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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday refused to order Argentina to post a security deposit of at least $250 million while it seeks to overturn a lower court ruling that orders it to pay holdout investors $1.33 billion.
Holdout creditors have sought to force Argentina to deposit the money by December 10 while the country appeals last month's order by U.S. District Judge Thomas Griesa that it pay the creditors in full.
Argentina had won a reprieve last Wednesday when the U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals in New York said Argentina need not deposit $1.33 billion into the escrow account by December 15 to satisfy the holdout creditors' claims.
Holdouts then filed a motion seeking a security deposit be made to show Argentina was acting in good faith with the court.
"Appellees request that this Court amend its November 28, 2012 stay order by requiring the Republic of Argentina to post security on or before December 10, 2012. IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that the motion is DENIED," the 2nd Circuit said in its one line ruling.
The 2nd Circuit has scheduled oral arguments in the case for Feb 27, 2013.
The holdout creditors including Elliott Management's NML Capital Ltd and the Aurelius Capital Management funds are seeking full repayment on their defaulted Argentine bonds after spurning debt exchanges in 2005 and 2010 that 93 percent of other bondholders accepted.
Argentina has called the holdout creditors "vultures" and vowed never to pay them.
The latest battle stemming from Argentina's $100 billion sovereign default nearly 11 years ago centers on a 2nd Circuit decision in October that the country violated a bond provision requiring it treat all creditors equally when it paid the exchange bondholders without paying the holdouts.
December 15 is a critical day because Argentina is scheduled to pay $3 billion on warrants issued as part of the debt swaps.
This had raised fears of another default because if Argentina had refused to pay the holdouts, as was expected, U.S. courts could have disrupted payments to holders of restructured bonds.
Argentina next owes money on its restructured debt in March 2013.
The case is NML Capital Ltd et al v. Argentina, 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, No. 12-105.
Reporting By Daniel Bases and Jonathan Stempel; Editing by Chizu Nomiyama


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Bobble Rep – heads to the App Store
Bobble Rep 111th Congress Edition is back in the news, and this time because of a reversal. No, the Republicans didn't storm the Oval Office and install George Bush's son as acting governor of the union (got that?). Rather, Apple switched the Windows Vista disallow button off, allowing Bobble Rep 111th Congress Edition to be sold at the App Store. Allegedly, it ridiculed public figures, an act which Apple -a company very much in the public eye- evidently abhor. In TMA's previous article, I pointed out that there are numerous soundboards (not to mention cartoon figures of many very public people around the world) which should also be removed on the same grounds. Apple received a goodly amount of flack for this boner of a decision.
Thanks to everyone who showed support for the dev and artists involved in getting a creatively democratic app to the App Store. Artist Tom Richmond and RG Entertainment are probably having a laugh now due to heaps more press than they would have had Apple not censored the App. Perhaps this is another ChiFFaN conspiracy?
RG Entertainment Ltd., Bobble Rep – 111th Congress Edition, 0.99$, 19.2 MB

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NEW YORK, March 29 (UPI) -- German-born actress Diane Kruger says she has signed on to star in "The Bridge," a new FX crime drama set on the Mexican-American border.
"It's an American adaptation of a Scandinavian show," Kruger told United Press International in New York this week.
"It's myself and Demian Bichir. [It's about] immigration, drug cartels. My character suffers from Asperger's [syndrome,] so there is a whole aspect to that as well."
The actress said she has been doing a lot of research to prepare for her role as a police detective on the show, which is to premiere this summer.
"That's all I've been doing," she said. "We're very lucky because Autism Speaks just came on board to be a partner of the show and we found this amazing young man who has Asperger's, who is going to help me portray it accurately because it is a really, more-common-than-ever, form of autism. People only identified it as being on the spectrum in 1994, so that's not very long and autism supposedly has risen in the past 10 years over 30 percent."
Kruger -- whose credits include "Troy," "National Treasure" and "Inglourious Basterds" -- said even if "The Bridge" becomes a hit, she expects to continue working on films during breaks.
"It's cable, right? So, it's 12 episodes [a season]. It's like a movie, 4 1/2 months," she said in reference to the short shooting schedule.
Kruger can now be seen in the movie "The Host," a futuristic, alien-invasion tale based on the book by "Twilight" creator Stephenie Meyer.
"If you are a fan of Stephenie Meyer's, I actually think you will really like this, obviously," Kruger said. "But I do also feel like sci-fi is fun and there is a lot of action and I think it's a really romantic, yet thrilling, piece."
Co-starring Saoirse Ronan, William Hurt, Frances Fisher, Max Irons and Jake Abel, "The Host" is in theaters now.


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The High Plains Library District board can stay for now.
Weld County District Court Judge Julie Hoskins blocked a takeover attempt of the board by several of the district's founding members, issuing a preliminary injunction Tuesday. That prevents any changes until Hoskins rules in a lawsuit brought by High Plains.
Hoskins said the founders lacked "good cause" to remove the library board's trustees and that any replacement would be illegally seated.
Given that, she wrote, "(T)o not grant the preliminary injunction sets up the outcome of having an illegitimate board attempting to sit and make decisions when the sitting board (the current board) continues to have the authority to sit. This outcome is untenable."
No trial date has been set.
The current High Plains board is not allowed to take any new actions, Hoskins ruled, until a final ruling or settlement is reached. It can continue existing policies.
The court action is the latest phase of a clash between the library district and six of its founding members, who charge that High Plains is trying to take them over.
The district is made up of both "branch libraries" run directly by High Plains and "member libraries" that kept their own library boards and policies when they joined the district. High Plains wanted to standardize more of those policies in advance of putting in a new computer system.
Founding members Ault, Eaton, Fort Lupton, Hudson, Weld County and the Fort Lupton school district objected to the proposed changes and instead began taking action to remove the board. Their proposed replacement would have consisted of one county commissioner, the mayors of the four towns and cities, and the Fort Lupton school board president.
High Plains sued on April 15 to prevent the board takeover, charging the move was illegal. Hoskins issued a temporary restraining order on April 17, putting the founders' action on hold until the injunction hearing.
In her Tuesday ruling, Hoskins said it was "most concerning" that the proposed replacement board would represent only 14 percent of the High Plains library patrons.
"The purported board members were not selected in a way that holds them accountable to anyone but the 14 percent who have taken part in this action," she ruled.
About two dozen communities belong to High Plains, which operates a dozen libraries. The district has branch libraries in Greeley, Firestone, Erie and Kersey and member libraries in Ault, Eaton, Fort Lupton, Platteville, Hudson and Johnstown.
Greeley was the only founding member not to join the push to replace the High Plains trustees and its mayor refused to be part of the new board. Hoskins wrote Tuesday that the actions of the other founders "wholly violated" Greeley's rights to due process.
Contact Times-Call staff writer Scott Rochat at 303-684-5220 or firstname.lastname@example.com


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A man with a rifle opened fire in a Los Angeles International Airport terminal today, wounding several people and sending passengers jumping over one another and shoving each other to escape.
NBC News reported that one Transportation Safety Administration employee was killed. The Los Angeles Police Department said the suspect was shot and was taken into custody.
ABC radio reported that the gunman was asking people in the terminal if they were TSA workers.
There were reports that the shooter had also been killed. Los Angeles police had not confirmed the suspect had died.


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Etihad Cargo announces freighter operations to Hanoi
Etihad Cargo, the freight division of UAE flag carrier Etihad Airways, has started freighter flights between Abu Dhabi (AUH) and the Hanoi's N?i Bài International Airport (HAN).
Situated along the Red River delta, Hanoi is the capital of Vietnam and a major trading centre.
The dedicated cargo service will operate every Thursday and Sunday using an Airbus A330-200F freighter, with a capacity of 60 metric tonnes.
Flights en route to Hanoi will stop briefly in Mumbai, while the return service is direct to Abu Dhabi.
Etihad Cargo expects the new service to carry raw materials, consumer goods and perishables to Hanoi, with large quantities of electronics and textiles destined for the Gulf region, Europe and Africa loaded for the return flight.
Kevin Knight, Etihad Airways's chief strategy and planning officer, said: "Vietnam is an important market for Etihad Cargo and our new twice weekly Hanoi freighter service will build on our existing daily bellyhold operations to Ho Chi Minh City further south.
"The service will allow us to capitalise on the strong import and export demand to and from Vietnam and the rest of Southeast Asia, while providing our growing customer base with more choice for transporting goods around the world.
"In addition, while we expect to see strong onward trade flows over our Abu Dhabi cargo hub to destinations across the Middle East and Europe, ultimately this service will further strengthen the trade ties between the UAE and Vietnam."
Etihad Cargo offers services to 108 destinations internationally, operating a fleet of ten freighters, consisting of four Airbus A330-200F, three Boeing B777F, and three Boeing 747F.


