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South Park RPG - Won't Ship Until It's "Perfect"
GameBanshee has noticed a lengthy interview at Ripten with THQ's Executive Vice President for Core Games, Danny Bilson. The conversation covers a number of topics primarily related to their financial woes but, on the last two pages, South Park RPG is discussed:
best news there could be. I love delays
I enjoy the show on the rare occasion I watch it. But I cannot muster any enthusiasm for this title at all.
Right on, no reason do it unless you do it right!
Really looking forward to this, i dont think there's ever been a comedy show with so many interesting/funny characters, fits perfect for a RPG. I'm glad they arent rushing it.
When I first heard of this game, I really had no interest at all - I've never really watched the show much. However, as more information has been revealed, it looks like it could be good fun. The idea of a jRPG mechanics with off-color South Park humor has the potential to be a unique, hilarious experience. This one's on my radar… I'm glad they're taking the time to do it right.
I'm totally looking forward to this game. I'm a fan of South Park and also a huge fan of Obsidian. To me this game is pretty much a dream come true. I never expected such a game to happen, which makes me all the more happy.
I'll buy a copy and gift it to my sister that is a great south park buff (to support obsidian) but that is as much as I want to have to do with it.
Come on Obsidian, where is that Kickstarter ?! ;)
I freely admit to watching the show out of the corner of my eye regularly while gaming. However, I am not the one picking channels with the remote… TV is just a sideshow to my gaming… ;)
There aren't many shows that can go 15 years or whatever it is and be consistently as funny and smart as South Park is. They're geniuses. As long as they stay interested in it I can't see how it won't be great (at least the writing part…I guess Obsidian has to pull off the gameplay on their own).
Hey Obsidian! Release an editor that does nothing but manipulate the camera controls cause you know you're gonna fuck that up anyway.
I love the show but the idea of a SP RPG is laughable and the current season is absolute rubbish, hope that's not obsidian's influence at play.
I'd also like to know how rpg development works when the writers go away for months at a time halfway through development.
What the hell? Where have the angry complaints and "this game is a joke" remarks gone to? You guys are boring. :(
I also find the idea of a South Park RPG to be laughable. Which is why I'm looking forward to the game. :)
I'm not a stupid right wing douchebag, so I don't care.
Huh? Well I suppose that comment will work anywhere, out of context… ;)
I would rather play Dungeon Siege 3 than play this.
Oh I also don't care about this as Risen 2 excites me more. There you have it.
That said, I'm going to wait until I see some actual gameplay footage before commenting further.
We have all seen what happens to games when producers are having financial issues. Releasing the game when it is perfect is a nice statement, but it all depends on their definition of perfect.
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Even if I didn't have food allergies, I would still be one of those people who frantically checks labels in the grocery store. I'm not obsessed with eating healthy so much as knowing what I'm putting into my body—being informed seems like the first step toward making healthy choices!
With so much processed food available today, it can be hard to sort through the mess and find something delicious, healthy and not bursting with ingredients you can't pronounce.
That's why I love the idea of Element Bars. Not only can you easily access nutrition information about all their most popular creations (including Chocolate Nut Pie, Apricot Protein and Pumpkin bars), you can completely customize your own bar to include only the specific ingredients you like.
If you don't know where to start, visit the site to take the What's Your Element? quiz and find out what your personality dictates that you would like. Mine came out to be oats with honey and M&Ms. Yum!

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That sounds sad for everyone. Some children can have a tough time adjusting to the 1st grade classroom but I also wonder if there isn't more going on and he can't explain what is bothering him.
I'd start with asking for a meeting with his teacher to let her know how stressful he is finding it and get her views on what she has noted. She'll just be getting to know him and his classmates, so she may not have much insight yet. Usually, it makes sense to wait a couple of weeks before meeting with the teacher, but in this case, it's a good idea to get everyone on the same "team" since there are already some concerns with how he is coping.
Is it possible for either you or his father to spend some time in the class - possibly as a volunteer - and observe how he interacts with everyone? That might give you some insight as well.
I would also try to arrange an after-school or weekend playdate with a classmate to help him start making some friends in the class. The teacher may give you some ideas on who to invite if your DS doesn't provide a name or two.
Is he finding the lack of play and the need to do deskwork "boring" or is the work itself too boring? Teachers tend to ease into the school year with a lot of review so he may find this work repetitive and uninteresting. On the other hand, the teacher may have miscalculated and hasn't found the right level of work for this class and the work is too difficult. That's something that should improve as the teacher and class get into stride.
Finally, I wouldn't withhold any treats, threaten or otherwise add any pressure to this already stressful time for him. He's probably coping the best way he can right now. He needs lots of support and some help to work through this adjustment period.
Good luck to you all.
1st grade can be a tough transition for some kids. There are a lot more (academic) expectations than K or pre-K. It's no longer so much play, but a lot more desk time.
I agree with olly that a conference with the teacher may be a good idea - you need to find out if "bored" means the work is too easy or too hard, and then figure out how to solve that problem.
One thing that struck me about your post... how your son kept telling you he'd "be good". Why does he feel that having a problem with school equates to *not* being good?
When one of my two stayed home "sick" (regardless whether they were actually sick or pretending to be for whatever reason - and yes, it happens), my rule was that it would be a quiet day. No running around or being boisterous, but quiet and calm activities were fine - reading, watching tv, playing video games, playing a board game together, etc. was okay.
I think time spent in the classroom volunteering is ideal, but agree with the others about meeting with the teacher. If it is primarily a social issue, playdates could help. Has he had playdates with his other friends that he was split up from? Maybe also talk to their parents and see how they are making the transition?
I would be cautious in revoking privileges and giving long lectures. I think that approach is a bit heavy-handed with a kid who is obviously under alot of stress and emotional upheaval already. As you stated, he doesn't really understand why you are taking his activities away (other than a vague notion that he needs to be "good"?) and he's too young for talks about society, the law and his future - those are pretty abstract boogeymen to a first grader.
It may be hard to discuss what is bothering him, or he may not be able to name it. Perhaps you could plan more one-on-one activities with him, that would give him time to feel secure, process his emotions and open up. I think his feelings need to be acknowledged and validated, even if they seem miniscule to you. Those reasons may be the tip of the iceberg, or they could loom large in his mind. Either way, nobody is going to fully open up if they don't trust they are being listened to, respected and heard.
I know you have to do what you can do to get through the day, but it sounds like you may be sending mixed messages that his feelings and reasons don't really matter, he just needs to suck it up and be "good," kwim?
eta: Could you go through his concerns and come up with a game plan for each? Ways to deal with bossy kids, etc.? Maybe that would help him feel more secure, to have tools in his toolbox. The "boring" issue will have to be discussed with the teacher, but you may be able to come up with ideas for the others. Good luck!
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I agree with setting up a meeting with his teacher ASAP.
I also agree with taking his concerns seriously and helping him brain storm ideas or going to bat to help him out. I would not want to go anywhere that I wasn't allowed to go pee when I need to. That's really basic for me. I feel for you little guy. Like wise, with the bossy kid and the girl who was mean once, helping him find ways to deal with his peers *as reasonable* for his age and ability provides him an opportunity to grew, or letting the teacher know about the situation if it isn't something he can grow into pretty quickly.
