#and after ten business days the city government can auction it off. TEN BUSINESS DAYS.

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fic draft rapidly morphing into a call to action against predatory towing

[puppetsoftomorrow]

okay so imagine: the trapped in the tv ep but with only british tv shows - if ur not british i'm sorry!! hopefully this will still be funny for you lol

No one was fazed as the classical music rang out overhead, and Nate and Mick waited patiently for it to finish. The pair were stood next to a low table, set on lush green grass and under a backdrop of a clear blue sky and a large country house, with people milling around and chatting, just quietly enough not to be heard over the music.

The logo flashed faintly in the sky, and Nate coughed, adjusting his glasses slightly.

"Well, here we have a lovely piece - a mantle clock, looks to be 17th Century, possibly Russian," He started, tipping the clock back slightly to get a better look at it. "Can you tell me a little more about how you came to have it?"

"It stole it." Mick shrugged. "It looked expensive."

"And you'd be correct." Nate said, waggling his finger to emphasize his point. "Made by an early pioneer of this type of time-keeping, Rip Hunter, the craftsmanship is just - exquisite, and there's not even - oh, there's a small dent here."

"Probably from when I hit Rasputin over the head with it." Mick said, and Nate nodded sagely.

"Well, even with that, it's extremely valuable - you don't see many of these pieces, I'm very honoured to be evaluating it. What do you think it's worth?"

"From the age and quality, I'd want a couple million." Mick grunted.

"And what would you use the money for?" Nate asked, and Mick shrugged again.

"Put Lita through college. Some for the Legends, buy more condiments."

"That sounds fantastic. Well -" Nate started, then paused for an unnaturally long time. Everyone held their breath. "I think, at auction, it could fetch up to £3 million."

Behind them, the Legends cheered, Ava punching the air. Mick nodded, then picked up the clock in his gloved hand wand walked off, swinging it as he did so.

///

The music faded out, and Sara shut the book she was reading, smiling widely. The nursery she was in was quiet, the children having not yet arrived for the day. "I didn't see you there! I'm Sara - what's your name?" She said, voice bright and bubbly.

There was silence for a few seconds, and Sara nodded, despite no one replying.

"Ah, of course. I'm so glad you're here - I need your help." She stood up, eyes wide. "There's a giant octopus named Tagumo terrorizing the village - and we need a special treat for the bake sale! But who should we ask for help?" She scratched her head in an exaggerated thinking motion, then stood up and walked backwards to the large, colourful map that hung on the nursery wall.

"We could ask - Ava the Bureaucrat?" She asked, pointing at a point on the map.

Ava popped up on screen, dressed in her suit and surrounded by stacks and stacks of papers, threatening to topple at any moment. She gave an exaggerated shrug.

"No, she's too busy. Maybe Nate the Historian?" Sara said in a sing-song voice.

At the top of a pink castle, a hand was waving.

"No, he's stuck at the top of his castle. Maybe Zari, the Cat Chat celebrity?"

Zari was on her phone but started to wave as the camera zoomed in on her.

"Yes, that's it! We'll ask Zari, the Cat Chat celebrity!" Sara said, smiling widely. "Come on, let's go to Zari's house!"

Sara walked through the quiet streets of Waverider, avoiding the large chunks of stone that were being thrown her way by an angry octopus. It was a sleepy seaside town, with brightly coloured buildings and extremely predictable weather, and she loved it. She stopped in front of the yellow house and knocked on the door.

"No! It's mine!" "It's mine!" came the muffled voices from inside.

"Oh no! I think Zari's having an argument with her brother Behrad." Sara said, eyes wide. "Let’s see if we can help."

She opened the door, where Zari and Behrad were having a tug of war with a small bracelet. Sara stood, hands on hips, with an exaggerated frown.

"Z! B! What's this?"

"It's my turn with the totem!" Behrad whined, and Zari stomped her foot.

"No, dummy, it's mine! You used it to beat Genghis Khan last week!"

"Did you two forget our last lesson, when we learnt about sharing?" Sara said, and the two broke apart, looking distinctly guilty.

“No, Miss Lance.” They said in unison.

“Good.” Sara said, smiling brightly. “How about – Zari, you use the family heirloom to capture the giant octopus, whilst Behrad and I make a treat for the bake sale!”

The pair brightened up. “Sounds great! We can make a Behrad brownie!” Behrad said brightly, moving towards the kitchen, when Sara put out her arm to stop him.

“Uh oh, did you forget something?”

Behrad struck his palm on his forehead with an exaggerated sigh.

“Whoops! Here you go, sis.” He said, passing the totem over. “I’m sorry I wasn’t sharing nicely.”

Zari shrugged, slipping the bracelet on. “I’m sorry too.” She said, and the pair hugged. When they broke apart, Zari blinked.

“Wait -”

///

The tannoy overhead started to play classical music, overlaid with the booming voice of an announcer. "DC's University Challenge! With your host - Raymond Palmer!"

The lights went up on the studio and Ray sat at a desk, smiling widely at the audience, shuffling his cards.

"Good evening and welcome to DC's University Challenge!” He said, barely being heard over the sounds of the audience clapping politely. He waited until they’d started to quiet down before beginning again. “Our first team tonight is the Time Bureau, a secret government organisation that has produced several bureaucrats, a multi-million-dollar magical creature theme park and around a dozen clones. The organisation has just under 1,000 employees and ranks number two in the inter-governmental department softball league. Their team tonight includes -"

"Hey! I'm Mona Wu, and I'm reading creature care and getting in touch with my wild side!" Mona said, waving and smiling brightly.

