oil or butter in a frying pan over a medium heat, throw in the capers and stir for 30 seconds then move them to the edge of the pan and throw in the trout, skin side down. Sprinkle over a little salt and cook for 5 minutes until the skin is crisp, then flip the fish over and fry for another minute or so until almost cooked through. The cooking time will depend on the thickness of the fillet, but look for golden skin, a bronzed top and flesh that is opaque all the way through. Rinse the cucumber, drain and then pat dry with some kitchen paper and mix in with the salad.
Divide the salad between two plates and serve with the fish and a sprinkle of capers.
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Featuring miniature marines with condoms on their heads destroying sexually transmitted diseases in gigantic reproductions of human reproductive organs, the chances of Zombie Cow's shooter making it onto Xbox Live or the Xbox Indie Games program were slim to none. Now the developer tells us that they've narrowed down their chances to none.
The guys at Xbox have been amazing," said Dan Marshall of Zombie Cow Studios. "They've been really supportive and helpful throughout, but ultimately have advised that the game wouldn't pass the Indie Games Peer Review process, purely due to its inherently sexual nature.
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This bill is Profit driven, not about morality but about wealth, power and control. The fat Cats are in denial and think this bell (the Internet) can be unrung. Hollywood moguls are bank-rolling the lobbyists in Washington. They are prepared to handicap the innocent with a lame and thoughtless bill that achieves their greedy objectives.
So Dave Grohl thinks it's Ok, it's a "broader scope" on the WWW? Is exactly why it is not Ok. You got yours so you don't care? How you got yours is a wonder. Oh, no it's not.
There is nothing wrong with requiring web site owners to enforce when they are making money from the industry. It is nothing different than requiring ID from someone purchasing alcohol, or carding somebody buying a pack of cigarettes.
SOPA does nothing to restrict anybody's freedom of speech. Read the bill and stop spreading bulls***.
Well said. I love Dave Grohl.
everybody has the right to earn money and profit. BUT…when the profit exceeds the point of reason you will have piracy. you will not control it nor can you stop it. Has anyone had any success in controlling the ELECTRIC COMPANIES that profit by the billions! alternative..wind turbines. Did people seriously not realize what the creation of the internet would bring??? there will always be piracy in one form or another whether you like it or not. SOPA sounds to me like they just want things to work the way they believe it should be. Is there anyone out there that can control SOPA??
Digital songs or streamed songs should not cost money, buying a cd should.
Jesse the fact that you actually support SOPA is f***ing mind blowing.
First of all Jesse, this SOPA s*** negatively affects the smaller unknown artists much more than well established ones like Dave Grohl. The ability for your music to be shared internationally is what helps young artists get recognized.
Let's face it, the record industry is dead and bands don't make money that way they make money from touring. Even when the record industry was alive and well, the artists making it all happen were getting ripped of by the labels that supports them. This act will kill the ability of young artists to get out there, and will hand the power over to the government and record labels. That's only touching on the music side of things of course.
Overall the act kills freedom of speech on the internet, and allows the government and copyright holders to invade privacy and shoot first and ask questions later. If this act goes through, you wouldn't be able to go on this site and have the fun you are having now. The US wants to control the internet rather then waking up to smell the coffee and go along with the evolution of the industry. The game has changed so change with it.
the way bands/artists make money is through touring, their profit is marginal at best on record sales, so why would they give a fuck? file sharing spreads publicity for them and as long as their music is playing and people are going to their shows, their happy, while the record companies and multimillion dollar moguls are having bitch fits about not getting every single penny for every time a song is played, sure, the band get's theirs, but before file sharing became a hugely controversial issue, record companies were still bending over their musicians and f***ing them, and trying to make it illegal to record mix tapes
eh, record artists never made any money from records, 90% of all profits go to the record company and resellers.
in the hayday of the record companies, artists were expected to make their money off touring.
records were mainly only to promote the band (from the artists perspective, well so said the record companies)
it was only very famous artists that could get better deals, often though only if they started their own record label.
so from a artists point of view, music sharing is a good thing for any musician that can hold a live performance.
and its only the fat cats that are "bleeding" on this and is why many musicians support filesharing. they arent losing any money, not really lol


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The R&C staff is reporting today from State Fair Park in Lincoln, Nebraska, where we're celebrating the 12th R&C Americruise. It's the first day of the show, but for those of us from the magazine and a whole bunch of hot rodders and custom car enthusiasts, this event has been going on for almost a week. Two separate road tours (sponsored by TCI Automotive and Air Ride Technologies) left SouthernCalifornia and North Carolina last Saturday and arrived in Lincoln yesterday. Today, instead of tossing our luggage into our hot rods and hitting the road again this morning, we decided to stay in town for three days of activities and fun with 1,500 of our closest friends.