On one hand, I think when kids learn to deal with stuff on their own, it helps them long term. At the same time, sometimes that just isn't possible and they need an adult to intervene. It had be hard to tell the difference. May be when you and your son meet with the teacher, she'll be able to talk to him about these situations and offer something useful for him.
One of my kids has anxiety problems, and for her, none of it is about being "good." When her anxiety is acting up, she is truly doing the best she can, and her responses to things are no more "bad" than a child with a cold is being bad when they cough. It just is what it is.
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The 6-3, 315-pound juco defensive lineman from Hutchinson Community College in Kansas said that Nebraska and Missouri, his other two finalists, are no longer in the mix. He noted that he will fax his scholarship papers to the college of his choice on Monday morning.
"I already know--I am just going to wait until tomorrow to announce," he said of his college choice. "I have a good feeling about this."
"I really liked the visit and I really like the coaches Coach (Gus) Malzahn has put together," Bradley said of his visit to Auburn. "I really like the type of guys all of them are. I felt real comfortable at Auburn."
Bradley was familiar with Auburn's new head coach. "I was recruited by Malzahn when he was at Arkansas State," said the defensive tackle, who noted that he didn't have an interest in playing for the Red Wolves, but playing for Auburn in the SEC is a very different situation.
The juco sophomore also has a connection with Rodney Garner, Auburn's new defensive line coach. "Coach Garner, he talked to me when he was at Georgia," Bradley said. "My roommate was Toby Johnson and he really had a strong connection with him so I used to talk with him every once in a while.
"I spent a lot of time with him today," Bradley said of Garner. "I think he is really cool. His work shows because he has put a lot of people in the league (NFL) and he has the most in the NFL right now. That is real good."
Commenting on his roommate Johnson, who is scheduled to take an official visit to Auburn later this month, Bradley said, "Toby told me if I go to Auburn he is going to go to Auburn. If he sticks to his word I guess if I go to Auburn he is going to come."
Auburn's Garner played football at AU as did Jimmy Brumbaugh, the defensive line coach who is recruiting Bradley for Kentucky. "I?thought he was a real cool guy," the lineman said of Brumbaugh.
Bradley took his official visit to Kentucky on Friday and Saturday. He didn't arrive in Auburn until around 4 a.m. on Sunday, but said he had enough time to get a good feel for the coaches before leaving Sunday night. "Brumbaugh tried to keep us late," Bradley said with a laugh. "I am glad I took time for both of them (Auburn and Kentucky)."
After playing juco football in Kansas the lineman said being closer to his home in the Atlanta area is a big deal. He made the recruiting visit to Auburn with his parents and two sisters.
The prospect noted that he is impressed with Malzahn and what he did as offensive coordinator in 2010 on Auburn's national championship team. "You know he is going to score and he has got good defensive guys who are there with Gabe Wright and all of those boys I played with out my class. You can see they still have talent."
Asked what the deciding factor is for his choice, Bradley said, "I guess where I?could really see myself playing, where I could see myself fitting in. They both talked about me playing. It is really about where I see myself playing, where I see myself getting better and competing."
Auburn already has one mid-term transfer from Hutchinson Community College on board with offensive guard Devonte Danzey scheduled to enroll at AU this week.
"We are real cool," he said of his relationship with Danzey, who has been trying to get him to Auburn. "Me and him used to get into it because he played offensive line. We used to compete every day. After that we became friends through the Hutch thing. We have been real close for two years."
Danzey has three years to play two seasons. Being closer to his family is a big part of why he is considering Auburn, but also said the head coach is a factor. "Coach Malzahn and his wife are real cool," the prospect said.
"Everything was leaning toward coming back closer to home and stuff so I will be playing SEC football," he noted.
Bradley is shown in action in junior college.
Following his freshman season at Hutchinson Community College the lineman committed to Coach Derek Dooley and Tennessee. However, the Vols fired the coach and Bradley re-opened his recruiting, but is no longer considering Tennessee despite an offer from the new coaching staff in Knoxville.
As a senior at Norcross High School the lineman received scholarship offers from South Carolina, North Carolina State and others, but chose West Virginia. However, he did not qualify academically and enrolled in junior college.
He attracted the attention of even more Division I programs while playing at Hutchinson. As a sophomore he made 54 tackles with six sacks for the Blue Dragons. Among the colleges that have offered are Georgia, Kansas State, Boise State, Illinois, Texas A&M, Kansas, TCU, Arkansas State and Indiana.


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Everything Is Dead On My Bank/Slope Garden
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Hi All,
I have attached a pictured. I don't know where to start with my bank/slope garden problem?
On my bank/slope garden I have the following problems:
1) I have everything growing that I don't want: grass, weeds, in some areas trees sprouting up that I didn't plant.
2) Everything looks dead and dull. I can literally water it like crazy, and still there will be no life.
3) There are dirt patches all over where is some growth of random stuff and then patches of dirt where nothing grows.
So where do I start? I was thinking about just pulling everything out of the bank so that there is nothing left but soil. Right now, there is nothing on it that is currently valuable. It's just random stuff growing.
But my guess as to why nothing grows is the soil has no nutrients? What's a good way to introduce nutrients into the soil? Do I throw miracle grow on it?
Maybe I should run a tiller up and down it to turn the soil? Then add some type of fertilizer?
The bank/slope garden now has a new irrigation system. I've tried watering it for 2 months to see what happens...really nothing grows but weeds, grass, and everything else.
So what should my first steps be to start fresh and start over? I would like to make my bank/slope garden have life and look much better.
Before you start dumping fertilizers all over the place you should get a soil test done to see what the soil actually needs. Guessing can do more harm than good. You can check with the state agricultural authorities (search online) about how to do this in your area. You'll have to prepare a small sample of soil and ship it to a lab for analysis, probably will cost less than $20, possibly much less. They'll generally tell you what you need to do in order to remedy any deficiencies in the soil.
You can pull the weeds by hand and clean up the bed while you are waiting for the results.
As suggested test the soil, while your waiting for it to come back spray the area down with Round Up. Give it time to kill everything including the roots.
Round up is not all that strong and will stop working shortly and will have no effet on the new plants after about 30 days.
Do not rototill, Use a grub hoe or a 4 pronged potato rake. This time of year you may just be burrowing the weed seeds if you till it.
Got a pickup truck with a hitch? I try and pull trees out by the roots with a chain and my truck, one end has a slip hook the other end has a grab hook. The slip hook acts like a noose around the tree when you drive off.
If you just cut them off there going to just grow back.
You should also take some time to think about what you want that area to look like. A garden? Grassed-in slope? You might want to post your pictures in the Landscape forum to get some ideas. Certain plants will do well in that particular site, and they will have certain soil requirements which will dictate what you may need to do to remedy the soil. Some plants might be perfectly happy in the soil that you already have. Some plants don't do well with lots of water.
I stopped by Home Depot though a while back and picked up a few soil sample kits. One of them was:
Ferry-Morse Soil Test Kit:
It may not be the greatest soil test kit, but what does everyone think about soil test kits and testing the soil yourself? Don't rely on it? It's just better to send a soil sample to a lab? Perhaps the lab gives more detailed information as to what I need to do with the soil?
