2011年11月30日星期三

Damaging the economy and inconveniencing millions of people is your job

Public sector workers have hit back at Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne after he insisted that today’s strikes will damage the economy and inconvenience millions by reminding him that’s what he’s been doing for the last 18 months.

Cabinet Minister Francis Maude was also highly critical of the strikes and what they would achieve.

“Striking while negotiations are still going on will achieve about as much as the negotiations have up until now – nothing,” he blasted.

Despite the government’s insistence that the strikes are ‘indefensible’, polls suggest that the majority of the public support the action, with one poll revealing that 100% of schoolchildren think it’s ‘the best idea ever!’.
Strikes

Private sector opposition to the strikes has softened after workers enjoyed a congestion free journey into work this morning.

“I had convinced myself that all public sector workers were greedy, selfish bastards,” said 38 year-old Sandra McGovern.

“I’ve got to say though, that this morning I was in the office in plenty of time to have a bacon roll, a cup of tea and read TV Quick.”

“I wish they could strike everyday. Except every other Thursday because that’s when my rubbish is collected.”

“Oh, and next Tuesday would be a bad day too because I’ve got an appointment at the hospital to have an elastic band wrapped around my hemorrhoids,” she added.

2011年11月29日星期二

Complaining of hemorrhoids, mall employee moons fellow workers

A 36-year-old Chicago man who allegedly showed his naked posterior to employees at an Orland Square Mall department store was cited for disorderly conduct Nov. 19 during a 9:10 p.m. police contact. He is scheduled to appear at a Dec. 13 administrative hearing. The man allegedly approached several employees individually complaining he had hemorrhoids, and would then pull down his pants, asking them to look.

A 38-year-old Calumet City woman who allegedly identified herself as a Harvey Police Department employee was arrested Nov. 17 for driving under the influence of alcohol, driving the wrong way, failure to reduce speed to avoid a collision, illegal transportation of alcohol and operating an uninsured motor vehicle during a 6:25 p.m. crash investigation on the 10200 block of 151st Street. She is scheduled to appear in court Jan. 5. Harvey Police reportedly said the woman previously worked as a community service officer.

A 25-year-old Crestwood man was arrested for possession of cannabis Nov. 19 during an 8:45 p.m. traffic stop on the 15800 block of LaGrange Road for not wearing a seat belt. He is scheduled to appear in court Dec. 20. He allegedly had four grams of cannabis.

A 24-year-old Tinley Park man was cited Nov. 18 for possession of drug paraphernalia during a 12:35 a.m. traffic stop on the 15900 block of Harlem Avenue for not wearing a seat belt. He is scheduled to appear at a Dec. 13 administrative hearing.

A 21-year-old Orland Park man from the 11900 block of 139th Street was cited Nov. 15 for possession of cannabis and possession of drug equipment during a 9:25 p.m. traffic stop on the 10600 block of 153rd Street for speeding. He is scheduled to appear at a Dec. 13 administrative hearing.

A 20-year-old Orland Park man from the 14600 block of Birch Street was arrested around 7:40 p.m. Nov. 15 at his home on a Will County warrant alleging he violated the terms of his probation on a conviction for possession of drug paraphernalia. Court hearing information was unavailable.

A 19-year-old Homer Glen male was cited Nov. 22 for possession of drug paraphernalia during a 3 a.m. traffic stop on the 12200 block of 159th Street. He is scheduled to appear at a Dec. 13 administrative hearing.

A 19-year-old Westmont male and a 19-year-old Saint Germain, Wisc. female were cited for possession of cannabis and possession of drug paraphernalia Nov. 16 during an 11:25 p.m. traffic stop at 153rd Street and 108th Avenue for a malfunctioning rear registration plate light. They are scheduled to appear at a Dec. 13 administrative hearing.

An 18-year-old Orland Park male from the 13900 block of Charleston Drive was cited Nov. 17 for possession of cannabis during a 1:05 a.m. police contact at the intersection of Somer Lane and Glenlake Drive. He is scheduled to appear at a Dec. 13 administrative hearing

2011年11月28日星期一

Feds won't sign new climate deal without major emitters

The federal government says it won't sign on to a new international climate change deal if the world's major emitters are not involved, while continuing to avoid questions on whether it will formally withdraw from the ten-year-old Kyoto Protocol.

Environment Minister Peter Kent played coy Monday when asked during a press conference whether the government will indeed pull the plug on Kyoto, as CTV News reported Sunday night.

