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Ducks shot down; Canucks on top
Canuck general manager Mike Gillis reiterated Sunday there is no "quota" on the number of rookies who can make the team, and that anyone who earns a NHL spot will get one regardless of contractual commitments to older players. Canuck general manager Mike Gillis reiterated Sunday there is no "quota" on the number of rookies who can make the team, and... more
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Soldiers: A Haunting Portrait of Loss
"Soldiers" is an acclaimed short, one-minute film directed by Hillman Curtis. The film was an Official Honoree at the 2008 Webby Awards and ealier was named to The Filminute 2007 Shortlist. An unsettling portrait of loss, "Soldiers" is a film that reflects upon the experiences of personal tragedy inflicted upon many persons as a consequence of our involvement in the current “War on Terror.”
“Soldiers” is a touchingly solemn portrayal of death and loss, which is quietly expressed in a manner that is best described as both subtle and dignified.
Photographs and this very moving film are included. "Soldiers" is an acclaimed short, one-minute film directed by Hillman Curtis. The film was an Official Honoree at the 2008 ... more -
Can you hear me now? Why men might not
A new study, published in Archives of Internal Medicine, estimates about 29 million American adults, or one out of six, have speech frequency hearing loss,
Men were five times more likely than women to be hearing impaired. Blacks were 70% less likely than whites to be hearing impaired. White and Mexican-American men ranging in age from 20 to 39 had the greatest prevalence of high-frequency hearing loss and hearing loss in both ears.
The study examined data from a national survey, which included hearing tests, given to 5,742 Americans aged 20 to 69 from 1999 to 2004.
"Increases in hearing loss prevalence occurred earlier among participants with smoking, noise exposure, and cardiovascular risks," wrote Yuri Agrawal, of Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, and colleagues.
The frequency of hearing loss has soared because of the growing number of elderly people and the rising use of personal listening devices, such as headsets, the researchers write. But because hearing loss can limit a person's ability to communicate clearly and connect socially, in turn negatively affecting their productivity at work and overall well-being, limiting its prevalence could produce public health benefits.
"The results of our study suggest that prevention and screening must begin at least in young adulthood and that efforts should be intensified among white and Mexican-American men," write Agrawal and colleagues.
....................... yay...... good thing im not white... or mexican....... (kidding plz dont flame me) A new study, published in Archives of Internal Medicine, estimates about 29 million American adults, or one out of six, have speech fr... more -
Ryanair predicts first loss in 20 years.
We all love cheap flights, bar misguided classist enviromentalist types...
But are they in danger with the current, unnatural cost of fuel (which no one seems to have an adequate reason for...) if even Ryanair can post a loss.
is it that people are sick of going to "near" paris, that's causing the rumoured half empty flights, or a combination of a bad economy, the negative hype of said economy and the dislike of being treated like a repugnant sardine? We all love cheap flights, bar misguided classist enviromentalist types... ... more -
Forever Yours: A Sadly Haunting Tale of Love and Loss
Stephen Kellam’s short film “Forever Yours” is a visually beautiful achievement. The film was produced with no spoken dialogue. Instead, the film’s emotional message is marked by the tone of its background music, which is melancholy and burdened with sadness.
Its haunting echoes serve as a metaphoric reminder that our lives are too often vulnerable to experiences of fragmentation wrought by the undercurrents of dread and ghosts from our past.
"Forever Yours" begins as a short but deeply disquieting simple story of love and loss during wartime. Suddenly, the film about a soldier dreaming of a rendezvous with his loved one back home becomes, in part, a film about our universal wishes for and dreams about a lost world. In other words, the film makes a sharp descent into the darker realm of reminiscent melancholia.
Great photographs and this wonderful, moving short film are included. Stephen Kellam’s short film “Forever Yours” is a visually beautiful achievement. The film was produced with no spoken dialogue. Instea... more -
Citigroup posts $2.5B loss, but beats expectations
Citigroup has become the latest big bank to quell Wall Street's worries about a financial sector implosion, posting a $2.5 billion second-quarter loss that was smaller than expected.
Citi rose nearly 9 percent Friday and helped lift other financial stocks, having joined JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Wells Fargo & Co. in convincing investors that the prognosis for the sector, while gloomy, may not be as dire as the market feared.
But it's hard to get too enthusiastic about clearing a low bar. It was Citi's third straight quarterly loss and neither JPMorgan nor Wells Fargo managed to notch a profit gain compared to last year. Meanwhile, the brokerage Merrill Lynch & Co. reported a wider-than-expected quarterly loss. And next week, Wachovia Corp. and Washington Mutual Inc. are anticipated to reveal losses, too, with Bank of America Corp. expected to report a steep profit decline.
