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This year, despite the festival's growing success and recognition, its very survival has been jeopardized by the recent political changes in Romania, which have impacted the primary mission, status and budget of the Romanian Cultural Institute. In response to this unexpected adversity, the team that founded the festival seven years ago under the auspices of the Romanian Cultural Institute, Corina Suteu and Oana Radu, have resigned their posts as Director and Deputy Director, respectively, of the Institute, to establish the Romanian Film Initiative (RFI) together with Mihai Chirilov, the long-time artistic director of the festival. The RFI, in cooperation with the Film Society of Lincoln Center, strives to keep the playful, experimental spirit of the yearly event alive, and to continue to help Romanian films make waves in New York City and beyond. The RFI currently enjoys the support of leading Romanian artists, including film directors Cristian Mungiu, Radu Muntean, Lucian Pintilie, Corneliu Porumboiu, Cristi Puiu, Andrei Ujica and visual artist Dan Perjovschi, and the continued partnership of Transilvania International Film Festival.
"The Film Society of Lincoln Center is proud to continue its support of the exciting new generation of films and filmmakers from Romania by supporting the MAKING WAVES festival, especially in light of the recent governmental changes in Romania that have greatly endangered the future of state support for art and culture," says Scott Foundas, Associate Program Director for the Film Society of Lincoln Center.
MAKING WAVES offers an overview of the best new Romanian filmmaking each year and introduces American audiences to landmark films rarely seen in the U.S. The festival has run in New York since 2006 when it was launched by the Romanian Cultural Institute in New York, in collaboration with other partners. Notably, in 2011, the festival moved to the Film Society of Lincoln Center.
"Romanian Cinema deserves to be exposed on a sustainable basis to American audiences and in the most professional way possible. It is with great passion and commitment that the Romanian Film Initiative strives to reach beyond a crisis situation by creating a new platform and allowing the immensely gifted film community in Romania to remain in the world spotlight," says Corina Şuteu, initiator and president of the festival and co-founder of the Romanian Film Initiative.
MAKING WAVES will present a week-long overview of the best and most recent films from Romania's contemporary cinema, including the Opening Night selection OF SNAILS AND MEN by Tudor Giurgiu and Cristian Mungiu's Cannes-awarded BEYOND THE HILLS as the Closing Night film. The lineup also includes the New York Premieres of Radu Jude's EVERYBODY IN OUR FAMILY, Adrian Sitaru's BEST INTENTIONS, and the North American Premiere of Radu Gabrea's Three days till Christmas (Last days of the life of Elena and Nicolae CeauSescu).
The festival will also host a long-due U.S. presentation of director Alexandru Tatos, one of the leading Romanian filmmakers of the 70's and '80s, whose film SEQUENCES gathered a small but dedicated following due to the film's inclusion in the MoMA collection. New York audiences will have a chance to see three of his best films: RED APPLES (1976), ANASTASIA GENTLY PASSES (1979) and SEQUENCES (1982), on new prints produced with the support of the Romanian National Film Center. The star of ANASTASIA GENTLY PASSES, Anda Onesa, and Director of Photography, Florin Mihăilescu, long collaborator of Alexandru Tatos, will attend to introduce select screenings and to participate in post-screening Q&As.
Among the highlights of the festival this year is a special program addressing the important political and cultural policy changes that have been taking place in Romania and Hungary in the recent past. Entitled "Creative Freedom Through Cinema: Romania and Hungary" and curated by Corina Șuteu and László Jakab Orsós (PEN World Voice Festival director), this program aims to offer a better understanding of the sociopolitical context in these two countries and to address the relationship between arts and politics. Special screenings of Sequences (d. Alexandru Tatos, Romania, 1982) and Time Stands Still (d. Péter Gothár, Hungary, 1982) will be followed by two panel conversations with Romanian and Hungarian artists and cultural critics. Panelists include with film directors Tudor Giurgiu (Of Snails and Men) and Mona Nicoară (Our School), visual artist Dan Perjovschi, essayist Eszter Babarczy, and arts curator György Szabó.
Other special events include a celebration of the 40th anniversary of a landmark Romanian film, the Dan Piţa & Mircea Veroiu co-directed STONE WEDDING, another of the few Romanian films included in the MoMA collection.
Additional guests attending the festival will include Cannes-winners actresses Cristina Flutur and Cosmina Stratan [BEYOND THE HILLS], director Tudor Giurgiu [OF SNAILS AND MEN; also producer of SOMEWHERE IN PALILULA, and the president of long time partner, Transilvania International Film Festival], actor Andi Vasluianu [OF SNAILS AND MEN], director Radu Gabrea [THREE DAYS TILL CHRISTMAS], producer Ada Solomon [EVERYBODY IN OUR FAMILY and BEST INTENTIONS], with more guests to be announced soon.
"The stakes are high given the critical success of the previous edition hosted by the Film Society of Lincoln Center and I'm confident that this year's selection of award-winning features, complete with a large variety of shorts, documentaries, anniversary and tribute screenings will meet the expectations of the New York audience, proving once again that the Romanian Cinema deserves its hot spot on the movie map," notes Mihai Chirilov, the festival's Artistic Director and co-founder of the Romanian Film Initiative.
MAKING WAVES: New Romanian Cinema is supported by the Trust for Mutual Understanding, as well as the Blue Heron Foundation and other generous donors and sponsors, including visual artist Adrian Ghenie, and producer-director Bobby Paunescu. To complement funding for the festival, the Romanian Film Initiative has also launched a Kickstarter campaign to garner the grass roots support directly from the festival's dedicated audience, and the many fans of Romanian cinema world wide.
The Festival Board includes Corina Şuteu, festival president; Mihai Chirilov, artistic director; Scott Foundas, associate program director at Film Society of Lincoln Center and Oana Radu, festival manager.
Public and Press Screenings will be held at the Film Society of Lincoln Center's Walter Reade Theater (located at 165 West 65th Street, between Amsterdam Avenue and Broadway), with a selection of public screenings to also take place at the Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center (located at 144 West 65th Street). The press screening schedule will be announced in early November. Tickets will go on sale Thursday, November 1st.
Individual ticket prices: $13 GP/ $9 Student & Senior/ $8 Member
Three Film Package: $30 GP/ $24 Student & Senior/ $21 Member
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Opening Night!
Of Snails and Men/Despre oameni si melci
Tudor Giurgiu, 2012, Romania; 100m
A group of desperate workers come up with a crazy idea in order to save their factory from bankruptcy. This Full Monty-like bittersweet comedy is based on a real story from the 90s, at the exact time when the King of Pop visited Romania.
In person: director Tudor Giurgiu and actors Monica Bîrlădeanu and Andi Vasluianu.
Closing Night!
Beyond the Hills/După dealuri
Cristian Mungiu, 2012, Romania, DCP; 150m
Inspired by a real case of exorcism, Cristian Mungiu's new film is an all too believable portrait of dogma at odds with personal liberty in a society still emerging from the shadow of Communism. A NYFF selection, multiple prizewinner in Cannes, and Romania's official 2012 Oscar submission. A Sundance Selects release.
*In person: Cristina Flutur and Cosmina Stratan
New York Premiere!
Best Intentions/Din dragoste cu cele mai bune intentii
Adrian Sitaru, 2011, Hungary/Romania; 105m
In this expertly choreographed film, the life of a young man (Bogdan Dumitrache, winner of Best Actor at the 2011 Locarno Film Festival) is turned upside down when his mother suffers a stroke and gets hospitalized. But everybody's best intentions are far from reassuring.