During question period in the House of Commons, NDP MP Peter Julian called the government's decision "environmental vandalism," and accused the Conservatives of both harming the environment and killing future "green" jobs.

"Canada's obligations under this agreement are legally binding. Canada's obligations to fight climate change are morally binding. Canada's obligations to future generations should be clear to all," Julian said.

"So how can the Conservatives justify abandoning Canada's legal and moral obligations to fight climate change, and how can they betray future generations so irresponsibly?"

Industry Minister Christian Paradis said the government is sticking to its commitment of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 17 per cent below 2005 levels by the year 2020. However, he said the Kyoto agreement won't work because it excludes some of the world's top emitters.

"Our government is balancing the need for a cleaner and healthier environment with protecting jobs and economic growth," Paradis told question period.

"We need an effective agreement. Effective means it must include large emitters. The Kyoto Protocol doesn't include major emitters like China and the United States, and therefore it will not work. Canada will not sign on to a new agreement that does not include all major emitters."

Earlier Monday, Kent called a news conference to announce the government's intention to renew the clean air regulatory agenda, which puts $600 million over five years towards research, monitoring and enforcement of regulations governing greenhouse gases and other pollutants.

Kent told the earlier news conference that he was "neither confirming nor denying" that Ottawa will pull out of its Kyoto commitments.

When Kent was asked about Kyoto on Monday, the environment minister would only say that Canada would not make a second commitment to the accord.

"Kyoto is the past," said Kent.

Talks now underway Monday in Durban, South Africa, are the future, Kent said.

Negotiators have gathered in Durban in hopes of hashing out an international agreement on cutting greenhouse gases around the globe. Ministers, including Kent, will join the talks in about a week's time.

In Durban, Canada counts itself among countries that want to step back from Kyoto, in favour of a new approach.

Under Kyoto, developing countries and emerging countries like China are not held to account in the same way that developed countries are.

Kent has indicated that Japan, Russia and the United States agree with Canada on the need for a new way forward.

Critics have suggested that the Canadian government will be making the wrong move, if it chooses to back away from Kyoto.

Gillian McEachern of Environmental Defence said that if Canada does renege on its Kyoto commitments, it will be setting an undesirable precedent among the countries that signed on.

"We signed and ratified Kyoto and if the decision is made to formally pull us out of it, we will be the only country in the world to have ratified it and then absolutely walked away," McEachern told CTV News Channel from Ottawa.

On the weekend, Green Party Leader Elizabeth May said Canada will "be a pariah globally if it goes through with this."

NDP environment critic Megan Leslie called the government's reported plan to pull out of the Kyoto accord both "cynical" and "cowardly."

CTV's Mercedes Stephenson said the Canadian government is likely prepared for the fact it will also face criticism from abroad.

But taking a hard line on Kyoto could resonate with some domestic voters.

"I spoke with Conservative sources this morning who also told me that their base will be very happy about this announcement that it's in line with their beliefs that something new needs to be negotiated, something that includes the world's biggest polluters," she told CTV News Channel on Monday.

2011年11月27日星期日

Happening Tonight - Immersion II: [The Cube] [Show Preview]

Church of the Friendly Ghost is going through a reformation of sorts - it seems that the organization has reached an impasse. Thoroughly exhausting the possibilities of serving as a platform for every knob twiddler and noise noodler this side of the Mississippi, the new director has seemed to have nailed their own artistic 95 theses to the door of the Salvage Vanguard. According to the 87th thesis, the Church will focus on more engaged multimedia events—think Waco Girls playing during an execution in Huntsville or Henna Chou playing a stringed instrument constructed out of Rick Perry’s hair.

Nevertheless, while the programming this season might just re-define the word adventurous, COTFG is taking us on a quadraphonic journey into ourselves tonight.

Titled Immersion II: [The Cube], the show will push sound-wizard Matt Burnett’s multi-channel, spatial sonic environment into bold new territories. Burnett’s will rig SVT’s gallery with some of the most consciousness shattering audio equipment available to homo sapiens. Testing the limits of the sound system, and the listener’s patience is a slew of different local sonic alchemists and agitators. According to the press release, dronelord Thomas Fang will employ a broad ”palette of glitches, noise, and feedback, Christopher Petkus will debut his piece entitled “Mantra” that will focus on “repetition and volume”, while, harsh noise purveyor, Jonathon Cash’s performance will surely induce hemorrhages, hemorrhoids, and hernias. In addition to other sound artists, local video artists, and shamans, Katie Rose Pipkin and Laurel Barickman will serve as midwives to the sensory overload.

