The newly formed �super PAC� of abortion rights advocacy group EMILY�s List drew most of the $430,000 it raised in August from just five sources, a Center for Responsive Politics review of campaign finance reports filed Thursday shows.
Last month, the PAC, known as Women Vote!, raised $250,000 from the Service Employees International Union and another $95,000 from four wealthy women philanthropists and investors who have been prolific political donors over the years, according to a Center for Responsive Politics analysis. Such contributions illustrate how relatively few people may now, in the aftermath of major federal court decisions, significantly affect the financial fortunes of certain political groups.
This $95,000 represents more than 50 percent of all non-SEIU contributions Women Vote! collected in August.
The largest individual contribution the group received in August came from New York investor Judith-Ann Corrente, who contributed $50,000.
Along with her husband, Blenheim Capital Management Chairman Willem Kooyker, Corrente is among the top 50 donors to all federal candidates, parties and committees so far this election cycle.
The other women to drop five-figure checks for the committee are as follows:
- Anne D. Taft, of Binghamton, N.Y. She contributed $25,000 and her occupation is listed as �investor� on the group�s Federal Election Commission filings
- Emily H. Fisher, a philanthropist who lives in Sheffield, Mass. She contributed $10,000 and her occupation is listed as �retired� on the group�s FEC filings
- Anne Bartley, of San Francisco. She contributed $10,000. Her occupation is listed as �investor� on the group�s FEC filings. She is married to Larry B. McNeil -- who is the director of the SEIU�s Institute for Change and who was a �Saul Alinski organizer for 25 years,� according to an official online biography
The EMILY�s List�s Women Vote! PAC was established earlier this year for the explicit purpose of making independent expenditures in hot races, for example, running advertisements overtly telling voters to support or defeat specific candidates. It is one of more than two dozen groups to register with the FEC as an �independent expenditure-only committee,� as OpenSecrets Blog has previously written about on numerous occasions.
The group has raised $1.5 million between January and August. It ended August with about $703,000 cash on hand.
It has spent $826,900 since January, including $65,800 on mailings in August touting Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Robin Carnahan and opposing Republican Senate candidate Roy Blunt in Missouri.
During previous election cycles, federal rules limited how much money PACs could collect from individuals. It was illegal to collect more than $5,000 per person, per year. But recent federal legal rulings -- including Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission and SpeechNow.org v. Federal Election Commission -- have changed that.
Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: I celebrate all levels of trailers and hopefully this column will satisfactorily give you a baseline of what beta wave I’m operating on, because what better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising? Some of the best authors will tell you that writing a short story is a lot harder than writing a long one, that you have to weigh every sentence. What better medium to see how this theory plays itself out beyond that than with movie trailers?
For Colored Girls Trailer
By show of hands, how many movies by Tyler Perry have you looked forward to in your lifetime?
Yeah, just about that many.
What makes this trailer so compelling is that this doesn’t look like the obnoxious, tired retread of material he’s done again and again. I don’t blame the guy, though, as he’s kind of the Kevin Smith of black film: he knows his audience, he makes movies for that audience, and these productions make money because he’s smart about how much to spend making them. Perry, as well, is an affable guy who you kind of root for when you realize what he’s done to get where he is and so going into watching this trailer I was wholly expecting to just observe what he’s put on display and move on. What’s here, though, has attached itself to me.
What this trailer manages to do, and is no less a miracle in my book, is to make me interested in what he has to say. I’ll go further and say that this looks like the kind of film that I want to be first in line to see after understanding that this is a movie that will strip away the artifice of farce and satire and lay bare the contemporary issues that women, notably women of color, have to contend with in modern social circles. I don’t know how this trailer is able to get this across but it does while, additionally, making me believe that seeing a movie with Whoopi Goldberg and Janet Jackson (who I last saw in the theater for Poetic Justice) would be a good thing.