State Fair Park is familiar turf for Americruisers. Rod & Custom first brought this rolling car show here in 1995, and we've come back to Lincoln six times since then. Why? Maybe it's the central location smack dab in the middle of America. Maybe it's this expansive tree-lined, cruiser-friendly facility. Maybe it's the fact that this is a hardcore car town that treats hot rodders like special guests whenever we drop in.
The fact that we're not back out on the highway today doesn't mean that we're not keeping things moving. In addition to all the rods and customs weaving through the streets of the fairgrounds, there are some first-time competitive events taking place over in the parking area. We've got an Autocross Course set up and are having a ball watching participants run their cars and trucks through the cones. Not far from there, we've set up a Go & Whoa! course. This event goes way back to the Seventies and combines acceleration and brake testing into one crazy competition. It's wild. And at noon, participants starting filling our pre-judging area for the first ever Rod of the Year and Custom of the Year competition. Today the R&C staff will be choosing the 10 finalists (five rods and five customs) who will be put to the test tomorrow. Check back on Saturday to find out which cars made the cut.


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Raspberry Pi Robot – Connecting the H-Bridge & Motors
It has been a while since I have posted anything so here we go with a quick post on how to get the motors and H-Bridge connected up to our Raspberry Pi.
Below is an image of how my Raspberry Pi is currently Connected:
For this project we will be using four of the Raspberry Pi's GPIO pins, two per motor. In the diagram below you will see a diagram of a L298N (hopefully yours will look the same or very similar). Each motor will have two wires running from them, this will allow us to connect them to "output A" and "output B".
We will be connecting our battery pack up to the +12v power terminal since we will be providing the H Bridge Motor Controller with 6v from the battery pack that is in our Zumo Chassis. We will also want to run the ground from the battery pack and also from the Raspberry Pi to the ground terminal on the H Bridge Motor Controller.
Finally we want to run our input cables from the Raspberry Pi GPIO ports to the four input pins of H Bridge Motor Controller. I have done them in the following order :
Pin 1: Yellow Cable should be GPIO 16
Pin 2: White Cable should be GPIO 18
Pin 3: Green Cable should be GPIO 21
Pin 4: Orange Cable should be GPIO 19
This is all there really is to connecting your motors and motor controller up ready for coding our Raspberry Pi robot to move!
If you have an questions or suggestions please leave a comment below.
Raspberry Pi Robot – Flashing LEDs – The Code
Below you will find the example Python code that we will be using to flash the two LEDs that we wired up in the previous post.
import RPi.GPIO as GPIO
import time
GPIO.setup(16, GPIO.OUT)
GPIO.setup(18, GPIO.OUT)
GPIO.output (16, True)
GPIO.output (16, False)
GPIO.output (18, True)
GPIO.output (18, False)
The first two lines of code are to import the Raspberry Pi module and the Time modules to enable us to use the Raspberry Pi and Time related specific functions.
The next line is to set the GPIO pinouts up. Since we are using the standard Raspberry Pi pinouts we just set this as BOARD.
After that we will define which of the Raspberry Pi GPIO pins we will be using as output pins. As you may remember from the previous post we will be using pins 16 and 18.
The next block of code will send power to pin 16, wait for one and a half seconds before turning the power off again. These few lines of code will therefore light our red LED for one and a half seconds before turning it off.
The final block of code is exactly as above but it will light our green LED for one and a half seconds before turning it off.
Finally we will run GPIO.cleanup() which will turn off the pins we have been using and return them back to the default state for next time we want to use them.
Once you have got your code typed up and saved as LEDs.py from within a terminal prompt run the following command and watch your LEDs light up in turn for one and a half seconds.
sudo python LEDs.py
That is all for this post if you have any issues with this code please leave a comment below.
