Argentine government may gain from World Bank default

<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhe2WZDOxAGhyphenhyphenLf7V9p3CZX6W-xD1c6V06jIViz_Oa02SzWw8lq_JAX2UyXt8kNN7Yua84e43TlNTu4QTPPQJvgRIycPisTC7g3fO9YzB3GgLCqTKVEw5njnLebg9JNh1ZV0sswwh40Da1L/s1600/partners_ifi.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="190" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhe2WZDOxAGhyphenhyphenLf7V9p3CZX6W-xD1c6V06jIViz_Oa02SzWw8lq_JAX2UyXt8kNN7Yua84e43TlNTu4QTPPQJvgRIycPisTC7g3fO9YzB3GgLCqTKVEw5njnLebg9JNh1ZV0sswwh40Da1L/s320/partners_ifi.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">International Financial Institutions and their blow to global economy</span></b> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: large;">It is now little over 10 years since Argentina defaulted on its debt to the WORLD BANK. Since the default Argentina experienced an astonishing economic recovery and now can look upon the EU, where some of the member states face similar situations as did Argentina 10 years ago. I have expressed my views on this subject numerous times on this block and will not reiterate those views. The reason I once again raise the subject is because I found an interesting article written in 2002 on Odious Debts website which does confirm my thesis on subject matter. I have added my comments below some of the paragraphs. The controversial actions and policies of the IMF and other International Financial Institutions has not changed the slightest, they are applying these devastating tactics today as much as they did 10 years ago!! </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: blue; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: large;">In November 2002 Interpress Service published an article written by Emad Mekay which reads as follows:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Interpress Service</span></b></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: large;">   November 22/2002 </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: blue; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Argentine government may gain from World Bank default</span></b></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: large;">   </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: large;">by Emad Mekay</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieMgMBycwIpQLKX0cBhr3oowVUlr_YQilv3zF0mzvs07N9eG9sxwaLmDMZjh-JsyQfuVMt30Ej2B8gSVrBQJz3wc9h1STs2g9UP-PCjo4NWx48inf8yaobQigEJAjFv91sApO4b0uAlq64/s1600/world_bank2112111111-640x480.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieMgMBycwIpQLKX0cBhr3oowVUlr_YQilv3zF0mzvs07N9eG9sxwaLmDMZjh-JsyQfuVMt30Ej2B8gSVrBQJz3wc9h1STs2g9UP-PCjo4NWx48inf8yaobQigEJAjFv91sApO4b0uAlq64/s320/world_bank2112111111-640x480.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: large;">Argentina's decision to default on its debt to the World Bank could hurt the country's poor but might also <u>prove beneficial in the long run</u>, some analysts here say. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: large;">Thursday's decision could also harm the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), both interested in maintaining their positions and reputations as superior patrons of the world economy. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: blue; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The IMF and its doctrine stirred Argentina’s economy into default in the first place, as it did to numerous other countries which were exposed to IMF policies.</span></i></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: large;">Argentina defaulted Thursday on its $ 805-million debt to the Bank, paying only a token amount of $ 79.2 million, prompting questions on the future of the cash-strapped Argentine economy and its relationship with the Bank and the Fund. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: blue; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">By breaking its ties with the IMF and the World Bank, Argentina managed to resurrect itself from the deathblow obtained from the two organizations. </span></i></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: large;">On Friday, Argentina blamed the default on savage policy recommendations by the IMF, which require the government to tighten its budget and anti-inflation measures before it can strike a deal for emergency funds. But Argentina may be already benefiting from the default decision, since it will have more cash on hand for social and health programs, much needed as the economy recovers painfully slowly. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: blue; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Cash for social and health programs to recover the economy is something the IMF and the Word Bank oppose vehemently because it lessens their influence and profit. The first austerity measures the IMF and World Bank ( who are technically speaking one entity) imposed on Greece and Italy were cuts in healthcare, education and social programs, thus leading the two nations into the same dilemma as Argentina faced 10 years ago.</span></i></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: large;">"In the long term, and for other countries, the impact could be very positive," said Soren Ambrose, of the Washington-based 50 Years Is Enough network. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">"This unique challenge to the power of the World Bank and IMF to dictate both macroeconomic policy and debt repayment terms could change the perception of their infallibility (or infinite power), he added. </span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: large;">Ambrose says that would give governments and civil society forces more room to plan, and to begin to whittle away at the overwhelming power wielded by the IMF, the Bank and other international financial institutions (IFIs), which has caused so much unnecessary poverty, deaths and suffering over the past few decades. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">By defaulting to the Bank, Buenos Aires may also be sending a message that it may no longer feel forced to accept the IFIs' programs, and that there are other alternatives, he added</span></b></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: large;">. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: blue; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Argentina has proved that there are other alternatives then IFIs programs and thus managed to recover its shattered economy without IFI “advises”, the results of which we are currently facing in Europe and the USA.</span></i></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: large;">In a report distributed electronically, the Brussels-based anti-debt group Eurodad argues that the World Bank might be equally harmed by the high-profile default, which could call into question the Bank's own creditworthiness and reputation. Bond-rating agencies could downgrade the ratings of the Bank's bonds, depriving the institution of its AAA rating, which allows the Bank to sell bonds to institutional investors as "blue chip" investments. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: blue; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Well that that did not happen because as it turned out the USA and the EU are waging a financial war and thus US rating agencies will hardly attack its own financial entities, which in a way the Word Bank is. See <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Bank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Bank</a></span></i></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="color: #ffc000; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="color: #ffc000;"> </span> </span></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: large;">If the contagion pushes other countries in the region into making similar defaults or refusals to deal on the IFIs' terms, the trend could spread, says Eurodad. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: large;">Already one of the biggest U.S. pension funds, TIAA-CREF (for retired teachers) has sold all its World Bank bonds, for what it called economic reasons.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: large;">But World Bank officials Friday vehemently denied that they would be hurt by the default. "Our capital is strong," said Chris Neal of the Bank's external relations arm. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: large;">After Thursday's default, Standard and Poor's Ratings Services said that it was affirming its credit ratings and outlook on the World Bank at 'AAA/Stable', along with those of other multilateral lending institutions with large credit exposures to the Argentina. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: large;">Eurodad also believes that if a country the size of Argentina defaulted, then others could follow. The South American nation is the fourth largest debtor of the Bank after China, Indonesia and Mexico and it is number one in terms of per-capita income. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: large;">It also differs substantially from other states to have already defaulted on World Bank debt - including Somalia, Iraq and Zimbabwe - in that it is part of the Western world and has considerable links with Northern institutions. The default could eat away at their credibility also, according to Eurodad. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: large;">Argentina owes $ 8.5 billion to another Washington-based IFI, the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: large;">If Argentina were to default on that loan, the IDB risks losing its triple-A rating, which could increase the cost of borrowing from the institution for other Latin American countries. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: blue; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">It is now 10 years later, and Argentina still has not paid the IDB without facing serious consequences. Argentina always expressed its willingness to pay its debt with the IDB and Paris Club if the conditions are fair and reasonable, but not under vulcher finance terms.</span></i></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: large;">Regardless of the potential damage to the IFIs from the defaults, Argentina still faces many hurdles to get its economy back in shape and rescue its population from internecine poverty. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: blue; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">We write 2012 and Argentinean economy is growing at rapid pace and poverty has been reduced significantly, despite being expelled from the international financial system, or as cynics might argue, because of being expelled Argentina managed showcase economic growth.</span></i></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: large;">The main obstacle, many say, is reaching a deal with the IMF, whose job is to bail out countries in fiscal trouble. The Fund has not reached out to Argentina since the country defaulted on its $ 140-billion debt last December, owed in part to private lenders. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: large;">The Fund is worried that plans put forward by President Eduardo Duhalde do not have enough political support at home. The Bank has backed IMF demands for a viable economic plan that has such support. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: large;">"Argentina needs to get an economic plan that has all of the political actors behind it and support first from Argentine's political class and then from the international community," said Neal of the Bank. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: large;">Among the sticking points in the talks is the IMF's request that Argentina increase the price of privatized public services. The IMF asked for a 30 percent increase while Argentinean officials offered 10 percent. The Fund also wants a tax increase but the government refused. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: blue; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Applying austerity on common citizen by requesting price hikes on privatized public services leads to stagnating growth. Since the European Union applied its austerity measures in 2011, as dictated by the IMF, its economy stagnated even more. “The IMF's  recipe for default.”</span></i></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: large;">The Fund also wants the country to immediately liberalize its exchange market, while leaders want a gradual move. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.odiousdebts.org/">http://www.odiousdebts.org</a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><br /></div>

