Tuesday, July 31, 2012

Q&A: If you were a fascist in control of printing currency, what would ...

Question: If you were a fascist in control of printing currency, what would you buy with it to keep your wealth?

If your printing trillions of dollars knowing inflation is going to eat up the value of the currency at some point you would have to offload it on something else of value. Gold, property, foreign investments?.. what would a global depression not devalue?
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I already own and live on a farm; I realize food is possibly the most important commodity. If a fascist came to me with a ton of gold wanting food, what good would the gold be to me? Property would be an asset (assessable property), as a farmer I?d have no care for foreign paper.

But food is perishable, it would be valuable as a local currency; not as something you could horde in large quantities.

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Fairbanks Alaska Office Of Children's Services Stole Our Grand ...


Comprehensive Outline of the Systemic Process of Abuse for Profit Called ?Child Protection Agencies? in America Today
as re posted from the website of the American Family Rights Association

"When the Adoption and Safe Families Act was passed in 1997, it was meant to create loving homes for children who had been ?languishing? in foster care over a long period of time, some children had been in foster care for years, others had been bouncing around from one foster home to another with no hope of the security that an established home with a permanent family could offer.

Another seemingly good idea at the time, was the creation of the adoption bonuses for the state child protective system?s caseworkers, this idea was implemented for the sole purpose of creating a ?get the job done? incentive for the case workers, to do something for the children, other than shuffling paper work and filing reports on these ?shelved? children.

As these children were being adopted and began to leave the foster care system, the bonuses began to filter into the child protective systems around the nation. There were an overwhelming amount of couples, being enticed by the many different monetary conveniences of not having to support the children out of their own pocket, the foster care money would take care of that burden, on top of which there were offers from the government for tax credits and bonuses, to adopt these unwanted children. It wasn?t long before the demand for adoptions outweighed the supply of children in foster care.

The waiting list for an adoption could be years, the majority of waiting couples were not favorably receptive to the thought of waiting for years to adopt a child, so they took the required training to become foster parents, because as sanctioned foster parents, they were guaranteed a child within weeks. They would have a child placed with them, then subsequently adopt the child within 15 -22 months, after which these ?foster parents? would disappear from the system after their need for a child had been met.

In some cases the child is adopted within a year, because the permanency hearing is to be scheduled within one year of the foster care placement, leaving precious little time for the natural parents to raise funds for the hiring of attorneys, file motions, petitions and/or appeals.

The majority of these parents are from the poor or middle working-class, and cannot afford the attorney fees, which have become unreasonably high over the years. One very well known child custody attorney asked for $12,000 down payment to take a case!

What would happen, I wonder, if ALL of these people were to strike in protest of their children being confiscated?

This country would stand still.

Now the legislators are wondering why all the GOOD foster parents are leaving the system? Because there are no such kind of people as ?FOSTER? parents, they?re potential adopters, finding their incentive on the internet to adopt a child via foster care.

Foster CARE was meant to be temporary--NOT the foster parents.

After these foster parents are gone, the need for more foster parents increase. With all their false allegations, DFS is slowly obliterating ANY people who would make good potential foster parents.

There are even those instances when DFS will file false allegations of abuse against the adoptive or foster parents themselves....when DFS can find no more children to take, they just ?repossess? children which have been previously adopted or placed into foster care.

At this point in time, there are NO foster parents, there are only adoptive parents in disguise....?When in Rome?...as the saying goes.

The case workers, in charge of these cases, became so intent on proving the unfitness of the biological parents, and creating false allegations to assure the termination of parental rights, that they lost all concern and common reason to prove the FITNESS of the ADOPTIVE parents, resulting in the problem that we now have.......children being abused and murdered in foster care and adoption.

According to the federal mandates of the Social Security Act, which governs the placement of a child into foster care, a child had to be ?languishing? in foster care PRIOR to adoption, to guarantee that the state would receive the adoption bonus, when the child was finally adopted.

When the supply of children in foster care began to dwindle, there was a chance that the DFS agency would not get their bonus. That was when many rogue case workers and county DFS directors began to lodge false allegations of abuse against innocent parents, thereby creating an unlimited supply of children into foster care to meet the demand of adoptive couples who were disguised as ?Foster Parents? and waiting in line for the children that were being taken into custody by DFS.

The children were, and still are, being taken into custody by DFS at an alarming rate, and immediately placed into foster care, sometimes within an hour, and with the sole intention to adopt.

Adoption became the only option, in order to receive the cash bonuses. Most of the adoption petitions in Lawrence County, Missouri, are filed before the child is even available for adoption, prior to evidence being heard at the permanency hearing.


The government funds for reunification and family preservation, has been used for other services to speed up the termination of parental rights. Therefore, the state stands guilty of adoption and foster care fraud, they obtained the money by violating the federal mandates.

Most parents are unaware of the fact that they are protected by these mandates, and can actually retrieve their children if an honest, intelligent attorney were on the case. The key word here for their protection is ?Languishing? in foster care. The ?languishing? pertains to the 15-22 month period following the day that Social Services places the child into foster care, but a hearing is available within 30 days........so forget the term ?languishing.?

The termination of parental rights, cannot be filed until 15 months and 60 days from the date, that the child has been taken from the home. In some cases the GAL?s do not wait for the allotted time to pass, and will file prematurely for TPR.

The governor of each state, is compelled to sign an oath when he/she takes office, to uphold and protect those mandates, otherwise the governor can be held accountable for failing the child and the federal government, whenever those mandates are violated for the purpose of receiving the federal grants being paid for foster care. Social Services MUST obey those Federal Mandates to the letter, in order to receive the grants. Before placing a child into foster care, the case worker handling the case, must prove that every reasonable effort has been met to seek out and locate a fit and willing relative placement. An adult relative takes precedence and first consideration over an outside care giver, in the interest of family preservation and reunification of the family, which is in the best interest of the child.

This mandate is being ignored by poorly trained social workers who take children on ?probable cause?, and yet this agency will never file criminal charges against the parents to prove guilt.

Why?

Kinship care is never considered a reasonable option by Social Services. Kinship care does not allow the state to collect federal monies for foster care/adoptions, so when the case worker takes the child, the paper work will be marked ?NO RELATIVES? even though there are grandparents and other relatives available to take the child. Missouri DFS never seeks out those relatives.

This would save the state an exorbitant amount of money, and as of now Missouri is going bankrupt, due to the unnecessary overspending of DFS for foster care, adoption bonuses, attorney?s fees, Guardians ad Litem, contracted therapists, and medicaid.

In many cases the children are said to have been sexually molested, but the parent or perpetrator is rarely, if ever, formally charged and brought into a court of law, because in most of these cases, DFS hasn?t one shred of proof against the accused parent other than their own allegations on paper.

But innocent parents are still losing their parental rights in the end, due to ineffective judges who do little more than warm the bench, and do nothing to make the DSS provide proof of the allegations and their reasonable efforts to place the child with relatives.