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Van Halen - 5150
Initial reaction:
I must say that I am a huge fan of Roth era Van Halen so I was devastated by Diamond Dave being out of the band. No offense to Sammy Hagar, but I was skeptical about what the music would be like. Not because it was Hagar as much as the fact that it wasn't Dave. One of my friends rushed and bought it and I got to hear it shortly thereafter. My first reaction was that although not devastated, I just couldn't believe that the magic of old Van Halen was gone. It wasn't that 5150 was awful, but it was very bland commercial hard rock. That was my first re-action and it lasted for years. Around 1998 I bought it on album at a Goodwill store for fifty cents and I listened to it then and I liked it more. It was stronger than I remembered, but not even close to Diver Down which is far and away the weakest album with Dave. The last time listened to all of 5150 was maybe in 2002 so it has been a few years so now it's time to pull out the album and see what we have.
*Note- When I do my reviews of 20 year old albums I listen to the songs and I try to pretend that I have never heard them before. So in my reactions, I just describe what I hear while trying to refrain from any comparison to any work the artist has done before or after. I want to be objective, but I did have to make one slip about Alex Van Halen because it was something I noticed here for the first time and I needed to say it. I allow myself to do comparisons in all other parts of the review.
The songs
1.Good Enough
The album starts off with a very straight ahead rock song with sharp production. Sammy Hagar sounds like he is trying maybe a little too hard at times. Overall a solid song and not a bad way to begin an album.
2. Why Can't This Be Love
So already we are into a "very radio friendly" song as I believe the term was back then. The vocals are actually pretty strong and the music is even, but not overpowering.
3. Get Up
This one comes flying on fairly fast, but the vocals seem to be very much in front of the music. After it's over, I tend to have problems remembering much about how the music went.
4. Dreams
Lots of slow keyboards start this song off and they stick around as well. There is a very good solo here, maybe the best one so far.
5. Summer Nights
Starts with a lot of guitar squeals and it certainly helps pick up the pace a little from some of the previous songs. Then it settles into a nice, solid beat. More than half through we get some heavy rhythms help really keep this song alive. Overall this song is a little uneven in style, but that's good as it works here. Definitely the best song so far.
6. Best Of Both Worlds
This song has a very a strong beginning, but quickly the music becomes very subtle and the vocals are again above everything else. It's a very simple song and has some energy, but nothing special.
7. Love Walks In
Keyboards kick this one off and it quickly become very repetitive. The song tends to get a little tedious maybe just two minutes into it. This is probably the point where it begins to really feel like the band tried to do an album of half rock songs and half radio friendly material and then they tried to alternate between the two.
8. '5150'
This song comes on and right away it's just nothing special. It's just a song I won't remember after he album is over. The drum track sounds like the one from at least three previous songs and that's a shame because Alex is capable of so much more.
9. Inside
Eddie and his guitar seem to take a back seat here as we get a lot of big drums and a pumping bass line in the foreground. The chorus is very much the centerpiece of the song. It's not the best, but actually more interesting than half of the album because of this approach.
Final Word-Okay, so 5150 is better than I thought it was 1986, but perhaps not for the reasons I would have liked. It has strong production values and it flows well, but it doesn't exactly rock much and very little is left of the earlier Van Halen sound. It was almost a bit too sharp around the edges for me. I think this bothered me because this band had always been so much about the music, but now the music seemed so sharp and fluid yet it just lacked a lot of feeling and energy that was so much apart of the previous six albums. I knew these guys were in their 30's, but when this album came out they all of a sudden started to seem like older guys to me. With Dave it was always liked the band seemed like they were in the prime of their lives, but here songs like Summer nights and Love Walks in makes them sound like guys looking back on events and like they are past their prime. At least now I can accept the sound changes but I don't have to completely like them. I may pull this out every once in a while to play, but it is almost like a different band from the one with David Lee Roth.
Next month I will have another review of a 1986 album. I am not sure yet what it will be, but right now I am leaning towards Ozzy's The Ultimate Sin.


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In the few weeks since Eldad Hagar posted a video of Fiona, a dog his nonprofit rescued last year, more than 1 million people have watched the amazing transformation of a squalid, blind stray into a fluffy, happy pup with partially restored vision.
Eldad and his wife, Audrey Hagar, have been rescuing animals in California for almost a decade, and they've fostered hundreds of animals out of their Los Angeles apartment through their nonprofit organization, Hope for Paws.
Eldad often posts videos of Hope for Paws' rescue animals, so when he combined two videos of Fiona and uploaded the clip to YouTube in March, he was shocked when the heart-wrenching video went viral.
"I had this idea to combine the two videos into one video," he told TODAY.com. "It was the best decision I ever made in my life."
The Hagars found Fiona cowering in the corner of a trash pile more than a year ago, her fur matted and infested with fleas, and they quickly realized that the dog was blind. As the couple approached her, the tiny pup was so terrified that she urinated in fear, but the Hagars managed to coax her out and take her home.
Fiona was bathed and shaved to address her flea infestation, and the couple took her to the vet, where veterinary opthamologist Michael Chang confirmed that the dog was completely blind in both eyes. Chang said he could restore sight in one of Fiona's eyes, so the Hagars took to the Web to raise the $4,500 she'd need for the operation.
Eldad posted a video of Fiona being rescued, bathed and shaved, along with a plea for donations to help cover the dog's medical care. The emotional appeal worked, and Fiona underwent the life-changing operation.
"On the drive home, she was looking out the window. It was so interesting to watch everything going on," Audrey told People. "She became a very, very happy, excited dog. Her personality changed."
Fiona, now 11, was adopted by a Southern California couple with three other dogs, and is "doing amazing," according to Eldad.
Fiona's emotional story has warmed hearts across the Web, and Eldad hopes his video will inspire others to care for stray animals.
"In L.A. alone we have 30,000 stray dogs at any moment. People are walking by, seeing dogs like this and doing nothing. We would just love to have people change their behavior. Call someone. Call me. Call a rescue organization. Become a foster parent to a dog," he said.
Take a look at Fiona today, and check out the emotional video of her rescue below.
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The Stars Belong to Everyone: Astronomer and Science Writer Helen Sawyer Hogg (1905–1993)
Maria J. Cahill
Presented at the 100th Spring Meeting of the AAVSO, May 22, 2011; received January 31, 2012; revised March 1, 2012; accepted March 7, 2012
As a scientist and science educator, Helen Sawyer Hogg served astronomy, and especially variable star astronomy, in diverse ways while raising a family. Her long interest in and support of the AAVSO over many years took place in the context of not only that busy scientific and writing career, but also one of personal struggle to achieve parity as a female in a largely male profession. This biographical sketch demonstrates that her path to eventual status as "the Canadian face of astronomy" was both difficult and filled with uncertainty.


