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Katashi_itto
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May 24, 2014
The year is 2183. Earth is dead. With all evidence of organic life lost, a cosmic archaeologist travels faster than light into deep space to capture images of the once vibrant planet. When his vessel is damaged he must take matters into his own hands, risking his life to witness humanity's lost home.
Short Film (Ultra-HD) "Telescope"
The year is 2183. Earth is dead. With all evidence of organic life lost, a cosmic archaeologist travels faster than light into deep space to capture images of the once vibrant planet. When his vessel is damaged he must take matters into his own hands, risking his life to witness humanity's lost home.
May 21, 2014
Guardians of the Galaxy Official Trailer #2
May 16, 2014
Mall Cam: Operation “American Spring” set for May 16, 2014: Target Washington, D.C
See the vast Throngs.......ummm
http://www.earthcam.com/usa/dc/washingtonmonument/?cam=dcmall
May 15, 2014
Former Gilberton, PA police chief Mark Kessler has released a new expletive-laden video in which he threatened his critics, then angrily fired an assault rifle.
The video opened with Kessler off-camera, trying to secure the camera to the tripod. Then, wearing a black baseball cap and a pair of matching black ear protection earmuffs and carrying an AR-15 assault rifle, he entered the frame and began to rant.
“Chief Kessler here,” he began, “and I want to tell all my supporters out there that I thank you very much.”
For his detractors, however, Kessler had a different message.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/05/15/libtard-hating-ex-police-chief-is-back-with-profane-video-rant-and-reality-tv-show-deal/
‘Libtard’-hating ex-police chief is back with profane video rant and reality TV show deal
WARNING LANGUAGE
Former Gilberton, PA police chief Mark Kessler has released a new expletive-laden video in which he threatened his critics, then angrily fired an assault rifle.
The video opened with Kessler off-camera, trying to secure the camera to the tripod. Then, wearing a black baseball cap and a pair of matching black ear protection earmuffs and carrying an AR-15 assault rifle, he entered the frame and began to rant.
“Chief Kessler here,” he began, “and I want to tell all my supporters out there that I thank you very much.”
For his detractors, however, Kessler had a different message.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/05/15/libtard-hating-ex-police-chief-is-back-with-profane-video-rant-and-reality-tv-show-deal/
May 14, 2014
Let's review, shall we? First there was the bad news from Kansas:
TOPEKA -- Tax revenue in April dropped 45 percent from a year ago, the Kansas Department of Revenue announced Wednesday.
The state's revenue for the year is $92.9 million less than projected earlier this month....
Personal income tax revenue has decreased by $508 million compared with this point last fiscal year. That category also accounted for the discrepancy between Wednesday's numbers and estimates released earlier in the month. Income tax revenue was $89.6 million lower than expected.
This huge and escalating shortfall occurred after Kansas's right-wing Republican legislature and governor, Sam Brownback, enacted huge and foolish tax cuts, the result of which was--as Senate Minority Leader Anthony Hensley (D-Topeka) explained--to transfer the tax burden from the rich to the middle and lower classes. The revenue shortfall also led Moody's to downgrade Kansas's debt, something that will cost its citizens even more money over the coming years as they borrow to make up the lost revenue.
So, are Brownback and his fellow Republicans willing to say, "Oops, my bad!"?
(Three Guesses)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ian-reifowitz/sam-brownback-kansas_b_5310331.html
Tax revenue in April dropped 45 percent from a year ago, the Kansas Department of Revenue announced
Pulling Back the Curtain on Sam Brownback's Kansas Financial MeltdownLet's review, shall we? First there was the bad news from Kansas:
TOPEKA -- Tax revenue in April dropped 45 percent from a year ago, the Kansas Department of Revenue announced Wednesday.
The state's revenue for the year is $92.9 million less than projected earlier this month....
Personal income tax revenue has decreased by $508 million compared with this point last fiscal year. That category also accounted for the discrepancy between Wednesday's numbers and estimates released earlier in the month. Income tax revenue was $89.6 million lower than expected.