Crulic: The Path to Beyond
Anca Damian, 2011, Romania; 73m
A dead man recalls the story of a Kafkaesque miscarriage of justice that sent him to jail for a crime he didn't commit, in this strange and strikingly animated documentary based on a real tragedy.
Free screening! North American Premiere!
A Dream's Merchant/Un gând, un vis, Doyle... şi-un pix
Bogdan Ilie-Micu, 2012, Romania; 172m
Constructed almost entirely from still photos masterfully synchronized with audio commentaries, this challenging doc tells the story of an adventurous one-man motorcycle expedition that spans over 21, 000 kilometers and 14 countries.
Free screening! North American Premiere!
8th of March/8 Martie
Alexandru Belc, 2012, Romania; 73m
Chaplin's Modern Times is reinvented in post-communist Romania, focusing on one working day in the lives of several women, in a haunting and troubling account that makes you do anything but laugh.
New York Premiere!
Everybody in Our Family/Toata lumea din familia noastra
Radu Jude, 2012, Romania/Netherlands; 107m
What starts as a slice of life becomes a dark tragicomedy about family dynamics when a small incident between two divorced parents takes on gigantic and almost cartoonish proportions.
In person: producer Ada Solomon.
North American Premiere!
A Film for Friends/Film pentru prieteni
Radu Jude, 2011, Romania; 58m
A disillusioned man is filming his farewell letter before committing suicide. Fasten your seatbelts, it's gonna be a bumpy and twisted ride.
North American Premiere!
Somewhere in Palilula/Undeva la Palilula
Silviu Purcarete, 2012, Romania; 145m
Possibly the most unusual offering of this year's feature selection, this flamboyant cross between Fellini and Peter Greenaway is the debut film of one of the most famous Romanian stage directors.
In person: producer Tudor Giurgiu
Special 40th anniversary screening!
New 35MM Print!
Stone Wedding/Nunta de piatra
Mircea Veroiu and Dan Pita, 1972, Romania; 90m
Celebrating 40 years since its release, this cult classic is comprised of two separate stories of different mode, set in the same small town, both with a wedding reference as a central point and the timeless quality of old and tragic folktales.
North American Premiere!
Teodora Sinner/Pacatoasa teodora
Anca Hirte, 2011, Romania/France; 86m
Everyday routine and the most ardent of prayers coexist to draw a vibrant portrayal of life in a convent, seen through the beautiful eyes of a woman preparing for her upcoming marriage with God.
North American Premiere!
Three Days Till Christmas (The Last Days in the Life of Elena and Nicolae Ceaușescu)/Trei zile pana la Craciun (Ultimele zile din viata Elenei si a lui Nicolae Ceausescu)
Radu Gabrea, 2012, Romania; 90m
An unusual companion to Andrei Ujică's The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceaușescu, Gabrea's docudrama is an intriguing mix of true fiction and false reality, perfectly in tune with the ambiguities of the Romanian Revolution.
In person: director Radu Gabrea
Free screening!
Turn off the Lights
Ivana Mladenovic, Romania, 2012; 77m
One of the deepest insight into the Romanian crime landscape to date, this doc produced by Cătălin Mitulescu (Loverboy) follows the destinies of three men from the day they are released from prison through the beginnings of their new lives.
Free screening!
New Romanian Shorts. Various; 101m
The best of the newest short films include, among others, the hilarious 3-minute animation The Scream (Edvard Munch's famous canvas meets Pink Floyd!), the slick, Moebius strip-like Infinite Minutes and this year's Cannes Critics Week selection A Family Dinner. Complete list below.
- Another Christmas (Un alt Crăciun), 2012, d. Tudor Giurgiu
- Blu, 2011, d. Nicolae Constantin Tănase
- Daddy Rulz (Tatăl meu e cel mai tare), 2012, d. Radu Potcoavă
- Family Dinner (Cină în familie), 2012, d. Ştefan Constantinescu
- Hello Kitty, 2012, d. Millo Simulov
- Infinite Minutes (Minute Infinite), 2011, d. Cecilia Felméri
- The Scream (Ţipătul), 2011, d. Sebastian Cosor
Alexandru Tatos Retrospective
Anastasia Gently Passes/Duios Anastasia trecea
Alexandru Tatos, 1979, Romania; 100m
In a border village during WW2, Anastasia (Anda Onesa, winner of Best Actress at the 1980 Karlovy Vary Film Festival) refuses to obey orders and buries a partisan, in this unsettling and modern retelling of Antigone's myth.
In person: Anda Onesa.
Red Apples
Alexandru Tatos, 1976, Romania; 105m
Following the tribulations of a newly-appointed urologist, Tatos' debut film is an acid pamphlet against destruction of young talent as well as a stand against the pervasive corruption that plagues even the noblest of professions.
In person: cinematographer Florin Mihăilescu
Alexandru Tatos, 1986, Romania; 100m
Full of provocative political metaphors, Tatos' masterpiece is a powerful meditation on the role of the arts in a rigidly controlled society, told in three parts, each of which involves a film crew.
Creative Freedom Through Cinema: Romania and Hungary
SEQUENCES/SECVENŢE - Screening introduced by DP Florin Mihăilescu (details above)
Followed immediately by a panel discussion focusing on the Romanian context with film directors Tudor Giurgiu (Of Snails and Men) and Mona Nicoară (Our School), visual artist Dan Perjovschi, and arts curator György Szabó, moderated by Mihai Chirilov.
Time Stands Still (Megáll az idö)
Time Stands Still (Megáll az idö)
Péter Gothár, 1982, Hungary; 103m
Péter Gothár's superb second feature as director is a frightening indictment of life under a socialist regime, all the more so because it shows how even school life and adolescent love affairs can become totally permeated and perverted by political dishonesty.
Followed immediately by a panel discussion shading light on the recent changes in Hungary, with essayist Eszter Babarczy, György Szabó, and Mona Nicoară, moderated by Scott Foundas.
Film Society of Lincoln Center
Under the leadership of Rose Kuo, Executive Director, and Richard Peña, Program Director, theFilm Society of Lincoln Center offers the best in international, classic and cutting-edge independent cinema. The Film Society presents two film festivals that attract global attention: the New York Film Festival, which recently celebrated its 50th edition, and New Directors/New Films which, since its founding in 1972, has been produced in collaboration with MoMA. The Film Society also publishes the award-winning Film Comment Magazine, and for over three decades has given an annual award—now named "The Chaplin Award"—to a major figure in world cinema. Past recipients of this award include Charlie Chaplin, Alfred Hitchcock, Martin Scorsese, Meryl Streep, and Tom Hanks. The Film Society presents a year-round calendar of programming, panels, lectures, educational programs and specialty film releases at its Walter Reade Theater and the new state-of-the-art Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center. The Film Society receives generous, year-round support from Royal Bank of Canada, American Airlines, The New York Times, Stella Artois, WNET New York Public Media, the National Endowment for the Arts and New York State Council on the Arts. For more information, visit www.filmlinc.com.
Romanian Film Initiative
Recently established by Corina Şuteu, Mihai Chirilov and Oana Radu, the core team that initiated and organized the Romanian Film Festival in NYC since 2006, the Romanian Film Initiative aims to continue supporting a strong presence of Romanian cinema in New York City and to further develop the MAKING WAVES: New Romanian Cinema festival. www.filmetc.org.
For Media specific inquiries, please contact:
Julia Pacetti, JMP Verdant, (917) 584-7846
Film Society of Lincoln Center:
John Wildman, (212) 875-5419
David Ninh, (212) 875-5423


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Kerry: Strikes not about Obama's red line
Secretary of State John Kerry says the debate about military strikes against Syria is not about President Barack Obama's "red line" that weapons of mass destruction cannot be tolerated.
