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America's Fiscal Stupidity Mirrors Detroit - John Ransom - Townhall ...
It?s fitting that on the day Washington, DC is cutting the budget by an agreement that they really didn?t mean, that the city of Detroit will finally get what?s it has needed for a long time: declaration of fiscal disaster.
Michigan?s Rick Snyder has appointed an emergency city manager to do for Detroit what Obama, Biden, the UAW, GM, Chrysler, the city?s council and mayor have not been able to even with a $80 billion bailout of the automotive industry.
?Snyder?s decision comes after a state review team report concluded last week that Detroit is in a financial emergency that it cannot fix on its own,? reports the Detroit Free Press. ?The report detailed $14 billion in long-term bond debt and retiree pension and health benefits the city owes in addition to a $327-million accumulated deficit Detroit has been unable to tame. That figure could inflate by $100 million by July.?
The city has been powerless to stop plunging tax revenues. According to the Detroit News almost half of the city?s homeowners have not been able to pay property taxes:
?The News reviewed more than 200,000 pages of tax documents and found that 47 percent of the city's taxable parcels are delinquent on their 2011 bills. Some $246.5 million in taxes and fees went uncollected, about half of which was due Detroit and the rest to other entities, including Wayne County, Detroit Public Schools and the library.?
The article notes that delinquency is so bad that in one stretch of 77 blocks only one owner had paid their taxes.?
And it?s not just that residents can?t pay. It?s that many of the taxpayers say they won?t pay taxes for services they aren?t getting.?
More from the Detroit News:
"Why pay taxes?" asked Fred Phillips, who owes more than $2,600 on his home on an east-side block where five owners paid 2011 taxes. "Why should I send them taxes when they aren't supplying services? It is sickening. ? Every time I see the tax bill come, I think about the times we called and nobody came."
Like America?s long decline into fiscal stupidity, Detroit?s problems didn?t have their start in the fiscal crisis of 2008. A combination union greed, corporate gluttony, short-sighted thinking from politicians at the federal, state and local level have combined to create a soup of fiscal insolvency.?
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NFL's?modern mythmaker
Steve Sabol's NFL Films opened America's eyes to the 'elusive magic'
of the sport that rules today's entertainment landscape
Courtesy NFL FilmsSteve Sabol was "uniquely qualified to make football movies," according to his father, Ed. That may help explain why NFL Films turned into such a success.
THE BIG READ
BY JOE POSNANSKI
updated 9:00 a.m. ET March 1, 2013
PHILADELPHIA - It begins with music and ends with goose bumps. Musicians sit in chairs on the Verizon Hall stage in the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts as the crowd shuffles in from the biting Philadelphia cold. The musicians warm up their instruments, and the hall fills with the strains of strings and horns dancing around each other, like fencers at the opening of a duel.
It will help, I should say, if you read these words in the baritone of John Facenda. Here, to help you tune up, say this word: ?Lombardi.? Say it again, only deeper. ?Lombardi.? Stretch out the BAR in the middle. Lom-BAR-di. Again. Good. Try to hear that voice.
Above the orchestra, a film screen hangs by wires. The screen is blank, a plain white, but soon images will flicker upon it, images of quarterbacks being blindsided, running backs dissolving and reappearing like ghosts, footballs spinning slowly as they float against a white and blue sky, football images that inflamed the imagination of the man being honored in the theater.
You often hear of people being called ?true believers,? but these are rare creatures. Steve Sabol was a true believer.
The orchestra begins to play a sweeping song called ?Molder of Men.? The screen shows a photograph of Steve Sabol, 10 years old, wearing a football outfit straight out of 1953. This night is a tribute to Sabol, president of NFL Films, who died in September, a couple of weeks before his 70th birthday. But, even more, it?s a story of how we got here, to this complicated place where professional football, with all its excitement and violence and beauty and danger, (or as Sabol himself would say, with all its guts and glory) became the most American of all things.
A Steve Sabol quote appears on the screen.
?Life is great,? he said. ?Football is better.?
* * *
He was born Stephen Douglas Sabol in October of 1942, two days before Sid Luckman and his Chicago Bears beat the Cleveland Rams in front of 17,000 or so stragglers at the old Rubber Bowl in Akron. That was a good football crowd in those days. There was a war going on. And pro football was barely twitching in the American consciousness, many miles behind baseball and boxing and track and college football.