Never used then, always used my local county extention agent. Some will even show up and make some suggestions.
Anytime I'm trying to figure out what will grow in an are I take a ride around and see what's working for other people and knock at the door. 99% of them are more then happy to make some suggestions.
But as you suggested, maybe this is commonly done when first starting:
1) Take a soil sample and then mail or send it to a lab for soil analysis.
2) Spray the area down with Round Up to kill everything down to the roots.
3) Allow at least 30 days to pass to let everything die.
4) Then follow what the LAB results say in treating the soil?
Is that how I should go about doing it? No real after affects in using round up? Reality is, I have to start somewhere.
It's my fault in regards to my explanation of trees. It's mostly grass, weeds, random small plants which I have no idea what they are growing there. And, there are 'small' trees also growing...ohhh about 1 feet tall. So no..they are not really big trees. I've tried to kill these small trees though before they get too big. But they grow back. To kill them, I've had to dig down to the roots. They have just randomly popped up and I've kept going back to kill them. But, great suggestion in how to pull them out if they were huge!
So, I really like the idea of using Round Up and just kill everything off for 30 days. Would be nice to just see .... soil...instead of random growing stuff! THEN, after everything is dead I can start planning on what to put in it's place and after I've treated the soil by doing what the lab results suggest.
I'll keep you posted on when I send in my soil to the lab. And, I will let you know what the lab results are too.
First, I will do as has been said here and look into what lab to use in my area for soil analysis.
Please let me know how to approach using Round UP and how it may affect the soil tests and the lab results I receive?
Of course, I will keep you posted and post pictures on how it looks as I progress.
I'm no landscape pro---but I have found that sloped banks like that --in full sun --tend to burn out all but the heartiest ground covers.
Would the area look good if you terraced it? Kind of like a stepped raised bed?
With that --you could add much more organic material to the soil ,which will hold moisture better.
See what ground covers are doing well in your neighborhood--in a similar sun situation---
A local garden center should be able to offer suggestions the work in your local area.
Also, I've been looking more into this RoundUp stuff. I like the idea of killing everything off so I can start new. For instance, if I use RoundUp, does it stay in my soil for a long period of time? Or, would the RoundUp biodegrade in say 30 days?
Organic material? I like horse manure and composted leaves----all free in my area---I also add saw dust---although that should not be used in great quantities---add that to regulars soil and soon you will have rich--loose soil that is easy to weed.
As to the round up---you spray it on the leave of growing plants--and it kill the roots--
You could dump the bottle on the soil and nothing will die---I think it's good for your situation--
Watch out for wind when applying---you don't want the spray to drift over to something good--like a bush or shrub.
If neither is readily available, or you don't have a means to handle it, your local nursery or garden center will have some good alternatives available in either bulk or bag.
Cow manure is richer---but around here there are plenty of stables---but no cows---
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Bad Scene on a Deer Stand!
Just this last seaon, I was on a stand from which I could see another hunter (also on a stand). We were on state land adjoining a private ranch that was posted. As usual, there were literally dozens of deer on the other side of the fence with several HUGE bucks in the group. Finally, one of the big bucks followed some does onto the state land. Unfortunately, it walked by the other hunter instead of me. Through my binoculars I saw him take a shot at the buck. All the does and the buck took off and jumped the fence back onto the posted ranch. From my position, I couldn't be sure that the deer was hit, but think it had been because, after going a couple of hundred yards, it just stopped and stood there. (The other deer all kept going.) The other hunter kept shooting at it. He fired at least five or six more times - probably had to reload - over what might have been 5 more minutes. It didn't look like he connected because the buck never flinched or moved. By that time, I was getting a little disgusted at the whole scene - and also had to get to work, so I left, shaking my head. The really bad part about this whole thing is that the other hunter was sitting right (exactly) where I had intended to sit that morning. (Next time I'll get up earlier!) Any comments on this incident would be appreciated. For example it raises the questions: Should the hunter have kept shooting after the buck ran back onto posted property? Would it have made a difference if he had wounded the deer with his first shot? (Another question of hunter ethics) Should I have done anything differently? (Besides getting up earlier.)
Don't know what you could've done. I do think it does matter if he wounded the deer with the first shot though. In my opinion if he felt he had,he is then obligated to try and finish it off. Up to the point you explained, I feel like he did what he could short of learning to shoot and staying in his limits. I further feel his next action should of been to contact the owner of the ranch. Let him know what happened and ask for permission to enter property and check for blood and perhaps recover deer. But all he can do is ask, it's the owners decision to make.
How far was the hunter from the deer for his first shot? Maybe the guy needs to check his sights and shooting discipline. Remember this is my opinion right here: If the guys in a stand with a clear shot, all's he would need is one shot with a clean hit to the vitals which would then only allow the buck to run the maximum distance a buck would run with proper shot placement, maybe not even close to the posted property. I do understand your disgust at the situation.
Hunting close to private property requires being able to drop the deer in it's tracks to avoid the incident like you posted. While a neck shot or a double front shoulder shot will do it the question is can you. Shooting at the buck after it went back on private property in my opinion broke the law regardless if it was hit or not. Once it crossed the line it was no longer his buck. Could he have asked permission to pursue the buck? I would not hunt where I can see other hunters in sight, makes for a dangerous situation.
I do hope the other hunter at least went to the range afterwards and figured out his range. Hopefully he bumped the scope off during the season hadn't realized it and will learn from this. Also Hunting Man mentioned hunting so close to line, here in SC the regs. don't allow you to hunt within 150 yds of private property without permission of the owner and occupants. So once a deer crosses our fence it still has to come another 150 yds before I can take a shot. We're not bordered by a ranch though it's a private hunt club and I know if one ever made it back across the fence it's gone. I would let them know they had a wounded deer on their property though.
In Tennessee it is legal to track a deer that you shot that ran onto private property. If the landowner says no they do not want you on their land you can simply call a game warden and they will go talk to the landowner for you. I dont know what the rules would be for a deer ranch of some sorts. In Tennessee it is a common courtesy to let the landowner know what you are doing. Around these parts most landowners would also give you a hand in tracking the deer. The only reason I would not track my deer in Tenn is if the private property land owners were in the woods hunting. I dont want to get shot or mess their hunt up so I would just wait for their hunt to end.
Hunters that take pot shots at deer tend to gripe my rear. If I miss the first shot or do not connect well then I still wait for another good clean shot. If the guy shot 5 or 6 more times than obviously his gun is way off, he is a bad shot or he was just taking pot shots at it. Probably pot shots. If you should be connecting on your shots and your not then STOP shooting. Get down and go the range before you kill somebody. If your that horrible of a shot then you dont need to be in the woods anyway. And never take pot shots at deer. 99% of the time your gonna miss or just wound the animal.
Frome where I was situated, it looked like the deer was right on top of the other hunter - I would say well under 100 yards, maybe under 50. My gut feeling is that the guy is not a good shot, as I think he was the same hunter who needed two shots to drop a fairly close doe a few weeks earlier in the same spot.