The trailer is a slow burn in the best way possible. The music and pacing here work in tandem to establish a mood and it is unlike anything I’ve seen this year for a piece of marketing looking for your cash. It’s a risky thing, to show the plight of women who all seem to be done wrong in some kind of fashion or who are struggling to overcome some bad situation, because at the basic level why would I want to pay to be bummed out? That’s because, like the hope you have with any book you open, that you’ll be better at the end than you were at the beginning.
There are some dramatic performances here and, bless Perry in this department, it doesn’t look shot like a sitcom. There seems to be a real mutability with how we transition from one moment of sadness to another with varying intensity. All the while, however, you can’t help but think that here is the movie I hope can make me see what millions already have. There’s promise here and that’s the best thing you can come away with when you see this trailer.
Sint Trailer
“Getting presents can be fun. But you always end up getting crap you don’t need.”
Who will fly me out and open their home to me in the Netherlands, opening weekend, to see this movie? I cannot wait to see how absurd this film turns out. I mean, how can you not be amped after seeing this and hearing the above line being delivered by a guy who crystallizes the entire charade of Christmas in one fell swoop?
Thanks to the power of modern translation this movie looks like it’s a mix of the genuine fear of Halloween, the absurd horror of Gremlins, automatic weaponry, and lots of a’splosions. Almost taking a page out of the B movie playbook of features like Leprechaun or Jack Frost this movie looks like it’s just going to up the body count with a movie that does a lot more than have a clever premise. It looks like it’s going to take over an entire city with old Saint Nick looking to quench his thirst for a high body count.
The trailer is expertly paced with just enough front-loaded information, all of it heavy handed of course, that as soon as the idea of the movie is established we just get right down to it. From the woman home alone with a kid, to the couple looking to get freaky when they’re all alone, the setup is just too irresistible to pass up.
When the real terror starts coming in this trailer it rains down hard with the hard-nosed cop looking to end this once and for all, with Nick getting in some quality kills, with the po-po getting off spectacular shots as Nick tries to flee across a series of rooftops, this thing just looks like insane fun from beginning to end.
And how can you not want to see a movie directed by a guy with the name of Dick Maas? I know I do.
Today’s Special Trailer
To begin, I will pay a bounty on any person within the sound of my written voice who can silence the cheeky voiceover guy in this trailer.
The annoyingly pitched vox takes away from what looks like a very enjoyable film about a guy who needs to come to terms with his own cultural past. Instead, what I get that this is an independent film that’s fun for the entire family and that wackiness will ensure as soon as I start watching it. Truth of the matter is, however, it stars Dean Winters, who always looks like he could fight anyone at anytime, and Aasif Mandvi, who many people will recognize from Spider-Man 2 as the guy who fired Peter Parker from his delivery gig, and who really needs a better picture on IMDB (seriously, can’t anyone upload a high quality glossy for the guy?).
So, apart from the voiceover which really grates, we get a picture of Aasif in his current life as a brilliant sous chef along with lots of kudos from the many festivals where the film has played. It’s vital to keep these kinds of things to keep viewers hooked and it hits the post perfectly.
What else it does, as the damn voiceover literally gets in the way of me trying to appreciate the subtlety about what’s happening within the family dynamics, is to paint a portrait of a man who needs to be taken down a peg. Yes, we’ve seen this kind of movie before where a few coats of paint magically transform a rundown, ramshackle of a business into a thriving enterprise and where that same guy, unbelievably, finds the love of his life but I see the sincerity here.
It’s not Todd Solondz newest epic masterpiece about incestuous grandmothers and it’s not some independent film about the hardships of midwives living in Vermont but it is the kind of film that just seems like it would be a pleasure to watch. The editing of this trailer is tight and the fact that it’s being co-written, along with Mandvi, by Jonathan Bines, writer on The Man Show, The Daily Show, and now Jimmy Kimmel, give me hope that it could be slightly funnier than any of its budgetary equals.
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The Week Ahead in Health Care <b>News</b> - NYTimes.com
Politicians are campaigning on their health care votes. The Brookings Institution is holding a public forum on ensuring patient access to effective information about prescription medicines.
