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Luis Garisto, vollständiger Name Luis Garisto Pan (* 3. Dezember 1945 in Montevideo; † 21. November 2017 ebenda), war ein uruguayischer Fußballspieler und -trainer.

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Garisto wuchs im montevideanischen Barrio Goes auf. Dort spielte er zunächst Basketball und war 1960 und 1961 Jugendmeister. Sein Onkel, der als Trainer der Cuarta (U-19) von Defensor arbeitete, holte ihn schließlich zu jenem Fußballverein. Die Entscheidung für den Fußball und gegen den Basketballsport traf er dabei nach eigener Aussage aus der simplen Erwägung heraus, dass er nicht die finanziellen Möglichkeiten hatte, um sich Turnschuhe zu kaufen, der Fußballverein ihm jedoch die Fußballschuhe kostenlos zur Verfügung stellte. Bei Defensor stieß er schließlich bis in die Erstligamannschaft vor. Insgesamt gehörte er von 1961 bis 1968 dem Klub an. Der 1,79 Meter große Defensivakteur Garisto spielte sodann von 1969 bis 1973 für den argentinischen Verein CA Independiente. Der Wechsel zu den Argentiniern kam dabei laut Garisto auf Empfehlung eines Kassierers Defensors zustande, der Freunde in Avellaneda hatte. Dort gehörte er dem Team an, das 1970 und 1971 das Torneo Metropolitano, 1972 und 1973 die Copa Libertadores, 1972 den Weltpokal und 1973 die Copa Interamericana gewann. Während seiner Zugehörigkeit zu dem argentinischen Klub sind 127 Spiele mit seiner Beteiligung und zwei persönliche Torerfolge für Garisto verzeichnet. 1974 bis 1976 stand er in Reihen des Club Atlético Peñarol und gewann 1974 und 1975 die uruguayische Meisterschaft in der Primera División. 1977 schloss er sich CD Cobreloa an, gewann in jenem Jahr den Titel in der B und spielte dort bis 1978. 1978 absolvierte er sieben Partien für den chilenischen Klub.

Nationalmannschaft
Garisto war Mitglied der A-Nationalmannschaft Uruguays, für die er von seinem Debüt am 28. März 1974 bis zu seinem letzten Einsatz am 23. Juni 1974 fünf Länderspiele absolvierte. Ein Länderspieltor erzielte er nicht. Während des Freundschaftsländerspiels gegen die australische Nationalmannschaft am 27. April 1974 im Vorfeld der Fußball-Weltmeisterschaft verletzte Garisto den australischen Spieler Ray Baartz durch einen Handkantenschlag gegen die Kehle so schwer an der Halsschlagader, dass dieser am nächsten Tag für einen Zeitraum von zwei Tagen das Bewusstsein verlor und anschließend auf Rat der Ärzte seine Karriere beenden musste. Garisto nahm mit Uruguay an der Weltmeisterschaft 1974 in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland teil. Im Verlaufe des Turniers kam er in den Spielen gegen Schweden und Bulgarien zum Einsatz.

Trainerlaufbahn
Garisto war auch als Trainer tätig. 1983 war er in dieser Funktion beim Danubio FC tätig. Auch betreute er den La Luz FC sowie Vereine in Argentinien, Chile und Mexiko. In Mexiko hatte er in den Spielzeiten 1989/90, 1990/91 und 1991/92 während insgesamt 98 Ligapartien das Traineramt bei Atlas Guadalajara inne. 1994/95 und 1995/96 war er 35 Spiele lang für Toluca verantwortlich. In Argentinien war er Coach bei Gimnasia y Esgrima de La Plata und von 2002 bis 2003 bei CA Banfield. Mitte Juli 2003 löste er bei Cobreloa Nelson Acosta in der Trainerrolle ab. 2006 trainierte er Peñarol. Seine Trainertätigkeit bei den Aurinegros währte aber nur sieben Spiele. Auch eine Trainerstation bei Central Español wird geführt.

Erfolge als Spieler
 Weltpokal: 1972
 Copa Libertadores: 1972, 1973
 Copa Interamericana: 1973
 Argentinischer Meister: Torneo Metropolitano 1970, 1971
 Uruguayischer Meister: 1974, 1975

Privates
Garisto lebte im montevideanischen Barrio Palermo (Stand: Februar 2013) und war Vater einer Tochter.

Einzelnachweise

Fußballnationalspieler (Uruguay)
Fußballspieler (Defensor Sporting Club)
Fußballspieler (CA Independiente)
Fußballspieler (Club Atlético Peñarol)
Fußballspieler (CD Cobreloa)
Fußballtrainer (Danubio FC)
Fußballtrainer (La Luz Fútbol Club)
Fußballtrainer (Atlas Guadalajara)
Fußballtrainer (Deportivo Toluca)
Fußballtrainer (CA Banfield)
Fußballtrainer (CD Cobreloa)
Fußballtrainer (Club Atlético Peñarol)
Teilnehmer an einer Fußball-Weltmeisterschaft (Uruguay)
Argentinischer Meister (Fußball)
Uruguayischer Meister (Fußball)
Uruguayer
Geboren 1945
Gestorben 2017
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SPOILER ALERT: I'm pretty sure the main guy dies at the end.
How do you go about making a miniseries about one of America's richest and most powerful families? Well, grab a bunch of well-known actors, chuck them and $30 million against a wall and see what sticks.
Could be a recipe for total gold dust in theory. Alternatively, it could end up being overwrought and melodramatic. Guess which one The Kennedys is.
Greg Kinnear and Katie Holmes as Jack and Jackie Kennedy. Not pictured: the Mafia. (*gets bundled into a car by men in suits and is mysteriously never seen again*)
It should work so well, though. You can't help but be fascinated by the subject matter. Joseph P Kennedy made fat stacks in finance in the twenties, then by importing spirits after Prohibition ended in 1933. Later as Ambassador to the UK in 1940 he made statements that seemed to endorse Hitler, which kiboshed his chances of ever becoming President, and he set about creating a dynasty to rule America, and trying to make sure one of his sons would succeed where he couldn't. Cue much political wrangling, hushed-up affairs, ties to the Mob and mysterious deaths.
So the story's dynamite already, and you shouldn't need to do much to it other than get a good cast on board and shoot it simply.
Then again, you should probably make sure there's lots of stirring music behind every scene where something significant's happening. Otherwise how will people know, right?
OK, they're just having a normal conversat— oh wait, here comes the music, SHIT THIS IS REALLY IMPORTANT
By and large, the performances have a good deal of depth where it'd be easy to settle for impersonations. Barry Pepper as Bobby Kennedy stands out in particular: in the first two episodes he gets less screen time than the others but makes the most of it. His, eh, Kennedy accent is, eh, flawless - just stopping short of a Mayor Joe Quimby impression - and he plays the part of the unfavoured son to perfection.
Greg Kinnear also makes a good fist of JFK, whose main conflict is that he really wanted just to go to parties and get laid rather than become President (turns out becoming President actually makes it a lot easier to get laid - who knew?). He's saddled by some daft, clichéd scripting though. When he first hits the campaign trail he's nervous; nothing like the great orator he would later become. But it's only when he decides mid-speech to drop all the focus-grouped PR bullshit and - hey! - just speak from the heart, that he starts to inspire people. This also happened in The Adjustment Bureau, for crying out loud. You know nobody liked The Adjustment Bureau, right guys?
Tom Wilkinson as Joseph P Kennedy is an unforgiving patriarch-by-numbers, and the accent he's come up with sounds oddly like Hannibal Lecter. But fine: this is basically all the character calls for.
"Hey, you know what I fancy later? A ride in an open-topped car."
Cutting back and forth, using the 1960 Presidential election campaign as our anchor, we see significant events from Kennedy family history - the death of Joe Jr in the war; Jack and Jackie meeting for the first time; Joe Sr making his hey-Hitler's-a-pretty-nice-guy gaffe - and the structure works very well. The problem is in picking what to show and what not to, which is a judgement director Jon Cassar all too often gets wrong.