Raspberry Pi Robot – Flashing LEDs – The Circuit
In this brief guide we will show you how to connect up two LEDs to the GPIO ports on your Raspberry Pi and control them via Python Script. From this point onwards I will assume that your Raspberry Pi has a fully working install of Raspbian and is connected to your WiFi or Wired Network. Rather than working directly on the Pi I will be connecting via SSH to create and execute our code.
You may be wondering why we are bothering tinkering around with LEDs rather than diving straight in and getting some motors up and running. There are two reasons for this the first is I am still waiting for my L298N motor Controller to arrive. The second reason is that the basic Python code we will be using to light a few simple LEDs will be pretty much the same code we will be using to turn a motor on and off.
Below you will find a list of items we will need for this project.
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|package 5 mm [THT]; color Red; leg yes
|Green LED
|package 5 mm [THT]; color Green; leg yes
|270Ω Resistor
|package THT; tolerance ±5%; resistance 270Ω; pin spacing 400 mil; bands 4
|Raspberry Pi B rev1
|processor Broadcom SoC BCM2835 ARMv6; variant Raspberry Pi B(Rev 01)
Below is a diagram of how we will be connecting our components together on our breadboard (protoboard). Connect the Ground (Black cable) to the Ground connector on the Raspberry Pi GPIO, this is the third pin down on the side nearest your breadboard. Plug both LEDs and resistors into the breadboard as shown and the connect the live (or signal cables) to GPIO pins 16 (for the Red LED) and 18 (for the Green LED). Once that is complete connect the live cables into the slot below the longer leg (Positive) of each LED as shown. If everything looks exactly like it does in the diagram then it is time to move onto the coding part of this guide.
Later in the week I will post the code that we will be using to turn these LEDs on and off and explain what the code does and different ways we can improve it.
Raspberry Pi Robot – Baking your Pi
I'm not going to cover setting up the Raspberry Pi from scratch as there are many sites available that already cover this subject in far more detail than I can provide.
For my project I am using Raspbian Debian Wheezy and an 8GB SD card. To learn how to install the image onto your SD card RaspberryPi.org have a very good install guide here.
To enable the Pi to be able to freely roam around we will have to install a USB WiFi adapter. I have used this rather generic slimline dongle from Amazon.
Setting up the WiFi access is pretty simple especially if you are using the GUI, if you do run into any issues the following guide on RaspberryPi.org has you covered.
Our Raspberry Pi should now be in a state where it can site wirelessly on the network ready for us to start creating and running our Python scripts.
In the next post we will cover wiring up two LEDs and creating a basic Python script that makes the LEDs flash.
Raspberry Pi Robot – Project Overview
After being introduced to Raspberry Pi controlled robotics by Chris over at Bytemoose.co.uk I have (after owning a Pi since launch) finally decided to do something useful with my Raspberry Pi.
The basic goal of this project will be to create a remote controlled vehicle that can be controlled with a smartphone over wifi using a web server that will be running on the Raspberry Pi.
Once this basic goal has been met the project could (and probably will) be expanded to install a webcam on the robot or the addition of an ultrasonic sensor to stop unwanted collisions.
This should prove to be an interesting and informative project as I have very little electronics experience other than what I can vaguely remember from secondary school well over fifteen years ago.
- Raspberry Pi – The "brains" of the project this will drive the controller that runs the wheels.
- USB wifi adaptor – To enable the robot to roam free rather than be tethered via a cable.
- USB Battery Pack – To power the robot and free the robot from being tethered via a cable.
- AA Battery Pack – To power the robot and free the robot from being tethered via a cable.
- AA Batteries – To power the motors and motor controller.
- Breadboard – This will be used for prototyping and testing components.
- Zumo Chassis Kit – A two tracked platform that we will build our robot on.
- 2x 50:1 Motors – The motors that drive the tank tracks. One per side.
- L298N Controller – This will control the speed & direction of our motors.
In the near future I will be making further posts and guides on how I have managed to bring my robot to life.
Stay tuned for further articles that will hopefully include subjects such as:
- Setting up your Pi from scratch. (including wifi and remote access).
- Building the Zumo Chassis for our robot.
