If previous patterns held, sales of new homes would be seeing a healthy bounce right about now, notes the New York Times . After all, the economy is showing a little life, rates are low, and demand has been pent-up for a while. The reality? Sales of new homes were down…
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John Sullivan Dies. Dear John The Windy City.mpg $#*!@ Dr. John Says: What HR is Doing Wrong John Sullivan dies : News 2011 : Chortle : The UK Comedy Guide John Sullivan dies – Creator of Only Fools and Horses. Comedy writer John Sullivan dies (BBC) John Sullivan , who wrote one of the best-loved British sitcoms, Only Fools and Horses, has died at the age of 64, the BBC announces. Read more on this story at… John Sullivan – Frank Sinatra Family Forum A bloody tragedy. BBC News – Only Fools and Horses writer John Sullivan OBE dies a name probably unfamiliar to people outside the UK but for those of. Only Fools And Horses writer John Sullivan dies aged 64 – Daily … Daily MailOnly Fools And Horses writer John Sullivan dies aged 64Daily MailJohn Sullivan writer of hit BBC series Only Fools And Horses has died aged 64 after a. 'Only Fools and Horses' creator John Sullivan dies (Telegraph) Scriptwriter John Sullivan , creator of BBC sitcoms including Only Fools and Horses, has died aged 64, the BBC has announced. Read more on this story at … Only_Fools says: RT @waldron76 : RIP John Sullivan , creator of Only Fools and Horses. One of the true greats of British television.
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Drink-related deaths among men in hard-pressed rural areas exacerbate the decline in the nation’s population Down a winding lane, through fields still covered in snow, stands a cluster of wooden cottages an hour’s drive east of Moscow. Twenty years ago, the village of Rybaki was a lively community of more than 1,000 people. Today the population is a quarter of that. Almost no one has a job inside the village; the only thing thriving is a cemetery, which is black with fresh graves. The fate of Rybaki is echoed across Russia. Late last month the government published the initial results of a census taken last year. Since 2002, Russia’s population has fallen by 2.2 million to just under 143 million. The proportion of men has fallen from 46.6% to 46.3%, which means the country now has 10.5 million more females than males. That speaks of an ugly truth: while outward migration to towns plays its part, a punishing mortality rate among men has devastated places such as Rybaki. “Most of my contemporaries are already dead,” says Oleg Zlotnikov, 50, who sells sand and crushed stone at the end of a track in the village. He is one of only a few dozen men, and among the tiny handful who still work. While it is only 25 miles from the skyscrapers and Bentley showrooms of central Moscow, much of Rybaki looks like a scene from Tolstoy. Shabby cottages made from split logs stretch along streets of mud and slush. A few smart brick buildings fringe the community, but these are dachas built by rich Muscovites who are there for only a few weeks in the summer. Russia’s demographic crisis sets it apart from most of Europe, where numbers have been more or less stable for two decades. Its population reached about 148m in 1990, but has declined since. While many countries have low fertility rates, here the problem is compounded by a high early death rate. Smoking, heart disease and accidents all contribute. One of the greatest killers, however, is the old Russian demon: vodka. “We are only women left,” says Nina Burenina, a 75-year-old former milkmaid in a coloured headscarf, sitting in her kitchen in Moskvaretskaya Street. “Two of my sons died from drink – and my husband, too. Why hide it?” The first to die was Alexei, 23, who got into a drunken brawl with some men on a barge by the river, not long after coming back from his army service. “They beat him to a pulp and tossed him overboard, then pretended he fell in and got caught up in the propeller,” says Burenina. “His body was found downstream three days later.” Her husband, Ivan, a digger driver, succumbed to booze at the comparatively ripe age of 77. Then last May, her son, Konstantin, a 42-year-old engineer, died after contracting lung cancer, an ulcer and paralysis caused by drinking. Such stories are rife in Rybaki. On the other side of the village is a crumbling two-storey apartment block, behind the ruins of a social club where dances were held in the Soviet days. On the second floor, Klavdiya Turbanova, 78, peeps out of her window from behind a geranium plant. She moved to the village three years ago, but is shocked by the spectacle she sees in the yard below. “All the time there are people crawling around drunk,” she says. “Once I found a man lying in the snow and wrapped him in a coat. Another time I dragged one out of a puddle. One of my neighbours said, ‘You’ll soon get used to ignoring them.’ But I can’t get used to it, it’s not right.” An alcoholic woman from the floor below recently burst into the flat and demanded the tiny bottle of nastoyka – a mix of vodka and herbs – that Turbanova sips to help with her high blood pressure. “After I retired I mopped floors and made pies and knitted socks to make a little money,” she says. “Even now I have a little allotment out the back where I grow potatoes and cucumbers. These drunkards have lost all hope. They don’t want to look for a job.” Turbanova’s granddaughter, Nastya, who is visiting from Zhukovsky, a town closer to Moscow, would like her to move away. Rybaki has a small medical station with a nurse, but two years ago Turbanova began to suffer fainting attacks. She had to go to a hospital in a larger village nearby. “It was ghastly,” says Nastya. “There were cockroaches all over the place, the toilets were falling apart. We had to buy grandma’s medicines ourselves because they didn’t have any.” Oleg Zlotnikov says people are driven to alcohol by lack of opportunity and the harsh living conditions. A long-promised gas supply has not been connected, so all the households are heated with wood or coal burners, or small electric heaters. In December and January, when temperatures fell well below zero, Rybaki went without electricity for almost two weeks after an ice storm brought down the power lines, said Zlotnikov. “Life is tough and people need jobs,” he adds. “There’s a farm, but they pay practically nothing, so only a few Tajik and Kyrgyz migrants are prepared to work there.” Land is sold for dacha construction at such high prices that buying it for agricultural use is unprofitable. Meanwhile, Zlotnikov and his wife, Marina, have struggled to keep their business alive. The desperate conditions can lead to hatred and envy. One winter someone plugged up the holes Oleg had drilled in the ice of his pond to keep his fish alive. “Just out of spite,” said a neighbour. In 2006, Zlotnikov was jailed for four years for planning to murder a business rival. He claims that the accusation was fabricated because he refused to cede to a local mafia kingpin. “They didn’t reckon on my wife,” he says, smiling. Marina fended off the raiders while Oleg was in jail, and saved his life when he contracted tuberculosis. Marina says: “Corruption also kills. It’s psychological; in the end people just lower their hands. We didn’t give up.” Now the couple have branched out into breeding geese and turkeys. They even have two shaggy Bactrian camels from Astrakhan which they hope to hire to a local holiday camp for rides. Despite the hardships, some residents refuse to blame Russia’s ruling tandem – President Dmitry Medvedev and Vladimir Putin, the prime minister, who is still thought to be the dominant force – for Rybaki’s decline. “Please say thank you to Putin,” says Burenina. “It’s not his fault my sons turned to drink. It was the local shop, for staying open too late. Putin speaks well. He said he would raise pensions and he did.” Turbanova said there were worse things than watching the drunks outside her window. “I lived through the war: I lost my father and brother at the front,” she says. “At least there’s no war now.” What did she think of the country’s leadership? “I like Putin, he’s good. And that other one, his assistant.” President Medvedev? “That’s it. I like him, too.” Russia Population Europe Alcohol Tom Parfitt guardian.co.uk
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Tributes are paid to the screenwriter described as ‘the Dickens of his generation’ who has died after a short illness Tributes paid to John Sullivan, the scriptwriter famous for creating Only Fools and Horses , who has been described as “the Dickens of his
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Media members better get their facts straight when reporting about Donald Trump or they just might end up biting off more than they can chew. On Friday, while CNN's Eliot Spitzer was doing a report contradicting Trump's claims about his net worth, the real estate mogul called into the studio to set the record straight (video follows with transcript and commentary): ELIOT SPITZER, HOST: OK. Now we have something surprising right now. We have a phone call coming in right now from Donald Trump. Donald, can you hear us? DONALD TRUMP, ENTREPRENEUR: Yes, I can. SPITZER: Well, thank you for calling in. Thank you for joining us. I gather — I know from a call earlier in the day you're not happy with the critique that we've made of the deposition. As I said to you when we spoke, I'll give you fair chance to respond. Fire away. Take your best shot. TRUMP: Well, I don't think that — I didn't see the piece, but I heard one or two people called me up — not too many, but one or two people called me up and they said it was a very unfair piece. First