Instead, Kerry told Congress Tuesday that "this debate is about the world's red line." He says it is "a red line that anyone with a conscience ought to draw."
Kerry, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, and Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey were dispatched to the Senate to help persuade lawmakers to support a resolution authorizing limited military strikes against Syria following a chemical weapons attack last month outside Damascus that left hundreds dead, including many children.
Kerry said "This is not the time for arm-chair isolationism. This is not the time to be spectators to slaughter."


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Those of you who read my other blog Sketch42 know that all year long I have been on a quest to eat local and organic food. (And this was before Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution!) You also know that IT AINT EASY! By mid-Feburary my family was quite sick of butternut squash, cabbage and apples…. Thankfully, Spring is here and I will soon be planting my garden in New Jersey. But this year, I will also be planting another garden. A little herb garden on my window sill.
Michael Pollan author of In Defense of Food, Food Rules and The Omnivore's Dilemma (just some light reading about the current abysmal state of the industrial food system) lists growing your own food as the GREENEST thing you can possibly do.(Keeping Shabbat is also on his list!!!) It's also the healthiest food you will ever eat.
Here are the instructions for setting up your own herb garden:
1. You need one large pot, or a few smaller pots.
2. Put gravel or rocks over drainage hole.
3. Fill pot with soil mix – to 1" from top of pot
4. Use an organic fertilizer and mix in with soil
5. Scatter herb seeds on surface
6. Cover with soil according to directions on packet (some herbs seeds should not be covered)
7. Water well, but with a light touch
8. Keep watered
9. Seeds germinate in 7 – 21 days, depending on species (see seed packet for more information)
10. Grow in a sunny spot. They need between 4-6 hours of sunlight a day.
Herbs That Grow Best Indoors:
Tips For Successful Herbs:
– Light requirements: 6 hours in a sunny window for most herbs, 4 is OK for rosemary, mint, and parsley.
– You could also use a grow light. It should be approximately 16 inches above the plants and needs to be on for 12 to 14 hours to provide the equivalent of 6 hours sunlight. It looks like a fluorescent light tube.
– Drainage: All herbs require especially good drainage. The containers must have drainage holes on the bottom, and Leda recommend adding additional perlite or sand to a commercial potting soil mix (1 part perlite or sand to 3 parts mix).
– Watering: Overwatering is one of the most common mistakes people make when growing herbs indoors. The surface of the soil must be allowed to dry to a depth of 1-inch before watering, and then it should be a good, deep watering (until water flows through the drainage holes).
– Feeding: Herbs should be fed once a month with a half-strength organic fertilizer such as fish emulsion.
5. Indoor Garden Kit: Thyme Herb Kit $9.99
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The overwhelmingly positive response to Make it Possible from caring members of the public has allowed the Make it Possible little winged pig to fly into hearts and minds across the country and the world. She is lighting up TV and cinema screens, and the campaign is blooming online. But this is only the beginning.
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Luke Bryan Ready to Kick Off 5th Annual Farm Tour
Luke Bryan is gearing up for his 2013 Farm Tour! The singer will hit the road next week with eight fun celebratory shows that not only feature the Entertainer of the Year, but also lift up the American farmer.
Chancie Neal, Cole Swindell and the Peach Pickers will be joining Bryan, and they'll head to their southeast concerts from October 2 to October 12.
Each year, the crowds swell even larger (with last year's crowd marking 100,000), and a couple of the dates have already sold out. In addition to the music-filled event, there will be a few lucky students from agricultural families who will be awarded the Luke Bryan Farm Tour Scholarship. Last year, eight students benefited from the singer's generosity.
The 'That's My Kind of Night' hitmaker is truly a farm boy at heart, and this is a great opportunity for him to give back to local farming communities.
For additional tour and ticket information, stay tuned to the tour's website. The Oct. 4 and 5 dates have already sold out.
Luke Bryan 2013 Farm Tour Dates:
10/3 – Athens, Ga. | Wild Winds Farms
10/4 – Columbia, S.C. | Culler Farms (SOLD OUT)
10/5 – Macon, Ga. | Midway at Central City Park (SOLD OUT)
10/9 – Villa Rica, Ga. | V-Plex
10/10 – Auburn, Ala. | Ingram Farms
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Toxic chemicals seeped into Camp Lejeune's water supply for three decades. The contaminated wells weren't shut down until 1987, years after tests first indicated the water was polluted.
Additionally, Camp Lejeune officials didn't immediately contact effected families. Here's a Stars and Stripes timeline of events.
The Camp Lejeune water quality reports are available online.
The Navy mailed letters in May 2010 to veterans stationed at Camp Lejeune informing them of the water contamination between 1957 and 1987. You can download a VA Health Care fact sheet on Camp Lejeune Water Contamination.
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Letter to the Community, From Office of Safety and Security
November 9, 2018
To All Members of the Cajon Valley School District Community:
Recent situations in our schools have prompted questions about campus safety, and I want to share with you information that, I hope, will answer your questions and allay concerns. Thank you for your kind attention.
Four situations related to safety took place in the last week, and I want you to know that we investigated each situation promptly and without incident to staff or students. Here is a summary of the four unrelated, safety-themed situations.
Last week, a Hillsdale Middle School student's laptop was stolen and hacked, and the hacker posted threats of violence and messages of hate in general toward the school. The investigation confirmed this was not a serious threat, however, we continue to investigate the situation so we can exercise the appropriate discipline. To protect the investigation, we will not disclose information on the hacker, but again I want to stress the online comments are confirmed to be "not credible."
On a separate campus, a parent reported seeing a threatening message related to Greenfield Middle School on their child's social media account. Law enforcement was notified and an investigation was conducted on campus. The threat was deemed not credible by law enforcement. The account associated with the concern belonged to a Greenfield Middle School student. Unfortunately, the student shared account access with several peers and the message was deactivated. We will continue to investigate if new information becomes available.
Yesterday (On November 8th), there was a lockdown at Hillsdale Middle School caused by a student calling 911 after overhearing a weapon might be on campus. In fact, a separate incident occurred away from campus and did not involve our students or staff, but some student heard "rumors" that the alleged perpetrator in the off-campus incident might be on campus and might have a weapon. A worried student called 911, which lead to a lockdown and local law enforcement searching the entire campus. No weapon was found.
Earlier in the month, a student posted lyrics to a song that included messages of violence and some who read the message did not recognize the posting as lyrics, interpreting them as threats to the Hillsdale Middle School campus. The situation was handled and the student was talked to. Again, not a credible threat.
While these incidents have no direct connection, they all share the common theme of threats to safety in general and physical harm to others, specifically.
Please be advised that we will be meeting with all our students to review the important life lesson of using social media responsibility. And, we will remind our students that whenever they hear something that worries them, they should tell a trusted adult. Our children's voices are our most important tool in ensuring campus safety.
Last night, a tragic act of violence in Thousand Oaks, CA took lives and shattered families and communities. At a time when we grapple with yet another senseless shooting, I realize that safety is on the forefront of all our minds. I wanted you to share information on these incidents and reaffirm to you that we place the very highest priority on campus safety. We will never take a chance or cut corners when it comes to protecting our employees and students.
In the upcoming weeks, the Cajon Valley Unified School District will be hosting a community forum event at all our middle schools, to include our law enforcement partners.
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Any time you use a lawyer, chances are you'll be coping with uncertainty. That's certainly true in litigation cases where you don't know what the judge or jury will decide. And when you're putting together a business deal, there's always the question of what might go wrong and whether the contract covers that possibility. What shouldn't be uncertain, though, is what to expect when you receive the lawyer's bill. To properly budget, you should know how the lawyer computes the bill and what a given matter is likely to cost.