Your right, being that close to private property means being able to drop a deer dead in its tracks, and that means having good discipline, waiting for the right moment to shoot, good shot placement, the right bullet, etc. But who knows, maybe he just had back luck that day. Still, it bothered me to see such a really great buck get (probably) wounded by a guy who, whether it was right or wrong to keep shooting, couldn't finish the job with five or six more shots at an animal that was just standing out in front of him.:thumbdown:
As for hunting where I can see other hunters, that is another good point, and, after this last incident, I just might vacate that place. I should tell you, however, that in this particular wide open area, you can see hundreds and hundreds of yards, maybe as far as a couple of miles in every direction, which, in a way, might make it safer because you know where everyone is.
I don't know that I blame you for vacating the area One Horse, but I do think it's a shame a good hunter would have to give up a prime location to someone that doesn't belong there.:thumbdown:
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SEC Accuses Legg Mason of Some Accidental Fraud
"SEC Charges Legg Mason Affiliate With Defrauding Clients" is a pretty juicy headline as these things go. Legg Mason is a big deal and the affiliate, Western Asset Management Company, is a big deal all on its own, with $442.7 billion in assets under management. And they agreed to a $21 million settlement, which is like nine hours' worth of JPMorgan settlements, so that's pretty big I guess.
But the alleged fraud was ... oh is it boring. Actually there were two alleged frauds. (Both boring!) The first one, which cost Legg Mason more than $10 million, is literally that employees hit the wrong button in their compliance database. In January 2007, Wamco bought for its clients $50 million worth of Glen Meadow, "a $500 million private placement that was designed to provide subordinated debt financing to the Hartford Insurance Group." The offering memorandum said that the securities could not be sold to Employee Retirement Income Security Act benefits plans, because there are rules about what sorts of things Erisa benefits plans can own, but those rules are too boring to discuss in polite company.1 Then this happened:
Glen Meadow was initially coded in WAM's automated compliance system as an asset-backed security that was non-ERISA eligible. On February 1, 2007, a portfolio compliance officer, following up on an exception report from an overnight compliance run, directed WAM's back office staff to change the security type from "asset-backed security" to "corporate debt." Charles River, however, had been configured so that slightly different fields appeared on screen depending on whether the security was designated asset-backed or corporate debt. Changing the designation of Glen Meadow from asset-backed to corporate debt resulted in Charles River automatically populating this field as ERISA eligible without any user input.
They filled out a database wrong because "slightly different fields appeared on screen." ("Charles River" is for some reason the name of the database.) I understand that financial fraud is having a big pop-cultural moment these days, what with the "Wolf of Wall Street" movie, and I'm hoping that Hollywood next turns its attention to this story. The riveting drama of a database automatically populating a field as Erisa-eligible without any user input sounds can't-miss to me.
Freed from Erisa constraints by mis-coding, they went and bought more Glen Meadow, ultimately putting more than $90 million of it into Erisa accounts. Finally, in October 2008, a former client told them about the error and Wamco sprung into action:
Initially, upon learning of the coding error, WAM compliance staff changed the ERISA field in Charles River from ERISA eligible to ERISA ineligible.
Good start!
Even though WAM had promptly identified the affected accounts, it did not immediately correct the error or notify clients. WAM's compliance staff instead completed an internal portfolio breach compliance report to document the issue reported by the Former Client.
Oh. Okay. You gotta be sure you know what happened before rushing to change things or alarming clients unnecessarily. Document the issue quickly, then fix it.
WAM then launched a three-month investigation into the matter.
Well that ... that is not especially quick. But when you finished investigating you told the clients?
Although WAM concluded there had been no guideline breaches or ERISA prohibited transaction affecting its clients, it realized that its ERISA clients might still be concerned. As a result, WAM explored selling the Glen Meadow position out of all ERISA accounts in February and March 2009. This effort met with little success.
Ehhhhh. Also "WAM did not notify its ERISA clients that it had erroneously purchased the Glen Meadow security for their accounts until August 2010, by which time WAM was aware of the SEC investigation."
Eventually they sold the stuff, in May and June 2009, at a loss to the clients of around $8 million, or around 10 percent.2 That loss, by the way, was caused by market moves, not coding errors: Prices for subordinated insurance debt that may or may not have been asset-backed looked rather different in 2007 and 2009. But, sure, if not for the coding error, Wamco's Erisa clients would have been in different, Erisa-eligible securities that would probably have lost just as much money? More? But more legally? I don't know.
Anyway, this violated some rules, and if you are really into Section 206(4) of the Advisers Act and Rule 206(4)-7 thereunder you can read all about them here, you sicko.
I'll move right along to the other SEC complaint, which was, they had some clients who had to sell some bonds, and they had other clients for whom they wanted to buy those same bonds:
Throughout the financial crisis, as Western's clients demanded account liquidations and as rating agency downgrades caused certain securities to be ineligible for certain of its client accounts, Western was required to sell non-agency mortgaged backed securities and similar assets into a sharply declining market. Believing that these securities represented good long-term investments for other clients, Western frequently sought to repurchase for those other clients the same securities it was required to sell.
But it looks weird if you do that without a price check: How do you decide what price the one client sells at and the other buys at? So Wamco dutifully went off and sold the bonds to independent dealers at whatever price the dealer bid, then bought them back for its buyer clients at whatever price the dealers offered:
In its dealings with most counterparties, the sale and the repurchase were separate arms-length transactions.
But sometimes apparently they weren't:
In its dealings with several other counterparty dealers, however, Western engaged in unlawful cross trades by entering into prearranged sale and repurchase transactions. Specifically, prior to the sale transactions, Western and the dealers' representatives formed an agreement or understanding that the dealer would purchase securities from Western's selling client account and then sell the same securities to Western's purchasing client account.
That's pretty easy work for the dealers, so they didn't get paid very much for doing it.3 The default approach in which "the sale and the repurchase were separate arms-length transactions" would mean that clients would in effect pay the full bid/offer spread just so that Wamco could blamelessly move bonds between their accounts. Instead, the clients paid only a tiny administrative spread. That was good for clients! It was just better for some clients than for others:
By avoiding exposing the cross traded securities to the market, Western saved market costs totaling approximately $12.4 million, but, because Western arranged to cross the securities at the bid price, it allocated the full benefit of these savings to its buying clients. As a result, Western deprived its affected selling clients of their share of the market savings, an amount totaling approximately $6.2 million.
Note that, if they'd just done arm's-length market transactions, those selling clients also would have sold at the bid, and would have been deprived of the $6.2 million just the same.
But what they did seems to have violated a bunch of rules. There is some mention of Section 17(a)(1) and 17(a)(2) of the Investment Company Act, and Sections 206(2) and (4) of the Advisers Act also trundle ominously into view. I cannot assure you that "rules thereunder" don't make an appearance. Again you are free to read the order if that's the sort of thing you're into, I will try not to judge.
You can go ahead and judge Wamco (which neither admits nor denies, you know the drill). They did bad, now they pay. Not a big deal, as these things go, but a $21 million deal anyway. You gotta type the right things into the right fields in your compliance database! That is definitely a thing. You gotta do your cross-trading in the right way, not the wrong way.4 If they messed up, they should fix it and pay off their clients and so forth.
