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| Post a Comment - Mansfield News Journal Posted: 13 Dec 2009 04:37 AM PST MANSFIELD -- John Nirmalnath, M.D., has been named one of America's Top Physicians in Internal Medicine by the Consumer Research Council of America. The designation comes in the 2009 edition of the council's "Guide to America's Top Physicians." A member of the MedCentral medical staff since 1995, Nirmalnath is certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine. He earned his medical degree from Madras Medical College in India and completed his residency at the Ohio Valley Medical Center in Wheeling, W. Va. His office is at 295 Glessner Ave. MANSFIELD -- Mech-anics Savings Bank recently announced the following employee appointments: Jocelyn King has been promoted to assistant branch manager at the Madison office. She joined Mechanics in July 2005 and previously served as a customer service representative, senior customer service representative and customer service specialist at the Madison office. Michelle Ballinger has been appointed to community banker. In this role she will coordinate the mobile banking, IRAs and Work Place Rewards Program. She joined Mechanics in October 2009 as a management trainee. WILLARD -- Two employees at R.R. Donnelley's Willard manufacturing plant retire this week. Leonard "Lenny" Branham Jr. will retire Dec. 15 after over 44 years of service He started his career in 1965 as a Trucker in Shipping. He has worked as a journeyman machine operator, customer service rep, customer service supervisor, and is retiring as a CI/Quality Supervisor. He lives in Willard with wife Mary. They have a daughter, son-in-law and two grandchildren. David Kegley will retire Dec. 16 after 41 years of service. He was hired in 1968 as a layup person. He worked his entire career in the pressroom and is retiring as a press operator 3. Kegley and wife Jenny live in Willard. They have two children and three grandchildren. News Journal staff reports fivefilters.org featured article: Normalising the crime of the century by John Pilger |
| Business News in Brief - Spectrum Posted: 13 Dec 2009 04:37 AM PST Acupuncture clinic opens in Cedar City CEDAR CITY - Cedar City Community Acupuncture, the area's first acupuncture clinic, recently opened at 222 S. Main St. "Cedar City Community Acupuncture offers an affordable, quality alternative to treating common health problems in a relaxed group setting," said Carol Levesque. "The client determines the fee for each treatment from a sliding scale between $15 and $40. No proof of income is required." Clinic hours are by appointment Wednesday through Saturday. House calls also can be arranged for an additional fee. For information or to make an appointment, call the clinic at 704-4588 or visit www.cedarcityacupuncture.com. Baja gives customers early Christmas gift ST. GEORGE - In participation with the Toys for Tots program, Baja Broadband, LLC, personnel want to give customers something back for helping bring Christmas to children. Similar to last year, Baja Broadband customers that bring a new, unwrapped toy to the Baja Broadband office will receive a gift certificate for three free pay-per-view movies. The toy drop-off is not limited to Baja Broadband customers. Anybody in the community who would like to bring a toy to the Baja office is welcome to do so. Those interested in the pay-per-view offer who don't have Baja Broadband digital video service may purchase the services. The Baja Broadband office is at 111 W. 700 South in St. George. Those who would like to donate a toy may bring one in any weekday between 8:30 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. until Dec. 23. For information, call Brian Ence at 703-0820. Obama blasts banks for opposing help WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama singled out financial institutions for causing much of the economic tailspin and criticized their opposition to tighter federal oversight of their industry. While applauding House passage Friday of overhaul legislation and urging quick Senate action, Obama expressed frustration with banks that were helped by a taxpayer bailout and now are "fighting tooth and nail with their lobbyists" against new government controls. fivefilters.org featured article: Normalising the crime of the century by John Pilger |
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| Friend or faux? Party crashers aren't new to the scene - Asbury Park Press Posted: 13 Dec 2009 04:15 AM PST (2 of 4) The most recent, "Clark Rockefeller," is really Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter, 48, a German con man who charmed scores of wealthy Americans, including his Harvard MBA wife, into believing he was a millionaire member of one of America's richest families. He dressed and spoke well and seemed to have unlimited cash. But now he's in prison after being convicted of kidnapping his daughter. He remains a person of interest in the murder of a couple in California, where he passed himself off as a member of the British royal family. Was he insane, in thrall to his own lies? The jury at his kidnapping trial didn't think so. "He was brilliant at using famous names to convince people he was somebody," says Mark Seal, a Vanity Fair contributing editor who wrote about the case and is working on a book about it. "People will believe almost anything if it's wrapped in the right package. Most people wouldn't check (if he was legitimate) and he was able to count on that." Despite the widespread contempt for the Salahis, some impostors are actually celebrated, and even the subject of Hollywood movies, such as Princess Caraboo (1994, Kevin Kline, Phoebe Cates); Anastasia (1956, Ingrid Bergman); Catch Me If You Can(2002, Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hanks); and Six Degrees of Separation (1993, Will Smith). Anybody remember Orson Welles in 1949's Black Magic? He played the most famous impostor of 18th-century Europe, Giuseppe Balsamo, who was born in the criminal slums of Palermo but called himself Count Alessandro de Cagliostro. He gained money, fame and access to the European elite as a magician, alchemist, healer and founder of a new brand of Freemasonry. Eventually, he began to believe his own con, says McCalman, author of The Last Alchemist: Count Cagliostro, Master of Magic in the Age of Reason. "Imposture was a means of self-advancement for someone who was genuinely able but completely blocked in life," McCalman says. In 2005, the movie Wedding