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Madonna News Archives for July 2005
Rumour : Documentory to premiere on TV ?
For a variety of reasons, Madonna’s documentary feature did not go to the Cannes Film Festival, and it has become clear that it’s not going to be screening at the Venice cinema jamboree either.
So where will it get shown? Um, television.
The singer and her many associates have decided, or rather been advised, that the film – which is a behind-the-scenes and in-front- of-the-scenes look at her last tour – would work better on the small screen.
At one point, the Cannes czars were going to give Madonna a place on the jury and show the documentary as a work in progress.
Cannes festival boss Thierry Fremaux told me he had seen three hours’ worth of footage but, in his view, “it wasn’t ready”.
Others have seen more footage, and it appears that wasn’t ready, either.
Documentaries about artists’ exploration of their work often come across better on the box than on the big screen.
One tends to want to doze at the cinema, whereas at home one can hit the pause button while pouring a glass of cranberry juice to stay awake.
One wag commented last night: “What’s happened to Madge? Is she too busy feeding her chickens to sort this thing out?”
Some films that will be at the Venice Film festival include Proof, which stars Gwyneth Paltrow and Jake Gyllenhaal, and Casanova, with Heath Ledger and Sienna Miller.
Sienna is hoping to attend the festival for Casanova’s world premiere screening on September 3, but first she will have to work out whether it would be feasible to miss a performance of As You Like It, which is running at Wyndham’s Theatre in London’s West End.
While I’m on the Sienna topic, it’s worth remembering that Jude Law is one of the few actors in this country whose work has been honoured with Oscar nominations.
And by the way, the producers of Casanova want to know if they are booking a suite in Venice for one, or two.
source : dailymail
The Sexiest Music Videos – Justify My Love at #6
Christina Aguilera’s Dirrty has clinched the title of sexiest music video.
Eric Prydz’s Call On Me, which featured a women’s aerobics work-out, came second behind Aguilera, whose video was set in a boxing ring.
Benny Benassi’s Satisfaction, which stars scantily-clad women clutching power tools, was third.
Nerd’s Lapdance was fourth, followed by tATu’s All the Things She Said, famous for its lesbian clinch in pouring rain.
Madonna’s erotic black-and-white video Justify My Love came sixth, followed by Kylie Minogue’s Spinning Around, in the online poll for FHM Music TV.
Mariah Carey’s Heartbreaker – which features a girl-on-girl fight – was eighth, followed by Britney Spears’s Toxic, and Narcotic Thrust’s I Like It.
FHM Music TV spokeswoman Vikki Timmons said of the winning video: “David LaChapelle created this erotic masterpiece in a sweaty boxing ring.
“Dirrty oozes sex appeal from start to finish. Christina is one of the sexiest women in music.
“It was a tough decision for the public to make but I think few would dispute the winner.”
FHM Music TV is presenting the Top 100 Sexiest Music Videos of all time on Channel Q, co-hosted by Myleene Klass and ex-England footballer Lee Sharpe. More than 150,000 votes were cast in the online poll.
source : launch
Liz Rosenberg on album rumours
Don’t believe those reports that Madonna is teaming up with Christina Aguilera. “Christina is working on an album in the [same] building [as Madonna] but they have not seen each other,” – Madonna’s spokeswoman, Liz Rosenberg, tells The Scoop. She went on to debunk another rumor. “Gwen Stefani is not guesting on the record either. It’s all Madonna, all the time ” a total dance record called ‘Confessions on a Dance Floor.’ No ballads, no messages. Her fans will go insane when they hear it. It’s back to Madonna the queen of the dance floor.”?
Madonna is “Hung Up”
Madonna has announced details of the first release from her new album, “Confessions On A Dancefloor”.
The comeback single will be “Hung Up”, which has been produced by Stuart Price, aka Jacques Lu Cont, reports madonna.com. An autumn release is expected.
Lu Cont is understood to have produced “Confessions On A Dancefloor”, Madonna’s first new album since 2003’s “American Life”. The album is apparently currently being mixed in Los Angeles.
According to reports, Madonna will shoot the album cover next month with Steven Klein, who is also expected to direct the video for “Hung Up”.
Producer Lu Cont was the musical director for Madonna’s “Re-Invention Tour” last year and also co-wrote the track “X-Static Process” from “American Life”.
source : launch.com
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Madonna.com : Album and Single Confirmed
Madonna.com is happy to announce the name of the first single off of the new album is called Hung Up (produced by Stuart Price). The album, Confessions on a Dancefloor, will be released this fall. Stay logged in to Madonna.com for more exciting album news!
That’s no lady, that’s Madonna
Madonna is the new Audrey fforbes-Hamilton, albeit more To the Manor Bought than Penelope Keith’s dowager. She has been shot in jodhpurs (only with a camera, not a 12-bore) enjoying British aristo pleasures and wafting grain around the lawn of her Wiltshire pile wearing a catwalk gown.
Her transformation from one who played the pop ho to one who might bank at Hoares is complete. So if I were her husband I’d be very nervous. Guy Ritchie might have anticipated retirement as a squire as his film career nears the end of its reel, but how long before the old girl wearies of green wellies? The chanteuse has talent, above all, for reinvention; the material girl is a mercurial woman. When she masters one look, she is soon shopping for the next. By the time toffs pile round for the start of the pheasant season she may even have adopted peasant chic ” as long as it keeps her in the manner to which she has become so very accustomed.
source : timesonline.co.uk
“Like A Duchess” – Vogue Article
“Who would have thunk it?” says Madonna with a laugh. “The last thing I thought I would do is marry some laddish, shooting, pubgoing nature lover”and the last thing he thought he was going to do was marry some cheeky girl from the Midwest who doesn’t take no for an answer!”
Speaking in carefully modulated tones, dressed with faux-bourgeois sobriety (this afternoon in Issa’s prim satin blouse with a print of flying ducks, black Kate Hepburn pants, and Marc Jacobs teal lizard shoes), a flotilla of charming, noiseless assistants close at hand and a courtly husband making polite but distracted small talk, she has the air of an Edwardian dollar princess”the moneyed American belles who were married off to impecunious British nobles in the golden age”and the fragile beauty and substantial real estate to match. But no one understands metamorphosis better than Madonna; she even named her 2004 tour “Re-Invention.” That tour is the subject of Madonna’s documentary I’m Going to Tell You a Secret, directed by Jonas A
kerlund and to be released later this year. In some ways the new movie is a pendant to 1991’s Truth or Dare, which a mellower Madonna now admits “in some ways is hard for me to watch. I was a very selfish person. You go through periods of your life where the world does revolve around you, but you can’t live your whole life that way. On the other hand, I kind of admire my spunk and directness!”
Click here for the full article.
Rumour : Madonna to produce a movie about Dusty Springfield
Madonna and her quest for movie success continues at a fast pace… but she is now planning to hit the screen as a producer. While she may have been the undisputed star of the recent Live 8 show in London, as far as movies are concerned, Madonna’s star doesn’t shine so bright.
But she plans to rectify this by making a big-screen version of the life of Sixties singing legend Dusty Springfield – who scored worldwide success with tracks like I Only Want To Be With You. Madonna told my mole: “In order to work at the level I want in movies, I have to create my own vehicles. This is a story I can relate to well.”
Not only will she produce the movie, but she’s also hinted that she will take a small role… that of Dusty’s manager. Fans of Musical Madonna, take note that her new album – provisionally called Confessions Of A Dance Floor – will be out towards the end of October this year.
source : sky.com/madonna.nu
When it’s too late for lusty, a rock chick can be formidable
Summertime, and the living is easy . . . so naturally American Vogue prints a photo-shoot of the English countryside, showing how the cream of English society disports itself during our brief but ravishing belle saison.
Now, who is this patrician figure, clad in buttermilk chiffon and cashmere, her wheat-blonde hair curled into immaculate waves, laughingly enacting a Petit Trianon charade of feeding her flock of happy hens from a dainty porcelain bowl, while in the background there looms the rose brick frontage of some small but perfectly formed English country house?
Here she is again, on horseback this time, dressed in hacking jacket, breeches and a slightly peculiar pair of boots. Last and prettiest of all is the set piece with evening dress and small children. A flowing silk skirt, the creamy smile of a woman who knows that she has fulfilled her destiny in every possible way, and two angelic moppets, a little girl in fairy frills, a small boy in chain mail, brandishing a sword as big as himself.
So go on, who is she, the girl in the pictures? Matriarch, countrywoman, grande dame. I give you one guess. The hens are the clinching detail. It’s the Duchess of Devonshire, isn’t it? Archive pictures from the Thirties, showing her at the height of her beauty. Odd about wearing chiffon to feed the poultry, but that’s eccentric Brits for you, right?
Wrong. The rose-and-blonde aristo, posing so charmingly with hens, hunter and lovely home is, in fact, none other than the Material Girl herself — Madonna, fetchingly got up for the photographer from American Vogue as Our Lady of the Manor. Fancy that!
Not, it is true, that Madonna’s latest incarnation comes as a total surprise. Between her dizzying variety of personae — the nasty-mouthed dominatrix in spiky fetish gear, the studious seeker after Kabbalistic knowledge, the sweet, Prada-clad librarian of her book launches — Madonna has been offering for some time periodic glimpses of herself in tweeds and wellies as the Country Wife.
Still, isn’t it a trifle rum that she chooses to offer up this vision of herself as an English gentlewoman at a time when the English gentry has never been more unfashionable or more energetically reviled? Do you think she’s losing the keen edge that has kept her ahead of the game for so long? Well, no, of course she isn’t. In fact, I think what she has done is to take a long, keen-eyed look into the future to see what awaits her there, and come up with a wonderfully pragmatic solution.
I’m always amazed when I read the things that fat, ugly, balding male journalists allow themselves to write about Madonna, their fabulously well preserved contemporary. “Menopausal” and “the old girl”, were a couple of the milder descriptions that appeared after her performance at the Live 8 concert in Hyde Park. Yeah, right, Mr Love God, and just look at you, I always think, on reading the painfully misogynistic prose of these barrel-shaped boobies.
However, I suspect that the secret of the Madonna phenomenon is a certain restlessness which ensures that she doesn’t sit around fulminating about patronising press but is instinctively always moving on to the next thing, and the next, and the one after that. The trouble is that, at 46, you begin to run out of next things.
However fabulously well preserved, an intelligent woman (and Madonna is certainly that) knows that there is no mileage after a certain point in pretending to be luscious. The result is simply sinister, as a brief tour d’horizon of Botoxed and desperate former beauties will confirm. So, what’s the alternative?
In the States there is no alternative. Unless you’re Barbara Bush, you just carry on getting thinner and thinner, more and more wide-eyed, sadder and madder, until you vanish altogether. You’d think Madonna might have been able to thrive in France, where allure is reckoned to be ageless, but the French are so intolerant of eccentricity (and their music scene is so peculiar). Besides, she’s married to an Englishman.
So, what have the Brits to offer a 46-year-old rock star — apart from an unpleasant claque of paunchy, sex-starved male journalists? Actually, more than you’d imagine. One always thinks of Latin nations as being supremely matriarchal, but in Britain we entertain a long and robust tradition of pale, willowy beauties who deal with the transition from flower-like nymph to middle age and older by becoming Formidable.
Even luckier for Madonna, our version of Formidable comes in an assortment of incarnations. There is Rock Chick Formidable, as modelled by Anita Pallenberg, Marianne Faithfull and Jane Birkin, all of whom are quite as much adored now — wrinkles, shattering life experiences and all — as they were in their dewy prime.
But if Madonna is too grand for that slightly down-at-heel form of celebrity, luckily we do a fabulous line in straight-up Dowager Formidable, which might suit her down to the ground. Consider the picture of the 50-year-old Queen Mary, or (to bring the matter up to date) Lady Annabel Goldsmith. Observe the wonderful posture, the ineradicable self-belief, the immense quantities of diamonds (or glitter of some sort, at any rate), and tell me if you don’t see there the very pattern of the Material Girl in later life.
Looking again at those Vogue pictures, I think Madonna has made a clever choice. At 46 she is still pretty enough to conceal the power behind the charm. Catch her again in 30 years’ time and she’ll have turned into one of P. G. Wodehouse’s aunts. Rock chick, bellowing to rock chick, like mastodons across the primeval swamp.
Rumour : “Hung Up” the first single from Confessions on a Dancefloor
from MadonnaTribe : MadonnaTribe has heard some fresh and exclusive news about Madonna’s upcoming album.
The Queen of Pop is currently in Los Angeles mixing her album with Stuart Price and the first single to be released from the new album is called “Hung Up”. In mid-August Madonna will shoot the album cover in the UK with Steven Klein who will also direct her new video, also shot in August and also in the UK.
from DrownedMadonna : As DrownedMadonna revealed some weeks ago, Madonna and Stuart Price are currently mixing her new album in Los Angeles. We have been told that one of the possible songs to be chosen as first single is called “Hung Up”.
Chris Martin plays for Madonna
Chris Martin played a song for Madonna with his wife Gwyneth Paltrow at a recent party in the English countryside, according to reports.
The Coldplay singer and American movie star were invited to a party hosted by the Queen Of Pop at her home at Ashcombe Manor, in Tollard Royal on the Wiltshire-Dorset border.
Madonna has revealed in an interview with Vogue magazine that all the guests were asked to contribute a song, poem or piece of acting, leading to Martin and Paltrow’s song.
Apparently they were joined by Paul McCartney’s daughter Stella in a rendition of “American Wife”, a reworking of Madonna’s “American Life”.
Madonna said the party was to mark her fourth wedding anniversary. She explained: “Gwyneth did a fantastic rap and Stella sang background vocals and, well, Chris played the piano.”
Elsewhere at the showbiz knees-up, Sting reportedly played a lute, while Madonna herself performed a scene from the play “The Town Wench Or Chastity Rewarded”.
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The Trump campaign is growing more concerned about Elizabeth Warren
a new old threat
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One might recall President Trump declaring in an April speech that Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), a 2020 presidential candidate, was "finished." Now, though, Trump's re-election campaign team considers Warren a legitimate threat and is reportedly ready to make her a target, Politico reports, based on conversations with multiple Trump advisers.
Trump aides and their allies at the Republican National Committee are reportedly digging up opposition research and deploying camera-wielding trackers in the hopes of halting Warren's momentum. They also reportedly plan to label her a "liberal extremist." Trump's advisers are reportedly concerned by Warren's disciplined style mixed with "populist-infused" speeches and her potential ability to win over suburban female voters.
The change in tune doesn't mean the Trump campaign won't continue to focus its energy on the current frontrunner, former Vice President Joe Biden, as well, Politico reports; but they're just less certain he'll face off against the president in the general election now.
Warren's prospects looked rough out of the gate, but the senator has polled well recently and has even surpassed Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), long considered Biden's top challenger, in some of the latest tallies. Tim O'Donnell
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A Window into the Future: A WINDOW...
A Window into the Future: A WINDOW OPENS by Elisabeth Egan
By Ronnie Alvarado
One of my favorite daydreams consists of picturing my future self. These reveries usually feature the same idealized-yet-somewhat-attainable portrait: Me as a 40-year-old high-powered book editor, living a comfortable life in the suburbs with a financially successful spouse, three kids and a dog. I have great friends, a strong relationship with both my parents, and manage to read a new book every week. It’s a portrait of my life that meets every criteria of success that I have ever had for myself, an idealized picture that I fully think would make me quite satisfied.
So when I began reading Glamour editor Elisabeth Egan’s debut novel A WINDOW OPENS**, I was pleasantly surprised to see that the protagonist, Alice Pearse, was living the exact future that I’d always dreamed of: a middle-aged book worm making a home in the suburbs with her loving husband and kids; a strong woman who was successful in all aspects of her life. I was enthralled --- this was the smart and indulgent read that I’d been craving. But as the narrative slowly unfolded, it became quite evident that Alice’s life was not the literary fairy tale that it appeared. Yet this bubble-bursting realization didn’t stop me from loving A WINDOW OPENS any less; if anything, it made me love to the novel even more.
When A WINDOW OPENS begins, Alice Pearse is truly living the proverbial dream life. Working part-time as books editor at the women’s magazine You (Glamour’s fictional equivalent), Alice is able to spend her days divided by reading, writing book recommendations, driving her eldest child to swim practice, and organizing bake sales. But when her husband, Nicholas, quits his high-powered, lucrative junior partnership at a law firm, Alice must return to working full-time, assuming the role of her family’s primary breadwinner. In true fairy tale fashion, Alice uses her incredible publishing connections to find an amazing job almost immediately. The position is with Scroll, a new bookselling venture that provides a luxury book-buying experience, complete with complimentary scones and first editions of Dickens and Twain available for purchase. Alice’s role is specifically to read widely and then recommend books that Scroll can add to its inventory. Talk about a dream job. But when Alice’s job begins to consume her life, her harmonious family life disintegrates around her, and she quickly learns that the real world isn’t the stuff of fairy tales.
A WINDOW OPENS is by no means a masterpiece. Propelled by the day-to-day life of a suburban middle-aged woman, the novel can easily be classified as highbrow chick-lit and most definitely won’t be compelling to readers who are not fanatical about books. Its conflicts are predictable, but that doesn’t diminish the pleasure that a 20something bookworm can experience while reading it. A WINDOW OPENS is filled with the little references to great books that any devotee of literature loves to indulge in. For example, when describing the audience of a debut author reading, Alice observes them, and herself for that matter, through the following literary lens: “The cozy upstairs room was already abuzz with intelligent-looking people who looked like they’ve been born in a John Cheever story, educated in a Donna Tartt novel, and now lived the full Jonathan Safran Foer life --- or so said their tote bags, touting food co-ops and imperiled far-flung outposts of the New York Public Library.”
This description is exactly how I had always imagined my future self and my imaginary colleagues. (Although my education was definitely more along the lines of PREP meets THE MARRIAGE PLOT, and I’m definitely in the Nicole Krauss camp.) It is the little descriptions and side comments specifically referencing books --- a rant extolling the merits of Virginia Woolf; a magnet on Alice’s fridge asking WWHD, or What Would Hamlet Do --- that make A WINDOW OPENS a must-read for bookwormish 20somethings looking for their next non-guilty pleasure.
Spending 300 plus pages with Alice Pearse in A WINDOW OPENS was a literary experience that I soon won’t forget. Journeying with her through failures and triumphs has only made me even surer of the type of woman that I want to be in 15 years. Smart, strong, compassionate and well read, Alice Pearse is the perfect role model for every young woman who, like me, thought that Bridget Jones was too obsessed with her boy problems, or has grown out of identifying with Matilda.