Gary coughed. "Uh - Hello - I'm Gary Green, and I'm studying as an apprentice of the dark arts under John Constantine."

"I'm Nate Heywood, and I'm doing a second PhD deductive historical reasoning and turning into steel." Nate said, giving the camera a mock salute.

"And finally, their Captain -"

"I'm Ava Sharpe, from 2213, and I'm reading how to move on from clone based psychological trauma." Ava said, nodding with a tight-lipped smile. She looked at her team – they looked good, all dressed in the Bureau suits. She hoped it would be enough to beat their opponents.

After the clapping ended, Ray gestured to the other side of the studio. "Our second team tonight are the Legends, founded in 2016 by Rip Hunter. Although seen as the underdogs, they won a comfortable victory against the Legion of Doom in the first round, answering questions on the French Revolution, punk rock and African oral history. With a combined age that's impossible to calculate, lets meet the team."

"Hey, I'm Behrad Tarazi, and I'm studying the air totem - but if my parents are watching, I'm studying .... business." Behrad said awkwardly, fiddling with the bracelet around his wrist.

"Hi, I'm Charlie, I'm from before the concept of time, and I'm reading loom weaving - and also shape-shifting." Charlie said, waving to the audience and adjusting the Beebo mascot they had placed behind their team name.

"I'm Mick." Mick grunted. There were a few seconds of silence before Ray spoke again.

"And their Captain -"

"Hey, I'm Sara Lance from Star City. I did two tours with the League of Assassins and now I'm reading kicking ass across the time stream." Sara said, pointing her finger guns towards Ava and winking, which caused the opposing captain to blush.

Ray set the cards down. "Right, well, we all know the rules, so I'll just get started. Your starter for 10 is - in the novels of Rebecca Silver, how many breasts does the alien queen Garima have?"

Mick was on the buzzer, but Mona was quicker. "Three!" She answered excitedly.

"I'm sorry, in the most recent novel, Death of a Rogue, she is revealed to have a secret fourth breast. Another starter for ten - the 1995 film Swamp Thaaang, written and directed by Greg Berlanti, was based on the memiors of what creature?"

John slapped the buzzer decisively. “Swamp Thing.”

Ray nodded and the crowd went wild. “Correct. Your questions will be on marine life. How many penis’ does a shark have?”

The team formed a little huddle, and Behrad shrugged.

“Anyone got any -” Sara started, but John cut in.

"Two." John said.

“Are you sure?” Sara asked, and John nodded, wincing slightly.

///

“Welcome back to – Top of the Pops!”

The lights came up on the little podium where Astra was standing, holding the slim microphone between her fingers, and she smiled widely.

"So, your top five this week is Doctor Mid-Nite with ‘Year 3000’ at number 5, Ava and the Clones with ‘The One and Only’ at number 4, Rip Hunter and Wally West with ‘Careless Whisper,’ entering the charts at number 3, and that was the JSA, staying strong at number 2 with ‘Kids in America.’ But, coming in hot at number 1, with their new hit ‘American Idiot’, it's the Legends of Tomorrow!"

Astra swept her hand towards the stage, where the lights came up to rapturous cheers from the audience.

"We are the Legends of Tomorrow - and we're here to change your destiny!" Charlie shouted into the mic, just as Mick started up on drums. Nate’s hands hovered over his bass guitar, looking over to Sara, who winked at him as the chords of her electric guitar rang out over the cheering audience.

///

(shows featured are - antiques roadshow, balamory, university challenge and top of the pops)

not featured: ava's very short episode of 'who do you think you are', the legends very chaotic stint on strictly come dancing and a master chef ep where the only food they make is mush variants

okay should i keep going!! should i post this on ao3? i wasn’t gonna but if ppl want me to i can :) thanks for reading!!

[melvinfellerstuff]

Melvin Feller Looks at Why Buying Texas Real Estate is Smart

Melvin Feller Looks at Why Buying Texas Real Estate is Smart

 Melvin Feller Business Ministries Group in Burkburnett and Dallas Texas and Lawton Oklahoma. Our mission is to call and equip a generation of Christian entrepreneurs to do business as ministry. We provide workshops and resources that help companies discover how to do business God’s way. When the heart of a business is service rather than self it can be transformed into a fruitful business ministry earning a profit and being of service to the community and their customers.  Melvin Feller is currently pursuing another graduate degree in business organizations.

 Currently, Texas is experiencing an economic boom, making it an attractive place for in state, out-of-state, and even foreign real estate investors.

 From 2016 to 2018, five of the ten fastest-growing U.S. cities were in Texas. In 2018, more than a quarter of Texas' growth was concentrated in the state's cities. North Texas is a particular hot spot for growth.

 ​Cities like Frisco, Denton, Flower Mound, McKinney, Plano, Grapevine and Keller are all experiencing unparalleled residential growth, mostly due to the emergency of a high-tech industry and complementary businesses. Some cities have even expanded their borders to accommodate the new residents.

The job market is strong and growing, the cost of living is affordable, land is easy to purchase for non-residents, and the tax incentives are attractive. It's "big city living" with plenty of space. There are plenty of opportunities for smart investors looking to start or expand their portfolios.

 However, in Texas, there are great opportunities for creative real estate financing and wide-open spaces as well as great residential and commercial opportunities.

  If you are a beginning investor, first, recognize that it will probably take several years of real estate investing before you will reach your personal financial goal. Assuming that you want to have enough income from your investments to not have to work for money, I estimate about 10-15 years, if you work part-time at it while having “a day job.”