Crashers, starring Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn as womanizers who crashed weddings to meet girls, was a big hit. And Holly Jacobs, a Harlequin romance novelist, published a comic novel, Confessions of a Party Crasher, in 2006 in which lead character Annabelle regularly crashes other people's weddings so she can meet men. Annabelle views this behavior as entirely benign, but even so, her creator says she would be aghast if someone crashed her own daughter's upcoming wedding. fivefilters.org featured article: Normalising the crime of the century by John Pilger  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Larger font size - Daily Interlake Posted: 13 Dec 2009 03:47 AM PST I didn't know whether to headline this story, "It's the debt, stupid!" or "Wake up and smell the catastrophe," so I settled on "Wake up and smell the debt!" But whatever you do, wake up soon, or you will not be able to afford to wake up at all. And if you don't believe me because I am a conservative and therefore deemed suitable for slandering, then at least pay attention to the New York Times and the Washington Post. In the last month, they have both published stories warning that the United States is on a dangerous path of borrowing and spending that could lead to unimaginable disaster. In a story titled "Wave of debt payments facing U.S. government," reporter Edmund M. Andrews of the Times wrote that the federal government is financing its trillion-dollar a year borrowing "with i.o.u.'s on terms that seem too good to be true." That's because they are too good to be true. As one person quoted in the story says, "The government is on teaser rates." Yet there is virtually no voice in the government for cutting back on spending. Instead, under both the recent Bush administration and the Obama administration, spending has ballooned. Bailouts, entitlements, health-care subsidies: it appears that the government has an endless amount of money to give away. But the plain and simple fact is that the government is spending money it doesn't have. If a politician won't admit that to you, then he is a knave or a fool, or possibly both. If he is a fool, vote him out of office. If he is a knave, tar and feather him and THEN vote him out of office. You have been lied to. Yet the American people seem to love a tall tale. Plenty of them actually believe that if Congress agrees to spend $1 trillion on health care, the government will actually make money. That's a good one. But if even the mainstream media don't believe it any longer, maybe there is hope. The Washington Post article by Joel Achenbach, entitled "A surplus of worry over nation's deepening debt," is even more bleak than the story in the Times. "The problem is that, if investors think the United States isn't fiscally responsible, they could start demanding much higher interest rates when they bid on Treasury securities. The feedback loop could get ugly. The nation could have to borrow hundreds of billions just to pay interest on what it owes. This has been touted as a classic path to irreversible national decline." Gosh, sounds like something "that crazy Sarah Palin" would say. Or maybe even "that nut job Glenn Beck." Could that warning have really come from the Washington Post? Then it has to be serious, right? Well, the Washington Post and New York Times may be worried. You and I may be worried. But Congress doesn't have a care in the world. By the end of last week, Rep. Steny Hoyer, the Democratic Majority Leader in the House, had confirmed that Democrats will raise the falsely named "debt ceiling" by $1.8 trillion. Yep, that's on top of the current $12 trillion in debt that we already can't pay. I wonder how many more people would be in bankruptcy today if they could raise their credit limits on their personal credit cards without consulting with the bank. ("Oops! Reached my limit! Time to add a few more thousand on the top!") It's absurd, of course, yet that is just what Congress intends to do. Can't pay your bills? Just borrow more to make ends meet! Can't afford to pay for health care for every man, woman and child in the country? No problem. Just raise the debt ceiling! The sky's the limit! Of course, we won't raise the ceiling above our ability to pay (wink! wink! nod! nod!) — that would be just plain stupid. So some Democrats are putting their foot down by saying they won't vote for the higher debt ceiling unless Congress does something about the debt — something meaningful, something substantial, something new and untried — like naming a commission to study the problem! Geez, that Congress, you have to hand it to them. They have some big thinkers in there. No real reason to cut the spending without studying the problem first. Which reminds me, maybe we should get someone to name a commission to study the Congress and its inability to govern. Meanwhile, the rest of the world is watching warily as Uncle Sam looks more and more like a doddering fool who needs to have a guardian appointed to manage his affairs. Moody's Investors Services, the company whose ratings are used as a guide to the potential worthiness of bond offerings, has announced that it is worried about the ability of the United States to cut its deficit to a manageable level. Moody's said that if the United States doesn't act quickly to turn things around, it would probably lose its solid-gold Triple-A rating in 2013. That would mean the United States would have to pay higher interest rates on its bonds, thus resulting in an even greater debt load going forward. Ultimately, of course, the less you know about all this the better. You will sleep much more securely at night if you DON'T smell the debt. One of the economists named in the Washington Post story, Leonard Burman, had a good solution though. He said he has developed a computer model that shows that a "catastrophic budget failure" is a real possibility if Congress continues to pay its debt by borrowing more and more money. "I try not to be too depressed," said Burman. "Because if I really thought it was going to play out the way this model works, I would just move to a cabin in Montana and stockpile gold and guns." Well, at least I am already in Montana. One out of three is not a bad start. n Frank Miele is managing editor of the Daily Inter Lake and writes a weekly column. E-mail responses may be sent to edit@dailyinterlake.com fivefilters.org featured article: Normalising the crime of the century by John Pilger |
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