**A WINDOW OPENS will be available at a bookstore near you Tuesday, August 25th.
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September's Books on Screen roundup includes the feature films Unbroken: Path to Redemption, Bel Canto and Little Women; the series premieres of "The Miniaturist" on Amazon Prime Video and "You" on Lifetime, along with the season two finale of USA's "The Sinner"; and the DVD releases of Adrift and The Seagull.
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The Friends We Keep by Jane Green
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Adventures In Selling Experimental Video Art: An Interview With Undervolt & Co.
by Marina Galperina on November 25, 2014 Newswire
Single: Johnny Woods, Breakaway
About a year ago, artists Yoshi Sodeoka, Johnny Woods and Nicholas O’Brien launched Undervolt & Co., a video label like no other. They began to distribute collections of experimental video artworks created for their label, giving artists an alternative to the existing binary of models—dumping their work online for free or dreaming of that illusive, baller limited edition gallery sale. Their model offers their work to the public as low-priced downloads of well-curated, original, high-quality “albums” or video bundles, 20 to 60 minutes in length.
From a playlist of pulsating psychedelic geometry set to symphonic feedback to glitchy nightmares from Baltimore, the bodies of work represented by Undervolt & Co. are varied and fresh, each artwork’s visual and audio components intertwined.
Undervolt & Co. set out to fill a void in experimental video art representation with the help of the internet and a hope to someday grow into “a significant video archival institution.” They saw their dually experimental efforts actualized on and off line.
Art F City recently caught up with Johnny Woods and turns out they’re still not really sure what they’re doing, but it seems to be working out pretty well.
Why did you conceive Undervolt?
Originally, the idea was to create a format for longer experimental video works or collections of work. These tend not to work so well with streaming sites. We also wanted to find a way to add value to these more substantial projects, which we refer to as “albums”. They are typically 20-60 minutes in length. If this were ten years ago, we would just be releasing DVDs, but in the relative demise of that format we felt we needed something else to help disseminate these more substantive works.
How many releases have you done now that it’s been almost a year since your launch?
We currently have ten album titles available. In addition to the albums, we’ve started releasing “singles” which are shorter, individual videos that don’t necessarily fit into a larger body of work and can be a nice introduction to some of the artists we plan to do albums with in the future.
Single: Adam Ferriss, Moss Merseles’ Melodie. Working entirely with code, Adam Ferriss constructs surprisingly organic digital worlds. Building upon his webGL experiments and spectacular still images, Moss Merseles’ Melodie takes the viewer on a ride through cascading feedback.
What have you learned about digital and video art distribution through this experience?
I think the biggest thing I’ve learned is that nobody really knows how any of it works yet! We try different things and see if they work. Sometimes they do, sometimes they don’t, but we are very open to the fact that we do not know how distribution will work in our post-internet age. It’s exciting to see what people are trying, and taking little bits from different strategies to see if they work for us.
How do you curate your roster? What sort of work do you represent as far as its sensibilities, forms and unique qualities?
Our number one criteria is work that shows commitment. Part of our mission is to create an archive of work that can last, and we like to encourage our artists to take their time and make something substantive. For better or worse, the nature of the internet forces a sort of disposable way of thinking: artists feel pressured to keep their Tumblrs and Vimeos full of content. There’s absolutely nothing wrong with that, but we are trying to find a space on the internet for another way of thinking about content. I guess the most important thing for us is that the artist has the focus and practice to create such a work.
Album (trailer): Peter Burr’s SPECIAL EFFECT explores “The Zone”, a space from Tarkovsky’s film Stalker, in which our rules of physics are suspended. This environment is traversed through a hypnotizing blend of live action and various animation styles.
I think a lot of our artists are pretty different. We have some releases that use found footage, some that are completely abstract, some using CGI and other animation forms, some that have a narrative structure, and some that are completely free-form. We do look for a strong audio-visual connection, however.
Where have these pieces ended up offsite?
One of the biggest surprises this first year was seeing how important events and screenings could be for the label. I don’t think we were really expecting that to be as successful as it has been. Just in the last year we have done events in Croatia, Portugal, Pittsburgh, Los Angeles, Brooklyn, Portland, San Francisco, and Baltimore. In Pittsburgh, we were asked to be a part of the VIA Festival, which was especially wonderful since they were able to bring a number of our artists out to do live performances. Those artists had never met before, and it was a really amazing experience. At the end of the day, we are trying to help promote our artists and encourage their practice, so these sort of events are just wonderful to be a part of.
Album track: Sabrina Ratté, Littoral Zones. One of four videos in the collection which explore the visual and sonic relationship between modular synthesis and simulated space.
What are you planning next?
We have a couple big things coming up, but unfortunately I can’t talk about them quite yet. I can generally say that we will have probably between 7-10 album releases in 2015, a lot of events, and more releases with physical elements. [Undervolt will be screening experimental videos from their artist in the First Look 2015 film series at the Moving Image Museum.]
For Sabrina Ratté’s album [the last album Undervolt released], we had a limited edition poster option that people really enjoyed, and that was our first time doing something like that. Generally speaking, we are very content to take our time and let things evolve organically. We learned a lot in this last year, and will continue to do so as we move forward.
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Nikki Bella Surprises Fiance John Cena and Takes Him to Prom...
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Nikki Bella gave her fiancé John Cena the sweetest surprise on Friday’s The Ellen DeGeneres Show. Cena was on the show promoting his new film Blockers, about a group of kids who decide to lose their virginity on prom night and their parents who try to stop that from happening.
When host DeGeneres asked Cena about his own prom, he admitted he’d never been, saying he was “dead broke” and chose the night to earn some money instead of attending the traditional dance.
To rectify this loss, the 34-year-old Total Bellas star was hiding backstage and DeGeneres put on a prom redo for Cena, 40, with his future bride as his date.
“I hate surprises but I love this one!” Cena declared, rushing over to Bella to give her a sweet kiss.
The couple ended up being king and queen of the prom, taking several cheesy photos and slow dancing a foot apart while laughing with one another.
“We can’t dance like this at our wedding!” Bella insisted.
Earlier in the episode, Cena opened up about proposing to Bella during WrestleMania.
“I was super nervous, but I was definitely ready to ask her and that’s a big change of opinion for me. It took me a long time to get to that point, five years,” he admitted.
Cena noted that his nerves were mostly centered around the fact that he didn’t know how the enthusiastic WrestleMania audience would react.
“Sometimes they control the program,” he said. “So I didn’t want 75,000 people to stand up and go, ‘No, no, no!’ Because as performers we often get up in the moment and I didn’t want her to look around and [see that].”
Thankfully it all worked out and the couple is in the process of planning their big day.
“We are both planning that and by that I mean I say ‘OK’ to things she asks,” Cena quipped.
He also noted that while he has some nudity in his new film Blockers and has previously been nude in the comedy Trainwreck, Cena has to get the OK from Bella first.
“I do now,” he joked of asking Bella’s permission, adding, “because for the Trainwreck one I did not. I was like, ‘Ah, it’ll be fine!’ I was wrong. So that was a problem and that ended up being a tough discussion and now we review all the material that is thrown in my direction and we come to the conclusion that it will be OK.
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Ready to smackdown! Wrestler Nikki Bella shows off muscular ...
She hasn’t missed a beat in her transition from the ring to the ballroom.
And the hard work continued Sunday as WWE diva Nikki Bella, 33, was seen headed to practice for the fifth week of Dancing With The Stars with her professional partner Artem Chigvintsev, 35.
The gorgeous grappler looked to be in phenomenal shape ahead of Monday’s outing, as she wore a tight black unitard that showcased her ample bust and toned arms, as well as white Adidas sneakers.
She was a barefaced beauty with minimal makeup with her black locks parted and pulled into a ponytail as she made her way to practice toting a swanky red purse and a plastic bag full of other accessories. Chigvintsev, a native of Russia, kept it casual with a blue T-shirt, jeans and navy blue Adidas sneakers, chomping on an apple ahead of rehearsal.
The theme for Monday’s episode will be Disney Night, as the remaining nine couples will take to the dance floor to perform to the tune of Disney songs past, present and future.
The beauty is looking forward to her routine, as she’s slated to perform a Jazz dance to Remember Me from the upcoming Pixar film Coco, which is slated to hit theaters next month.
The 5ft6 entertainer, who’s engaged to pro wrestling mainstay John Cena, took to Instagram over the weekend to give her fans a glimpse of what to expect on Monday, as she took in a private screening of Coco with Chigvintsev, giving the animated film a rave review.
‘It was SO cute! The story, the music, the animation! I just loved it!’ she said, noting that she noticed that Chigvintsev was crying while taking in the movie. ‘Sorry Artem I had to share! It was adorable lol.’ On Sunday, she posted a shot from rehearsals for the show, saying she was ‘beyond excited’ to take the floor, ‘and couldn’t be happier than dancing to’ the number from the upcoming film.
The other pairings in the running this season include: Vanessa Lachey and Maks Chmerkovskiy; Terrell Owens and Cheryl Burke; Victoria Arlen and Val Chmerkovskiy; Drew Scott and Emma Slater; Nick Lachey and Peta Murgatroyd; Sasha Pieterse and Gleb Savchenko; Lindsey Stirling and Mark Ballas; Jordan Fisher and Lindsay Arnold; and Frankie Muniz and Witney Carson.
Dancing With The Stars airs Monday at 8/7c on ABC.
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Ward: St. Ishmael's
In the latest Index of Multiple Deprivation (IMD) this area was ranked 1,019 out of 1,909 in Wales, where 1 was the most deprived and 1,909 the least.
This is broken down further by income; employment; health; education, barriers to services; housing; living environment; and community safety.
Overall: 53% Better than 53% of areas in Wales
Income Deprivation: 76% Better than 76% of areas in Wales
Employment: 75% Better than 75% of areas in Wales
Health: 82% Better than 82% of areas in Wales
Education: 62% Better than 62% of areas in Wales
Barriers to Services: 0% Better than 0% of areas in Wales
0% Complete (poor)
Housing: 44% Better than 44% of areas in Wales
Living Environment: 49% Better than 49% of areas in Wales
Community Safety: 81% Better than 81% of areas in Wales
Full details of the Index of Deprivation are available from the Wales Government Website: Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation (WIMD) 2014.
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Home News Ranjan claims MS accused MR over murder incident
Ranjan claims MS accused MR over murder incident
June 4, 2015 - 16:03
President Maithripala Sirisena accused former President Mahinda Rajapaksa of being involved in a murder incident in Hambantota some 20 years ago, a Deputy Minister claimed.
Deputy Minister of Social Services, Welfare and Livestock Development Ranjan Ramanayake said that President Sirisena had personally told him that Rajapaksa was a suspect over the murder incident.
“President Sirisena was a witness to that incident,” Ramanayake claimed.
Ramanayake said that this was one of the reasons why the President did not want Rajapaksa to be the Prime Ministerial candidate of the United People’s Freedom Alliance (UPFA).
“He was in jail but was later freed with the assistance of UNP member John Amaratunga,” Ramanayake told a local radio station today.
Ramanayake said that anyone who has doubts over what he is saying can directly ask President Sirisena if the story is true.
“I asked the President if I can reveal this to the media and he said yes,” Ramanayake added.
According to Ramanayake the President has said that everyone in Hambantota and even senior UNP members are aware of the allegation against Rajapaksa.
Ramanayake said that if the families of the victims come forward the case against Rajapaksa can be brought back into the open.
He also noted that the new Government has launched investigations into several cases which had been closed by the former Government and if required even the case against Rajapaksa will be investigated. (Colombo Gazette)
http://colombogazette.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/AAAA-RANJAN-.mp3
Nimal June 5, 2015 - 18:07 at 18:07
Killing anyone in the island should be investigated and punished and no one is above the law.
Concerned Citizen June 5, 2015 - 11:21 at 11:21
Are we going to revisit the Batalanda killings during the time the UNP was governing? Since some of those leaders are still in active politics, this might be a good idea to clear some questions.
freddy June 5, 2015 - 09:37 at 09:37
Wow very timely lie you brought this up with the consent of another liar MY3. lies abetting lies.Idiots the country is down the drain and people are fighting for survival and you all cannot solve this major problem,expecting to eat your lies to survive. you people should not be in Parliament.Period.
dil June 5, 2015 - 07:44 at 07:44
It’s a pity Rajapakshe saved this country! Shouldve let it rot like all the previous leaders did! Sad to see the current President is being made a puppet by good for nothing scum bags like this guy who haven’t got a political future for any good he has for the people and only act of survival is to open the rusty mouth and say whatever he feels! People need to make a decision in the next election and it’s very important for our country’s future!
wasalaya June 5, 2015 - 05:01 at 05:01
Ranja, you forgot to say about thousands of killing by the UNP and some young men were burnt alive with tyres around the head. You very silent about this??
Lion June 5, 2015 - 04:39 at 04:39
People like John Amarathunga is also as bad as MR. One day they will have to answer these crime committed by them,
Perakum June 5, 2015 - 04:25 at 04:25
Mr, Ranjan, We have lots of files to send you to consider, How about Batalanda case? Everybody knows about background of both sides of politicians. However Mr. Rajapaksa save the country to live you, me and everyone. Majority people still like him. I don’t think that you can change people’s thoughts about former president. Don’t be a “Wandibattakaya” in politics. What ever you say and done can be used against you in court in the future. We don’t want to hear anyone’s past. Country needs to move forward. Please be a gentleman in politics and do some good things sake of the citizens.
Jaya June 5, 2015 - 03:27 at 03:27
All this talk about non-bending head is a joke.
Rajapakse offering LTTE sea planes: http://www.thesundayleader.lk/archive/20060507/politics.htm
The 48hr cease fire was an example of bending head:
http://www.island.lk/index.php?page_cat=article-details&page=article-details&code_title=124949
The armed forces did not lose this time around, previously they did:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_military_operations_of_the_Sri_Lankan_Civil_War
Credit goes to the fighting men and the belief and training instilled from about 2000:
http://www.sundayobserver.lk/2009/06/21/sec20.asp
http://www.benning.army.mil/infantry/magazine/issues/2013/May-June/Welch.html
http://businesstoday.lk/cover_page.php?issue=202
Justinian June 5, 2015 - 03:24 at 03:24
Ranjan
You are brave and outspoken and we need politicians like yourself.
Rajapakse committed the murder and a crime is a crime. There is no prescriptive period to for a crime and please do all what you can do to bring this murderer mahinda to be dealt with according t of criminal justice.
I now believe he must have for hundreds of people murdered during his period as the president.
Please do not allow him to go Scott free after committing all the henious crimes on innocent victims.
This is a budhist counter by where justice must prevail.
jay June 5, 2015 - 01:25 at 01:25
Hey, Jada BaLLO, tell that UNGREATFULL PARAYA MY3 TO LODGE A COMPLAINT!!! IF HE BASTERED CAN!!!
mel June 5, 2015 - 00:09 at 00:09
If this is true Sirisena must also be arrested along with MR for keeping silent and not reporting a murder. Those who look on while a crime is committed can also be culpable. If Sira doesn’t want MR to be PM because of that crime of 20 years ago, what was he doing accepting him as president and working closely with him like bosom buddies? What a hypocrite. And his new trusted buddy is this nitwit Ranja? What a joke. It will be very interesting to hear Siribiris give evidence in court against MR. So go on Sira get the police moving. We can’t wait for this new drama.
surasena June 4, 2015 - 22:43 at 22:43
How old the incident is hardly matters. Once a murder is always a murder, willing to kill again.
warnakulasuriya June 4, 2015 - 22:30 at 22:30
mr monky.
Sumanadasa June 4, 2015 - 17:32 at 17:32
Sirisena is playing the final Trump Card, it appears he does not have any more left. Everyone knows Rajapksa had some corruption and also notorious past, but he rescued the country and did not bow to foreign powers. His strong personality helped to defeat Tiger Terrorists and that is the main reason people still behind him apart from massive development projects launched when in power. A President acting like a scarecrow or a deputy Cow-Minister will not have an advantage for Sri Lnnka. Please get lost.
Matara Nimal June 4, 2015 - 21:42 at 21:42
Indeed what a coward this president is. He didn’t utter a word for 20 long years about the alleged incident, instead he kept supporting MR. In fact there are clips on Youtube where MS screams like a parrot on cocaine praising MR. MS goes on and on and on referring to MR, this is our God, this is the best president, this is the man who saved us from terrorism, this is my man , blah blah blah and what not. If what now he says is true, instead of all that, he should have said this. As the government’s inability and corruption and the same old tactics are getting exposed, and MR is becoming popular again, MS is trying different tricks to keep MR out of the scene because he is scared of MR. Basically, MS had a majority of only 4 lakhs of votes including 9 lakhs from the North in the presidential election. With TNA contesting separately, and with the dwindling support now, MS knows he and his government cannot expect that support anymore either. So they want all the tricks in the world to trap that guy out, shame on you president..
Lankan June 4, 2015 - 23:10 at 23:10
Sumanadasa,
You don’t have any principles do you? Maybe one day, when you or your family get done by one of these Rajapakse thugs, you will start to sing a different tune!
Piranha June 5, 2015 - 00:14 at 00:14
Rajapaksa is not just a murderer he is a mass murderer. That’s how he won the war against the Ltte. He didn’t care about killing thousands of civilians. The sinhala Buddhists are worshipping a mass murderer and want him back in power! What kind of Buddhists are these people? Lord Buddha is turning in his grave!
Well said sir
Bindu June 5, 2015 - 05:02 at 05:02
Sumanadaa, you are holding the wrong end of the stick. Tigers were not defeated by Rajapakses it was General Sarath Fonseka and his men who brought the demise of the Tigers. Rajapakse would never have even stepped into the war zone. He is the biggest coward who only liked to project himself as the hero. People like you should jump into the Beira
gemba June 5, 2015 - 07:56 at 07:56
It doesn’t mean ex.precident can kill people.at that time he was not the precident of the country.so why can’t sue him.you are a born idiot man.
Abraham June 4, 2015 - 16:55 at 16:55
This story is true. But very old, This incident happened during R. Premadasa regime. John Amaratunga was Member of UNP, not a Minister.
Sapumal June 4, 2015 - 16:48 at 16:48
Well done Ranjan, You have all the courage to expose this at least. We Could have bring this long time a go. But Jhon Amarathunga or even UNP didn’t talk about this. I would like to refer this case when a journalist interviewed former CJ Sarath N. De Silva in a one occasion he clearly explained with case numbers. He said it was a case with eye witness and clear evidence to send him for life in prison , but he was fortunate to get a pardon with political influence at that time. It happened in 1985 nmore than twenty years ago. Rasika Jayakodi in his article on 15/04/2015 “Mahinda Rajapaksa’s past shows he is capable of dividing his party, if it behefit him politically”( DBS Jeyaraj.com)
he says “Another highlight of his tumultuous political career was the by-election of Mulkirigala in which his elder brother Chamal Rajapaksa contested as the SLFP candidate. The election was characterized with violence and it was a blatant display of ‘fire-power’. Mahinda Rajapaksa, who was helping his brother’s election campaign, was arrested in connection with a shooting incident in Mulkirigala and was remanded for three months.