Argentine government may gain from World Bank default

International Financial Institutions and their blow to global economy It is now little over 10 years since Argentina defaulted on its debt ...

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HG Bananarama Wafer Pudding + WWM

I have two awesome things to share with you today.  What should I save for last??? Hmm.<br /><br />Well, I have another small giveaway offer for you, though not in the traditional blogger giveaway fashion.<br /><br />The folks at Weight Watchers Magazine erroneously sent me two of their January/February 2012 issues.  If you're not already a subscriber to this awesome magazine, I'd highly reccomend considering it as a future investment.  They offer great recipes, inspirational success stories, and a host of other health related info that I actually find refreshing to read, as opposed to a science-laden and "according to ABC study from XYZ university" stuffy publication.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.popsessive.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/JHud-WW.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://www.popsessive.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/JHud-WW.jpg" width="232" /></a></div><br />So, who wants my extra copy?  The first person to comment on this blog stating their can't-live-without-it desires shall be graced with the J-Hud mag on their doorstep.  Simply leave a comment stating you want it, and email me your full name and mailing address (thebigweight AT hotmail DOT com).<br /><div style="color: purple;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: purple;">**********************</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Up next is this AWESOME Hungry Girl translation of a banana pudding trifle.  This is definitely one of my all time favorite desserts!</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">If you love these...:</div><div style="text-align: left;">  </div><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="http://momandwife.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/NannaPudding.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="298" src="http://momandwife.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/NannaPudding.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://momandwife.com/">Courtesy</a>.</td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">...then you will <i>definitely </i>find your BPT craving more than satisfied with her PointsPlus friendly version. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">You can find this recipe in Hungry Girl's first cookbook, or on her <a href="http://www.hungry-girl.com/show/moms-favorites-bananarama-wafer-pudding-recipe">website</a>. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://ebooks-imgs.connect.com/product/400/000/000/000/000/085/095/400000000000000085095_s4.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://ebooks-imgs.connect.com/product/400/000/000/000/000/085/095/400000000000000085095_s4.png" width="264" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><blockquote class="tr_bq"><div style="text-align: left;"><b><u>Hungry Girl: <a href="http://www.hungry-girl.com/show/moms-favorites-bananarama-wafer-pudding-recipe">Bananarama Wafer Pudding</a></u> - <i>4 PointsPlus</i></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>Ingredients</i></div><ul><li>    2 cups fat-free milk</li><li>    1 small (4-serving) package Jell-O Sugar Free Fat Free Instant Vanilla pudding mix</li><li>    24 Reduced Fat Nilla wafers</li><li>    2 medium bananas, sliced</li><li>    Optional topping: Cool Whip Free (thawed) or Fat Free Reddi-wip</li></ul><div style="text-align: left;"><i>Directions</i><br /><br />Combine milk with pudding mix in a bowl. Beat with an electric mixer or a whisk for 2 minutes, or until thoroughly blended. Set aside.<br /><br />In a medium size bowl or 9" X 9" baking pan, arrange a layer of wafers, flat sides down, and then top with a layer of banana slices. Continue alternating layers until all of the wafers and banana slices are in the bowl/pan.<br /><br />Top with the pudding mixture and let it seep down in between the wafer and banana layers. Cover and refrigerate for 2 - 3 hours. If you like, add whipped topping before serving!</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />MAKES 6 SERVINGS</div></blockquote><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">**There is still time to <a href="http://the-big-weight.blogspot.com/2012/01/its-giveaway.html">enter to win</a> a Zipfizz sample pack and water bottle!</div>

Hungry Girl Weight Watchers Magazine HG Bananarama Wafer Pudding + WWM

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Kim Novak in VERTIGO: A Hypnotic Presence