But I guess it's worth saying a couple of other things. One is that the rules here are genuine client-protection rules, intended to keep investment advisers from deceiving their clients and self-dealing with client money. Another is that nothing that the SEC says Wamco did was intended to, or did, hurt clients: It (presumably) bought the Glen Meadow bonds for clients in good faith, didn't sell them in a dislocated market, and ended up selling them in a more normalized market -- at a loss, but at a loss not inconsistent with the experience of similarly junior ABS-ish insurance-industry bonds from 2007 to 2009, and in any case not caused by this Erisa nonsense. And doing the cross-trading wrong, as opposed to right, saved buying clients $12 million while costing selling clients roughly zero. (Doing it wrong, or right, in both cases involved selling at the bid; doing it right would also involve buying at the ask.)
That's not a reason not to enforce the law, of course. But you get a good sense of the sheer boring complexity of the law from these accusations. The cross-trading stuff is a series of traps, and the Erisa stuff ... I mean, there's a reason they have an outsourced database to keep track of what can be sold to which clients. The reason is that no human could keep track of it. And while, yes, in hindsight, in an SEC order, you look like a bunch of doofuses for doing a three-month investigation of how you hit the wrong button in a database, instead of just telling clients and fixing the problem, it's sort of understandable. Certainly I can't tell from the SEC order if any Erisa rules were violated, or if Wamco's clients were at risk for any terribleness (legal liability, rescission of trades -- which would've been a good thing, in the event, or zeroing out of their bonds) because they bought no-Erisa things in yes-Erisa accounts. Because it's complicated! It's no huge surprise that it took them three months.
People get pretty worked up about the complexity of financial regulation. Mostly I don't get it: You kind of need complicated regulations to regulate complicated things.5 But still, it's interesting to see that complexity in action here -- not in anything super high-stakes and dramatic and systematically important, but just in the guts of getting a big organization to comply with a set of rules that no single person could comprehend. You need to outsource your comprehension to computers, and then you need a three-month investigation to comprehend your computers. Wamco's efforts to figure out their compliance apparently made it harder for them to do the right thing for their clients. That's not exactly what you want out of your compliance program.
1 Even down here we'll talk in whispers and leave a lot to the imagination. The basic idea is that Erisa plans -- pensions, mostly -- have high fiduciary standards, and onerous related-party-transaction rules, designed to prevent administrators from ripping off beneficiaries. These standards apply to "plan assets," and the concept of "plan assets" looks through certain types of ownership. So you have duties not only with respect to the stocks and bonds you own, but also sometimes with respect to all the stuff owned by the companies whose stocks you own, and so forth. These rules are gray and unclear and can monkey with the underlying business, so lots of instruments just contain terms saying "no Erisa plan can own this stuff," to avoid problematic restrictions. Here is a law firm memo. Here are memos on asset-backed securities and Erisa. Here is one notorious private placement memo for an asset-backed thingy; note in particular the ALL-CAPS language on page 110, requiring purchasers of Issuer Notes to warrant that they are not Erisa plans and won't sell to Erisa plans.
2 They're paying $9.6 million of restitution for this bit, which "represents an approximation of the amount by which such clients were impacted as a result of the conduct set forth in this Order, plus reasonable interest." (Later the order breaks it down as $8.1 million of disgorgement and $1.5 million of interest.) There's also a $1 million civil money penalty. So $8.1 million on $90 million par is about 9 points of par, though I don't know what prices they bought at. (All of the $90 million was bought in the aftermarket, in 2007 and maybe 2008.)
3 "Western began engaging in prearranged cross transactions no later than January 2007, and it effected 88 cross transactions during 2007 with the dealers. Western executed the sale transactions at the highest current independent bid available for the securities, and executed the repurchase transactions at a small prearranged markup over the sale price. For example, in 2007, all but 1 of the 88 repurchases were effected at an identical markup over the sale price of just 0.03125% of the par value of the security, or, in bond parlance, a ½ 'tick.' In the eight-month period September 2009 through April 2010, Western caused its client accounts to engage in 108 prearranged sale and repurchase transactions, and 96% of these repurchases were effected at a 2 'tick' spread over the sale price. Western paid the markup to compensate the dealers for the administrative and other costs they incurred in connection with the transactions."
4 Seems like you can do cross trades without paying a broker if you do it at the mids. (See Rule 17a-7.) Why did Wamco pay a broker and do it at more or less the bid? I don't know. The rules for doing it internally at the mids are pretty annoying; I don't know if that played a role.
5 Or simple principles, but that's not really on offer.
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Granola is a culinary frenemy. On the one hand, it claims to be helping you out, providing fiber and other health benefits. Then it goes and makes you fat behind your back.
Now if, like me, you really like granola then this is a total bummer. The added problem is that as in other frenemy situations, I'm too much of a pushover to kick it out of my life for good. I needed to tweak granola to make it more honest to its "health food" status. This would involve cutting out the main offending ingredients, like vegetable oil and sugary add-ins. If I could also make it fall-friendly, then granola and I might just make amends.
The first step was to replace the vegetable oil, which is the typical binder for the oats. A mixture of unsweetened apple sauce and canned pumpkin did the trick. It provides enough moisture to hold the granola together, as well as a subtle autumn-fruit flavor. The second step was to replace sugar with maple syrup, which imbues the granola with a yummy maple flavor. Then, to add extra flavor without adding sugar, I liberally spiced the granola with cinnamon, allspice, nutmeg, and ginger. The last step was to consider my add-ins. Instead of sweetened coconut, cashews, or chocolate chips (yes, I've gone there) I used pumpkin seeds, almonds, dried unsweetened cranberries, raisins, and dried apples. This autumny mix is delicious, providing the right balance of crunchy, chewy, fruity, and nutty components.
Like most healthy versions of fatty foods, there are certain downsides to this granola. And because I don't want to be your frenemy, I feel I should note them here. First, in the absence of oil, the oats don't get super crispy and there are far fewer of those crunchy clusters. Second, this isn't very sweet, so if you think you like granola but really what you like is any sugary cereal, this mix isn't for you.
But back to what I love: This granola excels in milk, which for some reason really brings out the pumpkin flavor. The dried apples were an expected favorite, adding to this granola's classic "fall" taste that I'll want to eat all season.
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Here it is as promised: the report back from Sci Foo 2010.
When three information-powerhouses (Google, O'Reilly and Nature) convene a bunch of scientists and science-thinkers one of the immediate results is that even waiting on line becomes fun.
I barely boarded the bus taking campers from the hotel to the Googleplex before I had Tom Fuller of nextjump willingly introducing me to the world of internet-based rewards and loyalty programs – which, in turn got us talking about new ways Project Exploration can pull tools from for-profit and internet world and apply them to our youth programs.
This kind of "cross-sector mash-ups" (you have to have the lingo right if you are going to go to Google) is just the kind of thing conference organizers hope will happen. 2010 Sci Foo "Campers" were willing facilitators. Introductory lines at Sci Foo basically came in three forms – What do you do? What are you into? What are you working on? – and you'd never knew what the answer would be; I met filmmakers, writers, inventors, cosmologists, programmers, entreprenuers, chemists, science educators in the first evening alone.