of all, I'm a private company, you know nothing about what I own and what I don't own, Eliot. And in all due respect, I think you'd be the first to admit that. You don't know where I come from or what I — what I own, although I did — I was a fan of yours, and I was a little bit surprised to see that you would do a negative piece. But being a private company you really have no idea what I own and it's very substantial. Now should I decide to run — and by the way, among my best years have been the last two or three years, should I decide to run, you'll see all of that because as you know I have very, very detailed Federal Disclosure forms that I have to fill out, and I think people would be surprised to see what the numbers are. They are very, very substantial. SPITZER: Look, Donald, just so it is clear. I have made it very clear on this show. In fact, I just added a few moments ago, you may not have been able to hear it. I'm a fan of yours. I love the bravado. I think all of that is wonderful. The issue here, and I also agree as a private entity and a private company you do not have the obligation to make the disclosures that a public company does. And therefore there's a certain lack of knowledge that all of us bring to this conversation which is why the only thing we've used here is the deposition. Tell me if I'm right about this. You made certain presentations to banks in a certain point of time, Deutsche Bank and North Fork. You said you had a net worth of $3.5 billion. They came back with very significantly lower numbers. TRUMP: No. But as you probably know they were only looking at certain assets. This was for a building that I was building, and they didn't need to have $3.5 billion. They just needed to have a certain net worth. SPITZER: That's right. TRUMP: Anything — and not even a net worth. Just assets of a certain amount in order to — SPITZER: But Donald, you would agree — TRUMP: — for a building. Excuse me, Eliot, let me talk. SPITZER: Absolutely. So what they did is this was just a percentage. They just took a basic percentage. It had to be over 750 in order to do the loan. This wasn't a net worth of 750. This was a statement that it had to be over 750 in order to do a loan and that's very well documented by Deutsche Bank. SPITZER: But you would acknowledge that looking at the same materials that you presented to them they came in with a net worth that was significantly lower than what you had initially stated. TRUMP: That's not right, Eliot. SPITZER: No, wait, wait. (CROSSTALK) SPITZER: Donald, it was sufficient for the loan — TRUMP: Well, in excess of $750 million. SPITZER: Right. TRUMP: In other words, it had to get up to $750 million in order to make a loan. This is many years ago, just so you understand. SPITZER: OK. TRUMP: So I'm going back many years. SPITZER: OK. TRUMP: Many, many years. SPITZER: Can we — TRUMP: But we had to have a net worth over a certain amount in order to do a loan. SPITZER: OK. TRUMP: Now, once that amount was hit it didn't make any difference because you didn't need any more than that, so all they wanted to do was to make sure it was more than the $700 or $750 million. That wasn't a net worth. That was just to be over a certain limit. SPITZER: Right. But your initial signed statement to them was $3.5, they came in at $1.2 instead of — TRUMP: Let me just — no, that's not right. Let me just tell you something. SPITZER: Right. I'm listening. TRUMP: My net worth, you may very well see and very accurately because of federal forms — SPITZER: OK. TRUMP: You're going to see in very great deal. I have built a great company. SPITZER: No doubt about that. TRUMP: I have built a company that is — and I think you sort of know that because you're involved in real estate in New York. I have built a great company. I have built a company that has very little debt, has a lot of cash and I have among the best locations anywhere in the United States. I have great property. SPITZER: Donald — TRUMP: If I decide to run, and I may surprise you by my decision. SPITZER: Right. TRUMP: You will see filed, not 90 days later when that I'm expected to do it, but the day that I decide to run, you will see a large number of papers that add up to a certain number and on that paper and on that cover paper will be the amount of cash I have, what banks the cash is in and also what net worth there is, approximately. SPITZER: Donald, just so it's clear — TRUMP: And it will be very simple. And you're wasting a lot of time on your show and to be honest, you know, you'll find out, very likely, you'll find out — hopefully you will find out because this country is in such bad shape that somebody has to do something as quickly as possible. SPITZER: We'll get to that — TRUMP: So hopefully you'll find out in a very short number of weeks. SPITZER: We'll get to that in just a moment. TRUMP: What the number is. SPITZER: We'll get to that in just a moment. Here's the question I have for you. What is your net worth? Why don't you tell us right now? TRUMP: I will save it but I will tell you this. SPITZER: You're going to say your net worth or you're going to save your statement? TRUMP: My net worth — excuse me, Eliot. Excuse me. My net worth according to “Forbes” is $2.7 billion? SPITZER: Right. TRUMP: I will tell you this, it is substantially in excess of that. When I say substantially, much, much more. They don't have access to my books, they don't have access to my records. JEFFREY TOOBIN, CNN: It's Jeff Toobin. SPITZER: Jeff has a question for you. TOOBIN: Let me ask you a question about the Hawaii project, in Waikiki that we raised earlier in the program today. He said that — you said you own it. In interviews and in letters you said you own it. In fact, in the deposition you said well, I have a license. It's a licensing agreement but it's really a good licensing agreement. Isn't there a difference between owning something — TRUMP: You're talking about Hawaii? I really don't know if it's an ownership position or license. I have so many jobs that I wouldn't know that. I can tell you this, it's a very successful job, it's a beautiful job. TOOBIN: I don't doubt that for a second that you're very successful but — TRUMP: And it's — and it's — (CROSSTALK) TRUMP: Excuse me, Jeffrey. TOOBIN: I'm sorry. TRUMP: It's up, it's open, it's doing very well and people are very happy. As to whether or not it's a licensing deal or an ownership deal, I have many, many deals all over the world. I'd have to really check that, I don't know. SPITZER: Donald, we've got to take a quick break. You know this. You have a TV show somewhere, don't you? TRUMP: I do. I certainly do. Something media members must find very scary – and possibly one of the reasons they've been so on the attack concerning Trump – is that he's not afraid of them. Part of the press's power especially on television is that politicians generally fear those that make a living offering political opinion to the public. What we've seen in the past few weeks is this is not one of Trump's concerns. Quite the contrary, he seems to love getting in the ring with his adversaries as the cameras are rolling. If The Donald is really going to run for president, and this isn't just him having a lot of fun getting the nation's attention in a greater fashion than normal, his courageous, devil may care attitude around the media may be a quality that goes a long way with voters. What the talking heads don't realize is for better or worse, most Americans don't vote based on the issues. If they did, Obama never would have gotten anywhere near as far as he did in 2008. One of the many things to be learned from that campaign was how many people in this country vote for personalities not issues or positions. Say what you will about the former junior senator from Illinois, he did ooze what a goodly percentage of the public was looking for at that moment in time. The same could end up being true of Trump if he decides to run. There's potentially a sizable number of people that would support him just because of the confidence he has to call an on air television host and challenge him or her about what he or she is reporting at that instant. His positions on a number of issues might be offensive to some, but that could end up being largely irrelevant to people who couldn't care less about Obama's birth certificate or possible tariffs on Chinese goods. This real estate mogul right now is playing the press better than any candidate we've seen in a long time, and that could be winning him more fans than some campaign promise they expect will be reneged upon shortly after their vote is cast. Another wild card is ratings, for if Trump's even come close to what media outlets were getting in 2008 every time Obama or his wife was in a studio or on a magazine cover, this could get really interesting in the coming months because they're going to want him on as much as possible. That could mean this is just the start of a lot of Donald exposure which will certainly make him very happy, but will end up really displeasing the current White House resident. Wouldn't that be a shame? (H/T Mediaite )
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Aw, it’s enough to make the erstwhile Green Jobs czar Van Jones proud. From Fox Nation comes this video of young students singing an earth day song at the Riverwood Elementary School in Tennessee. The song contains lyrics like “Recycle, bicycle, don’t drive by yourself / don’t buy those plastic products on the supermarket shelf” and “Boycott, petition, let the big business know / that if we mess it… Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : The Blaze Discovery Date : 22/04/2011 03:14 Number of articles : 4
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