Especially for business law, lawyers traditionally charge an hourly rate for legal services. That system came under fire from business circles about five years ago, with critics charging attorneys with inflating the number of hours worked. Although most respected lawyers are scrupulous about keeping track of hours and attempting to get the best results in the shortest time possible, articles in business and legal magazines trumpeted abuses by big-firm lawyers caught padding their bills. Distinguished judges blamed the hourly billing system for detracting from lawyers' professionalism and commitment to their clients. They argued that someone paid by the hour has less incentive to use that time efficiently or strive for the highest quality of work than someone whose payment is tied to results.
In the wake of all this, businesses and entrepreneurial lawyers began drafting new methods of billing designed to reward efficiency and excellence: contingency fees for business deals, value-based billing, fixed fees bid in advance and various other hybrid forms. "People thought it was the end of the billable hour," says Elbert Kram, an attorney with Bricker & Eckler LLC in Columbus, Ohio, who specializes in business law. As it turns out, the changes haven't been that dramatic. "It's difficult to track costs if there are no billable hours," Kram says. Nonetheless, many lawyers are willing to make creative arrangements to suit their clients' needs and desires.
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"In the abstract, there are just as many choices as people have imagination," Kram says. "Lawyers are more willing now to consider alternatives." Here are a few options that might work for you:
- Start-up packages. When you are starting a business, you're short of money for just about everything, including legal services. Attorney Charles McCallum, managing partner of Warner, Norcross & Judd LLC in Grand Rapids, Michigan, notes that many law firms charge a set fee for a package of legal services, such as drawing up initial documents, attending meetings, preparing minutes, drafting ownership agreements and stock certificates, reviewing contracts, and offering routine legal advice. "That way, the client can budget for legal fees or go to the bank for financing," McCallum says.
- Fixed fees. You can also negotiate a fixed fee for a given legal project. Just as you'd take bids for construction work, you can talk to more than one attorney about what you'd like to have done and ask for a bid on the job. As with construction, though, the low bid isn't necessarily the best. Be careful to evaluate the attorney's reputation and the quality you'll get for your dollar. With a fixed fee, the lawyer has an incentive to be efficient, and the client understands the costs upfront. If it's a one-of-a-kind deal, however, or a type of work the attorney hasn't done before, fixed fees may be problematic because neither party knows how much time it will take and what it should cost.
- Volume discounts. If your business requires a large number of the same type of documents or services, you might be able to negotiate a volume discount with your attorney. A law firm with enough expertise in the area to produce what you need without much effort may be willing to offer a lower price in return for a larger quantity of work.
- Caps. Often the most trying aspect of legal billing is having no idea what a particular service will cost. Many attorneys are willing to estimate an upper limit so the business can establish a budget. Actual hourly charges might be less, but the attorney guarantees they'll be no higher.
- Contingent fees. Common for lawyers working on plaintiffs' lawsuits and on collections, a contingent fee arrangement shifts the risk to the lawyers: If they win the case, they receive a set percentage of the settlement, typically one-third. If they lose, they get nothing. This arrangement helps discourage frivolous lawsuits with no realistic chance of winning. Some lawyers now offer a contingent fee structure for transactional work, too, such as putting together a major business deal. If the transaction is concluded successfully, the lawyer gets a percentage of the deal.
"The goal is to move the transaction along rather than just grind out the hours," Kram says. "The lawyer agrees to assume part of the risk." Be careful, though. Some state bar associations frown on this arrangement as unethical because the attorney has a financial incentive to conclude a deal even if problems arise that could harm the client. Many lawyers avoid these arrangements because this essentially makes the attorney an investor in the deal.
- Partial contingency. In this arrangement, also known as "value billing," the law firm charges less than its normal hourly rate with the agreement that the client will pay a larger fee if the work is done faster or with a better result than anticipated. A lawyer who saves or gains you thousands of dollars through excellent work gets to share the windfall. Before agreeing to such a plan, though, make sure the lawyer will accept a lower payment if the result is worse than expected.
If you think an alternative billing arrangement could work for you, talk to your lawyer. "No client or lawyer should be embarrassed to talk about fees," McCallum says. "Raise the issue of fees early on, and be candid. If the attorney is not willing to be candid, that's a danger sign." Discuss what you're willing to pay to get a deal done, and ask for a guarantee that it won't go higher. When you've worked out a satisfactory arrangement, get it in writing to avoid unpleasant surprises when the bill arrives.
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The violence in Gaza is likely to continue until a third party brokers a deal that allows both Israel and Hamas to claim successes as a result of the bloodshed, says CFR's Robert Danin.
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Ukraine's intensifying crisis has the Obama administration hinting at tougher sanctions against Russia, which could threaten Moscow's ability to trade and invest, says CFR's Robert Kahn.
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A short U.S. government shutdown will likely have a limited effect on the economy but will be followed by a protracted debate over increasing the debt limit, which may result in the government's defa…
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Peace talks between Israelis and Palestinians have relaunched, ensuring major new challenges for both parties and the United States, says CFR's Robert Danin.
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With a slowing economy, China's continued growth will largely depend on Beijing's policy decisions, says CFR's Robert Kahn.
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It is predicted to be a record year for the tourism industry with global industry growth forecasted at 2.8 percent - directly producing $2 trillion to the global economy and around 100.3 million jobs, according to research by the World Travel & Tourism Council.
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I love old maps like that. But as for this building, I think it's one of the worst in the city. It has no class next to the old greats of the Civic Center.
Jacob K. Javits Federal Building
26 Federal Plaza
Alfred Easton Poor, Kahn & Jacobs, Eggers & Higgins (1967)
Stories: 42
Height: 587'
From greatgridlock.com :The Jacob K. Javits Federal Building and Customs Courthouse, as the complex's full name goes, was built in 1967 for the US Federal Government as the only realized buildings, along with the nearby Family Court Building, of the 1962 Civic Center general plan.At 179 m the Federal Building dominates the Civic Center at Foley Square along with the Municipal Building and the U.S. Courthouse.This massive building has a 41-storey glass-walled slab facing east that is partly "wrapped" around a core that faces Broadway. Originally the facade facing Broadway was a windowless wall of exposed concrete, but in 1976 an extension by the same architects brought offices also to the western portion. The vertical window slits of the glass walls are misaligned so that all the adjacent windows are at a different height, forming an alternating zig-zag pattern on the facade.On the triangular plaza in front of the building is the eight-storey Customs Courthouse as a black glass cube that is elevated on two white vertical "plates" that slice through the cube.The Plaza at the NE corner of the Javitz site once was home to "Tilted Arc", a massive Cor-Ten Steel sculpture by Richard Serra measuring 12 ft x 120 ft x 2 1/2 in.
"Tilted Arc" was installed in the plaza in 1981, but not without controversy :According to Serra, "The viewer becomes aware of himself and of his movement through the plaza. As he moves, the sculpture changes. Contraction and expansion of the sculpture result from the viewer's movement. Step by step the perception not only of the sculpture but of the entire environment changes."The sculpture generates controversy as soon as it is erected, and Judge Edward Re begins a letter-writing campaign to have the $175,000 work removed. Four years later, William Diamond, regional administrator for the GSA, decides to hold a public hearing to determine whether Tilted Arc should be relocated. Estimates for the cost of dismantling the work are $35,000, with an additional $50,000 estimated to erect it in another location. Richard Serra testifies that the sculpture is site-specific, and that to remove it from its site is to destroy it. If the sculpture is relocated, he will remove his name from it.The public hearing is held in March 1985. During the hearing, 122 people testify in favor of retaining the sculpture, and 58 testify in favor of removing it. The art establishment -- artists, museum curators, and art critics -- testify that Tilted Arc is a great work of art. Those against the sculpture, for the most part people who work at Federal Plaza, say that the sculpture interferes with public use of the plaza. They also accuse it of attracting graffiti, rats, and terrorists who might use it as a blasting wall for bombs. The jury of five, chaired by William Diamond, vote 4-1 in favor of removing the sculpture.Serra's appeal of the ruling fails. On March 15, 1989, during the night, federal workers cut Tilted Arc into three pieces, remove it from Federal Plaza, and cart it off to a scrap-metal yard.