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October 15, 2019Turkey
The Turkish invasion in northern Syria is the latest example of the country's disregard for NATO values. It's time to do something about it.
April 3, 2019Taiwan
The Trump administration has made bold gestures in support of Taiwan, including more frequent movement of U.S. ships in the Taiwan Strait. They come at a time of growing anxiety about the U.S.-China …
January 11, 2019Middle East and North Africa
The central takeaway from Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's Cairo speech is that the United States needs to rely more on allies to stabilize the Middle East.
November 1, 2018Southeast Asia
The region's fast-growing but fragile democracies have been susceptible to strongmen and autocratic-leaning populists in recent years, propelled by concerns over inequality, crime, and dysfunctional …


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Manchester United Had Bruno Fernandes Deal Approved
Portuguese newspaper A Bola has narrated how an already agreed deal between Sporting Lisbon and Manchester United for Bruno Fernandes collapsed.
It was revealed that the two clubs had earlier agreed a transfer for the midfielder which includes a loan move for one of three Manchester United players namely Marcos Rojo, Andreas Pereira, and Joel Pereira.
The Manchester United deal for Bruno Fernandes collapsed after the preferred loan choice for Sporting Lisbon declined the move to Portugal from Old Trafford.
The three parties involved are keen to do the transfer according to Sky Sports and negotiations are expected to resume in time for a transfer between now and the end of this month when the transfer window will shut.
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Manchester United have not had a goalscoring midfielder all season and Bruno Fernandes could be the man to solve that problem.
The Portuguese international player has been a scoring machine for Sporting Lisbon in the last two years following his transfer to the Portuguese Super League club from Sampdoria in the Italian Serie A.
He had 50 Goal contributions from 53 games in all competitions for his team last season.
Bruno Fernandes scored 32 goals and also provided 18 more goals in the last campaign.
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Potential Replacements For Outgoing Odion Ighalo At Manchester United
Nigerian striker Odion Ighalo is almost helpless as his Manchester United dream is set to come to an end after some months. The former Super Eagles star is on the verge of returning to parent club Shanghai Shenshua in the Chinese Super League as his loan deal at the Theatre of Dreams ends in a matter of days.
Ighalo wants to stay on at the Premier League club but the two teams have not been able to reach a conclusion to this effect. Manchester United want the striker to complete the current season with no obligation to sign him permanently, while Shanghai Shenshua are adamant that the Red Devils will have to sign the player if they want to retain his services beyond the May 30 expiration date for his loan transfer to Manchester United as agreed between the two clubs when Ighalo became a Red Devil at the end of January.
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Odion Ighalo has been able to fulfil a lifelong dream of playing for Manchester United at the age of 30 and he has also done well more than expected with a return of four goals in just three starts. Age is however not on his side which is the main reason behind Manchester United's reluctance to sign him on a permanent deal. The target for Manchester United is to sign a younger striker this summer leading us to possible striker targets to replace Odion Ighalo at the club:
1. Timo Werner – He has scored goals for fun in the German Bundesliga this season including a hattrick during the 5-0 thrashing of hosts Mainz 05 at the weekend. The RB Leipzig star now has 24 league goals.
2. Moussa Dembele – The Frenchman has been the subject of a €70m bid from Manchester United according to earlier reports. The Lyon striker is also a target for rivals Chelsea.
3. Harry Kane – The Spurs player would be the first choice on the list of potential replacements for Odion Ighalo if he's made available for a transfer.
Will Arsenal Pull Off The Philippe Coutinho Deal This Summer
In the last 24 hours, Arsenal have surprisingly emerged as the favourites to sign Brazilian international Philippe Coutinho in the summer. This has led to the question on whether stingy Arsenal and owner Stan Kroenke can pull off a deal for Coutinho who's the third most expensive player in the history of the round leather game.
Barcelona splashed the cash on Philippe Coutinho in January 2018 to make him the most expensive player behind Neymar and Kylian Mbappe, both of French champions Paris Saint Germain (PSG). Around £142m was the transfer fee for the player but he has not been able to repay that money mainly due to his poor performances for the majority of the last two years.
His Barcelona outings were not encouraging for 18 months and that led to him being loaned to Bayern Munich in the German Bundesliga. Coutinho has stepped up his form in Germany but that has not convinced the Bavarian giants to make his loan move a permanent one.
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With Bayern Munich reluctant to sign Coutinho permanently, the player has to find a new club this summer and Arsenal have emerged as a potential destination. Barcelona are prepared to cut their losses on the player by selling him for a fee much lower than what they paid Liverpool for his services.
Before now, Chelsea were considered to be the front-runner for his signature but that has cooled off in recent weeks. Leicester City manager Brendan Rodgers is also interested in Coutinho having worked with the player during his time as the Liverpool boss but the Brazilian is not keen on the idea of joining the Foxes this summer.
Arsenal have already held discussions with Coutinho's agents to show their seriousness in signing the player and this development has led to club fans wondering how they will pull off a transfer that would definitely be expensive including his wages. In addition, Arsenal and other big European sides have seen their income badly affected by Coronavirus. It's only a matter of time before we find out whether the Coutinho to Arsenal transfer is for real or just like the other 'could have been' transfers before now.
Chelsea: Top Three Players Earmarked For New Squad Numbers
Chelsea manager Frank Lampard deserves some accolades for the way that he has been able to introduce a lot of the young players into regular first team football at the club. Several football stakeholders had their reservations about Lampard and how he will thrive in his first big job as a professional football manager but he has been able to prove the doubters wrong in his first season as the Blues boss.
Lampard is very popular amongst the Chelsea supporters having enjoyed a hugely successful playing career with the club. He holds the record for the most goals in a Chelsea shirt even as a midfielder.
The ex-England international was very impressive in his first managerial job at Derby County last season and that prompted his elevation from the English Championship to the Premier League after just one season with the Rams. His appointment coincided with a transfer ban imposed on the Blues for breaching rules on the transfer of young players and this left Frank Lampard with just old players plus young players to work with for the current season. Lampard has been able to get the best out of these young players from leading goalscorer Tammy Abraham to teen midfielder Billy Gilmour to teen right-back Recce James and many more.
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Some of these young players have been lined up for new squad numbers as from next season which will kick off in few months time. Here are the top three players earmarked for new squad numbers:
1. Reece James – The England junior international has made the right-back spot his own at Chelsea. He currently wears the jersey number 24 at the club.
2. Fikayo Tomori – The Chelsea no. 29 has been able to establish himself as one of the four centre backs at the club upon his return from a successful loan spell at Derby County last season.
3. Billy Gilmour – The young midfielder wears jersey number 47 and he's the youngest player on the Chelsea first team.
What Man United Will Miss If Ighalo Leaves On May 30
Lifelong Manchester United supporter Odion Ighalo could leave the club at the end of May as talks over the extension of his loan deal at Old Trafford continues to stall. His parent club Shanghai Shenhua of the Chinese Super League and the Red Devils have not been able to reach an agreement over an extension for the ex-Super Eagles attacker.
Ighalo was handed a remarkable opportunity to fulfil his dream of playing for boyhood club Manchester United in January 2020 when the Red Devils secured a four-month loan deal for him from Shanghai Shenhua. He was seen as the short-term replacement for star forward Marcus Rashford who had a long-term injury as at then.
His loan transfer to Manchester United was heavily criticised by fans and stakeholders but the player was able to silence his doubters with impressive performances on the pitch before Coronavirus struck and caused football to be suspended. Odion Ighalo scored four goals in just three starts for his new club including a memorable strike in the 5-0 away win at LASK Linz of Austria in the first leg, Europa League round of 16 clash.
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Football was suspended in March until recently when leagues like the German Bundesliga and the Korean league resumed activities once again. The Premier League is also preparing to resume football as from next month and that could be without Ighalo.
His Chinese club wants him back as they prepare for the resumption of the Super League. Shanghai Shenhua are open to a permanent deal for the player but Manchester United prefer a loan extension till the present season ends. On his own part, Ighalo's preference is to continue to play for his dream club either on loan or permanently.