 If you get to a point where you can do it full time, it may take a few years less. Some investors disagree with me on this. They apparently are very success in a much shorter period. If you can imitate them, fine. However, the average investor will take; it seems to me, the kind of time that I just indicated.

 Some people have other suggestions about how to get started. They often say, “Just do it.” Go out, start trying, and learn as you go. Maybe that will work for you. My opinion is that it is better to know more before you start paying out your money. You might try to avoid mistakes by reading many books before you start—I did—but you will still make your own mistakes—I did, anyway. However, you will probably avoid many of the more common mistakes.

The “secret of success” is persistence. If you want to reach a goal, you have to keep going until you reach it. Financial independence with real estate means you have to keep going for years, usually. Thus, while you want an investing approach that makes you money, you also want an investing approach that makes you happy as you go along. If you do not get emotional rewards, you will probably stop before you are successful.

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YES FOR SUCCESS:

 Y----You---------------Enough said about that

E----Environment-----Where you invest, and when

S----Strategy-----------How you extract money from the environment

 The strategy you employ has to suit you. My strategy could be completely wrong for you, unless you are a lot like me. If it is comfortable, you will continue with it. If it is not comfortable, you will chaff and will want to quit. In addition, might quit, long before you get to your financial goal.

The strategy has to work in the environment in which you invest. Here is a strategy: buy 200-acre farms and subdivide them down into 5-acre “ranchettes” which you sell to homebuilders or people who will live on them. Now, try using this strategy in San Francisco or Manhattan. Not going to work. What might work in San Francisco is to build a 15-story condominium complex and sell the condominiums to the owner-occupants. However, would you expect success if you were to build another 15-story complex 12 miles east of Winnemucca, NV? I don’t think so. Maybe 5-acre ranchettes there? Possibly.

 If you are not doing too well with your investment program, you can change the strategy, or you can move it to a different environment, where you expect it to perform better.

 Your strategy has to give you a competitive advantage, as the economists say. Investing in real estate is competitive. If there is a good deal to be bought, there will be several people interested in buying it. You need to develop an approach that takes advantage of your strengths, and requires few activities at which you are weak. You need a strategy that uses the resources you have.

What are the resources you can bring to bear on real estate investing? They will vary from person to person. They include such factors as amount of cash you have saved, how good is your credit rating, amount of income you have, particularly that above what you need for  living expenses. How much time do you have, and in what part of the week, month, or year? Resources include the contacts you have—people you can call on for advice, money, help, or encouragement. Your knowledge is important—what you know about the environment in which you invest the market value of properties, what your customers want either renters or buyers. What experiences can you bring to bear? How about repair skills, decorating skills, sales ability, imagination, guts, cautious evaluation? All these can be part of your resources. Go with your personality, tastes, beliefs, values, interests, and passions. Do not get involved with approaches that irritate you or make you feel unhappy. For instance, suppose you think landlords are  rip-off artists. Do not become a rental property owner. There is no law that you must. Instead, consider rehabilitating rundown properties and selling them to poor people with special government loans.

 As an example, I like helping people. I like to invest in lower-income areas, helping people have a clean, nice, safe, comfortable house in which to live. I rent properties to them. When I sell some property, I am happy that I am able to help a first-time homeowner get into a part of the American Dream. Some other people like to find rundown homes in higher-income areas. They spiff them up to be beautiful and then make a profit selling for much more than they paid for the properties. That does not interest me. The buyers of those properties could buy many different properties. They do not need me. In addition, I do not need them.

  I also like to do research. I do not like to negotiate. I buy bargain properties at auctions, usually delinquent property tax auctions. I do not have a real estate agent to show me properties and to assure me that the property is in good condition. I have to do research on the location of the property, the condition of the property, the liens and loans against the property, the market value in the area, how much it will cost to fix up the property, and much more. My negotiating is raising my hand at a public auction and saying “Four thousand and one.” Then “four thousand and three.” Easy negotiating for me.

  One thing I consider important is that you know how real estate works. What is the importance of different types of deeds? How do you know what loan is the first loan and what does that imply? In addition, there is so much more you can learn. After over 20 years of real estate investing, I am still learning. It is not boring being in real estate.

 I think you should expect to spend about six months to 18 months studying about real estate, real estate investing, and the real estate market where you plan to invest – the environment, as I put it. As you study, notice the different types of approaches that different people use or advocate. Ask yourself “how does this fit me?” Imagine the different steps of the process, the activities that have to be taken. With what kinds of people will you be engaged? In what neighborhoods will you be investing? How well will you be able to accomplish that particular strategy of investing? What might prevent you from enjoying it? Being successful at it? What psychic rewards might you get out of it?

 If you are considering becoming an investor in long-term rentals, as I am, I suggest you read a couple of books on property management. This may give you some notion of what you will face and you can consider if it is to your taste. If you plan to rent properties, learn to calculate expenses of owning them—they will be worse than you imagine. Figure out what kinds of properties will provide you with profit if you own them. Learn about taxes, especially income taxes and how real estate can help you. Plan to learn about the laws related to the approach that you take. If you are doing rentals, know the “landlord-tenant” law for your state.

How do you learn about real estate? My suggestion is to take classes at community colleges near you. There are probably classes for people who want to apply for a real estate license. You can take them too.

 Read books on real estate investing. Most RE books are mediocre. A few are good. Almost none are excellent. However, you can still learn if you read them. Start at the public library and borrowing books from friends, neighbors, coworkers, relatives, etc. Buy used books, cd, and dvds at bookstores or online at such sources as e-bay and half.com. I consistently pay less than 1/2 original price for the materials I buy there. Some is terrible, just like many real estate books. Nevertheless, some are good.