But Steve Sabol had been born and he was going to change all that.
Steve was a fusion of his mother and father. His mother, Audrey, owned an art gallery in Philadelphia, one that featured the biggest pop artists of the day. Roy Liechtenstein. Jasper Johns. She loved those who tried to express modern life through the prism of art. His father, Ed ? an actor, a showman, a world class swimmer (he turned down an invitation to swim at the 1936 Olympics), a salesman ? piddled around with a camera night and day. He spent much of that time filming Steve?s 14-year-old football team and then showing the film with classical music playing in the background. Yes, young Steve blended both parents.From the beginning ? well, starting in the fourth grade ? Steve Sabol would think that football needed its own mythology. He loved football. He wanted others to love it the way he did. Baseball had a mythology ? Babe Ruth and Walter Johnson and the Gashouse Gang and Murderer?s Row and all that. Why not football?
Sure, that?s an odd thing for a fourth grader to wonder, but Steve Sabol was an odd fourth grader. He saw football as pop art. The mud and torn up grass and snow was the canvas. The quarterbacks were commanders of ships. The running backs were ballet dancers and bulldozers. The linebackers were gladiators. The coaches were professors ? or generals ? or circus clowns. Yes, he wanted his art to convey all the colors and textures and rhythms of what football stirred up inside him.
Steve Sabol?s first great football artwork was ? himself. Talk about pop art. He was a good enough football player in the 1960s to go to Colorado College and play occasionally ? take that for what it?s worth. More telling, much more telling, he was a good enough promoter to convince Sports Illustrated to write a 2,500-word story about him ? even though he was an occasional player at Colorado College.
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Courtesy NFL Films Steve Sabol and his father, Ed, during the 2004 Sports Emmys. NFL Films has won 107 Sports Emmys since its founding in 1962. |
?Football is such a great game, but football players are so dull,? he griped to Sports Illustrated. See: He already knew his calling. Football needed mythology. He gave himself a spectacular backstory. He said he was from Possum Trot, Tenn., and he talked about playing football with alligators, and he wrote a whole story about his legendary achievements in the Colorado College game program, which was easy enough to do because he wrote the whole game program.
Before he left college, his father Ed had convinced NFL commissioner Pete Rozelle to sell him the rights to film the 1962 NFL Championship Game. He won those rights for $5,000 (a record) and by convincing Rozelle that he could sell pro football to the public. That would lead to the company called NFL Films.
When Steve Sabol left college, he went to work for his father. Sudden Death Sabol was ready to give pro football its mythology.
* * *
Steve Sabol never hid his intentions or his motivations. He saw it as his life?s goal to make everyone see pro football the way he saw it ? as the greatest thing in the entire world. Of this, he had no doubts, no uncertainty, no hesitation. This is what it means to be a true believer.
His first big effort for NFL Films was the seminal film, ?They Call It Pro Football,? made in 1966. ?It starts with a whistle and ends with a gun,? John Facenda said at the beginning of that movie, which changed everything and is now listed in the National Film Registry at the Library of Congress.
?It was our Citizen Kane,? Steve Sabol said. He was 24 years old and ready to spill everything he loved about football, everything he believed about football, everything he cherished about football onto the screen. It would be big, it would be bold, it would be over the top ? that was how Sabol did things.
?For the audience crawling in the stands,? the narrator, John Facenda told the viewer, using Sabol?s words, ?the drama begins with a slap of leather and the song of men in motion.?
?The forward pass in the hands of the pro quarterback is a bolt of lightning that can strike anytime, anywhere.?
?These are the runners ? the racehorse halfbacks and locomotive fullbacks. Theirs is the speed and the fury, and to them must go the glory.?
?This is the part of the game rarely seen by the spectator. The shattering impact of a block. The mountainous size of an onrushing defender. The splintering force of a forearm shiver. One ton of muscle with a one-track mind.?
?Pro football. They play it under the autumn moon. And the heat of a Texas afternoon. In the ice-bucket chill of a Wisconsin winter. In the snow, fog and wind. And thousands come to watch ? or sleep. To cheer ? or stand in silent adulation. And millions more sit at home before TV sets, pursuing the elusive magic of the golden game.?