It was later revealed that Rajapaksa cell-mate was an Australian smuggler. The Australian national had asked the youthful politician what he would be doing when he left prison, to which Rajapaksa had said “go back to politics”. In response, the Aussie had said he would “go back to smuggling” after his time in prison.”
So ranjan You are correct find out the first case number. Second is during the “kalawana” by election. he lost and regain his civic rights due to defamatory speech alone with Sarath Muttetuwegama against Abeyrathne Pilapitiya ( Mahinda was the first respondent in the landmark case Rajapaksa Vs Gunasekera (Kalawana Election petition – 1983) whose the Supreme Court upheld his argument- But with the political support of then president JRJ)
Puusa June 4, 2015 - 22:05 at 22:05
Well, Very interesting. If this is true both MR and MS should be persecuted. Especially MS as he is supposed to have witnessed the incidence. This is dynamite and both MR and MS will loose civic rights then! John Amaratunga and all others involved should also be tried for preventing the course of justice.
If we are to probe these goons there will be a new parliament!!!
Remember Ranjan does not have a clean track record either!
punchinilame June 4, 2015 - 22:52 at 22:52
and related to MR being accused as a murder, a Canadian
resident quoted some villagers from down South the story of his murdering his 1st wife and how the investigations were stopped by Ranil, with the ASP loosing the file thereafter….??? No mention has been made about a 1st wife in MRs Biography, which would be so as this incident if true.
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Home News IGP urged to ensure security for former President
IGP urged to ensure security for former President
The office of former President Mahinda Rajapaksa has written to IGP N.K. Illangakoon, raising fears over the security of former President Mahinda Rajapaksa.
Rohan Weliwita, the media secretary of the former President, told the IGP in the letter that there was a concern over the failure to provide police security to Rajapaksa at an event in Hambantota yesterday.
He said that top police officers in Hambantota had been informed in advance about the events Rajapaksa was attending in the area yesterday.
Weliwita reminded the IGP that Rajapaksa has been under threat from the day he defeated the LTTE after 30 years of war.
With Rajapaksa now set to contest the Parliament elections next month Weliwita urged the IGP to ensure adequate police security is given to the former President when he attends public events. (Colombo Gazette)
Ceylonese July 13, 2015 - 08:59 at 08:59
If Rajapakse thinks he is still loved and respected by the masses and wants him back in power then he wouldn’t need any security. If there was a lapse in security and concern for his safety in his hometown Hambantota then he can’t be very popular in the rest of the country as well.
dharmapalap July 13, 2015 - 07:39 at 07:39
mr Rajapaska is not entatil the security .then the same treatment for others. democratic country. election is a democratic. there is no LTTE.please stop communal talk.
Booth July 13, 2015 - 06:15 at 06:15
This is all for Rajapakse attracting public attention, he himself have created fear amongst the masses for political comeback, current president does not talk about security issues because he knows he has nothing to fear about. We Srilankans are so unfortunate to say that we don’t want Rajapakse anymore after his great leadership to bring back peace to the country after 30 years of terrorism, but after that he and his clan cleaned up the country’s wealth and governed with thugs, now MR we ask you to stay away from bringing more disaster to the country and people please vote which ever the way you please, but not bring back these MR thuggery to rule our mother land
Ashantha July 13, 2015 - 04:18 at 04:18
What a Selfish Bastard.
mlke July 13, 2015 - 04:09 at 04:09
Safety and security needed for all Sri Lankan if MR come to power after General election of Parliament. He will create the country of family rule, authoritarianism, corruption and communalism
sue July 13, 2015 - 02:29 at 02:29
God help Sri Lanka if the UNP wins.
JO-JO July 12, 2015 - 23:17 at 23:17
Not only for former president but also for the present president security has to be enhanced considering the changes in the political situation at present. They are both at high risk from the UNP and the western countries who wanted regime change and who now realize their plans are going awry.
Carlton July 12, 2015 - 22:11 at 22:11
The adequate police security should be given to all Sri Lankan citizens in case MR wins the election. Only God can help Sri Lanka and its people.
Lanka Watch July 12, 2015 - 23:43 at 23:43
Calton – This is supposed to be a smooth election, following the rules under ‘Yalpalanaya’ govt and
now it looks like it is a survival of the fittest contest.
after MS did a shameful somersault while giving nominations Police now an independent identity under 19A and should be neutral and ensure a calamity free election.
The ex president already has around 350 men to protect him day & night while the current President
has less men. It is laughable that the ex President’s
office wants more men to handle him so that there
will be more hands clapping at the political meetings.
YourMum July 13, 2015 - 03:24 at 03:24
It’s true what you say! Only God can help. May God help your mother and mothers like your mother to not to produce any more babies like you… Because Sri lanka will be divided very soon if there are more of your kind.
Ran July 12, 2015 - 20:46 at 20:46
So what about other candidates
Other candidates didn’t win the war for the country so…they haven’t done sh#t for the country. So they don’t diserve any security.
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This piece is a tribute to Benazir Bhutto on her birthday and like all in Pakistan who either loved her or hated to love her will think of her or not depends on how one thinks. She is no more and the world goes on down the path it is on, where it has survived with many considered indispensible gone.
It is maybe the irony of reality and nature that we carry on after our grief and sorrow of losing someone near and dear. But as I sit in my jail cell in Central Prison Karachi as a victim of power drunkenness and persecution for coming in the way of our current political leader’s designs of keeping us in the dark for their personal petty interests. My situation is gravest to my family and I but when I think of Benazir Bhutto my problems feel so little and pale. She meant so much to us and I truly adored her when she was alive and more now.
Her leaving us in the way she did shook us at the time and today, after so many years, as I sit down and make a silent prayer for her, celebrate her being and birthday. I am shaken as I eat the sweets, which I should not be eating being a borderline diabetic, as I try to pen down all that she means to me and all of Pakistanis. It is a real pity and quite sad that we, in Pakistan, have become so cynical, sarcastic and skeptical that we do not respect or celebrate our greats.
This piece is an attempt to share my very personal thoughts on what Benazir Bhutto means to me and why she is the most unique amongst our leaders and the world over. We all know who she was and that she became the first elected Muslim woman Prime Minister in the world. She did many things for us and as said earlier, we all loved her or hated to love her, she gave us hope and strength, just as her great father did too, but she did what no leader ever did. She came back to Pakistan, even though she was very threatened. The question is that she everything, a good life, great kids, wealth, recognition, stature, safety of London and yet she came back. She was attacked and miraculously survived where hundreds of lives were cut short and maimed. She did not get scared and went deeper into the country. She was asked not address the public gathering, but she did and her words and euphoria captured on tape says it all in her last address to her ardent followers. She literally was glowing at the showering of love of the people present in LiaqatBagh. They cheered her and could not get enough of the queen of their hearts and minds.
They surrounded her and chanted slogans of “Zindahai Bhutto, Zindahai” and being the daughter of the one and only Z. A Bhutto, she responded to their chants and in great public pressure, just for them to have a moment more, she rose from her armored vehicle by getting the roof latch opened and emerged to respond to the massive out pouring of love and affection. She waved and was so much at home with her followers and passionate supporters. The footage of her wave and gratitude is forever etched in our memories. She came out, just when she had finished her rally and impassioned speech, the speech where she looked straight into the eyes of our enemies and said ‘we do not fear you and believe in destiny’. Her words, the way they were said, need to be played over and over again to showcase what a fearless leader she was and how crystal clear her thoughts were. She said it all and the crowd got charged and no one that was present in Liaqatbagh that day will ever forget her appearance, her glow and the overwhelming joy of getting the response she truly expected.
It was against her security detail protocol that she felt she could not leave the venue without thanking her supporters and so she came out of the roof and waved at her followers. She did not care about what and who awaited her as she only felt the love of her people and took the risk to return the love she got. Amongst chants those who were present for another purpose did what mercenaries do and attacked from far, near and literally everywhere and all we saw was her going down in her bulletproof vehicle, which sped away as all hell broke loose. It was hours later when news broke out that she was no more amongst us.
To date there have been so many questions; why did she come out of the jeep as she had already delivered her impassioned speech and it was a great rally, no one would have objected or minded her having left the venue just as all leaders do after their thing. It was not the case for the one and only Benazir Bhutto, she had to respond by gracing her supporters one last glance of her presence and letting them know that she too loved them as much as they loved her. It was this gesture of maternal like love that caused us all Pakistanis to become a rudderless ship, for the queen of our hearts on whose scarf were pinned our hopes and aspirations. She was sent to her eternal abode from within the crown who loved her mostly, but included those who hated her so much that they sent mercenaries tasked to change the course of our history and so to of the world. No one, no one leader comes to mind who sacrificed his or her life for the sake of love, for it was nothing but the love of her people, just as a mother does her children. But then again, if you know of any leader in the history of the world who lost his or her life for the sake of love of his or her people, please do.
As at the outset I have stated we Pakistanis either love her or hated to love her may sound like an exaggeration but it has taken me many years to gather the fact and that too in a place where she was too once incarcerated. What a leader, she certainly was in a hurry and said much, which now on reflection depicts that she maybe did know the limits of her time and so said much, which no one said in Pakistan. Is it not surprising that only her amongst our leaders talked of a new social contract? Maybe most political leaders do not even understand what a social contract is, for all they know is contracts that enrich them and make them Richie rich.
Benazir Bhutto did not need riches; she was born rich but dressed simply and gracefully held our culture and traditions. She has left us, it seems frozen in that moment where she responded to the mass out pouring of love and affection for her and now must be watching in utter bewilderment of no one trying to pick up the torch and show us the way out of this loveless state. All eyes are now at her children to stand tall and make Pakistan realize its true potential as she followed her great father, who is the founder of the real Pakistan state coming into being on 16 December 1971.
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New Dental Assistant Program Offered in NH
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A new dental assistant program is starting next year at the New Hampshire Technical Institute.
The Expanded Function Dental Auxiliary certificate program starts in May.
The New Hampshire Dental Society, the American Dental Association and Northeast Delta Dental are providing financial support to help make this program possible.
Dental assistants who have completed the program would be allowed to place restorations under the supervision of a licensed dentist. EFDAs currently work in more than two dozen states.
The curriculum includes 50 hours of classroom training and 100 hours of pre-clinical training. Once training is complete, the student can register with the Board of Examiners to begin working as an EFDA.
“Once they complete their training, EFDAs can perform a number of restorative and preventive procedures. Operating under the supervision of a dentist and as part of the dental team, EFDAs’ impact will be statewide.” said Peter Welnak, president of the dental society.
Neb. Group Asks Probe Of For-Profit Colleges
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A public interest group wants the Legislature to examine the practices and performance measures of for-profit colleges operating in Nebraska.
The U.S. Department of Education has accused some for-profit colleges of predatory practices, including fraud in some cases.
Nebraska Appleseed said in a report that more information is needed to determine whether the colleges operating in the state are “engaging in problematic practices that have been discovered in other areas of the U.S.”
Nebraska Appleseed says tuition costs at Nebraska’s for-profit colleges are nearly seven times higher than that of community colleges and twice as high as the state’s public college and university system.
Audit Finds Students Owe La. College $2.9M
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — An audit finds students owe South Louisiana Community College $2.9 million as a result of the college’s inadequate collection procedures.
The Louisiana Legislative Auditor’s report says failure to establish adequate collection procedures increases the risk that the accounts will become uncollectible.
Auditors found that while the college does have a policy to send students three collection letters prior to reporting them to the Attorney General’s Office for nonpayment, the policy wasn’t always followed.
Personnel turnover and a switch to a new payment system played a role in some of the auditors’ findings, SLCC Vice Chancellor for Student Services David Volpe wrote in the college’s response to the findings.
Volpe says new process should be in place by March 31.
Mass. Colleges Collaborate on Degree Programs
BOSTON (AP) — Anna Maria College and Quinsigamond Community College are offering future students a 2-for-1 deal of sorts.
The Worcester-area schools recently announced an agreement in which students can first earn an associate degree in public service majors at Quinsigamond, then be guaranteed admission to Anna Maria for their junior and senior years and a chance to complete a four-year degree.
Majors include criminal justice, fire science and emergency management, human services and social work.
The schools say the total cost to students for both degrees would be $40,000, a relative bargain.
The initiative is called Higher Education and Active Responsiveness through Transfer, or H.E.A.R.T. for short. The schools plan to begin accepting students into the program for the fall 2016 semester.
Miss. College Hires Jeffries as Athletic Director
PERKINSTON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College has hired Robin Jeffries as its new athletic director.
Jeffries has been at St. Patrick Catholic High School, where she is athletic director and girls basketball coach, since 2012. She has previous collegiate experience which includes serving as women’s basketball coach at both Millsaps College and Sprint Hill College.
She also worked as senior women’s administrator during her tenure at Millsaps.
Jeffries graduated from Brookhaven Academy and played basketball at Mississippi State University from 1985-1988.
Kansas College To Build Fire Training Tower
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A south-central Kansas community college is building a training tower for aspiring firefighters.
The Wichita Eagle (http://bit.ly/1TQdIPV ) reports that the Butler Community College’s Board of Trustees approved a more than $170,000 investment in a training tower last month.
The tower will be three stories tall with a rooftop. The school said in a news release that it will allow fire science students to train more extensively in a realistic environment.
El Dorado Fire Chief Steve Moody said previously, firefighters had to train in houses that were in the process of being demolished.
The tower is expected to be completed and in use by midspring.
La. Fundraising Shortfall Delays Building Plans
THIBODAUX, La. (AP) — Fletcher Technical Community college has raised less than 40 percent of the money it needs for a planned $5.1 million career center.
Administrators tell The Daily Comet (http://bit.ly/1RygX0W ) that means a delay is likely in plans to begin construction next year.
Plans started in 2013, after the state Legislature allocated money to 13 community and technical colleges statewide. The law requires a 12 percent match — or $550,000 to get $4.5 million in state money.
Fletcher’s new chancellor, Kristine Strickland, says the college has raised about $200,000.
She says raising the remaining $350,000 is one of her top priorities. She’s the third chancellor since the law was passed.
Officials say the proposed center would include advising offices, study labs, a bookstore, testing and other student-related services.
Sign Language Program Earns Accreditation
WATERFORD TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — Oakland Community College’s sign language interpreter program has been awarded national accreditation by the Commission on Collegiate Interpreter Education.
The program offered at the school’s Highland Lakes campus in Waterford Township is one of one five sign language interpreter degree programs in Michigan and the first to be accredited. The Detroit News (http://detne.ws/1PjtzaH ) reports that the accreditation comes as advocates for the deaf community say Michigan faces a pressing need for sign language interpreters.
The Michigan Department of Civil Rights says more than 1.2 million deaf people live in Michigan, which has some of the nation’s toughest testing requirements for interpreters, and only one in every three sign language interpreter positions is filled.
Oakland Community College’s sign language interpreter degree program lasts three years. About 1,300 students are currently enrolled in the program.
Study: Half of Ill. Students Need Remediation
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — New data shows about half of Illinois high school graduates going on to the state’s community colleges need remediation in at least one subject.
That data was released by the Illinois State Board of Education.
It shows 48.7 percent of graduates who enrolled in the community college system needed remedial instruction to prepare them for entry-level college coursework.
The highest remediation rate was in math, with about 41 percent needing additional preparation in the subject.
For the first time, that information is being reported with Illinois Report Card data.
State Superintendent of Education Tony Smith says that information, along with the test known as the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers, will help educators address the college readiness of their students.
Tenn. Panel Seeks To Expand Training Program
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The Tennessee Higher Education Commission is asking lawmakers to expand a $10 million grant program that paired employers with colleges to develop academic programs tailored to the needs of local job markets.
According to The Tennessean (http://tnne.ws/1RayFb9 ), the commission said in a report released that Labor Education Alignment Program has grown substantially, but needs to receive more funding and attention during the upcoming legislative session.
The program doled out the grant funding to 12 different coalitions late in 2014.
The report says that thousands of students across 51 counties were reached by the first wave of grant funding, including 13,363 students who participated in extracurricular programming, including internships, clubs or training.
The commission says that funding a larger number of coalitions moving forward would help expand the program’s impact.
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Remembering AliRemembering Ali
Gvozdyk stops injured Ngumbu in 5th, keeps title
107dDan Rafael
Collazo vs. Benavidez Jr. set for Aug. 17 in L.A.
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Vargas beats Kameda by unanimous decision
2dSteve Kim
Dubois makes powerful statement vs. Gorman
2dNick Parkinson
Joyce outpoints Jennings to stay unbeaten
Kovalev may move on as Canelo talks hit snag
3dDan Rafael
Stevenson KOs Guevara in thrilling homecoming
Why Shakur Stevenson needs to put on a show in Newark
5dMark Kriegel
Ryota Murata shines in TKO of Rob Brant. Now what?
4dDan Rafael and Steve Kim
Murata avenges loss, regains secondary title
Andrade calls out Canelo, GGG after easy win
16dDan Rafael
Joseph Parker stops Alex Leapai, wants heavyweight unified titlist Andy Ruiz Jr. next
Commey floors Beltran 4 times, gets TKO in 8th
17dSteve Kim
Can Tyson Fury be a major crossover star in America?
Fury still lineal champion with TKO of Schwarz
Gvozdyk retains WBC title due to Ngumbu injury (1:11)
Oleksandr Gvozdyk retains his WBC light heavyweight title against Doudou Ngumbu after Ngumbu was unable to continue with a lower leg injury. (1:11)
Dan RafaelESPN Senior Writer
2013 BWAA Nat Fleischer Award winner for excellence in boxing journalism
ESPN.com boxing writer since 2005
Five years at USA Today
PHILADELPHIA -- Coming into the first defense of his light heavyweight world title, many wondered if Oleksandr Gvozdyk would be able to put aside the near-tragedy of his title-winning effort on Dec. 1 against Adonis Stevenson. As it turned out, there was no need for concern.
Gvozdyk scored a fifth-round stoppage victory when Doudou Ngumbu could not continue because of a right calf injury in the fifth round on Saturday night in the main event of the Top Rank Boxing on ESPN card before a sold-out, standing-room crowd of about 1,350 at the 2300 Arena.
Gvozdyk appeared to handle Ngumbu with little issue before the stoppage but was not thrilled with the way the fight went and the unusual ending.