The event kicked off Friday evening and raced through Sunday afternoon. We first got our photos taken, picked up a t-shirt and got our name tags and then it was off to dinner under a tent.
Within minutes of sitting down I found myself talking with toy maker Simon Quellen Field who, along with inventing, blogging and promoting science with household ingredients, follows Project Exploration's Twitter feed! With this auspicious beginning the weekend began.
(From left) Conference organizers Sara from Nature, Chris from Google, Tim from O'Reilly, the Gong, Timo from Nature and Cat from Google.
After dinner the 200+ Sci Foo Campers heard from conference organizers and received our first missive: "Come up with three words to introduce yourself." If you took too long you got the gong so I stuck with the instructions:
"Gabrielle Lyon, Project Exploration. Science. Education. Activist."
The second missive came from Google co-founder, Larry Page: "Ask yourself, 'Is what I'm doing going to change the world? If the answer is 'no' then maybe you should be doing something else."
Moments later there was a scramble to get to the boards. Oversized sticky-notes and large sharpie markers were put to work and within about 10 minutes a conference took shape. There were too many sessions to choose from and I went to more than it would be healthy to blog about so here are a few highlights….
Are there too many PhDs in science? This question has been roiling about in academic and policy circles, and, increasingly, more mainstream reporting. The answer depends on what you need them to do. If you need an academic there might be too many PhDs; if you need someone to interpret data but also effectively manage a team of people, work with interdisciplinary groups and communicate what they're doing there may not be enough qualified PhDs. Geoff Davis, a quantitative analyst at Google, brought an industry perspective to the conversation. He also founded Phds.org – a robust site that ranks PhD programs based on personal priorities, offers career resources and posts a job board for PhDs.
A session on Three Rules challenged three folks who really know their stuff to reduce it down to three basic rules. Molecular Engineer Eric Drexler offered guidelines for "How to understand everything." New York Times stringer and Discover blogger Carl Zimmer offered pointers for considering "How are you going to be understood." He directed participants to his "index of banned words in science writing." For example, finding yourself inclined to employ the word "utilize" vs. "use." Don't do it. Adventure sports enthusiast and theoretical physicist Garrett Lisi offered "Three Rules for Being a Mad Scientist" – which included… you guessed it… Rule Number 4, "Break the Rules."
In one of the most interesting sessions Peter Neufeld, co-founder of The Innocence Project, turned to the Sci Foo collective and posed some real life problems in search of feedback: how to be more effective and efficient at identifying cases in which innocent people have been wrongly convicted. Could data and analytic techniques at the heart of data-mining and marketing be put to use? The folks in the room seemed to think so.
Project Exploration in the HOUSE!
Paul and I spent a lot of the time talking about Project Exploration students and our personalized approach to making science accessible to students historically overlooked by science education efforts. People were sincerely curious about the obstacles that keep students like those in PE programs from getting involved with science. Paul presented a session on Galloping Crocs and I called a session to ask for help in coming up with a new, non-linear (non "pipeline" metaphor for science education.)
I've been working on this issue for a while and eventually I'll do a full-blown blog piece on it but here are the punch lines from the Sci Foo session. Tim O'Reilly, developmental psychologist and philosopher Allison Gopnik, and documentary filmmaker Noah Hutton were amongst the diverse group who spent an hour considering what a new metaphor needed to provide and some ideas:
- Smartgrid and network models would offer a way to think about science happening everywhere at diverse sites, but ultimately connected. It also offers a measurement rubric – you could measure the number of connections
- Sports and Dance offer models that includes apprenticeships, the idea that you can play right away (jump right in), along with the opportunity to professionalize
- Organic metaphors abounded – a tree with a branching structure; maybe we could do something with "crop yield;" and, finally, a "trellis and vine" – build the trellis and let the vine grow.
- A watershed would allow for directionality; an ecosystem or ecology would help us think about variables in many forms.
Regardless of their professions, some things were just cool for everybody – magnetized materials, Lego-contraptions and especially the liquid sky screens provided by Google for people to test drive. Clusters of physicists and programmers, bloggers and blasters, builders and thinkers all the campers were drawn in to the "immersion" map: a surround-screen version of Google maps where you could fly yourself to the moon, or ask for a ride from an experienced driver for a ride to someplace on Earth. Paul and I tried to find fossil sites in Niger's Sahara before zeroing in on Chicago's south side.
The group at Sci Foo – demographically speaking in terms of race, age, gender seemed pretty representative of science and technology at large – not many African Americans, Latinos or Native Americans and though more women than the group in 2007 certainly less than 50%.
One way to think about the work ahead of us at Project Exploration is to imagine SciFoo 2020 looking like the 2010 Junior Paleontologists… That's the work we've carved out to do.
And so, Larry Page, we're in the midst of considering, quite seriously and practically YOUR question to Sci Foo Campers: Project Exploration IS doing something that will change the world. And in a few years, our students just might change Sci Foo Camp, too.


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I am looking to buy an srt8... Are you owners happy with yours? I found a 12 down the road that seems to have my name on it...it is black...I'd prefer mineral gray but my magnum rt was mg and a change would be nice...
I am really asking about the overall performance, drive ability and experience....I can wait for the 14... If need be ....
I did notice at 80mph I was doing about 2700 rpm... Which is shockingly high for a modern car...
Thanks in advance for your feedback...
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well, i had the car since early Feb, it is amazing beautiful to drive
high burst of torque when shifting, i use it as my daily driving car
im so happy with it n cud never be dissapointed.
i do advise you to go ahead, the 2014 is all about rumors, so dont trust anything until u c with ur own eyes.
couple of users all over the internet got the 2014 photos, but until jeep releases it for sale the 2014 is not available. ( were in 2012 for godsake ! ) :p
as for the rest i think the car is a very very good car n its worth the money no matter what year it is.
this is my opinion, so i hope i actually gave u the information ur looking for.
do pm me if u have any concern.
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I love mine. It's a daily driver too.
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Thanks all, I pulled the trigger, and brought home a new srt8 today !...
I a so psyched....it is awesome....now to get over the 500 mile breakin...I am sure that won't take long....lol
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Congratulations! You made a wise choice. I feel the same way today as the day I got mine.
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:w00t: Congratulations!!! Post up some pics!!!
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i have not snapped a pic yet, but i did install 3m crytsalline film all around... this stuff is amazing, it cuts down the heat transmissions from the sun , unlike most window film that cuts down glare only... really amazing stufff, i have used it on my other vehicles and it makes a huge diffierence.... 70% on the windsheild and 45% on all other windows and sunroof
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yea, i couldnt wait...both for desire and circumstances....
thanks all for your feedback... i love it!
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I think we all know price is only going one way :)
I was just making the point that depending on the price the OP paid, he could be potentially just throwing away at least 10,000.
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sorry...Ive talked with the OP...were both buying 2012's because the price has come down into our range of affordability personally. I would much rather have a 2014...but dont wanna pay an extra $20k
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Anyone who's played photographer at family functions knows that, even if everyone stays perfectly still, there's always someone who blinks.
