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Independent Film Finance Consultant Louise Levison explains the critical differences a theatrical documentary business plan involves.Independent Film Finance Consultant Louise Levison explains the critical differences a... more
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Film Finance Attorney, Author, and Lecturer John Cones explains some key points about what is involved in equity (investor) film financing of low budget films.Film Finance Attorney, Author, and Lecturer John Cones explains some key points about... more
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Independent Film Finance Consultant Louise Levison explains the fundamentals of how to deal with equity investors when raising money for your...Independent Film Finance Consultant Louise Levison explains the fundamentals of how to... more
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I received an email from a friend of mine about a meeting she wanted to set up with a few of us who work for a non-profit. I was told it was at the Sandbox Suites and first thought, “That’s a funny name for a hotel.” I looked it up on google maps and even looking at the street view I couldn’t see a hotel that might have conference rooms anywhere. Then after searching for it on the regular google I found out I was in for a surprise.I received an email from a friend of mine about a meeting she wanted to set up with a... more
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Specialty Film Researcher Jeremy Juuso points out the wealth of film finance knowledge to be gained from an understanding of European film finance.Specialty Film Researcher Jeremy Juuso points out the wealth of film finance knowledge... more
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Pelosi: ‘It’s All About Fairness in Our Country’
October 19, 2010
by Jonathon M. Seidl
TheBlaze.Com
Speaking at a United Steelworkers event on Monday, Nancy Pelosi railed against the wealthy and income inequality in America:
“We’re talking about addressing the disparity of income where the wealthy people continue to get wealthier and some other people are falling out of the middle class when we want to bring many more people into the middle class.
Click to Watch....(VIDEO) Wealthy Multi-Millionare Nancy Pelosi ‘All About Fairness’ With Your Money, JUST NOT HERS!!!...http://ctpatriot1970.wordpress.com/2010/10/19/video-wealthy-multi-millionare-nancy-pelosi-all-about-fairness-with-your-money-just-not-hers/Pelosi: ‘It’s All About Fairness in Our Country’
October 19,... more
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Do you have high credit card debts? Are you sick of those high interest rates on your credit card balance? Learn a great option on ridding yourself from those worries. Learn how you can use your home equity loan to your advantage. Get some ideas on the pros and cons in using your home equity loan. Save yourself from those rocketing interest rates.Do you have high credit card debts? Are you sick of those high interest rates on your... more
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Seattle Public Schools sent out letters to families of kids over 16 who "earned one or more D" grades to tell them of an opportunity to send their wayward kids to a "residential school" free for a semester (plus the summer+6 months) where they can earn high school credits, live a regulated lifestyle and learn to get along better with others and with authority.
What school is this? National Guard? So, a direct pipeline to the military. Over the last few years activists in Seattle have fought to get the military out of the high schools, to prevent the military from automatically receiving every kid's contact information, to help parents understand how to opt their kid out of the information pipeline. But now, the schools and the military are just side stepping all of that and having the kids flow right into "residential school".
So, special ed kids are getting this letter. Many of those are kids with developmental disabilities, behavior disorders, some are wards of the state because their families have neglected or abused them. They may not have resources when they turn 18, and after this "residential school" experience, might feel the military is a safe alternative for them.
This is an extreme abuse of our most vulnerable kids. Will the State, in an effort to save the thousands of dollars per kid that is spent on foster care, decide that a 6 month reprieve is worth sending kids away for? Will parents of difficult kids want to send them to boot camp?
We already have a poverty draft, now we have an underachiever draft as well? Could there be more incentive to underserve our public school kids? Our foster kids? Our disabled kids?