It seems to be a ?hate crime? and discrimination against parents who are poor. They are easy marks for DSS and cannot fight a system with a money tree such as the one backing DSS. Martha Stewart and Mario Lanza both came from underprivileged households. They went very far in the world.

When it is said that a child has been sexually abused, it would become medicaid fraud if these sexual abuse assessments and treatments are charged to medicaid, which is quite often the case.

This type of assessment and treatment, is to be paid by the Children?s Treatment Fund, but there is documentation that Medicaid is picking up the tab.

The CTF investigates each case quite thoroughly to determine if sexual abuse has actually occurred, and DFS does NOT want these investigations to bring the truth to the surface. So they send the bills to medicaid for payment, (I have one of those billings, and the assessment signed by a Missouri state contracted therapist.)

After the placement of the child into the foster care system, Missouri DFS then applies for the foster care grants, while at the same time forcing the parents to also pay for the foster care, under the term ?Current Child Support.? This is also illegal on the part of DSS, who never uses the parent locator system to find a missing or absent parent.

If they actually find the absent or missing parent, there is a chance the child will be placed into the custody of that parent and not be available for adoption at a later date, therefore they allow a child support bill to accrue into the thousands of dollars, until it becomes FELONY NON-SUPPORT, damaging any chance of custody being won by that missing or absent parent.

The parents are also to provide medical insurance for the children. BUT....the premiums on this health insurance is unreasonably high. The father of a child in foster care, called one of the country?s leading insurance companies, and asked the representative WHY the premium was so expensive....the representative?s answer was, ?A child in foster care is considered to be very high risk!?

These children are NOT ?languishing? in foster care--they are placed into foster care, usually on the same day that they are taken into custody, and placed into foster care sometimes within an hour, for the express purpose of adoption, so that DFS can collect the adoption bonuses that each state will receive. The forget the children who have already been adopted and have aged out of the foster care system.

When a child resists bonding with the foster or adoptive parents, they are immediately admitted into therapy for psychological problems. And at times if the child becomes violent or combative, or prone to tantrums due to their anger of being the focal point of all the family destruction, they are placed into a mental health facility and subsequently started on medication known as ?psychotropic? medication, or mind altering drugs to make them more docile, and easier to manage and control.

This is quite common in nursing homes for the elderly, if the patient is labeled as ?combatant? or ?combative.? I have seen the results of those types of ?psychotropic?

drugs, and it is horrible. They rob the patient of any and all humane feelings.

Any child who has been deprived of what belongs to them by birth and nature, will invariably become combative at some stage during the transition of losing their own past lives, no matter how good or bad it may have been.

One child bit the finger off a school nurse as she was administering medication to him.

My own granddaughter, who was in foster care for 35 days, said it best, ?They can?t bond with a stranger because they want their OWN parents, their OWN grandparents, their OWN room and their OWN stuff.?

That is the key word...... OWN! As in: that is MINE. I OWN that. It belongs to ME. It is MINE.

The obliteration of those personal things can destroy the child?s sense of belonging. How can one expect the child to accept anything new, if the feeling of belonging is deprived by the destruction of what had belonged to him/her to begin with?

That destruction of familiarity, will eventually bring about compulsive disorders, such as the need to clean or rearrange things, in an attempt to exercise control in their lives or numerous eating disorders.

We are becoming a nation which will lose the sanctity of home and family if we do not take a stand at the voting polls. Watch the reports of how your congressman and senators vote on bills. Then decide what you consider to be vitally important in a child?s life.

So think very hard and use common sense the next time you hear the term ?Leave No Child Behind? this phrase has become quite unpopular with the common person, and has a more sinister meaning behind it, than one can imagine.

Stephen King has nothing on the creator of the ?Adoption and Safe Families Act? of 1997.

It has been used to create a perpetual living nightmare for innocent parents, falsely accused by a system, in which greed has outgrown common decency, freedom and democracy. It has been used to create a living hell for the helpless children condemned to live within its dark boundaries, with no way out and no hope of rescue, and NO ONE asking them what their version of the truth is.

These children are the true victims.....and yet they are never asked about their own opinions and desires, by their GAL, nor their state contracted therapists, who are all being paid by the federal foster care grants, the foster parents are not going to relay what the child truly wants, the foster parents? true goal is to adopt a tax dividend, at $10,000.00 a head!

The children in foster care are NOT being PROTECTED by foster care......they are being SILENCED!

Just try to get one of these children aside to speak with them, and you will have a dozen guns pointed at your head, that is the whole purpose behind ?supervised visitation.?

But on the other side of the coin, there were 7 children who testified against a Lawrence County commissioner charged with sexual abuse. The charges were later reduced. Eventually in court, those charges were dropped, because one child recanted. In every other case where a child recants due to a false allegation being extracted from the child, there is no exoneration for the parent.

There are too many children in the world today that truly are suffering from abuse and neglect, but are being left to die. Why? Because the truly abused child is not a marketable commodity, they?re damaged goods. But if left to die at the hands of an abuser, these children are worth their weight in gold, and worth more dead than alive--so they are left behind, with their abusers, to do their part in the scheme of things.

They are not considered children; they are pawns, to be used for the benefit of DFS.

When a child dies of abuse, what is the first thing that one hears in the news media from Child Protective Services?

1.?We need more money to hire more workers; we are understaffed and under funded.?

2.?We need more power to take the children without warrants and having to PROVE abuse.?

3.?We need absolute immunity for anything that we do illegally.?

Far too many parents have been ?railroaded? by the child protection system, but that train is slowly being derailed.

Think about It!! You, the people, gave them that power by believing their manipulatory lies."

*The posts made in this blog are of our opinion only* Without Prejudice UCC 1-207

Source: http://alaskachildservicesstoleourgrandchild.blogspot.com/2012/07/comprehensive-outline-of-systemic.html

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tea and pot in ancient China

Tang-era pot showing Islamic influences; possibly used for tea

About a thousand years ago in present-day Afghanistan, the Islamic scholar al-B?r?n? described tea and pot in his?Book of Pharmacy.? Some of al-B?r?n??s notes on tea:

  • tea (chai) is a Chinese word for a herb drunk with hot water
  • tea grows at high altitudes in China and Nepal
  • the Chinese desiccate tea leaves and store them in a cube-shaped container; they also make tea tablets
  • white tea is the most excellent variety of tea, but also difficult to find; varieties of tea, from the rarest to the most commonly available, are white, green, violet, grey, and black teas
  • tea is important medicine: tea purges bile through the gastrointestinal system (a cholagogue), negates effects of liquor, purifies the blood, and abates fevers [1]

Al-B?r?n? also preserved a traveler?s description of the economy of tea and pot in China:

the king of China resides in the city of Yanj?.? A big river like the Tigris traverses through this city.? Both sides of the river are studded with wine sellers? tenements, kilns, and shops.? People flock there to drink tea, and do not take Indian cannabis clandestinely.? The king of the place receives the capitation tax, and the public cannot transact the sale of tea, since both tea and wine are the possession of the king.? He who transacts business in salt and tea without the king being aware of it is awarded the punishment due to a thief.? And the people there slay the thief and eat his flesh.? Profits from such places go to the coffers of the king and such profits equal those accruing from gold and silver mines. [2]

This text probably describes the major Chinese city Yangzhou, which is on the banks of the Yangtze River.[3]? Arab and Persian merchants were living in Yangzhou in the eighth century.? That the Chinese king earned high revenue by controlling trade in tea, wine, and salt is probable. ? That?s particularly probable for tea because it was a popular, attractive product: people flocked to Yangzhou to drink tea.