More on the case of "Tilted Arc" from the New York Times (May 19, 1985):ART VIEW; THE CASE IN FAVOR OF A CONTROVERSIAL SCULPTUREIn recent years no work of art has been the source of as much controversy as Richard Serra's public sculpture ''Tilted Arc.''Some of the most respected American critics believe it is a failure. Others, including this observer, believe it gives an incoherent, intractable space a focus and sense of possibility it did not have before. Many people who live with the work want it removed.''Tilted Arc'' was commissioned in 1979 and installed in Federal Plaza in downtown Manhattan in 1981. It is a 120-foot-long, 12-foot-tall, unadorned slab of curved and tilted steel that expands toward the north, contracts toward the south and pulls together the Jacob J. Javits Federal Building, to the west, and the Federal Courthouse, to the east. The sculpture is almost adjacent to a large fountain and carefully set into the circular grid pattern of the pavement ...What also makes ''Tilted Arc'' appropriate to its site is its content. The work has a great deal to do with the American Dream. The sculpture's unadorned surface insists upon its identity as steel. The gliding, soaring movement recalls ships, cars and, above all, trains. As with many enduring works of American art and literature, behind the sculpture's facade of overwhelming simplicity and physical immediacy lies a deep restlessness and irony ...One thing that emerged from the hearing is that we have not yet begun to explore the meanings and possibilities of ''Tilted Arc.'' Another is that we are not even remotely in a position to make an irrevocable decision about a work of this complexity and imagination.More on the ruling against and destruction of "Tilted Arc" HERE
The Federal Plaza then (looking esat towards Foley Square):
That same Plaza today (looking north):
A map of the site of The Javits Federal Building (Broadway & Duane Street)from ~ 1700:
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I love old maps like that. But as for this building, I think it's one of the worst in the city. It has no class next to the old greats of the Civic Center.
Screw the Verizon building recladding, recladding THIS baby would be a public service.
But NOT in the style of the Verizon re-clad, thank you very much ...
A footnote to the "Tilted Arc" saga ...
Against the Wall
March 19, 1989
What is 12 feet tall, 120 feet long and red, or at least rust, all over? It is ''Tilted Arc,'' a curving steel wall by the sculptor Richard Serra that was at the center of a prolonged artistic battle. The work, commissioned by the Federal Government in 1981, bisected a portion of Federal Plaza in Lower Manhattan. Many downtown workers found it obtrusive, but other New Yorkers saw it as a statement of artists' rights. The Government wanted to decommission the wall to create more open space. Last week, Mr. Serra gave up his court fight to stop the removal but said that every artistic work commissioned by the Government now would be in jeopardy of censorship.
''This Government is savage,'' he said as workers stored the steel plates. ''It is eating its culture.''
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Open Space Replaces 'Arc'
June 15, 1989
A ''new art form - open space,'' will replace Richard Serra's sculpture ''Tilted Arc'' on Federal Plaza in lower Manhattan, in the words of William J. Diamond, the regional administrator of the Federal General Services Administration.
The sculpture was removed from the plaza on March 17 after a bitter court battle in which the Government -which had commissioned the work through the General Services Administration - asserted it overwhelmed the site.
''We are installing 15 benches and planters with trees so that the public can enjoy the plaza again,'' Mr. Diamond said. ''We will rededicate it the first week in July. It's a revolution in our thinking - that open space is an art form in itself that should be treated with the same respect that other art forms are.''
He said ''Tilted Arc,'' disassembled into three segments and covered by a tarpaulin, would remain in a Government motor pool in Brooklyn, ''where it takes up eight parking spaces.''
Copyright 2006The New York Times Company
Wow, thank God they removed it. This is not art, this is shit. This goes beyond contemporary art, where some people see it as random and others see genius in it. What some people don't understand is that 1) contemporaty art must not interfere with function of the location of where it is installed 2) you can't just create any absurd random shit and call it art. This is nothing but a big ol' wall in the middle of a plaza, for no purpose whatsoever. I don't care how much generic bs the sculptor attaches to it ("it changes the view as you go around it"... gee seriously? Can you name me an oblect that doesn't?), I can write nice paragraphs on anything, including how the napkin on my table right now is tastefully crumpled and how my mess on the bed is tastefully random.
Well ^^^ as someone who saw and experienced the "Tilted Arc" in place I'll say it was a very cool piece -- especially for a plaza that was little if ever used.
The "problem" began with the original design of the entire Javits Federal Building site -- which was part of the 1962 Genreal Plan for the area around Federal Plaza and which was only partially built. The Federal Government COMMISSIONED Serra to create / install "Tilted Arc" specifically for that site -- so it seems that from design of the building to installation of this work (a 15-year + period from one to the other) the lunatics were running the asylum.
Most importantly the legal case surrounding "Tilted Arc" was a watershed moment in terms of government and the arts ...
Back to the Javits Federal Building itself ...
A new "Security Pavilion" is currently under construction in the sunken plaza on the west side of the Javits Federal Building (facing Broadway). This will address the problem whereby applicants for various government agencies (including immigaration services) have been forced, due to increased security measures, to wait for entry while standing in long, winding lines which were controlled by police-type barricades outside the Javits building.
Construction of a Pavilion on the Broadway Plaza of the Jacob K. Javits Federal Building,26 Federal Plaza, New York, NYAwardee: Volmar Construction, 4400 Second Avenue, Brooklyn, New York 11232Award Amount: $11,994,000.00
A rendering of a version of the Security Pavilion (images attached below): http://www.radiiinc.com/images/42/Radii-Javitz.pdfJavits Federal Plaza - NYCPROJECT DESCRIPTION :Architect: Lehman / Smith + McLeishModel showing proposed glass cueing / security pavilion for downtown GSA building.The Broadway Plaza Pavilion shall be built on the existing Broadway Plaza at 26 Federal Plaza. The site is bounded by Worth Street to the North, Duane Street to the South, Broadway to the West, the Federal Plaza building to the East and sits on top of an existing parking garage below grade.The Pavilion will function as the new "front door" to the Jacob K. Javits Federal Building. All employee access and all visitor queuing and access shall occur through this entrance.The relocation of the security screening outside the building and the relocation of two air intakes shall enhance the building security.The project includes, but is not limited to the following work:Demolition, Architectural, Structural, Interior Construction, Mechanical, Electrical, Plumbing, and, Landscaping.Potential offerors are advised that the General Services Administration, Public Buildings Service operates under strict security regulations and contractors and all contractor employees, subcontractors, etc. will be required to adhere to all security requirements including but not limited to fingerprinting and background checks.
The steel frame for the new "Security Pavilion" along the Broadway entrance to the Javits Federal Building (aka "26 Federal Plaza") has been erected.