<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><i>by guest contributor Brandie Ashe</i></div><br /><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><div class="MsoNormal"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCyC0UNig7pyI6GigRvGJDUb8i_4qgf-z0lMdedU9XQpcaZFTH61Fj3ibX2BizLR0tqGIvDJldOEYbbIsIhviOEV_I7SWQu5Q19NZurGTFG4VRiaFk_XlDpZyCIXETAo-ydTm3FwXU7vQ/s1600/Kim+5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="355" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCyC0UNig7pyI6GigRvGJDUb8i_4qgf-z0lMdedU9XQpcaZFTH61Fj3ibX2BizLR0tqGIvDJldOEYbbIsIhviOEV_I7SWQu5Q19NZurGTFG4VRiaFk_XlDpZyCIXETAo-ydTm3FwXU7vQ/s400/Kim+5.jpg" width="400" /></a></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">Scratch the surface of the prototypical “Hitchcock blonde”—a cool, reserved exterior masking a fiery and determinedly passionate woman—and the subtle differences in their characterizations become more evident.  In her three films for the director, Grace Kelly’s characters are paragons of dignity, displaying a patrician façade that eventually gives way to a sizzling sexuality. Tippi Hedren’s two characters for Hitchcock have an overt veneer of sophistication that nonetheless belies an innate playfulness at the heart of each woman.  And in her three films for Hitch, Ingrid Bergman is the foreign exotic who smolders with a hint of endearing uncertainty.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /><a name='more'></a><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">But when it comes to the star of Hitchcock’s 1958 ode to obsession, <i>Vertigo</i>, the director carefully crafts yet another embodiment of flawed femininity: the duplicitous double—caught in a web of her own making—whose love for an equally flawed man will ultimately be her undoing. And to embody this complex creature, he turns (for the first and only time in his career) to a twenty-five year old relative newcomer, Kim Novak.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjECUwtP-GYzO-zXNBs4eOBeLAaNjtITIJNKk276ctH9-_UvLEE7ogCX5zFwrrOc8APBkuV40U5LodcPpGY-oEop2OCuIrt5jLw7FgTl7MeQBr3STDaUkDYlsrIiuLIuwNciSfd8qPV8mY/s1600/Kim+0.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjECUwtP-GYzO-zXNBs4eOBeLAaNjtITIJNKk276ctH9-_UvLEE7ogCX5zFwrrOc8APBkuV40U5LodcPpGY-oEop2OCuIrt5jLw7FgTl7MeQBr3STDaUkDYlsrIiuLIuwNciSfd8qPV8mY/s320/Kim+0.jpg" width="273" /></a></div>By the time she starred in <i>Vertigo</i>, Novak had appeared in only a handful of films over the previous five years. Her breakthrough came in 1955’s <i>Picnic, </i>in which she played a small-town Kansas beauty who falls for William Holden. That same year, Novak played Frank Sinatra’s love interest in the controversial Otto Preminger film about heroin addiction, <i>The Man with the Golden Arm</i>. She played early Broadway and screen star Jeanne Eagels in the same-titled biopic in 1957, and reteamed with Sinatra in the film version of the successful musical <i>Pal Joey</i>. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">In just a matter of three years, her small body of work, along with her stunning all-American blonde looks, garnered Novak a great deal of attention. But some film critics at the time were dismissive of Novak’s acting ability. A.H. Weiler’s <i>New York Times </i>review of <i>Pal Joey </i>called her performance merely “decorative,” and the same paper’s review of her performance in <i>Jeanne Eagels </i>wondered what “possessed Columbia to cast this comparative fledgling … as one of Broadway’s immortals” (though the reviewer did, in all fairness, go on to ultimately blame the film’s many problems on the lackluster script and direction).</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">Still, despite critics’ opinions of her talent, it is undeniable that in some of her roles, there is an almost hypnotic quality to Novak’s presence on the screen. Watch, for example, her sensual dance with William Holden in <i>Picnic</i>. As the strains of “Moonglow” play in the background, Novak begins to dance, her movements slow and deliberate, her eyes focused solely on her partner as they circle one another. She draws him—and us—in with a mere smoldering glance, a twitch of her hips, a slight swaying movement. The sexual tension is palpable, and it’s hard to take your eyes off Novak in the moment.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">Of all of the directors with whom the actress worked during her career, only Hitchcock was fully able to exploit this stirring hypnotic quality and use it to full advantage on the screen. In the process, the prolific director ultimately drew out of Novak what is arguably the greatest performance of her career.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><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/AVvXsEgmuGW9vTJ_aQDxWOmVA-3k06FuAP5xn4Ew4fMBbc7lAtMpLD4oh5Kk_9MX2JrTx1hNcOxGg9p2ZW3ghLMHHBe3j9b3GZs1A0PFJRh_enCwBAQ1wYuTkrG_VT7GFn_mzzAFtoPtTalddHs/s1600/Vera+Miles.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmuGW9vTJ_aQDxWOmVA-3k06FuAP5xn4Ew4fMBbc7lAtMpLD4oh5Kk_9MX2JrTx1hNcOxGg9p2ZW3ghLMHHBe3j9b3GZs1A0PFJRh_enCwBAQ1wYuTkrG_VT7GFn_mzzAFtoPtTalddHs/s200/Vera+Miles.jpg" width="150" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Vera Miles</td></tr></tbody></table>Novak was not the original choice to play Madeleine/Judy. Hitchcock had initially cast Vera Miles, with whom he had a heavy-handed personal contract. Hitchcock had adopted a Svengali-like attitude with Miles, trying to craft her into “his” type of actress by dictating her appearance and building her into a kind of Grace Kelly clone (as Hitch had recently lost his favorite star to Monaco’s Prince Rainier). But Miles was forced to drop out of the project due to pregnancy, and as a result, Hitchcock lost interest in the actress (though he would still go on to cast her as Janet Leigh’s sister in 1960’s <i>Psycho</i>). Years later, he would tell Francois Truffaut, “She became pregnant just before the part that was going to turn her into a star.”</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">It’s interesting to consider how closely Scottie’s attempts to “make over” Judy into “lost” love Madeleine mirror Hitchcock’s own attempts to craft Miles into the “perfect” cinematic star. More than any other film in his oeuvre, <i>Vertigo </i>represents Hitchcock’s cinematic quest to “build” the perfect woman, one made over in precisely the image he desires. To put it bluntly, Novak’s Madeleine/Judy most clearly embodies the old idiom (fully embraced by Hitchcock) that men want a lady in the drawing room and a whore in the bedroom. To that end, the character is a subtly sexy blonde whose deceptively icy, composed, and chic appearance hides a shrewd mind and a leashed, but potentially voracious sexuality. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSugckWtKs_Um1pn7XjgEt-KHalupjbIuVx2yTUt814B3NJnzLgWhivnq_lFnWT_yaBjyREkB00RzeRrQlLVk520srcKKNnOnSv7ORjUD2fS7wNQ5QI25Vq1v2-3KA5cHoMd9Up1hdiBE/s1600/judy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="243" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSugckWtKs_Um1pn7XjgEt-KHalupjbIuVx2yTUt814B3NJnzLgWhivnq_lFnWT_yaBjyREkB00RzeRrQlLVk520srcKKNnOnSv7ORjUD2fS7wNQ5QI25Vq1v2-3KA5cHoMd9Up1hdiBE/s320/judy.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>And yet, despite her flaws and her deceptive behavior, Madeleine/Judy is one of the more sympathetic Hitchcock blondes in that her struggle to reconcile her love for Scottie with her guilt over deceiving him about her role in the real Madeleine’s death forces the audience to feel some sense of compassion for her. We witness her dilemma; we understand intrinsically that her acquiescence to Scottie’s mad desire to recreate the “real” Madeleine comes from a place of desperate love. She agrees to let him clothe her in Madeleine’s sophisticated style, to have her makeup done and her nails shaped as Madeleine’s, and even gives in when Scottie insists she color her now-brown hair blonde. Her plaintive response to his pleas to dye her hair is heartbreaking in its eagerness to earn his love: “If I let you change it, will that do it? If I do what you tell me, will you love me?”</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">There are those who claim that Novak is too stiff in her performance in <i>Vertigo</i>, that there is something unnaturally wooden about her interpretation of Madeleine/Judy. But I tend to agree with film critic Roger Ebert, whose reflection on <i>Vertigo </i>praises Novak’s presentation of the character: “Ask yourself how you would move and speak if you were in unbearable pain, and then look again at Judy.” Every element of Novak’s performance, particularly in the wake of the real Madeleine’s death, is carefully constructed to convey the character’s inner turmoil. She has broken the rules—she has fallen in love with her mark. And her punishment is that he cannot love her as herself, as Judy: he needs “Madeleine.” She knows nothing she does short of donning the mantle of “Madeleine” once more will earn her what <i>she</i> needs from him. It’s the last thing she wants to do … and yet, because she loves Scottie, she cannot—will not—deny him his desire.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />The entire film comes down to that single five-minute sequence in which Judy “becomes” Madeleine again. Scottie waits impatiently for Judy to return from her makeover, and is displeased that her newly blonde hair has not been pulled back from her face in Madeleine’s signature updo. He sends her into the bathroom to complete the transformation and waits anxiously for her to emerge. When she does, she is bathed in a hypnotic, strange green light (ostensibly reflected from the neon sign hanging outside the hotel room window), a dreamlike effect that makes it appear as though Madeleine is moving back from the murky past into the solid present. This sense is highlighted through Hitchcock’s brilliant composition of the scene, as Scottie kisses Madeleine and is swept back into a memory of their time together in San Juan Batista while the camera rotates around the embracing couple in a smooth 360 turn.<br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/2xYRUJUJNSw" width="560"></iframe></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuBi7_hApra8uMCqPmSPSjpC4K3Ah3QNTpACo2jQzOMW-3iMEjrruoyQwGW3_fQEmxuEGneAj6mEzmrNSG9cI7sYuObX8pNKx2ceAI5oOt9RegODmV82A1tRvkrPfJX_vpMdenyC1f-_g/s1600/Kim+7.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">The uncertain, yearning expressions on her face, the stilted movements of her body as she walks in that gray suit once more—everything Novak does is masterfully composed in order to show us just how miserable Judy’s situation really is in that moment. “Judy” is now the one who is dead and Madeleine—the double, the false identity—is her new reality, and must remain so if she wishes to keep Scottie’s love and attention. And the utter hopelessness that comes from that realization is written all over Novak’s face in this scene, effectively foreshadowing Madeleine’s second (and permanent) demise.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">It is fitting that <i>Vertigo </i>has, in retrospect, turned out to be the defining role of Kim Novak’s career, because the film features what is undoubtedly the best performance she ever gave on-screen. Her role as Madeleine/Judy remains one of the most intriguing Hitchcock blondes, a mesmerizingly intense woman brought to blazing, impressive life by a truly talented young performer in the capable hands of a truly talented director in his prime. I can’t help but imagine what more Hitchcock and Novak could have done, had they been paired in another film together at some point. What other depths could he have uncovered in her, and what other cinematic brilliance could they have created, had they just been given the opportunity?<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0ym3jJlLwr1W2mVotHUlFMa6pD6buisRAYQytn1yqsfYYh5JooMKyKX74HrlUrHGWvuIZNXo6PevcsBVONUbH6Tnyd8b5GC5Mh6rV_fmpe-P676HcCnfY42duobVrD9dJMjpjFL-6YS0/s1600/Kim+6+b.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0ym3jJlLwr1W2mVotHUlFMa6pD6buisRAYQytn1yqsfYYh5JooMKyKX74HrlUrHGWvuIZNXo6PevcsBVONUbH6Tnyd8b5GC5Mh6rV_fmpe-P676HcCnfY42duobVrD9dJMjpjFL-6YS0/s1600/Kim+6+b.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div><div style="text-align: center;">~ </div><br /><i><b>Brandie Ashe</b> is a freelance writer and editor from Alabama. An inveterate classic movie fan since discovering the films of Shirley Temple and the Marx Brothers as a child, she indulges her obsession at her blog, <a href="https://trueclassics.wordpress.com/" style="color: #990000;">True Classics</a>. In 2011 True Classics was honored with two CiMBA Awards from the Classic Movie Blog Assn., one for </i>Best Classic Movie Blog Event<i> and another for </i>Best Profile of a Filmmaker<i>. In addition, her blog was nominated for a 2011 Lammy  Award  from the </i><i>Large Assn. of Movie Blogs </i><i>in the </i>Best Classic Movie Blog<i> category. </i><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDL7FW4SJAv96wofn9fZki_a-k9M0afgN2c6ct1FWX-P-EhwXtBRouQgIZYVf0sEg-uXMQ2BiEIGnLhLLPf5CwTkvdDZCIQhdV9k_u0s5EYkv2fxeELwo8wMI4JO-at6S27pgV65NBnfg/s1600/True+Classics+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="153" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDL7FW4SJAv96wofn9fZki_a-k9M0afgN2c6ct1FWX-P-EhwXtBRouQgIZYVf0sEg-uXMQ2BiEIGnLhLLPf5CwTkvdDZCIQhdV9k_u0s5EYkv2fxeELwo8wMI4JO-at6S27pgV65NBnfg/s400/True+Classics+2.jpg" width="400" /></a></div></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div></div></div></div>