What about the observation that people ?do not take Indian cannabis clandestinely??? A variety of cannabis (pot), called Cannabis indica, is native to India.? Cannabis has been consumed in India for thousands of years.?? Cannabis use in India, however, seems to have been associated with sacred festivals.? Al-B?r?n??s description suggests that, unlike in India, pot in China was consumed popularly like tea.

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Notes:

[1] Based on trans. Ahmad & Said (1973) pp. 105-6.

[2] Id. p. 105.? The Chinese drank a wine made from rice.? An Arab travel account from about 850 preserves a similar description:

The {Chinese} Emperor also reserves to himself the revenues which arise from the salt mines, and from a certain herb which they drink with hot water, and of which great quantities are sold in all the cities, to the amount of great sums.? They call it Sah (Chah / Chai), and it is a shrub more bushy than the pomegranate-tree, but it has a kind of bitterness with it.? Their way is to boil water, which they pour upon this leaf, and this drink cures all sort of diseases.? Whatever sums are lodged in the Treasury arise from the poll tax, and the duties upon salt and upon this leaf.

Trans. Renaudot (1733) p. 25 (capitalization modernized).? In the mid-eighth century, the Chinese writer Lu Yu wrote a monograph on tea, The Classic of Tea.? That work also suggests that tea was highly popular in China.

[3] Another possible location is Guangzhou, which is on the banks of the Pearl River.? Arab and Persian merchants also resided in Guangzhou in the eighth century.? However, the reference to Yanj? seems phonetically closer to Yangzhou.

References:

Ah?mad, Muh?ammad ibn and Hakim Mohammed Said. 1973. al-Biruni?s book on pharmacy and materia medica. Karachi: Hamdard National Foundation.

Renaudot, Eusebius, trans. 1733. Abu? Zayd Hasan ibn Yazi?d Si?ra?fi?. Silsilat al-tawa?ri?kh.? Translated from Arabic as: Ancient accounts of India and China, by two Mohammedan travellers, who went to those parts in the 9th century.? London, Printed for S. Harding.

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Sony's New Mint Smartphone Details Leaked

Details of Sony's latest smartphone have leaked online. Mobile-review?has published details of an unannounced device, the Sony LT30p, aka Mint. The device was first heard of back in January, when a September launch date and price were revealed, but no further details of the phone itself.?

Sony LT30p Mint Leaked: 13Mp Camera, 1.5GHz Dual-Core Processor are on Cards. Image Credit: Mobile-review

Sony LT30p Mint Leaked: 13Mp Camera, 1.5GHz dual-core processor are on cards. Image Credit: Mobile-review

The device appears to be Sony's response to the Samsung Galaxy S3 and HTC One X. It could be powered by a dual-core 1.5GHz Snapdragon S4 processor and may ship with 1GB of RAM. The Samsung and HTC devices both feature quad-core processors. Mint is expected to come with a whopping 13-megapixel rear camera and LED flash. It could feature a 4.3in screen with a resolution of 1280 x 700 pixels and might be marketed as a WhiteMagic screen. Gadget website Engadget?notes that although Mint has a 4.3in screen, a side-by-side image comparison with the Galaxy S3 suggests that Mint's panel might be slightly larger.

Reports also suggest that Mint may offer 16GB internal storage and a microSD card slot. In terms of connectivity, the device is expected to support all available 802.11 protocols, including 802.11n and its "extremely reliable" connection speeds. Moreover, it may feature Bluetooth 4.0, which supports all available connection profiles such as handsfree, serial port, dial-up networking, file transfer and object push.

"At least this time Sony managed to keep up with the trends of our time and produce a phone comparable with most other solutions in terms of hardware," claims Mobile-review. "Although the prototype nature of the device means that at times there is some lag compared to other phones based on the same platform when the LT30p reaches the stores they will probably disappear."

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Monday, July 30, 2012

Optrix Rugged Sports Case Adds Wide-Angle Lens To iPhone

Optrix Rugged Sports Case Adds Wide-Angle Lens To iPhone

Tough and very versatile -- the Optrix HD

Optrix?s XD camera case for the iPhone looks like just another ruggedized box, but it distinguishes itself with a low price ($100), a whole bagful of included accessories, and one unique feature.

The heart of the system, designed to be used for sporting and other outdoor endeavors, is a rubber case (for shock protection) which can be used alone or slid inside the clear plastic shell. This shell offers yet more protection, keeps out most water splashes, and contains the wideangle lens which will let you capture video and stills without worrying too much about framing.

This last is useful when you use the included mounting devices. There are curved and flat base mounts which clamp to handlebars and other protrusions, and a quick-release bracket for, uh, quickly releasing the case. You also get some zip-ties in the pack for non-standard mounts ? a nice touch.

But the biggest news is the price. When an iPhone lens adapter can come in at close to $100, this kit is a bargain. Available now.

Charlie SorrelCharlie Sorrel?sits in his gadget nerve-center in Barcelona, Spain, and spits out words about ?various weird plastic widgets while the sun shines outside his iCave. Previously found at Wired.com's Gadget Lab covering cameras, power cables and sneaking in as much Apple-centric coverage as he could, Charlie spends his rare moments outside perched atop a bicycle and snapping photos. You can follow him on Twitter via?@mistercharlie

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Inmates may aid animal services

By MICHAEL D. BATES | Hernando Today

County Commissioner Jim Adkins said he heard about other counties using prisoners to help care for dogs and cats at their animal services departments and he wondered whether the idea would work at the cash-strapped Hernando County facility.

He put out feelers to the sheriff's office and others and will soon broach the idea to his colleagues on the board.

Adkins said he was told by Sheriff Al Nienhuis it would cost the county about $60,000 for him to hire a deputy to transport and supervise prisoners from the jail.

To save money, Adkins looked into certifying some animal services employees so they could do the transports and supervision free of charge. That certification training is already under way, he said.

Adkins said only the low-risk prisoners would be allowed to groom and bathe the animals and tend the grounds. He figures the department would only need about three of them.

"I think honestly a prisoner work detail would enjoy working with animals," Adkins said.