Talk to other, more experienced investors. See if there is a local real estate investors group that meets once or twice a month. Read newspaper articles and columns about real estate. If your local paper does not have nationally syndicated real estate columnists, find one that does, even if it is not nearby. Get a subscription to the Sunday edition mailed to your home.

Go on the Internet to see what you can learn there. There are many different sites devoted to real estate investing and to real estate for sale or rent.

 While you study these things, learn about the area in which you want to invest. What are the different neighborhoods like? Where are there vacant, run-down properties if you want to do fixer-uppers? What are the trends of prices and where are people moving to or moving away from? What kinds of properties make good rentals in your area? What are the prospects of making money by buying low and then selling high, not carrying rentals?

I like Bill Greene’s suggestion from his "Think like a Tycoon" book that you look at 100 houses before you make a single offer. That is of properties similar to those you plan to buy. If, as you go along, you change your mind about the types of houses and neighborhoods in which you will invest, you may have to look at many more than 100 houses. The idea is to learn market values and what the competition is like—either rentals or other properties against which you will be competing for buyers. When I started out investing seriously, I did this and my knowledge of values increased greatly over a few months of time. Study the multiple listing service properties  and the newspaper advertisements for properties. Read realtor.com listing for your area. See them and then follow up to find out for what they sold.

Meanwhile, get your finances lined up. If you have a poor credit report, start cleaning it up. Pay off outstanding debt and put explanations into the credit file. Get erroneous information  removed. Cut down your expenses. Save money for investing. Yes, it is definitely possible to buy properties with no cash out of your pocket—I have done it. However, you have more opportunities for profit if you are prepared to pay cash or at least make a down payment. This is increasing your resources with which to operate.

 Depending upon your investment approach, you may want to get an equity line of credit secured by your home. Alternatively, you may want to ask banks for unsecured personal lines of credit. You may want to stop throwing away all those credit card solicitations and actually apply for some. Naturally, try to get those with good terms. However, sometimes it is possible to make so much money with just one property transaction that you will be willing to use high-priced money to enable you to get into the deal. Use high-priced money for properties you plan to resell soon, not for long-term holding.

 Some people talk about getting a “mentor,” an experienced real estate investor to personally train you in real estate investing. If you can find somebody who is willing to spend time helping you, fine, go ahead and try it. However, you do not need a mentor to work in real estate investing. Very few investors have ever had a mentor. I call it “self-mentoring.” The approach that you take to investing will be very personal. Do get to know many different investors so you can get help with the local “nuts and bolts” of investing: referrals for good attorneys, cleaning people, repair people, learn where to get carpets and plumbing supplies, discover the good escrow and title companies, and all the other services and goods that you will need to be successful. Ask about difficulties you have and individual problems of people you know and on the on-line real estate forums. I personally think you need a "mentor."

Try to understand the approaches that these different investors have and their thinking about different aspects of investing. Ask what they like and do not like, what works for them and what does not. Then you can borrow some of their ideas and approaches in formulating your own direction. Nevertheless, you probably will not find a formula that somebody else uses that will suit you to a  tee. Mix and match. Take a little bit from here and a little bit from there. Make them into a coherent program that will generate money for you.

 There are many, many different ways to make money with real estate. With a little imagination, you may even create a new way to do so that nobody else thought of. However, most of these ways can be put into three categories, which you can remember if you can say, “CAT.”

C is for CASHFLOW. This means you get more money in from a property than you spend owning it.

 A is for APPRECIATION. There are three types of appreciation, remembered by FIN: F is for FORCED, such as fixing up properties, moving them, getting rid of title problems. I stands for INSTANT, which you get from buying bargain properties at least 20% below market value. Then there is N for NATURAL. Over time, property values tend to go up, the amount and rate varying with locale, the economy, and market conditions. Held long enough, most properties will go up unless everybody is moving away for the town or you do not maintain the properties.

T points at TAX SAVINGS, or tax benefits, which means that you may reduce the amount of taxes that you pay on your other income, non-real estate income. This is over and above the tax write-offs for your investment properties that reduce your taxable income from the properties.

  Some people mistakenly add to this list of categories “pay down” or “amortization” on the loan. This is actually a sub-category of cash flow. It is the “forced savings” aspect.

 Before buying properties, ask yourself which benefit you want to maximize. In general, you cannot make all three categories big with any one property. You might make one big, one moderate-sized and the other one small. So choose the investment strategy and the property which fits your goal--C, A, or T. For instance, when I buy bargain properties at tax sales, I get very little tax benefit. If I want tax benefit, I will buy a house at market value, but getting financing terms that allow me to get a break-even or slightly positive cash flow. I can also speculate on appreciation with this type of property. Normal appreciation is irrelevant for the bargain buys; the profit is built-in upon purchase with the Instant Appreciation.

Some people advocate getting a "team" together before starting--attorneys, CPAs, loan brokers, maybe real estate agents. I do not think that is necessary. I would certainly suggest that you not delay your investment actions until you get a "team" together. I advocate learning a lot about the local real estate laws and the federal tax rules as relates to real estate investing. Then you can be your own team in part. People make many mistakes by not consulting with attorneys. They sell properties and have to pay terrible taxes—unnecessarily—because they do not understand and consult accountants.

 So, do not hesitate to call upon professionals when needed. When you run into problems that a professional can help with, then is the time to find one. One--not a team, in my opinion.

