Fervid

You're absent,
All the time,
I'm living with the images,
Sometimes...
I'm pushed  far from the realm of reality,
Haunted by dreams of you
But still I keep the keen interests,
Bound here, 
As there's no where unreal for a warrior ,
Of tragic heights,
To dwell;other than here
To uphold the flag ,
Against vigorous winds...so real
Hard days of a gruelling battle,
Await the one stands by an ardent passion of life, 
Sacrifice must be made,
To keep the assailed hope alive,

You're absent,
But i can feel you all time,
Weeping for me, facing my miserable moments...
Trying to lead my speech,in my falters,
To forbid all my blunders,
I could feel there's been a shoulder...

Otherwise this was all in vain,
Otherwise i have to believe;
I've been sadly thrown out,
Left alone,
All these years...how unfair !

Now i'm used to the apathy,
Now i can explain;
All these bothersome looks,
Assaultive language,

Once i saw...,
And that's enough,
To perceive,
To stand for this war,

Now i know...
Now; there's a drift inside,
A premonition of an imminent voyage,

No matter where the curtain falls...
Soul swirls somewhere
Gleefully.

Pedram
December 23, 2010

From Recovery To Expansion

As holiday shoppers drag stuffed bags from stores, and a Santa Claus stock market rally warms spirits and 401(k) accounts, economists are full of seasonal cheer and upping their expectations for 2011.

Most have cast aside any talk of a double-dip recession that was prevalent just about five months ago as housing plunged, European countries worried about paying debts and China started to put the brakes on growth. Now, many economists think the U.S. economy will grow at 3 percent or more in 2011, moving from the recovery phase to expansion.
For the first time since the economy began its cruel descent into the worst recession since the Depression, economists see evidence that gross domestic product, which is the size of the economy, finally will return to the $13.36 trillion level it left behind in 2007 and surpass that mark in the year ahead.
"It's taken us a very long time to get back to even," said Northern Trust economist Paul Kasriel. "It's been the weakest recovery since the recovery that began in April 1933."
Yet, in 2011, "I think people will worry less about losing their jobs, and if you have been out of work, you will start seeing better job opportunities," Kasriel said.
He thinks the economy will grow about 3.3 percent next year and that unemployment could drop to 8.5 percent by the end of 2011. As horrible as 8.5 percent sounds compared with the 5 percent jobless rate that predated the recession, it's an improvement over the recent 9.8 percent or 2009's peak at 10.1 percent.
With almost 17 percent of Americans unemployed or underemployed, it will take years of improved growth to absorb all the people who lost jobs during the last couple years. The economy must create about 150,000 jobs a month to start making a dent in unemployment, and it isn't there yet.
Still, optimism over 2011 has built as consumers have spent more than expected on holiday shopping and as surveys of corporate decision-makers, exports and industrial production have pointed to stronger growth. This month, after Congress extended unemployment benefits for 13 months and extended tax cuts for two years, economists reworked estimates. Many assume Americans will spend much of the extra money and add another one-half to 1 percentage point to GDP growth next year.
Macroeconomic Advisers, for example, had been predicting GDP would grow at 2.4 percent in early 2011 and rise to 3.7 percent for the year. As the firm has evaluated recent economic data, it has estimated growth in the first quarter next year at 3 percent and 4 percent for the year.
Although economists are encouraged by signs of improvement in the economy, they continue to see ongoing threats, including excessive debt in the U.S. and Europe and the possibility that the world's engine of growth, China, will fight inflation by slowing too much.
"The economic recovery will not bring economic health," JPMorgan economist Robert Mellman said in his 2011 forecast. "The boost to growth from lower taxes comes at the expense of a larger budget deficit, now forecast to be $1.5 trillion, or nearly 10 percent of GDP in 2011."
Further, he and other economists note that state and local governments, which provide about 13 percent of the nation's GDP, will have "fiscal challenges for the foreseeable future."
"State and local governments face the toughest budget outlook since the Great Depression," said Bank of America Merrill Lynch economist Ethan Harris. "The worst is yet to come."
As local governments struggle to pay their bills as property taxes fall along with real estate values, governments will have to slash payrolls and spending, cutting contracts with businesses and adding to the unemployed.
Since early fall, a strong stock market rally apparently has made people with jobs feel more comfortable about spending money. The Dow Jones industrial average is up 10.6 percent this year and has gained 76 percent since the 2009 lows. But while economists have been encouraged by spending, High Frequency Economist Ian Shepherdson said retail sales cannot keep rising at their recent pace because people are not getting pay increases.
"Disposable incomes are rising by only about 0.2 percent per month," he said.
And Americans are still digging out from record levels of debt, a process expected to take years. Although retail sales have been impressive, Shepherdson noted that less than half of all consumption involves retail, and that spending on services "has been subdued."
Some analysts also say it's difficult to understand if the economy is really on a sustainable path or just providing an illusion of strength as government stimulus, in the form of everything from tax cuts to unemployment benefits and the Federal Reserve's quantitative easing, put money into people's hands.
Deutsche Bank's fixed-income team told clients, "We think 2011 will be divided into two halves."
The first half represents a test, the analysts said: "Is the economy gaining sufficient traction that rates can begin some kind of steady normalization? The second half will be the answer."
Meanwhile, Morgan Stanley Asia Chairman Stephen Roach thinks 2011 will be a replay of 2010, with optimism early in the year, followed by fear about the aftershocks of the financial crisis.
"The rich countries of the developed world are hobbled by lingering post-crisis aftershocks," he said. "The United States, long the main engine of the global economy is low on fuel. … Europe now faces its own strain of post-crisis aftershocks."


