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SYRIAN OIL AND GAS FINDINGS - PROPAGANDA - OR LEGITIMATE CLAIM?

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<br /> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjG5D2XzUA_vJWQbbcCSBrrmMV_XKA3jdcpg9ac_B6Hx1iswb7ZCPH8Bb6ZAkyUgvfFzzYtrarBRkV2fm1cMERQR6y6OTEIz7soh_x6_ydTSdUsaUsZ98RTlLXNCibfvVMVJm2QXVM2Ytka/s1600/syria_oil.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="298" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjG5D2XzUA_vJWQbbcCSBrrmMV_XKA3jdcpg9ac_B6Hx1iswb7ZCPH8Bb6ZAkyUgvfFzzYtrarBRkV2fm1cMERQR6y6OTEIz7soh_x6_ydTSdUsaUsZ98RTlLXNCibfvVMVJm2QXVM2Ytka/s400/syria_oil.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><b>The Assad's painted on oil refinery tanks near Tartus </b></span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;"><br /></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;"><br /></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #134f5c;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">INTERNET REPORT SAYS SYRIA HAS LARGEST OIL AND GAS FIELDS</span></b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">By Claude Salhani Via Oilprice </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A new propaganda video making the rounds of Internet conspiracy theorists claims that SYRIA has discovered the largest oil and natural gas and reserves in the world in its territorial waters. The new find the video claims, while offering great financial rewards to a country with a wobbly economy, to say the least, has at the same time been SYRIA’S curse. According to the video, this discovery is the real reason behind the Syrian civil war, a war that was instigated by the “Jews, who control 100 percent of the world media.”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">According to the report SYRIA’S new find will place it ahead of QATAR, currently one of the world’s largest producers of natural gas. The fields, lying in the waters of the MEDITERRANEAN SEA, off the SYRIAN coast, are also far more important than those off the coast of ISRAEL. The video makes no mention of the oil and natural gas fields discovered in LEBANESE waters.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The report claims that there are 40 oil fields in this yet untapped area and that just four wells alone can produce in a single day more oil than all the fields in KUWAIT currently produce.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">SYRIAN WAR ALLEGEDLY RAGES BECAUSE OF GAS PIPELINE DEAL</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">If true, this could be fantastic news for SYRIA and the money could be used to rebuild the war-shattered country and its economy. But then again it is not going to be all smooth sailing for SYRIA, even if it indeed does have the world’s largest oil and gas reserves. As long as the current regime remains in place, so too will the sanctions imposed on SYRIA by the UNITED STATES.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The video is cleverly done and like any propaganda effort worthy of its name, it encompasses elements of truth carefully wrapped around fabrications and exaggerations.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">For example, the video claims that the civil war raging in SYRIA today is entirely over the fate of a gas pipeline that was to run from QATAR through IRAQ and onto SYRIA and TURKEY and into EUROPE, but SYRIA did not agree.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div style="border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-element: para-border-div; padding: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt;"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE-AT" style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: DE-AT; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Background Information</span></b><span lang="DE-AT" style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: DE-AT; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">: </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">IRAN - IRAQ - SYRIA GAS PIPELINE AGREEMENT SIGNED IN JULY 2012 WORTH US$10 BILLION, A “WIN WIN” SITUATION, BUT NOT FOR QATAR AND TURKEY</span></b><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in;"><span lang="DE-AT" style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: DE-AT; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://geopoliticsrst.blogspot.co.at/2013/05/pipelineistan.html"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">http://geopoliticsrst.blogspot.co.at/2013/05/pipelineistan.html</span></a></span><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">QATAR WAS THE MOTHER WHOSE MILK FED THE ISLAMIST GROUPS</span></b><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://geopoliticsrst.blogspot.co.at/2013/07/qatar-and-muslim-brotherhood.html">http://geopoliticsrst.blogspot.co.at/2013/07/qatar-and-muslim-brotherhood.html</a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">QATAR’S AGGRESSIVE INTERVENTIONIST POLITICS IN SYRIA</span></b><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in;"><span lang="DE-AT" style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: DE-AT; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://geopoliticsrst.blogspot.co.at/2013/07/crisis-qatars-transition.html"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">http://geopoliticsrst.blogspot.co.at/2013/07/crisis-qatars-transition.html</span></a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">WAHHABI ASSOCIATIONS AND MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD</span></b><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2013/03/saudi-arabia-and-qatar.html">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2013/03/saudi-arabia-and-qatar.html</a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in;"><br /></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The rest, the report says, is “bloody history.”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">QATAR, the report claims, along with SAUDI ARABIA, “under the authority of the Jewish –controlled US, funded all the terrorist activities against the SYRIAN government. In other words, the video want us to believe that the reason that SYRIA is at war has nothing to do with the internal situation in SYRIA. They would like us to believe that it is entirely the fault of the West who wants to get their hands on SYRIA’S oil. They would like us to believe that lack of individual freedom and the absence of people’s participation in government has nothing to do with the current violence.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">IRAN ALLEGEDLY HAS ADVANCE EMP TECHNOLOGY, --ELECTRO MAGNETIC PULSE THAT CAN “SHUT” ISRAEL DOWN.</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlxRqgW2ySIioRvRuOk31f_VkrmYuGZtlIIe1tagrss-Waqv45HFiCvbCuhnqv75PuLaDwlOB8JPs5hYgpy_ok2XXb-IgJGCmJfDH-oNgAI86NRM2pK0S4tk5B4dDD3D1M2GbhBLHp7p2-/s1600/viewer.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlxRqgW2ySIioRvRuOk31f_VkrmYuGZtlIIe1tagrss-Waqv45HFiCvbCuhnqv75PuLaDwlOB8JPs5hYgpy_ok2XXb-IgJGCmJfDH-oNgAI86NRM2pK0S4tk5B4dDD3D1M2GbhBLHp7p2-/s400/viewer.png" width="377" /></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Using the Zionist controlled world media empire,” which in the West, according to this report “is 100 percent controlled by the Jews, ran fairy tale cover stories.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">At the same time the video portrays the new might of the IRAN-SYRIA-Hezbollah alliance, will defend SYRIAN and IRANIAN oil and its interests around the world. It boasts that IRAN can attack all of the 35 US military bases in countries around it. It claims that the alliance has a total of 150,000 missiles that can sink all US warships in the Gulf and in the EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN. It claims that IRAN has advance EMP technology, --Electro Magnetic Pulse -- that can shut ISRAELI cities down. In simple terms a blast of EMP can render all electronic equipment such as computers and all machinery that uses electronics such as helicopters airplanes and ships inoperable.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It claims that IRAN used EMP technology to hijack a CIA drone and that Hezbollah has 50,000 missiles it can throw at ISRAEL. In a rare televised speech Syrian President Bashar Assad said last week that SYRIA’S current problems will only be solved with “an iron fist.”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-element: para-border-div; padding: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt;"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Background Information</span></b><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">: </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">See: </span><b><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">ASSAD PULLS AHEAD IN SYRIAN WAR</span></b><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2013/02/syria-assad-winning-war.html">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2013/02/syria-assad-winning-war.html</a><span style="color: blue;"></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">See: <b>ASSAD FIRM IN THE SADDLE (January 2013)</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2013/01/syria-assad-firm-in-saddle.html">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2013/01/syria-assad-firm-in-saddle.html</a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in;"><b><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">SYRIAN REGIME LIKELY TO SURVIVE UPRAISE (June 2011<i>)</i></span></b><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2011/06/syrian-regime-likely-to-survive-upraise.html">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2011/06/syrian-regime-likely-to-survive-upraise.html</a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in;"><b><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">ASSAD FIRMLY IN CHARGE IN SYRIA (March 2012)</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2012/03/syria.html">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2012/03/syria.html</a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in;"><br /></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The president blamed the violence in SYRIA on “terrorists” and said the current crisis will only be solved by “stamping out terror.”Assad dismissed the political opposition to his regime, calling it “a failure” and that it had no role to play in resolving the country’s future.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">"No solution can be reached with terror except by striking it with an iron fist," said Assad</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">"I don't think that any sane human being would think that terrorism can be dealt with via politics," he added.</span></div>