  To be successful in real estate investing, in my opinion, you need both movement and guidance. You have to get out and actually invest in properties to make a profit. Therefore, you have to be active. Go and do it. However, do not do it blindly. Learn a lot before you start making deals so that you do not make too many mistakes and so you have a strategy that will fit you and the environment in which you invest. Some people are stuck in the learning phase. You will never know everything about real estate investing, so get started even when you do not feel you know it all.

There are two major mistakes that can lead to real estate investment failure, I think. One is doing nothing – there is no profit in that. The other is rushing out too soon and making expensive mistakes. I once read a magazine article about a couple in Chicago that bought, as their first investment, a run-down apartment complex in a very poor neighborhood in Chicago. I forget the  title of the article, but I think it should have been “How we lost a million dollars with no money down.” They did not know how to manage rental properties at all and this property was an extremely difficult one to operate. They made many mistakes, lost the building in foreclosure, and lost all the money they had invested.

So, become active, yes. However, do it with caution. There is a lot of money to be made with real estate. Because real estate can cost a lot, there are many ways to lose a lot of money with real estate. The sellers and real estate agents selling a property are not always honest about that property. Nobody will look out for your interest as well as you do. Learn enough to be realistic about properties and how investing works.

 Expect to spend about 10 to 20 hours a week studying real estate during your learning months. Even though that sounds like a lot, believe me, there is a lot to learn. If you thought it would be easy to get rich, I disagree with you. However, it is possible to get rich with real estate. The average individual can do it. In addition, it is easier than most other businesses in which you could invest your time and money. Moreover, because you can tailor your investment program to fit you, your chances for success are high. In addition, real estate is a "forgiving" investment.  You can make mistakes, possibly a lot of them, and still make a profit from a property. I have made some very serious errors. Still my wealth and property holdings build up.

Just recognize real estate is a business. It will take time and effort. Some people might say it takes that four-letter word “work,” however, if you have a program that fits you and gives you enjoyment, you can convert that word into another four-letter word: “play.” Many people treat real estate investing as a game and play it to win not only money but also freedom to lead the life they want. It can do that for you.

 Melvin Feller Business Consultants Ministries Group in Texas and Oklahoma. Melvin Feller founded Melvin Feller Business Consultants Group Ministries in the 1970s to help individuals and organizations achieve their specific Victory. Victory as defined by the individual or organization are achieving strategic objectives, exceeding goals, getting results or desired outcomes. He has extensive experience assisting businesses achieve top and bottom line results. He has broad practical experience creating WINNERS in many organizations and industries. He has hands-on experience in executive leadership, operations, logistics, sales, program management, organizational development, training, and customer service. He has coached teams to achieve results in strategic planning, business development, organizational design, sales, and customer response and business process improvement. He has prepared and presented many workshops nationally and internationally.

[man-and-his-world]

NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 11— The bankrupt 1984 World's Fair closed and sadly began sweeping up the trash tonight after a disastrous six-month run.

''For the first time, New Orleans threw a party and nobody came,'' The Times-Picayune gloomily observed.

That was an exaggeration, of course. By the time the last note from a closing parade had echoed and died over the Mississippi in what in some respects seemed like a New Orleans wake, the fair's turnstiles had clicked more than seven million times.

Some visitors came a half dozen times and more, and a lot of people thought it was a swell party. But nobody volunteered to pick up the tab.

The fair left a legacy of unpaid bills totaling over $100 million. Before the cleanup is over, the red ink is likely to swell by tens of millions more.

It is a bill this poor city and state can ill afford. 

Heady Expectations in May

When the fair opened May 12, it was with heady expectations, even though it was even then over its head in debt.

Fireworks tap-danced across heavens, church bells pealed, boat whistles wailed and thousands of balloons sailed into a bright blue sky. Gov. Edwin W. Edwards, a Cajun, exhorted everyone: ''Laissez le bon temps rouler!''

And New Orleans did ''let the good times roll.'' But the bills rolled faster, crowds were sparse, there were personnel changes and scandals, including two grand jury inquiries and a Federal Bureau of Investigation operation to trace kickbacks. The early heady estimates of attendance of 15 million and up slid to 12 million and 11 million and finally to 9.2 million.

Despite a last-minute surge of visitors, George Williams, the fair's ebullient marketing director and chief promoter, the third to hold the job, conceded the final tally would fall two million short of the gloomy estimate. 

$102 Million in Debt

As a result, the fair will end up with ''about $102 million in total debt,'' he said, with $40 million secured by corporate backers and $25 million by the State of Louisiana.

That leaves $35 million in unsecured debt, and the fair still faces the expensive task of dismantling itself.

It will sell off its assets, buildings, booths and salvage, at public auction. But Mr. Williams said, ''We're just not in a position right now to give a dollar figure either on the demolition or the auction.''

Why did the fair die its slow death? The immediate answers given by many include theories that it was the fault of slipshod marketing or the city's muggy summer climate.

But beyond that is the broader question whether the century-old concept of a world exposition is not, in a world of theme parks and television, simply a romantic anachronism.

World's Fairs Are Passe'

''World's fairs are passe,'' said Harry Greenberger, president of the French Quarter Business Association, one of the groups with high hopes for a windfall that were dashed in the absence of huge crowds.

''You can go to Disney World,'' he said. ''You can go to Epcot. What world expositions used to be were the leading edge of the newest ideas and the newest technology. Now we see that every day on television.''

Beyond that, more specific problems plagued the New Orleans fair.

Many thought the $15 admission price was too high, particularly for vacationing families.