Here's an article explaining how many shots you need to take in order to (almost) guarantee you get one where no-one is blinking. Fortunately, someone has devised a formula:
The probability of one person not blinking 1 – xt. For two people it's (1 – xt).(1 – xt) and for a group of people it's (1 – xt)n, n being the number of people. This means (1 – xt)n is also the probability of a good photo. Therefore, the number of photos should be 1/(1 – xt)n.
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BANGOR — Samantha Jeanne Stearns Taber and Christopher Olaf Leonards were honored with a wedding reception Saturday, Oct 8, 2011, at the Bangor home of Linda Stearns and Thomas Bartlett. The couple were wed May 31 in Berlin, Germany, where they reside and study medicine at the Charite Hospital.
Ms. Taber is the daughter of Linda R. Stearns of Bangor and Peter S. Taber of Searsport, and Mr. Leonards is the son of Kathryn N. Leonards of Wilton and Jeffery T. Leonards, Ph.D., of Wilton. She is also the granddaughter of Ruth G. Stearns of Hampden and the late Louis C. Stearns, and the late Robert and Jeanne Taber. Mr. Leonards' grandparents are Irene and Robert Naess of Rochester, N.H., and Barbara B. Leonards of Berwyn, Pa., and the late Thomas C. Leonards Jr.
A graduate of John Bapst High School in Bangor, Ms. Taber completed her Bachelor of Arts degree in history at Princeton University in Princeton, N.J., in 2004. Mr. Leonards graduated from Gould Academy in Bethel and Bates College in Lewiston, where he majored in neuroscience and was an NCAA Division I Nordic ski competitor.
The couple will visit in the Bangor and Farmington area until their return to Berlin in late October to finish their studies.


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Kylie Minogue has today revealed that she will release her 12th studio album in 2013.
Minogue has been recording new material for the album at the Abbey Road Studios. In an interview with Metro, the singer said of the recording so far: "I have started on new music. It should be ready for 2013."
Minogue has felt a special connection with the studios due to its history with The Beatles: "I thought, 'How much difference can a studio make?' but it is a beautiful studio. The sound is just gorgeous - you know you are on hallowed ground."
The Australian singer also teased big-name guests for 'Aphrodite' follow-up that would be "really exciting and different".
Minogue's 2001 single 'Can't Get You Out Of My Head' was named as the most-played song of the last 10 years.
Minogue will release a greatest hits compilation in 2012 to coincide with her 25th year as a recording artist. The compilation will be titled, appropriately enough, 'K25'.


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I bought my WRX in October of last year. It's a 2002, Silver wagon.
This is actually my 4th Subaru now.
My first one was a 91Justy, then a 97 Impreza, 92 SVX (Still have currently) and now my 2002.
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A conceptual case-based decision model for mitigating construction delays
Ng, S. Thomas, Deng, Michael Z.M., Lam, Ka Chi, & Skitmore, Martin (2000) A conceptual case-based decision model for mitigating construction delays. International Journal of Construction Information Technology, 8(2), pp. 1-20.
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A common method of recovering a delayed construction programme is by schedule compression through activity crashing. To be of practical benefit, however, the cost-effectiveness of crashing any of the remaining construction activities needs be examined before a decision is reached. Although the likely cost and productivity effects of crashing can be calculated using standard estimating techniques, the actual time-cost relationship may be affected by a number of external factors, and the experience and judgement of planners is needed to take this into account in selecting activities to crash. Case-based reasoning (CBR) is regarded as a suitable decision approach for capturing and reusing experience of this kind and the aim of this paper is to examine whether CBR could be applied to modelling the delay mitigation (DM) domain. The process of DM is first examined. A conceptual framework and rapid prototype is then developed based on the CBR approach.
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Installing new bathroom faucet
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I am installing a new bathroom faucet.
Now I am istalling the valve body. The instruction say to make sure that the Valve Stems are set in the CLOSED Position. How do I do this?
I have attached that portion of the directions.
Sorry I had to put it sideways to make it big enough to see and meet the reqs for upload.
Thanks for your assistance
Cathy H
Turn the valves all the way to the right.
Are the valves label with a hot(H) and cold(C)?
Just slide the handle on valve temporarily and turn it clockwise til it stops.
Just as if it were already installed and you were turning the water off.
That way you know how to position the valve when you tighten it up from under the sink so that the handles look normal when your done.
Then you can reposition the handles after the valve is installed on the sink so they look right.
Thank you, I turned them all the way to the right.
Yes, the hot is marked with red tape underneath, and I am putting it on the left.
Thanks Sammy
That makes good sense. I'm off to the races now!
Woo Hoo!
Good luck!
Well I guess I shouldn't have been watching football today and having you guys misinforming the lady...looks to me like lever handles and the cold will close in the opposite way (counter clockwise)
Only some brands allow you to reposition the handle after tightening the stems down, only stems with splines would work to my knowledge and then still may be a little off
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In the early 1920s, people looking to buy a car or truck had to pay cash or secure their own financing from banks that didn't typically issue loans for automobiles. We made it convenient for customers to get financing right at the dealership. During the Great Depression, car manufactures began segmenting vehicles by cost, from low-price to luxury models. We introduced this pricing concept to the public with our slogan "A car for every purse and purpose."
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Americans' love for cars was on the rise during the golden years of automobile design. With our slogan, ''Enjoy financing where you buy,'' more people took advantage of getting the car they wanted and the financing they needed at the same place. In 1956 we introduced "Buying cars on time" with our Time Payment Plan and gave over 2 million customers more options to finance a vehicle with a payment plan that fit their budget.
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DETROIT: Manager Manny Acta has been incrementally revealing his plans for the Indians' rotation in September. Today he gave a few more clues.
He intends to have some form of a six-man rotation, which would enable him to look at Carlos Carrasco, who is 10-5 with a 3.71 earned-run average at Columbus.
""Justin Masterson will probably meet his innings requirements by the second week of September,'' Acta said this morning. ""We want to limit him to about 180 innings, but he doesn't have to get every single one of them. If we bring up a starter, Masterson could finish his innings out of the bullpen.''
Masterson has thrown 145 1/3 innings so far and will get three more starts before the second week of September, which probably will bring his total number of innings close to 165.
David Huff presumably might be a candidate for September promotion, but Tribe officials, including Acta, are not high on him. when asked about Huff, the manager said, ""Yes, he's down there, too.''
Acta said three relievers might be summoned from Triple-A (possibly Josh Judy, Jensen Lewis and Bryce Stowell), as well as outfielder Jordan Brown.


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Lennox blower drawing too much current on starting
Good morning and Happy new year to everybody....
My problem is the following : i have a Lennox elite serie 2003 oil furnace (a big one 140000btu,I think) which is causing me headaches:
After 1 and half year use ,the relays under the control board started to desolder in the blower fan circuit .The fan was set at high speed because the house is big...
After resoldering them correctly the blower works fine till now.....
Same thing,relays need to be resolder but also the wires which plugs for the blower fan get burned....
After fixing this,i get the following result : difficulty to start the blower (take like 6 or 7 seconds to reach its speed). During this,high starting current of course !! After it starts,current is 6,4A. I check the capacitor it seems alright and test around 6 microfarads.
