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Zeiss Rifle Scopes
Zeiss Victory Riflescope sat down and loaded up his Facespace page. He had just come back from a whitetail hunt and he had pictures to load on his page to share with his friends. The whitetail image was so clear, his Lotu Tec lens coating with fully T* multicoating on all air-to glass surfaces provided superior light transmission and optimum contrast in the twilight hunt. The pictures showed his large field of view. He was full of precision adjustments and he made them work, getting on target quickly and accurately. His buddies would be impressed with the photos.
He then checked his home page updates and saw that his brother, Zeiss Victory Varipoint Riflescope had written a note about his bighorn sheep hunt. He told how his illuminated red dot worked to give a superior shot. He was such a flexible guy, his red dot changed when his magnification changed so that his bighorn was never obscured. He also mentioned how his diet was going, Varipoint was so lightweight and ultra-compact.
Moving on to his friends list, he saw that they had many different objective sizes, reticle configurations and laser rangefinding capabilities. His newest friend, Zeiss Victory FL Diavari Riflescope was precisely recording the great distances of the shots he had made. He described how his FL glass eliminated color fringing. He had also become a fan of two ballistic compensation options, BDC ballistic turrets, and Rapid-Z. That guy was also a fan of both mobile and Western hunters.
On his side bar he noticed that Victory Diavari Riflescope had started up a game of Hunterville, earning high points for accuracy and clarity. His brilliant optical performance, elegant ergonomic design, LotuTec lens coating, and choice of reticles had given him a lot of points for the game. He would soon be able to bag an elephant in the game with the heavy recoil that he could withstand. It was just another excuse to show off his 50 mm or larger objective lens.
The Victory Diarange Rangefinding Riflescope popped up on his screen, showing off his children. He had pictures of Optics, showing off his power and high-performance. His child, Laser Rangefinder, was shown showing off his supreme accuracy, unparalleled speed and precision with his RAPID-Z ballistic reticle. His daughter, LED Display, was excelling in her classes, she had awards in aiming, ranging, and shooting in one smooth motion and her laser was eye safe, class 1.
Just as he was about to close his session, Zeiss Conquest Riflescope popped up a chat window and said, "Hey buddy."
"Hey. How's it going?"
"Pretty good. The wife's got me working. She knows that I can stand up to the most abusive recoil and demanding terrains, and she's got me working hard. I'm ready for a vacation. But you should see the house. My Zeiss MC coating gives us enhanced light transmission, anodized finishes, and now we're waterproof, dust proof and nitrogen filled to prevent fogging."
"You ought to hold up well in all kinds of weather."
"Yep. See ya at the shoot tomorrow. I'm inviting everyone on my Facespace page."
He laughed. "With Zeiss Riflescopes, we'll have an exciting competition."

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Jan. 20, 2020 02:50PM EST
Boeing Is In Talks To Borrow US$10 Billion Or More As 737 MAX Crisis Wears On...
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January 20, 2020 - by Leslie Josephs for cnbc.com
Fliegerfaust Note: Could Boeing spare $1 or $2 billion and acquire 50% of Bombardier inc? Wait.... Airbus got 50% of the CSeries for $0.01, why would 50% of Bombardier be worth that much? (sarcasm but still...)
- Boeing is in talks with banks to secure a loan of $10 billion or more, according to people familiar with the matter, as the company faces rising costs stemming from two fatal 737 Max crashes.
- Boeing is suspending production of the troubled planes this month as the grounding stretches into its 11th month, a move that has rippled through the supply chain and already cost thousands of jobs.
- Banks that have already committed to contribute to the loan include Citigroup, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Wells Fargo and J.P. Morgan, people familiar with the matter said.
Boeing is in talks with banks to secure a loan of $10 billion or more, according to people familiar with the matter, as the company faces rising costs stemming from two fatal 737 Max crashes.
The company has secured at least $6 billion from banks so far, the people said, and is talking to other lenders for more contributions. The total amount could rise if there is additional demand from banks, one person familiar with the matter said.
Liquidity isn't an immediate concern, analysts have said, but the new debt shows Boeing is shoring up its finances amid the cash-sapping fallout of the two crashes — one in Indonesia in October 2018 and another in Ethiopia in March last year — that killed all 346 people aboard the two flights.
The amount Boeing is seeking to borrow is...
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Jan. 20, 2020 02:33PM EST
President Donald Trump speaks Friday at the unveiling of Boeing's 787-10 Dreamliner at the company's plant in North Charleston, South Carolina.... (AL DRAGO/NYT)
Was Donald Trump Right? Boeing 737 MAX Customer Wants Brand Dropped
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January 20, 2020 - by Tom Boon for simpleflying.com
Air Lease, a large customer of the Boeing 737 MAX, wants the American manufacturer to scrap the aircraft's branding. The news comes as other airlines have been spotted taking similar action.
If you stood in a shopping mall and asked a range of people to name an aircraft, the Boeing 737 MAX would probably come up a fair few times.
The aircraft has become fairly well known following a string of news reports surrounding two crashes and the grounding of the type. As a result, some customers of the MAX are looking to drop the MAX branding, something which even US President Trump suggested.
Rename the MAX
A month after he ordered that the Boeing 737 MAX be grounded, United States President Donald Trump came up with a solution...
Read more https://simpleflying.com/737-max-brand-dropped/
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Jan. 20, 2020 12:04PM EST
How Boeing's Responsibility in a Deadly Crash 'Got Buried' - Never Made Public
The study was never made public
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January 20, 2020 - by By Chris Hamby for nytimes.com
After a Boeing 737 crashed near Amsterdam more than a decade ago, the Dutch investigators focused blame on the pilots for failing to react properly when an automated system malfunctioned and caused the plane to plummet into a field, killing nine people.
The fault was hardly the crew's alone, however.
Decisions by Boeing, including risky design choices and faulty safety assessments, also contributed to the accident on the Turkish Airlines flight. But the Dutch Safety Board either excluded or played down criticisms of the manufacturer in its final report after pushback from a team of Americans that included Boeing and federal safety officials, documents and interviews show.
The crash, in February 2009, involved a predecessor to Boeing's 737 MAX, the plane that was grounded last year after accidents in Indonesia and Ethiopia killed 346 people and hurled the company into the worst crisis in its history.
A review by The New York Times of evidence from the 2009 accident, some of it previously confidential, reveals striking parallels with the recent crashes — and resistance by the team of Americans to a full airing of findings that later proved relevant to the MAX.
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Jan. 20, 2020 11:17AM EST
If Bombardier Sells Its Business Jet Unit, Here's Who Might Buy It
if anything were to happen, it would be the aviation unit that would be broken up rather than transportation
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January 20, 2020 - by Brian Foley for forbes.com
Bombardier had a bad day at the office Thursday, with its stock plummeting 32% after the company warned that its second-quarter earnings would be substantially worse than forecast and said that it was reassessing its partnership with Airbus on the A220 and was pursuing alternatives to pay down debt.
While exactly how the latter might be done was never revealed, one possibility would be to take an existing page out of their old playbook, a page which by now is worn and tattered from repeated use, and sell yet another business unit.