An article from November 2001 describing the conditions outside that entrance to this building, which contains offices for Immigration and Naturalization Services (as well as offices for the FBI & FEMA) and why the new Pavilion has become a necessity in a post-9/11 world:
New York Diary: 26 Federal PlazaNovember 9, 2001
by John BloomNEW YORK (UPI) -- The line forms at sunrise. If you arrive at 26 Federal Plaza after 6:30, you're already too late. The building doesn't open until 8 a.m., but the queue already contains a hundred people, and there are several hundred more likely to arrive before the security door opens.This is our modern Ellis Island, the New York headquarters of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, an imposing white high-rise just six blocks from the smoldering ruins of the World Trade Center. The FBI is headquartered in the same building, and this streaming mass of brown faces, yellow faces, olive faces and faces of deep purplish black are in some respects the FBI's greatest nightmare right now. They all have visa problems.
They're all, to a greater or lesser extent, frightened right now. And no one has time to see them ...... it will be a long time before he reaches any floor, much less speaks to an actual agent. Foreign nationals are not allowed to enter 26 Federal Plaza by the main doors. They have their own special six-man security detail, with a super-sensitive metal detector and a guard who goes over each body with an electronic wand. The pace is glacial--up to two minutes per person. The line snakes back and forth under a temporary tent structure, to protect the petitioners from the cold, so that they're constantly moving close to the magic door, then away again as the queue folds back on itself ...
© Copyright 2001 United Press International and Joe Bob Briggs
More on the eastern plaza outside the Javits Federal building (where "Tilted Arc" used to live):
This Plaza was re-designed by Martha Schwartz Partners of Cambridge, MA:
In 1992, the Federal Government undertook the repair of the waterproofing for the underground garage beneath the Jacob Javits Plaza. Because the existing plaza would be demolished during the waterproofing construction, the opportunity was seen to revitalize the plaza. During the time that Richard Serra's "Tilted Arc" inhabited the plaza, this 14 foot high sculpture was an obstruction both visually and physically to pedestrians. After the sculpture was removed, the plaza remained vacant and disconnected from its context.The intent of the plaza redesign was to create a useable, lively open space in the heart of the city. Full art and landscape architectural design services were required for this transformation to take place.The new plaza is reconnected to its surrounding context and provides innumerable seating opportunities for people having lunch or just for watching other people. Large planters which formerly existed at the northwest and southeast corners of the site have been removed, as well as the long-empty fountain which had occupied the only sunny portion of the site. By opening up the plaza, the connections between the plaza and the street are reestablished, and the people who wish to sit can do so in either sun or shade.The seating for the site is provided on twisting strands of New York City park benches. The double strands of back-to-back benches loop back and forth and allow for a variety of seating - intimate circles for groups and outside curves for those who wish to lunch alone. With their complex forms and bright green color, these benches energize the flat plane of the plaza in the same way that the French used the parterres embroideries which were punctuated by topiary forms and whose edges were defined by trees and buildings. The bright green color of the benches was selected because its reflectivity helps to enliven a plaza, which for the most part, is in shade.At Jacob Javits Plaza, the benches swirl around the "topiary" or 6 foot tall grassy hemispheres that exude mist on hot days. Familiar lunchtime elements are provided such as blue enameled drinking fountains, orange wire-mesh trash cans, and Central Park lighting standards. While all of these elements are drawn from the Olmstedean tradition which maintains its hold in New York City, each element is tweaked slightly from its historic predecessor. These elements offer a critique of the art of landscape in New York City, where the ghost of Frederick Law Olmsted is too great a force for even New York to exorcise. The design itself offers a wry commentary on the fact that while New York remains a cultural mecca for most art forms, exploration in landscape architecture receives little support.
For a City College class this semester, I am analyzing the Jacob Javits Plaza in downtown Manhattan -- you know, the plaza that was occupied by this but is now occupied by this -- and would like to add some opinions on the current Martha Schwartz design into the mix of observations and history. Here's a previous WiredNY post on the plaza and its adjoining buildings if you want more information.
So, what do you Wired New Yorkers think about the plaza? Is it art? Is it Pop? Is it a masterpiece? Is it crap? I'm open to all opinions but would like you to back it up with some reasoning. And don't worry, any opinions I use in the final report will be anonymous.
Here's a bit of my own take that will hopefully get the ball rolling.
Briefly, I am approaching the plaza's design from the view that it cannot be divorced from what came before, Serra's Tilted Arc. My first impression on seeing images of the project years ago were that it was goofy, a bit too goofy for my tastes, which veer towards something like Serra's piece. Now having spent days in the plaza, watching how people interact with the space, it appears to work, at least in terms of its intentions as a "waiting room" for the Federal Building and lunch spot for employees. The lack of shade means it is not used for long periods, and on weekends the place is empty, perhaps owing to its location in the city but also to its location above sidewalk level.
Given my contention that it cannot be divorced from Serra's minimal work, I think the space went so far in the opposite direction that it's over-designed. I've counted approx. 1,700 linear feet of bench, meaning that with 100 people it still appears empty, especially when people space themselves along lines of personal space. Observing people in the space, some are confused by the curls and have to retrace their steps to get where they're going. That's an ironic twist on a project that's the antithesis of a wall that dictated people's movements; freedom was not the opposite in this case, and the limited usefulness of the space (waiting, eating) reinforces that.
Well, I dont' want to say too much, though I'm sure others have different opinions than my own. In particular I'm interested if people view the design as artistic, or how they see it in those terms. It strives to be art, but functional art, unlike Serra's arc which lacked any useful function.
The plaza as now designed is a complete failure -- a failure because it originally contained steam which rose from the top of each of the mounds (which were originally covered in suburban grass, rather than the box hedges that are there now). The technology that operated the steam broke down -- or just never worked properly -- so they scrapped that aspect of the design (I think this happened in year one).
What you see now is a compromise of the Schwartz design. The existing design has erased any ironic qualities of the original vision. All that is left is a whimsical pattern of benches and colors. Cute but kitschy.
Perhaps it is now a better place to eat lunch than when Serra's TILTED ARC bisected the plaza -- but beyond that I give this one a zero.
And who knows what other changes will come about as the Feds finish up their work on the "Security Pavilions" at the edges of the Javits / International Court of Trade (while taking the second photo below I just about got busted by a otherwise frinedly Federal Agent who flashed her badge and told me it was illegal to take pictures of Federal Buildings) ...
I'm wondering if the new security pavilion will have the added impact of removing a relatively constant stream of traffic from the plaza and therefore negate its use as a waiting room. The plaza could potentially become the back door and even more underused.
Tilted Arc was too visionary, a victim of being before its time. In today's world, duplicates of it would completely surround the entire building interspersed with security gates. Think about it. Serra's statement intentionally impeded freedom of movement in the plaza, but for intellectual and experiential purposes. If Tilted Arc was restored to the plaza, our experience of it - in this location - would be altered by the realities of security in an age of fear and terrorism. Likewise, the compromised Schwart's plaza has to address conflicting needs for security, safety, community, and a pleasant lunch. It comes close. What's needed is a touch of whimsy with an edge of irony.


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Obviously from a gold background, Mike Maloney does a good job presenting to a group of Russian bankers what they probably don't want to hear. Indeed, our currency is on a collision course with math that simply doesn't work. Our bankers do have choices – they can either let deflation run and allow another future debt cycle, or they can continue to attempt to stimulate in which case our dollar eventually becomes worthless.