"It wasn't what I expected, but I did my best," Gvozdyk said. "Sometimes, this happens [in boxing]. It is what it is."
Gvozdyk started well when he nailed Ngumbu with a solid right hand in the first round, during which Ngumbu showed the style that was expected -- an awkward one with a lot of herky-jerky movement.
Oleksandr Gvozdyk, left, stopped Doudou Ngumbu in the fifth round after Ngumbu could not continue due to a right calf injury. Matt Heasley for Mikey Williams/Top Rank
Gvozdyk got through with a left hook in the fourth round and later with a right, but he had trouble landing combinations because Ngumbu was moving so much.
Gvozdyk continued to stalk him in the fifth round when Ngumbu suddenly came up limping. Ngumbu injured his right calf and grabbed onto the ropes to steady himself.
For whatever reason, referee Eric Dali gave him time to recover, ruling an accidental foul, even though there was no contact and the fight should have been stopped. Eventually, Dali stopped the fight at 58 seconds when it was clear Ngumbu could not walk off the injury.
Ngumbu (38-9, 14 KOs), 37, a Congo native living in France, eventually sat down in his corner and began to cry because of his disappointment with the outcome.
Final punch stats
Gvozdyk 47 of 204 (23%) 18 of 100 (18%) 29 of 104 (28%)
Ngumbu 18 of 108 (17%) 3 of 33 (9%) 15 of 75 (20%)
-- Courtesy of CompuBox
According to CompuBox statistics, Gvozdyk landed 47 of 204 punches (23 percent) and Ngumbu landed only 18 of 108 (17 percent).
Ngumbu viewed the fight as his first and probably only shot at a world title. It was a fight he took so seriously that he also broke down in tears at the previous day's fighter meeting with the ESPN broadcast crew. Asked about the importance of the bout, he explained that it would mean he could better financially support his mother and other family members still in Congo, as well as his wife and children in France.
Gvozdyk, nicknamed "The Nail," won the title when he traveled in December to Quebec City, the home region of long-reigning world champion Adonis Stevenson, and rallied for a brutal, 11th-round knockout victory. Stevenson had suffered a catastrophic brain injury and was rushed to the hospital, where he had surgery, spent weeks in a coma and nearly died.
The Oxnard, California-based Gvozdyk (17-0, 14 KOs), 31, a 2012 Ukrainian Olympian, entered the defense against Ngumbu having been peppered in the days leading up to the fight with questions about his state of mind given that difficult situation. But while he wished Stevenson well and was happy that his previous opponent is recovering, Gvozdyk insisted it would have no impact on how he went about his business in the ring in his second fight with trainer Teddy Atlas.
The fight came on the same day that there was good news from the Stevenson camp. His promoter, Yvon Michel, was ringside and told ESPN that Stevenson was allowed to go home for the weekend for the first time from the rehabilitation center he has been in. He will return to the rehab center during the week but continue to go home on the weekend, Michel said.
Before the fight, Gvozdyk declined to discuss the possible major fights for him with a victory. But now they are possible -- and likely to be easily made -- because Top Rank also promotes fellow world titleholder Artur Beterbiev (13-0, 13 KOs), who will defend his belt against Radivoje "Hot Rod" Kalajdzic (24-1, 17 KOs) on May 4, and co-promotes titlist Sergey Kovalev (33-3-1, 28 KOs), the biggest name in the division.
Top Rank also promotes super middleweight titlist Gilberto "Zurdo" Ramirez (39-0, 25 KOs), who is moving up to light heavyweight on April 12, and co-promotes former light heavyweight titlist Eleider "Storm" Alvarez (24-1, 12 KOs), who lost his belt to Kovalev in their rematch on Feb. 2.
So, Gvozdyk will not lack for notable opposition, and Top Rank said it is likely there will be at least one unification fight before the end of the year. That is what he wants.
"My goal is to unify titles," he said. "I will wait to see what my team tells me to do next."
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RECEP ERDOGAN BLAMES THE OUTSIDE WORLD FOR HIS CORRUPTION SCANDALS
The Turkish overlord goes cavorting around again, looking for nickel-and-dime excuses for corruption in his government:
The political crisis shaking Turkey spilled over into the country’s ties with the rest of the world on Saturday, as Recep Tayyip Erdogan blamed outside forces for the country’s worst corruption scandal for years and appeared to threaten the US ambassador.
Speaking at a rally at the Black Sea town of Samsun, the prime minister attributed the investigation into the scandal – which involves allegations of millions of dollars of bribes, smuggling, the fixing of tenders and illegal construction – to a plot “with international dimensions” against his government.
Oh, do tell us about it. To be sure, it's nothing of the sort, but even if it were, he'd be asking for it with his track record of bigotry against infidels.
Any hostility he may have voiced against the American ambassador in Turkey should be cause for concern too, and just shows that even a leftist government in the USA won't make him cooperative.
Turkey’s relations with the US hit a peak in 2009, when President Barack Obama praised the “model partnership” between the two countries.
But ties have become tense with differences over Egypt, where Mr Erdogan called for the West to denounce the coup against former President Mohamed Morsi, Syria, where the Turkish prime minister wanted a Kosovo-style campaign against President Bashar al-Assad and Washington’s concerns about the Turkish government’s crackdown on mass protests.
I suppose the reason he's against Assad is because the Syrian overlord isn't Islamist enough for his tastes.
“I presume this will work with Erdogan’s core constituency,” said Steven Cook of the Council on Foreign Relations of the prime minister’s latest remarks. “There’s a reservoir of anti Americanism in Turkey and this is going back to the well.” He added, however, that despite frustration with Mr Erdogan Washington still sought co-operation with Turkey because of the country’s strategic importance.
Too bad. They could save themselves a lot of money and other hassles by not wasting their time maintaining ties with such an awful politician. And honestly, what importance does Turkey really have at this point anyway?
THIS IS WHAT FASCISM SOUNDS LIKE
PIERS MORGAN:
Piers Morgan @piersmorgan
Just as the 2nd Amendment shouldn't protect assault rifle devotees, so the 1st Amendment shouldn't protect vile bigots. #PhilRobertson
FASCISTS LIKE PIERS MORGAN BELIEVE ONLY PEOPLE THEY LIKE DESERVE THEIR INNATE AND UNALIENABLE RIGHTS.
AS IF "FREE SPEECH" ONLY APPLIED TO SPEECH YOU LIKED.
THE CODIFIED PROTECTION OF SPEECH IS IMPORTANT PRECISELY TO PROTECT SPEECH SOME PEOPLE DON'T LIKE - AND WANT SQUELCHED.
WHAT'S INSANE ABOUT THIS IS THAT PIERS MORGAN IS NOMINALLY A MEMBER OF THE PRESS AND SO YOU WOULD THINK HE'D SUPPORT FREE SPEECH.
BUT HE IS MORE WEDDED TO LEFTISM THAN HE IS TO THE FIRST AMENDMENT, OR THE SECOND - OR ANY AMENDMENT OR HUMANS RIGHTS THEMSELVES.
THIS IS PRECISELY WHY THE MEDIA IS SO DANGEROUS NOW, AND WHY THE MEDIA HAS MORPHED INTO WHAT IS ESSENTIALLY A STATE-RUN MEDIA.
IF WE WANT TO PRESERVE LIBERTY, THEN WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TO END THE STRANGLEHOLD THE LEFT HAS ON THE MEDIA.
PIGS FLY: NYTIMES REPORTING OBAMACARE SCREWS THE MIDDLE CLASS!
FRONT PAGE / NYTIMES:
"New Health Law Frustrates Many in Middle Class
Many Americans who don't quality for health care subsidies are facing steep premium prices."
OBAMACARE HAS DONE MORE HARM TO MORE AMERICANS THAN ANYTHING IN HISTORY EXCEPT FOR ACTS OF WAR.
WE'RE IN THE VERY BEST OF HANDS?
MEN VERSUS BOYS
ALPHA MALES VERSUS BETA MALES.
WILL REGGIE FLY TO HAWAII?
I THINK SOMEONE IN THE PRESS OUGHT TO ASK OBAMA HOW HE FEELS ABOUT MSNBC'S ENDORSEMENT OF GAY ANAL INTERCOURSE.
"MR. PRESIDENT, DO YOU LIKE TO GIVE IT OR GET IT?"
OBAMA CHECKS IN WITH HIS BOSS
IT'S GETTING NASTY OUT THERE....
THERE'S ONLY ONE REASON WHY THE NSA SNOOPS ON EVERYONE: POLITICAL CORRECTNESS
IF THE NSA AND CIA AND FBI WEREN'T HOBBLED BY POLITICAL CORRECTNESS, THEN THEY COULD FOCUS ON THE ENEMY AND LEAVE THE REST OF US ALONE.
INSTEAD OF FOCUSING ON ISLAMISTS AND MUSLIMS FROM WELL KNOWN ISLAMIST STRONGHOLDS OR WHO HAVE VISITED KNOWN ISLAMIST MOSQUES, THEY SNOOP ON EVERYONE.
THIS HURTS EVERYONE BECAUSE IT REDUCES EVERYONE'S PRIVACY AND BECAUSE AS A RESULT OF SNOOPING ON EVERYONE THEY GET TOO DAMN MUCH INFO.
IF THEY FOCUSED ON THE ENEMY, THEN THEY'D END UP WTH MORE ACTIONABLE INTEL AND THEY WOULDN'T BE VIOLATING THE RIGHTS OF INNOCENT AMERICANS.
REPEAT: POLITICAL CORRECTNESS IS THE REASON WE HAVE LESS PRIVACY AND AT THE SAME TIME, IT'S THE REASON WE ARE LESS SAFE.
IF WE WANT TO DEFEAT THE ENEMY AND REMAIN FREE, THEN WE HAVE TO DEFEAT POLITICAL CORRECTNESS.
PC IS AN ALLY OF THE ISLAMISTS AND THE ENEMY OF LIBERTY.
Isaiah 5:20: "Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that change darkness into light, and light into darkness; that change bitter into sweet, and sweet into bitter!"
Isaiah 5:20 -
"Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that change darkness into light, and light into darkness; that change bitter into sweet, and sweet into bitter!"
AND THEN THERE ARE THESE LIES DURING THE CAMPAIGN AGAINST ROMNEY - LIES THAT GOT HIM RE-ELECTED:
NEVER BEFORE HAS A PRESIDENT LIED SO BLATANTLY, SO FREQUENTLY OR WITH SUCH HORRIBLE RESULTS.
LIES ARE NOT CAUSED BY INEPTNESS.
DECEIT IS NOT THE RESULT OF INCOMPETENCE.
FALSEHOODS DO NOT ARISE SPONTANEOUSLY.
OBAMA IS A LIAR, WRAPPED IN A DECEIVER, INSIDE A PERJURER.
HMMM: IN THE FINAL WEEK OF CHRISTMAS SHOPPING, THE STATE-RUN MEDIA IS SPINNING THE ECONOMIC NEWS AND TELLING US THE ECONOMY IS DOING JUST GREAT
THEY FAILED TO ADEQUATELY REPORT THE SURGE IN UNEMPLOYMENT, OR THE SLOWDOWN IN SALES OF HOMES, OR THE SUDDEN SURGE IN INVENTORIES, OR THE WEAK BRICKS'N MORTARS RETAIL SALES, OR THE SLOWDOWN IN CONSUMER SPENDING.
BUT THEY SPIN EVERYTHING AS IF THE ECONOMY WAS HUNKY-DORY:
Revision Shows U.S. Growing at Fastest Rate Since 2011
The Commerce Department on Friday revised up its estimate of 3.6 percent to 4.1 percent, saying business spending was stronger than it originally thought.
WHERE AND WHY AND HOW HAS THE INCREASE TAKE PLACE?
ZERO HEDGE GETS TO THE BOTTOM OF THE MATTER:
Earlier today, the Bureau of Economic Analysis surprised everyone by announcing a final Q3 GDP growth of 4.1% compared to 3.6% in the first revision (and 2.8% originally), driven almost entirely by the bounce in Personal Consumption which rose 2.0% compared to estimates of 1.4%.
As a result many are wondering just where this "revised" consumption came from. The answer is below: of the $15 billion revised increase in annualized spending, 60% was for healthcare, and another 27% was due to purchases of gasoline. The third largest upward revision: recreation services. On the flip side, the biggest revision detractors: transportation services and housing and utilities.
In other words, the BEA thought long and hard what it could revise and decided on the following: in Q3 the US economy was revised to the strongest since 2011 because Americans, it would appear, were gassing up more to visit (and pay) their doctor, and then going to the movies.
IT'S A DESPERATE ATTEMPT TO CREATE AN ATMOSPHERE IN WHICH PEOPLE WILL FEEL LIKE SPENDING MORE MONEY.
I DON'T THINK IT WILL WORK.
BURIED IN THE ABOVE/LINKED-TO ARTICLE:
Economists expect growth to slow in the fourth quarter, in part because some of the upswing has resulted from businesses building up their inventories.
SOME?!?! BS. NEARLY ALL: BBC: But the upward revision was mainly driven by a big jump in businesses restocking their inventories, the Commerce Department said...
PEOPLE KNOW THEIR OWN ECONOMIC SITUATION IS REAL NO MATTER WHAT THEY ARE BEING TOLD ABOUT THE GENERAL ECONOMY.
PEOPLE KNOW THE EMPLOYMENT SITUATION SUCKS - NO MATTER WHAT THE DOL/BLS TELLS THE STATE-RUN MEDIA AND NO MATTER HOW LITTLE BAD NEWS THE STATE-RUN MEDIA TELLS THEM.
LIKE THE FACT THAT THE NYTIMES AND THE REST OF THE STATE-RUN MEDIA STILL HASN'T RUN AN AP NEWS-ITEM FROM YESTERDAY ABOUT THE SURGE IN UNEMPLOYMENT.
WHEN THE RETAIL NUMBERS ARE REPORTED IN JANUARY, WE WILL FIND OUT IF 2014 WILL BRING US ANOTHER CONTRACTION OR NOT.
I THINK WE WILL HAVE ANOTHER RECESSION AND THAT OBAMACARE WILL MAKE IT WORSE.
THE LEFT'S ANTI-ZIONISM
Caroline Glick wrote about the beliefs embraced by leftists, such as anti-war sentiments, which lately includes hostility to Zionism, and how sensible people could/should deal with it.
SWEDISH PARLIAMENT TAKES DOWN NUDE JUNO PICTURE TO AVOID OFFENDING BOTH MUSLIMS AND FEMINISTS
I don't know about the feminists, but when it's the Religion of Peace they decide to appease, you know something's wrong:
A nude painting named Juno, which was painted by baroque artist G E Schröder and has hung in the dining room of the Swedish Parliament for 30 years has been taken down for fear of offending the sensitivities of feminists and Muslim visitors, Swedish newspaper, The Local reported on Thursday.
Explaining the ban on the baroque breasts, a source from the parliament said: "You have to think of the foreign guests, especially those from Muslim countries."
Yeah, you just simply have to. Again Sweden has made a joke out of itself in their pointless quest for political relevancy.
STATE-RUN MEDIA FAIL TO REPORT TODAY'S AWFUL UNEMPLOYMENT NUMBERS REPORTED BY THE DOL/BLS
THE NEWS AS RELEASED AT 8:30AM TODAY BY THE DOL/BLS:
In the week ending December 14, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 379,000, an increase of 10,000 from the previous week's figure of 369,000. The 4-week moving average was 343,500, an increase of 13,250 from the previous week's revised average of 330,250.
GOOGLE NEWS RESULTS THIS EVENING - [NOTE: NOT ONE SINGLE MAJOR MSM NEWS OUTLET REPORTED THE NEWS]:
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THE STATE-RUN MEDIA DO NOT REPORT NEWS THAT HURTS OBAMA AND HIS COMRADES.
THEY ARE NOT NEWS AGENCIES; THEY ARE MERELY A PART OF THE POSTMODERN LEFTIST MACHINE.
AS PART OF THE MACHINE, THEIR TRUE PURPOSE IS NOT AN INFORMED ELECTORATE, BUT A BRAINWASHED ELECTORATE.
AND IT'S WORKING.
I LIVE AND WORK IN NYC, AND NOT A SINGLE LIBERAL ACQUAINTANCE I KNOW HAD HEARD ABOUT ANY UNEMPLOYMENT NUMBER, LET A LONE A BAD ONE.
YET THEY ALL THINK THEY ARE WELL-INFORMED.
THEY ARE NOT WELL-INFORMED.
THEY ARE BRAINWASHED DUPES.
THIS IS THE ONLY WAY THE LEFT CAN GAIN AND HOLD ON TO POWER - THE POWER THEY NEED TO INFLICT THEIR DYSTOPIAN TYRANNY UPON US ALL.
IT IS PART-AND-PARCEL WITH HARRY REID'S ANTICS IN THE US SENATE - HAVING "GONE NUCLEAR" AND DONE AWAY WITH THE FILIBUSTER ON NOMINATIONS IN ORDER TO ADVANCE THEIR LEFTIST AGENDA.
THEY WILL DO ANYTHING TO ADVANCE THEIR AGENDA:
USE THE IRS TO HARASS THEIR POLITICAL OPPONENTS.
REWRITE THE LAWS BY EXECUTIVE FIAT.
LIE TO CONGRESS.
INSTRUCT US ATTORNEY'S NOT TO ENFORCE THE LAW.
LIE TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE OVER AND OVER ABOUT KEEPING THEIR INSURANCE.
OBAMA AND HIS COMRADES ARE LAWLESS FASCISTS.
WE MUST END THEIR REIGN OF TYRANNY ASAP.
IT'S 2014, OR NEVER.
BJ CLINTON ARGUES WE NEED AMNESTY TO KEEP OUR POPULATION GROWING...
CNS VIA WZ:
Former President Bill Clinton says if U.S. lawmakers realized the economic impact of having the country’s population growth coming to a halt, it would energize immigration reform, “because it’s the only way to keep our country growing.” Clinton made the comments while discussing immigration reform earlier this month on the America with Jorge Ramos program. “I think that we're trying to pass immigration reform. The country needs it. If – I wish that all these members of Congress who oppose immigration reform, and who feel threatened by it, had been with me on my recent trip to Asia,” Clinton said.
“And they – and Japan and China where they're worried about the population growth just coming to a halt. And what it's going to do to them economically,” Clinton continued. “And I think it would give a lot more energy to immigration reform in America. The – we're going to have to do it, because it's the only way to keep our country growing. And the sooner we do it, the better.”
THIS IS TAUTOLOGICAL BULLSHIT.