Breaking <b>News</b>: Small NEO Could Pass Within 60000 km of Earth on <b>...</b>
A small asteroid will likely pass very close to Earth this week Tuesday. Astronomers are still tracking the object, now designated as 2010 TD54, and.
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The newly formed �super PAC� of abortion rights advocacy group EMILY�s List drew most of the $430,000 it raised in August from just five sources, a Center for Responsive Politics review of campaign finance reports filed Thursday shows.
Last month, the PAC, known as Women Vote!, raised $250,000 from the Service Employees International Union and another $95,000 from four wealthy women philanthropists and investors who have been prolific political donors over the years, according to a Center for Responsive Politics analysis. Such contributions illustrate how relatively few people may now, in the aftermath of major federal court decisions, significantly affect the financial fortunes of certain political groups.
This $95,000 represents more than 50 percent of all non-SEIU contributions Women Vote! collected in August.
The largest individual contribution the group received in August came from New York investor Judith-Ann Corrente, who contributed $50,000.
Along with her husband, Blenheim Capital Management Chairman Willem Kooyker, Corrente is among the top 50 donors to all federal candidates, parties and committees so far this election cycle.
The other women to drop five-figure checks for the committee are as follows:
- Anne D. Taft, of Binghamton, N.Y. She contributed $25,000 and her occupation is listed as �investor� on the group�s Federal Election Commission filings
- Emily H. Fisher, a philanthropist who lives in Sheffield, Mass. She contributed $10,000 and her occupation is listed as �retired� on the group�s FEC filings
- Anne Bartley, of San Francisco. She contributed $10,000. Her occupation is listed as �investor� on the group�s FEC filings. She is married to Larry B. McNeil -- who is the director of the SEIU�s Institute for Change and who was a �Saul Alinski organizer for 25 years,� according to an official online biography
The EMILY�s List�s Women Vote! PAC was established earlier this year for the explicit purpose of making independent expenditures in hot races, for example, running advertisements overtly telling voters to support or defeat specific candidates. It is one of more than two dozen groups to register with the FEC as an �independent expenditure-only committee,� as OpenSecrets Blog has previously written about on numerous occasions.
The group has raised $1.5 million between January and August. It ended August with about $703,000 cash on hand.
It has spent $826,900 since January, including $65,800 on mailings in August touting Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Robin Carnahan and opposing Republican Senate candidate Roy Blunt in Missouri.
During previous election cycles, federal rules limited how much money PACs could collect from individuals. It was illegal to collect more than $5,000 per person, per year. But recent federal legal rulings -- including Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission and SpeechNow.org v. Federal Election Commission -- have changed that.
Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: I celebrate all levels of trailers and hopefully this column will satisfactorily give you a baseline of what beta wave I’m operating on, because what better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising? Some of the best authors will tell you that writing a short story is a lot harder than writing a long one, that you have to weigh every sentence. What better medium to see how this theory plays itself out beyond that than with movie trailers?
For Colored Girls Trailer
By show of hands, how many movies by Tyler Perry have you looked forward to in your lifetime?
Yeah, just about that many.
What makes this trailer so compelling is that this doesn’t look like the obnoxious, tired retread of material he’s done again and again. I don’t blame the guy, though, as he’s kind of the Kevin Smith of black film: he knows his audience, he makes movies for that audience, and these productions make money because he’s smart about how much to spend making them. Perry, as well, is an affable guy who you kind of root for when you realize what he’s done to get where he is and so going into watching this trailer I was wholly expecting to just observe what he’s put on display and move on. What’s here, though, has attached itself to me.
What this trailer manages to do, and is no less a miracle in my book, is to make me interested in what he has to say. I’ll go further and say that this looks like the kind of film that I want to be first in line to see after understanding that this is a movie that will strip away the artifice of farce and satire and lay bare the contemporary issues that women, notably women of color, have to contend with in modern social circles. I don’t know how this trailer is able to get this across but it does while, additionally, making me believe that seeing a movie with Whoopi Goldberg and Janet Jackson (who I last saw in the theater for Poetic Justice) would be a good thing.