A Month of Vertigo Alfred Hitchcock Brandie Ashe Kim Novak Vertigo Kim Novak in VERTIGO: A Hypnotic Presence

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10 things to do after the interview

<br /><div class="ArticleHeadline" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: -30px;"><div class="hdr_org_bld" style="color: #ff6600; font: normal normal bold 18px/normal arial, helvetica;"><h1 id="articleHeadline" style="color: #ff7700; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span id="cbArticle_lblHeadline">10 things to do after the interview</span></h1></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://emj.cbdr.com/artieimages/17/ar5f0kh6sb2l55jzlz17.gif?time=10/7/2011%2012:16:05%20pm" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://emj.cbdr.com/artieimages/17/ar5f0kh6sb2l55jzlz17.gif?time=10/7/2011%2012:16:05%20pm" /></a></div><div style="color: #333333; font: italic normal normal 16px/normal arial, helvetica;"><span id="cbArticle_lblHeadline2">How to keep the momentum going</span></div><b><span id="cbArticle_lblByLine">Beth Braccio Hering, Special to CareerBuilder</span></b><br /><br /><div class="cbmsnArticleImage">The interview may be over, but your chance to make an impression is not. Here are 10 strategies to continue boosting your candidacy.</div></div><div class="ArticleContent" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b>1. Show that you're still interested.</b></div><div style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Leave no doubt in the interviewer's mind about where you stand. Ask for the job at meeting's end with a phrase such as, "I would really like to contribute to this company and am hoping you select me." Also, don't leave the room without a clear idea of what will happen next in the hiring process. Will select applicants be invited back to meet other people? By what date do they hope to fill the position? Such questions demonstrate enthusiasm for the job, and knowing the hirer's timeframe will help keep you from panicking if a week has passed without a phone call.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b>2. Set the stage for further contact.</b></div><div style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Nobody wants to be a pest, but could your silence as days pass be misinterpreted as indifference? Avoid the guesswork by finding out before heading home what the employer prefers in terms of checking in. Lizandra Vega, author of "The Image of Success: Make a Great Impression and Land the Job You Want," suggests asking the recruiter about her preferred method of follow-up communication and whether it would be okay to touch base again.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b>3. Be punctual.</b></div><div style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">If you tell the interviewer you'll send a list of references tomorrow morning, make sure you do it. Keeping your word and answering requests in a timely manner speaks volumes about the type of employee you might be.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b>4. Know when to sit tight.</b></div><div style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">If an interviewer requests that you follow up by phone in a week, respect her wishes. Calling the next day can be construed as pushy and desperate.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b>5. Send a prompt thank-you note.</b></div><div style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">A positive, nonintrusive way to stay on an employer's mind is to send a thank-you note. Vega recommends emailing one within 24 hours of the interview, then following up with a handwritten note that arrives one to three business days later.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b>6. Send each interviewer a personalized, powerful follow-up letter.</b></div><div style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">This piece of communication is another chance for you to shine, so don't waste space with generalities. Ford R. Myers, a career coach and author of "Get the Job You Want, Even When No One's Hiring," recommends including specific references to each person you met and tying your accomplishments directly to the company's stated challenges. You also can use the letter to introduce achievements that didn't get discussed and to elaborate on interview answers that you felt lacked punch.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b>7. Address one of the company's needs.</b></div><div style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Another effective way to follow up is to act more like a consultant than an applicant. "During the interview, you learn a lot about a company's weaknesses and/or areas where the company wants to expand," states Linda Matias, president of CareerStrides.com and author of "201 Knockout Answers to Tough Interview Questions." "Consider creating a proposal on how you would address one of those areas. Doing so will demonstrate that you have the knowledge and also the enthusiasm to make a significant contribution."</div><div style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b>8. Keep thinking and learning about the company.</b></div><div style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Be prepared for additional interviews or follow-up phone calls by continuing to research the organization and the field. Gain new information about a topic brought up in conversation. Think of additional questions you'd like answered. These actions show the hirer that you didn't stop caring about the company after the interview was over.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b>9. Leverage outside resources.</b></div><div style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Networking should never stop. "If you have contacts and connections with anyone who might influence the hiring decision, or who actually knows the interviewer, ask her to put a good word in for you," Myers says.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b>10. Accept rejection with grace.</b></div><div style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Finally, keep emotions in check and don't burn bridges if someone else gets hired. One never knows what the future might hold. The accepted candidate may not work out, or a different position may open up. "If you are rejected, the first thing you should do (ironically) is send a thank-you note," Myers says. "This will help distinguish you from other rejected candidates and put you in a positive light."</div><i>Beth Braccio Hering researches and writes about job search strategy, career management, hiring trends and workplace issues for CareerBuilder. Follow @Careerbuilder on Twitter.</i> </div>

10 things to do after the interview

10 things to do after the interview How to keep the momentum going Beth Braccio Hering, Special to CareerBuilder The interview may be over, ...