Manchester United are reluctant to negotiate a permanent deal for 30-year-old Ighalo with the club keen to sign a younger striker this summer. The situation is likely to end with Ighalo's exit from Manchester United on May 30. What will the club miss if he leaves.
1. Goals – Odion Ighalo has been very prolific in his short time at the club and his goals would certainly be missed.
2. Plan B – The Nigerian striker was seen as a Plan B when he signed for the Red Devils on loan and the club will definitely miss that. No other Manchester United attacker has the aerial prowess that Odion Ighalo offers.
Is It Time For Alexander Lacazette To Find A New Club?
One of the biggest news on the transfer front in recent days is the revelation that Arsenal are open to the idea of letting striker Alexander Lacazette. As reported by several reliable news portals, the Gunners are open to an offer for the player this summer thus leading to the question: 'If this is the right time for the player to move on from Arsenal after three years'.
Lacazette was the record signing when he moved to Arsenal from Lyon at the start of the 2017/18 campaign. The Gunners spent around £46m to secure his signing shortly after his move to Atletico Madrid fell through mainly due to the transfer ban on the part of the Spaniards. His transfer beat the previous record held by German playmaker Mesut Ozil who moved to Arsenal from Real Madrid for £42m in 2013.
The Frenchman held the record for just six months before the club spent £57m to sign Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang from Borussia Dortmund at the start of 2018.
Alexandre Lacazette had a great start to his Arsenal career as he took him just some minutes to get his first goal for the club during the Premier League opener for the 2017/18 campaign, a 4-3 win at home to Leicester City. He was the main striker at Arsenal during that period and even ahead of compatriot Olivier Giroud who was referred to him by manager Didier Deschamps in the French national team setup.
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His position as the main attacker at Arsenal lasted for six months until the arrival of the aforementioned Aubameyang but he was still able to produce his best goal/game at the club till date during that season. Lacazette scored 17 goals plus 4 assists in 39 games.
The French striker scored more goals (19 in 52 games) in the second season but his goal/game output was lesser than that of his debut campaign as an Arsenal player. He made more assists (10) and was rewarded with the Player of the Season award. However, things have gone from good to bad for him this season.
The ex-Lyon skipper struggled with an injury at the start of the current season having picked it up during pre-season and that seemed to affect him as he failed to rediscover the form of his last two seasons at the club. Young attackers like Gabriel Martinelli and Eddie Nketiah have been picked ahead of him in the Arsenal attack this season after he failed to ignite the frontline with goals and assists. Lacazette has just nine goals and three assists in 35 games for the Gunners in the present campaign.
Lacazette is now seen as someone dispensable in the Arsenal attack thereby leading to the suggestion that a new club could be the catalyst for him to resurrect his ailing football career. Atletico Madrid are long-term admirers and the La Liga giants are also in the market for a new striker thus making it a big possibility for him to move to Madrid this summer.
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Arsenal were the only club who challenged the dominance of legendary manager Sir Alex Ferguson and his Manchester United team during the early part of the Premier League era. The Gunners didn't pose much problems to Manchester United until the arrival of a certain Frenchman named Arsene Wenger in 1996.
Wenger was a relatively unknown quantity when he arrived on the shores of England despite winning the French league with AS Monaco plus managing successfully in the Japanese top flight. He was the catalyst for Arsenal who became a major threat to Ferguson and his players at Old Trafford.
Arsenal and Manchester United dominated Premier League football for the first 12 years. The two clubs won 11 from the 12 Premier League titles on offer with the only exception coming during the 1994/95 when Liverpool legend Kenny Dalglish led Blackburn Rovers to the title.
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Wenger became the Arsenal manager in the opening weeks of the 5th Premier League season and didn't have to wait for long to secure his first league title. He won the Premier League trophy in his first full season in the competition before winning two more league titles including the unprecedented unbeaten campaign during the 2003/04 season. Several players thrived under his management and were instrumental to those league titles as follows:
1. Dennis Bergkamp – He is regarded by a lot of football fans and stakeholders as the best foreign import in Premier League history. He was already an Arsenal player before the appointment of Arsene Wenger and was available for all the three league wins.
2. Patrick Vieira – The Frenchman was the first signing of the Arsene Wenger era at Arsenal and he more than lived up to expectations. Vieira took over the captain's armband from Mr. Arsenal Tony Adams before leaving the team through the entire league season unbeaten during the 2003/04 campaign. He also has three Premier League titles alongside Dennis Bergkamp and fellow midfielder Ray Parlour.
3. Ray Parlour – Nicknamed the Romford Pele, Parlour was one of the unsung heroes in the Arsenal team. He was an important member of the Arsenal midfield through the three Premier League titles won under Arsene Wenger.
What Liverpool Need To Maintain Premier League Superiority
Liverpool were coasting home to the Premier League title for the first time in their history until Coronavirus happened in March. The Reds had not won any form of league title in the top flight for three decades until this season.
Until Premier League football was suspended two months ago at the end of week 29, Liverpool had the best record in the history of the competition at that point of the season. Liverpool won 27 games, drew one and lost just one from those 29 games thus amassing 85 points. They had a 25-point advantage over Manchester City in second position.
Liverpool won't be denied their title for long as the Premier League is expected to resume next month and players have already returned to training ahead of the restart. Only two wins from the remaining nine games would be enough to hand Liverpool the title thus taking them to 19 league titles and just one behind leading club and rivals Manchester United who have won the league title 20 times.
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The challenge for Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp and his players would be to re-enact their insane Premier League form in this campaign as from the next season. The Reds are likely to break the most points recorded in Premier League history currently held by Manchester City (100 points during the 2017/18 season). Liverpool need just 16 points from the remaining nine games and 27 points.
After the league title win for this week has been sorted, the next target for Liverpool would likely be to usurp Manchester United at the top of the list of most Premier League title wins and they need to dominate the league for more seasons to achieve this starting from next season. Let's examine what Liverpool need to continue their stay at the top of the Premier League:
1. Dynamic Striker – Liverpool have one of the best attacks in European football with the deadly trio of Mohamed Salah, Roberto Firmino and Sadio Mane but they still need a better fourth option than Divock Origi who has always done well in that role. RB Leipzig star Timo Werner is the top target to fill this role ahead of the summer's transfer market.
2. Left-sided Defender – The Reds need an able deputy for first choice left-back Andy Robertson who has been very consistent over the last two years.
Manchester United Players With Most Premier League Trophies
Manchester United have been the dominant club in the Premier League era though it must be pointed out that they are yet to win the competition in seven years. The last win came during the 2012/13 season when legendary manager Sir Alex Ferguson was at the club.
The last Premier League title at Manchester United coincided with the final season under Sir Alex Ferguson who retired as a manager in 2013 before moving upstairs as a director on the club's board.
In the past few seasons, Manchester United fans have seen rivals Manchester City and Liverpool take their place as the dominant club in the Premier League. Despite the recent fall from the Premier League top, the Red Devils still have the most Premier League titles.
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Manchester United won 13 Premier League titles under Sir Alex Ferguson to take them above arch rivals, Liverpool, as the most successful club in English league football. The Red Devils now have 20 league titles, while Liverpool is stuck on 18 league titles though that's expected to increase to 19 in a matter of weeks after the compulsory Coronavirus break.
Let's examine the top three Manchester United players with the most Premier League titles:
1. Ryan Giggs – The Welshman has the most league titles in the history of the Premier League (13). He also has the most assists in the competition plus the fact that he holds the record for the most appearances in the illustrious history of Manchester United.
2. Paul Scholes – The ex-Manchester United midfielder had to quit football for some years because of vision problems but was still able to win 11 Premier League titles. He quit football for two years before returning to win more titles at Manchester United.
3. Gary Neville – The former Manchester United skipper won 8 Premier League titles during his time at Old Trafford. Just like Ryan Giggs and Paul Scholes, Gary Neville spent all his football career at Old Trafford.