IF WE DIDN'T HAVE ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS TAKING AWAY JOBS AND DRIVING WAGES DOWN, THEN WAGES WOULD BE HIGHER AND MARRIED COUPLES WOULD HAVE MORE KIDS BECAUSE THEY COULD AFFORD TO HAVE MORE KIDS.
BY ACCEPTING THE 11 MILLION ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS HERE, THE LEFT HAS LOWERED OUR WAGES AND OUR BIRTH RATES.
ONE REASON THE LEFT FAVORS LOWE WAGES AND AN INFLUX OF NON-WESTERN IMMIGRANTS IS THAT THE LEFT WANTS TO TURN THE USA FROM "THE EXCEPTIONAL NATION" AND "THE INDISPENSABLE NATION" - ( AT LEAST TO THE FREE WORLD!) - INTO A THIRD WORLD NATION.
WE NEED TO STOP THIS AND WE NEED TO STOP IT ASAP.
FALK SHOULD BE FIRED, BUT WE CAN'T BE OPTIMISTIC IT'LL HAPPEN
Elliot Abrams has written about why the UN HRC member Richard Falk should be thrown out of that already corrupt organization:
The special rapporteur on the Palestinian territories of the United Nations Human Rights Council is an extremist named Richard Falk. Falk is an embarrassment to the council and the U.N. whose only activity is to use violent and extreme language to denounce Israel -- most recently for "a criminal intention that is genocidal."
Canada has denounced Falk for these remarks and Canadian Foreign Minister John Baird said this: "Canada completely rejects and condemns the appalling remarks made by Richard Falk, United Nations special rapporteur to the Palestinian territories, in which he accused Israel of 'genocidal' intentions.
"Canada has previously called for Falk to be fired for his numerous outrageous and anti-Semitic statements, and these comments underscore once more the complete and total absurdity of his service as a U.N. special rapporteur.
"I call on the United Nations Human Rights Council -- once again -- to remove Falk from his position immediately.
"Not only do these comments undermine the fundamental values of the United Nations, they also belittle the terrible genocides that have tragically taken place throughout history and around the world."
Baird's comments are commendable, but unlikely to do much good. The UN is still bound to keep Falk - who's also a 9-11 truther - in place, probably for life. The UN has long been otherwise useless, and proved that in the long run.
IDF KILLS 2 JIHADISTS IN JENIN
Some success in dealing with local jihadists in Jenin:
Two Palestinians were killed in Israeli military operations in Judea and Samaria overnight.
In the first incident, Israeli troops were fired upon during an arrest operation in the Jenin refugee camp on Wednesday night. The troops returned fire, killing one Palestinian.
The incident began around 10 p.m. on Wednesday night when Israeli counter-terror forces entered the Jenin refugee camp to arrest an Islamic Jihad operative who had planned attacks on transportation arteries in Judea and Samaria. A disturbance broke out and Palestinians opened fire on the Israeli soldiers. The soldiers then responded with return fire, wounding several Palestinians.
In addition to gunfire, the soldiers were also attacked with improvised explosive devices, an Israeli military spokesperson said.
The wanted Islamic Jihad operative was not captured in the operation. No Israeli soldiers were wounded.
Two of the wounded Palestinians were transported to Haemek Medical Center in Afula. One died of his wounds en route to the hospital.
And he can now appear before the highest court.
EVERY VERSION OF ISLAM IS BAD
The UK Spectator wrote about the trial of the two jihadists who murdered Lee Rigby in Woolwich. But while they do have some good points to raise, it becomes problematic when the writer says that:
...the murder of Drummer Rigby had everything to do with Islam: a nasty, bigoted, backward version of Islam to be sure, but a version of Islam nonetheless.
That's basically implying that "true" Islam isn't backwards, when in fact it is, and the two savages proved it themselves when they quoted from the Koran during the trial. But, this head-in-the-sand act is something we've come to expect from most mainstream news companies.
The jihadists deserve to get a death penalty, but this being a European country, I doubt they'll ever get what they really need to be given.
THE 10 TRUTHS MAINSTREAM COMICS AVOID ABOUT ISLAM
Cartoonist Bosch Fawstin writes on Pajamas Media about ten truths mainstream comic publishers refuse to acknowledge about Islam, which he used to adhere to himself before he woke up and understood what it was really like.
WHAT IF THE SHOE WERE ON THE OTHER FOOT?
Mr. Phil Robertson has been "suspended" from the "Duck Dynasty" television program that he created, because his "personal views in no way reflect those of A+E Networks, who have always been strong supporters and champions of the LGBT community. The network has placed Phil under hiatus from filming indefinitely." What exactly did he say to the GQ interviewers?
It seems like, to me, a vagina—as a man—would be more desirable than a man’s anus. That’s just me. I’m just thinking: There’s more there! She’s got more to offer. I mean, come on, dudes! You know what I’m saying?
What if the shoe were on the other foot? What if Ian McKellen, George Takei, or any other openly gay media star had said the opposite:
It seems like, to me, a man's anus—as a man—would be more desirable than a vagina. That’s just me. I’m just thinking: There’s more there! He’s got more to offer. I mean, come on, dudes! You know what I’m saying?
Would there have been any repercussions? Wouldn't every pundit and commentator in the mainstream media have applauded his courage, and noted that he was merely expressing his own preferences and desires, which should be fully respected and valued as much as anybody's? Mr. Robertson situated his own preference in the framework of his belief in Christianity and the teachings of the Bible. That also offended the mainstream media.
Now if he had quoted from the Noble Holy Qu'ran of course, whose adherents hang homosexuals in the streets of Teheran, that would have been just fine . . . to contradict him would have been Islamophobia . . . .
BREAKING NEWS: OBAMA HAS DISSOLVED CONGRESS!
BREAKING NEWS: OBAMA HAS DISSOLVED CONGRESS
In a de facto sense this is simply true.
The chief powers of Congress are the power of the purse and the power of oversight.
Congress no longer has either.
Congress doesn't even pass a budget anymore - (and we seem to be stuck spending 35% more now than in 2008 even though neither our nation's population or our economy has grown by 35% and we can't afford to spend this much each year and go into this much more debt each year).
And - because Congress allows Obama's executive branch members to lie with impunity when appearing for testimony - Congress no longer has any real oversight.
In addition, the president now picks and chooses which laws he wants to enforce and even rewrites them by executive fiat.
And all the while the NSA, and CIA and FBI spy on us.
WE NO LONGER LIVE IN A REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY.
WE LIVE IN A FASCIST STATE.
I agree with Rand Paul, Clapper's perjury to Congress is a more serious crime than Snowden's treachery and treason.
THE FED IS STILL PUMPING
It appears the markets and most economists welcome the fact that the FED is reducing QE3 from $85 billion per month to $75 billion. It is good news, and long overdue.
Had the elected leaders of the world been more responsible it could have happened sooner. BUT let's not forget the fact that $75B/month is still almost a trillion $ per year!
I would be surprised if QE will be entirely off the table in less than 6 months to a year. Is the economy really that strong? or is this move really a PR stunt on by the FED? Remember, this is more like the Captain of a ship who just told the passengers that things are improving - we are only pumping 75000 gallons instead of 85000 gallons to stay afloat...
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DON'T BELIEVE THE SPIN-MEISTERS: THE ECONOMY IS NOT DOING WELL
THE BBC SPITS OUT THE STATE-RUN MEDIA'S SPIN IN THE HEADLINE: US economy grows faster than thought
The US economy grew at an annual pace of 3.6% in the third quarter of the year, up from an initial estimate of 2.8%, revised figures have shown.
The growth rate was the fastest since the first quarter of 2012.
EVERYTHING IS GETTING BETTER, RIGHT?
THEY BURY THE REAL TRUTH WAY DOWN IN THE ARTICLE:
But the upward revision was mainly driven by a big jump in businesses restocking their inventories, the Commerce Department said....
The pace of growth in consumer spending - which accounts for about two-thirds of US economic activity - slowed from the previous quarter.
Consumer spending grew at a revised annual pace of 1.4%, down from 1.8% in the April-to-June period and the slowest rate since late 2009.
THE GLOBAL ECONOMY IS HEADED FOR A MAJOR CORRECTION NEXT YEAR - IT'S ALL BAKED IN THE CAKE:
ENERGY IS STILL VERY EXPENSIVE.
THE US CONSUMER WILL HAVE EVEN LESS DISPOSABLE INCOME DUE TO OBAMACARE.
EUROPE IS BACK IN RECESSION.
WHEN CHRISTMAS RETAIL NUMBERS COME IN - AND IF THEY ARE AS BAD AS I THINK THEY WILL BE...
AND WHEN INSURANCE COMPANIES ANNOUNCE NEW RATES DUE TO THE COLOSSAL OBAMACARE DISASTER....
WELL, THAT WILL TRIGGER A CORRECTION AND A STAMPEDE FOR THE EXITS.
BETTER BRACE YOURSELF NOW.
HOT AIR: In October, the level of new claims went below the 300K barrier, at least momentarily. Today, however, it’s back up to 379,000, about where it was eight months ago:
In the week ending December 14, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 379,000, an increase of 10,000 from the previous week’s figure of 369,000. The 4-week moving average was 343,500, an increase of 13,250 from the previous week’s revised average of 330,250.
WE ARE HEADED FOR A RECKONING AND IT AIN'T GONNA BE PRETTY.
SORRY MR. PODESTA, OBAMA IS MORE LIKE THE REV. JIM JONES THAN ANYONE ELSE IN ALL USA POLITICS...
... AND OBAMA'S FOLLOWERS HAVE LONG BEEN CALLED "KOOL-AID DRINKERS" FOR JUST THAT VERY SAME REASON.
WE'VE MADE THAT EXACT COMPARISON MANY TIMES HERE AT TAB.
MORE HERE AT POWER LINE.
PC POLICE AT A&E CENSOR CHRISTIAN VIEWS
IT'S NOT JUST CHRISTMAS THAT'S UNDER ATTACK; IT'S CHRISTIANITY ITSELF.
IOW: PC & LGBT OVERRULE INRI.
NO WONDER OBAMA AND HIS COMRADES DON'T CARE ABOUT THE GENOCIDE THAT MUSLIMS ARE PERPETRATING AGAINST CHRISTIANS WORLDWIDE:
Genocide warning as Christian-majority Central African Republic overrun by Islamists
Russian church warns of "genocide against Christians" in Syria conflict
AT LEAST 205 CHRISTIANS KILLED BY MUSLIM IN BENUE STATE, NIGERIA
IRAQ: 'CHRISTIANS ARE FINISHED HERE'
Islamic Terror Attacks on Christians [just the last 4 months]:
Minya
Barkin Ladi
Ashigashia
Ashrafieh
Sadad
Rantis
Haffar
Warraq
Kilifi
Jaramana
Zangang
Dorawa
Sahel Selim
Dalga
Maaloula
Maalula
Kunte-Kuru
Gura Dabwam
Adu
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PREDICTION: OBAMA'S NEXT MOVE: GIVING COP-KILLER MUMIA A PARDON!
JUST SAYING....
THE ANTI-COP BS GOING DOWN NOW ALL OVER THE USA AIN'T NEW; IT'S AN OLD FAV' FROM THE LEFT.
"OFF THE PIG!"
"FREE MUMIA!"
THE ONLY DIFFERENCE IS THAT THE CURRENT PRESIDENT AND HIS AG SUPPORT THEM!
WE MIGHT AS WELL HAVE ELECTED AN ACOLYTE OF SAUL ALINSKY AND BILL AYERS AND JEREMIAH WRIGHT AND FRANK MARSHALL DAVIS.
OH. WAIT. WE. DID.
LESBIAN RABBI IN NEW HAMPSHIRE SUPPORTS SHARIA
A bizarre story comes from New England:
A story from New Hampshire reminds us once again that liberals are often willing to commit suicide to prove how liberal they are.
It would be hard to imagine a more ridiculous scenario than a lesbian rabbi making a public stand in favor of adopting Sharia Law as the new ruling principles of any American state, but Rabbi Robin Nafshi of New Hampshire has done just that.
With the type of smug ”I’m a liberal, so I’m smarter than you” hubris only the sickest of liberals can muster, Rabbi Nafshi scolds her fellow Granite Staters in a piece she has curiously titled “The Misguided push to ban Sharia Law.”
Of course, the Rabbi takes an obligatory shot at Republicans as she whines that the final point in their statement of Party principles says, “Take any and all actions possible to protect against the implementation of any part of Sharia Law in New Hampshire, including legislation outlawing Sharia law.”
Her hollow argument makes a comparison between Sharia Law as the Muslim way of life and Halakhah, the Jewish way of life. This idiot must think that Jews cut the heads off homosexuals and blow up non-Jews in belief that doing so will ensure their place in paradise. Sure thing rabbi–not a dime’s with of difference, right?
If she's a Reform, she's one of the dumbest and most revolting in the business, shaming the religion she has no business being part of and shilling for one that would suppress her too. No wonder the Reform movement's collapsing today.
JOSHUA DYSART GOING TO KURDISTAN, BUT UNDER UN SPONSORSHIP
The comics writer Joshua Dysart has announced on his site he's traveling to Iraq's Kurdish region for goals of research. While it would seem like he's taking up a noble mission to help Kurds suppressed by Iraq's Islamofascists, his choice of whom to travel and work with isn't great:
For over a year now I’ve been in contact with some people at the United Nations World Food Programme, the world’s largest humanitarian organization concerned with hunger and food security. We’ve been plotting to tell some stories about the complexity and necessity of feeding the world’s displaced people in an engaging way. Now we’re finally getting started and soon I’ll be leaving for northern Iraq. There, I’ll begin researching the current situation facing Kurdish refugees fleeing the Syrian conflict and the violent push of the Islamic State. The situation is incredibly dire, especially with winter coming. In the Kurdistan Region of northern Iraq the temperatures can range from 40 degrees Fahrenheit down to near 0 this time of year.
He's right that ISIS are the evil entity, and that nobody innocent should have to starve, but why does he think a political organization that's been Islamofascism's worst enabler - with some of the worst violators of human rights sitting on their own security councils - are the kind of people he should be associating himself with? The UN was also guilty of involvement in the Oil-for-Food scandal, and one of their worst members of recent was Richard Falk, an anti-Israelist and 9-11 Truther. Falk's offenses even include blaming America after the terrorist attack at Boston's marathon. Why associate himself with an organization that's not what some used to think it was, if it ever was at all?
Dysart's mission may be for a good cause, but he shouldn't be working with members of the UN to fulfill it, since they're some of the most dishonest people you can find, and willfully employed some pure scum on their payroll. If he were smart, he'd look for a better relief organization to travel to Kurdistan with.
WOW: NASA CO2 MAP SHOWS BIOMASS BURNING IN SOUTH AMERICA AND AFRICA RELEASES MORE CO2 THAN US AND EU INDUSTRIES!
Nasa's Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO-2) has returned its first global maps of the greenhouse gas CO2.
The satellite was sent up in July to help pinpoint the key locations on the Earth's surface where carbon dioxide is being emitted and absorbed.
This should help scientists better understand how human activities are influencing the climate.
The new maps contain only a few weeks of data in October and November, but demonstrate the promise of the mission.
Clearly evident within the charts is the banding effect that describes how emitted gases are mixed by winds along latitudes rather than across them.
Also apparent are the higher concentrations over South America and southern Africa. These are likely the result of biomass burning in these regions.
THE REGIONS THAT ARE RED HAVE MUCH MORE CO2 THAN THE OTHER REGIONS.
THE RED REGIONS ARE HIGH CO2 PRODUCING REGIONS BECAUSE THEY HAVE FOREST FIRES, AND BECAUSE THEY BURN A LOT OF WOOD AND DRIED MANURE AS FUEL: WIKI:
Dry animal dung is used as a fuel in many countries around the world. It is a source of Green fuel used by more than two billion people.[1][2] However, it might have some disadvantages, such as air pollution.[3] As a cheap bioenergy source, it has gained growing interest.[4]
Burning issues: tackling indoor air pollution, 7 May 2011 by The Lancet: "According to WHO, 2 million people die as a result of the smoke generated by open fires or crude stoves within their homes every year. Indoor air pollution has been definitively linked to lung cancer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and pneumonia, the risk of which is doubled by exposure to indoor smoke. More than 900 000 people die from pneumonia caused by indoor air pollution every year. 500 million households worldwide—roughly 3 billion people—rely on solid fuels, such as wood, animal dung, or coal, for cooking and heating. These fuels are usually burned in a rudimentary stove, or in a traditional open fire. It need not be a problem, at least in terms of health. But only assuming the fuel is completely combusted—wood must be dry, and the stove must work efficiently—and there is plenty of ventilation, a spacious chimney, or a sizeable window. In those places where the use of solid fuels prevails, however, these conditions rarely apply, and the consequences can be severe."
"Yet, 'despite the magnitude of this growing problem' notes WHO 'the health impacts of exposure to indoor air pollution have yet to become a central focus of research, development aid, and policy making'....But the past year has had some encouraging advances."
"In September, 2010, the UN Foundation launched the Global Alliance for Clean Cook Stoves....The Alliance—a public-private initiative—brings together partners from the range of specialties across which the issue of indoor air pollution sprawls. There is public health, of course, but also energy, international development, female empowerment, climate change, technology, and business."
"The real benefits will be seen by switching to cleaner fuels and cleaner stoves. Improved stoves—those fitted with fans, for example—combust fuel more efficiently, have lower emissions, and require shorter cooking times."[1]
IF THESE REGIONS HAD MORE INDUSTRIAL POWER PLANTS AND ELECTRICITY THEN THE PEOPLE BURNING MANURE AT HOME FOR COOKING AND HEATING FUEL COULD USE ELECTRICITY INSTEAD,
TO REDUCE CO2 THE WORLD NEEDS MORE INDUSTRIALIZATION, NOT LESS.
EXACTLY THE OPPOSITE OF THE LEFTIST AGENDA.
IF CLIMATE CHANGE HYSTERIA WERE NOT REALLY AN ATTACK ON THE WEST'S INDUSTRIALIZATION - AND AN ATTEMPT OF THE LEFT TO GAIN CONTROL OVER IT, THEN THEY'D BE SUPPORTING MORE INDUSTRIALIZATION IN SOUTH AMERICA AND AFRICA.
THE FACT THAT THEY AREN'T PROVES THEY ARE NOT REALLY AGAINST MAN-MADE CO2, AND THAT THEIR CO2PHOBIA IS MERELY A STRATEGY TO GAIN POWER OVER THE ECONOMY.