Whether you’re a faithful parishioner or a neophyte, Sunday’s Quadrophenia will surely be a night at the opera.

2011年11月24日星期四

White Christmas: Back to Berlin

White Christmas is just too good a musical to be limited to holiday-time productions.  Especially when you have Larry Blank's ultra-snazzy swing orchestrations vibrantly delivering a gold-plated assortment of Irving Berlin classics and Randy Skinner's dancers heating up the floor with some sensational tapping.

Based on the classic 1954 film, the stage version of White Christmas, originally directed by Walter Bobbie, has been making seasonal regional appearances since 2004, with stints on Broadway in '08 and '09.  The new mounting at Paper Mill, directed by Bobbie's associate director, Marc Bruni, appears to be a slightly scaled down version of the Broadway production, retaining Skinner's choreography and the festive mid-50s designs by Anna Louizos (sets), Carrie Robbins (costumes) and Ken Billington (lights).

The book by David Ives and Paul Blake streamlines the plot and adds some extra Berlin gems ("Happy Holidays," "Let Yourself Go," "I Love A Piano," "How Deep Is The Ocean?") while keeping most of the film's score, including "Sisters," "Count Your Blessings," "Blue Skies," "Let Me Sing And I'm Happy" and "Love, You Didn't Do Right By Me."

Repeating their roles from the Broadway '09 cast, James Clow and Tony Yazbeck play Bob Wallace and Phil Davis, a pair of World War II vets who become big time Broadway song and dance stars, back in the days when being a Broadway star meant you were famous throughout the country. On the evening before they're to leave for Florida to begin rehearsing their next production, the boys catch Judy and Betty Haynes (Meredith Patterson, encoring her performance from Broadway '08, and Jill Paice), performing "Sisters" at a nightclub and, with both professional and romantic possibilities brewing, follow them to their next gig; a holiday engagement at a Vermont inn. But an unexpected heat wave has forced the financially struggling place to forego its entertainment plans after every reservation cancels, until it turns out the owner is Bob and Phil's beloved General Henry Waverly (Edward James Hyland) from their army days, so they offer to move their Broadway show to the general's barn. In the meantime a few wrenches and misunderstandings get in the way of true love, but that's all straightened out by the time the chorus is dancing through the eventual snowfall.

The four leads all deliver top-shelf musical comedy performances, with Clow's sweetly mellow baritone matched by Paice's earthier tones, including her knockout torching of "Love, You Didn't Do Right By Me."  Yazbeck's street-wise charisma and Patterson's showgirl sass set off major sparks when romancing to "The Best Things Happen When Your Dancing" and rat-a-tatting atop a very baby grand in "I Love A Piano."

A major factor in getting to the heart of White Christmas is that you have to believe the old general is the kind of man who would inspire the boys to gladly do anything for him, and Hyland plays the role with a heartwarming combination of protective tough love, sincere patriotism and a healthy dose of human decency.  Young Andie Mechanic has realistic kid charm as his supportive granddaughter, but the "ringer" in the company is Lorna Luft as the wise-cracking hotel manager.  Ives and Blake re-imagined the role played in the film by Mary Wickes as a vehicle for a beloved old pro musical comedy performer, and Luft brings down the house strutting and belting a super-charged rendition of "Let Me Sing And I'm Happy."  After her number, the character says that talent like hers can't be learned, "You're born with it."  The opening night audience, no doubt in recognition of Luft's lineage, responded to the line with enthusiastic agreement.

2011年11月23日星期三

Man charged in connection with death of Jazzy-O

HOMICIDE detectives last night charged a 48-year-old Port Melbourne man with the murder of sex industry veteran ‘‘Jazzy O’’ Martin.

Steve Constantinou faced an out-of-session hearing at the St Kilda Road police complex late last night and was remanded to appear at the Melbourne Magistrates Court today.

The hearing was told that Constantinou had been arrested at Port Melbourne earlier in the night.

It was also revealed that an autopsy had shown that Jazzy O, real name Johanna Martin, had been strangled.

Constantinou, who had two-tone hair and was wearing a black tee-shirt and jeans, told the hearing that he was suffering from hemorrhoids and asthma when asked if he had any medical conditions.

The body of the 65-year-old grandmother was found wrapped in a blanket under bushes in Lorimer Street, Port Melbourne on October 11.

She had been strangled and beaten.

Ms Martin was well known in the adult entertainment industry for her "extreme" acts, which made her a millionaire; she also owned several properties.