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Violence claims twelve lives in Karachi
[Dawn] Twelve people
bit the dust
while several sustained injuries in different incidents of firing and violence in
Bloody Karachi
...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous...
on Friday, DawnNews reported.
, riding two
cycle of violence
s, opened fire on a car near Essa Nagri locality killing Akhtar Hussain and Naveedul Haq and injuring Ashfaq. The victims were reported to be transporters.
A dead-body was recovered in a gunny bag on M. A. Jinnah Road near Radio Pakistain office. The body was later identified of a young man who was kidnapped earlier.
A man was killed by unknown
s near Samama Shopping Centre on University Road while a man, identified as Sajid, was killed by
who opened fire on his shop in Rizvia Society.
Earlier, a man was
bumped off
in Korangi while special branch's police inspector Abdul Rasheed was killed in Gulbahar.
Two people were killed in separate incidents of firing in Maripur Road and Baldia Town areas while three dead-bodies wrapped in gunny bags were recovered from Baldia Town, Netty Jetty Brigde and Sher Shah neighbourhoods.
...back at the Council of Boskone, Helmuth had turned a paler shade of blue. Star-A-Star had struck again...
the CID police
tossed in the slammer
Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un!
three suspects, wanted for murders and kidnappings for ransom, and recovered weapons from possession when they carried out raids in Surjani Town and New
Bloody Karachi
Moreover, a
Bloody Karachi
district education officer was also kidnapped along with his car in the metropolis.
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The following article is reproduced from the English Monthly Vicharasetu – March 1998 published by the Ashram
Krishna has, in a way, completed his exposition of Sankhya and Karma yoga, their sadhana and goal alike. He has also shown when the sadhaka would reach his goal and what, in a nutshell, is the ultimate fruition of yogasadhana. Krishna's description would naturally have their relevance and purpose, only when Arjuna, to whom they are addressed, is able to grasp what he heard and express his reaction to the message. Arjuna's response shows that he did grasp Krishna's teaching. That is why he asks:
Arjuna's questions are basically two; but they cover the entire range of Yoga and its practical fruition. Equally so, they bring forth the nature of the Knower's inward and outward life. It is very significant that Arjuna uses the word 'sthitaprajna' in his first question, whereas he uses 'sthitadhee' in the next.
How can the 'samadhistha sthitaprajna' be described, is what Arjuna asks first. "How will the sthita-dhee speak? How will he be resting. And how will he move about in the world and interact with people?" – he asks next.
This portion of the second chapter of Bhagavad Gita is called "sthita-prajna prakarana" It is a very deep and subtle enunciation which brings great value and clarity to the whole spiritual and philosophical exposition of our land. In many of the unique excellences which Gita has, this is a significant one. It shines distinctly with all its emphasis and revelation. The manner in which Krishna answers Arjuna shows how well a dialogue can be conducted, even in a battlefield. Generally subtle philosophical discussions are held in calm environments and leisurely spells. In spite of the fact that the situation here is entirely different, neither Krishna nor Arjuna has allowed fullness and sublimity of the discussions and the messages imparted to suffer the least.
The first question of Arjuna has its special note: "sthitaprajnasya samadhisthasya ka bhasha" – "What is the description of the sthitaprajna seated in samadhi?" In other words, how would Krishna describe the Yogic Knower absorbed in samadhi?" One's prajna (consciousness) becomes sthita (steady and still) only in samadhi. At all other times the prajna will remain active, generating thoughts and reflections. So the sthitaprajna will not be able to speak or describe his state himself. His sthitaprajnata has to be described by another person, who knows about it well. By wording the question in this manner, Arjuna shows how keen he was in listening to Krishna.
Vedavyasa, too, is showing his great insight and purpose while penning the whole dialogue. More than sketching the biography of the rulers and the ruled of his time, the Sage intends to lay down before the people of the land a message that would last for all times. The intricacies of human behaviour, the sublime purpose of all our interactions, the hidden potential the human personality contains and hosts within itself, how this can be brought to manifest in all relevance and usefulness, ultimately how the individual has the full scope to outlive and assimilate all challenges and inputs from the world around him, these and allied questions are clearly set forth in the narrations of Vedavyasa, whatever be the scenes and events before him.
Philosophy is truly a complement to our external life. It is not to be read and reflected in the leisure of retirement. Instead, it is to be read and applied to the actual needs and riddles of life right from early stages. Arjuna's enquiry focuses these points with an emphasis that is hardly found elsewhere.
In the next question of Arjuna, he has used a different note and basis. The sthitadhee can speak himself, because he is no more in his sthitaprajna state of samadhi. His speech naturally will strike a difference from that of the rest. What is that difference? Sthitaprajna will be still and absorded into himself. The sthitadhee is not so. He can be quite vocal and even eloquent. Arjuna wants to know how will the sthitadhee take his rest. In other words, what will be his mind like when he stops his activities any time and withdraws into restfulness? Will his mind be brooding and bothering in the same way as that of the ordinary people? Or there is a clear distinction? And lastly, how will he move about, conduct his vyavahara, without causing any disturbance to his own sthitaprajnata treasure. He can even be a greatly helpful source for others. With his unique attainment, he can immensely contribute to the inner welfare of others around.
On close analysis, Arjuna's questions cover what a seeker wishes to know about the supreme spiritual state. They are also meant to throw light on how a Knower distinguishes himself from the rest of mankind, both in the matter of inward absorption and external interactions. Where lies the difference between a spiritual Knower and a non-Knower? Do spiritual life and its fulfillment pose a conflict to the life in the world? Will life in the world and the interactions it warrants bring about any dislodgement for the Knower from this inward state? Will the world also find the Knower's presence and movements any disturbance or disharmony? Or, these will be enriching to the world too? How does the Knower ensure that his pursuit of activities in the external world does not disturb him, instead it turns out to be a great enrichment to his life of spiritual enlightenment?
In short, Arjuna is requesting Krishna to give a full description of the sthitaprajna state, samadhi, and also about the sthitadhee state. One refers to the individual's inward absorptional state and the other to the interactional life of the Knower.
By getting ample clarification in this manner about both aspects of Yoga – the absorptional and interactional aspects – the study and pursuit of saadhana will stand to derive more depth and comprehensiveness. So Arjuna's enquiries are quite timely, relevant and useful to all seekers of spiritual wisdom and yoga. We have quite a number of Upanishads, where Self-knowledge and Self-Knowers are presented and explained. But the words sthitaprajna and sthitadhee are not mentioned in them. These two concepts, especially the background in which they are presented here in Gita, throw special light on the whole subject of Self-knowledge and Self-Knower.
Krishna always deals with Arjuna's enquires and questions carefully and well, thereby fulfilling the questioner as well as enriching the subject of discussion greatly. After Krishna began his exposition from the 11th verse of this chapter, this is the first significant question Arjuna raises. Briefly but fully Krishna gives his answer:
When one renounces all desires born of the mind and rejoices by himself on his own Self, he is considered a sthita-prajna.
Krishna emphasizes here only two points in describing the sthita-prajna state. All the desires have to be renounced. After so renouncing, the seeker must be able to take his repose on his own Self within. And in so doing, he must find all the delight and fullness he seeks and yearns for. Leave everything and all, and rest upon your own inward Self. Such restfulness must be delightful, so much so that the seeker will not feel like having anything else for his satisfaction.
The mind has first of all to be disconnected from all the desires it fosters towards things of this world or the other world. Any desire is a desire indeed. And it has the sure effect of disturbing the mind. The only way to make the mind undisturbed is to keep away all desires. In any kind of desiring, the mind gets drawn outside.
A question may arise now: Is the desire for Self-realization also to be renounced? Well, if it is a desire, that is not good. In trying to realize the Self, why should one foster anything like a desire at all? In looking at your body, is there any question of desiring at all? To look at your own mind likewise, does not imply any desiring. So too, to look at the Self within and try to realize what it is, why should any desire be there? Generally you desire to get at some place away from where you are, or you desire to get an object which is different from you. Where the thing sought is different from you, a desire for it is possible and relevant. But in striving to realize your very Self, the Self that you already are, where is the need for any desire at all? You can have an urge for it, an impetus or compulsion for it. That is no desire.
Desire is something that pulls or pushes the mind away from its centre and leads it elsewhere. But here the process is just reverse. The mind, if at all, must get to its own centre, its own essence and being. That process is certainly different from desiring.
Krishna clearly states that after the mind gets rid of the desiring habit and desires, it should become self-seated and in that self-seatedness, the seeker should find all the delight he needs, to make him remain immersed within himself. This point is quite important and clear.
Every day we go into deep sleep for several hours. In sleep (sushupti), the mind itself ceases to be, it becomes extinct, not to speak of the desire it generates. Unmindful of the body, mind and intelligence, the sleeper sleeps to get lost into himself. In what way does this deep sleep state (sushupti) differ from sthita-prajna state? In the suspension of desires, in their disappearance for a while, sushupti and sthita-prajnata may be held to be the same, or nearly so. Even to say this is not true, because sushupti is a biological development. When the body gets tired after being wakeful and active, the biological system sends it to sleep, a state of utter restfulness. It is not something that we generate. Sushupti is a regular state we have just like wakefulness, as a counterpart of wakefulness. Like dream and wakefulness, sushupti is also a state, repetitive in nature, and even periodical. All the three appear in sequence and complement one another. By sleeping for hours together, no special change is brought to the mind, its structure and function. Also, it is not a condition that one should leave all his desires, in order to get into sushupti.
In sthita–prajnata, the whole development starts with an effort – the clear discrimination to eliminate desires; and as a result desires become extinct in the end. It is not then like one slipping into sushupti to forget everything and remain dead to the world and environments for a while. The similarity between sushupti and sthitaprajnata is that in both there is no awareness of the objects outside. The difference between the two is that in sushupti one becomes unconscious of himself, whereas in sthita-prajna state one remains fully conscious of himself. In addition, the sthita-prajna enjoys full delight born of himself, his Self.
What is such an awareness-full, delightful withdrawal? And why are people missing it throughout their life? Can the Self of one bring such an all-inclusive delight, as to exclude the need and company of all things, which he otherwise interacts with? All these questions have their full answer in the sthita-prajnata the seeker is able to gain within himself.
Explained just in 32 poetic letters, Krishna's description of the "samadhistha-sthitaprajna" is verily a synopsis of all that the Upanishads point out, explain and reveal in various ways.
Our consciousness generally moves about in three states, each different from the others. Wakefulness is the state in which grossness and externality prevail. Only when one wakes up, his waking consciousness brings in the presence and perception of the external objects, including earth, water, fire, air and space. So the entire gross world is a result and outcome of our wakefulness, wakeful consciousness.
But does this wakefulness remain unbroken forever? In fact, whenever wakefulness takes place, it can only be from and after sushupti (deep sleep). Jagrat (wakefulness) cannot be except as a contrast and succession to sushupti. If jagrat is broadbased, external and gross, sushupti is just the opposite of these. In sushupti one remains drawn into himself, subtle and internal, so much so that he does not even know that he is. None says, or can say, that 'I am sleeping', 'I am in sushupti'. The awareness of sushupti comes to us only after we wake up from it. Wakefulness alone is the state in which we have 'current awareness and knowledge'.