In episode 1, for example, Joe Sr tells an aide in 1960: "I've been thinking a lot of Joe Jr today", and there are God-knows-how-many pictures of the guy in his US Air Force uniform. Plus it's well-thumbed historical record: we know he died in the war. Cue a cutback to 1944, to show him going off to war, hugging people and telling them all he'll be OK. Which is where it should be left: the emotional impact has already been shown; nothing else needs saying. But no, Cassar just bulldozes on through and shows us what we already know.
The real test will be how the show deals with the assassinations of Jack and Bobby. Even more so than with Joe Jr's death, these are events we've seen played back ("... and to the left") a thousand times already. It'll take some nous to depict these in a way that acknowledges how familiar the events are to the audience without simply replaying them - and it's nous that The Kennedys doesn't seem to have.
Watch, eh, The Kennedys on the, eh, iPlayer.
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Another fail for Grayling: Contract cancelled with ferry firm that has no ships
Ramsgate ferry terminal: It would have been home to the Seaborne ferry service.
Why is it that Jeremy Corbyn is the subject of a – by all accounts – dreary biography attempting paint him as a danger, when Chris Grayling – a fool who is a genuine danger to himself – goes uncelebrated? A book about that clown would be a page-turning laugh-a-minute.
The latest embarrassment for the Transport Secretary who can't get anything moving is the cancellation of his contract for post-"no deal"-Brexit work with ferry firm Seaborne Freight – a company that had no ships, no trading history, and no previous experience running a ferry service.
Not only that, but the ferry-free freight firm's internet page cut-and-pasted its terms and conditions from a takeaway website, its log-in portal was found to redirect directly to Google's home page; neither of the listed phone numbers appeared to be manned, with both stating 'there is no one available to take your call' and offering no chance to leave a message; other features, such as language settings, were only for show and could not be clicked; and despite Mr Grayling saying Seaborne was on track to run services from April, the firm's recruitment page was empty when it was checked last month.
Now it turns out that the deal was being secretly supported by an Irish firm – Arklow Shipping – but this company had now backed out and for this reason, Mr Grayling was cancelling the £13.8 million deal.
This is the second Brexit-related secret deal that has come to light in recent days. What else is the Tory government failing to tell us about the most serious change the UK's citizens will have to face in our lifetimes?
Returning to Jeremy Corbyn, the Labour leader has branded the collapse of the ferry deal as "ludicrous". Watch:
'Ludicrous': Corbyn ridicules Chris Grayling after Brexit ferry deal collapse – video https://t.co/PQUL2SYt9c
— Guardian politics (@GdnPolitics) February 9, 2019
Public opinion on the decision, and on Mr Grayling, is divided – but only regarding how best to ridicule him:
Serious question – how is Chris Grayling in charge of anything?
— Brian Moore (@brianmoore666) February 9, 2019
https://twitter.com/withorpe/status/1094246051526135808
And this is just the latest episode in a political life that would make fine material for a comic novel.
So come on, weekend newspapers. Instead of giving us a load of old tripe that proves Mr Corbyn is a very dull, very serious man with the best intentions for the country – exactly the kind of person we need, in fact – why not give us all a boost and serialise the misadventures of this Tory blunderer?
This entry was posted in Uncategorized and tagged Brexit, cancel, Chris Grayling, contract, Mike Sivier, no deal, political, Seaborne Freight, Vox, Vox Political on February 10, 2019 by Mike Sivier.
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4 thoughts on "Another fail for Grayling: Contract cancelled with ferry firm that has no ships"
Justin February 10, 2019 at 7:35 pm
in fact it is not just Chris Grayling, if you did a book about quite a few of them that call themselves prominent there would be a issue as no one would need to see comedians anymore as you would probably just pick up this book and keep laughing, when you see something written like this then anyone would say, hmm maybe we have a problem, however, the tory, it is not, It is normalised behaviour, they become used to it and when your supposedly running a country, you have to ask do you carry on employing this and the other levels of incompetence that exists there, if the answer is yes then they need to quit
Pat Sheehan February 11, 2019 at 12:43 am
The very clownish, ugly, dangerous face of 'unbridled', 'entrepreneurial', tory crony capitalism: very popular with some of 'the masses' though: very aspirational: huge following!
Growing Flame February 11, 2019 at 9:10 am
It's not just Grayling. This morning we heard that a new British aircraft carrier may be sent to the South China Sea to (intimidate?!) China because of some islands etc etc. But there are no aircraft available for the aircraft carrier to carry. You couldn't make it up!
Then again, it's probably best that there are no aircraft on it as that might start an incident. And how many Chinese cruise missiles would it take to sink a huge aircraft carrier? One? Probably.
nmac064 February 12, 2019 at 9:13 am
There was more than just a whiff of blatant stinking corruption about this so-called shipping contract with a company which has no ships, but which was run by Tory donors.


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You are here: Parliament home page > Parliamentary business > Publications and Records > Committee Publications > All Select Committee Publications > Commons Select Committees > Committee on Standards > Committee on Standards
Standards and Privileges Committee - First Report
Sir Bob Russell
Here you can browse the report together with the Proceedings of the Committee. The published report was ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 4 September 2012.
The Commissioner's Findings
Appendix 1: Memorandum from the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards
Complaint against Sir Bob Russell MP
Relevant Rules of the House
Findings of fact
Standard of Proof
Written evidence received by the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards
1. Letter to the Commissioner from Mr Daniel Ellis, 6 November 2011
2. Enclosure to Mr Daniel Ellis's letter of 6 November 2011: Companies House Annual Return for the Magdalen Hall Company Limited, 2010
4. Enclosure to Mr Daniel Ellis's letter of 6 November 2011: Articles of Association of Magdalen Hall Company Limited
5. Enclosure to Mr Daniel Ellis's letter of 6 November 2011: Details of Mr Bob Russell MP's claims for his constituency office
6. Enclosure to Mr Daniel Ellis's letter of 6 November 2011: Extract from an article in the Daily Gazette, 29 June 2010
7. Letter to the Commissioner's office from Mr Daniel Ellis, 28 November 2011
8. Letter to Mr Bob Russell MP from the Commissioner, 7 December 2011
9. Enclosure to the Commissioner's letter of 7 December 2011: Letter to Members from the Head of the Fees Office, 22 January 2002
10. Letter to the Commissioner from Mr Bob Russell MP, 12 December 2011
11. Letter to the Commissioner from Sir Bob Russell MP, 8 January 2012
12. Enclosure to Sir Bob Russell MP's letter of 8 January 2012: Table of questions
13. Enclosure to Sir Bob Russell MP's letter of 8 January 2012: Letter to a senior official in the Fees Office from Mr Bob Russell MP, 31 January 2002
14. Enclosure to Sir Bob Russell MP's letter of 8 January 2012: Letter to a senior official in the Fees Office from Mr Bob Russell MP, 13 May 2002
15. Enclosure to Sir Bob Russell MP's letter of 8 January 2012: Letter to Mr Bob Russell MP from the Assistant Secretary to the Speaker's Advisory Panel (an official in the Fees Office), 21 May 2002
16. Enclosure to Sir Bob Russell MP's letter of 8 January 2012: Letter to Mr Bob Russell MP from the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards, 23 April 2002
17. Enclosure to Sir Bob Russell MP's letter of 8 January 2012: Draft letter to the Fees Office from Mr Bob Russell MP, 29 March 2004
18. Enclosure to Sir Bob Russell MP's letter of 8 January 2012: Letter to Colchester Liberal Democrats from a firm of chartered surveyors, 23 March 2010
19. Enclosure to Sir Bob Russell MP's letter of 8 January 2012: Letter to PPERA Section, Liberal Democrats from Hon. Treasurer Colchester Liberal Democrats, 14 July 2010
20. Enclosure to Sir Bob Russell MP's letter of 8 January 2012: Letter to Mr Bob Russell MP from the Head of Information Rights and Information Security, 3 October 2011
21. Enclosure to Sir Bob Russell MP's letter of 8 January 2012: Letter to Mr Bob Russell MP from Company Secretary, Magdalen Hall Company Limited, 21 December 2011