SYRIAN OIL AND GAS FINDINGS - PROPAGANDA - OR LEGITIMATE CLAIM?

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LG Announced L-series Android Smartphone Powered with 1 GHz Processor: LG Optimus L1 II

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<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: inherit;">LG exposed its latest L-series Android smartphone LG Optimus L1 II, which is as affordable as possible approx. $95. LG has been launched this phone named as low-cost smartphone in the market in compare to other smartphones.</span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">LG, formerly LG Optimus, is a series of smartphones and tablet computers manufactured by LG electronics. Two days ago LG has been launched its new Android smartphone i.e. LG G2, which is specified in <a href="http://pc-gadgetworld.blogspot.in/2013/08/lg-g2-new-smartphone-with-52-inch-full.html" target="_blank">earlier post</a>. LG Optimus L is an Android sub-series launched in 2012 consisting LG Optimus L3, L5, L5 II, L7 and etc.</span><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhl2GMoIddh2f5czArzLCeGoB5Vi1XWbNT75QPBBc6BOZZC1kT1k3A_1-im0GwtG09SV7dmZs-yYh5IQtaa9HrdG_2C6GuJmSqeTgh0bZvcnmP-tJ2R43R2VhrzWm1cwDUlfTNwFCsth4I/s1600/LG+Optimus+L1+II.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="LG Optimus L1 II has been launched with 1 GHz Processor" border="0" height="226" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhl2GMoIddh2f5czArzLCeGoB5Vi1XWbNT75QPBBc6BOZZC1kT1k3A_1-im0GwtG09SV7dmZs-yYh5IQtaa9HrdG_2C6GuJmSqeTgh0bZvcnmP-tJ2R43R2VhrzWm1cwDUlfTNwFCsth4I/s1600/LG+Optimus+L1+II.jpg" title="" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">source: ndtvGadgets</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">This smartphone runs on Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean), which is fastest and smoothest version of Android OS. With 1 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, 512 MB of RAM and 4 GB of internal storage (expandable up to 32 GB) it may compete the other standard company’s smartphones. User has the opportunity to talk more than the normal talk time with 1540 mAh battery capacity.</span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">LG Optimus L1 includes some common technical features like 3-inch display (320-by-240), 2 MP rear camera (can record video at VGA resolution), Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 3.0 and GPS. Besides these common features it comes with some in built features like Quick Memo (to take notes) and Cheese Shutter (photographs through voice commands).</span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">LG Optimus L1 II has approx. same specifications with LG Optimus L3 except some minor differences like it has small display screen, latest OS version, low camera resolution and etc. The device is available in the market of UK, Russia and Vietnam at above price ($95), later available in other markets.</span><br /><div><br /></div></div>

android LG Optimus smart phone LG Announced L-series Android Smartphone Powered with 1 GHz Processor: LG Optimus L1 II

LG exposed its latest L-series Android smartphone LG Optimus L1 II, which is as affordable as possible approx. $95. LG has been launched thi...

ITC Banned Samsung Products Infringed on Apple Patents: Apple Won the Case against Samsung

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<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: inherit;">International Trade Commission handed down a judgment in </span>favor<span style="font-family: inherit;"> of Apple against Samsung, regarding the design of smartphones and tablet computers. ITC banned Samsung from marketing some devices that are under infringement on the Apple patents.</span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Patent war is a battle between corporations to secure its parent from copying. Patent wars have occurred in a wide range of technologies. There are some ongoing patent wars between the world’s largest corporations like Apple, Samsung, Google, Yahoo, HTC and etc.</span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSGUa3N42M3POx1FKYBqqSdOIxpCWg3ADXI8Z8zPdFC7FEdcPlwqdG37ZGrlKQ4aQ9RyYuPe5zRoiMlrw_VexPhKgzJAGH-YhyYlSOqRk_GUOvFlrCEDf93tQjFvLBM0PThgflC0E-MOw/s1600/Apple+patent+win.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Apple patent win against Samsung" border="0" height="189" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSGUa3N42M3POx1FKYBqqSdOIxpCWg3ADXI8Z8zPdFC7FEdcPlwqdG37ZGrlKQ4aQ9RyYuPe5zRoiMlrw_VexPhKgzJAGH-YhyYlSOqRk_GUOvFlrCEDf93tQjFvLBM0PThgflC0E-MOw/s1600/Apple+patent+win.jpg" title="" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">source: cnn</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: inherit;">In the case of Apple against Samsung, ITC said that Samsung products are infringed on two Apple patents i.e. headset plug detection and touchscreen multi-touch. The court now ruled Samsung not to marketing the infringed products on the Apple patents.</span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">In 2011, Apple filed a case against Samsung in patent infringement in which: Samsung’s Galaxy devices are very similar to Apple’s design. Apple and Samsung were suing some ongoing cases across the countries. Earlier, While Samsung won its cases in South Korea, Japan and UK, Apple won the case in US.</span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Apple has filed its claim 2nd time on Aug 2012, stating more of the Samsung products violate Apple patents including Galaxy S III, Galaxy Note and Galaxy Tab 10.1. Finally Apple won its battle against Samsung after a waste of time.</span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Beside all this, Samsung may release software updates -for example user will use the technology the same way but Samsung may change “how to use”.</span></div>

Apple samsung ITC Banned Samsung Products Infringed on Apple Patents: Apple Won the Case against Samsung

International Trade Commission handed down a judgment in favor of Apple against Samsung, regarding the design of smartphones and tablet co...