They could supplement the staff at animal services and help facilitate operations there, Adkins said.

The inmates would work in conjunction with the department's paid staffers and volunteers.

Public Safety Director Mike Nickerson said he is planning to enroll his staffers in the next available class.

County parks staffers already are certified to transport prisoners who take them to designated maintenance spots in the county, he said.

The city of Brooksville also uses prisoners to help maintain sites and roads.

Nickerson, in charge of animal services, said the inmates would clean cages and kennels and help out with grooming or other duties.

"The only real problem is that the number of trustees is in high demand for assignments in the county," he said. "As long as we can get people to do the work, they can make up any shortfall that we have."

Nickerson said the inmate program has been successful elsewhere.

"I don't see any reason why it wouldn't work here, as long as we pick and choose what inmates we want," he said.

For example, no prisoners with a history of animal abuse would be allowed to work with the cats and dogs, he said.

No current paid staffers would lose their jobs because of this program, he added.

Jim Walker, detention administration captain at the Hernando County Jail, said he and his staff would determine which inmates and how many could be released to county employees.

Those employees could pick up the trustees, supervise them at animal services and return them at end of the day.

Walker said he is somewhat uncomfortable with three inmates being released at one time and he would have to scrutinize that request.

Right now, county employees pick up inmates to work at the landfill, but that is normally two or three, he said.

Larger inmate crews, such as found on road details, will always have an armed deputy supervising them, he said.

Walker said the program aids inmate rehabilitation.

"That's the ultimate goal," he said. "It teaches them life skills so that when their time is complete they can be more productive."

Source: http://www2.hernandotoday.com/news/news/2012/jul/29/hanewso1-inmates-may-aid-animal-services-ar-445077/

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Sunday, July 29, 2012

Chinese pollution protesters clash with police

Carlos Barria / Reuters

A demonstrator smashes a car window during a protest against an industrial waste pipeline under construction in front of the local government building in Qidong, Jiangsu Province on Saturday.

By NBC News staff and wire reports

QIDONG, China -- Angry demonstrators occupied a government office in eastern China on Saturday, destroying computers and overturning cars in a violent protest against an industrial waste pipeline they said would poison their coastal waters.

The demonstration was the latest in a string of protests sparked by fears of environmental degradation and highlights the social tensions the government in Beijing faces as it approaches a leadership transition this year.


Thousands of protesters marched through the coastal city of Qidong, roughly one hour north of Shanghai by car, shouting slogans against the planned pipeline that would empty waste from a paper factory in a nearby town into the sea.

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Demonstrators rejected the government's stand that waste from the factory would not pollute the coastal waters.

"The government says the waste will not pollute the sea, but if that's true, then why don't they dump it into Yangtze River?" said Lu Shuai, a 25-year-old protester who works in logistics.

China's 7.6 percent growth rate is the lowest in three years ? but the country's economic problems appear more dire than the latest numbers indicate. Some believe the government will counter the downturn with a massive stimulus package, a strategy that has left China's local banks saddled with bad debt in the past. NBC's Ian Williams reports from Beijing.

"It is because if they dump it into the river, it will have an impact on people in Shanghai and people in Shanghai will oppose it."

The state-run Global Times newspaper quoted local residents who said the sewage discharge from the pipeline was expected to be as much as 150,000 tons per day, according to the AFP news agency.

Cars overturned, cops beaten
Several protesters entered the city government's main building and were seen smashing computers, overturning desks and throwing documents out the windows to loud cheers from the crowd.

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An AFP photographer described the scene, saying demonstrators seized bottles of liquor and wine from the offices, along with cartons of cigarettes -- all of which Chinese officials frequently receive as bribes.

Reuters witnessed five cars and one minibus being overturned. Over 1,000 police -- some paramilitary -- guarded the city government office compound in lines.

At least two police officers were dragged into the crowd at the government office and punched and beaten enough to make them bleed.

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According to the AFP, searches including "Qidong" on China's popular microblogging site?Sina Weibo were blocked Saturday. Sina Weibo has over 250 million subscribers.

Earlier posts on Weibo and on Twitter indicated that the protesters had stripped the clothes off the local party secretary, but these reports could not be immediately verified.

On Friday, in an effort to stave off the protest, the Qidong city government announced it would suspend the project for further research.

But many protesters said on Saturday that postponement was not enough.

Carlos Barria / Reuters

A police car lies overturned as protesters occupy a government building during a protest against an industrial waste pipeline under construction in Qidong, Jiangsu Province on Saturday.

"If the government really wanted to stop this project, they should have done it right from the beginning. At this point they are too late," said Xi Feng, a 17-year-old protester.

Local officials took steps to ward off the demonstration and residents received text messages and letters warning that any public demonstration would be illegal.

Rising discontent
Environmental worries have stoked calls for expanded rights for citizens and greater consultation in the tightly controlled one-party state.

The outpouring of public anger is emblematic of the rising discontent facing Chinese leaders, who are obsessed with maintaining stability and struggling to balance growth with rising public anger over environmental threats.

The protest followed similar demonstrations against projects the Sichuan town of Shifang earlier this month and in the cities of Dalian in the northeast and Haimen in southern Guangdong province in the past year.

China tells US Embassy to stop reporting Beijing pollution

In Shifang, the government halted construction of a copper refinery following protests by residents that it would poison them. It also freed most of the people who were detained after a clash with police.

The leadership has vowed to clean up China's skies and waterways and increasingly tried to appear responsive to complaints about pollution. But environmental disputes pit citizens against local officials whose aim is to lure fresh investment and revenue into their areas.

Behind The Wall: Full NBC News coverage from China
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Fen Jianmei was seven months pregnant when she was forcibly taken to hospital and her child aborted, because she and her husband couldn't afford the fine imposed in China when couples have a second child. NBC's Angus Walker reports from the Shanxi Province, China.

NBC News researcher Tianzhou Ye, Reuters and The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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London protesters decry 'corporate Olympics'

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Protesters pass a surface-to-air missile site atop a water tower on a residential block in Bow Quarter, London, Saturday. This is one of six missile sites installed around London in case of a 9/11-style attack during the Olympic Games.

By Alastair Jamieson and Jim Seida, NBC News

LONDON -- Hours after the opening ceremony fireworks echoed around east London, up to 400 demonstrators marched through a neighborhood near the Olympic Park to?protest?what they called the "Corporate Olympics."

The event, organized by Counter-Olympic Network and supported by 35 groups ranging from Occupy London to ecological and local anti-austerity campaigners,?targeted issues including free tickets for sponsors, missile sites on residential blocks and the ethics of Olympic corporations such as BP and Dow Chemicals.


?A significant number of people in this country?-- about 20 percent, according to a poll -- are not happy with the Olympics because of the involvement of large corporations about which are significant concerns,? said Julian Cheyne of the Counter-Olympic Network. ?We are representing their views and making sure that opinion is expressed.