By now all that's really left are just two divisions - business aviation and transportation.
Bombardier hinted at exiting its commercial airliner business, which suggests that if anything were to happen, it would be the aviation unit that would be broken up rather than transportation.
Once the commercial Airbus A220 program is gone, all that would be remaining in the aviation business would be the business jet division. While that business could still conceivably stand on its own, Bombardier could always decide to cut ties with that too.
It wouldn't be a seller's market for Bombardier if it decided to unload its business jet division. There have been only around 700 worldwide business jet deliveries each year for the past decade.
The market hasn't been growing and is hampered by having 40 models of business jets competing for those finite sales...
Read more https://www.forbes.com/sites/brianfoley1/2020/01/17/if-bombardier-ever-sold-its-business-jet-unit-who-would-buy-it/
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Jan. 20, 2020 10:44AM EST
Bombardier Turnaround Is Veering Off The Rails
"That's bad and perturbing news and it changes the world. The market has lost patience in this company and this management."
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January 20, 2020 - by NICOLAS VAN PRAET AND SEAN SILCOFF for theglobeandmail.com
- "That's bad and perturbing news and it changes the world. The market has lost patience in this company and this management."
Bombardier Inc. slashed its financial estimates for 2019 again on the back of continuing struggles with its train business and said it might pull out of a joint venture with Airbus SE, deepening investor concern that its turnaround is veering off the rails and raising the possibility that the company is headed for a breakup.
Bombardier said in a statement Thursday it is "actively pursuing options to strengthen the balance sheet and enhance shareholder value," and "solve" its capital structure.
The urgency of the language used by the Montreal-based plane and train maker Thursday suggests a breakup and sale of all or part the company is on the table, two analysts said.
Bombardier shares plunged as much as 36 per cent to $1.14 Thursday on the Toronto Stock Exchange – the biggest intraday drop on record.
"That's bad and perturbing news and it changes the world," said Charles Lemonides, founder of ValueWorks LLC, a New York-based investment management firm that holds Bombardier shares. "The market has lost patience in this company and this management."
Read more https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-bombardier-stock-sinks-on-profit-warning-possibility-of-exiting/
Jan. 20, 2020 09:50AM EST
Boeing CEO Challenge: Fixing Boeing's Product Strategy
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January 20, 2020 - by Scott Hamilton for leehamnews.com
David Calhoun has been CEO of The Boeing Co. for a week. A couple of new problems arose.
Late last week, the US Air Force weighed in that it's unhappy, again, with Boeing over the KC-46A program. The Air Force was previously open about its dissatisfaction with Boeing's performance. But top officials were quick to contact the new CEO with its unhappiness.
A new software problem was found on the 737 MAX which may add some time to the recertification timeline. The problem involves booting up two computers on start up and isn't considered a big issue...
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Jan. 20, 2020 02:35AM EST
Airbus Unit To Offer Product To Help Airlines With Revenue Volatility - Skytra
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January 20, 2020 - by Saikat Chatterjee for reuters.com
LONDON (Reuters) - A subsidiary of Airbus (AIR.PA), the world's largest planemaker, is preparing to launch a financial product aimed at helping its airline customers hedge against risks to revenue, officials said.
Skytra Ltd, a fully-owned subsidiary, plans to launch listed financial futures and options on exchanges this year that will represent airlines revenue and help the industry manage risks more efficiently.
Airlines typically hedge their fuel costs and foreign exchange exposures but the Skytra exchange is the first of its kind for the industry.
While airline...
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Jan. 19, 2020 11:20PM EST
Virgin Australia Boeing 737 Flight VA346 Diverts After Part Of Wing Comes Loose Mid-Air
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January 19, 2020 - by Emily McPherson for 9news.com.au
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A passenger on board a Virgin Australia flight has described the disconcerting moment the lower flap on the plane's left-hand wing came loose and began whipping about in the wind.
The flight, which took off from Brisbane Airport for Melbourne just before 6pm yesterday, was diverted mid-air and redirected back to Brisbane due to an "engineering issue", a Virgin Australia spokesperson said.
Fliegerfaut note: See below the actual flight path
Virgin Australia Boeing 737 Flight VA346 Flight Path - via Flightradar24
Bill Mauger, who was on board the flight with his wife, told nine.com.au he was seated near the left-hand wing and noticed something was wrong soon after take-off."
As we were starting to get some altitude I looked over to the wing and it looked like there was something caught in it. It looked as though there was a bit of cardboard," he said.
Fliegerfaust note: See below this actual flight details, source Flightradar24.
Source Flightradar2
"I thought that is a bit weird. But then I took a bit of a closer look and it was actually part of the wing peeling away."
It was quite a large chunk of wing flapping in the breeze."...
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Jan. 19, 2020 03:56PM EST
Delta Airlines Faces Air Quality Violation, Lawsuit After Dumping 15,000 Gallons Of Jet Fuel On Dozens At Low Altitude
Some of the fuel dropped on children at a school.
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January 19, 2020 - by Christina Carrega for abcnews.com
A Delta Airlines flight that dumped 15,000 gallons of jet fuel onto multiple people, schools and buildings in the Los Angeles area during an emergency landing is facing a civil lawsuit and violations.
Four teachers at the Park Avenue Elementary School were outside with their students last Tuesday when they noticed a plane flying at a very low altitude.
"I began to feel drops of jet fuel raining from the sky. My students thought it was rain," one of the four educators, who requested to remain anonymous, said at a press conference held on Friday by their attorney Gloria Allred. "Then the liquid overwhelmed our eyes, mouths, nose, lungs and skin. My students began screaming and crying because their eyes and skin were burning."
During the landing, the pilot was specifically asked by the Air Traffic Control System Command Center if there was a need to dump fuel in order to lighten the weight.
Delta said it..."The pilot replied by saying 'negative...we've got it under control.' Had the pilot notified (air traffic control), the flight would have been directed to a location and altitude that fuel could be safely dumped," said Allred, who is suing the airline for negligence.
Delta said it...
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My name is Normand Hamel. After a 35 year career in aviation I retired in 2009 to better concentrate on my favourite activities: reading and writing. If you wonder what Run-up Pad means it refers to this special section of a run-up area on an airport that can be heated up in cold temperatures to prevent an aircraft from slipping forward when power is applied to test the engines. It also refers symbolically to the yellow pad I am using to write these articles for which I intend to bring our readers to contribution to test my ideas, like one would test an engine to make sure it works properly.


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The entire 20-member board of directors of the National Association of RV Parks and Campgrounds (ARVC) has voted unanimously to maintain ARVC's existing structure, which includes cooperative and affiliated tiers of partnership with state campground associations.
"The board sent a clear message that our current structure enables us to best serve campground and RV park owners, whom they view as our ultimate customers," Paul Bambei, ARVC's president and CEO, said in a press release.
The unanimous vote took place March 20 in Memphis, Tenn., after a strategic task force comprised of campground industry representatives had spent more than a year studying the various relationships ARVC could have with state associations and with park owners.