We have a very important election at hand. Changing out politicians will likely result in the inability to stimulate as easily as they have in the past couple of years – that is the foundation of wave C down, it represents a psychological shift because the stimulus that created wave B (the dead cat bounce) has FAILED. Maloney's market analysis is good. His money analysis is also good, but don't be fooled, there is currently NO real banking reserves of any kind. Derivatives and the swapping of worthless debt to the Fed have pushed the real overall reserves to zero, thus fractional ability is infinite! (ht Mr. Guest)
Mike Maloney Schools Bankers on Deflation – Part I (15 minutes):
Mike Maloney Schools Bankers on Deflation – Part II (11 minutes):
Those who truly understand charts, and the math that creates them, will see a parabolic rise, and collapse. Yes, there is a clear Head & Shoulders pattern forming. Note, however, that if the right shoulder is symmetrical time wise with the left, that we may be range bound for some time (a large descending range) as the left shoulder required approximately 3 years to complete, not that they must be exactly proportional…
Sunday, September 26, 2010
Mike Maloney Schools Bankers on Deflation…
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It's the single most common question these days in the Answer Desk Inbox: I'm drowning in debt! What can I do?
I am a 77 year old person with a limited income and have used credit cards to the maximum and now find myself in a position ($18,000) unable to pay. What are the consequences for me if I just STOP making any payments to the six credit card companies?
— Nicholas C., address withheld
What should you do if the accounts are already delinquent, past due, charged-off, and not necessarily due to neglect? Paying these accounts will still show negligence, so what can we do, those already drowning in bad credit?
— Letina, Tallahassee, Fla.
Here's our seven-step plan for getting the credit card monkey off your back:
Step 1: Reality check
Over the years, with the blessing of Congress and federal regulators, the credit card industry has created a repayment system that was skillfully engineered to put its customers deeper and deeper into hock. By keeping credit limits high and monthly payments artificially low, the financial services industry created a dangerous sense of well-being among borrowers.
Billions of marketing dollars have been spent to create this false reality. The first step to getting control of credit card debt is to remove yourself from the fantasy mindset that as long as you can make the minimum monthly payment, your debt is under control.
Step 2: Make a plan
If you haven't already done so, make a budget. You really have no idea if you're truly broke until you understand where your money is going. Gather three months' worth of bills and make a list of where it goes. If you're a heavy ATM user, keep a "cash journal" for a month or make your best guess about where you spend. Include all family members to make sure they get the same reality check.
If your monthly expenses are bigger than your income, you have to make some tough choices. There are no right or wrong choices as long as you can get your budget to balance. Try to classify as many budget items as you can as "non-essential." Consider a list of things you can sell.
You may not have to make all these cuts, but look for as many as you can. Your goal is to find enough savings to make a meaningful dent in your credit card and other debts, not just the minimum payment.
Depending on the outcome of this exercise, you have (roughly) two courses of action.
Step 3: Pay it down
You'll have to come up with more than the minimum to make a serious dent in your debt pile. But let's look at the impact of increasing your monthly payment.
If you added $300 to the monthly payment on that $18,000 balance, you'd save $47,600 in interest. And you'd be debt-free in just three years. If you can't afford that much, a $460 monthly payment (just $100 more than your minimum) would save you $42,400 in interest and get you out from under in five years. (Our numbers are based on the Federal Reserve's Web calculator. Try it out for your debt.)
You've got to stick with the plan month in, month out. Put your new monthly payment at the top of your pile of bills, along with rent, utilities, food and other "essentials." Your credit card is now a "first of the month" bill and not something you try to chip away at when you have "spare" cash.
Have your paycheck direct deposited to your bank account and then set up an automatic bill payment for your credit card. These automatic payments will help impose a discipline to your plan: the money's gone before you can find other "discretionary" ways to spend it. If you're trying to go on a diet, it's easier if you don't stock the freezer with ice cream.
Step 4: Get help — carefully
If your budget won't balance no matter how much you sharpen your pencil, you need to move to Plan B. The sooner you acknowledge the problem and get help, the sooner you'll be able to resolve it.
If you're falling behind, you have a fairly limited window to act. Most card companies will move an unpaid debt to "delinquent" status after 90 days. That doesn't mean you should wait that long if you know you have a problem. But your lender may not want to discuss other options before then.
Once you're delinquent, you need to work out a plan as quickly as possible. After 180 days of non-payment, lenders typically "charge off" the loan from their books. They may sell your unpaid debt to another company at a big loss. Once your lender has decided to take the hit and move on, it's a lot harder to work out a solution.
So don't wait to ask for help. Call your lender (more on this in a minute). If that doesn't work, contact one of the many legitimate, non-profit, nationally accredited credit counseling agencies that are available in most areas of the country. If you can't get to a counselor's office, you may be able to work with them by phone. (To find a counselor, check out the Web site for the National Foundation for Credit Counseling.)
Step 5: Don't get scammed
With so many people in credit trouble these days, there is no shortage of people offering solutions. Unfortunately, many of them will only get you deeper into trouble. Start by ignoring all the e-mail and Internet pitches for "debt consolidation," "credit repair" and any other "get out of debt free" schemes. Most of these are scams.
One of the most common pitches these days comes from swindlers who offer to get your lender to settle for less than you owe. (You maybe able to do this on your own: more on that in a minute.)
The scam works like this: for a big upfront fee, your "settlement counselor" collects your information, tells you they'll contact your lender and then claims they've reached an agreement on your behalf with your lender. They'll insist on collecting payments from you to forward to the lender, cutting off all communication between you and your lender.
By the time you find out you've been scammed, your debt has been charged off or sent to collection agencies, you still owe the debt, your credit is ruined and the "settlement counselor" has pocketed your upfront fee and any payments you made.
Step 6: Consider alternate payment plans
Contrary to the claims made by the credit repair scammers, there's no magic to taming a large pile of debt. When you meet with your legitimate, nationally accredited counselor, they'll need to review your budget to determine what your options are. If you haven't made a budget, gather up all the bills, bank statements, cash spending diary and other documents you'll need to work out a budget.
If you and your counselor can't figure out budget items to free up cash to increase your monthly payments, the next step may be to consider approaching the credit card company to try to negotiate an alternative payment plan.
Negotiating a plan isn't easy, and it's not without consequences. You can do this on your own, but you may do a lot better with the help of a professional who does this for a living and knows who to contact and what to ask for. The credit counselor can also advise you on the impact various plans will have on your finances and credit down the road.
Step 7: Choose your best option
Debt Management Program: If your budget can afford it, your credit counselor will work out a five-year plan to consolidate all your credit cards and other debts and roll them up into a single monthly payment, using guidelines established by the lending industry for approved credit counselors. You'll have to show you can come up with a workable budget.
As part of the plan, your lenders may agree to waive late or over-limit fees and cut your interest rate. You won't be able to use your cards, and your credit score may get dinged a bit, but the impact on your future credit will be better than your other options.
If the plan is approved by your lenders, you'll be debt free in five years, as long as you keep up with the new monthly payment. You'll pay a small fee to the counseling agency (typically $15 a month), and your counselor can help you stay on track.
If your counselor determines that a Debt Management Plan won't work for you, they can help you discuss alternatives. But you're going to have to deal directly with your lender to try to negotiate another option.
That means finding the right person in the right department who has the authority to change the terms of your debt. This is not something handled by the front-line customer service agent. Ask for the department that handles settlements, workouts or "loss mitigation." Expect to make more than one call.
Forbearance: With this option, your lender essentially agrees to stop the clock, but you'll still owe the full balance and, usually, any outstanding interest and fees. Lenders will typically only offer this under very specific circumstances. You've lost your job but you've just found another one, or you lost income due a short-term setback like an illness. When the clock starts up again, you'll have to make up missed payments, so unless your financial setback was truly temporary, and now behind you, this option probably won't work.
Workout: This is similar to a Debt Management Program, but may not follow the same guidelines used by credit counselors. The bank may eliminate fees and cut your interest rate (temporarily or permanently) to help you get your finances back under control. You'll probably also end up with a lower credit limit; you may have to agree to stop using the card.