Matt Said, Jay Said...7576227382

9:00 PM Tukiyooo 0

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitd4-qOzjMHRIE5gB9Oq0U5R6ytLbjR2bMYXTjjiP9FOK1y_73cRwH9OLcQ_mXenl3lTQvYGNKblN9_eVNP0HhUHUi8KBI5Qk9rPipKMgdF4WQCpzP1jL8oOp8r3texEWYFaOeQRBnNpE7/s1600/dog+days+of+summer+hot+humid.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitd4-qOzjMHRIE5gB9Oq0U5R6ytLbjR2bMYXTjjiP9FOK1y_73cRwH9OLcQ_mXenl3lTQvYGNKblN9_eVNP0HhUHUi8KBI5Qk9rPipKMgdF4WQCpzP1jL8oOp8r3texEWYFaOeQRBnNpE7/s400/dog+days+of+summer+hot+humid.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div>Matt:  Yeah, what do you want?<br />Jay:  Everything.<br />Matt:  Well, you won’t find it here.<br />Jay:  But I am searching for it all.<br />Matt:  Beat it Mister.<br /><br />Jay:  Hey now…How you doin’?<br />Matt:  M’eh…kinda bored.  And you?<br />Jay:  Just bailing out my personal canoe from all of the rain down here.<br />Matt:  I saw that.  What a fucking shame.<br />Jay:  That didn’t sound sincere.<br />Matt:  It was…I’m just…m’eh.<br /><br />Jay:  Yeah, I understand.  There’s just nothing going on right now.<br />Matt:  I know.  Fake football…No big holiday until Labor Day, Congress is in recess.<br />Jay:  Yeah.  And the middle school girls aren’t back in school yet, and the TV re-runs…Oh Dear God!!<br />Matt:  So damn boring.<br /><br />Jay:  This week sucks.  Of course Sunday, the 18th is National Bad Poetry Day.  We can go HAM on that.<br />Matt:  Oh Hell yeah, and the week after that on the 25th will be our End of Season Three Extravaganza.<br />Jay: And September 1st will be our Opening of Season Four Extravaganza!!<br />Matt:  And yet?  We have nothing for this week.<br />Jay:  I know…man, it’s hard sometimes.<br /><br />Matt:  That’s why they call this time of year, the <a href="http://www.blogtalkradio.com/im-with-stupid/2013/08/11/dog-days-of-summer" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Dog Days of Summer</span></a>.<br />Jay:  That’s It!!<br />Matt:  What!?  What’s it!?<br />Jay:  This week’s show will be called, <a href="http://www.blogtalkradio.com/im-with-stupid/2013/08/11/dog-days-of-summer" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">The Dog Days of Summer!!</span></a><br />Matt:  You are fucking brilliant!!<br />Jay:  I know, right!?<br /><br />Matt:  But as we just said…nothing happens during the <a href="http://www.blogtalkradio.com/im-with-stupid/2013/08/11/dog-days-of-summer" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Dog Days of Summer</span></a>.<br />Jay:  Exactly, and that is what we’ll talk about!!<br />Matt:  We’ll talk about nothing?<br />Jay:  Yes!!<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiD7S_llTyHQKtY5DATwX4-_m6897TMNEWc-sH4Lr6iC7T3w1JkoHa9W70IlDroYihfytZlroVSJ2npMKEoHyDeN57_cVxEmprJNpdlvU9HQ8l39PYuik8EuvZB2wCRdpXe7i9rp3HaOkF/s1600/megyn+kelly+naked+fox+news+replacing+Sean+Hannity.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiD7S_llTyHQKtY5DATwX4-_m6897TMNEWc-sH4Lr6iC7T3w1JkoHa9W70IlDroYihfytZlroVSJ2npMKEoHyDeN57_cVxEmprJNpdlvU9HQ8l39PYuik8EuvZB2wCRdpXe7i9rp3HaOkF/s400/megyn+kelly+naked+fox+news+replacing+Sean+Hannity.jpg" width="335" /></a>Matt:  Brilliant!!<br />Jay:  I think we’ve just one-upped Seinfeld.<br />Matt:  Damn right…Kramer can suck your dick.<br />Jay:  I’d prefer if Elaine did it.<br />Matt:  Brilliant!!<br /><br />Jay:  Alright then…you, me, Bobby Kraft, Paul Piatt, Bob Barker, and whoever else on our staff wants to chime in, will be there.<br />Matt:  Along with all of the listeners and callers to our Number One Rated Comedy Show.<br />Jay:  Damn right.  Even though there is nothing there, we’ll make it something.<br />Matt:  Word.<br /><br />Jay:  We are going to build the biggest pile of nothing that has ever been built, this Sunday at Noon ET.<br />Matt:  And President Obama better not say that we didn’t build it.<br />Jay:  Damn right.  Talk to you this Sunday from Noon-2 PM ET Matt-Man.<br />Matt:  Ditto Jayman!!<br /><br />To catch Jay, Matt, and the Dog Days of Summer IWS Radio Show LIVE this Sunday from Noon-2 PM ET, you can click right <a href="http://www.blogtalkradio.com/im-with-stupid/2013/08/11/dog-days-of-summer" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">HERE</span></a>.</div>

Matt Said, Jay Said...7576227382

Matt: Yeah, what do you want? Jay: Everything. Matt: Well, you won’t find it here. Jay: But I am searching for it all. Matt: Beat it Mi...