- Connecting the L298N to our Raspberry Pi and Motors.
- Example Python code for movement.
- Installing the webserver on the Raspberry Pi.
- Creating the scripts for movement.
- Bringing the web server and scripts together.


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Tax Runner Wesley Snipes Sentenced To Three Years In The Slammer
Gather round, tax kooks, and listen to the tale of Wesley Snipes. He's the guy who didn't pay his taxes while raking in millions, and then tried to collect $7.4 million in tax refunds. Now he's going to jail for three years thanks to a federal District Judge who doesn't care much for tax protesters and their zany theories.
His celebrity could raise attention about tax defiance and deter protesters, said Assistant Atty. Gen. Nathan J. Hochman of the Justice Department's tax division.
"The three-year sentence Mr. Snipes received today sends a loud and crystal-clear message to the tax defier community that if they engage in this illegal conduct, they can and will go to jail," Hochman said.
Despite Snipes' claims that he was taken advantage of, Hochman said the actor was a "disciple" of the tax defiance movement who understood that his actions were illegal.
"It's more than just an accident. It occurred on numerous occasions over many different years," Hochman said. "This wasn't an innocent victim of 'jackals.' This is someone who willfully and knowingly participated."
Before his sentencing, Snipes told the judge that his wealth and celebrity attracted "wolves and jackals like flies are attracted to meat," and he called himself "well-intentioned but miseducated."
The cunning greed-monger defended his morally bankrupt plot to defraud taxpayers, saying: "I am an idealistic, naive, passionate, truth-seeking, spiritually motivated artist, unschooled in the science of law and finance."
Snipes was convicted on three misdemeanor counts of failing to file tax returns for 1999-2001. His former "tax advisers," Douglas Rosile and Eddie Ray Kahn were respectively sentenced to 54 months and 10 years in jail.
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She was the first person he ever murdered." She paused for a moment, as if shaking something very, very slight off herself, perhaps a grain of dust or sand. Then she continued. "As I was saying, this knife was owned by the Empress Hoshi Sato's first born, Jun, who came from unknown parentage. He was the first of her six children, five sons and one daughter. While he was a killer – like many of the denizens of the other side of the pond are – he never killed anyone with this particular knife. He used different instruments." =/\= "What the devil were you thinking?" Admiral Carmen Calavicci thundered. She was so loud that Temporal Agent Richard Daniels stepped back, a little unnerved. "Car –" "Answer me!" "I, I guess I wasn't thinking." "You're bloody well right you weren't thinking! Richard, going and doing that! What the hell am I going to do? How will I explain this? I can't, I can't be saving your bacon all the time like this! You need to help me out here!" "I'm, I'm sorry." "Sorry? Jesus H –! Richard, we have just barely gotten the mirror government to sign the temporal accords! They are going to back out; I just know it, because of your, your carelessness! They will scuttle this department, and you and I will be thrown out of work because you couldn't keep it in your pants!" Rick sighed. She was right. When she was right, she was right. "Do you want me to, to resign?" Carmen looked at him. She was still livid, but her demeanor softened a little. "I, please, Richard, I have been, perhaps, far too lax, and have looked the other way before. And this is how you repay me?" "I didn't think the decision all the way through." "You're damned right you didn't. And don't think there aren't some effects. There are some, even if they're not very large. When you, you hooked up with Lucretia Crossman, earlier this year, it did have some minor effects. There were little inconsistencies in the master time file, and they were put there by your actions, Richard." He remembered Lucretia. For her, it had been 1699, and it was in what was going to become Pennsylvania. She was a Quaker widow in Penn's Woods and he was, so far as she was concerned, a lonely surveyor. It was not meant to be a terribly difficult assignment. He was just escorting some historians, watching William Penn. It was so much easier than an assignment he'd had in 3098, when he had gone to Pompeii in August of AD 79. For that assignment, he had run through streets that were rapidly turning into lava beds, and had watched people screaming. Men, women and children – it didn't matter – they were all meeting their deaths due to the wrath of Mount Vesuvius. And he wasn't allowed to save any of them. And it had gnawed at him, as he had also watched the Enola Gay fly over Hiroshima, and witnessed the Charge of the Light Brigade and the equally hopeless siege of the Alamo and even Custer's Last Stand and more and more and more. People died, either