Inasmuch as we have this sushupti state, just like the jagrat state, and that also lasts every time for hours, can we allow the waking state all its seeming value and relevance as we do now? In judging the value and truth of existence of objects, we cannot become blind or partial. A judgement based solely on our jagrat state will not be adequate. The parallel state of sushupti should also become equal ground in making our assessment. And sushupti completely negates the entire waking state realities. If the existence of objects including our own body was absolute, then when we, the perceivers, go into sushupti state, how does none of these objects, including our body, seem to exist and get felt at all? Does the object world come first before us, or we first wake up ourselves, and then alone perceive the gross existence?
Our waking or sleeping does not depend upon the existence of anything other than ourselves. The inward states are brought about by every individual himself. As we wake up ourselves, so also do we get into sleep all by ourselves. Whether any object exists outside or not, one can and does slip into sushupti. Do not people sleep while travelling? Even when some one dear and near is present nearby and a dialogue goes on with him, sometimes one slips into sushupti, to the surprise of all concerned!
Similarly wakefulness also sets in all by itself. One wakes up himself, as he went into sleep, and then begins to feel the presence of his body and the rest of objects around.
There is another state in between, the dream state, svapna. Svapna is a sate in which the dreamer, unlike in sushupti, wakes up into a new world, similar to the waking world but different from it, to enjoy and suffer the activities and interactions taking place exclusively there. The dream objects, interactions and the resulting experiences often, rather invariably, invalidate and contradict the wakeful objects and interactions with them and the resulting joy and suffering. This is similar to the waking world invalidating and contradicting the dream world. But the waker and dreamer are the same. Naturally the truth of both the states – jagrat and svapna –– perceived by him remains the same, because, the test of any existence is its experience by oneself. Waking world derives its status because it is perceived by us. Dream too has its similar status on the ground of being perceived by us.
Besides these two mutually invalidating and contradictory states is the sushupti state, in which both the waking world and dream world are completely negated, and the waker and the dreamer remains all by himself, to be the only subject, devoid of all object connections and consequences. The waking and dream objects together with the interactions and resulting experiences subsist solely on the subject waker and subject dreamer. Without the subject, neither can ever be. Whereas in sushupti, the subject sleeper remains all by himself. Like the objects depending upon the subject (in jagrat and svapna) the subject does not depend upon the objects (sushupti)
Sushupti is thus the full and independent state of the subject. It is this subject alone that brings about by itself, for itself, in itself, the wakeful and dream state, without any kind of linkage with anything else. In waking the grossness and externality of objects prevail, whereas in svapna, the objects remain within the body and as such are subtle in nature. Even the externality we experience during dream reigns within the body. Dream is in fact a sheer expanse within the gross body. Yet the objects of dream are felt to be external. The internal dreamer and waker, produces, all in himself, the externality in both states.
The comparison of the three states goes a step further. Only in jagrat we have the awareness that 'I am awake', 'I am doing this, experiencing this....'. While dreaming, the dreamer does not feel that 'I am dreaming'. It is instead to him a waking state itself. Only when he wakes up, he realises that he was in a dream state. So in dream he does not have the current awareness about what he is, as happens in waking.
In sushupti, it is not at all so. He does not have any awareness at all as he will have in waking or dream. Unaware of anything outside or inside, doing nothing, knowing nothing, he sleeps, to feel on waking up that he was sleeping. It is this lack of awareness that poses the problem, the only problem, in understanding the 'I', the sleeper, dreamer and waker. This constant ignorance is what the sthita-prajna state removes outright.
The subject, the Self, reveals itself in all its fullness and delight. 'Atmani eva atmana tushtah' denotes this self-revealing and self-delighting situation. Thus, in this single verse, Krishna presents not only the yoga state of fullness but also the spiritual and philosophical goal discussed and revealed in the Upanishads and allied scriptural texts.
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Last week, I wrote about how my explanation of why Mitt Romney's plan won't create jobs was dismissed as silly liberal twaddle from someone who has "obviously never started or run a business."
That was amusing.
Because I actually have started and run a business.
The reason I don't think Romney's plan will fix the economy is because Romney's solution is to give the richest Americans more money to invest (by cutting taxes on the highest earners), when the problem in the economy is not a lack of investment capital but, rather, a lack of spending money in the middle class.
The middle class spends most of the money in this economy, and, right now, the middle class is broke. And it is very difficult for investors and entrepreneurs to build successful businesses when their ultimate customers are broke, no matter how much investment capital the investors have.
In other words, in the current economy, "trickle down" won't work.
Any time I make this argument, I get pushback from those who believe Romney's assertion that "rich people create jobs" (they don't--not sustainable ones, anyway--it is the healthy economic ecosystem creates jobs). I also get called a "communist."
This time, in addition to the usual notes, I received a note from a friend who started and runs a successful money-management firm. This friend is extremely smart, so I paid more attention to his note than the usual "communist" ones. (And, besides, it was funny.)
In the interest of advancing this argument, here's the full exchange...
Homie, When Did You Become A Commie?
Read your Business Insider piece [about Romney's plan]…..
All I can say is "OY!"
First, have you really bought into the class warfare trope….what is it with "rich people" ? Some job creators are wealthy and some are from more moderate means. For example, when I started my firm, I had virtually no money….Now we employ dozens of people and probably one of the highest per capita tax bases in the State.
Secondly, you misrepresent Romney's tax plan which is to lower rates but also wipe out numerous loopholes….(maybe carried interest). So he is not proposing cutting the tax revenues paid, only the marginal rate…what's wrong with that?
Third, you get the importance of an economic ecosystem, and I agree that we need more consumers (which will happen if we get people working again) but job creators and capital allocators are not investing because of uncertainty and costs associated with the prospect of Obamacare, regulation and concern about the economy due to obama's deficits.
Hope this is helpful.
My response:
Ha! Thanks.
Okay, first, homie, I'm not a commie. There's a big difference between observing that the middle class is broke and that inequality has hit record levels--and noting that this is hurting the economy--and thinking we should move to a collective system. Communism doesn't work. Period. If anyone in power starts suggesting it does, I'll be the first to ridicule them.
I'm also fine with successful people making gajillions of dollars. I do think the Bush tax cuts should eventually be eliminated, but I'm certainly not advocating raising federal marginal rates to, say, the 70%-90% of the past. We could also consider having higher-than-Clinton-era marginal rates on incomes over $1 million, $5 million, and $10 million to encourage folks to keep reinvesting the money in their businesses, but that's a separate question.
The reason cutting tax rates on those who make gajillions of dollars won't fix the economy, by the way, is that the problem right now is a lack of spending not a lack of investment, and most of the folks who make gajillions don't spend all of it. For example, if you're in the, say, take-home-$100 million-a-year bracket, my assumption would be that you only spend a small fraction of that and invest the rest. Middle class people, meanwhile, spend everything they make and then some. Because there are so many middle class people, this is the main engine of spending in the economy. And we already have plenty of economic capacity, so additional investment doesn't help much.
(And I'm certainly not suggesting that successful fund managers and entrepreneurs should be stripped of their wealth--that's absurd. I'm just suggesting that giving these folks even more take-home pay won't help the economy much, because it won't increase aggregate spending--especially if the revenue is made up by eliminating deductions for the middle class. And that's the problem with Romney's plan to eliminate all tax deductions, by the way (which I'm theoretically fine with): It hits middle-class people harder than the highest earners as a percentage of income. So he should at least acknowledge that.)
On the ecosystem, your success is incredibly impressive and admirable (and I admire the hell out of it!). My only point is that neither you nor I nor any other entrepreneur would have a hope in hell of building anything if our customers were broke. And ultimately it is those customers who pay the salaries of the folks who work at our companies. To extend the ecosystem metaphor, I'm happy to give us credit for planting a seed and watering it. But to take all the credit for the whole tree would be delusional. (Anyone who thinks we deserve credit for that should go plant a seed in a desert).
Lastly, on "uncertainty," if what you mean is that companies aren't investing because of uncertainty about the economy--namely, that future economic growth might be crappy--then we absolutely agree. But if you're arguing that the lack of investment and hiring is due to uncertainty about "taxes" and "policies," then I'd say, dude, you've been conned! (Are you seriously not hiring more people because your personal taxes might go up next year? Because "Obamacare" might cost you a few more dollars? Are you working less hard? Seriously?)
The deficit is a huge problem, and I admire Paul Ryan for pointing that out and proposing a solution. His solution is highly misleading, but at least he has the balls to put one out there. The Democrats and Obama should do the same. Then we can have an actual discussion about the alternatives...
Hope all well.
His response:
Nobody's cutting taxes per Romney….the 1% or 1/10 of 1% will pay the same 38% of taxes that they pay now…he is talking about reducing the rates AND eliminating loopholes and various deductions tomake it revenue neutral…
Most small businesses are S corp pass throughs so this matters….
I'll educate you further when I have more time …
My response:
Has Romney changed his plan? The plan he issued last fall called for making the Bush cuts permanent, which would keep the highest-bracket income taxes at 35%, not 38%. He also wants to keep capital gains and dividend taxes where they are, which would be a huge boon to the 1%.
(Re the tax deductions, I will be the first to praise Romney if he actually argues to eliminate the "carried interest" deduction. I am happy for all my friends in the fund business that they've been able to bamboozle Washington into buying that one, but the justification is ludicrous--don't you think?)
I look forward to being educated!
His response:
I was not referring to rate but to the percent of overall taxes
Better question, if 1 of of taxpayers paying 37% of federal income taxes is not enough, what is the right amount?
Since carried interest is an allocation of profits, I see no reason it should be treated differently, but that's a longer story.
And so it went. If I had seen that last response (which I actually didn't until now), I'd have argued that the reason the 1% are paying such a big share of taxes these days is that the 1% is vastly more relatively rich than the 1% ever has been.
And, for what it's worth, here's what I think we should do to fix our economy:
- Put a long-term budget in place that gradually raises taxes (modestly) and trims spending growth over the next couple of decades, with the aim of eventually curing our budget deficit. I am not in any way suggesting that total tax revenue should rise above the peak of about 20% of GDP that it has hit in the past. And I agree with Mitt Romney that, given Congress's inability to control spending, that we might want to consider capping spending around 20% of GDP.
- Committing to spending an extra $3 trillion on infrastructure over the next decade--roads, bridges, wireless Internet, airports, harbors, pipelines, schools, and repairs of our existing infrastructure. With investors willing to lend us money for 30 years at ~2%, the sorry state of our nation's infrastructure, and the number of construction workers who are unemployed, this seems like a smart decision that will benefit everyone.
Let the argument continue...
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JC Walsh Irish Wishing Stone $6.95
This wishing stone is a piece of real Connemara marble, found only in the mountains of Galway and Mayo. Connemara marble is over 600 million years old, dating from the Pre-Cambrian Era and can be found only in a remote area in the West of Ireland. It is a metamorphic rock formed when limestone was heated under pressure, producing a hard granular rock. Its unique green colour, which symbolizes Ireland, is caused by the presence of various elements. Connemara Marble is thought to bring serenity to those who keep it close. Each stone will be a different shape, size and green colour.


