Imagine the scandal. A well known war leader’s body was taken from a cemetery on Federal land, and his skull used as an object of ridicule by the enemy. The family is requesting their return, but the bones are owned by a group that includes some of the most influential people in the land, so [...]

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I haven’t seen the HBO series on the Tudors yet (HBO Asia is a year behind the US), but I find it interesting that the story is being revived and retold for today’s audience. The story of Henry and his six wives is one that has held the fascination of people for hundreds of years. [...]

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South Carolina Governor Mark Stanford who hasn’t been seen in public for more than four days, is reportedly taking some time off from his daily schedule to address personal issues. It would appear the Governor is not suffering from any life threatening illness that would require him to formally turn running of State government over to [...]

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Picking up from my last article, Hollywood has created a needlessly expensive bureaucracy that results in sub-optimal risk management. Each layer of bureaucracy behaves in ways so as to insulate itself from the level above it. My sixth postulation springs from this concept. 6) The hiring of the most expensive, but not necessarily creative or [...]

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The goal of this series of articles is not to criticize the Hollywood manufacturing process and financial models per se, but to identify the flaws inherent in the system. After analyzing these flaws, the goal is to create a new financial and creative model — one that can achieve maximum ROI in a world where [...]

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Short Answer: marginally. Long Answer: There was much sturm und drang over Extended Stay America’s (ESA) Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing on Monday. Of primary concern to this investor is how the filing may affect Ashford Hospitality Trust’s (AHT) $98 million mezzanine loan that was made to ESA last year. For investors, it’s important not to [...]

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When I am not being the investigative reporter I do reviews, books, music, video’s, and whatever else comes my way. I recently had the good fortune to watch a great documentary series ‘Every Picture Tells A Story’, in it, world renown art historian Waldemar Januszczak takes us behind the scenes of a number of very [...]

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It is late October and Sharon McCone is hiding out at the ranch near Tufa Lake located in the high desert country of California near Yosemite. Depression has a tight grip on her mind and soul with her questioning nearly everything in her life. Events in the “Ever Running Man” have taken a huge toll [...]

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With the trial against W R Grace now over, the President of the United States, Barack Obama, has now declared the town of Libby in Montana a public health emergency. Many people in Libby have fallen ill or died as a result of exposure to asbestos resulting from the W R Grace mines that were [...]

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Fear Glacier is located in the Artic area known as the “Zone.” A stretch of northeastern Alaska bounded by the Artic Ocean, Artic National Wildlife Refuge and the Yukon’s Ivvavik National Park is labeled as the “Zone” and home to the “Mount Fear Remote Sensing Installation.” A former military base that was part of the [...]

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During the course of the past year and a half or thereabouts, I’ve become happily reacquainted with one of the joys of my childhood, the western. It began when Turner Classic Movies ran a Roy Rogers movie marathon. This in turn prompted me to rent Hopalong Cassidy films from Netflix, and to buy some from [...]

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Edward De Bono the author once said that humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.    If this is true, then “Return of the Dittos” proves conclusively that the fertile brain of its author, Dale Andrew White, continues to work overtime, much to the benefit of his readers.“Return of the [...]

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When everyone is shocked at seeing the baby’s head roll after Ashley drops it, she asks what she has done to make someone want to hurt her like this. When Adam walks in Victor asks him if this is his handiwork. He pretends to know what he is talking about. Victor says the baby’s head [...]

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The son of a woman in the UK that died from the asbestos related cancer, mesothelioma, four years ago has also died from the same illness. Eighty two year old Lily Towersey died four years ago from mesothelioma caused by secondary exposure to asbestos, which was thought to have come from the clothes of her [...]

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“It’s up to Iranians to make decisions about who Iran’s leaders will be . . . having said that, I am deeply troubled by the violence that I’ve been seeing on television.” President Barack Obama In the wake of the Iranian election, hundreds of thousands of supporters of Mir Hossein Mousavi are taking their very [...]

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