That might have been the subtitle of a Steve Sabol?s book ? ?Pursuing the Elusive Magic of the Golden Game." Yes, everything in Sabol?s first big movie was outsized, overstated, overwrought and filled with emotion and passion. He had his cameras focus close-ups on the players? muddy and bandaged hands (?The hands of combat!?). He had the cameras follow linebackers from their starting point all the way to the inevitable collision (?Search and destroy!?).
He showed the players faces ? ?always the faces,? he told his cameramen for the next 40-plus years. He played jazz music while showing the grace of Gale Sayers running. He showed Vince Lombardi at the chalkboard talking about the famous Green Bay Packers sweep (?If you look at this play what we?re trying to get is a seal here and a seal here and to try and run the play in the alley.?)
?This is pro football,? he had John Facenda say. ?The sport of our time.?
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Posnanski: Steve Sabol never hid his intentions or his motivations. He saw it as his life?s goal to make everyone see pro football the way he saw it ? as the greatest thing in the entire world. Of this, he had no doubts, no uncertainty, no hesitation. This is what it means to be a true believer.
Source: http://nbcsports.msnbc.com/id/50996534/ns/sports-nfl/
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Steelcase Gesture chair adjusts to support our smartphone slump (video)
As advanced as office chairs can be, they're still based on one increasingly bad assumption: that we're sitting upright in front of a traditional computer. Steelcase's upcoming Gesture chair at last acknowledges that we're living in a world of smartphones and tablets. Its back and seat shift in tandem to maintain support in any number of real-world postures, whether it's leaning back to check text messages or curling up for an e-book. The armrests are equally flexible to save us from the added strain that comes from holding a gadget in-hand. As long as habitual mobile device users can wait until the fall release, and aren't worried about the eventual price, the Gesture might literally have their backs.
Filed under: Cellphones, Household, Peripherals, Tablets
Via: Gizmodo
Source: Steelcase
Source: http://www.engadget.com/2013/03/02/steelcase-gesture-chair-adjusts-to-support-our-smartphone-slump/
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mind, brain, marbles - The Orange County Register
Do certain games help keep the brain fit? Scientists are still exploring and debating the answer. But that's not slowing the growth of online companies and brick-and-mortar shops catering to the demand for mind-toys, puzzles and games that stimulate the mind.
SharpBrains, a market research firm, forecasted the global market for brain health applications to hit $6 billion in 2020, up from an estimated $1 billion last year.
Sophia Cianfrani, 13, center, and Hannah Schoenbaum, 13, right, check out different brain games along with their Newport Beach friends at "Marbles: The Brain Store" at Fashion Island.
PAUL RODRIGUEZ, ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER
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Among the companies that SharpBrains tracks is Marbles: The Brain Store, a Chicago-based collection of specialty shops, which debuted its first Orange County location at Fashion Island in Newport Beach last year.
It's a store that attracts a range of customers ? from parents searching for "smart toys" for their elementary school-age kids to adults looking for ways to keep their memory sharp.
The store focuses on five areas: critical thinking, memory, coordination, visual perception and word skills.
An example for each category:
Critical thinking: Cubulus is a three-dimensional strategy game featuring a white cube with 27 slots and can be played by two or three players. The object is to be the first to form a square with four balls of your designated color.
Memory: Splickety Lit is a play on spoonerism. Each question has words or phrases that have their beginning consonants flipped. The challenge is to answer the question correctly in the mame sanner (same manner).
Coordination: Rock Me Archimedes includes a teeter-totter-like board, a special die and 28 marbles. Be the first player to get four marbles to your end of the board without causing it to touch the table.
Visual perception: Colorfall is the hybrid of dominoes with colorful mosaics. The wooden tiles come with 20 design cards with an image of the Eiffel Tower, garden gnome and more. Set up the tiles according to the design card, then knock down to reveal the image.
Word skills: Wordy Word is a team game in which players roll five 12-sided dice to reveal the letters for the round and add them to the corresponding boxes on their team's dry-erase board. Both teams come up with five words using the same set of letters.
The science isn't definitive on whether these give the mind an effective workout, but kids and grownups might have fun playing them anyway.
Contact the writer: lliddane@ocregister.com or 714-796-7969
Source: http://www.ocregister.com/articles/mind-497965-brain-marbles.html
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Tunisia renews state of emergency amid crisis | Morocco World News
TUNIS, March 1, 2013 (AFP)
Tunisian President Moncef Marzouk extended by?three months on Friday a state of emergency in force since the 2011?revolution, as the country faces its worst crisis since the uprising.