Is this value OK. For now i set the fan continuously ON operation and medium speed....
I am vrey anxious about this because we have very cold weather at this time.
Unhappily i cannot find a model or serial number. The motor fan is direct drive but also i cannot read the nameplate.
Assistance would be greatly appreciate.Thanks in advance
Check starting rotor amps. If its over 10 or higher amps motor winding are going.
what is a starting rotor amp......:(
What's the rating printed on that capacitor? Six isn't sounding right for a 3/4 or 1 HP motor.
the motor should also have what capacitor is required stamped on it as well......:no:
Thanks to everybody who answered me....The value on the capacitor is erased and nothing written on the motor...
The lennox oil furnace is elite and model 023Q5-140/154R-5A
I dont have any contact at Lennox, so if somebody could tell me the right value of the capacitor and the motor,or who to call at lennox or a way to obtain this informations, or a internet website lennox parts,etc,....it would be very helpfull
Huge thanks
6 microfarads is not a common capacitor here...... what is the motors h.p.
the cap needed is stamped on the tag on the motor probably a 15 or 20 as lennox uses big caps on blwers
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Yesterday we saw the the best player available at this years trade deadline (maybe still the best player in the NHL when healthy) traded to Nashville and many people are now anointing the Predators as the Stanley Cup favourites. I am not ready to do that yet as the Predators are still a significantly inexperienced team and good defense and goaltending can more often than not defeat a good offense. But this should help the Predators but if I was Nashville I'd go for broke this year and try to add more experience to their 3rd and 4th lines.
But enough about the Predators. I wanted to take a look at a some of the other players that might get dealt between now and the trade deadline.
Bill Guerin: Guerin might be the best goal scorer available at this years trade deadline. He leads the Blues in goals and points and is second on the team in +/-. He also had 96 games of playoff experience including a Cup win in New Jersey in 1994-95. Any team looking to add a top goal scorer with some toughness Guerin would be a great guy to get. Vancouver comes to mind or a return to the Devils but he'd also be a good fit in Toronto to be a winger for Mats Sundin as well. Ottawa has been rumoured to be interested as well but I suspect the Senators will settle for a lesser player as Muckler has proven to be a but gun shy in the past (see settling for Arnason).
Keith Tkachuk: Used to be one of the best power forwards in the NHL an could still be if he had a bit better work ethic. Despite that he is still a decent player and can help a team in need of a goal scorer.
Martin Gelinas: Everyone thinks the player to get from the Panthers is Gary Roberts and certainly he is a guy who can help anyone but I personally think that Martin Gelinas might be a better pick up. First he is younger and healthier than Roberts. Second, he is a role player who is happy in a secondary role and not a dominant personality that could potentially upset the dressing room. Third, he has good speed and can play at both ends of the rink. He has 10 goals and is second on the Panthers in +/- trailing only Bouwmeester. Last year he had 17 goals and led the Panthers in +/- by a whopping margin of +27 to second place Van Ryn's +15. Finally he has oodles of playoff experience and playoff success. He won the Cup with Edmonton in 1989-90 and helped his team to the Cup finals on 3 other occassions. He was a key cog in Calgary's playoff run in 2004 and his 147 playoff games are more than that of Peter Forsberg, Gary Roberts and probably anyone else available at the trade deadline. If I were a GM looking to make a playoff run this is the guy I would get.
Gary Roberts: The other prize in Florida is Gary Roberts. What Roberts would bring to a team is a hard work ethic, significant playoff experience and a never quit attitude. He'll fight through injuries and that makes him a good lead by example leader. The only downside on Roberts is also a strong personality and if he joins your team and tries to become a vocal leader it may rub some of the previous leaders of the dressing room the wrong way. Rumor is Roberts wants to go to a team close to his off season home in Toronto. Toronto and Ottawa are high possibilities while Detroit and Buffalo are possible too.
Fredrik Modin: Modin might be considered a poor man's Gary Roberts. He is big and strong and can play the physical game like Roberts, just not with quite as much passion or enthusiasm and consistency. He not the speediest of players but won't hurt you defensively either. He'd be a great guy to plug into a second line winger role or third line on a deep team. Rumours are that the Leafs have some interest in bringing him back.
Bryan Smolinski: I really like Smolinski and I think the Senators have missed his presence a bit this year. I think he is the perfect kind of player to add at a trade deadline because he not only has 99 playoff games experience but he is highly versatile. He can play at center or on either wing. He can play a bit in a secondary offensive role or in a defensive role. I just think he is a guy you could plug into your team relatively seemlessly which I think is ultra important in any trade deadline deal.
Marco Sturm: Personally, I'd avoid this guy as it will probably cost you more than I think he will provide in return but he could help a team in need of some secondary scoring.
Aaron Miller: For defensemen available I would rate Aaron Miller quite high for many of the same reasons as Gelinas. At this point in his career he is happy being a #4/5 type defenseman. He knows his role and he does it well. He'll chip in a bit offensively but is more of a defensive defenseman now. He also has 80 playoff games under his belt so would bring some needed experience to many of the younge rteams out there. For teams looking to add some defense depth he'd be a great guy to look at. He'd be a great pickup for a team like Anaheim who has a great top pairing of defensemen but is a bit lacking in quality experienced depth. San Jose is another option.
Brent Sopel: For teams looking for more of a power play quarterback Brent Sopel is a guy to look at as he has one of the better shots in the NHL.
Eric Brewer: Quality #3 type defenseman who can help out at both ends of the rink. Has very limited playoff experience but helped Team Canada win the 2002 Olympic gold medal. His career has kind of stagnated since then though. Rumours have been that the Oilers are interested in bringing Brewer back but I think the Blues end up re-signing him instead of dealing him.
Bryan Berard: A power play quarterback like Sopel but much less reliable defensively. I wouldn't trade for him unless you are desperate for an offensive defenseman.
Nick Boynton: Boynton is more of a defensive defenseman who will play a physical game. He's a good second paring kind of player. Not a rental player since he still has a couple years left on his contract at nearly $3 million. Not sure if the Coyotes will trade him or if another team is willing to take on that contract but the number of defensemen available is somewhat limited so that makes guys like Boynton a possibility.
Adrian Aucoin: In a similar position to Boynton. Aucoin has a couple years left on his contract at $4 million and sits somewhere between a deadline acquisition and a salary dump by the Blackhawks. Rumours have been of a Samsonov for Aucoin swap but that might depend on whether Montreal decides to trade on of their soon to be UFA defensemen.
Jassen Cullimore: As far as depth defensemen go, Cullimore might be the best. he certainly isn't going to be a top 4 guy but he has great size, is a good skater, and was a part of the 2003-04 Tampa team.
I am not sure there is a big market for goaltenders this year, either those selling or those buying. Tampa might be looking for some help in net but I am not sure any of the other playoff teams are desperate for goaltending help. On the selling side, Belfour might be available from Florida and Buffalo might use Biron as trade bait so long as Biron is willing to sign a contract with the team he is traded to. Ottawa would be happy to find a taker for Gerber's contract and then go and pick up a back up elsewhere but I am not sure they will find any takers.
I am probably missing a lot of players so feel free to add to the list by posting a comment.


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