Blue Jasmine: Superb study in self-delusion

6:00 PM Tukiyooo 0

<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #5e5e5e; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #5e5e5e; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #5e5e5e; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #5e5e5e; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #5e5e5e; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><b><i>Blue Jasmine</i> </b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #5e5e5e; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><b>(2013) • <a href="http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/sony/bluejasmine/" style="color: #27a9c5; text-decoration: none;">View trailer</a></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #5e5e5e; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #5e5e5e; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #5e5e5e; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #5e5e5e; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><b> </b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #5e5e5e; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #5e5e5e; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><b>4.5 stars. Rating: PG-13, for dramatic intensity, mature thematic material and brief profanity</b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #5e5e5e; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #5e5e5e; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><b>By <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/12885694730612878577" style="color: #27a9c5; text-decoration: none;">Derrick Bang</a> • </b></span>Originally published in <i><a href="http://www.davisenterprise.com/" style="color: #27a9c5; text-decoration: none;">The Davis Enterprise</a></i>, 8.9.13</b></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>            <br /><div class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">From the first scene, we can’t take our eyes off her: an unholy cross between Vivien Leigh’s Scarlett O’Hara and Gloria Swanson’s Norma Desmond, layered with the bland contempt that comes only from Manhattan socialites.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5vV_M8J_SLBlfg_eE-X-CZ19CTViXDBLgrLl9fIat4RVLP_kkdyzuTw69Hdifq2P33ctJG76t90ZxmsfptNVSxcAMUo0fFXBSnBQKRYQ0DD_cJziVnllSsJ86N4tya2AP5UQpu6yXCJ0/s1600/Blue+Jasmine+blog.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5vV_M8J_SLBlfg_eE-X-CZ19CTViXDBLgrLl9fIat4RVLP_kkdyzuTw69Hdifq2P33ctJG76t90ZxmsfptNVSxcAMUo0fFXBSnBQKRYQ0DD_cJziVnllSsJ86N4tya2AP5UQpu6yXCJ0/s400/Blue+Jasmine+blog.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">During a visit to New York, working-class Ginger (Sally Hawkins, right) encourages her<br />husband, Augie (Andrew Dice Clay, center right) to seek investment advice from the<br />wealthy and privileged Hal (Alec Baldwin), an aggressive Wall Street shark married to<br />Jasmine (Cate Blanchett). Ginger figures there's no downside; after all, Jasmine is her<br />sister, and nothing is more important than family ... right?</span></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Cate Blanchett’s title character in Woody Allen’s <i>Blue Jasmine</i> is a frightening creature: a woman so accustomed to aristocratic excess that she cannot fathom existence among the 99 percent. Yet she’s also a figure to be pitied, and that’s the hypnotic magic of Blanchett’s performance: We simultaneously loathe and feel sorry for her, wondering how somebody who once was an ordinary little girl, could have grown into an adult so cut off from her humanity.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">She’s Marie Antoinette or Eva Braun: a woman who can’t precisely be described as evil, because she really don’t know any better. Morality, integrity, loyalty, simple kindness ... these are qualities suited only for the common herd. Jasmine swans above such flawed behavior; she lives only for her own tightly compartmentalized pleasures, and for the attention lavished upon her by a doting and über-wealthy husband.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Allen has written <i>really</i> close to the bone this time, with an unflinching dissection of the privileged, often vacuous wives who proudly stand alongside the Bernie Madoffs, as they blithely screw the rest of us. Do these women even perceive, let alone understand, the monsters they take to their beds each night?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Allen has resurrected his career, phoenix-like, more times than I can count, and he’s once again on a roll: perhaps the best thus far. <i><a href="http://derrickbang.blogspot.com/2011/06/midnight-in-paris-enchanted-dream.html">Midnight in Paris</a></i> was both clever and delightful: an adult fantasy that brought him another well-deserved Academy Award. <i>Blue Jasmine</i>, in turn, will do the same for Blanchett. I don’t care what comes out between now and Dec. 31; nobody will top her bravura performance in this film.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">She’s nothing short of amazing, and <i>Blue Jasmine</i> stands among Allen’s finest works.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We meet Jasmine during a plane flight from New York to San Francisco, where she has arranged to live with her sister, Ginger (Sally Hawkins), while attempting to pull her life back together. Jasmine’s personality is revealed during this airborne prologue, for she has trapped a seat mate — an elderly woman too polite to object — into enduring a litany of self-centered justification.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We don’t get many pertinent details, merely enough to understand the sheer torture that the oblivious Jasmine is inflicting on her temporary companion.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><a name='more'></a><br /><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Things get worse, when Jasmine barely is able to navigate a taxi ride to Ginger’s modest apartment. We learn that Jasmine hasn’t had much use for Ginger until this moment, when no other options are available. Ginger is the working-class yin to Jasmine’s elegant, socialite yang: the country mouse worried that her citified relation will look about this small but attractive home, and find fault with everything. Which Jasmine does.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Jasmine has fled the newspaper headlines and TV sound bites that have hounded her since husband Hal (Alec Baldwin) was arrested by the FBI and indicted for unspecified — but clearly serious — financial shenanigans that hurt many, many people. As we gradually learn, the victims included Ginger and her former husband, Augie (Andrew Dice Clay), who lost a lottery windfall that could have brightened their lives considerably.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The fallout also torched Ginger’s marriage, yet she still opens her home to Jasmine, insisting — to all who comment — that Jasmine cannot be blamed for Hal’s misdeeds. Right from the start, Ginger doth protest too much, and her words ring false. Her new boyfriend, Chili (Bobby Cannavale), clearly shares such doubts; he probes with the obvious questions that Jasmine has tried to leave behind. Did she <i>really</i>not know?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We wonder, as well.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Although pleading destitution, complaining about how the courts “ruined her life” by stripping her of all assets, forcing her to sell “everything” just to survive, Jasmine nonetheless arrives toting Louis Vuitton luggage. When Ginger, bewildered, tentatively suggests that her sister’s insistence on flying first class might have been financially unwise, Jasmine flies into a rage; she couldn’t <i>possibly</i> have endured the trip in coach.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Jasmine’s saga subsequently unfolds in the present and the past, the latter granting us revealing glimpses of her life with Hal, pre-crisis, and the depths of her self-absorption. When Ginger and Augie fly to New York for a weeklong visit, during their happier times, Jasmine barely spares them a few hours; she’s always so <i>busy</i>, please understand, with the constant demands on her pampered life.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And we cringe, wanting to look away, wanting somebody to slap this useless creature upside the face, but knowing that’ll never happen. Yet we’re unable to look away, fascinated by the callous depths to which this woman sinks, every minute of every day.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Blanchett has plenty of experience with imperious roles, ranging from history’s Elizabeth I to fantasy’s Galadriel, not to mention hard-chargers such as Veronica Guerin and her spot-on impersonation of Katharine Hepburn. Here, Blanchett employs her intrinsic charisma to less palatable purposes: When fully erect, in command of her surroundings, Jasmine delivers every speech, every response, as if the listener should cherish each word as a gift from the gods.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The sad part: Ginger buys into it. Hook, line and belittled, browbeaten sinker.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Blanchett has the flashy title role, but Hawkins matches her, scene for scene. She’s a British stalwart likely remembered from her starring role in 2010’s <i><a href="http://derrickbang.blogspot.com/2011/01/made-in-dagenham-sew-fine.html">Made in Dagenham</a></i>, along with choice parts in recent films such as <i><a href="http://derrickbang.blogspot.com/2010/10/never-let-me-go-this-one-wont-let-you.html">Never Let Me Go</a></i>, <i><a href="http://derrickbang.blogspot.com/2011/03/jane-eyre-deliciously-swooning.html">Jane Eyre</a></i> and <i>Great Expectations</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hawkins’ Ginger is the ultimate enabler: She responds to the demands of family ties, even when they’re not deserved. She cowers in Jasmine’s shadow, flinching even before the next thinly veiled insult. The irony, of course, is that Ginger possesses all the nobler virtues that Jasmine wouldn’t even perceive, let alone possess; this working-class San Francisco woman has carved out a successful and reasonably happy life, while raising two rambunctious boys (who regard Jasmine akin to a creature from Neptune). <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">By rights, Ginger should despise Jasmine ... and yet she tries to accommodate this fragile, alien creature’s increasingly manic mood swings. That’s the other issue in this tragic tale: Jasmine is damaged goods even before she lands in San Francisco, and she gets worse, as days turn into weeks. Not since Catherine Deneuve went bonkers when left alone in that spooky apartment, in 1965’s <i>Repulsion</i>, has a woman come unglued so persuasively on screen.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Despite this — despite knowing full well that Jasmine is toxic — Ginger responds to her sister’s barbed “compliments,” and, God forbid, tries to mold herself into a similarly “refined” woman. This means accepting Jasmine’s disgust over the “losers” Ginger has hooked up with: the ultimate hypocrisy, since Hal was the biggest loser of all. Correctly perceiving that he stands to lose Ginger in the face of such poisonous hostility, Chili begins to panic.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And so it goes, getting worse and worse, as details are filled in, and fresh traumas erupt, and we gradually get answers to key questions.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Allen’s films always are impeccably cast, and this one’s no exception; although Blanchett and Hawkins stand out, they’re in excellent company. Baldwin is spot-on as a smarmy Wall Street predator, and both Cannavale and Clay are persuasively credible as good-hearted lugs with limited means and flash-point tempers, but genuine love for the woman who has touched their hearts.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Peter Sarsgaard pops up in the second act as Dwight, a career diplomat on the relationship rebound, who is smitten by Jasmine’s beauty, sophistication and style. (By now, we know these traits are artifice; the vulnerable Dwight, alas, can’t see past her surface.) Comedian Louis C.K. plays Al, an amiable guy who catches Ginger’s attention when Jasmine drags her to an upscale party.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Most of this film is relentlessly serious, given its nature: a tone Allen has delivered quite well a few times before, recently with 2005’s <i>Match Point</i>. He shouldn’t be typed as a “comedy director,” and <i>Blue Jasmine</i> isn’t a funny film. That said, Allen takes an odd detour into pure burlesque, when Jasmine reluctantly accepts work as a dentist’s receptionist, and then discovers that her boss — Michael Stuhlbarg, as Dr. Flicker — hired her only because he’s hot for her.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Stuhlbarg can be viewed here as the bumbling, overly talkative Woody Allen surrogate, an exaggerated archetype that simply doesn’t belong here.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Similarly, the 1920s and ’30s jazz classics with which Allen peppers so many of his soundtracks — the sort of tunes by now firmly associated with Allen’s plain, white-text-on-black-background title credits — feel completely wrong in this, a firmly contemporary storyline. OK, I grant the ironic counterpoint a particular song title supplies to a given scene, and the fact that Rodgers and Hart’s “Blue Moon” evokes happier times for the increasingly fragile Jasmine ... but as a thematic whole, these ancient swing band hits occasionally take us out of the story.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">These relatively minor issues prevent the film from being perfect, but it’s still an extremely powerful indictment of casual, heartless entitlement, fueled by sensational actors who wring every drop of dramatic juice from Allen’s sharp-edged script.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You’ll not forget this one any time soon. It <i>lingers</i>, haunting our thoughts in the best possible way.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>