This huge and escalating shortfall occurred after Kansas's right-wing Republican legislature and governor, Sam Brownback, enacted huge and foolish tax cuts, the result of which was--as Senate Minority Leader Anthony Hensley (D-Topeka) explained--to transfer the tax burden from the rich to the middle and lower classes. The revenue shortfall also led Moody's to downgrade Kansas's debt, something that will cost its citizens even more money over the coming years as they borrow to make up the lost revenue.
So, are Brownback and his fellow Republicans willing to say, "Oops, my bad!"?
(Three Guesses)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ian-reifowitz/sam-brownback-kansas_b_5310331.html
May 13, 2014
The Swiss artist who designed the 'xenomorph' creature in Alien as well as imaginative sleeve designs for Debbie Harry and others has died aged 74
HR Giger, whose "biomechanical" artwork lent Ridley Scott's film Alien much of its terror, has died aged 74 from injuries sustained in a fall on stairs, according to the Swiss press.
Following study in architecture and industrial design in Zurich, Giger began a successful career in art and interior design. He received an Academy Award as part of the visual effects team for Alien, after Scott saw his artwork Necronom IV and used it as the basis for the film's murderous creatures. As well as the chest-bursting "xenomorph" that is the film's central focus, Giger's designs, characterised by dark sexuality and cyberpunk energy, also inspired the derelict spacecraft and the masked gunner discovered on it.
Giger also designed iconic and controversial record sleeves: on Debbie Harry's Koo Koo the singer appears with spears cutting through her face, while the poster insert for the Dead Kennedys' Frankenchrist prompted an obscenity trial. He also designed the cover for Emerson Lake & Palmer's 1973 album Brain Salad Surgery.
He later created "Giger Bars" in Switzerland which used his designs for their interiors – he disowned another bar in Japan after they failed to properly realise his designs.
http://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/may/13/hr-giger-dies-alien-artist
Culture Film Sci-fi surrealist HR Giger, creator of Alien visions, dies in fall
The Swiss artist who designed the 'xenomorph' creature in Alien as well as imaginative sleeve designs for Debbie Harry and others has died aged 74
HR Giger, whose "biomechanical" artwork lent Ridley Scott's film Alien much of its terror, has died aged 74 from injuries sustained in a fall on stairs, according to the Swiss press.
Following study in architecture and industrial design in Zurich, Giger began a successful career in art and interior design. He received an Academy Award as part of the visual effects team for Alien, after Scott saw his artwork Necronom IV and used it as the basis for the film's murderous creatures. As well as the chest-bursting "xenomorph" that is the film's central focus, Giger's designs, characterised by dark sexuality and cyberpunk energy, also inspired the derelict spacecraft and the masked gunner discovered on it.
Giger also designed iconic and controversial record sleeves: on Debbie Harry's Koo Koo the singer appears with spears cutting through her face, while the poster insert for the Dead Kennedys' Frankenchrist prompted an obscenity trial. He also designed the cover for Emerson Lake & Palmer's 1973 album Brain Salad Surgery.
He later created "Giger Bars" in Switzerland which used his designs for their interiors – he disowned another bar in Japan after they failed to properly realise his designs.
http://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/may/13/hr-giger-dies-alien-artist
May 7, 2014
Talgo, one the world's biggest producers of passenger trains, is pulling out of Wisconsin
shutting down its Milwaukee factory. Guess whose fault it is?
Sad news out of Milwaukee. Spanish train-maker Talgo is vacating its factory in the city, four years after Gov. Scott Walker rejected millions in federal stimulus money to create a Milwaukee-to-Madison commuter line.
The funding, part of the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, was meant to create high-speed rail links across the country, which would have modernized America’s industrial infrastructure, creating good jobs in the process.
Soon after taking office in 2010, Walker turned down the $810 million in federal rail funds. The monies, already budgeted for the state, went to Illinois instead.
Talgo set up its North American headquarters in Milwaukee shortly before Walker’s election, with plans to make the city a hub for rail manufacturing in the Midwest.
http://www.ibew.org/articles/14daily/1405/140505_spanish.htm
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