22. Enclosure to Sir Bob Russell MP's letter of 8 January 2012: E-mail to Sir Bob Russell MP from an official in the Department of Human Resources and Change, 3 January 2012
23. Letter to Sir Bob Russell MP from the Commissioner, 17 January 2012
24. Enclosure to the Commissioner's letter of 17 January 2012: Letter to the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards from Mr Bob Russell MP, 12 November 2001
25. Enclosure to the Commissioner's letter of 17 January 2012: Letter to Mr Bob Russell MP from the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards, 23 November 2001, with Extract from Register, 23 November 2001
26. Enclosure to the Commissioner's letter of 17 January 2012: Note by the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards of a telephone conversation with Mr Bob Russell MP, 27 November 2001
27. Enclosure to the Commissioner's letter of 17 January 2012: Letter to the Parliamentary Commissioner from Mr Bob Russell MP, 30 November 2001
28. Enclosure to the Commissioner's letter of 17 January 2012: Letter to the Parliamentary Commissioner from Mr Bob Russell MP, 19 April 2002
29. Letter to the Commissioner from Sir Bob Russell MP, 22 January 2012
30. Enclosure to Sir Bob Russell MP's letter of 22 January 2012: Letter to Mr Bob Russell MP from Mr Bob Russell MP's accountant, 18 January 2002
31. Letter to the Director-General of Human Resources and Change from the Commissioner, 25 January 2012
32. Letter to the Commissioner from the Director-General of Human Resources and Change, 21 February 2012
33. Enclosure to the Director-General's letter of 21 February 2012: Summary of costs—Sir Bob Russell MP
34. Enclosure to the Director-General's letter of 21 February 2012: Letter to a senior official in the Fees Office from Mr Bob Russell MP, 4 July 2002
35. Enclosure to the Director-General's letter of 21 February 2012: Letter to Members from the Head of the Fees Office, 17 January 2003
36. Enclosure to the Director-General's letter of 21 February 2012: Letter to Members from the Head of the Fees Office, 20 March 2003
37. Enclosure to the Director-General's letter of 21 February 2012: Letter to the Fees Office from Mr Bob Russell MP, 29 March 2004
38. Enclosure to the Director-General's letter of 21 February 2012: Letter to the Department of Finance and Administration from Mr Bob Russell MP, 23 March 2007
39. Enclosure to the Director-General's letter of 21 February 2012: Letter to the Director-General of Human Resources and Change from Mr Bob Russell MP, 30 March 2010
40. Enclosure to the Director-General's letter of 21 February 2012: Letter to Mr Bob Russell MP from Quality Assurance Manager, Department of Resources, 11 May 2010
41. Letter to the Director-General of Human Resources and Change from the Commissioner, 22 February 2012
43. Letter to a former Head of the Fees Office from the Commissioner, 22 February 2012
44. Letter to the Commissioner from a former Head of the Fees Office, 3 April 2012
45. Letter to Sir Bob Russell MP from the Commissioner, 16 April 2012
46. Letter to the Commissioner from Sir Bob Russell MP, 18 April 2012
48. Letter to a former Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards from the Commissioner, 26 April 2012
49. Letter to the Commissioner from a former Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards, received 4 May 2012
50. Letter to a former senior official in the Fees Office from the Commissioner, 26 April 2012
51. Letter to the Commissioner from a former senior official in the Fees Office, 8 May 2012
52. Letter to Sir Bob Russell MP from the Commissioner, 14 May 2012
53. Letter to the Commissioner from Sir Bob Russell MP, 8 June 2012
54. Letter to the Commissioner from Sir Bob Russell MP, 28 June 2012
55. Agreed note of interview with Sir Bob Russell MP, 5 July 2012
56. Letter to the Commissioner from Sir Bob Russell MP, 11 July 2012
57. E-mail to the Commissioner's office from an official in the Department of Human Resources and Change, 18 July 2012
58. Extracts from letter to the Commissioner from Sir Bob Russell MP, 1 August 2012
Appendix 2: Letter from Sir Bob Russell to the Committee
Formal Minutes
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Q: Initiating a git repository slows all command-line commands, causes git commands to hang I have a code base that I expanded from a zip file and worked on for some hours. After running git init from the command line in that repository, all commands from that directory slow down to a crawl. More specifically, they work as intended, but then hang afterwards for upwards of 10 seconds before I get my prompt back. Removing the .git directory from the project fixes everything, but re-running git init causes my commands to slow to a crawl again. Commands run from other directories are not affected. What is happening here?
Also, besides all my commands like ls and cd taking forever, git add -A hangs indefinitely after printing

The file will have its original line endings in your working directory.
  warning: CRLF will be replaced by LF in node_modules/awesome-typescript-loader/node_modules/memory-fs/README.md.

for every file. (I understand the warning, I've just never seen it before and I'm not sure it's related).
I'm on a 2011 MacBook Pro running El Capitan, 10.11.4.

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If I breathe or pause longer than half a nanosecond, Siri decides I'm done talking and ends the command there.
"Hey Siri remind me tonight at 11 to update vmware tools on---" I couldn't even get the server name out. I hadn't paused for even a fraction of a second.
How do I extend this on the iPhone Xs Max?
P.S. I've noticed Google has this same problem on Gboard.
You can extend the time out limit by pressing the Home Button until you stop speaking. This way Siri won't stop till you release the home button.
As you have no home button try holding down the right side button while you speak.
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Astrology end of March 2018 into Full Moon Coming, and more!
Venus/Uranus conjunct in sky thurs. March 28th makes for wild creative upsurges in eccentric love, miraculous kisses, emotional flings and insights, heart revelations, sudden happenings of spirit, sudden meetings, significant sense of being touched by higher power, sudden spontaneous meetings or partings. For some new love, for others roller coaster of oceans of emotions. Quick but short lived encounters needing till mid april to make certain. Certainly the news will be humming with everything from Jen and Brad secretly meeting, Megan Markle and Prince Harry twists, to more of the President's Women friends and mavericks, and many a more love tryst or risky behaviour . Venus Uranus aspects can bring about quick changes, either upsetting or joyful, concerning love, the arts, kids, creative pursuits, sudden purchases of beauty, or for beautifying, daring even. For the most part its a fun up aspect, playful and robust with vigor and enthusiastic enthusiasm. Cardinal and Fire astrology signs affected the most.
The more troubling time and aspects for rough politics, weather, meanness and cold, cold shoulders and hard facts comes to the mutable and cardinal and fire signs/planets/houses this March 29th when Sun squares Saturn (serious bottom lines, forceful measures, authoritative play for power or law, karmic separations, risky behaviour; turn in the weather). This last aspect plays into Full Moon Saturday March 31st with Moon square to mars/saturn, not a good time to take risk here; authoritative troubles or troubles with authority. Here patience and compassion win, need to override anger and emotional reaction, fighting spirit with wisdom love. Then April 2nd, Mars conjunct Saturn lays even more heavy news and ultimatums, more serious actions or reactions making more work for many. Rough endings, for some rough beginnings these last and next days. Delays and slow progress here. The whole last week may feel like a funeral for some, for others good old hard work and the attempt to either take down walls blocking communication, or the making of walls and slow progress. Mercury most retrograde square mars and saturn April 4-5th drives the strong and hardy to persist. Hopefully even though much tough or 'bad' news with last week here, this aspect may bring out facts and truths eventually clarifying many things. Retrograde Mercury though has a way of keeping things unfinished, or in need of going over again later. Many initiatives of last few months need review and good look over if one is to continue. Look for rough quick turnover of winter into spring New Moon April 15th when Mercury goes direct and April 17th when Saturn goes retrograde. By then much clarity and clear vision arrives for things to move forward, and spring to truly start, star, and arrive. Spring fever and renewed love in the air in spite of it all around April 17th with Venus aspects!