Blue Jasmine: Superb study in self-delusion

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World of Warcraft: Burdens of Shaohao Part 5: The Sundering

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<p> </p> <p> <div id="scid:5737277B-5D6D-4f48-ABFC-DD9C333F4C5D:23dde280-211f-4968-b3db-df70904643ae" class="wlWriterEditableSmartContent" style="float: none; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px"><div><object height="480" width="853"><param name="movie" value="//www.youtube.com/v/EREaWhXj4_Q?hl=en_US&version=3"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="//www.youtube.com/v/EREaWhXj4_Q?hl=en_US&version=3" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="853" height="480" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed></object></div></div></p> <p> </p> <p>Today’s gorgeous installment in the story of <a href="http://us.battle.net/wow/en/blog/10534912/The_Burdens_of_Shaohao%E2%80%94Part_5_The_Sundering-8_8_2013" target="_blank">The Burdens of Shaohao</a> and unfortunately this installment concludes the series.</p> <div id="scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:117ae7ab-717d-4324-9e9a-72a3d7a9eae2" class="wlWriterEditableSmartContent" style="float: none; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px">Technorati Tags: <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/World+of+Warcraft" rel="tag">World of Warcraft</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/WOW" rel="tag">WOW</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Burdens+of+Shaohao" rel="tag">Burdens of Shaohao</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/video+games" rel="tag">video games</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/MMO" rel="tag">MMO</a></div>

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DEUTSCHE SPARER....