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Protester Dana Wojokh from New Jersey was in east London on Saturday protesting the plight of Circassians in Russia.

?It is shameful that BP is a sustainability partner of the Olympics after the damage it did to the Gulf coast with their spill, and Dow Chemicals are not meeting their moral and ethical obligations to help the victims of the Bhopal disaster.?

London cyclists say 'green' Games boast 'a bit of a joke'

The Saturday lunchtime event passed?without incident, in contrast to Friday night?s Critical Mass protest ?- against the temporary closure of cycle lanes to make way for VIP Games traffic -- that saw 130 arrests.

It coincided with a visit by the Queen to the athletes' village and the swimming arena, and came only 12 hours after the spectacular opening ceremony watched by billions across the world. The protest was significantly smaller than organizers' original estimates of up to 5,000, and at one stage was almost outnumbered by news reporters and camera crews.

Protesters, flanked by large numbers of police motorbikes, began in Mile End and went past the Bow Quarter apartment building whose roof tower is one of six sites around London where the military have installed Rapier missile launchers as part of London?s $877 million security operation protecting the Games.

?This is the heaviest militarization of London since the Second World War,??Cheyne said.

One protest banner read: ?International games OK. No to Corporate backed destruction of people?s homes, green space, livelihoods, human rights.?

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A crush of media surrounds a supporter of the Olympics during an anti-Olympic protest march Saturday in east London.

As protesters shouted slogans outside Bow Quarter, soldiers guarding the missile launcher stared back from their temporary lookout position at the top of the tower.

As it went along Bow Road, the march was blocked by a small group of local residents who brandished an Olympic flag and chanted back: ?Up the Olympics!?

Diane Grieves, who lives on the street, said: ?I?m delighted about the Olympics?-- it?s really helped the area and brought everyone together. If there weren?t corporate sponsors then the Olympics would be even more expensive for taxpayers.?

Protester George Barda shouted ?No to the corporate Olympics? while wearing a T-shirt highlighting the victims of the 1984 disaster at Bhopal chemical plant of the Union Carbide Company, which merged with Olympic sponsor Dow Chemicals in 2001.

He was also wearing a pair of shoes and a backpack from Olympic sponsors Adidas.

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?I?m just wearing these shoes out because I have nothing else left,? he explained to NBCNews.com. ?I know I?m part of the problem for buying the products but the bigger issue here, which is much more important, is that the Olympics has been taken over by unethical corporate sponsors despite the fact that they only contribute five per cent of the cost of the Games.?

Among the others taking part was Dana Wojokh, from?New Jersey, who was highlighting the plight of Circassians -- a Caucasian and Middle-Eastern mountain tribe that was the victim of genocide by imperial Russia at the end of the 19th century centered on Sochi, where Russia intends to host the 2014 Winter Olympics.

?This is our chance to tell the world what happened to Circassians?-- oppression that is still happening, for example in Syria,? she said.

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A diverse community in East London will welcome the world to Britain for the 2012 Olympic Games. Meet residents and hear how they feel about having a huge, world stage in their backyard.

A spokesman for the?London Organizing Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games told BBC News: ?The Olympic Games is the biggest event in the world, and big events have always been a magnet for protests of all shapes and sizes; we have planned for this.

"We implore any protesters to consider the impact of any action on the athletes, most of whom have spent half their lives preparing for London 2012.

"We are a sport-loving nation, and ruining sporting events is not the way anyone wants London 2012 to be remembered."

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Saturday, July 28, 2012

PFT: Peyton not worried about hits to the neck

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Jets rookie WR Stephen Hill is drawing praise for doing a lot of what he likely will be doing this year:? blocking.

Pats WR Donte? Stallworth returns to New England having ?matured as a player, matured as a person.?? (Killing a guy while driving a car under the influence tends to do that.)

The goal for getting a new lease in place for the Bills officially has been moved to the end of the year.

When it comes to hairstyles, Dolphins rookies are sporting the modified Cruella deVille.

With WR Antonio Brown and not WR Mike Wallace getting a new contract from the Steelers, Snoop Dogg may need an explanation.

Browns DT Ahtyba Rubin is recovering from a procedure to repair a slight pelvic tear.

Bengals LB Brandon Joiner is on the reserve/did not report list for a good reason; he?s serving a three-year prison sentence in Texas.? (Shouldn?t they have traded him to the Lions by now?)

Is Michael Oher finally ready to play left tackle?? (With Bryant McKinnie AWOL, it may not matter.)

The Jaguars have released FB Naufahu Tahi.? (Brad Childress wants to know why they didn?t they just make him the extra man on the roster.)

Colts coach Chuck Pagano?s first training camp as head coach opens on Saturday.

Titans QB Matt Hasselbeck put business first in the offseason; ?I played it more safe and I didn?t really travel,? Hasselbeck said. ?I didn?t really go anywhere for fun.? Everywhere I went, I had a purpose.? If I was going somewhere, then throwing and working out was priority No. 1 all the time.?

Texans LB Connor Barwin has traded in the Cosmo Kramer for the Gary Kubiak.

A jury has awarded $5.2 million against Chargers doctor David Chao for prescribing a cold-therapy device after knee surgery; Chao has now been on the wrong end of multiple malpractice cases.? (But, please, keep letting him provide care to elite professional athletes.)

Broncos LB Von Miller thinks that the team?s seventh defensive coordinator in seven seasons is ?laid back?; Jack Del Rio says Miller and the rest of the defense are in for a surprise.

The Torn ACL Trio (Eric Berry, Jamaal Charles, Tony Moeaki) all practiced for the Chiefs on Friday; ?I feel I?ve got my swag back,? Charles said.

Here are five questions for the Raiders.

Our old pal (and former PFT contributor) Tim MacMahon of ESPNDallas.com tears into Cowboys WR Dez Bryant for keeping his mouth shut in the wake of his recent arrest.

Giants co-owner John Mara was surprised by the number of media at training camp: ??I can?t believe so many of you are here.? Tebow isn?t here.?

Former Redskins QB Colt Brennan has been arrested in Hawaii for suspicion of drunk driving and drug possession.

Eagles TE Brent Celek (knee) is expected to miss only a few days.

A lawsuit against former Vikings WR and current ESPN analyst Cris Carter involving a rap-song investment gone bad contends that Carter was close to becoming the Alabama receivers coach in 2011.? (It?s unknown whether Carter ever declared, ?I?m not going to be the Alabama receivers coach.?)

Bears K Robbie Gould thinks it would be a ?big risk? for the team to let LB Brian Urlacher become a free agent.? (It also would be a ?big risk? for the Bears to make personnel decisions based on the advice of a kicker.)

Packers LT Marshall Newhouse is gaining confidence via praise from his coach ? and practice against LB Clay Matthews.