She did not drink or do drugs, invested her money wisely and owned a late model Mercedes.

Ms Martin, who has grown-up children and whose husband died a few years ago, worked as an independent in the sex industry.

She was the oldest worker in the game and industry workers started taking extra security precautions when they heard of her death.

2011年11月22日星期二

Acquire A Property Cure For Hemorrhoids And Get Instantaneous Relief

Do you think you’re embarrassed to confess that you have hemorrhoids? Are you currently so embarrassed because of the condition you never even wish to focus on it together with your medical doctor? Properly, you are not alone. First off, a wonderful amount of persons undergo from your itching, bleeding and soreness of hemorroids. As countless as 50% of people have experienced hemoroids because of the time they flip fifty. Some studies advise that as much as 80% of individuals may have hemroids at some time in their lives. The really good news is the fact that when you are seeking a home get rid of for hemorrhoids, there are lots of extremely powerful methods you’ll be able to consider in your own home with out talking about your condition with virtually anyone else.

A household remedy for hemeroids can normally be incredibly productive simply mainly because hemroids are frequently virility ex caused by existing routines and way of living selections. Most hemorrhoid home cures entail applying new routines and creating changes inside your lifestyle. Indeed, it’s accurate, modifying your habits and life-style could be painful, but at a minimum it isn’t going to itch and burn off like hemorrhoids.

Hemorrhoids (your grandparents perhaps described as them piles) are swollen or inflamed veins during the location of one’s anus and rectum. hemorroids will be internal or exterior. You seldom experience inner hemoroids given that nerve endings inside your rectum never transmit ache signals. Perhaps you may never comprehend you have got internal hemroids until you observe small quantities of blood to the toilet tissue or while in the bathroom drinking water. External hemorrhoids are a second story entirely. They usually lead to burning and itching sensations and may be distressing sufficient to distract you throughout the day. You can expect to without doubt value the moment relief offered by an effective enlast dwelling treatment for hemorrhoids.

The number 1 contribute to of hemorrhoids is straining through a bowel motion. The best household cure for hemroids is anything it is easy to do to promote comfortable, painless bowel actions. For many folks, this may be accomplished with plenty of fluids and fiber. Drink loads of fluids during the day, preferable drinking water. Enhance your fiber intake by consuming loads of recent fruits, veggies and entire grains. Bowel movements aren’t meant to be prolonged and tough. In case you shorten time you spend sitting within the toilet and lessen the hassle it will require to finish your bowel movement, then your hemorroids will heal immediately and foreseeable future hemorrhoid pain will probably be unlikely.

One other useful dwelling overcome for hemorrhoids is definitely the software of petroleum jelly. Use a cotton swab or even the suggestion within your finger to apply petroleum jelly roughly your rectum and about a 50 % inch into your anus. This therapy may help make your bowel movements simplier and easier as you’re adjusting your fiber and fluid consumption. 1 home get rid of that routinely gets great marks would be the software of witch hazel on the affected parts. Witch hazel leads to the blood vessels to shrink and contract. It can be specially helpful iced.

There are many over-the-counter medicines that you simply can use like a family home treatment for hemoroids, but most are actually nothing at all in excess of neighborhood discomfort killers. If you ever opt to strive them out, stick to the lotions. Suppositories are healing the incorrect vicinity for exterior hemorrhoids. And none of these topical solutions are definitely handling the root induce of hemorroids.

If you’re seeking an natural your home remedy for hemeroids, many have documented accomplishment with stoneroot. Stoneroot can generally be observed in capsule sort. The software of aloe vera gel is another natural treatment solution that some have noticed soothing.

Conventional warm baths certainly are a highly-recommended your home overcome for hemroids. The heat water decreases the soreness of your hemorrhoids and then the increased circulation of blood delivers increased healing and curative powers. It might audio backwards, but the grow blood movement from the heat bath also aids shrink the affected veins.

Ensure which you cleanse by yourself gently after a bowel motion. Despite the fact that this is not technically a property get rid of for hemorroids, it will eventually assistance ease the soreness and irritation. Use bathroom paper with out perfumes or dyes, and moisten it with some water in advance of by using. If you ever can find bathroom paper that comprises supplemental moisturizers and lotions, then acquire it and utilize it.

Hemorrhoids certainly are a popular, but embarrassing ailment. You could be reluctant to provestra discuss hemorroids along with your doctor. A your home get rid of for hemeroids can show you how to uncover relief with no will need to endure an embarrassing consultation and examination.