Unconscionable.Seattle Public Schools sent out letters to families of kids over 16 who "earned... more
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Running for Governor of California! Maybe now we can finally see the end of the Reagan era policies. Before Reagan, community college was free in California. This time of crisis is a powerful time of opportunity-to create a just and sustainable society-there is not a minute to lose.Running for Governor of California! Maybe now we can finally see the end of the Reagan... more
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Amazingly articulate young girl sways legislators in Vermont. In her interview with Amy Goodman, she said she thought it was about time she stood up and said something.Amazingly articulate young girl sways legislators in Vermont. In her interview with... more
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"Actors' Equity Association, the union of professional actors and stage managers in the United States, has purchased its own building on Randolph Street just a block or two west of the core of Chicago's theater district. And according to Steven DiPaola, the union's assistant executive director for finance and administration, Equity is considering moving some of the union's national back-office functions from New York to Chicago.
The new office, located at 557 W. Randolph Street, will house the headquarters of Equity's Central Region, an office that covers all Chicago theaters as well as such active theater cities as Minneapolis and Milwaukee.
"We're going to have an expanded audition center and member's center," said DiPaola. "And we hope to bring in some arts-related tenants into the building." That list is likely to include Equity's credit union, as well as some external cultural organizations.""Actors' Equity Association, the union of professional actors and stage... more
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Naomi was right. History will not vindicate Bush and his crime family. History will indict him. I hope the nation does as well.Naomi was right. History will not vindicate Bush and his crime family. History will... more
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Baucus told the head of CBO last Wednesday that the CBO will play a significant role in efforts to overhaul the U.S. healthcare system because the agencies cost assessments will make or break this enterprise. Experienced observers assert that this is Baucus way of pressuring the agency to come up with figures to justify the kind of healthcare reform Baucus wants.
The fact is, the CBO has issued a series of recent studies which have found that most savings claimed, in the effort to keep private-for-profit insurance companies in the mix, do not exist.
Alternatively, a single-payer system would save more than $350 billion per year, enough to provide comprehensive, high-quality coverage for all Americans.
The CBO has been recognized for the accuracy of its findings and projections and for its non-partisanship. Lets keep it that way.
Tell him we need accurate numbers not creative figuring. Single-payer should be on the table and should be given a full and fair hearing by the Senate Finance Committee.
Easily email Sen. Baucus here, or contact him using the following information.
Senator Max Baucus
511 Hart Senate Office Bldg.
Washington, D.C. 20510
(202) 224-2651 (Office)
(202) 224-9412 (Fax)Baucus told the head of CBO last Wednesday that the CBO will play a significant role... more
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"Tax the Greedy, Not the Needy"
This is where the 'class war' that only the rich, like O'Riley and Limbaugh McCain were waging, crumbles under its own weight.
This is the result when the bankers and investors get married to the politicians.
If the European countries economies are anything like the US economy, the working people have had their wages stagnated for the last 30 years, they are already living on the edge of subsistence and can not take any cuts. I hope the American people can respond with as much organization."Tax the Greedy, Not the Needy"
This is where the 'class war'... more
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Dear XXXXX:
Thank you for your recent communication asking me to support HR 676, the United States National Health Insurance Act. I am a co-sponsor of the legislation and appreciate the time you have taken to let me know you support it, too.
HR 676 is one of many pieces of legislation highlighting the need for health care reform within our country. While some Americans question the need for health care reform, I believe the fact that more than 45 million Americans lack insurance coverage, and that more and more consumers are losing control over their own treatment process and their choice of provider, means that our system of health care needs a major overhaul. The health care issue will not go away, and I am committed to fight for health care reform that provides universal coverage. Universal coverage is the only way to ensure that health care becomes affordable. By assuring that people get primary care instead of emergency room care, bringing healthy people into insurance pools will lower costs for everyone, and end cost-shifting -- the means by which insured patients pay for the bad debt of the uninsured patient.
I support a single-payer system as the best means of accomplishing universal coverage. Since 1993 and every subsequent session of Congress, I have introduced the American Health Security Act (HR 1200). The plan laid out in this bill would provide universal health coverage, and tax payers would save $175 billion per year in health care expenses. Also, eighty percent of Americans would pay less for their health care while gaining a health benefit package that includes all inpatient and outpatient care, prescription drugs, mental health benefits, and comprehensive long-term care. HR 1200 would accomplish all of this and still provide a deficit reduction of approximately $100 billion per year.