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tommy smythe get out of my dreams

...and into my car. More cheese at this table please! (I just heard that song this AM so I have to make others suffer with me. You're welcome.)<br /><br />OK, what was a saying?<br /><br />Ahh yes, Tommy.<br /><br />Thru the craziness of getting back into the post-holiday school/work routine and 3 people down with sickness(es) I'm just now getting to my January issue of the beloved House and Home. (this is where you put your hand over your heart)<br /><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/AVvXsEjPSF_QkUD4itLVsGNcMfHrPJztGk9vVXbrRQmfy_C4hllwM2_gmGEomc_jzJYZT1Gp_kjY43ps_Q2tJef9pStH8bUSju9NtH0o40TApF5O6_WH1oT5KcsV0Qlj1z2Bo6fnkJkRvGuSpeZf/s1600/HouseandHomeJan12.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="187" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPSF_QkUD4itLVsGNcMfHrPJztGk9vVXbrRQmfy_C4hllwM2_gmGEomc_jzJYZT1Gp_kjY43ps_Q2tJef9pStH8bUSju9NtH0o40TApF5O6_WH1oT5KcsV0Qlj1z2Bo6fnkJkRvGuSpeZf/s320/HouseandHomeJan12.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">House and Home <a href="http://www.blogger.com/blog_this.pyra?t=&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.zinio.com%2Fpages%2FHouse%26Home%2FJan-12%2F416202674%2Fpg-66&n=Page+66+of+House" target="_blank">January 2012 issue</a></td></tr></tbody></table><br />Tommy Smythe is a genius.  A genius that creates big piles of awesome every day. The kitchen. The red chesterfield. The paint in the powder room.<br /><br />Get a copy of House and Home and a bottle of wine. Now that's entertainment.

tommy smythe get out of my dreams

...and into my car. More cheese at this table please! (I just heard that song this AM so I have to make others suffer with me. You're we...

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Bring technology into your Foundation Phase Reading lessons