                                                                            Gail MarksJarvis

                                                                           @Chicago Tribune

Friday's D-Day

Friday is the crucial visit and my dentist will make the final decision.I've become apparently sick of this situation.I think the worst part of it is that i can't w/s/g-o

Youth of The Nation

Last day of the rest of my life 
I wish I would've known 
Cause I didn't kiss my mama goodbye 

I didn't tell her that I loved her and how much I care 
Or thank my pops for all the talks 
And all the wisdom he shared 

Unaware, I just did what I always do 
Everyday, the same routine 
Before I skate off to school 

But who knew that this day wasn't like the rest 
Instead of taking a test 
I took two to the chest 

Call me blind, but I didn't see it coming 
Everybody was running 
But I couldn't hear nothing 

Except gun blasts, it happened so fast 
I don't really know this kid 
Even though I sit by him in class 

Maybe this kid was reaching out for love 
Or maybe for a moment 
He forgot who he was 
Or maybe this kid just wanted to be hugged 
Whatever it was 
I know it's because 

We are, We are, the youth of the nation 

Little Suzy, she was only twelve 
She was given the world 
With every chance to excel 

Hang with the boys and hear the stories they tell 
She might act kind of proud 
But no respect for herself 

She finds love in all the wrong places 
The same situations 
Just different faces 

Changed up her pace since her daddy left her 
Too bad he never told her 
She deserved much better 

Johnny boy always played the fool 
He broke all the rules 
So you would think he was cool 

He was never really one of the guys 
No matter how hard he tried 
Often thought of suicide 

It's kind of hard when you ain't got no friends 
He put his life to an end 
They might remember him then 

You cross the line and there's no turning back 
Told the world how he felt 
With the sound of a gat 
 

Who's to blame for the lives that tragedies claim 
No matter what you say 
It don't take away the pain 

That I feel inside, I'm tired of all the lies 
Don't nobody know why 
It's the blind leading the blind 

I guess that's the way the story goes 
Will it ever make sense 
Somebody's got to know 

There's got to be more to life than this 
There's got to be more to everything 
I thought exists .