Settlement: Short of bankruptcy, this will have the most drastic effect on cutting your debt, but it will ruin your credit. With this option, your lender agrees to take less that your full balance to settle your debt. You'll typically make three lump-sum payments.
But this option comes with a price. Your credit score takes the same hit as you'd get from filing for bankruptcy. And you may owe taxes on the debt balance you didn't pay off.
If you choose this option, make sure to get the settlement terms in writing. Read them and make sure you understand them before agreeing to move forward. Your credit counselor can help.
Bankruptcy: This is a last resort, butifyou've gotten this far you probably need to seriously consider it. It's a terrible process to go through, it's expensive, and it will leave your credit impaired for years. (Don't believe any of the claims you may hear about "repairing" your credit score after a bankruptcy. It's another scam.)
Though it's the worst option, bankruptcy court is there for a reason. The law acknowledges that life is full of uncertainty. Perfectly responsible people can and do suffer financial setbacks through no fault of their own. The bankruptcy process is designed to give those people a fresh start.
If you've explored every other option and come up empty, seek a good bankruptcy lawyer and find out what your options are. The first visit should be free.


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Dr. Neil Nathan, a specialist in treatment of complex medical illnesses, practices with Gordan Medical Associates near Mendocino, CA. This information is excerpted with kind permission from his book On Hope and Healing for Those Who Have Fallen Through the Medical Cracks ©2010 Neil Nathan, MD, all rights reserved. These excerpts provide a general introduction to biotoxicity as one cause of unexplained illness; but a detailed discussion of biotoxicity's many agents, symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment can be found in the book.
Mold and Biotoxicity: There's a Fungus Among Us
When it comes to understanding the different components of chronic illness, the concept of toxicity has received a good deal of recent attention. With the publication of Dr. Richie Shoemaker's brilliant book Mold Warriors, we now have some new tools to both evaluate and treat toxicity in its different forms.
It is fairly obvious that a microbe (bacteria, virus, fungus, parasite, or other infective agent) makes us sick by infecting us, and it is equally clear that treating these disease-causing microbes will make us better. But what is just becoming clear to us is that not only do these microbes make us sick by causing an infection, but some of these microbes can, in the process of being killed by our immune system, release toxins into our bodies that make us even sicker. Because these toxins are made by microbes, which are living biological systems, we call them biotoxins….
…For most, the immune system recognizes these toxins and uses its defense mechanisms to destroy them. Unfortunately, about 25% of people are genetically unable to make an antibody to these toxins, and these patients may get progressively sicker as the toxins accumulate within their bodies.
What specific microbes are we talking about? The most common offenders are molds, especially the black mold Stachybotrys, but several other mold species such as Cladosporium and Fusarium can play a role in toxin formation. Harmful toxins can also be produced by certain viruses, especially those in the Herpes family, such as Epstein-Barr virus, which is the agent of mononucleosis; Cytomegalovirus; and Human Herpes Virus 6 (HHV-6), which is the agent of roseola infection.
A new and particularly toxic strain of HHV-6 has recently been discovered and has now been linked to chronic fatigue [ME/CFS] and fibromyalgia. Lyme bacteria can also produce these toxins, as can infections with the mycoplasmas, which are infective particles between viruses and bacteria in size. The atypical pneumonias (walking pneumonia) and Gulf War syndrome are examples of these infective agents….
So what are the symptoms of biotoxicity? Patients with this problem may experience a surprisingly wide range of symptoms related to many different organ systems…. These symptoms sound a lot like fibromyalgia or chronic fatigue or depression. In children, it might appear like ADHD….
The first order of business is to even consider the diagnosis….
Several treatments for biotoxicity are currently in use. Dr. Shoemaker provides a combination of medications based on his testing. In its simpliest form, this consists of using the binding resin cholestyramine (trade name, Questran) or its cousin, Welchol….
Maureen's Story [a diagnostic case study of mold biotoxicity]
Maureen was a 28-year-old woman whom I saw for the first time in March of 2006. Her symptoms had begun three years previously, when she was working in a building with a very leaky roof.
She had also experienced several traumatic events at the same time, including a difficult divorce, which complicated both our evaluation and her perceptions about what may have triggered her illness.
In August of 2005, Maureen began to violently throw up on a daily basis, and this went on for months. She saw multiple physicians, including several gastrointestinal specialists, and underwent extensive testing, which showed no obvious cause for her symptoms.
She was diagnosed by various physicians as having bipolar disorder, irritable bowel syndrome, and hypochondriasis (meaning it was all in her head or psychosomatic).
Since her initial exposure to the mold, Maureen had gained 35 pounds and had developed sensitivities to all sorts of chemicals and perfumes (which we call multiple chemical sensitivities). This is actually a common event following untreated biotoxin exposure.
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She continued to experience daily nausea and vomiting, regular headaches, and an inability to think clearly. She described her poor decision making in very simple terms: "It's like I'm inept." She also reported blurred vision and bouts of chest tightness with wheezing.
When Maureen came to me, she had just lost her job of 14 years, at which she had been previously quite competent, and she was trying to live a normal life and raise her three children.
But she could hardly function.
Her energy level was very low, and she reported difficulty staying asleep and waking up unrefreshed each morning. She described joint pains in her neck, shoulder, and upper back, and she displayed the classical irritable bowel symptoms of gas bloating, distention and diarrhea alternating with constipation.
When I tested her vision with the Functional Acuity Contrast Test (FACT) [a test of ability to detect contrasts that can indicate poor retinal function and has been closely related to biotoxicity], the results strongly suggested biotoxin exposure.
Her DHEA test was a little low, as was her progesterone level. I started her on natural progesterone cream, ¼ tsp daily, applied to her skin. I also put her on a small dose of DHEA.
And we started cholestyramine in the form of Questran Light, one scoop mixed with water three times daily, which is the best immediate treatment for mold toxicity.
When Maureen returned in April, just six weeks later, she reported that she was already 80% better. Her energy was markedly improved despite the fact that she was still living in her home, which had obvious mold exposure.
She had a new job, was successfully working again, but noticed that when she missed even a single day of her Questran, she became lethargic again.
She planned to remediate her home to clean up the mold, and she was thrilled that she had her life back; she was no longer plagued by nausea, vomiting, chest pain, and joint pain.
She was so impressed with her improvement in just a short period of time, that she bought a copy of Mold Warriors to give to her family physician, who had essentially told her she was a hypochondriac.
Her physician refused to even look at the book or to take Maureen's story seriously.
It has been my experience that most of our mold-toxic patients have had a similar experience to Maureen's. Their symptoms are usually misunderstood as representing psychological imbalances, particularly depression, but they do not respond well to antidepressant and anti-anxiety medications. That should be the tip-off that we need to look deeper for a cause of these symptoms.
Recalling that only 25% of patients are genetically unable to make the antibodies they need to these toxins, these patients may live in a home with others who have no symptoms or work in a mold-laden environment where others are not sick….
* Neil Nathn, MD, is perhaps best known to ProHealth readers for his recent trial of "A simplified Methylation Protocol for Treatment of ME/CFS and Fibromyalgia," conducted in collaboration with Drs. Amy Yasko, Rich Van Konynenburg, and Jacob Teitelbaum.
Note: This information has not been reviewed by the FDA. It is general information and is not meant to take the place of a physician's attention or to prevent, diagnose, treat or cure any illness, condition or disease. It is very important that you make no change in your healthcare plan or health support regimen without researching and discussing it in collaboration with your professional healthcare team.


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