The trailer is a slow burn in the best way possible. The music and pacing here work in tandem to establish a mood and it is unlike anything I’ve seen this year for a piece of marketing looking for your cash. It’s a risky thing, to show the plight of women who all seem to be done wrong in some kind of fashion or who are struggling to overcome some bad situation, because at the basic level why would I want to pay to be bummed out? That’s because, like the hope you have with any book you open, that you’ll be better at the end than you were at the beginning.
There are some dramatic performances here and, bless Perry in this department, it doesn’t look shot like a sitcom. There seems to be a real mutability with how we transition from one moment of sadness to another with varying intensity. All the while, however, you can’t help but think that here is the movie I hope can make me see what millions already have. There’s promise here and that’s the best thing you can come away with when you see this trailer.
Sint Trailer
“Getting presents can be fun. But you always end up getting crap you don’t need.”
Who will fly me out and open their home to me in the Netherlands, opening weekend, to see this movie? I cannot wait to see how absurd this film turns out. I mean, how can you not be amped after seeing this and hearing the above line being delivered by a guy who crystallizes the entire charade of Christmas in one fell swoop?
Thanks to the power of modern translation this movie looks like it’s a mix of the genuine fear of Halloween, the absurd horror of Gremlins, automatic weaponry, and lots of a’splosions. Almost taking a page out of the B movie playbook of features like Leprechaun or Jack Frost this movie looks like it’s just going to up the body count with a movie that does a lot more than have a clever premise. It looks like it’s going to take over an entire city with old Saint Nick looking to quench his thirst for a high body count.
The trailer is expertly paced with just enough front-loaded information, all of it heavy handed of course, that as soon as the idea of the movie is established we just get right down to it. From the woman home alone with a kid, to the couple looking to get freaky when they’re all alone, the setup is just too irresistible to pass up.
When the real terror starts coming in this trailer it rains down hard with the hard-nosed cop looking to end this once and for all, with Nick getting in some quality kills, with the po-po getting off spectacular shots as Nick tries to flee across a series of rooftops, this thing just looks like insane fun from beginning to end.
And how can you not want to see a movie directed by a guy with the name of Dick Maas? I know I do.
Today’s Special Trailer
To begin, I will pay a bounty on any person within the sound of my written voice who can silence the cheeky voiceover guy in this trailer.
The annoyingly pitched vox takes away from what looks like a very enjoyable film about a guy who needs to come to terms with his own cultural past. Instead, what I get that this is an independent film that’s fun for the entire family and that wackiness will ensure as soon as I start watching it. Truth of the matter is, however, it stars Dean Winters, who always looks like he could fight anyone at anytime, and Aasif Mandvi, who many people will recognize from Spider-Man 2 as the guy who fired Peter Parker from his delivery gig, and who really needs a better picture on IMDB (seriously, can’t anyone upload a high quality glossy for the guy?).
So, apart from the voiceover which really grates, we get a picture of Aasif in his current life as a brilliant sous chef along with lots of kudos from the many festivals where the film has played. It’s vital to keep these kinds of things to keep viewers hooked and it hits the post perfectly.
What else it does, as the damn voiceover literally gets in the way of me trying to appreciate the subtlety about what’s happening within the family dynamics, is to paint a portrait of a man who needs to be taken down a peg. Yes, we’ve seen this kind of movie before where a few coats of paint magically transform a rundown, ramshackle of a business into a thriving enterprise and where that same guy, unbelievably, finds the love of his life but I see the sincerity here.