''This is not a wealthy city and it is not a wealthy state,'' said Winston Lill, the fair's archivist, who has been involved for 10 years. ''I think it was a bargain, but it's difficult to explain that to someone with a famiy of four confronted with a gate price of $15.'' 

Many Causes Are Cited

Although the fair's main exhibits were air-conditioned, the city's sultry summers are believed to have deterred some. Fair organizers say their marketing plan was initially sluggish. Organizers also may have relied too much on the reputation of New Orleans as a good-time city, ignoring intensive promotion until it was too late.

The city is also off the beaten path; ''You have to come to New Orleans, you don't just pass through it,'' as one official said. There was also stiff competition from the Olympics and some belief that yet another Southern world's fair two years after Knoxville was too much. The fair was also undercapitalized from the start.

The fair was the creation of a group of Louisiana business executives, headed by Floyd W. Lewis, chairman of Middle South Utilities. They organized as Louisiana World Exposition Inc., a nonprofit corporation.

As far back as the spring of 1980, Malcolm Baldrige, the United States Secretary of Commerce, told the orgnizers that the fair did not have enough backing to win the Government's imprimatur. 

It Got U.S. Approval

Ultimately, in a last scramble, the fair raised enough money for Federal approval, but even then the Government committed itself to no more than $10 million, a pittance compared with the $200 million it put into Knoxville.

Four months before opening, the New Orleans fair had already run through its entire $55 million line of credit, and it was only through a series of maneuvers, including a $5 million deferral of taxes owed to the city and a $10 million loan from the state, that the fair could open at all. When it did, President Reagan took the unheard-of step of declining to appear.

The expected crowds also did not appear, and the fair fell deeper and deeper in debt. By the final week, 5,000 fair employees found the banks would not honor their paychecks. The fair made good on most of them, but by the end there was no one to pick up the trash; the pools and ponds had become stagnant and cluttered with debris. Scores of contractors had not been paid.

Both a state and a Federal grand jury were investigating the fair's fiscal affairs and three men were already under indictment in a purported kickback scheme involving the fair's logo.

New Orleans officials, hoping for the best, counted on the ''residuals'' from the fair, the revitalization of a sorely depressed area of the city, the structures that will be retained, to make it all up.

Meanwhile, among those attending the fair's closing days was John D. Kramer, general manager for the fair being planned for Chicago in 1992.

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A bit of perspective for someone

And by the way Mr. President, did you know bears eat people?

Here is a glimpse into recent history:

http://www.businessinsider.com/putin-there-is-no-true-democracy-in-america-2014-10

And most educated people know we do not have a true democracy, yet that isn’t what Putin is trying to say, he is trying to cut off our exceptionalism by denying what makes us great by deflecting.

Some notes from Wikipedia:

1990–1996: Saint Petersburg administration

Vladimir Putin, Lyudmila Narusovaand Ksenia Sobchak at the funeral of Putin's former mentor[51] Anatoly Sobchak, Mayor of Saint Petersburg (1990–1996).

In May 1990, Putin was appointed as an advisor on international affairs to the Mayor of Leningrad Anatoly Sobchak. On 28 June 1991, he became head of the Committee for External Relations of the Mayor's Office, with responsibility for promoting international relations and foreign investments[52] and registering business ventures. Within a year, Putin was investigated by the city legislative council led by Marina Salye. It was concluded that he had understated prices and permitted the export of metals valued at $93 million in exchange for foreign food aid that never arrived.[53][54] Despite the investigators' recommendation that Putin be fired, Putin remained head of the Committee for External Relations until 1996.[55][56] From 1994 to 1996, he held several other political and governmental positions in Saint Petersburg.[57]

See the above dates when he started in public administration, yet by he states he did not leave the KGB until August of 1991. He was still a Soviet agent when he began his political career.  And the hint of corruption is undeniable. Where was the foreign food aid suppose to have originated?

Notes from Early Moscow section:

On 26 March 1997, President Boris Yeltsin appointed Putin deputy chief of Presidential Staff, which he remained until May 1998, and chief of the Main Control Directorate of the Presidential Property Management Department (until June 1998). His predecessor on this position was Alexei Kudrin And the successor was Nikolai Patrushev, both future prominent politicians and Putin's associates.[40]

Here is an interesting article on Alexei Kudrinand:

https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/putin-alexei-kudrin-nomination-by-nina-l--khrushcheva-2018-05

The above says much.

And here is some info on Nikolai Patrushev from Wikipedia:

Nikolai Platonovich Patrushev (Russian: Никола́й Плато́нович Па́трушев) (born 11 July 1951) is a Russian politician and security and intelligence officer. He served as Director of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB), which is the main successor organization to the Soviet KGB (excluding foreign intelligence), from 1999 to 2008, and he has been Secretary of the Security Council of Russia since 2008.[1][2]

b) On 25 May 1998, Putin was appointed First Deputy Chief of Presidential Staff for regions, replacing Viktoriya Mitina; and, on 15 July, he was appointed head of the commission for the preparation of agreements on the delimitation of power of regions and the federal center attached to the president, replacing Sergey Shakhray. After Putin's appointment, the commission completed no such agreements, although during Shakhray's term as the Head of the Commission 46 agreements were signed.[63] Later, after becoming president, Putin canceled all those agreements.[40]

c) On 25 July 1998, Yeltsin appointed Putin as Director of the Federal Security Service (FSB), the primary intelligence and security organization of the Russian Federation and the successor to the KGB.[64]

These are just a couple of examples, Putin has worked with the same people all along. They are all close to him and what he wants to achieve.