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So, with no other changes having been made to this otherwise very stable blog last weeks post
has taken over the main blog posting page. Normally this page:
would display the 10 most recent posts but it automatically displays the aforementioned post only.
If I "trash" this post the main blog page gives me "page missing" error.
My most recent post:
Displays just fine if you go to its category.
Please help!
I have tried everything I can think of and I am stumped!


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Need a reason to learn how to play the electric guitar? YouTube musician FamilyJules7X demonstrates how well mad guitar skills and gaming go together in his triumphant electric cover of Jonathan Coulton's "Want You Gone."
GLaDOS wants you gone so badly she sings a song about it at the end of Portal 2. Most test subjects get the hint right away. If they didn't, I can easily imagine the maniacal artificial intelligence turning to something a bit less subtle, possibly involving multiple electric guitars. Something like this, for instance.
For more guitar-driven excellence from FamilyJules7X, be sure to check out his rendition of "Still Alive". These two tunes are going to live a long and happy life on my MP3 player, far from the prying eyes of electronic megalomaniacs.
Want You Gone Portal 2 Guitar Cover [YouTube - Thanks Dustin!]


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Let me guess, you have been playing The Denver Post crossword and got stuck on the clue Some Conestoga wagon pullers. Well, you have come to the right place to find the answer to this clue.
While some crosswords are much simpler than others, most require that players have a vast knowledge of the language and possibly even various topics. So while crossword puzzles are seen as a more intelligent game, they can be very frustrating for players to complete and even experienced crossword players need some help occasionally.
When finding the answers to the clues becomes too difficult, there's no shame in looking for them online.
Now you have the answer to your clue. Its time to move on to the next clue. You can browse through the list with all the answers to the The Denver Post crossword of January 29th, 2020. Or you can use the search form below to find the answer (no matter if its The Denver Post Crossword or any other crossword).
|The Denver Post crossword of January 29th, 2020 other clues
|Explorer on Nickelodeon
|Gained "life experience"
|Shrimper's net
|Tennis great Lendl
|Rival of Trump in 2016
|Made-to-order lard?
|All thumbs
|Hirohito and Akihito
|Dies down
|"My lips ___ sealed"
|Concoct in a cauldron
|C sharp equivalent
|Mild Dutch cheese
|Open a tad
|Morsels in martinis
|Rap sheet abbr.
|"Comfort and joy" season
|Off one's rocker
|Put an edge on
|Elvis's swivelers
|Cheesy Poofs eater on "South Park"
|"The Shining" door buster
|Cochise or Geronimo
|Spreadsheet filler
|Bulletproof wear
|Vexed incessantly
|Celebrity chef Paula
|Sot's utterance
|Places for perms
|Roomy carryalls
|Blow a fuse, so to speak
|Night flyer that does stand-up?
|Groucho Marx prop
|Levine of Maroon 5
|"Sesame Street" playmate of Zoe
|Dithers, to Bumstead
|Flow slowly
|Monopoly pair
|Fertility clinic cell
|Talk like Popeye
|It's for openers
|Tilter's wear
|Be paroled, say
|Pilots' guesses, briefly
|Half a colon
|"Survivor" group
|Fedora in a windstorm?
|Aid in escape, perhaps
|Moist towelette
|A whole bunch
|Address a convention
|Ill-fated force of 1588
|Make naan, say
|Rationed, with "out"
|Food for much fauna
|OK to do
|Gentle caress of an alligator pear?
|Elsinore natives
|Limeade ingredient
|Dominant, among animals
|Odometer button
|Barbershop offerings
|Took measured steps
|"Tank Engine" of kid-lit
|A card-key provides it
|"TMZ" twosomes
|Faction within a faith
|Solo often sung in Italian
|Carries laboriously
|Errand list heading
|One-week breaks for NFL teams
|Having the know-how
|Many an iPhone download
|Point on a bus map
|Waiter in an airport queue
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Episode 122: Java on Windows Azure
In this episode Nick Harris and Chris Risner are joined by Martin Sawicki, Program Manager at MS Open Tech where he focuses on Java on Windows Azure. In this episode Martin gives an overview on how to use Java with Windows Azure including: The Java Developer Center The Windows Azure Java SDK Java Virtual Machines running on Oracle Software in Windows Azure Installing and using the Eclipse plugin for Windows Azure Creating a deployment project with configuration for: Caching Debugging Endpoints Session affinity Local storage Deploying the java app to the local Windows Azure Emulator Deploying to Windows Azure