It’s not Todd Solondz newest epic masterpiece about incestuous grandmothers and it’s not some independent film about the hardships of midwives living in Vermont but it is the kind of film that just seems like it would be a pleasure to watch. The editing of this trailer is tight and the fact that it’s being co-written, along with Mandvi, by Jonathan Bines, writer on The Man Show, The Daily Show, and now Jimmy Kimmel, give me hope that it could be slightly funnier than any of its budgetary equals.
eric seiger
The Week Ahead in Health Care <b>News</b> - NYTimes.com
Politicians are campaigning on their health care votes. The Brookings Institution is holding a public forum on ensuring patient access to effective information about prescription medicines.
Breaking <b>News</b>: Small NEO Could Pass Within 60000 km of Earth on <b>...</b>
A small asteroid will likely pass very close to Earth this week Tuesday. Astronomers are still tracking the object, now designated as 2010 TD54, and.
Denver Broncos <b>News</b>: Horse Tracks - 10/11/10 - Mile High Report
Your Daily Cup of Orange and Blue Coffee - Horse Tracks!
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The Week Ahead in Health Care <b>News</b> - NYTimes.com
Politicians are campaigning on their health care votes. The Brookings Institution is holding a public forum on ensuring patient access to effective information about prescription medicines.
Breaking <b>News</b>: Small NEO Could Pass Within 60000 km of Earth on <b>...</b>
A small asteroid will likely pass very close to Earth this week Tuesday. Astronomers are still tracking the object, now designated as 2010 TD54, and.
Denver Broncos <b>News</b>: Horse Tracks - 10/11/10 - Mile High Report
Your Daily Cup of Orange and Blue Coffee - Horse Tracks!
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The newly formed �super PAC� of abortion rights advocacy group EMILY�s List drew most of the $430,000 it raised in August from just five sources, a Center for Responsive Politics review of campaign finance reports filed Thursday shows.
Last month, the PAC, known as Women Vote!, raised $250,000 from the Service Employees International Union and another $95,000 from four wealthy women philanthropists and investors who have been prolific political donors over the years, according to a Center for Responsive Politics analysis. Such contributions illustrate how relatively few people may now, in the aftermath of major federal court decisions, significantly affect the financial fortunes of certain political groups.
This $95,000 represents more than 50 percent of all non-SEIU contributions Women Vote! collected in August.
The largest individual contribution the group received in August came from New York investor Judith-Ann Corrente, who contributed $50,000.
Along with her husband, Blenheim Capital Management Chairman Willem Kooyker, Corrente is among the top 50 donors to all federal candidates, parties and committees so far this election cycle.
The other women to drop five-figure checks for the committee are as follows:
- Anne D. Taft, of Binghamton, N.Y. She contributed $25,000 and her occupation is listed as �investor� on the group�s Federal Election Commission filings
- Emily H. Fisher, a philanthropist who lives in Sheffield, Mass. She contributed $10,000 and her occupation is listed as �retired� on the group�s FEC filings
- Anne Bartley, of San Francisco. She contributed $10,000. Her occupation is listed as �investor� on the group�s FEC filings. She is married to Larry B. McNeil -- who is the director of the SEIU�s Institute for Change and who was a �Saul Alinski organizer for 25 years,� according to an official online biography
The EMILY�s List�s Women Vote! PAC was established earlier this year for the explicit purpose of making independent expenditures in hot races, for example, running advertisements overtly telling voters to support or defeat specific candidates. It is one of more than two dozen groups to register with the FEC as an �independent expenditure-only committee,� as OpenSecrets Blog has previously written about on numerous occasions.
The group has raised $1.5 million between January and August. It ended August with about $703,000 cash on hand.
It has spent $826,900 since January, including $65,800 on mailings in August touting Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Robin Carnahan and opposing Republican Senate candidate Roy Blunt in Missouri.
During previous election cycles, federal rules limited how much money PACs could collect from individuals. It was illegal to collect more than $5,000 per person, per year. But recent federal legal rulings -- including Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission and SpeechNow.org v. Federal Election Commission -- have changed that.
Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: I celebrate all levels of trailers and hopefully this column will satisfactorily give you a baseline of what beta wave I’m operating on, because what better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising? Some of the best authors will tell you that writing a short story is a lot harder than writing a long one, that you have to weigh every sentence. What better medium to see how this theory plays itself out beyond that than with movie trailers?