Jupiter is conjuncting USA natal Venus now. Is America about to fall in love with itself and the world again? Big year for love, marriage, and babies perhaps? Real estate values, and the values of everything and everybody up? In the coming year of 2014, Uranus will square the USA Sun, and Pluto will then oppose it. This year and the next couple of years are a critical time for a re-awakening of high and noble road of ethics and higher self. Time for renewed aspirations for freedom love truth. Time for re-inspiration of the original founders high vision of peace and love for all. Time for renewed philosophy and dream enabling America, the USA, to reawaken and grow in world spirit, strong and noble. Unifying spiritual principle and ethical philosophy of higher love and truth, responsible compassionate politics and economic opportunity for all is once again needed for a healthy future. Each of us is called upon to live our highest dream. These are trying times for both the USA and the World and a new inner impulse of love and truth stirs within us. Pluto in Capricorn will oppose the USA Sun while Uranus squares it. Selfless truth and an all encompassing love/compassion is called for top to bottom. Pluto normally is thought of bringing a death and rebirth type experience as well as a youthful spirit of selfless courage. Perhaps it is the world awakening to a need for healthy environment and lifestyle. Its negative side is selfishness, dictating authority, and the shadow side or plutocracy in all modern materialistic affairs. Uranus is lightening changes and flashes of genius, originality, and creative freedom. Its negative side is going through changes without anything really changing. A sense of hysteria and panic without the calm wisdom to channel new crisis opportunities into positive change. Danger of change without any true inner transformation or realisation renew. With the Scorpio rising USA chart, Saturn transiting is about to conjunct the Asc again end of July into August making for one possibly very hot severe summer for some. Or is it a tightening of the belt, a more disciplined, less obese and less 'over the top' overdoing America. The grand trine in water signs coming has brought much needed rain in parts of the country (eastern half) possibly leading to a good food harvest in such parts this summer. Jupiter is trining Saturn making for good economy. These are amazing times. In the Gemini Rising Chart for the USA, Uranus mid July here is almost hitting the square to natal USA Sun. Such aspect now and into next year depicts a sudden rise of new stars and leaders, as well as a sudden fall or change at the top of many a biz and enterprise. Uranus astrologically calls for strong change, a need to go to the next higher level or get crunched or take a fall. A need to do something, not just talk or feel about it. Uranus can bring new discoveries and new forms of energy, energetics. It can also bring quakes and storms, sudden changes and shocks, quick change. Pluto in Capricorn coming to oppose USA natal Sun in Cancer resists change; but calls for need to keep water, air, and food pure, clean, and healthy. A polluted environment and cluttered myriad channels/media and minds may be karma catching up to us, calling for a new simplification of everything. Pluto is associated with scandals and many abound these days. This could also be an influence in fluctuating gold prices. Pluto represents degrading or devaluing gold, the golden sun. Pluto's opposition to USA's Sun here represents devaluation or downward trend in gold prices. In 2014, it may portend of major turning points in history on many a front. As Jupiter, expansive energies, conjuncts USA Sun late August, we may see a very positive rebound and ascent in many a place; happiness and a sense of renewed prosperity, family, friendships. The Pluto opposition becoming exact in 2014 may yet tell the fuller story with history making events. July and August are astrologically attuned to give many an opportunity for love and peace, prosperity and social fun; but keep your eye on end of July and around August 7th for quirks and turn-a-rounds in the summer of peace and love plans.
July 13th Mars enters Cancer Sign. Aggressive moves forward while dragging that which is soon to be cut off? New initiatives about to hook up with positive future? Personal aims drive for fulfilment and accomplishment. Wanting to matter. Avoid use of force or over-aggressive modality. Impulsive, passionate, excitable meets cool calm collected. This is a month of unusual, yet improved, conversation and experiment when it comes to love and the creative arts. An impulse to improve business and home life or change lifestyle and day-to-day habits.
July 19th Saturn trine Neptune, practical realism, realistic dreams, manifesting the ideal, romancing the stone. Realistic steps toward manifesting the ideal, as well as realising the more eternal spiritual potential in the every day, every moment. Doing what's right from a higher ethical motive. Negative side is wanting to escape or hide from higher truth or more authentic self. Showing up for your own life and a willingness to continue learning what life directly offers, teaches, is key to spiritual and material growth here.
July 30th Venus in Virgo trine Pluto in Capricorn. Good aspect for realising what you truly love and acting upon it. Working for what one loves, needs, and wants. Aligning love with long view in mind, practical workable relationships with lasting value, quality, and appropriateness. Less is more here, simple is complex, exact appropriate golden mean rather than exacting. All in good time, all in right measure, little things can express more eternal inner treasures.
1st February, Mars enters Pisces until 12th March. The weak grow strong, the mild get aggressive, the assertive/aggressive types have second thoughts and feel sensitive. Mars in Pisces reverses archetypal roles, the inside turns out, the outside turns in. This is like Mars conjunct Neptune, there are disguises and things don't seem to quite be what they are.
Mars forces and outward thrust to Pisces doubt, fear, insecurity, reactions to over sensitivities, even paranoia when biochemistry off. Avoid the tendency to exaggerate fears or escaping in imaginations abnormal. Tendency too for great daring adventures, explorations, spiritual love, far-out expectations and wishes. Mars usually is dashingly clear, a warrior simple true. In Pisces, Mars can be foggy, masked, in disguise, elusive. Unlike Virgoan critique and criticism, Mars/Pisces escapes, hides, projects, lives in feeling pictures rather than facts. Reversals take place when Mars/Pisces exaggerates a fact or two out of harmonious context with greater sense of space and time. An inability to face the right questions, problems, reality and facts, can make a Mars/Pisces person attack strongly the wrong subject or person. Mars/Pisces either wants to escape inevitables or wants to Don Quixote-like, attack windmills and defend idiots (idiot savants is another problem). Positive Mars/Pisces is taking a break from what doesn't work, mediation in stillness, internship, beautifying or taking up music or the arts. (Great evening 9-10 p.m. at O'Mara's in Berkley near Mayflower, Great Flamingo Guitar and Music with Dancers; beautifully enchanting romantic get-a-way). Venus entering Aquarius same evening for the month, Higher romance freeing the soul, joining with others, making new friends, breaking away from old or outworn behaviours. Aspect in reverse gives an 'I don't care anymore' attitude, a wanting to be free of the fight or intensity going nowhere.
These two aspects together make for some serious planning by some to escape, change the day-to-day, elevate from the stress, journey anew, travel, try something new, and re-aim one's direction toward a life-style more at ease with one's own highest ideals and dreams. The danger of moving to the vision and view on the horizon is that by the time you get there, the horizon moved. Realising the carrot and the stick are both attached somehow to you may allow you to sit still for a moment and ponder your wholeness, or lack of.
3rd February Moon conjunct Saturn gives needed catch up sleep and rest, or more weariness and feelings of burden carrying others' weight, making for tough and ultimate secret decisions in the making.
4th February Mars conjunct Neptune in Pisces can stir higher intelligence and far-reaching future plans, but usually it is an aspect of more crazy weather, accidents, misguided intentions, deluded, angry, obsessed, mean-spirited, weird, lying, deceitful type experiences. Where are the noble truths and knightly honourees? Medications and guns don't mix with this aspect. Danger of misfiring or starting war-like behaviour, storms and protest. Wild winds and weather. Although this aspect can bring out the highest bravado and knightly love, it can be bewilderingly blind to the obvious practical right before your eyes. Tendency to think the grass is greener far away. Beware of wasting time and energy, money and love. If it sounds too good to be true, it is. Many a con artist is on the prowl, or caught at this time. This aspect is around all month. One's imagination and moods can really trip one out at this time. Over-active imagination makes it hard to sleep for some, or wake up enough in day. Avoid misuse of all medications, alcohol or drugs. Such aspects can create a false sense of reality, grandiose inflated sense of self or the opposite can occur, inferiority. Bi-polar or Manic-depressive dangers. Flip side is higher calling and adventure, deep listening to the other, the world. Good for divine melancholy, listening to the stillness, witnessing and observing, watching, without judgement awaiting right creative expression actually helping the situation. Neptune/Mars can awaken great heroic and compassionate virtuous action, kindness toward the less fortunate, healing energies. Danger of taking things too personally though. Can be danger of lack of universal love and responsibility. Higher and lower more challenging side to every aspect. Choose the high road if you can, imagine everybody finding happiness and the causes of happiness. Tendency to be psychic from the stomach rather than the higher universal intelligent heart/mind including us all. Tendency to want something for nothing. Higher side is being inspired to do great works, but important to maintain practicality and common-sense, patience and reverence for all life. Weird psychic phenomena and weather around such Neptune aspects, foggy thinking. Important to exercise and keep a simple healthy diet. Good time to restock your miso soup ingredients from the Mayflower Bookshop. Some fly at this time, others crash from false dreams. Usually this aspect brings out liars on the news, outlandish events, mother mary and UFOs sightings, weird psychic phenomena, ghosts, strange prophetic or disturbing dreams. Outer Space or deep ocean phenomena occur. Sometimes good for outlandish Hollywood vignettes, movies, and ads. Danger of injury when foolhardy or party rioting.