As directed by the board, task force recommendations have been publicly posted on the ARVC.org website since early December for over 60 days. Subsequently, seven state associations and several ARVC members voiced their comments, which were all documented and shared at the Memphis board meeting in March.
The options under consideration included creating a direct membership structure, in which parks could join ARVC directly without having to pay dues to their state association. This option is currently available only to parks in states that are not affiliated with ARVC.
The board also considered creating a federation of state associations in which ARVC and its staff would focus their attention exclusively on the needs of state campground association executives.
But after nearly six hours of discussion, all 20 board members agreed that maintaining ARVC's existing structure is the best option because it serves the needs of park operators as well as state campground associations.
"All three options had pros and cons that were strongly considered and vetted," Bambei said. "Each board member was educated on the pros and cons of the three types of structures that were under consideration, and out of that vetting came a vote that was unanimous."
The actual motion stated "that the ARVC board out of three choices elects to pursue Option No. 2 (Partnership) and to make public to the membership the reasons as to this decision."
Deb Carter, who serves as executive director of the Maryland Association of Campgrounds and is the ARVC board representative for the affiliated and cooperating state executives, said she was pleased by the "thoroughness and clarity of the education and voting processes" and by the fact that every board member had the opportunity to voice his or her opinion or concern before casting their vote.
"For me, I think the best part of that was the fact that everybody felt free to speak and everybody's opinion was respected and discussed," Carter said. "There were no hidden agendas. It had nothing to do with state or national associations. It really had to do with what's right for our members."
Carter also sent an e-mail to members of the Campground Association Management Professionals (CAMP) notifying them of the unanimous vote and of the need for ARVC to maintain its current relationship structure with state associations. "I believe that the current form is so far improved from a couple of years ago that we need to give it more time to mature and become more solid and fair to all involved," she wrote.
ARVC Chairman Rob Schutter, for his part, said he was pleased with the outcome of the vote. "I think the significance of the vote is that it underscores everyone's desire to maintain relationships with state associations that are out there and established," he said.
"It truly is a partnership, and it brings the question down the road of how valuable it is to affiliate with ARVC," said board member Garry Cole, noting that the entire industry has benefited from ARVC's work on the ADA pool lift issue.
Former ARVC Chairman David L. Berg also noted that maintaining the existing structure puts the onus on ARVC to produce results. "I believe that we need to continue our structure as is and show value to our state execs and members," he said.
During their Memphis meeting, ARVC's board also voted to lower the threshold required for states to have a "cooperative" relationship status with ARVC. Under the previous bylaws, 60% of a state campground association's members had to also be ARVC members for a state to have "cooperative" relationship with ARVC. Under the bylaw change approved in Memphis, state associations can now become cooperative members if 50% of their members are also ARVC members.
In cooperative relationships, ARVC shares 10% of the membership dues it collects from parks with their state association. States that are affiliated with ARVC receive 20% of the membership dues ARVC collects.


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PORTSMOUTH — As autumn returns to the Seacoast, families and friends are invited to New Hampshire's oldest surviving home, the Jackson House c. 1664, to celebrate the season at the annual Jackson Hill Cider Day on Saturday, Sept. 7 from 11 a.m. To 4 p.m.
The early fall festival, held among the apple trees of the old orchard, will feature cider-making, children's crafts, tours of the historic house, music by members of the New England Irish Harp Orchestra, stories by the New Hampshire Theatre Project and yummy apple refreshments. Traditional arts such as basketry, timber-framing, and spinning will be demonstrated and animals from the Spencer-Pierce-Little Farm in Newbury, Mass. will add to the fun.
The Jackson House is located at 76 Northwest Street in Portsmouth, just off Maplewood Avenue overlooking the North Mill Pond.
Admission to the event is $6 for adults, $3 for children, and free to members of Historic New England.
Tickets may be purchased in advance by visiting the Events page at www.historicnewengland.org, or by calling 603-436-3205.


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Republicans Responsible for Shipping American Jobs Overseas and Outsourcing
One of the top claims made by Donald Trump during his 2016 campaign for president has been that he will bring jobs back to the United States. Trump, the News Media and everyone running for president has failed to mention is that his Republican Party is responsible for jobs being outsourced and moved to other countries in the first place and they have blocked all efforts by Democrats to end those tax breaks.
During the Bush Administration, Republicans fought to keep, and even expand tax loopholes. The Bush-Republican policies on outsourcing hurt American families and the economy – and left us with the worst American jobs record since the Great Depression.
For example, under the Republican agenda, U.S. multinationals eliminated 1 million American jobs while adding 2.5 million jobs abroad (1999- 2007), and U.S. multinationals more than doubled the income they reinvested overseas (2002-2008).
The above two documentaries offers a fascinating insight into how jobs and manufacturing was lost in the United States.
Republicans Support Tax Breaks for Companies Sending Jobs Overseas
Senate Republicans blocked a bill that would potentially bring millions of jobs back to the United States by refusing to end tax breaks for companies who outsource jobs.
The roll call vote failed to get the needed 60 votes by a margin of 54-42. Millions of jobs have been outsourced over the past decade in part because companies can get a tax break on their expenses related to sending jobs overseas. The Bring Jobs Home Act would have ended these tax breaks, and give companies who bring jobs home a 20% tax credit.
Before the vote Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said:
"Quite frankly, a vote against this bill is a vote against American jobs. There is absolutely no excuse, no justification for any member of this body to vote against this legislation. But as of late, Senate Republicans have repeatedly blocked legislation, much like the Bring Jobs Home Act, that is good for the American people. That brings me back to the Longfellow quote that I mentioned at the beginning of my remarks: "It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong." I see the wisdom in that quote each and every time another good bill is blocked by Senate Republicans.
Because each time after Republicans have voted against legislation good for working families, an odd scene has developed on the Senate floor. A procession of Republicans makes its way to the Senate floor, and individually Senators begin to explain why they voted against a good bill. After voting against an increase in the minimum wage; after voting against equal pay for women; after voting against cost-cutting energy efficiency; after voting against student loan refinancing; following all of these votes, the same spectacle unfolds immediately after: Republicans come to the floor and tried to make their case. So instead of voting for a good piece of legislation that would benefit folks back home, they spend a lot of time here explaining why they did the opposite".
Article source: http://politicususa.com/2014/07/30/senate-republicans-vote-american-jobs-blocking-bill-outsourcing-tax-breaks.html
Republicans Ignore the Demands of the American People
Congressional Republicans admit they want to take us back to the "exact same" failed economic policies of Bush that drove us into the ditch. In the just-released GOP "Pledge," Republicans rejected the demands of the American people to include any proposal to stop outsourcing and save American jobs, even though this garnered the 'most interest' on the Republican public outreach effort website. They also promised to rollback any 'tax increases' presumably including just-passed efforts to eliminate tax breaks for shipping jobs overseas.