Some notes from his first presidency 2000-2004

Between 2000 and 2004, Putin set about the reconstruction of the impoverished condition of the country, apparently winning a power-struggle with the Russian oligarchs, reaching a 'grand bargain' with them. This bargain allowed the oligarchs to maintain most of their powers, in exchange for their explicit support for—and alignment with—Putin's government.[80][81] A new group of business magnates emerged, including Gennady Timchenko, Vladimir Yakunin, Yury Kovalchuk, and Sergey Chemezov, with close personal ties to Putin.

A few months before elections, Putin fired Prime Minister Kasyanov's cabinet, and appointed Mikhail Fradkov to his place. Sergey Ivanov became the first civilian in Russia to be appointed to the Defense Minister position.

Sergey Chemezov is CEO of Rostec Corporation (formerly the Director General of Rosoboronexport), chairman of the Union of Russian Mechanical Engineers, and a lieutenant-general.       So why are economic leaders also in Putin’s Russia military leaders?

Many of the names in the two paragraphs listed above are under the sanctions imposed by the West after Crimea. Here is a link to an article that states has the full list of Russians under sanction. Quite impressive list:

https://www.macleans.ca/politics/worldpolitics/these-are-the-russians-sanctioned-by-the-west/

As you can see Putin has much at stake in trying to get friendly with someone in the West. And Putin began consolidating power before his first Presidency. The people listed are major players in Putin’s Russia.

Notes on the second presidency:

The continued criminal prosecution of Russia's then richest man, President of Yukos oil and gas company Mikhail Khodorkovsky, for fraud and tax evasion was seen by the international press as a retaliation for Khodorkovsky's donations to both liberal and communist opponents of the Kremlin.[citation needed] The government said that Khodorkovsky was "corrupting" a large segment of the Duma to prevent changes to the tax code.[citation needed] Khodorkovsky was arrested, Yukos was bankrupted and the company's assets were auctioned at below-market value, with the largest share acquired by the state company Rosneft.[96] The fate of Yukos was seen as a sign of a broader shift of Russia towards a system of state capitalism.[97][98] This was underscored in July 2014 when shareholders of Yukos were awarded $50  billion in compensation by the Permanent Arbitration Court in The Hague.[99]

On 7 October 2006, Anna Politkovskaya, a journalist who exposed corruption in the Russian army and its conduct in Chechnya, was shot in the lobby of her apartment building, on Putin's birthday. The death of Politkovskaya triggered international criticism, with accusations that Putin has failed to protect the country's new independent media.[100][101] Putin himself said that her death caused the government more problems than her writings.[102]

On a more complementary note:

In December 2007, United Russia won 64.24% of the popular vote in their run for State Duma according to election preliminary results.[106] United Russia's victory in the December 2007 elections was seen by many as an indication of strong popular support of the then Russian leadership and its policies.[107][108]

Yet:

Putin was barred from a third term by the Constitution. First Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev was elected his successor. In a power-switching operation on 8 May 2008, only a day after handing the presidency to Medvedev, Putin was appointed Prime Minister of Russia, maintaining his political dominance.[109]

(Trump recently made comments appreciating China’s President being voted President for Life; a dangerous attitude for someone who is sworn to protect our Constitution)

At the United Russia Congress in Moscow on 24 September 2011, Medvedev officially proposed that Putin stand for the Presidency in 2012, an offer Putin accepted. Given United Russia's near-total dominance of Russian politics, many observers believed that Putin was assured of a third term. The move was expected to see Medvedev stand on the United Russia ticket in the parliamentary elections in December, with a goal of becoming Prime Minister at the end of his presidential term.[110]

After the parliamentary elections on 4 December 2011, tens of thousands of Russians engaged in protests against alleged electoral fraud, the largest protests in Putin's time. Protesters criticized Putin and United Russia and demanded annulment of the election results.[111] Those protests sparked the fear of a colour revolution in society.[112][113][114] Putin allegedly organized a number of paramilitary groups loyal to himself and to the United Russia party in the period between 2005 and 2012.[115]

And Putin was elected to a third term.  

On 4 March 2012, Putin won the 2012 Russian presidential elections in the first round, with 63.6% of the vote, despite widespread accusations of vote-rigging.[78][118][119] Opposition groups accused Putin and the United Russia party of fraud.[120][121] While efforts to make the elections transparent were publicized, including the usage of webcams in polling stations, the vote was criticized by the Russian opposition and by international observers from the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe for procedural irregularities.[122]

Anti-Putin protests took place during and directly after the presidential campaign. The most notorious protest was the Pussy Riot Performance on 21 February, and subsequent trial.[123] An estimated 8,000–20,000 protesters gathered in Moscow on 6 May,[124][125] when eighty people were injured in confrontations with police,[126] and 450 were arrested, with another 120 arrests taking place the following day.[127] A counter-protest of Putin supporters occurred which culminated in a gathering of an estimated 130,000 supporters at the Luzhniki Stadium, Russia's largest stadium. Some of the attendees stated that they had been paid to come, were forced to come by their employers, or were misled into believing that they were going to attend a folk festival instead.[128][129][130][131] The rally is considered to be the largest in support of Putin to date.[132]

Some secondary observations:

In February 2007, Putin criticized what he called the United States' monopolistic dominance in global relations, and "almost uncontained hyper use of force in international relations". He said the result of it is that "no one feels safe! Because no one can feel that international law is like a stone wall that will protect them. Of course such a policy stimulates an arms race".[286] This came to be known as the Munich Speech, and former NATO secretary Jaap de Hoop Scheffer called the speech "disappointing and not helpful."[287] The months following Putin's Munich Speech[286] were marked by tension and a surge in rhetoric on both sides of the Atlantic. Both Russian and American officials, however, denied the idea of a new Cold War.[288] Putin publicly opposed plans for the U.S. missile shield in Europe and presented President George W. Bush with a counterproposal on 7 June 2007 which was declined.[289] Russia suspended its participation in the Conventional Forces in Europe treaty on 11 December 2007.[290]