clear-eyed and aware, or cringing and blinded. It didn't matter. They were still done. It ate away at him, and it pained him, as he watched the good, the bad and the in between all succumb to history. His job was, perhaps, to be a professional witness, and he was beginning to hate that. So when he was in 1699 Penn's Woods, and an attractive young widow flirted with him, and he had some free time, he found himself suddenly in bed with her, and it made it all worthwhile again. He didn't love her, but it didn't matter. They parted positively and he was suddenly on that track. "But Lucretia turned out all right," Rick insisted. "I don't dispute that. But she wasn't supposed to be playing doctor with a surveyor. She was supposed to end up with her neighbor, Roger Allgood. And you apparently delayed that by around a year." "I guess I did," he admitted. "And then there was, let me see, ah, yes, Phillipa Green." Carmen banged away on a PADD in order to check the specifics. That mission had been to observe a man who the crew of the old NX-01 had referred to as Future Guy. He – Jim Horan – was busy giving orders to the Suliban in 2151, as a part of the Temporal Cold War. And he had an assistant – Phillipa – who just so happened to be a descendant of the notorious Colonel Phillip Green. She was not just Horan's assistant. But Rick had made it a point of spending more than a little time with her, and it had naught to do with his actual mission. "Yes, I was with her," he said. "Right. And she and Horan were supposed to ride off into the sunset and stop their nonsense. That, too, was delayed, but by less time, at least, than how the widow Crossman was put right. Oh, and then, Dana MacKenzie, am I right?" "Yes, on the Enterprise-E." More angry smacking away on an innocent piece of equipment. "And she was lured away from First Officer Martin Madden for a few weeks there. Little changes, yes, but these are changes to the master time file nonetheless. But not as bad as Betty Tyler." "Right," he sighed, "That was; I'll admit that was a bad one." "1929, New Jersey. All you were supposed to do was watch the Stock Market crash and, instead, you spend your time looking up that little flapper's feather boa. I don't suppose it'd've been such a problem except the poor girl tried to overdose on opium after you left." "I know, I know," he said, "but I went back and then all I did was observe that time, and that fixed it. Am I right?" "You are," Carmen allowed, "so are you saying that if I send you back to January of 2156, you'll look and not touch when it comes to the Empress? Or at least you'll take the damned birth control shot before you head in? Because I'm telling you, Richard, the mirror government's liaison, you know that he gets the readouts of temporal changes, just like we do. They are watching us like a hawk. And they know that you have begat," she chuckled a little at using the biblical euphemism, "a temporally paradoxical child." "Let me, let me think about it. I need to speak with someone." "Richard!" she exclaimed, "This is highly confidential." She shook her head. "My sister. Can I talk to her? I'll swear her to secrecy, all right?" "All right," Carmen said finally, sighing, "but you tell no one else, and I mean that. Or you'll be gone from here and we'll go back and repair everything without your knowledge or consent or complicity. Capiche?" "Yeah." =/\= Rick beamed over to Lafa II in time to see Eleanor finishing up with a tour group. "Got a minute, sis?" he asked, after he had kissed her on the cheek. "Sure," she said, putting the little knife back in its case. "I've just been talking about Jun; the Empress Hoshi Sato's first born." "Jun?" "Yes, Jun. He's, uh, he's a bit of a cypher. No one seems to know who his father was. But the other five, those are fairly well known, or can be reasonably guessed at." He steered her over to her office. "What can you tell me about Jun?" "He was Emperor after Hoshi died, and he had killed all of his male siblings. His name – the Empress, she had been a linguist, and so all of her children's names were meaningful. Jun means truthful." "Is there a picture?" "Sure." She produced one on her PADD. "Why such an interest in what I do for a living?" "Uh, El, can I tell you something in confidence?" "You always can. What's the big mystery?" "I, uh, I know who Jun's father was." "Oh? Then you've solved a great historians' puzzle. The press will be very interested." "No. No one can know." "You look strange, Rick." "El, I'm his father. I'm, uh, I'm Jun Sato's father." She burst out laughing and then looked at his face and saw how serious he was. "Wait, you're not kidding." "No, I'm not. Nobody can know. Not even Mom and Dad. They can't know they have a grandson who, uh, who probably died a good seven hundred years ago or so." "More like nearly eight hundred fifty. He died in 2258." She sat down at her desk and motioned to a chair on the other side of it. "Look, I remember when you confided to me about Betty Tyler. But this, this is so much more. What, uh, they