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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #134f5c;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #134f5c;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b></b></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAvWmSSHfoKCcnn990KPr9jXi6lGW2I_obsjKvO8Rded26lAJ8Pfgajg3OHbwG8MnElKz06W-8BhBX_ohWDcdo5rTMHprpw08Mn8APDxWfZvjlUiyIUtBr6SSFEqaQlkhCwDDyAvQcBkBj/s1600/4818343.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="223" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAvWmSSHfoKCcnn990KPr9jXi6lGW2I_obsjKvO8Rded26lAJ8Pfgajg3OHbwG8MnElKz06W-8BhBX_ohWDcdo5rTMHprpw08Mn8APDxWfZvjlUiyIUtBr6SSFEqaQlkhCwDDyAvQcBkBj/s400/4818343.jpg" width="400" /></a></b></span></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #134f5c;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>....müssen um Guthaben unter 100.000 Euro bangen</b></span></span></div><br /><br /> <br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="DE-AT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Via Deutsche Mittelstands Nachrichten</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span lang="DE-AT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: DE-AT; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Im Fall der Pleite der Hausbank werden auch jene Kunden massive Probleme bekommen, deren Guthaben durch die offizielle Einlagensicherung garantiert sein sollen. Der aktuelle EU-Vorschlag sieht vor, dass Kunden im Fall einer Pleite ihrer Bank täglich nur noch maximal 100 bis 200 Euro abheben können. Dieser Zustand kann bis zu drei Wochen dauern. Wer größere Anschaffungen plant, sollte sich rechtzeitig überlegen, wie er an sein Geld kommen will. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="DE-AT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: DE-AT; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Von der Öffentlichkeit weitgehend unbemerkt, treibt die EU die konkreten Schritte im Falle einer Banken-Pleite voran. Vor einigen Wochen wurde beschlossen, Banken-Rettungen überfallsartig an einem <b>Wochenende</b> durchzuführen (</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://www.deutsche-mittelstands-nachrichten.de/2013/05/51847/" title="Angst vor dem Haircut: Deutsche horten das Bargeld"><span lang="DE-AT" style="color: blue; mso-ansi-language: DE-AT;">hier</span></a></span><span lang="DE-AT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: DE-AT; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">) und Sparer über 100.000 Euro sowie Aktionäre und Inhaber von Anleihen mit einer <b>Zwangsabgabe</b>an der Banken-Rettung zu beteiligen.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span lang="DE-AT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: DE-AT; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Nun hat die litauische Ratspräsidentschaft erste Details vorgelegt, wie eine Banken-Rettung konkret aussehen wird.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span lang="DE-AT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: DE-AT; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Sie wird auch für jene Sparer äußerst unangenehm, die sich jetzt wegen der Einlagensicherungen in Sicherheit wiegen und glauben, es werde nur „die Reichen“, also jene Anleger, die über mehr als 100.000 Euro verfügen, treffen.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span lang="DE-AT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: DE-AT; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Der litauische Vorschlag zeigt: Wenn eine Bank pleitegeht, bekommen auch die kleinen Sparer ihr Geld keineswegs sofort. <span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>Bis zu vier Wochen – 20 Arbeitstage – werden die Sparer nur mit dem Notwendigsten auskommen müssen: Sie dürfen 100 bis 200 Euro täglich abheben – mehr nicht.</b></span> Der EU-Rat unter der Leitung des von niemandem in Europa gewählten Präsidenten Herman Van Rompuy hatte ursprünglich angeregt, die Sparer vier Wochen auf ihr Geld warten zu lassen.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span lang="DE-AT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: DE-AT; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Das EU-Parlament fand diese Frist dann doch etwas lang und verlangte, Einlagen unter 100.000 Euro sollten innerhalb von fünf Tagen ausgezahlt werden.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span lang="DE-AT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: DE-AT; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Weil das jedoch technisch gar nicht möglich ist – keine Bank verfügt über so viel reales Geld – soll der Kompromiss nun so aussehen: 20 Tage warten, dafür bekommt man täglich 100 bis maximal 200 Euro aus dem Geldautomaten.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b><span lang="DE-AT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: DE-AT; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Drei Wochen Bangen</span></b></span><span lang="DE-AT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: DE-AT; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> soll es, wie die Börsen-Zeitung aus dem Papier zitiert, bis ins Jahr 2020 für dem Fall geben, in dem die nationalen Aufsichtsbehörden zur Auffassung gelangen, dass es nicht schneller geht. Im Fall, dass die Aufsichtsbehörden ein Einsehen mit den Anleger haben oder sich die Anleger zum Großteil aus bewaffneten Russen rekrutieren, dürfte es schneller gehen: Zunächst 15, dann 10 und 2023 schließlich sieben Arbeitstage.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span lang="DE-AT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: DE-AT; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Tatsächlich bedeutet diese Entwicklung, dass auch jene Sparer, die sich heute blind auf die Zusage von Angela Merkel und Wolfgang Schäuble verlassen, <span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>dass Einlagen unter 100.000 Euro sicher sind, um ihre Ersparnisse zittern oder betteln müssen.</b></span>Wenn sie ihr Geld wirklich in Händen halten wollen, es wegen größerer Anschaffungen brauchen oder aber einen Betrieb führen, der naturgemäß höhere Ausgaben hat als 100 Euro täglich – dann sollten diese Sparer sich schon mal überlegen, wie sie im Crash-Fall ihrer Bank an ihr Geld kommen wollen.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span lang="DE-AT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: DE-AT; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Der aktuelle Plan zeigt, dass sich im Falle einer Banken-Pleite niemand auf staatliche Zusagen wird verlassen können. Tatsächlich werden stets <span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>„außergewöhnliche Umstände“</b></span> dazu führen können, dass die Sparer auch dann mit einer Zwangsabgabe belegt werden können, wenn sie weniger als 100.000 Euro auf der Bank haben.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span lang="DE-AT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: DE-AT; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Den Deutschen wird dieses Thema wohlweislich noch vorenthalten: Der Gouverneur der litauischen Zentralbank, Vitas Vasiliauskas, sagte der Nachrichtenagentur Reuters, er sei sich bewusst, dass die<b> <span style="color: #cc0000;">Bundestags-Wahlen den Prozess etwas verzögern könnten</span></b><span style="color: #cc0000;">.</span> Aber die Banken-Union sei „eine Super-Priorität der EU“.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span lang="DE-AT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: DE-AT; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Noch keine Einigung gibt es in der Frage, welchen Beitrag die Banken in die Einlagensicherung einzahlen sollen. Hier streitet die EU vor allem darüber, wer das Risiko berechnet, das die einzelnen Banken darstellen und nach dessen Höhe sich der Beitrag richtet. Hier wurde eine für Beamte bemerkenswerte Verschärfung in das Dokument gebracht: Der Beitrag „soll“ sich nun nach dem Risiko richten, während es früher hieß, der Beitrag „kann“ nach dem Risiko berechnet werden.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span lang="DE-AT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: DE-AT; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Dass der Beitrag nicht nach dem Risiko berechnet werden „muss“, wie der gesunde Menschenverstand nahelegen würde, liegt auch daran, dass die nationalen Regierungen künftig von der Berechnung des Risikos ausgeschlossen werden sollen. Die <span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>Banken wollen die Risiken untereinander regeln</b></span> und daher von der Europäischen Banken Aufsicht EBA festlegen lassen – jener Institution, die die belgische Dexia in einem „Stress“-Test noch wenige Monate vor ihrem spektakulären Crash als ein besonders vertrauenswürdiges Institut ausgezeichnet hatte.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span lang="DE-AT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: DE-AT; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><b>Die Pläne der EU für die ersten europäischen Banken-Pleiten im Zeitalter der Derivate und Turbo-Spekulationen laufen darauf hinaus, dass der Crash vor allem für die kleinen Anleger und Sparer zu einem existentiellen Stress-Test wird.</b> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span lang="DE-AT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: DE-AT; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Denn tatsächlich sind drei Wochen des Zitterns gerade für ältere Bürger, die ihre gesamten Ersparnisse auf der Bank liegen haben, eine <span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>Zumutung</b></span>. Die Pleite einer Bank ist ein für die Sparer höchst zermürbender Prozess – dem EU-Vorschlag zufolge werden die Sparer nun wochenlang warten müssen, bis sie die Gewissheit haben, ob sie ihre Geld jemals wiedersehen.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span lang="DE-AT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: DE-AT; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Die EU will die Banken-Union noch in diesem Jahr in den wichtigsten Details beschließen.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span lang="DE-AT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: DE-AT; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Es wird eng für die Sparer.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span lang="DE-AT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: DE-AT; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Und zwar, wie wir nun wissen, nicht nur für die Reichen.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div>

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My story pitch to Ellen about Belviq

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New postal stamps honor American workers

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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEix7JsKCd3UwzqwqxiDR8_9dtKqwOPYhTge9AaVrcKbmCXs-43keLZNJggh3xUOcBy_lDxnu3Eheov42-DwPxY9LWWooP9byB6fU-Jv6HM3b-5w9a7v4xKUbGCP9FoERen-YMLkSlyikgyc/s1600/8-9workerstamps.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="" border="0" height="257" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEix7JsKCd3UwzqwqxiDR8_9dtKqwOPYhTge9AaVrcKbmCXs-43keLZNJggh3xUOcBy_lDxnu3Eheov42-DwPxY9LWWooP9byB6fU-Jv6HM3b-5w9a7v4xKUbGCP9FoERen-YMLkSlyikgyc/s320/8-9workerstamps.jpg" title="This is an image of one of the stamp books released by the U.S. Postal Service this week honoring workers." width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) is recognizing that American workers are the nation’s backbone with </span><a href="http://blog-stampofapproval.com/2013/08/05/stamps-honoring-americas-industrial-workers-now-available-for-preorder/" rel="nofollow"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">a series of stamps that honor the contributions of industrial workers</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">.<o:p></o:p></span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The USPS rolled out the forever stamps this week. Among the men and women featured in the early 20<sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">th </span></sup>century images are a railroad track worker, a linotyper in a publishing house and an airplane maker. The sheet includes 12 different stamps and </span><a href="http://blog-stampofapproval.com/2013/02/21/new-set-of-12-stamps-honors-americas-20th-century-workers/" rel="nofollow"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">comes in five different versions</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">.<o:p></o:p></span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Tom Perez, secretary of the U.S. Department of Labor, said the stamps </span><a href="http://postalemployeenetwork.com/news/2013/08/made-in-america-forever-stamp/" rel="nofollow"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">are a reminder of the important role such workers have played</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> in our history:</span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><blockquote class="tr_bq"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">These iconic images tell a powerful story about American economic strength and prosperity. These men and women and millions like them really did build a nation.<o:p></o:p></span></blockquote></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The types of workers featured in this stamp collection helped make this nation great. They built the infrastructure that allowed the U.S. to soar in the post-World War II period.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They were union members who were paid a fair wage for a hard day’s work.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Let’s hope these images can remind policymakers and corporations alike of the important role workers serve.</span><br /><o:p><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span></o:p><br /><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The stamps are available at your local post office or can be ordered </span><a href="https://store.usps.com/store/browse/productDetailSingleSku.jsp?productId=S_471504" rel="nofollow"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">here</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">.</span></span><br /><br /><img height="77" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEix7JsKCd3UwzqwqxiDR8_9dtKqwOPYhTge9AaVrcKbmCXs-43keLZNJggh3xUOcBy_lDxnu3Eheov42-DwPxY9LWWooP9byB6fU-Jv6HM3b-5w9a7v4xKUbGCP9FoERen-YMLkSlyikgyc/s320/8-9workerstamps.jpg" style="left: 519px; opacity: 0.3; position: absolute; top: 41px;" width="96" />

New postal stamps honor American workers

The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) is recognizing that American workers are the nation’s backbone with a series of stamps that honor the contrib...