Lions WR Calvin Johnson apparently can?t walk down the street in Mexico.? (Sergio Mendes can sympathize.)

Newly re-signed Falcons LB Mike Peterson is now known as ?Unc?; ?I?m everybody?s uncle around here now,? Peterson said.

Saints CB Patrick Robinson made the play of the day on Friday, stealing a Drew Brees pass away from TE Jimmy Graham.

Falcons RB Jason Snelling wants more opportunities on offense.

Panthers coach Ron Rivera hopes increased competition will create increased urgency in training camp; among other things, both kicking positions are up for grabs.

The mentor of 49ers LB Aldon Smith says that his off-field problems will be a ?small blip on his radar.?? (If getting stabbed twice is a small blip on the radar, that?s a big-ass radar.)

The Cardinals are holding their annual Red-White Scrimmage on Saturday.? (QB Kevin Kolb may want to wear ear plugs.)

Rams TE Michael Hoomanawanui is able to practice after suffering a torn ACL on November 13.

Will the Seahawks quarterback competition be reduced from three to two?? ?The answer is yes, I guess,? coach Pete Carroll said.? ?You?re just going to have to suck it up and wait.?

Source: http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/07/27/peyton-manning-isnt-concerned-about-taking-a-hit-to-the-neck/related/

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GL Enhances T1 E1 Analyzer Products and Software | EmpoSoft

Gaithersburg, MD (PRWEB) June 23, 2012

GL Communications Inc. announced today the release of its enhanced T1 E1 Analyzer Software and now its Version 6.18.

Addressing the media, Mr. Vijay Kulkarni, CEO of the company said, ?Our T1 E1 Analysis suite of products continues to provide the most comprehensive analysis and emulation capability of any product on the market. Any traffic over T1 E1 lines including voice, fax, modem, signaling, mobile, IP, VoIP, ATM, and more is addressed.

He continued, Major new hardware introduced are GL?s Octal & Quad T1 E1 boards, featuring high density and providing Four (4) or Eight (8) RJ-48 T1 E1 ports and multiples thereof. For example, configurations of 8, 12, 16, 64 T1 E1s in a single rack are possible. Octal boards are compatible with dual, quad, and higher core motherboards and software that simulate dual and quad cores (hyper-threading). Support is provided for all existing T1 E1 applications including comprehensive Voice, Data, Protocol, Analog, Digital Analysis / Emulation, and Echo and Voice Quality testing.

Our Multi-Call capture and Analysis is used to monitor hundreds of calls, capture the bi-directional data, signaling and traffic, simultaneously from multiple T1 E1 lines, based on the user-defined trigger configurations. Unlike the older version of CCA, once the capture trigger type is selected, users can control and run multiple capture instances on different T1 E1 ports from a single GUI.

Mr. Kulkarni added, There are enhancements introduced to existing applications, to name a few: tProbe, MAPS Emulation Software, TRAU PDA and TRAU Analyzer and also to our GSM, ATM, SS7, ISDN, and FrameRelay Protocol Analyzers; WCS ATM IMA Emulator application.

About GL Communications Inc.,

Founded in 1986, GL Communications Inc. is a leading supplier of test, monitoring, and analysis equipment for TDM, Wireless, IP and VoIP networks. Unlike conventional test equipment, GL?s test platforms provide visualization, capture, storage, and convenient features like portability, remotability, and scripting.

GLs TDM Analysis & Emulation line of products includes T1, E1, T3, E3, OC-3, OC-12, STM-1, STM-4, analog four-wire, and analog two-wire interface cards, external portable pods, and complete system solutions. Capabilities include voiceband traffic analysis and emulation across all traffic types (voice, digits, tones, fax, modem), all protocols (ISDN, SS7, GR-303, Frame Relay, HDLC, V5.X, ATM, GSM, GPRS, LTE, etc.), and with capacities up to thousands of channels. Our newest products provide astonishing capacity and capture capability up to and including gigabit speeds.

GLs VoIP and IP products generate / analyze thousands of calls and traffic simultaneously with traffic types such as frames, packets, voice files, digits, video, tones, noise, and fax. Almost all codecs are supported including G.711, G.729, AMR, EVRC-A,B,C, GSM, iSAC, and many more. Additional features include visual analysis, real-time listening, and recording. The product line also includes Ethernet / IP Testing capability that simulates and checks frame transport and throughput parameters of Ethernet and IP networks, including delay, errors and other impairments.

GL?s Voice Quality Testing (VQT) product line complements all of GL?s products. Using ITU-standard algorithms (PAMS, PSQM, and PESQ), GL?s VQT provides a widely accepted solution for assessing voice quality in the telecom industry. Voice Quality Testing across multiple networks (T1, E1, T3, E3, OC-3, OC-12, VoIP, Wireless, and Landline) are all available.

GLs Wireless Products perform protocol analysis and voice quality assessment on GSM, CDMA, UMTS, and LTE networks. Connections can be made to any wireless phone with automated call control, GPS mapping and real-time signal measurements.

GLs Echo Canceller testing solutions provide the broadest range of simulation and analysis, including line and acoustic echo. GLs compliance testing per G.168. G.167, and P.340 across TDM, IP, VoIP and Wireless networks is widely accepted in the industry.

GLs wireless VQT solutions help assessing impairments to voice quality such as poor mobile phone quality, voice compression and decompression algorithms, delay, loss and gain in speech levels, noise, acoustic and landline echo, and other distortions are easily assessed and accurately measured.

GLs Handheld data testers can test a wide variety of communications facilities and equipment including T1, fractional T1, E1, fractional E1, T3 and E3 modems, multiplexers, CSU, DSUs, T1 CSUs, DTUs, NTUs and TIUs and more. The testers provide convenience, economy, and portability for almost any interface, including RS232, RS-422, RS-530, X.21, T1, E1, T3, E3, and many others.

GLs Network Surveillance and Monitoring products include Probes for TDM, IP, VoIP, ATM, and Wireless networks. An open standards based approach provides a scalable, feature rich, real-time access to network characteristics. Centralized or distributed access, efficient transport and database loading allow compatibility with 3rd party and standards based monitoring systems.

Source: http://www.emposoft.com/gl-enhances-t1-e1-analyzer-products-and-software/

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Absa sees R190 mln revenue decline from rate cut

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Absa Group will likely see a 190 million rand decline in revenue as a result of the latest rate cut by South Africa's central bank, its chief financial officer said on Friday.

The South African Reserve Bank cut its benchmark rate by 50 basis points this month, citing concerns about weakness in Africa's top economy.

"If you look at what just happened with the interest rate cut, for example with the 50 basis points, although we hedge, that will still cost us around 190 million rand in revenue," David Hodnett told reporters on a conference call.

Absa, South Africa's third-largest bank, is majority owned by Barclays

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Killing Time: How to Destroy Your Productivity [Infographic ...