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /><span style="font-size: small;">Here in South Africa the 2012 year has started and the Foundation Phase (Grades R-3) has started implementing the new CAPS curriculum. I thought this would be a great opportunity to draw your attention to 12 websites that have great reading material for your young learners.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">1. </span><b><span style="font-size: large;">Storyline Online</span><br /></b><a href="http://www.storylineonline.net/">http://www.storylineonline.net/</a></span><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span><br /><div style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">This site is presented by the Screen Actors Guild  Foundation. This is an online video programme with their members reading stories aloud. Each story has some activity suggestions plus a further Activity Guide download with some superb activities and ideas on it. </span></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjg_Z0PJX5geYakFuKCz4JCzGUptGwTH74n-1xd4-wQ9MoWjylZfa9pxMfgh17zPUk8aoPRN57lvOTvx0J3QdxJKzENIdJ4TkafWWwGFlwAWVudTfW2mUzHtkQvuXNlSo3owZ0lZd-ecqQ/s1600-h/image3.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="281" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1za-7oAEypxrrZJBkzmsCVE4wbCKilG0exQlDgOIESOone6b9h_hAuUKa-3IW3UP5XmOyqJ0gnfND99ZQPzWKMHezx3dbsJV84GRlNgUageb13aQ9rgPY2cPuIzxMOHuUvUa_uU3435E/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-width: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="320" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: large;">2. </span><b><span style="font-size: large;">The Tale of Peter Rabbit</span><br /></b></span><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.rif.org/assets/interactive/peter_rabbit.html">http://www.rif.org/assets/interactive/peter_rabbit.html</a></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: small;">This is Beatrix Potter’s famous tale beautifully retold using the original drawings and showing the words so that the learners can read along.</span><br /><span style="font-size: small;"> </span> <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="209" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoLR1cK8s_EBDln6NX7KR0o3u1wtbWlFdkly1D2lMtiHbsYJduQ63yzYGvlfYdnKDoO8EUFM6ywUh4I0-fzwng6-35Cgmvn0cxA1fE03nRce4bMVMWJVc2d7iLcut8K8COC3rjGLHGG7A/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-width: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: large;">3. <b>Speakaboos</b></span><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.speakaboos.com/stories">http://www.speakaboos.com/stories</a></span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjniea2oekjgXyxEFHP_smNKfNKsvFpNm_UZhXuYHg6Wzz89hrehy7owfhY5FzXWDz53kNg0UdRto5w6wHPP-Vq4kdj4H3jVkNmFIQzQETdwlqZnzR_Bi4V4FCS2nimtgcgsXFFigYnffI/s1600-h/image311.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="220" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1hFdhP6qmZbBM7GhhRbr5sj6e1PR3icCMa1VcOrnGyv8vJEn5EAdVzfy0ttorArUbBicajKLk5y57G3DZgu4QbUB8ouqnwA6w9zz9Qgn-pxOOJ21CUvRJy4GxWOkQ0GbZZd9jW0Xaux0/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-width: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="320" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: large;">4. <b>Riffs Reading Planet</b></span><br /></span><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.rif.org/kids/readingplanet/bookzone/read_aloud_stories.htm">http://www.rif.org/kids/readingplanet/bookzone/read_aloud_stories.htm</a></span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="312" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhz5K1GizOa1Azxa123AylIWF-djxbH7XnYGLXivRfjnVQ1czcT_JqHuPFPSo2LFRn54zCqHPozWLzrDolNzAjf_1qwSkFbQXFtr6XZ37m1SnH6t5SyhbzcSS07ZegVaFYhb0rBhG0PqE8/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-width: 0px; display: inline; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="320" /></span></div><br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: large;">5. </span><b><span style="font-size: large;">Topmarks</span><br /></b></span><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://topmarks.co.uk/EducationalGames.aspx?cat=37">http://topmarks.co.uk/EducationalGames.aspx?cat=37</a></span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdd0eoG8tA0CSbA4RL0p9ETqdCosw0UkyYXA6wUxo39CTH0YDiZxzvy8kRAhy0O_qLdHZHfdTbe-t9xv9ssHhs5OR1dYmWxY5GNe0mgHjLf83ITV0No6T1VOW3xhZSVqHq-XxTduETApQ/s1600-h/image10.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="286" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqjMazASOyoG0GblNhmFBV6hYA7_aFYgBowO9wLlqRN3ogWZBkofNb_X6Ss8rqKj4rnxnJIfvqHUtE2fG4tyK5H_CR-Th0G-qmhak3UT82qtjmJ8Uh6gGwdk_YhxKoYsUOI5HCY68QMEY/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-width: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: large;">6. <b>Meegenius e-books for kids</b></span><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.meegenius.com/store/books/free/">http://www.meegenius.com/store/books/free/</a></span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidOm0LuF4EwVHbExRYvtowiq2IwKZNMlN8XaadUejavGkN6MiLW01GjwHr36c1i3FNs_eR5wk8RyEh6dGB66Mu5zWl6UcNrRmEvNU_e9JoMI73jL2A7CL1qKSqhcB0SPaFITGAW9L_Bwo/s1600-h/image141.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="235" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi93pQtWZUPjwwaYB_ok2Pmmfcrn9SJV7G3fY0C5lNdcD9PQjj37A2ptkikpudWao_s8reDfls-_AeHWZ6I_v-7Xq5965ySvwSwQZOggFAcFk47WES0e8IaBMzDzjxBLaPf-Lc4d7MgR9Y/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-width: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="320" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: large;">7.  </span><b><span style="font-size: large;">AOL Kids</span><br /></b></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><a href="http://kids.aol.com/KOL/2/koljrstories/archive/animal-stories">http://kids.aol.com/KOL/2/koljrstories/archive/animal-stories</a></span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqHUg73gBsxTblpyMADMDIbFNLUvYZtwFpTQlOv_Jouhf4sL3_wGmRU5U5Ui6UckUtrUi0EB7NF0J4aNanlRkdwTyazQK6-HBMeXLERs1-AltAvWkx6KbdVBcIYdLdNwSF2x4gj2qEfDU/s1600-h/image17.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiC7TLVM-6EuZUOcqWN4-ZtLtnLU89_hlzFuLBGviNnp7o1BUC7uOlPFG1-C1rD-UT1FZoQyd9q1m68OHXIIR2N1YrY7YgnZmtVc3dsBJ4MOysUzq01wjbNubSkvPzKj-egmAy3YHHM08/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-width: 0px; display: inline; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: large;">8. <b>PBS Kids</b></span><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><a href="http://pbskids.org/lions/stories/">http://pbskids.org/lions/stories/</a></span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2ZXhL0V7rLUGyIAOV3Qwu2yOcv9rcLgILXuEbs2sr5v-mBNpol19qROFXULl74pvb6BtV7Ur6LYWedpLb-R_53a_xXgN2Y7tD_Uap-Ydlvq0_76W1VvZ-KDw57vNiqGqM5MRw8Kg3rdE/s1600-h/image20.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="292" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWDE1ZBGjmAmLvqY3W3p2hjstc-5PvR9gh_rkbg1K3ekdpxP9gZec_8wM8s2Y7Bkc_L6361JIPovstu4CAkfoy7wD8bXU4SCfg-vAAo7dHVuO_UpsS1pg8fjjHF3lhbZ5yJsMAyw-2eXo/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-width: 0px; display: inline; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="320" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: large;">9. </span><b><span style="font-size: large;">Read to me</span><br /></b></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.readtomelv.com/current-books/">http://www.readtomelv.com/current-books/</a></span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRBAqZEZJzsshuQ1LEtNPNHz2gHfYmncbFsAaknxMYWUqBZj61vAMc9xwovZjx7gM_BkQJ8DbBMsVOiBs7GOG0Msb6_D-36ubOG2u3dBjOMasCOfjchN_VrrShwG4JfcqyaTBYgGXDEgM/s1600-h/image24.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="233" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4Iyio0KN6ytqp4h3Onz7k8g2IfxcwDaok9dFn2ewUTMvzB6zntfdKESXNOzU60ltCRuJh8DfQJBmpeT7JBY0-krYN5SA1Mtjmn68FMlk-dGcknshy0KujxA1Bb3SbEWH0ycueGgfZnu0/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-width: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="320" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: large;">1</span><span style="font-size: large;">0. <b>National Geographic Young Explorer</b></span><br /></span><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.nationalgeographic.com/ngyoungexplorer/moreissues.html">http://www.nationalgeographic.com/ngyoungexplorer/moreissues.html</a></span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipjXc-ig3xbZdy5wxqAhBm869wSW_lSVyQ2iu15fQIhJcpYi6DLXVlfYnlRrNGrx38UYjNry1mv8WW0VlPPQP33PhUa7yCEcsTSwFwtpbSFqZLxT9U4JDURFKoHMMde-tCD3U-7lpI_Ag/s1600-h/image27.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="268" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6w1WeAJvuTcgEZlFZSjSZihhvAX0m6Zv5alsdA0fqZwnZc1rMvDKaE3JHZav8mSzTZpyiMgZF2TtGoMPFRlv9Z6yc77udCPJMeENVAGzkE9FAvcWynB796W2-TH3ltM2Yvk56p7aHRJE/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-width: 0px; display: inline; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: large;">11. </span><b><span style="font-size: large;">Starfall</span><br /></b></span><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.starfall.com/">http://www.starfall.com/</a></span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKraRp6stYP1W4VFVCZ_bMjPrFnpr0wbWIuj06Dfno6fAj8MzR90Da35au29Z_Ex675GNdn0DbbvyYrP-R_tsEjCqBwiFvCm_nMJ59Qs0Snov0-t486QbVlbN07v18gAgUDg5wla0Tmao/s1600-h/image30.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="187" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwjtmf05WYsGG7T7TIV8Ix1QPn4I2VT_hWZgouM8EboEXkfIiW6ZMhtH8KgtsWed0EqKEAcgWqb1UGotu88ZBVVROdetZb9ofHzar-A8L7fHzP_beK_x_YaG52Momfp0GjnoL13EgcXX8/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-width: 0px; display: inline; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="320" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: large;">12. <b>Short stories</b></span><br /></span><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/childrenindex.html">http://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/childrenindex.html</a></span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3SobvCWPEJC6BJd7oR8uCrgAPWoHLqxyExQ1nj_QyqLPpi1_bvcdHDWew3BwZiuhQoqgv7LSnDu8gAZ59mZD0poeXo_TOs_ToCJbYZo-0Ct8HQzWsPSTicnhRYc-npaLIGVy20rVBC8I/s1600-h/image33.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="207" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilYqig98pYxReWeSMjlN4YeideTKmIqiWJ_-zwwZehyphenhyphenA85LXiQfXqA8okj46zsCikIjD2y7NQ2t9VLr_3SHuxOhzfPoayfyY3omDjrt6fozmhVPMAiKruFaKvIiqN_-2VdhS32WVxk6qQ/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-width: 0px; display: inline; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Classroom application</span><br /></b><span style="font-size: small;">Perhaps you don’t have the facilities to make use of these in your classroom – but have you ever considered creating a classroom blog? You could then list these websites on the blog so that parents can make use of them at home. </span></span></div>