ANGRY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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I have NO TOLERANCE for people making fun of others because of their weight!!!!!<br /><br />So, there's an article about a woman in the local news that is being sought out because she punched a 1 year child in the face.  That's absolutely HORRIBLE.  She should be arrested and punished for that.  But if you bring up the article at <a href="http://www.click2houston.com/news/babysitter-wanted-for-punching-toddler-in-the-face/-/1735978/21402718/-/9xy72k/-/index.html">http://www.click2houston.com/news/babysitter-wanted-for-punching-toddler-in-the-face/-/1735978/21402718/-/9xy72k/-/index.html</a>  you will see a photo of her and she is obviously obese.  Scroll to the very bottom where people are making comments - turning this in all about her weight.  I can not stand idiots.  It's ok to be angry because of what she did, it's not ok to attack because she is obese.  I am HIGHLY offended and this really really upset me because I KNOW I receive a lot of jokes because of my weight. <br /><br />Stop and think about me, ELLIE WENKER, next time you want to make a fat joke please!!

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I have NO TOLERANCE for people making fun of others because of their weight!!!!! So, there's an article about a woman in the local news ...

It's Smokey Bear's birthday with a party on Twitter

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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2vBSKR8UIAdAJ8a2md23TBiaiBb9NaCmyaIZMEjMJeLp6CS30bbYNgqeQ_xeLNjGbLDwdG04IzHVhLmtCURkM12KDa931OBrSd9Iz1X522j1-m5GvmesFjYIXS66Z11-bnVj60TdiqZly/s1600/Smokey+Bear+1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2vBSKR8UIAdAJ8a2md23TBiaiBb9NaCmyaIZMEjMJeLp6CS30bbYNgqeQ_xeLNjGbLDwdG04IzHVhLmtCURkM12KDa931OBrSd9Iz1X522j1-m5GvmesFjYIXS66Z11-bnVj60TdiqZly/s1600/Smokey+Bear+1.jpg" /></a></div><br />It's Smokey Bear's birthday but this Boomer bear is keeping current as he celebrated with a party on Twitter Friday afternoon. From 1-2:00 p.m. @Smokey_Bear, the 69-year-old interacted with fans in an interesting mix of nostalgia and reminders of fire safety tips to prevent wildfires as birthday greetings came in from across the nation.<br /><br />In what was the highlight of my day, my tweet was answered by Smokey and I got a virtual Smokey Bear hug! For just a moment or so I was six years old again.<br /><blockquote class="twitter-tweet">Happy Birthday <a href="https://twitter.com/smokey_bear">@smokey_bear</a>! True story of a cub rescued from forest fire ... became icon advocating fire safety for millions.<br />— Lynn R. Mitchell (@swacgirl) <a href="https://twitter.com/swacgirl/statuses/365886598124011523">August 9, 2013</a></blockquote><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script> <br /><br /><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><a href="https://twitter.com/swacgirl">@swacgirl</a> True <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23SmokeyBearHug&src=hash">#SmokeyBearHug</a>  <|:') \ / <<br />—  Smokey Bear (@smokey_bear) <a href="https://twitter.com/smokey_bear/statuses/365887333347762176">August 9, 2013</a></blockquote><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script><br />And, oh yeah, I <a href="https://www.facebook.com/smokeybear/app_517922941613859">signed his birthday card</a>, too.<br /><br />Perhaps the most interesting piece of information gleaned from the exchange was the question, "Have wildfires increased over the last few year or has social media and TV coverage just made us more aware of them?"  Smokey's response: "Since 1950s, gone from 22 million wildland acres burned to less than 7 million today. There are differences in local conditions."<br /><br />Smokey signed off from his birthday party on Twitter:<br /><blockquote class="twitter-tweet">This has been the best 69th Birthday a bear could ask for. Thanks for joining in! <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23SmokeyBDay&src=hash">#SmokeyBDay</a><br />—  Smokey Bear (@smokey_bear) <a href="https://twitter.com/smokey_bear/statuses/365896063275646977">August 9, 2013</a></blockquote><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script><br />And he followed up with one last reminder....<br /><blockquote class="twitter-tweet">And, remember, only you can prevent wildfires. On <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23SmokeyBDay&src=hash">#SmokeyBDay</a> and on every day of the year.<br />—  Smokey Bear (@smokey_bear) <a href="https://twitter.com/smokey_bear/statuses/365896174361772035">August 9, 2013</a></blockquote><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>Happy Birthday, Smokey! See you next year....

It's Smokey Bear's birthday with a party on Twitter

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It's Smokey Bear's birthday but this Boomer bear is keeping current as he celebrated with a party on Twitter Friday afternoon. From ...