are allowing it?" "I don't know if they will," he said, "but, uh, I didn't, I mean, I didn't mean for Hoshi to get pregnant. And I was stupid. It was barely a choice. She just, she beckoned and I followed. But, damn, I could've prevented this." "She could have stopped it though, too, right? And she did not. So here you are. I am guessing we're in the middle then, right? Where you don't know what the Temporal Integrity Commission will allow." "It's not them as much as it's the mirror government. This changes the history of the Terran Empire. Kira is supposed to be Emperor. He is supposed to be the first born, and not Jun. He, he killed his babysitter Beth Cutler and some others, but he let his brothers live." "That's different from Jun. He murdered all of them. And Beth Cutler was, well, she was just a Tactical crewman. She was nothing to him." "El, I never thought about this before. I never thought about the consequences of my actions. And this is one big, fat consequence. But the more I think about it, the more I realize that Jun, well, he didn't ask to be automatically put into a predicament like this. I, I think I want him to live. But I'm not sure about how to go about that." "He's a paradox, right? Older than you." "Yep." "So if he had kids, that would compound things, right?" "Definitely." "I don't know anything about what the mirror government might want, but I can bet you anything that they don't want this all to be compounded exponentially," Eleanor said. "Right. I, uh, I should go. And you're giving me some food for thought. But no matter what, I figure, if I'm going to make a case for him to survive, he'll have to be sterilized." Rick shook his head. Taking that away from Jun without so much as a by your leave was giving him a headache and making him even more uncomfortable. "At the very least, I'd say." =/\= Back at Headquarters, Carmen paced while Richard put on the last bit of decoration that went along with a full-dress uniform. "Jimenez isn't going to like it if we're late," she said, "Do you know who his counterpart is?" "Not a clue," Rick fiddled with his collar, frowning at his own reflection in a wall mirror. "Ray Jimenez, at least the one from our pet universe, was my predecessor. He was drummed out of the Temporal Integrity Commission for too many distracting nights in an affair with a high-up Federation official. It was a gay affair, too, and the official was married to a woman at the time. Very big deal, lots of nasty, gossipy press. The Commission and the Federation both hate that. So every time I see the Jimenez from the other side of the pond; I can't help but to think about that. I do my damnedest not to burst out laughing, thinking of our side's Ray playing at, well, you don't want to know." "Huh, why does the mirror even have a liaison with access to the master time file? None of the species we work with have that." He kept playing with the collar, and it was refusing to cooperate. "They're paranoid," she said, "They think we're out to ruin their timeline. And, well, this kind of an incident only serves to fuel that paranoia. Richard, I recognize that this job comes with a lot of nasty moral problems. And I admit I've been less than sympathetic, and have just thrown you back out there, over and over again when perhaps you'd have done well to have taken a little time off. I'm certain that finding comfort in the arms of the women you meet is your means of coping." "It is," he admitted, "I have to watch people die. I have to watch them be ruined. Except for Penn's Woods, it seems as if no one ever wants to observe happy history. They only want to see suffering. And then the historians go on their merry way. I think they see it as a movie or something, like it isn't real. Well, it is. It's real. I can never shake that knowledge, that I'm watching very real people at their worst." "Your humanity's now gotten us into a spot of trouble. But at least you are human. I do wonder 'bout Jimenez and his kind sometimes." "All right," he said, "I'm as pretty as I'll ever be." "Which way do you want to go with this?" "I want Jun to live, Carmen. Can you help me?" "Huh. On the other side they have the Y Chromosome Skew, as you know. Three-quarters of their children are male; everyone's heavily dosed with testosterone and all of that. It's highly likely to be the cause of much of their aggression. But they can also be old softies when it comes to their children. It's one of the few things to recommend the other side, for much of its history. Perhaps an appeal to him based on that would help. I don't know. We'd have to play it by ear." "Carmen, I don't know what to say." She sighed heavily. This was not going to be easy. "Just let me do most of the talking." =/\=


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Rick Alverson's The Comedy, starring Tim Heidecker, is now available on VOD and digital platforms. We spoke to the pair about the millennial generation, passivity and isolation in the modern age, and those infamous walkouts at Sundance.