6th, 18th, 21st, 23rd, 24th, 25th, and 28th February are important dates for weird drama, weather, intensity positive or negative in the world. Playing out the many subtle turns both money and romance can take this month, these aspects intensify the virtuous or non-virtuous behaviour; it's the best and worst of times; stormy and weird weather, politics, economics, warring, or transformative times; powerful if one can channel the force and energy, do the good, and avoid the pitfalls or non-virtuous bad karma or ill behaviour. Ideals and dreams start to work out, or the bubble pops one into free fall, or serious re-considerations as to what's real.
6th February Mercury conjunct Neptune, Moon occults Pluto on 7th with Venus trine Jupiter; Unless you really know what you're doing, avoid paper work, major decisions, large purchases, and scams. Good day for day-dreaming the many possibilities that life offers. Good day to send flower or poem to a loved one. The 7th brings realisations of ultimate outcomes coming your way. Cardinal and mutable signs and houses are most affected. Write a poem, a love letter, be thankful, mediate or pray, look to your own deeper stillness for answers that clarify right where you are now. The present is the mother of the future, the child of the past.
8th February Mercury conjunct Mars, snarled traffic or quick-as-a-whip actions and reactions. The mind is sharp and quick with this aspect, when in Pisces one easily goes off half-cocked and deluded. Take care to slow everything up, avoid velocity and speed, be simpler clear with words, avoid unneeded travel and harsh words. Good or challenging for paperwork and communications depending on one's other aspects in chart. Avoid too much talk, no action. Strong, clear, honest, simple communications, and patience for response, work here toward bettering future for all concerned. Ask for anything, accept things the way they are just for now, and turn up your universal loving kindness and infinite patience.
9th February Moon conjunct Venus, Mercury square Jupiter, Moon in Aquarius, Good day for doing a thousand things, giving wings to your imagination and love. The world seems big today, good for socializing.
10th February to 19th (see below too), Sun and Venus square Lunar Nodes; significant spiritual and sensuous encounters, meetings, connections, friendships, and sense of connection, artistic enhancement, beautifying. Connections with public or larger sense of identity. Inner and outer sense of self works harmoniously with others, artistic or social events bringing people together, sense of extended family and friends. Significant encounters and beginnings (or shiftings, alterations, endings) of relationships, unions, agreements, meeting one halfway, or making greater sense of things. 10th February to 12th Mercury, Moon, Mars conjuncts Chiron too; interesting time for self-healing, or healing of other. Tendency to meet spiritual teacher or teachings, virtue mind light, in novel or new way conducive to new growth and learning. With right loving, healing, intelligence, maverick novel zen lightening approach and growth leap with possibilities at this time. A strong sense of mothering, earth mother wisdom, and mother wit as Sun trines Ceres. Concerns over mother nature, the earth's little ones, and women in general. A tiring of war and a genuine want of world peace.
10th February New Moon in Aquarius, Mars square Jupiter, Moon conjunct Neptune, good day/evening for a trip to the Moon, a fantasy dinner and bath; or is it misspending oneself and resources, sense of overdoing or over-eating partying? Concentrated effort and work pays off. True inspiration is always accompanied by disciplined openness and long-term view of horizon. Another good day for doing a thousand things, hooking up with many people, networking, communicating one's dream.
11th February Venus square Saturn and Moon conjunct Mars/Mercury gives a sense of surrender to what works or holds you. Others may feel the impulse to drive strong and hard, be bold for their loving goals. Conflict of love and hard driving goals can lead to new compromises, negotiations, or long-term plans, contracts, agreements as 12th, Mercury trine Saturn, next day arrives. Otherwise look for more surprises and changes on 13th Moon conjunct Uranus. Not feeling loved enough or respected or paid enough? Work on inner unfolding and flowering, avoid anger, projection, blame and shame, using force. Act rightly, don't react in haste or wounded vanity/pride. Long-term love works, short-term actions may fail here.
15th-16th February Mars sextiles Pluto and trines Saturn makes for strong future moves, business and practical realisation planning for long-term; settling the past, completing issues, people, and things. Good for making deals, cleaning up messes, making sure plans. Good aspect for making strong politics, business plans, serious assertive moves work. Strong forceful action for the good of whole works here.
18th February Moon occults Jupiter can make for strange changing weather or plans this week. Soured things getting sweet again, or the sweet now souring? Sun enters Pisces and Saturn goes retrograde until 8th July New Moon making for backing off on hard lines, taking a breath from forcing issues, re-thinking a few of the long-term demands and commands, reviewing and re-searching one's needs. Perhaps one is not quite ready to face reality and make the necessary cuts or demands on oneself needed for further success. A need to rid oneself of negative habits and behaviours holding one back; rid self of unwarranted fears or needs to control. Patience, persistence, and avoidance of anger; listening deeper to one's own and others' needs helps bring about wise choices and right decisions at this time that further one's goals. Perhaps even if truly committed, it may take until summer to see the results wanted if your natal chart is hooked into this Saturn retrograde.
21st February Sun conjunct Neptune, Moon oppose Pluto; Flying off into the sunset of dreams and schemes, fantasies and illusionary bodies? The balloon popped and you realised you weren't driving? Sudden exposure of what you thought secret? Avoid get-rich-quick schemes. This aspect may amaze us with bizarre scientific or psychic facts and discoveries (all month really); can inspire, but most often a set-up for rude awakening. Good for higher love and compassion, helping the little one's out, and living a more organic or healthy lifestyle; meditation, yoga, prayer, exercise, natural foods.
23rd February Mercury goes Retrograde until 17th March; will trine Saturn and near conjunct Neptune at end. False starts to the recovered economy. Many many good aspects May through July/August for economy growing strong again for awhile, but maybe here we may see problems or troubles, little fall backs. Avoid any risky investments at this time. Be clear and simple practical, get things in writing, write stuff down. The spiritual ideals and practical needs either conflict or work out a deal here. Spiritual and material forces clash or meet and agree.
25th February Full Moon in Virgo, Sun square Jupiter, Venus enters Pisces; Danger of sudden loss, financial reversals, moody shaky markets or weird weather (especially 17th to Full Moon 25th here). Sudden shifts and shake outs, exciting news for future more than present. On the other hand, for some the pendulum will swing for big success. Need to act, not just talk or dream. One's life, one's work, proves oneself. Tendency to want to have a good time and avoid negativity and craziness of the world. Good day to catch up or go play.
26th February Mercury conjunct Mars, moon in Virgo; many critical remarks and casting of blame, argumentative aspect. Tough critical analysis of situation along with tough talk and need for decision-making by leaders. Good for taking heed, re-analysing situation. Need for greater wisdom and harmony. Avoid angry, obsessed, weirdo people or projects. Avoid heavy work or machinery, unnecessary driving or travel. Mercury/Mars can be the most articulate intelligence, constructive, musical, or other talent if the mind and hands are trained; untrained, the circus can lose its animal trainer. Good aspect for nailing problems, fixing things, cleaning up messes or confusions.
28th February Venus conjunct Neptune brings more pleasing softer harmonious approach to dealing with people and issues. Avoid false dreams fooling you into being a fool, or feeling deluded, under illusion or fantasy spell. If one is practical, and not attached to results, and knows what they're doing; good aspects for higher love, future planning, festive artistic musical adventure, and taking it easy having fun. Good for yoga, meditation, spiritual retreat, day-dreaming and song-writing or poetics. Flowers and good food work too!
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Moni Basu
Charlayne Hunter Gault Distinguished Writer in Residence; Director of the MFA Narrative Nonfiction Program, Journalism
About: Moni Basu, otherwise known as Prof B, teaches feature and narrative nonfiction writing. She is the director of the low-residency MFA in Narrative Nonfiction and the Charlayne Hunter-Gault writer in residence.
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B.A. in International Relations, Florida State University
M.A. in International Relations, Florida State University
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Professor Basu teaches students how to become stronger storytellers and embrace in-depth journalism as literature grounded in fact. Her courses stress immersive reporting, narrative structure and polished language. Students in the MFA program here at the Grady College have produced successful books and published stories in major magazines. Professor Basu's students at the University of Florida have won national accolades including Hearst Awards, the Pulitzer Prizes of collegiate journalism.