The GOP Record on Shipping American Jobs Overseas
- Over the last four years, Republicans have voted eleven times to protect:
- Tax breaks for corporations that ship American jobs overseas
- Off-shore tax havens for corporations and the wealthiest Americans
- Tax loopholes for CEOs deferred compensation paid by off-shore companies, foreign tax haven corporations dodging U.S. taxes, and Americans who renounce their citizenshipThese tax breaks cost American taxpayers over $60 billion
- Under President Bush, Republicans voted 8 times to expand tax breaks for outsourcing and protect offshore tax havens. The Republicans:
- Enacted legislation to provide $42 billion in tax breaks for offshore operations of U.S. corporations, encouraging the shipping of U.S. jobs overseas.
- Voted to protect tax shelters for corporations relocating overseas to avoid paying taxes.
- Voted to protect government contracts for these corporate expatriates.
- Voted against help for workers whose jobs were outsourced and against even a study on outsourcing of U.S. jobs.
- Who's pushing this wildly unpopular agenda? The Republican outsourcing agenda is being lavishly promoted by a leading outsourcer's political advertising and organizing. According to Forbes' magazine, Koch Industries is America's 2nd largest private corporation and the Koch brothers are individually the 4th and 5th richest Americans. They have spent hundreds of millions of dollars influencing American politics and elections to protect their corporate interests–funding Tea Party activities as well as TV ads. Subsidiary corporations have been cited as leading outsourcers of American jobs by advocacy groups and the news media.
Costs of Bush-Republican Policies
Republicans have long subscribed to the misguided notion that our national job creation strategy should be as follows: subsidize foreign investment and foreign jobs of multinational corporations, cross your fingers, and hope that jobs trickle back to the United States. This, along with tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans, left American workers and the economy in tatters.
- This approach to job creation espoused by President Bush and supported by Rep. Boehner was, in the words of the Wall Street Journal, "The worst track record for job creation since the government began keeping records." [1/9/2009]
- From 1999 to 2007, U.S. multinationals eliminated 1 million jobs at homes while adding 2.5 million jobs abroad. [Martin Sullivan, Tax Notes, February 8, 2010]
- U.S. multinational companies more than doubled the amount of income that they permanently reinvested overseas between 2002 and 2008.
- As of 2008, the top 273 U.S. multinational corporations had $1 trillion of earnings permanently reinvested overseas.
- In 2002, the top 296 U.S. multinational corporations had $381 billion of earnings permanently reinvested overseas. [Wunder, Tax Notes, October 6, 2009]
- American multinational corporations and banks use offshore tax havens to avoid $37 billion in federal taxes each year, with 83 of the 100 largest publicly traded U.S. corporations and 63 of the 100 largest federal contractors with at least one subsidiary in a tax haven. [Business and Investors Against Tax Haven Abuse, 7/20/10]
GOP Record: Last Four Years
99% of Republicans Voted To Protect Tax Breaks for Companies Who Ship American Jobs Overseas. Republicans opposed legislation that closed tax loopholes that encourage companies to move American jobs overseas in order to pay for protecting the jobs of over 300,000 police, firefighters, and teachers. "The provisions in this jobs bill close existing loopholes that, to use Mr. Boehner's words, 'make it more expensive to create jobs in the United States and less expensive to create jobs overseas. In fact, these loopholes can result in U.S. corporations enjoying a negative effective tax rate on their offshore investment income. This creates a strong incentive for U.S. corporations to shift profits offshore, either through accounting gimmicks or by moving actual operations and jobs offshore." [CTJ] [Education Jobs and Medicaid Assistance Act, HR 1586, #518, 8/10/10] This bill became law over Republican objections. (PL 111-226)
99% of Republicans Opposed Small Business Relief Paid For By Closing Outsourcing Tax Breaks. In July, Republicans opposed legislation that would have reduced paperwork and reporting requirements for small businesses and been paid for by ending tax breaks that encourage companies to move American jobs overseas. [Small Business Tax Relief Act, H.R. 5982, Vote 514, 7/30/10; The Hill, 7/30/10]
99% of Republicans Opposed Legislation to End Tax Breaks for Companies Who Ship American Jobs Overseas. In May, Republicans opposed the American Jobs, Closing Tax Loopholes and Preventing Outsourcing Act, legislation that would prevent corporations from using current U.S. foreign tax credit rules to subsidize their foreign activities and create up to 1 million jobs by restoring credit to small businesses, extending tax incentives for American R&D and energy, rebuilding American infrastructure, expanding youth jobs, and providing tax relief for middle class American families. [American Jobs and Closing Tax Loopholes Act, H.R. 4213, Vote 324, 5/28/10]
98% of Republicans Twice Voted Against Cracking Down on Foreign Tax Haven Corporations. Republicans voted against a bill to create jobs with bipartisan provisions to spur investment in local rebuilding projects and a range of bipartisan proposals to help our small businesses grow, hire and continue to fuel our economy – including a provision to save American jobs by cracking down on foreign tax haven corporations that are using the U.S. tax treaty network to dodge U.S. taxes. They also voted against cracking down on this tax loophole in a bill to strengthen American agriculture to meet the 21st Century needs of the United States and the world with a safe, stable food supply. [Small Business and Infrastructure Jobs Act, H.R. 4849, Vote 182, 3/24/10; Farm Bill, H.R. 2419, Vote 755, 7/27/07]
97% of Republicans Voted Against Cracking Down on Offshore Accounts for Corporations and the Wealthy. Republicans voted against the Hiring Incentives to Restore Employment (HIRE) Act, which makes it much harder for United States citizens and corporations to avoid taxes by hiding money in overseas bank accounts, while helping create 300,000 jobs here at home by providing tax cuts for businesses to hire and accelerating write-offs for small businesses and by unleashing billions for infrastructure. "Individuals have stashed an estimated $1 trillion in offshore accounts…allowing them to avoid up to $70 billion in taxes each year…. abusive offshore schemes by corporations cost our Treasury an estimated $30 billion in tax revenue as well." The bill also delays for 3 years a questionable tax break enacted in 2004 under President Bush that would let U.S. multinational companies that have shipped jobs overseas reduce their U.S. taxes by deducting more of their worldwide interest income against their U.S. income. [HIRE Act, H.R. 2847, Vote 90, 3/4/10; New York Times, 3/27/10] This bill became law over Republican objections. (PL 111-147)
99% of Republicans Voted Against Cracking Down on Overseas Tax Havens. The bill provides the U.S. Treasury Department with significant new tools to find and prosecute U.S. individuals that hide from the Internal Revenue Service assets overseas in foreign tax havens, like Switzerland, Liechtenstein and some Caribbean countries. These funds would be used to extend expiring tax provisions, including the tax credit for research and development and incentives to invest in restaurants and retail businesses.[H.R. 4213, Vote 943, 12/9/09]
85% of Republicans Voted Twice to Protect a Tax Loophole for CEOs' Deferred Compensation Paid by Offshore Companies. Republicans voted against closing tax loopholes that allow hedge fund managers and corporate CEOs to use offshore tax havens to escape income tax on unlimited amounts of deferred compensation. [H.R. 4351, Vote 1153, 12/12/07; H.R. 7060, Vote 649, 9/26/08] This finally became law, as part of the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act (PL 110-245), despite Republican objections.