By Karen Kemmerle
Tim Heidecker in The Comedy / Courtesy of Tribeca Film
In describing The Comedy, one can use the terms "hilarious" or "uproarious," but words like "provocative," "cruel" and "disconcerting" are just as applicable. Inspiring comparisons to films like Five Easy Pieces, filmmaker Rick Alverson (The Builder, New Jerusalem) continues to explore both comic and dark elements of the American identity with his latest character study, featuring a revelatory performance by Tim Heidecker (of Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!).
Heidecker stars as Swanson, an aging Brooklyn hipster who spends his days meandering through life in Williamsburg with his crew of like-minded idlers (including previous co-star Eric Wareheim and LCD Soundsystem's James Murphy) with little direction and a definite lack of empathy. On the verge of inheriting his family's fortune from his dying father, Swanson's erratic and risky actions isolate him, making meaningful connections with others almost impossible.
Writer/director Rick Alverson describes the genesis of the project: "I wanted to make something that was an exploration of desensitization from a particular type of modern temperament. Maybe even something that borders on a cultural phenomenon that involves irony and sarcasm, with a certain desire to animate oneself through the grotesque or the obscene." Perhaps one of the most polarizing characters in recent cinema, Swanson seems to spring from an amalgamation of the recurrent themes of alienation and disconnection that appear in all of Alverson's projects.
"There are aspects of the character that exist in myself and people I know," Alverson muses. "Some of that is a desire to explore something that's the difference between my generation and my father's generation. I think ultimately, too, the character seems indicative of a large swath of western culture. Even middle class folks, there's a passive nature to them."
He continues, "One of the central themes in the movie is that in our current culture, even people who aren't wealthy have access to all manners of distractions and a barrage of conflicting information that can lead to paralysis."
Tim Heidecker, Eric Wareheim, and James Murphy in The Comedy / Courtesy of Tribeca Film
So who was to play Swanson? Alverson was initially drawn to Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim by watching their cult show, Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! and being struck by its interesting and inventive format. He explains: "I think that their interest in awkwardness and the uncomfortable is in line with my own. I tried to go there myself in the context of drama and explore the spaces in between the certainty."
Alverson reached out to the pair through their mutual friend and collaborator Will Oldham, and Alverson's unique outline intrigued Heidecker, who admits, "I don't get those kind of phone calls all the time. Rick and I talked for a while and he just kept on me." Finally, after watching New Jerusalem, Heidecker was in. Heidecker explains: "Eric and I both watched it. It's really hard to impress us, because there's just so much junk out there. We just immediately knew that Rick is someone to take seriously. He's just so capable of making a really beautiful movie."
Embarking on one of the most challenging roles of his career, Heidecker worked to formulate an interesting approach to the character of Swanson with the aid of Alverson. "We talked a lot about the tones we wanted to hit," Heidecker remembers. "Swanson really had two modes to him. There was this confrontational humor side and then there was the quiet insular stuff." Alverson adds, "He fluctuates. There is a passive side to him, but he also is an agitator. The antagonizing is a very aggressive aspect of his character. It's a desire to animate himself, a desire to affect the world around him. It's a desperate attempt, in some ways, at engineering a response."
Working from an 18- to 20-page summary with no written dialogue, Heidecker was completely free to explore the character of Swanson without restrictions. Alverson explains his and his partners' process, which is conceptual in some ways and tonal in others: "Writing, for me, is bigger than the script. I think there's something potentially antiquated about a 108-page document. It's that old Hollywood model of having money and studios to recreate an imagined environment. As we well know, that mode is collapsing in its own way. There are new methods that need to be used that are more efficient."
It was an interesting collaboration for Heidecker as well, as he explains, "Our shorthand developed pretty quickly. One thing I was blown away by was that he really knew what he wanted, and once he knew we got it, we moved on. He just knew. He's so driven and focused."