Chicago protest paints unflattering portrait of ALEC

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<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3M5MT10EJUbuQAlZUCOJ6GNqA_LoBwiiDcLkDB8YS_1EVto7t4StDTuVID_4WCXYSeKmEV6Y2I9iMvv8MqH2Bd7Ah-ru8ceM6lZYADTud2GYGWDDPYKuK0rVdiPN6-8PLM1iXIiWHCR4H/s1600/ALEC+protest.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="298" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3M5MT10EJUbuQAlZUCOJ6GNqA_LoBwiiDcLkDB8YS_1EVto7t4StDTuVID_4WCXYSeKmEV6Y2I9iMvv8MqH2Bd7Ah-ru8ceM6lZYADTud2GYGWDDPYKuK0rVdiPN6-8PLM1iXIiWHCR4H/s400/ALEC+protest.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Chicago protest against ALEC yesterday. </td></tr></tbody></table><a href="http://alecexposed.org/" rel="nofollow">ALEC</a> can't possibly be happy with the news coverage generated by the anti-ALEC protests in Chicago yesterday and on Monday. The organization was depicted as a bunch of corporate lobbyists peddling their influence with state lawmakers to outsource education, freeze the minimum wage and weaken environmental and workers' rights.<br /><br />Chicago police estimate 3,700 people showed up yesterday at the luxurious Palmer House to tell state lawmakers and their corporate owners that Chicago is a union town and they weren't welcome.<br /><br />ALEC, if you're new to this, is the American Legislative Exchange Council, a front group for corporations who wine and dine state lawmakers, take them on posh vacations, contribute to their political campaigns and hand them ready-made anti-worker, billionaire-empowerment legislation. The state lawmakers' visit to Chicago was, ahem, subsidized by ALEC.<br /><br />ALEC came across as a group of corporate lobbyists  cut and outsource education, freeze the minimum wage, weaken environmental and workers' rights<br /><br />ALEC "advocates cuts to education and freezing the minimum wage," reported <a href="http://mms.tveyes.com/PlaybackPortal.aspx?SavedEditID=c98ffa7a-0f87-404b-8891-a2a79961de34" rel="nofollow">CLTV</a>. <br /><br />ALEC may have broken the law in its evolution to a "right-wing ideological wrecking crew," writes <a href="http://www.thenation.com/blog/175646/alecs-illegal-past#axzz2bTfIgKuQ" rel="nofollow">The Nation</a>.<br /><br />Protesters charge that "policymakers are listening too much to businesses who are footing the bill for the conference," reports <a href="http://mms.tveyes.com/PlaybackPortal.aspx?SavedEditID=7ed84804-89e7-47fb-a983-93205cd6d859" rel="nofollow">WMAQ</a>.<br /><br />"ALEC is an organization of corporate lobbyists (ouch) and mostly Republican lawmakers," reported <a href="http://mms.tveyes.com/PlaybackPortal.aspx?SavedEditID=2686b724-ec6b-4063-a092-128bdd276759" rel="nofollow">WBBM</a>. "Protesters contend it writes legislation at the expense of the environment and workers' rights."<br /><br />A college professor, Julie Mead, was interviewed on<a href="http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=10548" rel="nofollow"> The Real News</a> saying, "K12 Inc. is the nation's largest provider of online for-profit schools. And as one of the top sponsors of the ALEC meeting, it's allying itself with the tobacco industry and with the oil industry and with the pharmaceutical industry, all of which are not something you would normally associate with good educational outcomes, not the sort of thing that you would typically expect of a school that is looking out primarily for kids."<br /><br />"Labor vs. Lobbyists," was how <a href="http://www.salon.com/2013/08/07/alec_convention_protests_labor_vs_lobbyists/singleton/" rel="nofollow">Salon</a> described it.<br /><br />Funny, that's not how ALEC describes itself...<br /><br /><br />

Chicago protest paints unflattering portrait of ALEC

The Chicago protest against ALEC yesterday. ALEC can't possibly be happy with the news coverage generated by the anti-ALEC protests in...

Book Review: The Shape of Things that Work

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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1490904557"><b><i>The Shape of Things that Work: The Fourth Architecture</i></b></a> by Curtis B. Wayne<br />CreateSpace, 2013<br />Paperback, 102 pages<br /><br /><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg41q4l2G8PYXtgvnmqZ_2f0Qij4OPWOLApgwBia9m9LyeSeme0feEiPPlc-kk6lWY8JBxTLkY6JWtCls9OwBb5KeAaiGLCEGxlQZydy5LaPoIT36kOtqRd9FzMIRi4VorrEIwjRIfkPiER/s1600/cbwayne.jpg" /><br /><br />In the title of New York City-based architect and <a href="http://www.heritageradionetwork.com/programs/18-Burning-Down-The-House">radio host Curtis B. Wayne</a>'s slim treatise, two words stand out as important: "shape" and "work." Respectively these bring to mind two books: Lance Hosey's fairly recent <a href="http://archidose.org/wp/2012/08/13/the-shape-of-green/"><i>The Shape of Green</i></a> and Witold Rybczynski's forthcoming <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0374211744/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0374211744&linkCode=as2&tag=aweeklydoseof-20"><i>How Architecture Works</i></a>. The former argues that there is a relationship between form and performance in green buildings, while the latter focuses on the formal attributes of architecture. Without addressing these two books directly, Wayne straddles them, arguing that what he calls "the fourth architecture" should have particular shapes (or forms or materials, whatever the case may be) by focusing on the basics of architectural form, much as Rybczynski does in his book.<br /><br />Wayne is railing against form for the sake of form, epitomized most vehemently in the book by Zaha Hadid, but also by Frank Gehry and other big names here and there. The author does not give the fourth architecture a name like the first three architectures—Roman, Gothic, Modern—but he defines it as serving "both beauty <i>and</i> utility." (emphasis in the original) Most architects would surely assert that they do the same, designing buildings that balance these concerns without resembling the flashy and expensive ones of Hadid and her few "starchitect" contemporaries. But the popularity of her shape-making (her firm has 400 employees and a catalog of over 950 projects, <a href="http://highrisefacilities.com/new-renderings-revealed-for-zaha-hadids-miami-high-rise/">according to one source</a>) with both architects and clients means she is a force to be countered, at least in Wayne's book, and a return to basics is the way to do it.<br /><br />After some exposition, definitions, and "scholarly stuff," Wayne devotes the bulk of the book to four architectural elements: wall, roof, window, and door. There is plenty of overlap and interrelationships between these building blocks of architecture, so each chapter has the same; it's no surprise that "The Wall" chapter is longest, coming first and therefore rolling some discussion on the other elements within. It's clear from Wayne's presentation and discussion that he prefers architecture that thoughtfully builds upon its own history, regardless of style. For example, solid walls with windows are preferred over expansive glass curtain walls, except when the latter is layered with louvers that shields the summer sun's direct rays while bouncing them onto the ceiling for illumination. This does not mean windows are a certain size and location, but that architects consider them in terms of what they do—admitting light and air, framing views, etc.<br /><br />There isn't one preferred tactic or style in the book. Rather, Wayne argues for a re-orientation of architecture away from distractions of formal excess and toward sensible architecture that is cognizant of our current situation. This means that most practicing architects will be familiar with what Wayne is saying, though he says things in a way that is intelligent <i>and</i> entertaining. Therefore the book's ideal target audience are the students and young architects in love with the "exciting" buildings of Hadid, Gehry, and the like—these architects have their (small) place, but they should hardly be emulated at a time of economic and social inequality, environmental destruction, and political uncertainty.<br /><br /><b>US: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1490904557/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1490904557&linkCode=as2&tag=aweeklydoseof-20" target="_blank"><img alt="Buy from Amazon.com" border="0" src="http://www.archidose.org/books/buy-from-tan.gif" /></a> CA: <a href="http://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/1490904557/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1490904557&linkCode=as2&tag=aweeklydoseof-20" target="_blank"><img alt="Buy from Amazon.ca" border="0" height="28" src="http://www.archidose.org/books/buy-from-tan-ca.gif" width="90" /></a> UK: <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1490904557/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1490904557&linkCode=as2&tag=aweeklydoseof-20" target="_blank"><img alt="Buy from Amazon.co.uk" border="0" height="28" src="http://www.archidose.org/books/buy-from-tan-uk.gif" width="90" /></a></b>

Book Review: The Shape of Things that Work

The Shape of Things that Work: The Fourth Architecture by Curtis B. Wayne CreateSpace, 2013 Paperback, 102 pages In the title of New York C...