I will continue to support any legislation that moves the U.S. closer to universal coverage for all Americans. Again, I want to thank you for contacting me. As your Representative in Congress, it is critical that I understand the views of my constituents.
I look forward to hearing from you in the future.
Sincerely,
Jim McDermott
Member of CongressDear XXXXX:
Thank you for your recent communication asking me to support HR 676,... more
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Whoo hoo! Net neutrality from the stimulus bill! Go Bama!
Beginning the effort to assure neutral access to high speed internet to every home in the US.
And by the way, the approval rates for the Repugs are going down and the Dems are going up.Whoo hoo! Net neutrality from the stimulus bill! Go Bama!
Beginning the effort to... more
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He compares the current mistaken focus on bailouts � from Wall Street to the auto industry � to the early mistakes of another president faced with economic disaster: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, whose initial rejection of the revolutionary concepts of John Maynard Keynes helped prolong the worldwide economic misery of the late 1920s and 1930s.
It may take another heretic to pull America out of its current downhill slide this time around.
�Ravi is a phenomenon � the best predictive record of any economist, past or present � and he does it all by reference to recorded, empirical facts, not paradigm [or] ideology,� said Prof. Rajani Kannepalli Kanth, a visiting scholar at Harvard University who specializes in political economy and social anthropology.
His supporters think Batra should long ago have won a Nobel Prize and that President-elect Barack Obama ought to be calling him with offers of cabinet posts or at least asking for his advice.
But instead, despite his sterling record and best-selling books, Batra remains somewhat isolated in the economics field, the result of one bad call and, more to the point, an economic theory that flies in the face of today�s accepted wisdom � in the face, that is, of the theories and practices that got us in the horrendous spot we�re in today.
�We are on the verge of a social revolution � it�s already started [with Obama�s election]. The second part, where the theories are discarded and new ideas take over and new reforms take over � that part has yet to occur, and that will take a few years,� he predicted. �After that occurs, the age of acquisitors will be over, and there will be a new age with a totally different attitude toward taxation and the economic system.�
The revolution, which he believes could happen in a couple of years or sometime soon after that, should bring in a new chapter of greater economic equality and less poverty and suffering � first in the U.S., then rippling out to the rest of the world, he thinks.
�The U.S. has never been in any other age other than the age of acquisitors. So this will be a new experience for the U.S.,� he said.He compares the current mistaken focus on bailouts � from Wall Street to the auto... more
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For a lot of people, it is already too late. People have moved back in with their parents, started living out of RVs, moved into trailer parks that are mushrooming around cities such as Las Vegas the way developments with real houses used to. Even pricey Santa Barbara, Calif., recently made several gated parking lots available to people living in their cars.
Last week, General Motors announced 10,000 job cuts, Wal-Mart 800, and Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz told an interviewer that in some ways, the current crisis is worse than the Great Depression. But this time around, we appear to have a class of individuals who think that they should not have to suffer with the rest.
It is this type of behavior, rather than economics, that the working poor don't understand. I earned $3.35 an hour at my first job washing dishes in 1981, and today, 28 years later, the minimum wage has barely doubled. Congress voted not to raise it for nearly 10 years, while members awarded themselves pay raises on a nearly annual basis. And during the years that the minimum wage was stalled, the pay of a CEO swelled to hundreds of times the wage of an average worker, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
They have a right to be cynical. It turns out, the people who understand money the best are the ones who don't have it.
Iain Levison is the author of the memoir "A Working Stiff's Manifesto" and the forthcoming novel "How to Rob an Armored Car."For a lot of people, it is already too late. People have moved back in with their... more
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We, combat officers and soldiers who have served the State of Israel for long weeks every year, in spite of the dear cost to our personal lives, have been on reserve duty in the Occupied Territories, and were issued commands and directives that had nothing to do with the security of our country, and that had the sole purpose of perpetuating our control over the Palestinian people.We, combat officers and soldiers who have served the State of Israel for long weeks... more
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