88% of Republicans Voted to Protect Tax Benefits for American Expatriates who Renounce their Citizenship. Republicans voted against strengthening laws to ensure that certain wealthy taxpayers cannot renounce their U.S. citizenship or terminate their U.S. residence in order to avoid U.S. taxes. [H.R. 3056, Vote 960, 10/10/07] This provision finally became law, as part of the Heroes Earnings Assistance and Relief Tax Act (PL 110-245), despite Republican objections.
GOP Record on Outsourcing Under President Bush
The Bush Administration and Congressional Republicans long supported incentives for shipping American jobs overseas, while voting against cracking down on off-shore tax shelters. Here are the words of President Bush's top economic advisors:
'Outsourcing is a growing phenomenon, but it is something that we should realize is probably a plus for the economy in the long run.' Chairman Gregory Mankiw, Bush White House Council of Economic Advisers, New York Times, 2/11/04
"the practice of moving American jobs to low-cost countries 'is part of trade' and that 'there can't be any doubt about the fact that trade makes the economy stronger.'" Bush Administration Treasury Secretary John W. Snow, New York Times, 3/31/04
Meanwhile Republicans in Congress fought to keep, and even expand, these kinds of tax loopholes for years.
- Republicans Enacted Legislation to Provide $42 billion in Additional Tax Benefits for Offshore Operations of U.S. Corporations, Encouraging the Shipping of U.S. Jobs Overseas. The measure included 24 separate provisions that encourage shipping jobs overseas — replacing tax incentives to export American goods with tax incentives to export Americans jobs. This came at a time when studies showed that U.S. companies shifting more of their profits to tax-haven countries, such as Bermuda, to avoid paying U.S. taxes costing the U.S. treasury as much as $20 billion each year. [PL 108-357]
- All Republicans Voted For Tax Provisions that Promote Shipping American Jobs Overseas. All Republicans voted for provisions that promote shipping jobs overseas, against replacing them with tax relief for American manufacturing to create more American jobs, and against cracking down on tax shelters for corporations relocate overseas to avoid paying taxes. [HR 4520, American Jobs Creation Act – Motion to Recommit; H.R. 4520, Vote 258, 6/17/04]
- 99% of Republicans Voted Twice to Protect American Corporations in Offshore Tax Havens. Republicans defeated efforts to close tax loopholes that allow corporations to relocate their headquarters offshore in order to avoid paying federal taxes. Corporations moving to these low-tax countries were estimated cost American people $4 billion a year in lost revenue at the time. [H.R. 4931, Retirement Savings Act, Vote 247, 6/21/02; Health Saving Accounts, H.R. 4279, Vote 161, 5/12/04] Because of Democratic pressure, these provisions were enacted in 2004, as part of the American Jobs Creation Act, but Republicans grandfathered many of the most egregious offenders. (PL 108-357)
- 88% of Republicans Voted Four Times to Protect Government Contracts for Corporate Expatriates. House Republicans also voted against Democrats' measures to deny government contracts for corporations that incorporate on paper overseas to avoid paying their taxes in America. The General Accounting Office estimated that the federal government awarded $2.7 billion in 2001 to four federal contractors incorporated in overseas tax havens. [H.R. 4567, Fiscal 2005 Homeland Security Appropriations, Vote 268, 6/18/2004; Fiscal 2006 Transportation-Treasury-Housing Appropriations (HR 3058) Vote 351, 6/30/05; Fiscal 2007 Transportation-Treasury-Housing Appropriations (HR 5576), Vote 275, 6/14/06] Over the opposition of the House GOP, this ban was applied to Treasury-Transportation-HUD in FY06 and FY07. And when Democrats took control of Congress, this effort to deny government contracts for corporate expatriates was expanded to apply to all government contracts – not just those of the Homeland Security, Transportation, Treasury and Housing and Urban Development Departments — in FY 2008, with 91% of Republicans voting against it. [H.R. 2829, Financial Services Appropriations, Vote 606, 6/28/07]
- All Republicans Voted Against Help for Workers Whose Jobs Were Outsourced. All Republicans voted against financial assistance for workers whose jobs have been outsourced overseas. HR 27, Job Training Improvement Act – Motion to Recommit. Vote 47, 3/2/05]
- 98% of Republicans Voted Against Study on Outsourcing of U.S. Jobs. Virtually all Republicans rejected even requiring the Commerce Department to complete an independent study on the outsourcing of U.S. jobs and provide policy recommendations based on these findings. [HR 3598, Vote 358, 7/9/2004]
Who's Pushing This Wildly Unpopular Agenda?
One family stands out for the scope of its support for the Republican agenda and candidates who will protect this family's financial interests.
Koch Industries Executives Behind Americans for Prosperity. "In 2004, David Koch co-founded the right-wing astroturf/swift-boat group, "Americans for Prosperity." AFP is one of the major funders of the tea party movement and has launched millions of dollars in ads attacking House Democrats…Americans for Prosperity launched "Porkulus" rallies against Obama's stimulus-spending measures…. also created an offshoot, Patients United Now, which organized what Phillips, the head of AFP has estimated to be more than three hundred rallies against health-care reform. At one rally, an effigy of a Democratic congressman was hung… The group also helped organize the "Kill the Bill" protests outside the Capitol, in March, where Democratic supporters of health-care reform alleged that they were spat on and cursed at … Americans for Prosperity, meanwhile, has announced that it will spend an additional forty-five million dollars before the midterm elections, in November. Although the group is legally prohibited from directly endorsing candidates, it nonetheless plans to target some fifty House races and half a dozen Senate races, staging rallies, organizing door-to-door canvassing, and running ads aimed at "educating voters about where candidates stand." [New Yorker, 8/30/10]
Key Koch Industries Subsidiary Received an Award for Shipping American Jobs to China. In 2006, Invista, a key subsidiary of Koch Industries, received the "Outsourcing Excellence Award", from Freeborders, a global provider of outsourcing services from China, for their work shipping American jobs to China. [Freeborders Release, 6/1/06]
Major Koch Subsidiary is Listed as a Company "Exporting America." Koch Industries is the owner of Georgia Pacific, a company on Lou Dobbs' list of "companies either sending American jobs overseas, or choosing to employ cheap overseas labor, instead of American workers." [CNN; Koch Industries]
Koch Industries is a Large Wealthy Secretive Conglomerate. "The Kochs operate oil refineries in Alaska, Texas, and Minnesota, and control some four thousand miles of pipeline. Koch Industries owns Brawny paper towels, Dixie cups, Georgia-Pacific lumber, Stainmaster carpet, and Lycra, among other products. Forbes ranks it as the second-largest private company in the country… [The brothers]…combined fortune of thirty-five billion dollars is exceeded only by those of Bill Gates and Warren Buffett… Charles Lewis, the founder of the Center for Public Integrity, a nonpartisan watchdog group, said, 'The Kochs are on a whole different level. There's no one else who has spent this much money. The sheer dimension of it is what sets them apart. They have a pattern of lawbreaking, political manipulation, and obfuscation. I've been in Washington since Watergate, and I've never seen anything like it. They are the Standard Oil of our times.'" [New Yorker, 8/30/10]
Republican business owners have proven they care more about profits than the United States of America and American Citizens. This is GREED at it worst and another example of how Republicans don't care about "working class" Americans
Here is a list of companies confirmed which has exported jobs and there are thousands of them. These U.S. companies are either sending American jobs overseas, or choosing to employ cheap overseas labor, instead of American workers.