A study at The British Institute of Psychiatry showed that checking your email while performing another creative task decreases your IQ in the moment by 10 points. That is the equivalent of not sleeping for 36 hours. This mundane task is just one of many everyday work habits that may be standing in the way of your company?s efforts to boost productivity and increase sales.

From constantly being interrupted and switching tasks at random, to creating an impossibly long to-do list and cluttering your desk, here are seven steps to ensure that you are decreasing productivity and overall sales effectiveness on a daily basis.

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Top Internet Marketing Ideas To Grow Your Business | Beach Front ...

Once you stop with all the entertainment choices in front of you, you realize that most people are just simple ordinary people. However, just because you are average does not mean your business has to be. By using the correct internet marketing strategies, you can create an extraordinary business. Utilize the tips and techniques listed below to make your business extraordinary.

Whatever you put in your ads, be sure you can back it up. A lot of people will not believe what you say about your products or services until you provide more details. The inclusion of studies, testimonials, references or guarantees increases your credibility and makes it more likely that a sale will result. If you simply make statements without any proof, many people will simply dismiss your product and your business.

Make sure you are very knowledgeable about the content on your site. You need to be an authority figure to glean credibility from your visitors, and you can only do this by being knowledgeable and honest.

A good way to attract visitors to your website is to offer them some sort of free course. This makes for savvy Internet marketing, because your free product acts as a persuasive advertisement for the materials you?re actually trying to sell. You may wish to run an ad campaign detailing the course.

Maintain yourself updated on all the available things online. The Internet continuously changes, so staying current with it can help you make your products more accessible to the public.

Offer a free gift with purchase ? this is a great way of making your customers feel like they are valued. When you give things away for free, it is very easy for you to get your reputation up and for people to trust you.

Use AJAX and Flash only minimally. Flashy graphics may look attractive and catch the visitor?s eye, but it will not make you more visible to search engines. If you need to utilize Flash, do not use too much and make sure you put navigation links and keywords on the Flash pages.

Encourage your customers to participate on your site in a way that makes them thing they are calling the shots. This is essential to today?s online world of unwanted opinions and spam. But if they feel that they?re dictating the search and that they?re not being coerced into anything, they?re more likely to trust your site.

Insert rich and original content into your site. The site you are running should have interesting content that search engines will notice, while providing your audience with originality they appreciate and ensuring yourself of the best possible results from the search engines.

Be aware of all of your competition. Make the effort to look at the websites and social networking accounts belonging to your competition. You can also get a good estimate of how many visitors they have, which allows you to gauge how your site is doing.

Direct marketing is another way to improve your Internet marketing campaign. Customers should be contacted through email, phone or fax when trying to let them know about promotions or services. A lot of the data you need can be acquired through the yellow pages or through online phone directories.

Use searches for images as a way to improve your Internet marketing. If you put images that are relevant to your niche you can get more hits than if someone was searching for text only. People who are simply searching for information might end up taking a look through your website. Once they have been to your site and are familiar with your brand, they are more apt to visit again in the future.

Always focus on what your customers have to say if you?re hoping to keep them satisfied. Ask yourself if it is easy to navigate. Does it engage your customers? Is the ordering process quick and effective? It?s pointless to do all the SEO strategies and leg work necessary to bring in the customers, then lose them with a confusing and sub-par website.

Aspiring to be rich from your business is actually a good thing as long as you remember not to let anything deter you from your ultimate goal. Use the above tips to develop an Internet marketing strategy specifically designed for your business.

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'The Hobbit' Images Tease Riddles In The Dark

We might not be able to see the exclusive "The Hobbit" footage that was shown at Comic-Con, but at least we can get a closer look at Gollum. E! News has premiered two new images of our favorite cave-dwelling, ring-losing "Lord of the Rings" characters that fans can also see in the upcoming issue of [...]

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Russell Brand charged in New Orleans over iPhone toss

NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - British comedian and actor Russell Brand faced up to six months in prison on Wednesday when he was charged with a misdemeanor in New Orleans for throwing a photographer's iPhone through a window.

The "Get Him to the Greek" film star was scheduled to be arraigned on Thursday before Judge Sean Early, according to New Orleans Municipal Court spokesman Baptiste Souquet. It was unclear if Brand would be in the courtroom, or whether his attorney would be allowed to enter a plea on his behalf.

New Orleans police arrested the Brand on March 15 after a photographer accused the comedian of grabbing his iPhone and tossing it through a window, breaking the glass in a downtown law office.

Bail was set at $5,000 for Brand and he was released shortly after his arrest.

Brand's New Orleans lawyer, Robert Glass, could not be reached for comment on Wednesday.

District attorney's office spokesman Christopher Bowman said Brand was charged with one count of misdemeanor criminal damage to property.

The charge of simple criminal damage to property valued under $500 carries a potential penalty of up to six months in prison and/or a $500 fine. People familiar with similar cases say it is unlikely Brand, if convicted, will face jail time.

This is not Brand's first brush with the law. In 2010, he was arrested for an alleged attack on a paparazzo at a Los Angeles airport, and last year, he was deported from Japan over his criminal history when he tried to visit his then-wife Katy Perry on her concert tour in the country.

(Reporting By Kathy Finn; Editing by Bob Tourtellotte and Leslie Gevirtz)

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Movie Review: The World of Whit Stillman in METROPOLITAN and ...

The key to understanding Whit Stillman ? at least, to understanding the Manhattan-based Whit Stillman on display in Metropolitan and The Last Days of Disco ? is the Josh Neff character from the latter film.? As played by Matt Keeslar, this twenty-something assistant district attorney first seems tailor-made for derision; he speaks with the ostentatious patter of a 1940?s gumshoe (it can?t be a coincidence that he shares the same last name as Fred MacMurray?s doomed noir hero in Double Indemnity), and when he?s not dreaming of the days he can live out his law enforcement fantasies (his big ambition is to collar a perp so he can tell the arresting officer, ?Book this clown?), he?s waxing rhapsodic in that same MacMurray/Edward G. Robinson/Humphrey Bogart cadence about the glories of disco.? Just imagine the following speech in that voice:

Disco will never be over.? It will always live in our minds and hearts. Something like this, that was this big, and this important, and this great, will never die?People will laugh about John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John, white polyester suits, and platform shoes?but we had nothing to do with those things and still loved disco.? Those who didn?t understand will never understand: disco was much more, and much better, than all that.? Disco was too great, and too much fun, to be gone forever. It?s got to come back someday.? I just hope it will be in our own lifetimes.

This is crazy.? Even if Stillman didn?t include the surface loopiness of Josh?s overly serious demeanor giving credence to the genre that produced ?Do the Hustle,? we?d still have a guy rhapsodizing about an ?art? form on the decline.? It doesn?t really matter that Josh feels this way because in a few years (the movie takes place in 1981), disco will be little more than a tired punchline.? In moments like these, Josh comes off as crazy as his cynical acquaintance Des (Chris Eigeman, Stillman?s wry bard in both this and Metropolitan) says he is ? why wouldn?t the delusions of a guy who once jumped up in a college cafeteria and unironically started singing church hymns extend to other facets of his life?