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She was recently diagnosed with thyroid cancer and underwent surgery, which gave rise to a deep outpouring of support for the popular leader. Our Read My Lips presents her vision for Argentina’s future.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div></td> </tr></tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MsoNormalTable" style="mso-cellspacing: 0in; mso-padding-alt: 0in 0in 0in 0in; mso-yfti-tbllook: 1184; width: 100.0%;"> <tbody><tr style="mso-yfti-firstrow: yes; mso-yfti-irow: 0; mso-yfti-lastrow: yes;"> <td style="padding: 0in 0in 0in 0in; width: 285.0pt;" valign="top" width="380"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 4;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">1. What made your reelection historic?</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">"I have the honor to be the first woman to be reelected in the country. What more could I want?” </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">(October 2011) </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 4;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">2. Do women bring a unique perspective to politics?</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">"Women bring a different face to politics. We see the big geopolitical picture — but also the smaller, daily details of citizens' lives.” </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">(February 2008) </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 4;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">3. How so?</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">“We're wrapped up as much in what our daughter's school principal says as we are in what the newspapers are saying." </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">(February 2008) </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 4;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">4. What’s the main goal of your second term in office?</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">"Count on me to continue deepening a national project that has helped to improve the lives of 41 million Argentines.” </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">(October 2011) </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 4;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">5. Are you committed to changing Argentina?</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">"We have to think of a different country, where whoever comes builds on top of what's already been done.” </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">(October 2011) </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 4;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">6. Can you be considered an activist president?</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">“That's the Argentina I dream of, where we have continuity of national political projects for the country." </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">(October 2011) </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 4;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">7. What ideal guides your presidency?</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">"This woman isn't moved by any interest. The only thing that moves her is profound love for the country. Of that I'm responsible.” </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">(October 2011) </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 4;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">8. What is your hope for Argentina’s future?</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">“We will continue growing, with social inclusion, with justice, memory and truth.” </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">(August 2011) </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 4;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">9. Do you credit your late husband for your political success?</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">"This man who transformed Argentina led us all and gave everything he had and more. Without him, without his valor and courage, it would have been impossible to get to this point." </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">(October 2011) </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 4;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">10. And finally, what’s a key to being a successful leader?</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">"The worst that people can be is small. In history, you always must be bigger still — more generous, more thoughtful, more thankful." </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">(October 2011) </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><i><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 7.5pt;">Each edition of "Read My Lips" presents quotes made by the featured individual at the time specified in the answers. However, it is a "virtual" interview only — insofar as we have added questions in order to provide a better context to the thoughts expressed.</span></i><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div></td> </tr></tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div>

Cristina Kirchner on Argentina's Future by The Globalist, Monday 09 Jan 2012   In October 2011, Cristina F...

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Weekend Recap + Weekly Goals

I could have used another day in this weekend to just relax and do nothing.  I'm normally very good about getting plenty of sleep and sticking to a somewhat regular schedule, but this weekend I was allll over the place and struggling to fall asleep at night.  Today I'm dragging my feet big time!<br /><br />I spent a lot of time wedding planning this past weekend, which was both fun and stressful at times.  I'm heavily utilizing Pinterest to keep track of my inspiration.  I think the stressful part is the overwhelming number of ideas and sites and themes to pick from online.  I'm going for a rustic/country theme and my colors are deep purple and brown with accents of sunflowers.  As always, I welcome any advice/tips in this arena!  <br /><br />My WW week has been off to a great start, even with an eating out session on Saturday night.  I've been staying on plan and tracking, tracking, tracking and I hope it pays off come Friday.  I did a sneak weigh in over the weekend to discover I was down to my lowest weight yet, so I hope I can continue this downward trend the rest of the week.  I'm working toward my next goal of 238 pounds. <br /><br />As part of my weekly goals, I've been working to get myself back on track with my gym attendance.  My goal right now and for the rest of January will be to continue going 2 days/week for 35 minutes.  It's more than doable and I'm all about easily obtainable goals right now.  I achieved this goal last week and I'm well on my way to achieving it this week as well. <br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEPHHXZcGayhBxS9vC7YcoFq6_ZHzGYSWuOo-BlOdbMWpof09vHPM20Oa2UQfXqzy0bmBTUxveiaJW5X_APpzAfF_nB2GxclJGudMWazU-Mg7SUXmA6CUvvFRcVYsiloZLUl2ZEVaEQ0A/s1600/weight-watchers-diet.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEPHHXZcGayhBxS9vC7YcoFq6_ZHzGYSWuOo-BlOdbMWpof09vHPM20Oa2UQfXqzy0bmBTUxveiaJW5X_APpzAfF_nB2GxclJGudMWazU-Mg7SUXmA6CUvvFRcVYsiloZLUl2ZEVaEQ0A/s1600/weight-watchers-diet.jpg" /></a></div><br /><b><span style="color: blue;">Goals for the week:</span></b><br />Stay within daily Points+ allowance (39) for 5 of the 7 days. If I have to delve in to the Weekly Points+ allowance, I want to use no more than 34 of them, leaving a balance of 15. <br /> <br /><div style="text-align: left;"> <br /><b style="color: blue;">Potential Challenges + Solutions:</b></div><ol><li><b>No Microwave:</b> Our microwave just died a week ago and we still don't have a new one yet.  Our landlord has to go through an insurance process in order to get us another one.  You never realize how much you use this appliance until it's gone!  It's proving to be a real challenge because EVERYTHING has to be heated up on the stove or in the oven, which takes longer.  The opportunity has already arisen numerous times to say, "Ehh, I don't feel like waiting for this item to heat up in the oven, I'm just going to go to McDonald's/Five Guys/whatever.. 1 time won't hurt!"  I haven't given in to that statement, I've just been having odd meals (like cheese and crackers) instead because they are quick and satisfy the hunger cravings right away.  </li></ol><b style="color: blue;">Planned Activity: </b><br />2 active days this week.  1 of those days has already been crossed off.<br /><br /><div style="color: purple;"><b>What are you up to this week?  Did you have a great On Plan weekend?</b></div><br />Don't forget to <a href="http://the-big-weight.blogspot.com/2012/01/its-giveaway.html">enter for a chance</a> to win a free sample pack of Zipfizz!<br />