For Colored Girls Trailer
By show of hands, how many movies by Tyler Perry have you looked forward to in your lifetime?
Yeah, just about that many.
What makes this trailer so compelling is that this doesn’t look like the obnoxious, tired retread of material he’s done again and again. I don’t blame the guy, though, as he’s kind of the Kevin Smith of black film: he knows his audience, he makes movies for that audience, and these productions make money because he’s smart about how much to spend making them. Perry, as well, is an affable guy who you kind of root for when you realize what he’s done to get where he is and so going into watching this trailer I was wholly expecting to just observe what he’s put on display and move on. What’s here, though, has attached itself to me.
What this trailer manages to do, and is no less a miracle in my book, is to make me interested in what he has to say. I’ll go further and say that this looks like the kind of film that I want to be first in line to see after understanding that this is a movie that will strip away the artifice of farce and satire and lay bare the contemporary issues that women, notably women of color, have to contend with in modern social circles. I don’t know how this trailer is able to get this across but it does while, additionally, making me believe that seeing a movie with Whoopi Goldberg and Janet Jackson (who I last saw in the theater for Poetic Justice) would be a good thing.
The trailer is a slow burn in the best way possible. The music and pacing here work in tandem to establish a mood and it is unlike anything I’ve seen this year for a piece of marketing looking for your cash. It’s a risky thing, to show the plight of women who all seem to be done wrong in some kind of fashion or who are struggling to overcome some bad situation, because at the basic level why would I want to pay to be bummed out? That’s because, like the hope you have with any book you open, that you’ll be better at the end than you were at the beginning.
There are some dramatic performances here and, bless Perry in this department, it doesn’t look shot like a sitcom. There seems to be a real mutability with how we transition from one moment of sadness to another with varying intensity. All the while, however, you can’t help but think that here is the movie I hope can make me see what millions already have. There’s promise here and that’s the best thing you can come away with when you see this trailer.
Sint Trailer
“Getting presents can be fun. But you always end up getting crap you don’t need.”
Who will fly me out and open their home to me in the Netherlands, opening weekend, to see this movie? I cannot wait to see how absurd this film turns out. I mean, how can you not be amped after seeing this and hearing the above line being delivered by a guy who crystallizes the entire charade of Christmas in one fell swoop?
Thanks to the power of modern translation this movie looks like it’s a mix of the genuine fear of Halloween, the absurd horror of Gremlins, automatic weaponry, and lots of a’splosions. Almost taking a page out of the B movie playbook of features like Leprechaun or Jack Frost this movie looks like it’s just going to up the body count with a movie that does a lot more than have a clever premise. It looks like it’s going to take over an entire city with old Saint Nick looking to quench his thirst for a high body count.
The trailer is expertly paced with just enough front-loaded information, all of it heavy handed of course, that as soon as the idea of the movie is established we just get right down to it. From the woman home alone with a kid, to the couple looking to get freaky when they’re all alone, the setup is just too irresistible to pass up.
When the real terror starts coming in this trailer it rains down hard with the hard-nosed cop looking to end this once and for all, with Nick getting in some quality kills, with the po-po getting off spectacular shots as Nick tries to flee across a series of rooftops, this thing just looks like insane fun from beginning to end.
And how can you not want to see a movie directed by a guy with the name of Dick Maas? I know I do.
Today’s Special Trailer
To begin, I will pay a bounty on any person within the sound of my written voice who can silence the cheeky voiceover guy in this trailer.
The annoyingly pitched vox takes away from what looks like a very enjoyable film about a guy who needs to come to terms with his own cultural past. Instead, what I get that this is an independent film that’s fun for the entire family and that wackiness will ensure as soon as I start watching it. Truth of the matter is, however, it stars Dean Winters, who always looks like he could fight anyone at anytime, and Aasif Mandvi, who many people will recognize from Spider-Man 2 as the guy who fired Peter Parker from his delivery gig, and who really needs a better picture on IMDB (seriously, can’t anyone upload a high quality glossy for the guy?).