Imagine how much better off we as a country would be if we had all the jobs back which has been lost during the past 30 years.


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Pedestrian bridges connect an elevated Shijo-mae Station with the new Tokyo Metropolitan Central Wholesale Market in Toyosu on October 11, 2018, Tokyo, Japan. The new fish market replaces the famous Tsukiji Fish Market which closed for the last time on Saturday 6th October. The move to Toyosu was delayed for almost 2 years because of fears over toxins found in water below the new market. (Photo by Rodrigo Reyes Marin/AFLO)


text: Thursday, October 31, 2013 Proposed Legislation Would Allow PTs to Bring In Another Licensed PT to Continue Care During Absences Physical therapists (PTs) in private practice may be able to provide Medicare patients the continuity of care they deserve if a recently introduced bill is successful. The federal Prevent Interruptions in Physical Therapy Act of 2013 (HR 3426) would make it possible for PTs to bring in other licensed physical therapists during absences to avoid gaps in care and costs to practice. The bill was introduced October 30 by Reps Ben Ray Lujan (D-NM) and Gus Billirakis (R-FL), and seeks to expand so-called locum tenens arrangements to include PTs. This arrangement would allow a physical therapist to bring in another licensed physical therapist to treat Medicare patients and bill Medicare through the practice provider number when he or she is temporarily absent due to illness, pregnancy, vacation, or continuing medical education. Current law only extends locum tenens to doctors of medicine, osteopathy, dental surgery, podiatric medicine, optometry, and chiropractic. Because locum tenens arrangements are not granted to PTs under current law, PTs in private practice are forced to risk gaps in patient care should they be absent, or must avoid such absences altogether. The need for locum tenens for PTs in rural areas is particularly great, where a small private practice may be the only source for physical therapy for miles. Should a PT in such a setting need to be absent, the entire practice could be forced to shut down temporarily, leaving Medicare patients with limited choices for nearby care. This legislation came from a collaborative effort between APTA and the Private Practice Section of the American Physical Therapy Association (PPS) to provide relief for private practitioners and continuity of service for Medicare beneficiaries. APTA President Paul Rockar Jr, PT, DPT, MS, sees HR 3426 as another example of what can be accomplished when PTs work together. "This legislative collaboration between APTA and PPS reconfirms our commitment to advocate for sensible solutions to challenges seen by physical therapists in private practice," said Rockar. "We look forward to working with PPS on the hill to move this bill forward." PPS President Tom DiAngelis, PT, DPT, describes the bill as legislation that "seeks to eliminate an unnecessary limitation on our ability to practice and provide excellent continuous care. We commend congressmen Lujan and Bilirakis for taking an important step to ensure a patient's access to uninterrupted physical therapy." APTA has advocated for this issue to be linked to larger Medicare reforms that may be moving through Congress, particularly the efforts to find a solution to the flawed sustainable growth rate (SGR) formula (.pdf) that determines Medicare payment rates. Congress has until December 31 to act to avoid a 24.4% decrease in Medicare reimbursement, though it is possible it will continue to address these reforms in 2014. APTA will monitor the progress of the bill and will post updates to its locum tenens webpage. Resources on the website include a podcast on the importance of this legislation and information on how PTs can get involved in advocating for its passage. Comments This is fantastic News. I am taking a vacation next week and had to close my practice. It was very upsetting to me but I didn't have a choice Posted by Laura Squicciarini on 10/31/2013 11:17 PM If passed would this extend to other insurance as well? While a good start, it would need to be allowed for all insurance payers to be helpful. Who treats ONLY Medicare patients? Posted by Melinda Halford, PT on 11/2/2013 11:35 AM This sounds great. I am opening new practice and it will be hard with theses limitations. It wound be great with this could be passed.. Good work APTA Posted by Annette Stookey on 11/4/2013 6:10 AM This is great. I wish we could be included in the original legislation and not have to be added later. Posted by Maria Salonia on 11/4/2013 1:44 PM Great news. I am a PT contractor and the private practices have been limited to utilize my services. I feel for those in private practice-they have to "shut down" in order to take cont ed/vacation, or more often they just don't take those much deserved vacations. FYI I'm available in SE WI, especially lake country area.. Posted by Rita Newton on 11/4/2013 10:51 PM


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In The Big Good-Bye, the Anglo-American National Bank was located at Chimney Corner, at the intersection of Broadway and Wall Street, in lower Manhattan, in New York City. This bank was housed in a recently completed building. This building was tall and narrow, like a factory smokestack.
On New Year's Eve, there was an attempted robbery of this bank.
Later, many of the office suites were left empty, because the renting agent had priced the rent higher than comparable office buildings on that part of Broadway. One day, while contemplating lowering the rent, the agent was approached by a man who didn't seemed to be fazed by the high rent. He said he was looking to establish a branch in New York for a London gentlemen's tailoring establishment. He would pay a reasonable sum for one of the suites. His name was Anthony Marcus, and he was a tailor who made clothes "...for everybody who was anybody." (TNG: "The Big Goodbye")


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Ephesians 6
Have you ever gotten involved in something that suddenly revealed itself as being a lot more serious than you thought? For some, this happens in marriage, and they are like Jacob who thought he had married Rachel. But Behold! it was Leah!
For Diedre Cobb, it was joining the Army Reserves and facing the difficult task of trying to explain why it took her 2 years to ask herself whether or not she believed in fighting wars. She wrote in her application for the discharge, "At the time, I believed that the Army was an organization focused on furthering world peace. . . . . I knew the military killed people," she admitted when asked to explain. "I didn't understand it was a cycle – that there was no end to it. There is no peaceful outcome of war."
When asked to sum up how she thought this mess got started, Cobb declared, "Hasty decisions make great mistakes. That's how I got into this trouble."
Now it's easy enough to laugh at poor Diedre, but I'm willing to bet that there are a lot of you out there who have made the same mistake she made. There are a lot of us who have joined the army and didn't think we'd be expected to fight.
And yet in Ephesians Chapter 6, St. Paul makes it all too clear that every Christian has in fact signed on in God's army, and every Christian – whether he recognizes it or not – is in the middle of a very real spiritual war.
In all of our work in God's kingdom, of which St. Paul speaks throughout Ephesians, we are always fighting a spiritual war. All of life is spiritual, and there are no demilitarized or neutral zones. The battleground of the war that we signed up for when we became Christians, is our family relationships, our work relationships, and the Church.
In other words, your daily life is the place where the cosmic battle between good and evil is staged. You're not invited as a spectator: you've been recruited as a warrior.
There are 4 things you need to know about this war:
- we are in a real spiritual war
- we have a real enemy
- we have an invincible leader
- we have been given invincible weapons
All around are signs that we are in a spiritual war: our national sins of greed, abortion, divorce, addictions, violence, etc.; disunity in church; churches obeying the words of men rather than the Word of God; and the sin in each of our lives.