HERE'S THE REAL REASON OIL HAS CRASHED: SAUDI'S AND GULF STATES PREPARING FOR IAF STRIKE ON IRAN
1 - THE HOUSE OF SAUD IS VERY UNHAPPY WITH OBAMA'S APPEASEMENT OF IRAN AND HANDLING OF SYRIA:
THE WSJ - 9/26/13:
The Obama administration's handling of overtures on Syria and Iran have outraged regional ally Saudi Arabia, which is signaling it wants to do more to boost the power of armed Sunni rebel groups on the ground in Syria as the U.S. pursues diplomacy.
Saudis fear that Syrian President Basher al-Assad will use the time afforded by U.S.- and U.N.-backed diplomacy on Syria "to impose more killing and to torture its people," Saudi Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal said Thursday night in New York, in a warning that was overshadowed by the attention paid to the weekend's first public contacts in three decades between the presidents of Iran and the U.S.
Accordingly, Saudi Arabia wants "intensification of political, economic and military support to the Syrian opposition…. to change the balance of powers on the ground" in Syria, Prince Saud said in his remarks to the Friends of Syria group, a coalition of Western and Gulf Arab countries and Turkey that supports the Syria opposition against Mr. Assad. The state-run Saudi Press Agency carried a transcript of his remarks.
The Saudi government has had no public comment so far on the groundbreaking phone call Friday between U.S. President Barack Obama, whose country Saudi Arabia sees as the main military protector of its interests, and new Iranian President Hasan Rouhani, whose country Saudi Arabia sees as its main threat.
Asharq al Awsat, one of Saudi Arabia's leading newspapers, led its front page the morning after the phone call with a photo of Mr. Rouhani, bowed over with laughter.
1A - REUTERS - 18/22/13:
In unusually blunt public remarks, Prince Turki al-Faisal called Obama's policies in Syria "lamentable" and ridiculed a U.S.-Russian deal to eliminate Assad's chemical weapons. He suggested it was a ruse to let Obama avoid military action in Syria.
"The current charade of international control over Bashar's chemical arsenal would be funny if it were not so blatantly perfidious. And designed not only to give Mr. Obama an opportunity to back down (from military strikes), but also to help Assad to butcher his people," said Prince Turki, a member of the Saudi royal family and former director of Saudi intelligence.
1B - HAARETZ - 3/27/14:
“Why are you abandoning your allies?” fumed Faisal Abbas, editor of Al Arabiya News’ English website, in an op-ed published in Arabic. “You” referred to the United States – and, more specifically, President Barack Obama, who arrives in Saudi Arabia on Friday for a state visit. Abbas, who reflects the prevailing opinions of the Saudi royal court, lists a large number of missteps that he believes characterize the Obama administration. The most important one is the interim deal signed last November with Iran regarding its nuclear program, as well as the present negotiations over a final agreement.
“Has Washington forgotten the long-standing cooperation between Saudi Arabia and the United States in the war on terror?” Abbas asks. “Has it forgotten that it was Iran that destabilized Iraq after the toppling of Saddam Hussein? That it’s rocking Lebanon and Bahrain, that it supports Hezbollah and has captured three islands in the Persian Gulf that belong to the United Arab Emirates? An American strategy that ignores all these to placate Iran, while negotiating over its nuclear ambitions, raises grave concerns.” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu couldn’t have written a more scathing article.
1C - THE GUARDIAN - 3/28/14
The US President's flying visit – no more than an evening in the Saudi king's palace – is his first since the ousting of Hosni Mubarak in Egypt, which drove an initial wedge between Washington and Riyadh.
Ever since, relations have tangibly soured on every front, with the US outreach to Iran and ambivalence on Syria particularly irking Saudi leaders who believe arch foe Tehran has been empowered at their expense. So bothered has Riyadh become by what it sees as naive appeasement of Iran, that it now seems ready to project itself regionally without US cover.
"The US has underwritten the regional security order for the past 70 years and it sees now as a good time to disengage?," one senior figure put to the Guardian recently. "We will have to do it all ourselves."
2 - RALPH PETERS, TODAY:
This week, oil fell through the price floor of $60 a barrel and gas at my local filling station was $2.26 a gallon.
That’s great news for commuters and almost every business, but wonderfully bad news for our ugliest enemies.
If oil prices remain low through next year, the effect on rogue governments, from the Russian Federation to Venezuela, will go from damaging to devastating.
But Western economies (and China’s) stand to benefit, with cheap oil possibly tickling Europe’s snoozing markets awake. Even most underdeveloped states will get a welcome break.
This price plunge has been driven by Saudi Arabia, OPEC’s dominant power. While it’s true that part of Riyadh’s actions respond to the energy renaissance in North America, the greater motivation is breaking Iran’s will.The Saudis believe they can no longer rely on the US to contain Tehran’s imminent nuclear threat, so they’re out to do what our lukewarm sanctions couldn’t.
IN MY OPINION, IT'S NOT THAT THE SAUDIS THINK THEY CAN BREAK IRAN ECONOMICALLY WITH A SERIOUS DROP IN OIL RICES.
IN MY OPINION, THE SAUDIS AND THE GULF STATES, UNDERSTAND THAT IN THE ABSENCE OF A RELIABLE AND COURAGEOUS ALLY IN THE USA, (WHICH IS THE CASE SINCE OBAMA HAS BEEN IN OFFICE) - ONLY ISRAEL CAN DESTROY THE IRANIAN NUCLEAR INDUSTRY.
THEIR GREATEST FEAR OF SUCH AN ATTACK WAS WHAT IT WOULD DO TO OIL PRICES AND TO THE GLOBAL ECONOMY:
PRICES WOULD TRIPLE FOR SEVERAL MONTHS AFTER AN ATTACK - IN PART JUST BECAUSE OF FEAR, AND ALSO BECAUSE IRAN WOULD MOST LIKELY BE ABLE TO LAUNCH A COUNTER-ATTACK THAT WOULD DEMOLISH A GREAT DEAL OF THE GULF STATES' OIL INFRASTRUCTURE.
THOUGH SOME MIGHT THINK THAT THE HOUSE OF SAUD LIKES ANY HIGH PRICE, THE FACT IS THEY REALLY JUST LIKE THE HIGHEST PRICE THEIR CUSTOMERS CAN AFFORD.
A $300/BARREL PRICE WOULD DESTROY THE GLOBAL ECONOMY.
SO THEY HAVE BEEN STEADILY BRINGING THE RICE DOWN SO THAT AFTER THE IAF ATTACKS - AND AFTER OIL TRIPLES - IT WILL ON;Y REACH $130-150/BARREL FOR A FEW/SEVERAL MONTHS, A PRICE THE GLOBAL ECONOMY CAN LIVE WITH.
SO... IF I WAS IRAN, THEN I'D BE VERY VERY WORRIED. SCARED EVEN THAT AN IAF ATTACK WAS IMMINENT.
MORE SCARED THEN SONY.
PREDICTION: THE IAF WILL ATTACK ON A NEW MOON - PERHAPS THE ONE IN MARCH - 3/20/15...
HERE'S WHY LEFTISTS DON'T CARE THAT OBAMA VIOLATED THE LAW TO BAILOUT THE CASTRO REGIME
OBAMA HAS BROKEN THE LAW... AGAIN, AND THE LEFT DOESN'T SEEM TO MIND.
THEY LIKE THE NEW PRO-CASTRO POLICY.
WE CAN DEBATE THE VALUE OF AN EMBARGO.
BUT THEY SHOULD WANT ANY CHANGE IN POLICY TO BE DONE LAWFULLY.
THE BI-PARTISAN CUBAN DEMOCRACY ACT OF 1992 - PASSED BY CONGRESS AND SIGNED INTO LAW BY THE PRESIDENT - PROHIBITED ANY CHANGE IN CUBA'S DIPLOMATIC AND TRADE STATUS UNLESS AND UNTIL THE PRESIDENT REPORTS TO CONGRESS CERTIFYING THAT CUBA HAS MADE DEMOCRATIC REFORMS AND THAT CUBANS HAVE THEIR HUMAN RIGHTS.
OBAMA CLEARLY VIOLATED THIS LAW.
OBAMA'S MOVE IS LAWLESS.
IT VIOLATES THE PRINCIPLE OF THE RULE OF LAW.
BY DOING IT IN SPITE OF THE LAW - AND IN DIRECT CONFLICT WITH THE LAW, OBAMA IS ACTING LIKE A DICTATOR AND NOT THE PRESIDENT OF A DEMOCRATIC, CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC.
OBAMUNISTS SHOULDN'T SUPPORT THIS BECAUSE IT SETS A BAD PRECEDENT.
IT COULD ALLOW A PRESIDENT NAMED CRUZ OR PALIN OR WALKER ACT BY FIAT AND CANCEL LAWS THEY LIKE - SUCH AS GUN CONTROL, OBAMACARE OR THE EPA OR THE INCOME TAX, FOR EXAMPLE.
WHY ARE THEY SO BLIND TO THE DANGER F THESE LAWLESS, DICTATORIAL PRECEDENTS?
SIMPLE;
LEFTISTS ARE SO CONSUMED WITH POWER...
AND SO UPSET THAT THEY'RE LOSING IT -
BY LOSING THE HOUSE AND THE SENATE ...
AND SO MANY GOVERNORSHIPS AND STATE HOUSES,
THAT THEY RE WILLING TO ACCEPT ANYTHING OBAMA DOES...
THAT EITHER TRANSFORMS US INTO A MORE SOCIALIST NATION...
OR BRINGS US CLOSER TO A CLOWARD-PIVEN COLLAPSE ...
THAT DESTROYS ALL OUR INSTITUTIONS AND CLEARS THE DECK ...
FOR AN ENTIRELY COMMUNIST STATE.
CONGRESS MUST NOT LET OBAMA'S LAWLESS CUBAN GAMBIT STAND.
TWO ARTICLES ON TODAY'S BBC NEWS SUMMARIZE WHY WE ARE LOSING THE WAR AGAINST JIHADISM
TODAY'S BBC NEWS::
1 - Boko Haram unrest: Nigerian militants 'kidnap 100 villagers' - 33 dead
THIS ARTICLE USES THE WORD "ISLAMIC" ONCE, AND NEVER USES THE WORD MUSLIM.
2 - Geert Wilders faces charges over 'anti-Moroccan' speech:
Mr Wilders, who leads the Party for Freedom (PVV), has often expressed his distaste for Islam and mass immigration.
In response to the prosecution, Mr Wilders described the charges in a statement as "a travesty".
"The public prosecutor would do better to devote his time to prosecuting jihadis instead of me," he said.
Mr Wilders made his comments during a political meeting in The Hague.
Asking supporters in a cafe if they wanted fewer Moroccans in the country, some responded by chanting "Fewer! Fewer! Fewer!"
The politician then replied: "I will fix it for you."
AS JIHADISTS SLAUGHTER AND ENSLAVE THOUSANDS EACH WEEK ALL OVER THE GLOBA, THE AUTHORITIES IN THE WEST USE THEIR COERCIVE POWER TO ENFORCE SHARIA.
WE CANNOT DEFEAT THE ENEMY IF OUR POLITICIANS ATTACK OUR PATRIOTS INSTEAD OF OUR ENEMIES.
MOST OF OUR POLITICIANS HAVE AS MUCH COURAGE AS THE WHINING, PHONY, MENDACIOUS TWO-FACED EXECUTIVES AT SONY WHO JUST CAVED INTO NORTH KOREA.
WE NEED TO EMPOWER MORE POLITICIANS LIKE GEERT WILDERS AND NIGEL FARAGE AND MARINE LE PEN IF WE ARE GOING TO DEFEAT THE LIKES OF BOKO HARAM AND ISIS, AND AL QAEDA AND THE TALIBAN AND THE FILIPINO MLF.
EU REMOVES HAMAS FROM BLACKLIST
A court for the EU has given its support for Hamas' barbarism by excising the jihadist gang from their blacklistings:
The European Union's second-highest court on Wednesday annulled the bloc's decision to keep Hamas on a list of terrorist organizations, but temporarily maintained the measures for a period of three months or until an appeal is closed.
The General Court of the European Union said the contested measures were not based on an examination of Hamas' acts but on imputations derived from the media and the Internet.
The court said it was nevertheless maintaining the effects of the measures in order to ensure that any possible future freezing of funds would be effective.
Uh uh, I don't buy their defense here. How do we know they haven't been giving Hamas some money and kickbacks under the table? This is nothing more than a show of weakness.
Israel is concerned Hamas may use the opportunity to renew its activities in Europe.
On Wednesday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called for Hamas to be immediately returned to the terrorist blacklist, saying Israel was not satisfied with the EU's explanation that the removal of Hamas from the list was merely a "technical matter."
"The burden of proof is on the European Union," Netanyahu said. "Hamas is a murderous terrorist organization, with the stated goal, in its charter, of destroying Israel. We will continue to fight against it with determination and strength, so that it will never achieve this aim."
Again, their defense for this pathetic cave-in does not work at all, and if they're really serious, they should return them to the blacklist immediately.
THIS CUBAN RESET WILL BE AS GOOD FOR US THE RUSSIAN RESET - in other words, it will suck
WHY DID OBAMA PRESS THE CUBA RESET BUTTON NOW!?!?
Simple: The Castro Regime was more likely to fall now than ever.
Obama is rescuing them.
He's not for peace; he's on the other side.
TED EXPLAINS IT ALL HERE:
SONY APPEASES GENOCIDAL NORTH KOREAN TYRANNY
TGWP: Sony Bows to North Korea: Cancels Release of ‘The Interview’
Appeasement always just encourages more bad behavior.
ROB LOWE GETS' IT:
In a tweet on Wednesday, actor Rob Lowe compared Sony's decision to cancel the scheduled Dec. 25 release of "The Interview" to the strategic mistake that is widely blamed for emboldening Nazi Germany just before World War II. Lowe said the cancellation of the movie, which followed a massive hack on Sony studios, would have made former British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain "proud."
I cannot wait to see what's next.
If we had a patriot in the WH, then he'd have a screening of the movie this weekend!
UPDATE: The WH doesn't have a clue as to what's next. TYPICAL.
AMERICAN LEFTISTS LIE AS FREELY AS ISLAMISTS
The Apostle said:
“Who will rid me of Ibnul-Ashraf?” Muhammad bin Maslama, brother of the Bani Abdu’l-Ashhal, said, “I will deal with him for you, O Apostle of God, I will kill him.” He said, “Do so if you can.” “All that is incumbent upon you is that you should try” {said the Prophet to Muhammad bin Maslama}. He said, “O Apostle of God, we shall have to tell lies.” He {the Prophet} answered, “Say what you like, for you are free in the matter.”
AND SO THE RIGHT TO LIE - TAQQIYA - WAS ESTABLISHED BY MUSLIMS.
RATHERGATE, DUKE LACROSSE, UVA RAPE, CLIMATE CHANGE; HANDS UP IN FERGUSON, YOU CAN KEEP YOUR HEALTHCARE PLAN... (THE RECENT LIST IS ENDLESS) ... ALL HAVE THIS IN COMMON WITH THE TAQQIYA.
LEFTISTS - LIKE ISLAMISTS - ARE FREE TO TELL LIES IF THEY THINK IT WILL HELP THEIR CAUSE.
AND THAT'S WHAT THEY DO.
THEY HAVE TO:
THE TRUTH IS NOT ON THEIR SIDE.
UNBELIEVABLE: ARCHAEOLOGISTS DISCOVER 1200 YEAR OLD SUV IN CALIFORNIA!
SUCH A FIND IS UNBELIEVABLE BECAUSE IT'S IMPOSSIBLE.
RECENT ARGUMENTS THAT THE CURRENT DROUGHT IN CALIFORNIA IS THE RESULT OF MAN-MADE CLIMATE CHANGE ARE JUST AS UNBELIEVABLE:
A new paper published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters by Griffin & Anchukaitis concludes that the 2012–2014 drought in California was its most intense in at least 1,200 years.
The study used drought reconstructions from tree-ring cores, from the North American Drought Atlas (NADA) and from cores Griffin & Anchukaitis collected from blue oak trees in southern and central California. Blue oak tree ring widths are particularly sensitive to moisture changes. ...
... The study compared today’s drought conditions in California to those reconstructed over the past 1,200 years using the Palmer Drought Severity Index (PDSI), an estimate of available soil moisture. The data showed that California is experiencing its most intense drought in over a millennium, the current event is the most severe drought in the last 1200 years, with single year (2014) and accumulated moisture deficits worse than any previous continuous span of dry years … In terms of cumulative severity, it is the worst drought on record (-14.55 cumulative PDSI), more extreme than longer (4- to 9-year) droughts.
WHAT CAUSED THIS HORRIFIC DROUGHT 1200 YEARS AGO? SUV'S? MAN-MADE CO2?
OR COULD IT HAVE BEEN NATURAL EVENT? YA THINK?!?!?!!?
UNLESS ARCHAEOLOGISTS FIND A WHOLE BUNCHA 1200 YR OLD SUV'S, I'M GONNA HAVE TO SAY THAT IT WAS NATURAL.
AND I'M GONNA SAY THIS ONCE AGAIN, TOO ALL THE CLIMATE ALARMISTS:
STFU.
THE NLG CONNECTION TO OWS, FERGUSON AND THE NATIONAL POGROM ON COPS
An adjunct prof of poetry at CUNY was arrested for assaulting a cop after the anti-cop march in NYC - his name is ERIC LINSKER.
Linsker's lawyer is big time NATIONAL LAWYERS' GUILD operative- Martin Stolar. The NLG is an old time, bigtime communist lawyers' group which is pro islamo-terror; Lynn Stewart was another big-time NLG lawyer and she was convicted of helping al Qaeda.
Linsker's lawyer - Stolar - was the NLG's point man against the NYPD's mosque surveillance program which NYC Mayor deBlasio shutdown as one of his first acts.
Holder - [whose law-firm (prior to being selected by Obama to be his AG) aided Gitmo detainees, just as the NLG did] - and Sharpton and deBlasio must all know each other via the WORKING FAMILIES PARTY - the party that propelled deBlasio's career and which is the creation of the SEIU and ACORN and which is the successor party to the explicitly socialist party "The New Party" which fwas also founded by comrades of race-hustler Jesse Jackson, was the first party line Barry Obama ever ran on.
The NLG and Stolar also were central to OWS movement which tried to shut down ur nation's financial system and painted all capitalists as evil - much like the anti-cop movement is trying to paint all cops as evil.
IOW: MAKE NO MISTAKE ABOUT IT: the nation-wide and NYC anti-COP movement is a coordinated left-wing attack - a left-wing which has actively sought to defend islamo-terrorists and which is pro-CAIR, who returns the favor - a front for the Muslim Brotherhood operation.
Also note that LINSKER IS A BDS/ ANTI-ISRAEL ACTIVIST; he signed up here: http://www.usacbi.org/endorser...