Using locations in and around Williamsburg, the shoot lasted 15 days. Without a formal script, the dialogue had to be improvised and created through discussions. Heidecker elaborates, "There were a few key things we talked about that Rick would suggest. There were key words or phrases that we knew we wanted to get in before each scene. Rick was really interested in finding the boring and mundane, like the afternoon after the big party. We didn't feel the need to fill the spaces with tons of language."
Tim Heidecker in The Comedy / Courtesy of Tribeca Film
Heidecker continues, "It felt like this is the way that all movies should be made, unless you're some kind of master of dialogue. It's much easier to collaborate with people who can just talk and come up with ideas spontaneously to move everything along."
Alverson thoughtfully speaks on the subject, "I really want to achieve a certain type of naturalism in all my films, and I feel like my approach is an efficient way to do it. It's not out of laziness. It's challenging and loose and strange and difficult to work improvising scenes and dialogue in that way, but when you let somebody speak in their native voice... it's magic."
When the film premiered at Sundance 2012, the audience's reactions soon became infamous. News outlets reported angry responses to Alverson's work and the rumor that numerous people walked out. He reflects, "I think those sorts of things get blown out of our proportion. I mean, there were 1200 people in one audience. The interesting thing to me was that the people who did walk out left in a huff. They were vocal about it. On at least 3 or 4 occasions, people had words with me in the lobby or at the Q&A and asked for apologies or defenses. It was fascinating to me. Maybe for some of those folks, the film struck a little too close to home. I think that you name something The Comedy and bring them in there and expose them to all manners of awfulness… they are just angry with you."
The Comedy was Heidecker's second film at this year's Sundance Film Festival, the first being Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie, which was screened out of competition. Heidecker recalls, "It was funny that both movies were going to be there at the same time. There was this natural confusion that would exist. 'There's The Comedy—no, you mean Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie?' It was almost all set up to be an Abbott and Costello routine."
Like Alverson, Heidecker was unfazed by the walkouts at Sundance. "It's not a movie necessarily for those people. and that's okay. It is the way that the reporters wrote about the audience reaction that creates controversy and suggests something that sizzles."
After Sundance, The Comedy played festivals like South by Southwest and BAMcinemaFEST, and has been celebrated by audiences all across the country. Heidecker adds, "Since then, it feels like the film has had a different trajectory. Real serious writers have come out and written great things about the movie. So it's not just some 'bad movie,' which I think was the initial perception."
What does Alverson want audiences to take away when they watch The Comedy? He has a very definite answer: "Doubt. Confusion. A nagging discomfort. I want people to leave with a new sense of alertness because of those feelings. I think they are very important experiences that are eschewed by most movies and media because they don't lead to excessive, instantaneous comfort."
Heidecker adds that audiences should take note of this style of experimental storytelling. "I want people to think about movies and how we watch them. Let them know it's okay to question the structure or how we're sometimes duped into a false sense of normalcy. Most of all, I want people to question the old standard practices of, 'This is how the structure of something should work,' or, 'This is how a character must behave.' There's so much more out there to explore than tired old conventions."
Watch the trailer:
The Comedy is now available on nationwide VOD and all digital platforms, including iTunes.
Also opening in these and other select cities nationwide:
Los Angeles, CA: Cinefamily -- November 9
Brooklyn, NY: BAMcinematek – November 16
San Francisco, CA: Roxie Theater -- November 23
Austin, TX: Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar -- November 30
Note: The above theaters have opening weekend Q&As with writer/director Rick Alverson (except Los Angeles) and Tim Heidecker!
Don't see your city listed? Go to Gathr.us today to set up a theatrical screening in your area!
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This deserves its own thread by now. You know, some people use askjeeves.com for school projects and current events, and I'm typing in "Was Eleanor Roosevelt a lesbian?" But after a couple of searches, I came up with this.
http://www.sappho.com/letters/e_roosevelt.html
Now these all-gay historical research sites are usually pretty unreliable and most of the stuff on them must be taken with a grain of salt. It's still fun though.
What I think is funny is that she called her lover "Hick." I can just hear that. "Hick! Darling!"


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194 Want to walk or run at UIS? Here are some measured routes
It's common to see joggers and walkers on the UIS campus. What a beautiful place to enjoy nature and get some exercise – mostly on flat ground. Here are some possible routes; we've already done the math for you.
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