In Professor Basu's classes, students gain hands-on experience in telling artful stories about the most complex issues of the day. In 2021, Basu launched Atrium, an award-winning narrative nonfiction magazine in Florida in whch her students could publish their work.
In the past, Professor Basu has taught magazine and feature writing and the art of the interview. She has also developed courses that focused on war and crisis reporting and how to cover traumatic events.
Basu, a veteran journalist, was previously the Michael and Linda Connelly Lecturer in Narrative Nonfiction at the University of Florida. Before teaching, she was a reporter and editor at CNN, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and other newspapers. She still writes as a freelancer and her recent work has been published in the Bitter Southerner and Flamingo magazine.
Born in Kolkata, India, Basu grew up straddling two cultures. As such, her work has explored race and identity as well as immigration. She has reported exhaustively from South Asia and the Middle East. Her 2012 e-book, Chaplain Turner's War grew from a series of stories on an Army chaplain in Iraq. A platoon sergeant named her "Evil Reporter Chick" and she was featured once as a war reporter in a Marvel comics series.
Basu has served as a senior editor for The Ground Truth Project and the Bitter Southerner magazine. She teaches workshops on writing at the Poynter Institute. She serves as a national advisory board member of the Asian American Journalists Association.
Basu's work has been nominated for a Pulitzer Prize and she has won numerous state, national and international accolades, including a Joseph Galloway prize and two team Peabody Awards. But she is most proud of being named the 2020 University of Florida Teacher of the Year. She was named a Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma Fellow in 2007 and chosen for a Reuters/Stanley Foundation Global Security Seminar for Journalists in 2012.
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Moni Basu named director of MFA Narrative Nonfiction program


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Peeling facial skin - a question familiar to many gerls. Weather, climate, lack of vitamins and minerals in our ration can cause facial skin peeling.
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Disaster II: The Bills Come Due.
There has been a very enthusiastic response to the latest Medium-Term Budget Framework issued by the government. There are good reasons to be suspicious of anything which attracts an enthusiastic response from the crooks, fools and toadies of plutocracy who constitute our opinion-forming class. There are especially good reasons to be suspicious of praise for the present government, which has a very solid track record of lies, dissimulation and breaking promises. Possibly this enthusiastic praise derives from the assumption that what is being done will be beneficial for the corrupt layabouts who infest South Africa's boardrooms. Possibly it derives from sheer habit, since those corrupt layabouts have been commanding enthusiastic praise for their Cabinet catspaws ever since the Week of the Long Knives in September 2008, when Zuma and his criminals were installed in positions they were comically unfit to sustain.
So let us look at this Budget Framework.
There are a few serious problems with the South African economy. Employment is declining due to lack of investment. The distribution of wealth is terrifyingly unequal and growing more so continually — has been since a few years before Zuma took over, but certainly Zuma has made the situation worse. State expenditure massively exceeds state revenue. We import far more than we export. Infrastructure is in a state of decay and the socio-political systems intended to resolve the problem at municipal and provincial level are utterly inadequate to meet the crisis. Economic growth is sluggish at best. Meanwhile, the state has committed itself to a gigantic but overpriced electrical generation programme which bleeds the fiscus of resources to ameliorate any of these problems.
So — let's see what the Medium Term Budget Framework entails. The assumption is that in the near future growth will be around 3% per annum, although the pretense is that at some time in the future it will, for no obvious reason, zoom up to 7%. There is no plan to increase investment; on the contrary, exchange control for corporations is being further relaxed to encourage them to invest abroad. There is no plan to increase employment; the plan is to phase out the puny subsidies paid to corporations to discourage them from sacking workers. There is no plan to redress the skewed distribution of wealth. There is no plan to increase state revenue. There is no plan to increase exports or decrease imports.
This cursory survey shows us that the MTBF offers no solutions to any of our problems. On all the major issues, the MTBF thus is relying upon the market to solve the problems, or is assuming that the problems, in some other way, will disappear all by themselves. It is worth pointing out that these problems have arisen partly because the Mbeki administration neglected to deal with them effectively or was distracted from dealing with them by the growing political instability after 2004, and partly because the Zuma administration has done essentially nothing about any of them. In other words, the experience of the last few years suggests that all these problems tend to grow more extreme if the government refuses to address them. Hence the neoliberal argument that not doing anything is good (because governments only mess things up) is manifestly false. However, this argument may lie at the root of the praise for the MTBF, since governmental inaction makes it easier for rich people to loot the system and thus they naturally pay their praise-singers to endorse this.
Well, what are we going to do with this 3% growth, assuming that it happens? The MTBF proposes to use this growth to reduce the budget deficit. This is not necessarily a bad thing. The current budget deficit is somewhere between 6% and 7%, down from somewhere between 7.5% and 8% last year. This 1% reduction has taken place due to a massive increase in revenue from company taxation; baldly speaking, company tax derives from company profits, and companies made very little profit in 2009, whereas in 2010 they are making a much more substantial profit and hence there is more to tax. This is, in short, an extraordinary increase in revenue due to the fact that the economy has stopped contracting and begun to expand a little. It won't happen again.
Now, notice another annoying point. A few years ago we had a budget deficit comfortably below 2%. Under Zuma it has risen well above 6%. This is not simply due to Zuma's mismanagement; it is due to a shortfall of income together with an excess of expenditure, and only the excessive expenditure is due to mismanagement. However, now that the income is up again, note that the deficit is still huge — immensely greater than it was under Mbeki, for instance. The plan of the MTBF, in fact, is to restrain expenditure sufficiently to reduce the budget deficit to 5.2% of GDP in 2011, which is approximately what the budget deficit was when GEAR was launched in 1996.
Things need to be said about this budget deficit. According to the ideas of John Keynes, one should spend loads of money during a recession. The reason for this is that during a recession, people stop buying stuff, so the manufacturers of stuff stop making stuff, so they lay off workers who then stop buying stuff, so the manufacturers of stuff stop making stuff, and so on until stuff production virtually ceases and everybody's on the dole, if there is one. Spending loads of money encourages people to buy stuff, which means that manufacturers continue making stuff and retain workers, who continue buying stuff, and so on until stuff production picks up with the end of the recession. That's all quite simple.
The problem with our budget deficit is that it is a business-as-usual deficit rather than an expansionary deficit. It is therefore quite hard to get rid of. The US or British budget deficits will decline sharply now that the US and British governments have stopped borrowing money to give to their banker friends and instead are simply printing it, out of homage to their mentor Robert Mugabe. (Not decline enough, however.) Our budget deficit will be more intractable.
If the current deficit is in the vicinity of 6.2% (it is probably more; the statistics have become increasingly implausible in the last few years), then reducing it to 5.2% seems easy enough. After all, if we have 3% economic growth then that still leaves us with 2% in hand, doesn't it?
No, unfortunately not. That is a 1% reduction in gross domestic product — the whole economic bang-shoot. What you are reducing is state expenditure, which is about 40% of gross domestic product. What is happening is that expenditure is at 40%, but revenue is at 33.8%. Somehow, that gulf has to be reduced so that expenditure is at 40% but revenue is at 34.8%.
Well — how about that 3% increase? A 3% increase in 33.8% raises the level to 34.8%! Hurrah! Problem solved! We just have to spend exactly the same as we spent this year, and in a year, the revenue will catch up to the level at which our budget deficit is satisfactory! Indeed, if we carry on doing this for two more years, the following year the budget deficit will reduce to 4.2%, and the year after that to 3.2% — and that's exactly what the MTBF is predicting over a three-year period! All we have to do is not increase our expenditure at all for three years, and sustain an economic growth rate of 3% per annum, and we will attain the MTBF's goals!
It looks very much as if someone in the Ministry of Finance has spent five minutes with a pocket-calculator and that this was the gist and sum of the intellectual efforts behind the MTBF.