So, apart from the voiceover which really grates, we get a picture of Aasif in his current life as a brilliant sous chef along with lots of kudos from the many festivals where the film has played. It’s vital to keep these kinds of things to keep viewers hooked and it hits the post perfectly.
What else it does, as the damn voiceover literally gets in the way of me trying to appreciate the subtlety about what’s happening within the family dynamics, is to paint a portrait of a man who needs to be taken down a peg. Yes, we’ve seen this kind of movie before where a few coats of paint magically transform a rundown, ramshackle of a business into a thriving enterprise and where that same guy, unbelievably, finds the love of his life but I see the sincerity here.
It’s not Todd Solondz newest epic masterpiece about incestuous grandmothers and it’s not some independent film about the hardships of midwives living in Vermont but it is the kind of film that just seems like it would be a pleasure to watch. The editing of this trailer is tight and the fact that it’s being co-written, along with Mandvi, by Jonathan Bines, writer on The Man Show, The Daily Show, and now Jimmy Kimmel, give me hope that it could be slightly funnier than any of its budgetary equals.
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The Week Ahead in Health Care <b>News</b> - NYTimes.com
Politicians are campaigning on their health care votes. The Brookings Institution is holding a public forum on ensuring patient access to effective information about prescription medicines.
Breaking <b>News</b>: Small NEO Could Pass Within 60000 km of Earth on <b>...</b>
A small asteroid will likely pass very close to Earth this week Tuesday. Astronomers are still tracking the object, now designated as 2010 TD54, and.
Denver Broncos <b>News</b>: Horse Tracks - 10/11/10 - Mile High Report
Your Daily Cup of Orange and Blue Coffee - Horse Tracks!
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The Week Ahead in Health Care <b>News</b> - NYTimes.com
Politicians are campaigning on their health care votes. The Brookings Institution is holding a public forum on ensuring patient access to effective information about prescription medicines.
Breaking <b>News</b>: Small NEO Could Pass Within 60000 km of Earth on <b>...</b>
A small asteroid will likely pass very close to Earth this week Tuesday. Astronomers are still tracking the object, now designated as 2010 TD54, and.
Denver Broncos <b>News</b>: Horse Tracks - 10/11/10 - Mile High Report
Your Daily Cup of Orange and Blue Coffee - Horse Tracks!
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The Week Ahead in Health Care <b>News</b> - NYTimes.com
Politicians are campaigning on their health care votes. The Brookings Institution is holding a public forum on ensuring patient access to effective information about prescription medicines.
Breaking <b>News</b>: Small NEO Could Pass Within 60000 km of Earth on <b>...</b>
A small asteroid will likely pass very close to Earth this week Tuesday. Astronomers are still tracking the object, now designated as 2010 TD54, and.
Denver Broncos <b>News</b>: Horse Tracks - 10/11/10 - Mile High Report
Your Daily Cup of Orange and Blue Coffee - Horse Tracks!
eric seiger
The Week Ahead in Health Care <b>News</b> - NYTimes.com
Politicians are campaigning on their health care votes. The Brookings Institution is holding a public forum on ensuring patient access to effective information about prescription medicines.
Breaking <b>News</b>: Small NEO Could Pass Within 60000 km of Earth on <b>...</b>
A small asteroid will likely pass very close to Earth this week Tuesday. Astronomers are still tracking the object, now designated as 2010 TD54, and.
Denver Broncos <b>News</b>: Horse Tracks - 10/11/10 - Mile High Report
Your Daily Cup of Orange and Blue Coffee - Horse Tracks!
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The Week Ahead in Health Care <b>News</b> - NYTimes.com
Politicians are campaigning on their health care votes. The Brookings Institution is holding a public forum on ensuring patient access to effective information about prescription medicines.