But here?s the thing: Josh is so sincere that you forgive him his idiosyncrasies.? His circle of friends (played by Eigeman, Chlo? Sevigny, Mackenzie Astin, and a pre-Underworld Kate Beckinsale) might see the dance craze as a sparkly, glamorous way to find potential sexual conquests or score cheap drugs, but Josh only sees the ideal: that this flashy combo of music and motion brings people together, uniting them in a shared consciousness, in the translucent eyeball that Emerson felt connected nature and God and humanity.? It?s a deeply affirming, deeply appealing perspective, even if it is based on nonsense.

And that?s Stillman, in a nutshell.? He presents these highly flawed social systems ? yuppies and disco aficionados in The Last Days of Disco, college debutantes in Metropolitan ? but as he?s sending up their ridiculousness, he allows them dignity, grace, and even compassion.? Note his handling of Sevigny?s shy Disco heroine.? On the advice of her more sexually liberated best friend (Beckinsale), she debases herself to meet a cute guy (Robert Sean Leonard) and ends up getting both Chlamydia and herpes instead of him.? The moralist in Stillman lets her suffer, but the humanist in the filmmaker redeems her ? she meets Josh, who loves her shyness, who loves her with herpes, who thinks she deserves to be treated like a lady.? Stillman cares about his heroes too much to damn their ways of life; even Eigeman and Beckinsale?s shallow hedonists eventually find solace in each other?s company.

In some ways, Stillman?s sympathetic/mocking vision is more striking in Metropolitan because its characters are younger and, therefore, more prone to potential elitist behavior.? Metropolitan follows its college-age cast from debutante party to debutante party over the span of a cold Christmas vacation, and our first impression is less than favorable; the protagonists wear formal tuxedoes and gowns and affect upper-crust accents and hold all sorts of Undergrad 101 opinions on Fourier and Lionel Trilling and know ? just know ? that their way of life is best.

And yet?.

Stillman makes his upper-class twits the most inclusive and friendly group of upper-class twits you?ll ever meet.? Eigeman?s Nick Smith, the group?s acerbic ringleader, would be the villain in a less nuanced picture (here?s one of his characteristic barbs: ?It?s a tiny bit arrogant of people to go around worrying about those less fortunate?), but in Metropolitan he emerges as the unlikely moral compass; he cherishes his friends? weirdnesses, and he goes out of his way to make lower-class non-socialite Tom Townsend (Edward Clements) feel accepted in the group.

Carolyn Farina?s Audrey Rouget is far more thoughtful and contemplative than the stereotype of an over-privileged white girl, and while Taylor Nichols? Charlie Black appears standoffish towards Tom, it?s only because he?s in love with Audrey, and he can?t stand seeing Audrey fall for Tom and not for him.? In fact, during the crisis that occupies Metropolitan?s last act, Charlie is as dependable and reliable as the next man.? The only person who doesn?t receive Stillman?s sympathies is the venal Rick Von Sloneker (Will Kempe), and that?s because his allegiances lie only to himself and his amoral sexual whims.? He?s a shark, and that?s his sin, and the thing that isolates him from all Stillman heroes ? he doesn?t connect to any group, no matter how silly the group might be.

That?s the wonderful thing about Metropolitan and The Last Days of Disco; they sneak past your defenses and draw you in, even if you think you know better.

Criterion?s Blu-rays honor the original A/V materials; Metropolitan was shot on 16mm but still looks sharp with pleasing grain (it also has a LPCM monaural track), while The Last Days of Disco shimmers in lush 35mm with a robust 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio track.

Features are solid.? On Metropolitan, you?ll find a commentary with Stillman, Nichols, Eigeman, and editor Christopher Tellefsen; ten minutes of outtakes; scenes featuring alternate casting (Stillman provides optional commentary); the theatrical trailer; and a Luc Sante essay.? The Last Days of Disco gets an affable commentary (with Stillman, Eigeman, and Sevigny); a vintage EPK featurette; the trailer; a nice bit where Stillman reads from his novel The Last Days of Disco, with Cocktails at Petrossian Afterwards; a photo gallery; four deleted scenes (w/optional commentary); and a booklet containing a David Schickler essay.

If Jane Austen and F. Scott Fitzgerald got together to make movies, they?d very much resemble these sweet, wry, and pleasantly cynical farces.? Highly recommended.

Both Metropolitan and The Last Days of Disco are now available on Blu-ray; click HERE and HERE for their Amazon listings.

Source: http://culturemob.com/movie-review-the-world-of-whit-stillman-in-metropolitan-and-the-last-days-of-disco

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Thursday, July 26, 2012

Plaintiffs in Texas' pending school finance lawsuit represent 2/3rds ...

Houston lawyer David Thompson, who knows more about school finance than just about anybody in Texas, led a delegation to visit the DMN editorial board today. The subject was the pending school funding lawsuit that a state district court is slated to hear in Austin in late October.

I will blog later about some of the issues that Thompson presented, but the fact that really got my attention was this one: The plaintiffs in the suit represent about 600 school districts, or about 2/3rds to 3/4ths of all Texas students.

That staggering number may have no legal bearing. But if the vast majority of kids in Texas schools are in districts that are protesting the way the state funds schools that says something about the widespread nature of Texas? school funding challenges.

Thompson says never before have so many districts or kids been represented in such a case in Texas. Perhaps judges aren?t supposed to be swayed by such data, but it sure stood out to me. There are complicated legal questions involved in all this, but clearly school funding is a problem that affects many districts and students. ?This is not an isolated problem that affects only rich or poor districts, who have normally been the key players in school finance suits in Texas.

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Source: http://educationblog.dallasnews.com/2012/07/plaintiffs-in-texas-pending-school-finance-lawsuit-represent-23rds-or-more-of-texas-students.html/

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Mortgage Brokers - StraightForward Recommendations - Helpful ...

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With credit rating securing and underwriting more and more difficult, the particular Virtual assistant improve remortgage option by-passes this with regard to veterans. However, it is inside the needs of any veteran to be aware what the Veterans administration loan company needs to be saying. If your loan company attempts to appear at first sight alone allowed to help make Virtual assistant IRRRL financial loans, they're wrong. Any VA loan provider may. When they say that there are specific loan company costs that really must be additional, be skeptical. The only expense associated will be the Zero.5% financing charge. And be mindful if you are going to be able to re-finance the home for more than it is worth. You might get into a circumstance in which you might fight to promote your home and also protect the particular mortgage. Visit a VA mortgage professional regarding guidance before you make any monetary selections.

Source: http://mortgageratesrefinance579.typepad.com/blog/2012/07/mortgage-brokers-straightforward-recommendations.html

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