The decision, taken after consultations with caretaker prime minister?Hamadi Jebali and National Convstitutent Assembly chief Mustapha Ben Jaafar,?extends the state of emergency until June 3, Marzouki?s office said.
The state of emergency has been in effectacross the north African country?since January 14, 2011, in the wake of the uprising that ousted veteran?strongman Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.
?Since then, the measure has been renewed regularly, either on a?month-to-month basis or for three months at a time.
?Tunisia is facing a grave political crisis after the February assassination?of leftist politician Chokri Belaid, a vocal critic of the Islamist-led?government.
The killing sparked clashes between protesters and police and prompted the?largest anti-government demonstrations since the revolution.
On Thursday, the president testified in the murder probe of Belaid, as a?judicial source named the Salafist suspected of the assassination that plunged?the country into turmoil.
Jebali resigned after failing to forge a non-partisan government of?technocrats, after his ruling Islamist Ennahda party failed to back up his efforts to defuse the crisis.
Interior Minister Ali Larayedh has been tasked with forming a new cabinet?and must reveal the line-up by March 8.
In recent months, Tunisia has also been rocked by violence and attacks?blamed on the ultra-conservative Muslim Salafist movement. At the same time,?there have been protests sparked by growing unemployment and poverty ? the?key problems that triggered the 2011 revolution.
Source: http://www.moroccoworldnews.com/2013/03/80633/tunisia-renews-state-of-emergency-amid-crisis/
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Legal Hackers Tackle Startup Immigration Woes | The BLS Advocate
By: Alexander Goldman
February 28, 2013
A snarky venture capitalist once told me that he couldn?t give money to every ?Tom, Dick, and Raj? who came into his office with a business plan. The joke highlights the truth that startups depend upon entrepreneurial immigrants.[1]
At the event, ?Immigration Policy & Entrepreneurship: Challenges and Pathways for Startups,? held in Geraldo?s on Wednesday, February 14, the Legal Hackers Group, founded by recent graduates of Brooklyn Law School, gathered experts to discuss the problem. The event was hosted by BLS professor Jonathan Askin.
?Immigrants are 12 percent of the population, 16 percent of the workforce, and founders of 28 percent of new companies,? said Jeremy Robbins, director of the Partnership for a New American Economy at the Office of New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg. ?The entrepreneurs? H-1B visa opened in April of this year and was exhausted by June, and the wives of those on H-1B visas cannot work.?
?Chile will give a CEO $40,000 to start a new company,? said Robbins. ?Canada advertises that you can wait eight months to get into Canada, or nine years to get into the U.S.?
Those who have founded companies that failed should be allowed to stay, argued Owen Davis, Director of NYC Seed, a venture capital firm. ?Startups teach unwritten rules, and a serial entrepreneur learns even through failure. A person who failed is valuable ? more valuable than a first time entrepreneur. So kicking that person out of this country is really dumb.?
The stereotype of the entrepreneurial immigrant facing visa trouble is of someone who is non-white. The event included the account of? a businessman with a Canadian passport who could not get past the border to make a business presentation in New York City. Perhaps it is a good sign that the inflexible rules of immigration fall as harshly on immigrants from Canada as any other country.
Offshore
The event also heard from Blueseed, a company that wants to place a ship 12 nautical miles offshore from San Francisco in order to host startups in Silicon Valley while avoiding the red tape of immigration.
It just might work. The offshore nation of Sealand, located on an abandoned fort in the ocean off of England, recently lost its founder and prince. The principality, which is less than 6,000 square feet in size, makes money by selling titles and hosting internet servers.
A Failure to Educate
One attendee angrily asked why we should continue to import the talent we fail to create through a broken educational system.
Michael J. Wildes, managing partner of Wildes and Weinberg, P.C., said that we should do both. He said that for every person who comes to the United States; earns a degree in science, technology, engineering, or math (STEM); and chooses to stay and found a business will create several STEM jobs. ?The long term solution is to produce more STEM graduates here, but the short term solution is immigration reform.?
Nicholas Allard, Dean of Brooklyn Law School, said that the school was the perfect location of the event because Brooklyn has historically hosted so many immigrants and today is home to so many startups.
Source: http://blsadvocate.org/2013/02/legal-hackers-tackle-startup-immigration-woes/
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