In 2003, relations between Russia and the United Kingdom deteriorated when the United Kingdom granted political asylum to Putin's former patron, oligarch Boris Berezovsky.[310]This deterioration was intensified by allegations that the British were spying and making secret payments to pro-democracy and human rights groups.[311]

The end of 2006 brought more strained relations in the wake of the death by polonium poisoning of former KGB and FSB officer Alexander Litvinenko in London, who became an MI6 agent in 2003. In 2007, the crisis in relations continued with expulsion of four Russian envoys over Russia's refusal to extradite former KGB bodyguard Andrei Lugovoi to face charges in the murder of Litvinenko.[310] Mirroring the British actions, Russia expelled UK diplomats and took other retaliatory steps.[310]

In 2015–16, the British Government conducted an inquiry into the death of Alexander Litvinenko. Its report was released in January 2016.[312] According to the report, "The FSB operation to kill Mr Litvinenko was probably approved by Mr Patrushev and also by President Putin." The report outlined some possible motives for the murder, including Litvinenko's public statements and books about the alleged involvement of the FSB in mass murder, and what was "undoubtedly a personal dimension to the antagonism" between Putin and Litvinenko, led to the murder. Media analyst William Dunkerley, writing in The Guardian, criticised the inquiry as politically motivated, biased, lacking in evidence, and logically inconsistent.[313] The Kremlin dismissed the Inquiry as "a joke" and "whitewash".[314][315]

Many Russians credit Putin for reviving Russia's fortunes.[370] Former Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev, while acknowledging the flawed democratic procedures and restrictions on media freedom during the Putin presidency, said that Putin had pulled Russia out of chaos at the end of the Yeltsin years, and that Russians "must remember that Putin saved Russia from the beginning of a collapse."[370][371] In 2015, opposition politician Boris Nemtsov Said that Putin was turning Russia into a "raw materials colony" of China.[372] Chechen Republic head and Putin supporter, Ramzan Kadyrov, states that Putin saved both the Chechen people and Russia.[373]

Russia has suffered democratic backsliding during Putin's tenure. Freedom House has listed Russia as being "not free" since 2005.[374] In 2004, Freedom House warned that Russia's "retreat from freedom marks a low point not registered since 1989, when the country was part of the Soviet Union."[375] The Economist Intelligence Unit has rated Russia as "authoritarian" since 2011,[376] whereas it had previously been considered a "hybrid regime" (with "some form of democratic government" in place) as late as 2007.[377] According to political scientist, Larry Diamond, writing in 2015, "no serious scholar would consider Russia today a democracy".[378]

So where does all this lead us. Am I biased against Putin? Yes, I feel what the critics say of Putin being an autocratic leader have merit to it and override the growth of Russia since his first Presidency. Too much of his country is dedicated to a few and in the long run will be the downfall of his legacy and maybe Russia. Russia will need to pick up the pieces again once the graft and corruption have been cleared away.

Putin needs Trump, and what is worrisome is Trump should not need Putin, but is showing dangerous signs of being overtly linked and connected to Putin in an unhealthy way. Putin has wanted our downfall and many of his comments are not only highly critical of us being too involved in world affairs, but also calculated to try and diminish our presence worldwide. Trump is enamored by Putin’s autocratic rule and one has to wonder did he want the Presidency only if he felt he could obtain the same power level here in the United States. To obtain that though he needs to dismantle the very processes that makes us great.

Putin needs a weak America, not weakened, but weak. His ability to reshape the global power structure is dependent on us not being able to confront him on the world stage, to have us so diminished in stature that no one gives us credence. He needs America to tear up all promises, all relationships, to fight internally so to lose our resolve against people like him so he can be successful in growing his own brand at a great cost to his country and others. He is calculating, manipulative, strong, and he works on a singular goal while we in the west work more towards an accommodating system that allows for conflict, hoping pushing the edge will make us better and bringing more people into the fold of representative government. What everything the West stands for in representative government is anathema to Putin. He is taking advantage of a people and country for his benefit and if his country were to realize the stakes they are losing he would be brought before them to answer to his actions. If we, the US and Europe are weakened it makes him look better on the world stage and helps to mask what he is doing in his own country. He wants to look good. You can see it in his attempts to manipulate the elections to give him large majorities. He and Trump do have the same character flaw. They need adulation of their success. Putin hides it better. He has surrounded himself with people who are loyal to him and has the tools necessary to fight against opposition in his country. Trump wants this, he craves it, so he made a deal with this man and soon this man will call for Trump’s soul. Trump’s egomania will abide without flinching for he is not interested in American, only himself. Today in Helsinki, Trump laid bare his ugly soul and did it in plain sight of the world. He gave it to Putin on a silver platter. Trump knows not the wikipedia history of Putin, nor the true history of Putin, Trump just knows the Trump history of Putin. A man he wants to emulate and has given away our country for this sole desire. Putin though has owned Trump for a long time or why else would anyone so blatantly kowtow to another leader.

So get ready America, brush up on Russian culture, because we are about to turn on the rest of the world and Trump’s Republican henchmen are out to help him for reasons right now unknown to destroy what made our country great.

Trump you are being eaten by the bear. And unfortunately you are taking the rest of us with you.

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