So are they all anti-Israel.
Leftist groups like REVCOM, OWS, CODE PINK do NOT SPONTANEOUSLY protest; they plan and coordinate their agitprop and their protests and their lawfare.
And they are working hand-in-glove with people in the Working Families Prty including Mayor deBlasio and USAG Holder and Al "Tawana" Sharpton and Jesse Jackson.
Obama/Jarrett has defended them and attacked the cops. And Soros finances some of them.
All this is aimed to advance socialism and Islam.
REPEAT: neither the Trayvon Martin tumult or the Ferguson riots or the current pogrom against our cops were spontaneous.
They are part of a concerted effort by leftist politicians and their comrades to undermine our ability to defend our civilization in order to replace it with a pro-islamic socialist one.
UPDATE: MUCH MORE HERE.
UPDATE2: SEIU IS DEEPLY INVOLVED - AND ONE OF ITS ACTIVISTS ASSAULTED A COP DURING A PROTEST.
MARZ TURNS AUSTRALIAN TERROR SIEGE INTO GUN CONTROL MISHMASH
Ron Marz puts on his know-it-all acts again, addressing the terrible hostage crisis caused by an Iranian jihadist that went on for 16 hours at a chocolate store in Sydney:
People saying "If Australia hadn't banned guns, maybe #sydneysiege wouldn't be happening" are really too stupid to even be on the internet.
— Ron Marz (@ronmarz) December 15, 2014
Curious how Marz can't at least argue that, if less Islamofacists were allowed into countries that value civility, there'd be less situations of the sort that plagued Sydney today. The jihadist, who can now rot in hell, was arrested earlier this year for sexual assault, was also arrested as an accessory to his ex-wife's murder, and faced punishment for sending obscene letters to the widows of soldiers who died in Afghanistan. And the authorities let him walk around free. Why doesn't Marz rail against an incompetent, kowtowing justice system?
Once again, Marz misses the chance to make arguments with more sense.
JIHADIST HELD HOSTAGES IN AUSTRALIAN STORE
The crisis has been stopped, and the jihadist, who came from Iran, is now dead, but tragically, so are at least 2 other people. From ABC (via Jihad Watch):
The gunman who had been holding people hostage inside a chocolate store in downtown Sydney has been killed, Australian police confirmed to ABC News.
And two other people have been killed, a highly place Australian source told ABC News.
The suspect had previously been identified as Man Monis by local news reports, and the manner in which he died still remains unclear but New South Wales police have confirmed his death. The identities of the two others killed were not immediately revealed.
Police stormed the Lindt Chocolate Cafe in the early hours of Tuesday morning, local time, and three injuries have been reported, including one policeman.
Explosions of what were believed to be flash bang grenades were heard when police stormed the shop and while there were many loud noises, it is not clear if or how many shots were fired by either police or Monis during the face off.
At 10:19 a.m. ET, a group of at least seven heavily armed police officers went into the Lindt cafe under the cover of loud bangs of what local news Channel 9 is calling stun grenades. Shortly after the police stormed the café, at least two hostages emerged, looking visibly shaken.
A few minutes later, a few paramedics were seen entering the café behind police officers with medical packs — followed by at least two stretchers. The explosive police action came shortly after a new wave of hostages emerged from the shop.
Monis was believed to be a self-proclaimed Islamic “sheikh” who is known to Australian police because he was allegedly involved in dozens of counts of sexual assault, according to Australia’s 9News.
He was born in Iran as Manteghi Bourjerdi and migrated to Australia in 1996, according to the station.
This just confirms further why immigration from Islamic countries has to be curtailed according to religious ideological background.
PIGS FLY: BBC ADMITS ARCTIC ICE IS NOT DISAPPEARING, AND THAT THERE IS NO SIGN IT EVER WILL
BBC: Arctic sea ice volume holds up in 2014
By Jonathan Amos
Science correspondent, BBC News, San Francisco
Arctic sea ice may be more resilient than many observers recognise.
While global warming seems to have set the polar north on a path to floe-free summers, the latest data from Europe's Cryosat mission suggests it may take a while yet to reach those conditions.
The spacecraft observed 7,500 cu km of ice cover in October when the Arctic traditionally starts its post-summer freeze-up.
This was only slightly down on 2013 when 8,800 cu km were recorded.
Two cool summers in a row have now allowed the pack to increase and then hold on to a good deal of its volume.
And while the ice is still much reduced compared with the 20,000 cu km that used to stick around in the Octobers of the early 1980s, there is no evidence to indicate a collapse is imminent.
IOW: ALL THE HYSTERICAL PROCLAMATIONS THAT THE ARCTIC WAS ABOUT TO DISAPPEAR WERE TOTALLY WRONG.
AS IS ALL CO2PHOBIC, CLIMATE ALARMISM.
MEANWHILE, LAST WEEK THE UN'S CLIMATE ALARMISTS HAD MANY NATIONS SIGN CO2PHOBIC PROMISSORY NOTES TO REDUCE CO2.
A TOTALLY IDIOTIC ACT THAT WILL - IF EVER CARRIED OUT - DO NOTHING FOR THE GLOBAL CLIMATE.
BUT IT WILL RETARD ECONOMIC AND INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE THIRD WORLD AND THEREBY HARM A BILLION POOR PEOPLE.
MAN-MADE GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE IS THE THIRD BIGGEST AND MOT HARMFUL HOAX EVER PERPETRATED UPON THE HUMAN RACE - AFTER SOCIALISM AND ISLAMISM.
Erdogan's brownshirts make mass arrests of opposition media
MORE PROOF THAT TURKEY DOESN'T BELONG IN NATO, LET ALONE THE EU.
VIDEO: THIS BLACK WOMAN TELLS IT LIKE IT IS!
She uses some mildly offensive language.
Telling the truth does these days...
CROSS-DRESSING JIHADISTS SHOT IN YEMEN.
BEHEADING. CROSS-DRESSING.
IS THERE ANYTHING THE JIHADISTS WON'T DO?
AVIGDOR LIEBERMAN IS WILLING TO JOIN A LABOR COALITION
The Likud's attacked him for willing to sit in a coalition with Labor:
The Likud attacked Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman on Saturday, after he made comments saying that he is not ruling out sitting in a future coalition – whether with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu or Labor leader Isaac Herzog.
The Likud, in a press release, said that this proves that voting for Liberman takes votes away from the right and contributes to the left.
The prime minister's party stressed that "it is clear that anyone who wants a broad, strong government headed by Netanyahu, based on the right and center-right, should vote Likud under Netanyahu this time."
Lieberman's already demonstrated his ties to corrupt businessmen like Martin Schlaff, and that's one more reason why he's ultimately bad news, not unlike Aryeh Deri from the Shas party.
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Australian Music History
Recording the Golden Age of Australian Live Music
Roadcrew
14 comments / May 18, 2010 / Philip Edwards / Bands – J
The History of Jupiter ……….so far
Jupiter formed in 1976 in Sydney Australia
Ron Mazurkiewicz and Philip Edwards had played together for many years in a well respected band called Elmtree. The band had been through many incarnations and was heading towards a more Jazzier Fusion focus and so needed the talents of a great guitarist which led them to Dieter Kleeman who was playing with local band “Forever”.
It certainly was a meeting of the spirits for these 3 musicians who quickly realised that they were well suited to be playing together. Next they needed that special bass player…………..
By placing an advertisement in the paper they thought there would be a line a mile long of talented bass players eager to join this new outfit…..
The one and only Bass player who answered the advert was Phil Laycock, which in hindsight was a great relief to the other members as he was perfect for the job of completing the new line up now called Jupiter.
It didn’t take long to have a wide ranging repertoire of tunes drawn from their musical influences. This included the likes of Chick Corea, John Mclaughlin, Tony Williams, Elvin Jones, to name a few. Eventually the list would include some memorable original tunes like Full Moon, Camellia and much more.
Gradually, after being isolated for months in a small house on the outskirts of rural western Sydney the band ventured out to hit the traps with their new and innovative style of music.
Jupiter didn’t fit into the normal jazz scene, they were to rocky, they didn’t fit into the rock scene as they were to jazzy. They had to forge ahead by astounding people at places like French’s Wine bar in Oxford Street, and the Pinball Wiz at Circular quay.
Once at one gig out of town they were told they would not get the full fee promised as their singer had not turned up…… these early days of Jazz/Fusion instrumental music were tough but the band continued to develop a strong loyal following of people who needed more than the usual 3 chords, without the tradition of some Jazz gigs.
The band contributed to the sound track of a surfing film called ‘Drift Away” and played live at the old Regent theatre in George St Sydney. One of the last bands to play there.
The ABC radio station “JJ” as it was then called were having a series of live performances and were inundated with requests for Jupiter to play a “Live to Air” concert. This occurred in late 1976 and was a wonderful night for all concerned this helped the band to develop a wider audience.
The band recorded reel after reel at Atlantic studios in Sydney’s Earlwood with a goal of releasing an album. Unfortunately trying to get backing to release this material proved all to hard and eventually the band broke up with members going in vastly different directions.
Jupiter have just had a 34 year reunion. Although Ron Mazurkiewicz and Philip Edwards have jammed regularly over the last 10 years or so, its only been the occasional session that Dieter has been able to play with them. Phil Laycock has been busy and had not been seen for some time. So it was April 2010 that the lads were able to get together in the same studio at the same time.
It was at Atlantic studios in Earlwood that Jupiter spent so much time recording and generally fooling around, so it was wonderful they should have their reunion in the same studio.
Phil Laycock arrived, and within 5 minutes had his bass out and was encouraging the rest to get started, well what a night, the very special feeling that a band such as Jupiter created had not been lost, just faded a bit. Gradually the tunes came back and a fantastic night was had.
The evening was recorded and filmed for a future project.
It was a massive surprise when Phil Laycock reminded us all that we were filmed at Frenchs wine bar in Oxford St around 1977, it was even more surprising when he told us that he had the video tape.
The tape was quickly passed to Philip Edwards, who is now involved with video production, and immediately he had to find someone with a machine that could play a “Helical Scan 1 inch video reel to reel tape”. Eventually finding someone with a old machine, the tape was baked to remove 30 years of moisture and turned into a digital file.
Jupiter are now watching themselves play a gig recorded over 30 years ago, and it has been a fantastic find.
Gradually this will be part of a documentary of the band that we are putting together and soon will be available for all to see.
Thanks to all those people that still remember the band and the effect we had on them…. all good we hope
The journey continues….
Ron Mazurkiewicz – Keyboards
Phil Laycock – Bass
Philip Edwards – Drums
Dieter Kleeman – Guitar
14 comments… add one
Mark Gibson May 23, 2010, 9:54 am
I have it on good authority that Dieter Kleeman played one of the more famous versions of the Triple M theme. Does anyone know if that’s correct?
Colin Gardiner February 11, 2013, 5:55 pm
Dieter did play the “TRIPLE M “theme song I can assure you .
Brian Last June 8, 2010, 12:14 am
Yup he did the second one championed by Uncle Doug Mulray – there is even a video clip of it somewhere ..
dieter now plays with the Urban gypsies and The robertson Bros . He also is a sometime player with the Bodacious Cowboys .
Of all the musos I have known And had the pleasure to sing with I would have picked him easily as the one to get international acclaim — yep he’s that good …
Rob Prior April 6, 2011, 3:01 pm
Wow, what a great article about a superb band.
How can I purchase the dvd of the band from 1977?
Rob Prior
Philip Edwards April 6, 2011, 9:15 pm
Hi Rob, thanks for your very generous comments, we loved the band also. Right now I am still editing the old video, firstly finding someone who had a machine that would run a half inch Helical tape. (This was pre VHS) It will take a little time and the rest of the band will then decide what we do with it. I may put up some short bits of it on youtube as a few people have shown interest in seeing this piece of musical history. Please keep in touch and I will let you know if and when some footage is up for viewing or purchasing. Regards Philip Edwards
Rob Prior April 7, 2011, 10:30 am
Philip, have you contacted Barry Leffler to see if he has a machine to run the half-inch helical tape? His company Lefflerpost, located at Crows Nest, has stacks of vintage production gear. My brother John and I have been very happy with Barry’s services. Their website is http://www.lefflerpost.com.au. On a different note, do you remember when our band Conic Section and your band Jupiter went in a band competition in one of the huge barns at the Flemington Markets site in 1977? I’m very keen to see the Jupiter footage! Regards, Rob
Craige bailey June 1, 2019, 6:14 pm
The Flemington market gig I sure was in 1976 , they played in the middle of a huge shed , on the side, with bands playing all around. A small group of friends watched but little seemed to come of it. They had regular Thursday night gigs at Frenches. I think they played Jan Hammer numbers from OH Yeah ?. I seen dieter play bass in one off gigs in Liverpool town hall.
Steve Hunter October 18, 2011, 2:25 pm
I was a big Jupiter fan in 76/77 & used to see them all the time at French’s Wine Bar on Oxford St . A decade or so later , Dieter Kleeman was in my band for a few years & contributed his fantastic composition ‘Facing it’ to my 1989 album ‘Homebase’.
Michael Tait October 19, 2011, 12:12 pm
Hello, I remember going to see Jupiter at French’s, Sunday arvo rings a bell. I remember being very impressed with them and in particular Dieter’s playing as I was right into Return To Forever and Al DiMeola’s playing and Jupiter did a few covers of their material. Very fond memories, Philip Edwards have you put anything on Youtube yet ? I did a search and couldn’t find anything but if you have a link would be appreciated … cheers
Peter Crane November 27, 2012, 5:33 pm
I was in a band ‘Rainshine’ that had a saturday afternoon slot at French’s and we followed Jupiter. I still remember their spot and I remain impressed. I would be keen to view any footage. Jupiter – excellent.
Hey Phillip , I would love to be kept up to date , I only got to see Ron now & again & was unaware that all this was happening . Great to see , please fill me in with progress thank you . Col .
Michael Tan (alias Tann, now Tanner) November 19, 2015, 10:23 pm
hi phil …long while between drinks …eh?
http://www.rockhistoryaustralia.blogspot.com
Mary parkyns May 17, 2016, 4:56 pm
Hi Phillip ,Would love to purchase any available footage of Jupiter . Regards Mary,
John Kozor October 25, 2017, 6:29 pm
Love all the nostalgia about old sydney bands, does anyone remember what became of the Sandmen a club group playing around the cross circa1970, and the rhythm beats circa, easy beats Beatle village Taylor square, love to know any feedback, John
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MMA/Boxing (Moderator: Firmino of the 909) »
The MMA Article Thread
Author Topic: The MMA Article Thread (Read 3658 times)
Lord of The Curry
There are a lot of mma and mma-related pieces floating around out there. Some good, some bad, some just plain crazy. A lot of times we get links to these but they're lost in the shuffle, figured we could use a seperate thread for them and a place where we can link or test out our own posters writing.
To start us off an absolutely incredible story by Karim Zidan from Bloody Elbow about a guy who spent 12 years trapped in an mma cult. Must read shit.
http://www.bloodyelbow.com/2015/8/20/9115921/longform-coach-cultist-mma-mind-control-fear-cult-victim-tale-heavyweight-konstantin-gluhov?utm_campaign=zidansports&utm_content=chorus&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter
Re: The MMA Article Thread
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2555141-justin-wren-the-big-pygmy-returns?utm_source=cnn.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=editorial
Justin Wren is a good dude. He's a good, good dude.
Fan of Sports with Integrity
PosterFest 2014 Winner
Your POV
Keep on posting these, good reads.
I don't really scour MMA sites anymore, but if something great/at least cool comes my way like the stuff above, I'll post it in here.
http://www.mmafighting.com/2015/8/28/9091777/viral-ko-video-spurs-state-investigation-into-unsanctioned-mma-events
Mookie Alexander of Bloody Elbow has been reporting on these guys for a while, the whole thing is crazy shady.
Some classics:
http://www.mmafighting.com/2015/3/24/8259545/in-search-of-strange-brew
Even after getting his story told, he's still not Jason Thacker in the title/keyword/URL
http://www.mmafighting.com/2014/3/13/5499090/the-eagles-of-bettendorf#4064019
GOAT story about one of the GOAT gyms, the legacy of which still stands tall today with Lawler defending a UFC title against the new breed.
I'd kill for a comprehensive feature on the life and legacy of Sakuraba, but most articles I've seen are kinda superficial.
The Thacker article is one of the most interesting and sad mma pieces I've read in a long time. Mindenhall absolutely killed it with that one.
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2559845-randa-markos-on-growing-up-in-domestic-violence-and-physical-abuse
This was.....not an easy read. But something everybody should read.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/books/72327098/mark-hunt-fighting-the-past
Hunt-O
Just Call Me Dan
Holy shit. That is insane. I wonder if the suicide of his brother is what he was struggling to deal with right before that Werdum fight in Mexico. What a remarkable guy.
If it was you wouldn't have known it. He was torching Werdum before getting caught.
http://www.sherdog.com/news/articles/Opinion-The-End-of-a-Phenomenal-Long-Con-94871
Jordan Breen actually churning out more then art-school drivel. Hows about that.
ViciousFish
I'm not a huge fan of Breen but that was pretty good. Especially the line near the end about the rules not applying to Vitor.
Quote from: Lord of The Curry on April 06, 2009, 11:30:08 AM
Matt, don't be a fag. Post some huge cocks.
It must have been torture for him to not drop some random early 90's underground hip-hop reference.
http://www.sherdog.com/news/articles/Mauro-Ranallo-Battling-a-Stigma-95907
Wow. Just.....wow. Talk all the shit you want about his broadcasting style but as a human being you can't question his character.
I knew he had Bipolar, but didn't know it was that bad. I'll never like his commentary but I gotta respect The Mauro as a person.
http://www.mmafighting.com/2015/11/27/9798748/the-night-we-faced-jose-aldo-ufc-194-conor-mcgregor
Another must-read from Shaun Al-Shatti. I knew Aldo was a bad man but listening to guys talk about the long-term damage fighting him has done....holy shit.
I know the writer said he may just be getting started, but I have a hard time believing that with all the fights he's been in over ten years.
I can understand why Cub Swanson turned down an interview request but wonder why Edgar wouldn't talk to him.
Probably feel too connected, most of the guys who spoke will never fight Aldo again. Even Mendes and Llamas, I doubt they get another shot. But they both seem like humble guys.
Honestly, that's like 5 good articles with all the awesome quotes. A lot of real insight from the best in the business, plenty of real talk.