Do not be fooled: these things are not "normal" but are signs of sin and death – and a spiritual war. And you are smack dab in the middle of that war – like it or not, believe it or not.
In this war, we have a very real enemy, and this enemy consists of Satan (verse 11) and principalities, powers, the rulers of the darkness of this age, and spiritual hosts in the heavenly places (12.) But the enemy is also in the people around us. He has even infiltrated each of us and has established a presence there.
It is good to know something about our enemy. The Devil, the general of the Enemy forces is our adversary and God's Adversary. He is wily and seductive. He is a roaring lion seeking to devour us, if we are not alert. He is a deceiver and the Father of Lies. He is powerful (verse 12), cunning (verse 11), and evil (verse 16.)
Unfortunately, Satan has many helpers. The truth is you are not able to defeat our enemy by yourself, and if you try, you will be defeated. Satan is much weaker than we often think he is, but he is also much more clever. In military conflicts, a wise military leader who is weak must learn to use his resources wisely: this was true for great generals like Hannibal and Rommel.
I don't see Satan or a demon under every rock or in every temptation of ours. Frankly, I believe that if Satan and all the demons tried to cause all the sin in the world, they would find they could only control a small part of the earth. So instead, being crafty, Satan lets us do his dirty work for him. Our strongest enemies are really the flesh and the world, and Satan allows them to do most of his work. I believe he chooses to get involved personally only at key moments, such as when someone is in the process of changing sides in the Great War, when they are baptized or re-dedicate their lives to God, or often when we pray.
It is the sin within us – how we follow ourselves and not God, how we do not love others, how we lead ourselves into temptation – that are our strongest enemies, and Satan makes great use of them.
As strong as Satan may seem, we are the ones who have an invincible leader. I think it is a sign of Satan's weakness that he puffs himself up and makes us think he is great. In reality, the battle between God and Satan is like a cartoon I saw: maybe some of you have seen it. It's called Bambi Meets Godzilla. In this 1 minute and 29 second cartoon, Bambi is gently grazing in a field for nearly a minute, and then . . . well, I wouldn't want to spoil the ending (but if you want to see it for yourself, it's at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXCUBVS4kfQ )
Though Paul doesn't directly mention Jesus Christ here as our leader or our general, there can be no doubt that He is. We must remember Him in all spiritual warfare and that He is infinitely more powerful than Satan, the world, or our flesh.
About 2500 years ago a Chinese writer named Sun Tzu wrote a famous book on war called The Art of War. Its ideas are such an excellent distillation of military wisdom that it is still read by military strategists. There are 5 constant factors in any war, 3 of which I find apply directly to spiritual warfare. Sun Tzu's first constant was that, "The Moral Law causes the people to be in complete accord with their ruler, so that they will follow him regardless of their lives, undismayed by any danger." This is the way we must follow Jesus Christ, our Ruler, into spiritual war.
The second constant factor is that "The Commander stands for the virtues of wisdom, sincerity, benevolence, courage and strictness." Our Commander has every virtue, every thing necessary to lead us to victory over the world, the flesh, and the devil. He has been tempted in every way, yet without sin. He has already conquered the Enemy and knows how to help us do the same.
We have an invincible leader who has already conquered His enemy, and He has given us invincible weapons.
Sun Tzu's first 2 points focused on the Ruler or Commander; his 3rd point focuses on the way that warfare is waged: "By method and discipline are to be understood the marshaling of the army in its proper subdivisions, the graduations of rank among the officers, the maintenance of roads by which supplies may reach the army, and the control of military expenditure."
In Ephesians 6, St. Paul asks us to focus especially on this third point – method and discipline – this is why he discusses in some detail our spiritual weaponry. We must remember that the Lord not only fights for us but also fights through us. Whatever God asks us to do for Him and through Him, He equips us to do. And so He equips us militarily for the battles He expects us to fight. He has given us every weapon we need: go back and read verses 14-18 (I include verse 18 because we must never leave out prayer, which I liken to the food of God's army, which marches on its belly.)
Rather than explaining each in detail, I want to make one important point. These 6 weapons are not to be understood apart from Jesus Christ. These are not things we simply add to our own natural powers: instead, they are nothing less than aspects of Jesus Christ Himself. Just as He is the New Man we are supposed to put on, He is also the Armor of God that we must put on each day.
In summarizing the art of war, Sun Tzu said: "If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle."
To which we as Christians must add: "If you know Jesus Christ, your King and General, and faithfully serve Him by using the divine weapons He with which He has equipped you, He will always be victorious through you."
Prayer: Father grant that I be strengthened by the Holy Spirit in my inner man, that Christ may dwell in my heart by faith, and that I might have the power to comprehend the surpassing love of God.
Now unto Him who by the power at work within us is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, to Him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen.
Points for Meditation:
- Slowly meditate on each part of the armor of God, asking God to show you one in particular that He wants you to use more faithfully.
- Consider whether or not you have fully recognized the nature of the spiritual warfare in your life. What battlegrounds in your life are there, and how have you been fighting the battles God has given you?
- How well do you know yourself, your King, and the Enemy? Is your ignorance in any of these 3 leading to spiritual defeat in your life?
Resolution: I resolve to meditate today on the spiritual war that God has made me a part of. I especially resolve to meditate on the victory that Jesus will gain through me, if I faithfully put Him on every day.
© 2015 Fr. Charles Erlandson


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As THQ dissolves before our eyes. we continue to get more details about the court-ordered auction to sell the developer off piecemeal.
The big-ticket items were Company of Heroes developer Relic ($26 million to Sega) and Saints Row developer Volition ($23 million to Koch Media), but the next item on the list is a bit of a surprise.
The game is Evolve. It's a new intellectual property from the original Left 4 Dead developer, Turtle Rock Studios. We don't really know anything about the game, but publisher Take 2 knows enough to think it's worth $11 million.
That was the winning bid, which far outpaced the runner-up of $250,000 from Turtle Rock Studios itself.
We first heard about Evolve when THQ filed for bankruptcy in December. The Chapter 11 documentation revealed that THQ expected to sell 4 million copies of Evolve, and it expected this new game to contribute nearly $40 million to its profits.
Those are big numbers for a new franchise. That, combined with Take 2's willingness to spend a significant amount of money, suggests this is a title to look out for.
We've contacted Turtle Rock to ask about its plans for Evolve. We'll update when with its response.


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$1 million grant to improve educational opportunities for students in Chester
PHILADELPHIA - PECO and the Exelon Foundation have announced a grant of $1 million to Widener University to expand educational opportunities for students at the Widener Partnership Charter School in Chester.
The grant -- $750,000 from PECO and $250,000 from the Exelon Foundation -- will help the school improve science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education resources as the school expands to serve seventh and eighth graders over the next two years. The grant also will fund new programs to encourage parental involvement and a feasibility study of school expansion options.