Lyrics : P.O.D

Great Clubs Developed By Great Men

Two men pass each other on the hallway of history.
They are men of substance, shaped by sacrifice and ­solidarity.
Their reputations are ­landmarks in a post-apocalyptic landscape.
Their world, football, has spun off its axis.
Their standards are being challenged by corporate cockroaches, chicken ­farmers, and assorted­ opportunists.
Today is the 8810th that Sir Alex Ferguson has devoted to Manchester United.
That is a day longer than Sir Matt Busby was in charge at Old Trafford.
Together they bridged the gap between minimum wage and ransom demand. They witnessed the lurch from idealism to ­cynicism. Busby’s father was killed by a German sniper on the Somme.
Ferguson’s father fought for social justice in the shipyards on the Clyde.
Busby found strength in his faith, succour from the ­extended family of a ­Lanarkshire mining ­community.
Ferguson absorbed life ­lessons on the wharf, the ­importance of diligence, ­dignity, and discipline.
Great football clubs – and they can be more than mere cash cows – are developed by great men.
Not by those whose wallets are stuffed, but whose souls are empty.
Neither Busby nor Ferguson could claim to be perfect human beings.
Sir Matt had the avuncular air of a parish priest, a knack of making the little man feel 10 feet tall.
He espoused honesty and humility, but was sufficiently streetwise to hide a slush fund, to attract the best and the brightest.
When his authority was challenged, even by icons like Denis Law, he had a tyrant’s wrath.
Sir Alex is ­attentive to those toiling at his trade, and respectful to those pushed to the margins by principle.
He is a good friend, a bad enemy. His intransigence ­occasionally spills over into vindictiveness.
When his authority was challenged by Wayne Rooney, he responded with a mixture of sensitivity and savagery that would be beyond a ­younger man.
The nouveau riche can’t wait for him to detach himself from his life force, the game on which he imposes his will.
They see him as just another dinosaur fossil, more suited to the Natural History Museum than the Theatre of Dreams.
Can any sentient being ­really dispute ­Ferguson’s ­insistence that the game has gone mad? It’s most powerful figure, Sepp Blatter, sets the most putrid example.
Just when Blatter’s reputation couldn’t get any worse, his ­ramblings about gay football fans “refraining from sexual activity” at the 2022 World Cup assaulted the senses.
The crass, casual bigotry was breathtaking, and beyond apology.
Qatar’s winter World Cup will be the tipping point, at which clubs go their own way.
The old men of FIFA will go to their graves not caring about the consequences.
Absolute power corrupts, absolutely.
And ignorance breeds ­arrogance.
Anuradha J Desai, first ­female president of the World Poultry Science Association, may well be one of India’s ­richest women.
But if she believes that Blackburn Rovers – her new executive toy – can qualify for the Champions League, she is several McNuggets short of a Happy Meal.
If football follows her model, which neuters the manager – and sub-contracts control to agents – clubs will become ­factory farms.
Meanwhile, Manchester City are busy staging a ­remake of Pulp Fiction for the pantomime season.
There’s blood all over the walls, and no one knows who to believe.
Not quite the PR scam the Sheikh’s advisers envisaged.
Where is the dignity in multi-millionaire footballers being traded like counterfeit perfume?
Busby, of course, saw the realities of life, and sudden, violent death.
He lived through the ­Second World War, and the Munich tragedy.
He never forgot that the club he built was lubricated by the blood of boys who died too young.
Ferguson won’t. Neither should we.



                                                              Written by Michael Calvin Decemver 18th
                                                                                   @mirrorfootball

Hope Breeds

“Hope has two beautiful daughters. Their names are anger and courage; anger at the way things are, and courage to see that they do not remain the way they are.”

Appealing Tunes

These are some newly-detected or more-elaborately observed bands ,musicians of different genres.I read about them ,tried some samples and found them pretty promising:i'm trying expand the circle of my musical exploration,in order to discover worthy high quality tunes.

1-Conor Oberst (Indie Rock,Folk)


2-British Sea Power (Indie)

3-Audio Adrenaline (Gospel/Alternative Rock/Christian Rock)
4-Joy Division (Post-Punk)
5-Insomnium (Melodic Death Metal)
6-Iron and Wine (Folk, Indie Rock)
7-Edie Brickell (Folk/Alternative Rock)

8-Richard and Linda Thompson (Rock ,Progressive Rock ,Folk)

9-Deb Talan (Indie Folk/Indie Pop)

10-Tasmin Archer (Pop/Rock)
11-Deviant Species ( Minimal/Trance)

12-Scott Landers /Blue Collars ( Instrumental Guitarist/Rock)

13-Brian Eno (Ambient)

13-Lydia (Indie Rock)

14-The Birthday Massacre (Synthrock/Alternative Rock)

15-Elastic ( Psychedelic)


16-David Berkeley (Indie /Acoustic/folk)

17-Into Eternity (Progressive Metal/Melodic Death Metal)
18-National Product (Pop/Post-Hardcore/Alternative Rock)
19-Joy Williams (Pop/Indie)
20-Switchfoot (Alternative Rock/Post-grunge)

Haven Trust Bank Joined The Troubled List

A small Bank in Florida has joined the long list of failed banks this year. It is the 126th bank to fail in 2010. This is also the 24th bank to fail in the state of Florida alone this year.

Regulators on Friday shut down a small bank in Florida, lifting to 126 the number of bank failures this year. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation took over Haven Trust Bank Florida, a Ponte Vedra Beach institution with $148.6 million in assets and $133.6 million in deposits.
First Southern Bank, based in Boca Raton, Fla., agreed to assume the assets and deposits of the failed bank. In addition, the F.D.I.C. and First Southern Bank agreed to share losses on $127.3 million of Haven Trust Bank Florida’s loans and other assets.
The failure of Haven Trust Bank Florida is expected to cost the deposit insurance fund $31.9 million. It was the 24th bank in Florida to fail this year.



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