Weekend Recap Weekly Weight Watchers Goals Weekend Recap + Weekly Goals

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Rettungspakete aus Athen

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src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNWdvB0nmTNzOm2ObT2zny-TenrGlUs_6YlzmpAlLfxOevKZRwPkjSvCSBNFC3AgqFixQBg5NzdNyXNIwVoTOaoweSA1tpDWKPOqnLVGAyU_PKVxwZ7G3wLerGUlce_MpHFAoLguhPhlAy/s400/96246-The-Economy-and-Banks-by-Kap-La-Vanguardia-Spain-515x325.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;"><b><span lang="DE-AT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-ansi-language: DE-AT; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Banken-Bailout statt Griechenland-Hilfe: Wohin die Gelder wirklich fließen</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 1;"><b><span lang="DE-AT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 24.0pt; mso-ansi-language: DE-AT; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;"><br /></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 1;"><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"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">Von Jan PEHRKE</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><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";">Viele der nach Griechenland geschickten Kreditpakete erhalten in Athen lediglich einen anderen Adress-Aufkleber und gehen zur Schuldentilgung unverzüglich weiter an Banken, Versicherungen und Fondsgesellschaften. Nach unterschiedlichen Berechnungen kann das Land von den gewährten Krediten lediglich 20 bis 40 Prozent für seinen Haushalt nutzen.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </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 November erhielt Griechenland die sechste Tranche des Rettungspaketes. 5,8 Milliarden Euro brachten die Staaten der Euro-Zone auf; 2,2 Milliarden steuerte der Internationale Währungsfonds bei. Allerdings machte sich ein Großteil des Geldes schon bald wieder auf die Reise. "Vier Fünftel der Tranche werden für Zins und Tilgungszahlungen verwendet, mehr als die Hälfte fließt zurück ins Ausland. Die von den Steuerzahlern der Geberländer finanzierte Tranche geht also wesentlich an die Finanzhäuser der Geberländer zurück", konstatierte der Ökonom Jens Bastian laut FAZ auf einer Tagung der Südosteuropa-Gesellschaft. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </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";">Zulauf für Agitatoren Bastian, der der Task-Force der EU für Griechenland angehört und in Athen für die politische Stiftung ELIAMEP arbeitet, findet das auch gar nicht anstößig, aber um die Außenwirkung sorgt er sich doch ein bisschen. "Daran ist nichts auszusetzen, nur verschafft diese Rechnung Agitatoren Zulauf", gibt die FAZ seine Worte wieder. </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: 12pt;">Die Expertise, auf die er sich beruft, stammt vom US-amerikanischen Hedge-Fonds "TF Market Advisors". Nach einer Analyse </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";"> von dessen Gründer Peter Tchir gehen von den acht Milliarden Euro der letzten Tranche 40 Prozent an ausländische Finanzhäuser, 18 Prozent erhält die Europäische Zentralbank (EZB), 23 Prozent bekommen griechische Banken und Pensionsfonds, wobei sie einen Teil des Geldes auch gleich wieder an die EZB abführen müssen, und lediglich 19 Prozent des Betrages fließen in den Staatshaushalt. </span></div><table border="0" cellpadding="0" class="MsoNormalTable" style="mso-cellspacing: 1.5pt; mso-yfti-tbllook: 1184; width: 100.0%;"> <tbody><tr style="mso-yfti-firstrow: yes; mso-yfti-irow: 0; mso-yfti-lastrow: yes;"> <td style="padding: .75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt;"><br /></td> </tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjB4MC5-jfPZk1UKbOExtLzh1OstrQreBcbF_e1pGywbJ61Vuc1bhjqtqKoCySVlVemDjc-Ocs8XZ-aljOJRMFgy8RKiy_db9t7OZ8Epp-9Q4vADD4o0lsodO50E7y5sNla5huiakoHDFwS/s1600/images.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="179" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjB4MC5-jfPZk1UKbOExtLzh1OstrQreBcbF_e1pGywbJ61Vuc1bhjqtqKoCySVlVemDjc-Ocs8XZ-aljOJRMFgy8RKiy_db9t7OZ8Epp-9Q4vADD4o0lsodO50E7y5sNla5huiakoHDFwS/s320/images.jpg" width="320" /></a></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";">Nach Tchirs Ansicht helfen die Kredite daher nur einer Gruppe: den Geldhäusern. Er plaediert </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://investmentwatchblog.com/any-greek-restructuring-should-be-designed-to-trigger-a-credit-event/"><span lang="DE-AT" style="color: blue; mso-ansi-language: DE-AT;"></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";"> aus diesem Grund dafür, einen Schnitt zu machen und Griechenland Pleite gehen zu lassen, um dann mit dem Neuaufbau zu beginnen. Den Verdacht, eine Banken-Kritik aus dem Munde eines Hedge-Fonds-Managers könnte vielleicht interessengeleitet sein, weist Peter Tchir vehement zurück. Hedge-Fonds hätten nicht - oder nicht mehr - via Kreditausfallversicherungen, so genannten Credit Default Swaps (CDS), auf einen Bankrott gewettet, beteuert er. Das mag stimmen, trotzdem leidet seine Branche massiv unter der bisherigen Politik. </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";">Nach bisherigen Informationen wird nämlich die International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA), der unter anderem die Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs und der Finanzinvestor Blackrock angehören, den auf dem EU-Gipfel im Oktober beschlossenen Verzicht privater Gläubiger auf 100 Milliarden Euro nicht als Konkurs bzw. "Kreditereignis" werten. </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: 12pt;">Deshalb werden die CDS nicht zum Tragen kommen und somit zu Tchirs Bedauern als Chips an den Spieltischen der internationalen Finanz-Casinos ziemlich an Bedeutung verlieren. Dabei haben die ISDA-Mitglieder natürlich auch an sich gedacht: Allein die deutschen Banken haben ihren Kunden für über acht Milliarden Euro Kreditausfallversicherungen für Staatsanleihen verkauft. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><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";">37 Milliarden für die Schuldentilgung</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </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 Zahlen von "TF Market Advisors" geben also zu einigen Zweifeln Anlass. Warum Jens Bastian ihnen trotzdem mehr vertraut als den EU-eigenen, erschließt sich nicht so ganz. Aber vielleicht bevorzugt er kurze Texte und scheute sich davor, den im Oktober erschienenen 190-seitigen Bericht der Troika </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://ec.europa.eu/economy_finance/publications/occasional_paper/2011/pdf/ocp87_en.pdf" title="PDF"><span lang="DE-AT" style="color: blue; mso-ansi-language: DE-AT;"></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";"> durchzuarbeiten. Dieser Report verfolgt in einem kurzen Abschnitt ebenfalls den Weg des Geldes und kommt zu einem ähnlichen Befund wie der Hedge-Fonds. Die November-Tranche noch nicht eingerechnet gingen laut Troika von den bis dahin erfolgten Zahlungen in Höhe von 65 Milliarden Euro 37,1 Milliarden direkt in die Schuldentilgung. Und auch der Rest floss nicht ausschließlich in den Etat, sondern diente unter anderem dem hellenischen Bankenstützungsfonds HFSF zum Kapitalaufbau. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </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 Grunde ist auch allen Beteiligten klar, wohin das Geld wirklich strömt. Auf die Frage eines Deutschlandfunk-Journalisten: "Also wir retten die Banken und nicht Griechenland?" antworten </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://www.dradio.de/dlf/sendungen/interview_dlf/1552954/"><span lang="DE-AT" style="color: blue; mso-ansi-language: DE-AT;"></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";">Markus Kerber vom "Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie" ganz offen: "Wir müssen für ein stabiles und immer für die Wirtschaft und auch für den kleinen Sparer verfügbares Banken- und Zahlungssystem im europäischen Währungsgebiet sorgen. Die Ordnungspolitiker unter uns wissen, Banken haben eine ganz spezielle Funktion im Wirtschaftskreislauf", so der BDI-Hauptgeschäftsführer, der selbst einmal in Diensten der Deutschen Bank stand. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Private Gläubiger zieren sich</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </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 da diese "ganz spezielle Funktion im Wirtschaftskreislauf" seit einiger Zeit so einigen Störungen unterliegt, dürfte auch das Schicksal der kommenden Milliarden-Überweisungen besiegelt sein. Die zur Zeit diskutierte Aufstockung der Mittel des IWF dient </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://www.faz.net/aktuell/wirtschaft/staatsschuldenkrise-170-milliarden-euro-aus-der-eu-fuer-den-iwf-11572046.htm"><span lang="DE-AT" style="color: blue; mso-ansi-language: DE-AT;"></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";">der FAZ zufolge nämlich vorrangig dazu, "die heiklen Monate überstehen zu können, in denen die Krisenländer Anleihen in dreistelliger Milliardenhöhe tilgen müssen". </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";">Griechenland hat allein in diesem Monat 6,7 Milliarden Euro für den Schuldendienst aufzubringen </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://ciovaccocapital.com/wordpress/index.php/currencies/greek-debt-no-deal-yet-payments-due/"><span lang="DE-AT" style="color: blue; mso-ansi-language: DE-AT;"></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 die Verhandlungen mit den privaten Gläubigern über den 50-prozentigen Forderungsverzicht verlaufen schwierig. Bislang weigern sie sich noch, ihre Anleihen in solche geringeren Wertes umzutauschen. "Sie machen es nicht einfach, um das Mindeste zu sagen. Es wird Zeit brauchen", sagte</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/markets/ap-sources-talks-with-private-investors-on-reducing-greeces-debt-proving-difficult/2011/12/16/gIQAjvnvxO_story.html"><span lang="DE-AT" style="color: blue; mso-ansi-language: DE-AT;"></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";">ein EU-Offizieller am Rande der Verhandlungen. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div>

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