Some of this stuff seems like common sense to me, but it's bothersome how the narrative in the greater MMA world forgets some of it, like
Lamas: Unfortunately in this sport, the fans only see you as good as your last performance. It doesn’t matter, all the great accomplishments you’ve done in the past. If you lose a fight then all of a sudden you suck. Not all the fans are like that, but a lot of them are because we have a lot of fans who aren’t… I wouldn’t say very educated on the sport or the fighters. Unfortunately it’s like that.
Lamas: In Brazil he’s a superstar. I think that’s all that really matters to him. That’s his home. That’s his country. Like me, I wouldn’t care how people in Europe or wherever perceive me. I’m never going to be there so I’m never going to be around those people. I’m here in America. So I think it hurts him in America or other English speaking countries because the fans don’t really get a chance to get to know him, but that’s where he’s from.
I agree completely with all that, it bothers me that people expect Aldo to be all this shit he doesn't need to be. He's not the promoter.
The first part is what bothers me if he loses. A lot of people will shit on his legacy, Dana White fostered that kind of reputation tbh
It's no different than Ronda.
I think the only fighter that really avoided a huge backlash about their legacy was Anderson. Then he took Thai dick medicine and he got his backlash.
I'm not sure how much backlash towards Rousey has to do with people trying to discredit her prior opponents. I think it was more people being happy she got KTFO'd because of how she comes across.
I saw so much "She was never any good to begin with" everywhere. And a lot of it was casuals but there was a lot of bailing off the Ronda train onto the Ronda Sucks train, even by "hard cores".
Those people are called "morons".
Firmino of the 909
Anyone who thinks she isn't great is pretty stupid. She does only have one flaw that's able to be exploited by only the absolute highest level of boxer/kickboxer..
To think of this generation being around when guys like Ali, Foreman, and Frazier were fighting, I dunno, I don't think I could handle all these critiques and hot takes.
koab [8:27 PM]
damn i thought you guys were good little cucks who would shit themselfs so a POC could peacefully protest
That was a great article on Aldo, and it reminded me how much damage he did to Hominick and Florian.
To what you guys were saying earlier too, I did like Faber's quote about how it was hard to fight against World Champion caliber fighters. I sometimes am guilty of that during fights, wondering why guys are not "going for it" more.
This article made me excited for the fight in two weeks.
Jeremy Botter wrote a hell of an article on the injury problem in UFC and what they're doing about it.
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2594909-the-cost-mmas-injury-epidemic-and-how-the-ufc-is-seeking-to-fix-it
Good article but the cynic in me can't help but wonder how much influence UFC had on Botter writing it. Seems a tad fishy that in the wake of all the bad press they've been getting lately that all of a sudden a very pro-Zuffa piece emerges.
To me, that's the worst thing about MMA fans. We've been given so many reason to hate Zuffa that most can't or are unwilling to accept that they don't hate the fighters. It seems half of them think Dana sits in his office and pulls names out of a hat and ruins those guys' lives.
Yeah, they do some pretty shitty things but they're still the company that takes the best care of the fighters. If you replaced everything Zuffa-centric in that article with Bellator, there'd be a lineup of people on their knees ready to blow Coker.
I don't think they hate the fighters who work for them. I think they take advantage of them to a criminal degree because they can.
Then fighters can find another job or sign somewhere else.
They still pay more than any organization in North America (I'm not familiar enough with Asia and Europe), provide health insurance and offer the Athlete Summits to educate the fighters. Bellator has exponentially more money behind it and does none of these things. But Coker isn't Dana so he gets a pass.
NoCalMike
Welcome to Prime Time, bitch!
Bellator (and other orgs) troubles are besides the point though. UFC is the big dog and strives to stay that way and be known as the industry standard. Do some people go overboard in their hatred/love for Zuffa. sure. However that doesn't mean there aren't legitimate problems with their business model.
"Pays the fighters the most" doesn't mean a whole lot, it just means other companies pay even worse.
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misogynist at heart
Quote from: Lord of The Curry on December 03, 2015, 03:26:09 AM
Wow. What a crazy story.
I'm shocked he hasn't been canned by WSOF already. There is clearly a conflict of interest in terms of his role with the company and his as a fighter manager.
http://espn.go.com/espn/feature/story/_/page/espnwrousey/in-exclusive-interview-ronda-rousey-says-not-losing-holly-holm
Long story short: ESPN sent a reporter to Australia to follow Rousey and take a bunch of high-res photos of her because they assumed she would win. She didn't and they still needed to use the photos. Thus, this article was born.
That is a pretty great article. I really appreciate the articles that just report. No opinions, no skewing just in in-depth look. You don't get a lot of that anymore.
Ronda not congratulating Holm or giving her any praise is in no way surprising. But hey, she was on the money when she said that people were happy she got really hurt.
http://www.mmafighting.com/2016/1/22/10722814/until-the-last-light-leaves-london-shawn-tompkins-sam-stout
Shaun Al-Shatti breaking my Southern Ontario heart with the story about how Team Tompkins came to be and how Sean's death completely devastated the team.
That was a great article, I wish they addressed some of the drug rumours.
Sam tells you that he’s not really retired. That, for whatever it’s worth, it is the opposite. "One of the hardest things is financial stress," he says. "I have a daughter, and now I have no income. I’m unemployed. I wish I could say I made enough money to really retire, but that’s not the case. It’s not that I wasn’t smart with my money or anything like that. It’s just the sport. It’s not enough. The money we’re making is practically blue-collar money. Once you’re done, it doesn’t mean you get to relax for a little while. It means you’ve got to get right back on the grind and start fresh in something completely different, as a coach or whatever. That’s been one of the hardest things."
That's fucking depressing.
They aren't rumours. I have family in London that have partied with Shawn, he was a blow-head.
And it kinda addresses the drugs in a soft way, the line about he could be out all night and still be up for 6 am to help guys cut weight was a pretty telling one IMO. Probably still wired from the night before.
http://www.mmafighting.com/2016/5/27/11719628/in-the-shadow-of-the-monster-kevin-randleman-ufc
Junior year, 1993. There is no stopping this ghost in the red and white singlet. The shredded ligament in his knee is nothing more than a distraction, a discomfort, because this is winning time and motherfuckers like him feast on greatness. But then, a pop – his jaw is broken. He can barely clench his teeth. He calls time and thumps the side of his head. Once. He is a madman. Twice. He is a surgeon. The bones in his skull snap back in place, and with a jaw wired shut, he thrashes the next four men he faces. Back-to-back NCAA champion. Immortal before he leaves the mat.
For years, Monster Wrestling Academy was the pride of Kevin’s post-fighting life. He loved teaching the kids. He loved spending time on the mats. Yet like so many positive things around The Monster, he talked about it only when asked. "Kev was so generous and giving," says Baroni. "I lived in Vegas and I didn’t know for the longest time that he had this whole program where he was helping all these kids.
"All these little kids and all these wrestlers. Hundreds of kids that no one ever knows about. He’s not a bragger."
excuse me there's uhhh umm somethin in my eye
Yeah, just got done reading that article and man....got choked up a few times during the course of it.
http://www.mmafighting.com/2016/6/16/11941778/at-age-33-john-howard-finally-freed-by-diagnosis-of-autism?utm_campaign=mmafighting&utm_content=chorus&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter
Shaun Al-Shatti killing it once again. Props to Doomsday for being open about this.
http://thelab.bleacherreport.com/a-history-of-nonviolence/
great article on Greg Jackson. BZ will appreciate all the Breaking Bad references.
War Machine's trial got postponed till February of next year, worth reading this article:
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2560140-a-monster-among-us-the-dark-descent-of-war-machine
Safe for work?
No disgusting, violent pictures. I read it at work, I think you're good.
I mean there is a pic of him in a fight punching someone, but I think that's the same as any other MMA article. The worst picture was probably this one at the bottom
http://www.mmafighting.com/2016/8/12/12424062/heart-of-the-209-ufc-202-nate-diaz
posting in this thread because it's worth saving in this library. soooo good.
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Crazy! Lou V. Rode the Rockies in Colorado
June 8, 2014 May 14, 2018 CycAdmin3News-USA / News-World / United States / World
June 8, 2014–Winter Park, CO.
By Lou Villarosa–As told to Jen Benepe
Lou Villarosa pictured yesterday in Boulder, CO, before the stage today where he rode in wind, rain and snow for 75 miles and 10,500 vertical feet.
It was a total ascent of 10,500 feet, and in the last hour I was starving. And we gotta go out again tomorrow.
We started at around 7 AM this morning in Boulder, CO.
About a week ago, I had a bad cold, and had to take antibiotics. But my doctor gave me the go-ahead.
We rode for 9 hours and 75 miles.
We had wind, we had hail, we had lightening, and we had snow. You name it, we had it.
Lou Villarosa rides the Rockies.
The only thing we didn’t have was a tornado.
Yes, in the middle of summer. It’s horrible.
I am 63 years old, and I normally live in Florida. Hah!
It’s called Ride the Rockies, and this is day one. It’s a 6-day event, and it’s 473 miles total.
A 69-year-old woman who has done this about 10 years in a row told my friend this was the hardest Ride the Rockies she has ever done.
There was no problem with the down hills. But it’s snowing right now in Winter Park, and the temperature is 28 degrees fahrenheit.
Tomorrow it’s going to be cold in the morning, but I am dead on my ass.
The only picture I have is when we were waiting for the bus and I was hyper thermic. One woman was put in the emergency vehicle because she was blue.
Another report coming tomorrow, I gotta go eat.
Boulder, Colorado, Jen Benepe, Lou Villarosa, Ride the Rockies, Winter Park
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India is known to be the biggest producer of motion pictures in the world. The biggest USP of Indian Films that sets it apart from World Cinema is the inclusion of song and dance sequences in them. Despite a weak content, several Films have done stupendous business, solely on the strength of its music. Music sales are a major avenue of income for Film Producers and the sale of Audio rights is a major revenue earner. The Audio companies also actively participate in the promotional and marketing strategies of these films.
According to his aptitude or liking, a person can mould or fit himself in various branches of Sound Recording and Engineering:-
1. Sound Engineer for live shoot during Filming of a Movie or a Television programme.
2. Song and Music Recording.
3. Mixing Engineer for Dolby DTS Surround sound.
4. Handling Sound System in live outdoor events.
5. Sound Designing for Film effects.
6. Recordist at a Radio Station, especially FM Stations or to produce software for broadcasting, eg. Ad-commercials, Corporate Documentary films etc.
7. Maintenance or Service Engineer for equipment.
8. Designing and establishing sound Recording Studios with proper aesthetics, acoustics and ambience.
Sound Engineering is not a profession that can be taught in a conventional academic way. It is a collaborative art form and to do it well requires a combination of technical skill and theoretical knowledge, as well as practical and aesthetic abilities.
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"NASCAR On Fox" Off To A Good Start
That big sigh of relief you heard on Saturday night was the entire NASCAR Nation exhaling as the NASCAR on Fox guys took to the airwaves for the Bud Shootout.
After a tough summer, a rugged "Chase" and a very long winter the new NASCAR TV season had dawned just the way network executives like it. There was plenty of controversy, good storylines, and the one thing that everyone really needed. Good TV coverage had returned to the sport, just in the nick of time.
As the returning veterans of the NASCAR TV package, Mike Joy lead a crew of announcers who have established their own individual identities with the American public. There are no question marks, no one to get angry at, and no facts are in doubt.
The conversations from the Infield Studio are done by men who actively participated in the sport, and give good-natured grief to the one host who has not. The relationsips between the entire on-air crew are displayed for all to see. There might be some kidding, but this group has checked their egos at the door. The resulting level of communication is outstanding.
Fox makes good HD pictures, brings a good graphics package, and seems to have put their 3-D animation feature on-the-shelf. This on-air package, without a lower third "ticker" on the screen, worked cleanly and without a problem.
This time at Daytona, the Fox Producer and Director chose to show all cars equally, although Dale Junior will always be the story when he is at the front. It still is a little tough with all the cameras not to turn-up a replay or two, but that issue should be put to bed by the Daytona 500 weekend.
Mike Joy was in fine spirits, and led a group that enjoys the pace and enthusiasm that Joy can seemingly maintain for the length of any race. There just cannot be enough said about the importance of the play-by-play announcer setting the tone for the entire broadcast. This was a cast of characters that enjoys racing, and it showed.
With laps winding down, the Fox Director borrowed from the "old school" approach and kept the cameras wide so the size of the lead pack and the speed of all the cars could be seen clearly by the viewer. Allowing Kevin Harvick to directly comment on the action was a good compliment to the regular Fox voices.
While the graphics for the in-car cameras were large, the sound from the same location was outstanding. The audio mix was a key part of this program, and never did anything but push the announcers to talk over the actual natural sound of the event.
Timely replays are tough to insert in live action, but Fox kept them to a minimum and never interrupted with any in-action promos or celebrity interviews. The focus on racing was a welcome change from the disjointed TV effort during The Chase of 2007.
The final three laps after a restart were a nice way to finish the broadcast. Darrell Waltrip was outspoken and clear in his analysis. His points about the rear spoiler of the COT keeping the cars from crashing was just fundamentally interesting. Old DW was on top of his game, and the fact that Junior won was just icing on the cake.
Fox returns with pole qualifying on Sunday at 1PM Eastern Time, and then the countdown clock to the 50th running of the Daytona 500 gets down into single numbers. With the Bud Shootout as a warm-up, NASCAR fans can breath a little easier. The "pros" are back in town, and we even saw the entire field finish the race.
On a Saturday night in February, it was just nice to be able to watch good NASCAR TV again. Maybe, this year could be the shot-in-the-arm that NASCAR really needs.
In-Progress At Daytona: Bud Shootout On Fox Sports
The veteran NASCAR on Fox team returns Saturday night to cover the Bud Shootout at 8PM Eastern Time. Finally, NASCAR racing action returns live to prime time TV.
Mike Joy continues to anchor the Fox Sports coverage, joined by Darrell Waltrip and Larry McReynolds in the booth. On pit road will be Krista Voda, Matt Yocum, Steve Byrnes and Dick Berggren. Chris Myers and Jeff Hammond will also be along for the ride in the Hollywood Hotel.
With the race profile heightened because of the practice accidents and the Kurt Busch vs. Tony Stewart feud, this pre-season special will be a big draw for TV viewers.
SPEED has provided a full day of live coverage from Daytona, including Cup practice and the ARCA race. This included the NASCAR on Fox crew calling the practice session, and it was clear that they were confident and prepared for this evening's race.
As racing returns, fans will once again be watching for several TV production issues. Last season, the NASCAR on Fox Director chose to only show the winning car cross the finish line. Despite the roar of the fans, this practice continued throughout the entire package. It should be interesting to see what the production team chooses to show the viewers at home on the final lap.
Fans also had their fill of the "Fox 3-D" animated replays, which often showed-up to only state the obvious. This system from Sportvision uses GPS to duplicate in an animated fashion the locations of the cars on the track and then creates a replay effect. Even with the limited field in the Shootout, this effect was used last season with less than stellar results. Perhaps, we will see the updated version Saturday night.
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"RaceDay" Debuts On SPEED For 2008
Saturday evening at 6PM, the franchise is back for SPEED. Over the last season, the Daly Planet has called this program "SPEED-a-palooza" and the "Super WalMart of NASCAR." There were lots of good reasons why.
RaceDay is one of the most-watched programs on SPEED, and was used in 2007 by the network in one of the most controversial scheduling decisions ever made in NASCAR TV history.
After airing in the timeslot just before the NASCAR on Fox team took to the air, RaceDay suddenly changed course when the NEXTEL Cup coverage moved to TNT and then ESPN/ABC. This two hour live show was moved to go head-to-head with the pre-race shows of those two networks.
For the first time, NASCAR fans were forced to choose TV networks as two live pre-race shows were on-the-air at the same time from the same track. Ultimately, between the personality struggles of TNT and the credibility struggles of ESPN, SPEED came out on top. Later this season, that competition is going to be interesting to watch.
As the program returns to the air, John Roberts again steps into the host role and is joined by Jimmy Spencer and Kenny Wallace. This trio has a fascinating dynamic simply because of the completely different personalities involved. The bottom line is that it works for the viewers.
Wendy Venturini continues to re-define the role of pit reporter, and her ability to interact effectively with the wide range of personalities in the sport assures viewers that SPEED is always in the news mix in the garage area. She is again joined by Bob Dillner, who had a good pre-season with his testing coverage and continues to be a consistent performer.
Hermie Sadler and Randy Pemberton continue to be utility players for this series, with Hermie's on-track features a solid addition to the program. Pemberton is in the middle of a professional comeback, and his knowledge of the key players in the sport served him well last season.
Rutledge Wood is a wild card, and with this program taking on an even higher profile in 2008, it will be interesting to see if SPEED includes him regularly in this show. Riki Rachtman will not be a regular part of the show, and will not participate in the weekly winner picks. He remains an anchor for NASCAR.com's internetTV coverage.
The debut edition of the program should be interesting, with good storylines for the Bud Shootout, Daytona 500 pole qualifying, and the ARCA race that directly precedes the live show. Remember, lots of the top NEXTEL Cup cars are now in the ARCA field as NASCAR has adopted the COT full time.
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"RaceDay" Debuts on SPEED for 2008 (6PM Tonight)
In-Progress At Daytona: "NASCAR Live" and Saturday Practice (On-Air Now)
"Shifting Gears" Makes NASCAR TV History (Dale Junior's Friday Night Show)
Ryan Burr And Daytona Media Day (ESPNEWS Coverage Thursday)
"NASCAR in 30 Seconds" Features Rutledge Wood (SPEED Program Comments)
Congratulations! You Made This The Top-Rated NASCAR Blog (Update And Comments)
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In-Progress At Daytona: "NASCAR Live" and Saturday Cup Practice on SPEED
The SPEED schedule begins on Saturday at 10AM Eastern Time with a thirty minute edition of NASCAR Live.
The main host for this program is John Roberts, although SPEED has multiple announcers on-site and several sets operating simultaneously.
On-track practice for Sprint Cup cars begins at 10:30AM and will be followed by another edition of NASCAR Live at 12:30PM.
After lunch, practice resumes for the Cup Series at 1:30PM, and SPEED ends the afternoon portion of this live coverage with a final wrap-up edition of NASCAR Live at 3PM.
Normally a general news program updating events at the track and happenings in the garage, today will be different. It should be interesting to see if SPEED is drawn into the media feeding frenzy about the Tony Stewart vs. Kurt Busch accident. The network did a good and balanced job Friday dealing with the events.
This post will serve to host your comments about the TV coverage. This is not a blog about racing, but the TV and media coverage that surrounds it. This should be a good example of watching a network balance the features and events they have prepared in advance with the breaking news about possible sanctions on two drivers and other teams working to prepare cars that arrived at the speedway during the night.
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