"Widener Partnership Charter School has created a very special learning environment for its students in the city of Chester," said Denis P. O'Brien, senior executive vice president of PECO's parent company Exelon, CEO of Exelon Utilities, and board member of the Exelon Foundation. "We are proud to join forces with Widener, and the residents of Chester, to invest in the future of our young people and help them acquire the skills they will need to be successful members of a global workforce."
The Widener Partnership Charter School was launched in 2006 as a joint venture of Widener University and a coalition of community residents. In six years, the school has become a model for university-sponsored charter schools. It is unique in its emphasis on holistic education, partnering with parents and utilizing university faculty, students and resources to enrich the educational experience.
The STEM program includes afterschool and Saturday supplemental instruction to educate and build on that interest throughout the student's middle school education. Coupled with a community education program designed to increase parent/caregiver involvement in their children's learning, the grant helps provide the capacity to support student academic success. The funding supports the expansion of the existing Widener-run parent education program to include STEM-related workshops. PECO employees also will participate in an after-school mentoring program.
"We are very grateful for the investment that PECO and the Exelon Foundation have made in the future of the students in the Widener Partnership Charter School," said Widener University President James T. Harris III. "These students already believe that they can be world changers, and with the knowledge and resources of such a strong corporate partner like PECO, their dreams and aspirations of becoming scientists, doctors, engineers and community leaders are that much closer to reality."
With a principal focus on math, science and environmental education, PECO supports programs which encourage students from all backgrounds to stay in school, develop their talents and continue their education beyond high school. Since 1969, PECO has sponsored the Philadelphia Academies' Academy of Applied Electrical Science. As part of its mission, the Exelon Foundation supports innovative math and science education programs in the communities the Exelon family of companies serves. In February 2012, the foundation announced a $500,000 contribution to help launch a STEM partnership school at Aurora University that will serve students in the third through eighth grades.
In 2011, PECO invested $1 million in a similar collaboration with Drexel University to enhance STEM resources at schools in the Mantua/Powelton Village communities.
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|Belmont, Mass.
|High School:
|Buckingham, Browne and Nichols School
Sohpomore •
Coxed for the second varsity eight as well as the third varsity eight four times ... Helped the second varsity eight take the bronze at the IRA National Championships ... Helped the second varsity eight finish 6-0 in dual competition ... Contributed to the win at the H-Y Regatta and Harvard's fifth straight sweep of Yale ... Runner-up to Wisconsin in the grand final at the EARC Sprints, contributing to the Rowe Cup win ... Aided in win against Northeastern ... Helped the third varsity eight in wins against Navy and Penn, Princeton, and Cornell.
Freshman • 2011
Coxed the freshman eight, contributing to an undefeated dual season and Sprints championship … Made it to the semifinals for the Temple Cup at the Henley Royal Regatta, setting an event record in the quarterfinals … Earned a bronze medal at the IRA National Championships … Helped defeat the Yale freshmen at the 146th Harvard-Yale Regatta May 28… Helped take first place and contributed to Rowe Cup win at the EARC Sprints … Contributed to victories over Northeastern, Navy, Penn, Princeton, MIT, Brown and Cornell.
Before Harvard
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Rep. Mel Watt (D-N.C.) is poised to offer an amendment to the legislative branch appropriations bill that would cut the funding of the independent Office of Congressional Ethics by 40 percent.
The amendment, which could be offered as early as Friday, would gut $619,200 from the OCE's $1.5 million budget.
In a letter to colleagues Thursday, Watt called the OCE "redundant and duplicative of the House Ethics Committee" and said its procedures are "unfair and abusive of the rights of Members of the House."
"I believe that members of Congress deserve to be treated fairly as do the constituents we represent," Watt wrote. "I, therefore, encourage you to support this amendment to return some measure of fairness to our institution."
The push to cripple the OCE comes just one year after Watt was the subject of an investigation into an amendment to the regulatory reform bill that he introduced and later withdrew after a fundraising event. Watt was ultimately cleared of wrongdoing.
"I was advised recently that the Office of Congressional Ethics (OCE) has initiated an investigation of several contributions to my campaign committee," Watt said in a statement last June. "It's unfortunate that this has been leaked to the press and that could leave the impression that there has been some impropriety."
The amendment may get some bipartisan support. Rep. Steve King said the OCE was set up to be a witch-hunting organization.
"That'd be one time I'd vote with the Congressional Black Caucus. I like justice and we're not getting it from OCE," the Iowa Republican said. "They take their direction from political activist organizations that have an ax to grind. And then the OCE goes in and does an investigation and they have leaks that come out of there and these leaks then hurt people politically without justification."
But one senior Democratic appropriator said that although the amendment might get a few votes from both sides of the aisle, it "will not pass."
A group of government watchdog organizations, which included the Campaign Legal Center, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, Common Cause, Democracy 21, the League of Women Voters, Public Citizen and U.S PIRG, was circulating a letter to all House offices on Thursday urging them to vote against the Watt amendment.
"The recent dysfunctional performance by the House Ethics Committee has only served to reinforce the critically important role being played by the OCE in the House ethics enforcement process," the letter said. "There is absolutely no basis for reducing OCE's funding."
Ethics experts have called for renewed investment in the OCE following a House Ethics Committee announcement on Wednesday that it has hired an outside counsel to investigate the conduct of committee Members and staffers in a probe into Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.).
The OCE is a fact-finding body that investigates alleged wrongdoing within the House and refers its findings to the Ethics Committee for further action.
Daniel Newhauser contributed to this report.


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MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) Former Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova was upset by 18-year-old Laura Robson 6-2, 3-6, 11-9 in a second-round Australian Open match that ended in the early hours of Friday morning.
No. 8-seeeded Kvitova was leading 3-0 in the third set before Robson broke her three times to take a 6-5 lead. Kvitova broke back and the set stayed on serve until Robson broke again in the 19th game.
Serving for the match a second time, Robson made no mistakes and held at love to advance to the third round.
Kvitova, once ranked No. 2, won the 2011 Wimbledon title and reached the semifinals at the Australian and French opens last year.


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Are TOEFL iBT® test tasks free of flaws that may benefit or disadvantage some test takers for reasons that are related to their personal characteristics, such as their race or gender, rather than their skill in the area being tested? Does the test allow all test takers an equal opportunity to demonstrate their proficiency in English?
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Born in New Orleans and entering the throes of the comedy scene by way of LA and NY, Sean Patton is a self-proclaimed "gypsy" in the sense that he lives everywhere and manages to amalgamate comedy from across the US and make it relatable, regardless of where in the States he is. "People can relate to what I'm talking about … Read More
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Ex-Indiana Sec'y of State White Loses Law License
Convicted former Indiana Secretary of State Charlie White is losing his law license.
The Indiana Supreme Court issued an order Wednesday suspending White's law license on an interim basis effective May 10th because of his convictions earlier this year on six felonies including vote fraud, perjury and theft. The charges stem from using his ex-wife's address as his voting address when he was serving on the Fishers Town Council and running for secretary of state in 2010.
White was sentenced Feb. 23 to one year of home detention. He has said he plans to appeal his convictions, which also cost him his elected office.
An email message seeking comment was sent to White.