"I don't think anyone's breathing too easily right now," said Prakash Shimpi, who works in the risk management practice at Towers Perrin. Determining the dollar value of certain assets backed by debt is still a tricky process, he said, even a year after the crisis began.
Citigroup, the nation's largest banking company by assets, lost the equivalent of 54 cents per share in the April-June period. In the same timeframe last year, the bank earned $6.23 billion, or $1.24 per share.
The shortfall was tamer than the 66-cent-per-share loss that analysts, on average, were expecting, according to Thomson Financial.
Citigroup Inc.'s securities and banking division wrote down the value of its assets by $7.2 billion, before taxes, and an asset revaluation cost its consumer lending business $745 million. Those write-downs totaling about $8 billion are significantly lower than write-downs taken in the first quarter and in last year's fourth quarter.
However, credit costs jumped to $7.2 billion as more consumers defaulted on their loans — implying that while losses in the credit markets are decelerating, losses from actual defaults in Citigroup's mortgages, home-equity loans, auto loans and credit card lines are mounting. The $7.2 billion in credit costs included $4.4 billion in credit losses and a $2.5 billion charge to bulk up reserves for future loan losses. Citigroup has become the latest big bank to quell Wall Street's worries about a financial sector implosion, posting a $2.5 billio... more -
Turtle Island Project Director Some rich view Indigenous Peoples as "expendab...
TIP Dir. Rev. Dr. Lynn Hubbard:
I think we have here two different forms of religion. Ands its this religion of my ancestors that I participate in that I think really has been the problem. I think we have to come to understand that religious consciousness evolves just like anything else does. It's not just the material world that evolves but also our cultural world evolves and the realm of the concept evolves. We are going now, as a people - there was a time from prehistorical religions to historic religions. the religions of the book Judaism, Christianity, Islam to this historic period. Now I think that is transending to this transrational understanding of spirituality. And as part of this transrational understanding of spirituality is an appropriation of this knowledge and spirituality of Earth-based cultures. I think we have to be open now to what John Trudell called ‘spirit making and escape.’ I love this idea. My spirit needs to make an escape from my religious consciousness. The racial and cultural genocide that still goes on today inside this country . Judaism is an inherently ethical religion except you have to be a Canaanite. You may get your ass kicked or your head cut off but basically it's OK. But sky Gods and cultures that worship sky Gods are traditionally barbaric - Read the Old Testament - Wow! Talk about patriarchy. But we are in a war. It is not a war of my choosing.But we are in a war I truly believe that - a war fore our hearts and our minds. We have to continually fight.It's multi-generational. We fight against great principalities and powers. It's amazing. If you stick your head up out of the foxhole just a little bit and you start speaking on behalf of the poor. Those bullets are flying. I said something about a corporation. I said we created these corporations and political structures that aren't moral entities because you have to say things like: ‘I'm sorry. I made a mistake.' You have to admit your humanness. When's the last time your heard a politician ever admit a mistake unless they were forced to? ‘I did not have sex with that woman - I did not inhale - yes I smoked but I did not inhale' And I said corporations are liked this too - they are not moral entities because they cannot do these things like apologize. Well, good Lord that's attacking a sacred cow - there's a guy in my congregation who just went ballistic - who quit the church because he had spent his entire life benefiting from, working for, a non-moral entity. I did not say all corporations were liked this - I just said some corporations are like this. Well that's all you have to say. Rev. Hubbard said Americans and all people who call Earth home need to protect the environment. He said we have lost the sense of the sacred - a lesson that can be learned from Native Americans and other Indigenous peoples. I understand this because I feel desperate. What John Trudell was talking about is the same way. We've lost our way. We do not have any spiritual sense because we have lost any sense of the sacred. A great historian of the religions Mircea Eliade who was at the University of Chicago where I for many years - I did his funeral. Mircea Eliade had this notion that in order to have a hierophany, an experience of the sacred, you have to have sacred space. If this Earth is not sacred to you, which it isn't to Mickey Mouse, then you can't have an experience of the sacred. I deal with people every day in my congregation who have lost or are losing any sense of the sacred. And it's not only - like you were saying this relationship between Earth and women - and the earth and man. If you do not have power in a capitalistic society, you become part of and you are thought of in terms of the Earth. Women who have less economic power, children who don't have any power at all unless somebody gives it to them, Indigenous communities, you are all thought of as expendable commodities. TIP Dir. Rev. Dr. Lynn Hubbard: ... more -
My nephew was shot and killed this morning.
If you live in Coulmbia MD and have any information what so ever, please contact local police. I live in San Francisco and I'm getting all my information second hand through relatives. Police are still looking for the suspect. My nephew was 20 years old. If you live in Coulmbia MD and have any information what so ever, please contact local police. I live in San Francisco and I'm ge... more
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