Look, this is not possible. Population growth alone means that expenditure has to increase if service delivery is to remain constant. (In fact, everybody agrees that service delivery is inadequate and must improve, which will take an increase in funds.) The government is committed to a National Health Insurance system which will mean an immense increase in funds which will be only doubtfully affordable and has not been costed yet, although it will kick in around the third year of the MTBF. Historically, large projects almost always have overruns and we must assume that the energy generation programme, which has had a cost overrun every year since 2007, will continue to do so — and here we are talking about tens of billions of rands. 1% of GDP is 25 billion rands, and the cost overrun of the energy generation programme in 2008 was twice that. The MTBF is a fantasy.
It's even more of a fantasy if you consider that under this proposal, state salaries cannot increase faster than the rate of inflation. Unfortunately, they have been increasing faster than the rate of inflation every year for ten years, so this means that somehow the public service has to be told that it will have a slower rate of wage increase for the next three years than in the past ten. Given that this year many middle-class public servants got an increase 2.5% higher than inflation, and have been screaming the house down because they didn't get 3.5% and are going around telling everyone that they have been cheated, are they likely to welcome an inflation-constant salary next year, and the year after that, and the year after that? Are we going to see COSATU happily refusing to exploit an opportunity to exploit their members by telling them that they ought to rise up and defy their evil employers? No way. State salaries amount to a vast chunk of state spending (in some departments, more than 70%) so when they get increases higher than the rate of inflation, the bill goes up fast.
What that means is that expenditure is likely to increase substantially. Probably we are talking about a 1.5% increase in expenditure, at a minimum. Let's tabulate that.
And that's a problem left out of the equation. Various countries are starting to put up their interest rates and if they do, we will have to, in order to attract capital to balance out our trade deficit. In that case, having a massive debt will become a problem, because you pay interest on that debt. If the interest is only 5%, then an extra 22% of GDP means an extra 1.1% of GDP is being paid servicing that debt. Which means that as of 2013, the expenditure would have to be in the vicinity of 42.9% to accommodate this. Which means that the deficit would be 6%, or virtually where you started. Alternatively, you would have to slash real expenditure back still further in order to make room for debt servicing costs. But then where does the cut come from?
The MTBF is a fantasy, but it is a dangerous fantasy. COSATU is correct to suggest that it is a neoliberal plan, because it valorises (and reifies) spending cuts and ignores the responsibility of the government to resolve the problems faced by the nation. Of course, COSATU has also endorsed this plan, so they are as responsible for it as anyone else.
It seems that we are in even bigger trouble than we knew before. But we should have guessed that from the newspapers. Every positive headline received by Zuma's team suggests that we are a step nearer damnation.
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The influenza virus is a contagious respiratory illness that annually kills about 36,000 Americans and hospitalizes 200,000, Dr. David N. Tornberg, deputy assistant secretary of defense for clinical and program policy, said during an interview with the Pentagon Channel.
Therefore, obtaining the annual vaccine against influenza is "a safety measure we should all embrace," Tornberg asserted.
Active-duty servicemembers are required to be immunized against the flu each year, Tornberg pointed out. The defense department has "an abundant supply" of vaccine on hand for this year's flu season, he said, which started in October and runs through May.
Catching the flu is normally an unpleasant, but not life-threatening, experience that can last several days, Tornberg said, noting flu symptoms can include muscle aches, a runny nose, a dry, sore throat, cough, fever and chills.
However, Tornberg said, the flu can be dangerous to some people with undeveloped or compromised immune systems. Those most vulnerable to getting the flu, he noted, are children from six months to five years of age and adults ages 50 and older.
It's particularly important, Tornberg said, that people within that group - as well as health care workers and caregivers for seniors -- get flu shots each year.
"We extend the safety net widely by immunizing those groups and those groups associated with vulnerable populations," he said.
Getting immunized against the flu doesn't guarantee that you won't get it, Tornberg noted. But, people who do get an annual flu shot, greatly reduce their chances of contracting the virus, he said.
Tornberg said flu shots also can mitigate the effects of the virus, if one comes down with the flu after taking the vaccine.
It takes about two weeks for a person to develop immunity benefits after getting a flu shot, Tornberg said. It's a good idea to get a flu shot in October or November, he said, but vaccinations can be obtained throughout the flu season.
"DoD has more that adequate supplies" of flu vaccine to administer to military members, he reiterated.
The medical field today is much better prepared to address influenza than it was back in 1918, when a flu epidemic killed millions of Americans, Tornberg said.
"The 1918 flu epidemic occurred in a population that was ill-prepared to deal with the consequences of a major influenza [outbreak]," Tornberg said. There were no acute care facilities available at that time, he pointed out, nor were there antibiotics that could be used to treat pneumonia and other secondary illnesses sometimes brought on by the flu.
"An excess burden of death was the consequence of that flu [epidemic]," Tornberg said.


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Blu-ray Review: Confessions of a Shopaholic (2009)
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Much like Rebecca Bloomwood (played by Isla Fisher), as a young girl I too was entranced by the idea of "magic cards" that could be swiped instead of handing over real, actual, tangible money for goods and services. This fascination also extended to checks to such an extent that I actually remember advising my mom to "go for it" once when we were at the grocery store after she told the clerk she had forgotten to stop at the bank so would need to whip out the checkbook.
"You don't need money, mom; just write a check," I informed her-- seriously unaware that much like the pretty cards (which are far more gorgeous today with impressionistic backgrounds and AmEx status plastic that resembles shiny gold)-- the pieces of paper you tore from the book that always seemed to stick to the messy carbons were temporary stand-ins for what was in your bank account. Of course, I also assumed that the reason you had to show your driver's license when you wrote a check (back when people actually wrote checks) was to prove to the cashier that you had a driver's license, were trustworthy, and would therefore drive the groceries home safely.
While it was safe to say that a career involving personal finance or accounting was not in my future-- it's exactly this line of work that Fisher's Bloomwood alarmingly finds herself in-- advising readers of Successful Saving magazine how to manage their money and understand the lure of a store credit card and initial 0% APR under the pseudonym of "The Girl in the Green Scarf."
Aside from it being a cute moniker to use as she types in a fresh hip style-- sort of like a feminine or flirtatious Dear Abby for the Madison Avenue and Wall Street set in the male dominated world of finance-- the choice not to share her real name in her byline is extremely savvy for two reasons. And selfishly the most primal excuse for Fisher's journalist is that-- as per the case in most chick-lit works-- the magazine scribe Bloomwood longed to join the staff of a Devil Wears Prada a.k.a. Vogue, Elle, Marie Claire, or Glamour style magazine with the film's fictitious Alette run by Kristin Scott Thomas in her new, irresistibly funny, sassy French mode. To this end, she realizes that she doesn't want the less-than-chic Saving gig to immediately limit her resume (that also boasts work on a gardening magazine) or have it tied to her name as she aspires to use her position as a stepping stone to move into the publication that's printed by the same company.
However, Bloomwood's second reason for taking the fifth-- or hiding behind that luscious green scarf that led to the first encounter with her would-be editor Luke Brandon (Jane Austen Book Club actor Hugh Dancy) which then led to the cushy assignment in a world where magazines go under every day-- is to stay several dress-lengths ahead of Robert Stanton's merciless collector who's eager to have the shopping addicted Bloomwood settle her roughly seventeen thousand dollars of credit card debt.
Forever dodging Stanton's crafty Derek Smeath-- Bloomwood persuades Luke and her new workplace family that he's a stalker who just can't let their relationship end to hilarious yet admittedly illogical effect. And conveniently she misses him long enough to discover that-- although her own spending is out of control and she's resulted to reading Money for Dummies, trying to follow the advice of a stop spending DVD hosted by Ed Helms and using Google to pad out her stories-- she has a knack for helping others understand their own fiscal situation.
As beautiful as a dress by Vera Wang and as bright as a Marc Jacobs patchwork purse-- Confessions of a Shopaholic dazzles especially in the ridiculously stiletto sharp clarity of Walt Disney Home Entertainment's Touchstone Pictures Blu-ray. And the film from Muriel's Wedding and My Best Friend's Wedding director P.J. Hogan based on two of bestselling author Sophie Kinsella's five books in the Shopaholic series manages to amuse despite its vacuous frivolity and the misfortune of being released not only a few years after the far superior Devil Wears Prada but also in a time of economic recession.