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The Cheeky bar, in Georgia USA, now has a self-service bar known as the "wall of beer" where patrons can help themselves to a drink with the wave of a card.
The card is simply an RFID tag which identifies the buyer, but the system measures the amount of alcohol poured as well as requiring each drinker to prove their sobriety to the barman every 64 ounces (three pints or so). The great thing is flexibility, as RFID Journal explains, but one can't help wondering if it's a troubling trend too.
She's pouring her own beer, but there'll be no barman handy to light her cigarette
The fluid control system is supplied by DraftServ, and is an evolution from tabletop systems which have been around for a while. Such systems deliver a specific beer, in measured quantities, to a party's table, but they also require pipes laid under the floor, and limit the options once at the table.
The "wall of beer" approach allows drinkers to select their beer, and even try a small glass of something different, with all the costs totted up for payment at the end of the evening. Users can pour themselves any quantity of drink, though they have to demonstrate that they're not drunk every three pints or so.
In use it seems that users often pour themselves smaller drinks, to avoid the lager getting warm or going flat, but that they drink more overall, which is good news for the bar. Most importantly it means fewer bar staff, as the customers serve themselves.
Pulling a pint of proper beer is, of course, more complicated. British beer doesn't lend itself to electronic measuring or pumping and it's hard to imagine a row of gravity pumps along side an RFID card reader, not to mention that an RFID reader won't pretend to be interested in one's problems.
It was once inconceivable that we'd have to fill our own cars with petrol, but we got used to it surprisingly quickly, perhaps we'll get used to the lack of bar staff with equal celerity. ®
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Review by Nick Wedd, from British Go Journal 132 (Autumn 2003)
Previous we have carried reviews of Go Professional, Go Professional II, and Go Professional III. These programs used the Go-playing engine written by Dr. Michael (Mick) Reiss, which competed in international Computer Go tournaments under the name Go4++. Dr. Reiss was under contract to Oxford Softworks, which later became part of Purple Software, and received a salary from them and small royalties for each copy of his program that they sold. They embellished it with a decorative user interface and marketed it as Go Professional, and in other ways.
However, Purple Software recently went into liquidation and was unable to meet its debts. Dr. Reiss was able to retrieve full rights to the Go-playing engine he had written, and is now marketing it himself as Go++.
Go++ is a program for Windows. It plays Go, and plays it as well as any program; it does not do anything else. It is notoriously difficult to assess the strength of Go-playing programs, because humans soon become accustomed to their weaknesses, and learn to take advantage of them. Dr. Reiss claims that Go++ is about 7-kyu, and supports this claim by giving its results against some members of North London Go Club. These were, I assume, people who had never played against it before. I tested it myself by giving it nine handicap stones on a full board, with it set to its maximum playing strength, and I beat it comfortably (I am 2-kyu on the European Rating List). I had never played Go++ before, but I have played its predecessor Go4++ in its various incarnations, and therefore know something of its weaknesses. I also tested it by playing it on KGS, against a KGS 3-kyu. He gave it only two handicap stones, and only narrowly beat it. It was interesting for me to see how he treated it with respect, in positions where I, knowing its weaknesses, would have bullied it mercilessly.
I will not describe Go++'s weaknesses here, as to do so would reduce its value to purchasers who are looking for a challenging program to play.
It has options of 19x19, 13x13, and 9x9 boards; you can get it to play as Black or as White, but not both, and you can set the handicap and the komi. You can set it to any of five playing strengths, each about 1 grade apart. At its fastest setting, it takes less than a second a move. At its slowest setting, on my 1 GHz system, it averages under half a minute a move.
It uses only Japanese rules, with their fixed placement of handicap stones. The user interface is clean, simple, and easy to use. It does not use a clock - its human opponent can play as slowly as they like. It can record partly-played games for reloading later, but it does so in 'Ishi' format, rather than the more widely used SGF format.
Go++ (formerly known as Go4++) has entered many international Computer Go tournaments, and in the last five years has never been placed below third in one. Its main rivals have been Many Faces of Go and GoeMate. The latest versions of these three programs all have good chances of beating one another, but it is only Go++ whose latest version is abailable to purchasers. The 2002 version of Many Faces offers many more features than Go++ and cost US $90. GoeMate is not available to purchasers, but its ancestor program HandTalk was available at US $60. So Go++ is not only the strongest-playing program that is available to the public, it is the least expensive of the strong programs (at $35).
Go++ is available from the website www.goplusplus.com. for download or purchase. It runs only on Windows.


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Author Mitch Albom releases a new book
'The Time Keeper'
DETROIT – Author Mitch Albom has written a new book. "The Time Keeper" went on sale Tuesday.
Here's a summary of the book from Albom's website:
"the inventor of the world's first clock is punished for trying to measure God's greatest gift. He is banished to a cave for centuries and forced to listen to the voices of all who come after him seeking more days, more years. Eventually, with his soul nearly broken, Father Time is granted his freedom, along with a magical hourglass and a mission: a chance to redeem himself by teaching two earthly people the true meaning of time. He returns to our world-now dominated by the hour-counting he so innocently began-and commences a journey with two unlikely partners: one a teenage girl who is about to give up on life, the other a wealthy old businessman who wants to live forever. To save himself, he must save them both. And stop the world to do so. Told in Albom's signature spare, evocative prose, this remarkably original tale will inspire readers everywhere to reconsider their own notions of time, how they spend it and how precious it truly is."
Albom will be signing copies of his book at various locations around metro Detroit including:
Tuesday, September 4
- 7:30 p.m.
- Barnes & Noble
- 14165 Hall Road
- Shelby Township, MI 48315
- (586) 247-7416
Thursday, September 6
- 7:30 p.m.
- Barnes & Noble
- Huron Village
- 3235 Washtenaw Ave.
- Ann Arbor, MI 48104
- (734) 973-0846
Friday, September 7
- 7:30 p.m.
- Barnes & Noble
- 6800 Orchard Lake Road
- West Bloomfield, MI 48322
- (248) 626-6804
Saturday, September 8
- 12 p.m.
- Sam's Club
- 15700 Northline Road
- Southgate, MI 48195
- (734) 285-0030
Saturday, September 8
- 2:30 p.m.
- Costco
- 20000 Haggerty Road
- Livonia, MI 48152
(734) 464-6399
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Tyler, The Creator & Childish Gambino On Regular Show!
Tyler, The Creator and Childish Gambino both lent their voices last night to the Cartoon Network's animated series Regular Show.
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