Breaking <b>News</b>: Small NEO Could Pass Within 60000 km of Earth on <b>...</b>
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There is a mythical state of being that everyone strives for, but that seems impossible to achieve...financial security. The point where you know that you will have your food, housing, and other bills paid for the rest of your life and medical emergencies don't have to be disastrous to the bank book is a thing of fairy tales to the majority of the population. Just for rich people, huh? I always wonder who actually considers themselves rich...no matter who you are, unless you're raking in seven figures a year there's just no way you're ever going to have the money for everything you want or need (and maybe not even then, but for someone like me, where even six figures is only existent in my wildest dreams, its only a guess) so where do things like investing and planning for retirement come in? There are so many financial pitfalls that so many people don't even know about before they've experienced them that by the time you figure out you're in serious trouble it looks almost impossible to get out of it.
Author Suze Orman addresses some of these most common of pitfalls directly to that class of people that tend to have the most trouble with finances...women. If you're not a woman, Orman does have some more general finance books available, but in this one she relies on many years of experience as a financial adviser for Merrill Lynch to address financial problems specific to what women often have problems with.
Have you ever felt like there was no way you'd ever get past all the credit card bills, demands for new clothes from your kids or pleas for aid from relatives? Ever find yourself using off the savings account until there's nothing left and making excuses for not making your monthly IRA contributions? Then you're ready for Women and Money. No matter where you're sitting financially, Orman has easy-to-read suggestions that are very useful for anyone from the high-powered career woman to the stay-at-home mom.
First, the author begins by requesting a five-month commitment from her readers with a different task each month. She begins with taking control of the bank balance and making sure every penny is accounted for, then move along to an easy strategy for paying off all your credit cards (though it's expected that it'll take quite a bit longer than a month for substantial debt, it's just forming a good habit for repayment), then progresses along to IRAs and 401K accounts with information on the different types of accounts available.
I found the second half of the book to be the most useful, your mileage may vary depending on where you currently sit in your financial situation, but the second half of the book is devoted mainly to information on setting up trusts, writing wills, what sort of life insurance is available and which is likely the best for you as well as how much coverage is recommended for your situation.
The strategies Orman suggests for budgeting and figuring out how to keep money in a savings account once you manage to put it in as well as making regular contributions to your IRA (and good reasons why you should open an IRA account if you don't already have one). I, for one, am a stay-at-home mom with a full-time writing job that pulls in around $1,500 a month, yet I've been able to redo my budget so I'm well on my way to my $9,000 goal in my emergency savings account and have managed to put at least an extra $50 each into my higher-risk investments and my IRA. Seems impossible, huh? All it's taken is sacrificing one "dining out" time a month and watching the "it's just..." spending a little closer (such as "well it's just $10, might as well") and there's even been a little bit of frivolous spending money for all the hard work.
What makes this book specifically for women is that Orman focuses on the mindset that gets many women in trouble with their money as well as the tendency of many to back down from financial responsibility and who are happy enough to allow the men to handle it. I suppose I'm lucky in this respect, because I know I've been better educated on money management than most so I've made sure to keep a handle on the financial managing and decisions, but there were still quite a few holes in my basic knowledge of finances...some I was aware of and some not.
My Granny sent me this book after seeing it featured on Oprah, and if there's one thing Granny knows it's good books. I have yet to be disappointed by anything she sends me and this book was no exception. The advice given is all pretty basic but the reader is alerted to this fact in the very beginning of the book, it's meant to give basic outlines of the subjects deemed important for those first steps toward financial security in a way that's easy to understand. The author has a very fun and personal way of writing that makes it so easy to keep going from one chapter to the next and encourages the everyday reader to take the steps the author speaks of.
Finally, the book finishes up with a statement to all women who tend to undervalue themselves and their work as well as those who prefer to lurk in the shadows laboring for their family's good without any personal recognition. Confidence is the first step to taking control of all aspects of one's life and in today's world finances are often the most important of these. Overall this is definitely a very worthwhile book to read and I recommend it to any woman who does not feel confident in their financial knowledge.
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