Audiences who've been box office shy anyway and also coolly received the dumbed-down female-centric works like Bride Wars, What Happens in Vegas, The House Bunny, 27 Dresses, He's Just Not That Into You, and Made of Honor which continually casts women in either the pursuit of the right accessory or just the right male form of accessory-- avoided the ill-timed theatrical run of Shopaholic to a large extent. And most likely it's because the last thing you want to do when you can't afford your own credit card bills, rent, or student loan payments is to try and relate to a character who has a job and her health yet rings up couture as though it were nickel cups of Kool-Aid from a child's lemonade stand.
However, much to my surprise and delight, I actually was pleasantly surprised by this adaptation of Shopaholic. While I'd never read any of Kinsella's books in the Becky Bloomwood series and there are some contradictory messages both subtextually and on the surface in this adaptation as our heroine learns she needs to watch her spending yet at the same time marches her dreamy boss into a Prada store-- overall I applauded the attempt to remind viewers that you can't find yourself in a label (even if at times, the movie seems to argue the opposite in its fetishistic handling of designer wear and upscale stores).
Furthermore I must confess that honestly, it'd be nice if we were presented with a heroine not quite as daffy as this Manhattan damsel in distress who comes complete with salt-of-the-Earth parents (Joan Cusack and John Goodman) and a saintly best friend (Kristen Ritter). Still, Isla Fisher who actually studied at a Parisian clown college as part of her performance training is a master at the pratfall and able to pull off that difficult trick of-- instead of piling a bunch of clowns into a car-- making us like Rebecca Bloomwood's warmth and true heart even though there's so much about her personality we just don't understand.
And with this in mind-- despite our enjoyment of the movie-- it's hard to completely forget the real tough facts about debt as it dances (literally with a fan in one of Isla Fisher's funniest moments) over the devastating truth that shopping addiction can be as catastrophic as any other. Thus instead it uses the idea for laughs in some over-the-top shopaholic anonymous meetings and via some cat-fights involving women who wield credit cards like weapons whenever there's a sale. So by trying to make the movie more escapist than sociological-- which definitely wouldn't have been appropriate for Disney nor a Jerry Bruckheimer production (he was responsible for such ahem "strong female?" works such as Coyote Ugly and Flashdance after all)-- the focus is shifted from Successful Saving to watching our heroine ditch the money man.
However, it still remains mindlessly fun entertainment despite some flaws and my fear that in lieu of an ultimately good message-- I think young girls will still want to look like Rebecca Bloomwood in Gucci and Zac Posen among others, not understanding the joke that those really responsible for her attire were Master Card, Visa, American Express and Discover among others who make those irresistible magic cards-- bankruptcy and personal relationships be damned.
A great deal of the film's charm is owed to Fisher who consistently seems to be on the verge of the A-list with wonderful work in movies such as this one (arguably her biggest star vehicle), the bittersweet romantic comedy drama Definitely Maybe, Wedding Crashers and others. Overall, she's beautiful, bubbly, and willing to unleash her "inner idiot"-- as she calls it-- to make us laugh with the confidence to switch from drama to comedy when her partner Sacha Baron Cohen (a.k.a. Borat or Bruno) suggested she should audition for those films. And the movie is always elevated by Fisher who pitched her own jokes despite the fact that she was five months pregnant while meeting the filmmakers during the casting process and her investment in making Bloomwood lovably funny is Shopaholic's saving grace. Frequently it is Fisher as Bloomwood who manages to draw our attention no matter how much eye candy, Fashion Week wear, historical New York buildings, Miami scenery, or shots of the yummy Hugh Dancy are included in the same frame.
Overall it's a typically exceptional Disney Blu-ray with an impressive soundtrack and the sharpest of clarity in a package that also comes with a Digital Copy of the film. And while the extra features including unfunny bloopers, music videos, and deleted scenes are easy to skip-- fashionistas will want to explore the super short exploration of the film's amazing costumes and couture courtesy of designer Patricia Field whose taste in wardrobe is unparalleled, having also worked on Devil Wears Prada and both the film and television versions of Sex and the City.
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George W. Bush: Biggest Spender Since LBJ
By Chris Edwards
The Congressional Budget Office has released final budget numbers for fiscal year 2009. The numbers allow us to take a last look at the Bush administration's record on spending from a statistical point of view.
The following three charts show annual average real (or constant dollar) outlays during the tenures of recent presidents. Presidents were in office for either 4 or 8 budget years, except JFK (3 years), LBJ (5 years), Nixon (6 years), and Ford (2 years).
President George W. Bush's last year was fiscal 2009. Outlays that year were $3.522 trillion, according to the CBO. However, $108 billion was spending for the 2009 economic stimulus package passed under President Obama. Bush was thus roughly responsible for $3.414 trillion of spending in 2009, which includes outlays for the financial bailouts enacted under his watch. (For FY2009, $154 billion for TARP and $91 billion for Fannie and Freddie).
Spending in Bush's first year (FY2001) was $1.863 trillion, thus he presided over an 83‐percent increase in overall federal spending, which includes defense, domestic, entitlements, and interest. Even without TARP and Fannie/Freddie, spending was up a huge 70 percent under Bush over eight years. By contrast, total spending under eight years of President Clinton increased just 32 percent. These are the overall increases in nominal dollars.
Now let's look at the real annual averages. Figure 1 shows the average increase in total spending under recent presidents. Bush II was the biggest spender since LBJ. His spending increases were far larger than the three prior presidents.
Of course, presidents share spending power with Congress and it is easier for presidents to control discretionary spending than entitlement spending. Nonetheless, the results in these charts reflect the general spending approach taken by the presidents quite well. For example, Bush II was instrumental in adding the Medicare drug benefit, which by 2009 was adding more than $60 billion a year to federal spending.
Figure 2 shows total federal spending without interest payments. Presidents have the least discretionary control over interest. The biggest spenders by this measure were again LBJ and Bush II. Note that Bush's record by this measure is worse than in Figure 1. That is because Bush lucked out with relatively low interest rates on the federal debt and relatively low amounts of federal debt because of four years of surpluses under President Clinton.
For Figure 3, I took out both interest payments and defense spending from the totals. So spending includes domestic discretionary spending and so‐called entitlement spending–in other words, mainly spending on the growing federal welfare state. By this measure, Eisenhower, JFK, LBJ, and Nixon had awful records. These were the years of massive creation and expansion of federal subsidy programs for the elderly, state governments, and many other groups. By the late‐1970s, the creation of new programs had slowed but existing programs continued to grow.
The 1980 election of Ronald Reagan represented a revolt against the rapidly expanding welfare state. His record shown in Figure 3 of just 1 percent real spending growth over eight years was impressive, at least relative to the other presidents of the last half century.
What about Bush II? Figure 3 shows that he was the biggest domestic spender since Nixon. He set the stage for the explosive spending growth we are seeing under President Obama. Big spending was a key cause of Bush's failure as president both economically and politically, and it is proving just as damaging and unpopular under President Obama.
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Title: Like My New Earring?
[Edit] Fix the back of the head (thanks ptoing).
[Edit] Replced the palette with the old one, which I like the best.
If I had to choose my favorite thing about this pic, I wouldn't be able to do it...!
Incredible, I like this kind of art a lot, it reminds me of old good RPGs like Lands Of Lore 1, Eye of the Beholder... nice demon you made!
Wow, really realistic textures and scary character, impressive work !
Very nicely done. The only crit I have is the flabby looking back of the head, which looks kinda weird.
jebus :O amazing. the texure/color and design.
Great rendering, attention to detail, and use of color.
Dude...that's just not fair...This is absolutely...breathtaking.
Thanks Gecimen! :) I wanted to do this piece with a colourful palette like in this piece, but with less saturated colours. And instead of using the same crazy style I used the texture of the skin etc to mix the colours. I lowered the saturation further towards the end which gave the palette a C64 look (not intentional).
The texturing, skin folds, and colors are really awesome.
This is so different from your earlier pieces. Probably the palette makes the difference. Is it some sort of limited palette such as c64? PS: insta win and monthly top10.
Yes, it's a very fashionable earring!
Congrats on the first place man.
The textures are some of the best i've seen!
I just wanted to know how you made this sir? did you pixel by pixel or used a program?
I may be also just too newby for this and may sound like i dont know what im talking about..