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A winter after grabbing headlines with franchise makeovers that turned into summer disappointments, the front offices in Kansas City, Toronto and Anaheim have taken a low-key approach to this offseason.
The teams are looking to patch holes, but there is no sense of urgency to rearrange the roster this time around.
A winter after grabbing headlines with franchise makeovers that turned into summer disappointments, the front offices in Kansas City, Toronto and Anaheim have taken a low-key approach to this offseason.
The teams are looking to patch holes, but there is no sense of urgency to rearrange the roster this time around.
"Your needs vary year to year," said Blue Jays general manager Alex Anthopoulos. "Everyone is trying to get things done, but your needs vary from year to year."
The needs for the Royals, Blue Jays and Angels are not as major this year as they were a year ago. There can be a value to allowing things to settle down and not constantly undertaking a roster makeover.
And there's plenty for those teams to have to settle down from a year ago.
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The Blue Jays brought in manager John Gibbons, signed free-agent outfielder Melky Cabrera and infielder Maicer Izturis, and swung two major deals that included the addition of starting pitchers R.A. Dickey, Mark Buehrle and Josh Johnson, and shortstop Jose Reyes.
The Angels, a year after signing free agent Albert Pujols and trading for catcher Chris Iannetta, not only signed free-agent outfielder Josh Hamilton, but they overhauled their rotation by signing free agents C.J. Wilson and Joe Blanton, and trading for Jason Vargas and Tommy Hanson.
The Royals underwent a major rotation restructuring that began with the July 20, 2012, acquisition of right-hander Jeremy Guthrie from Colorado, and included acquiring Ervin Santana from the Angels, and then a trade that marked a major change in direction for a team built off home-grown products. Kansas City landed veteran starters James Shields and Wade Davis from Tampa Bay for a prospect package that included outfielder Wil Myers, the 2013 AL Rookie of the Year Award winner, and pitching prospects Jake Odorizzi, a right-hander, and Mike Montgomery, a left-hander.
This offseason?
Well, the Angels know they have some work to do. It just won't be as headline-catching this time around. They have spent the past four Octobers at home, watching baseball's postseason after an eight-year stretch in which they won five division titles and as the American League Wild Card in 2002 claimed the only World Series championship in franchise history.
The Halos have filled a third-base need and addressed bullpen depth by trading outfielders Peter Bourjos and Randal Grichuk to St. Louis for third baseman David Freese and right-hander Fernando Salas.
"This year, what we do address will be with trades, rather than the [free-agent] route," said Angels general manager Jerry Dipoto.
The Royals did find a left-handed look for the rotation, signing free agent Vargas after his one year with the Angels. Vargas is only 51-58 in his big league career, but he has pitched 190-plus innings three of the past four seasons. He filled a back-of-the-rotation need and fit the Royals' budget.
"Winning negotiations for a top free agent is never going to be a way of existence for us," said general manager Dayton Moore.
The Blue Jays? Well, they are kicking tires.
"It's not a lack of trying," said Anthopoulos.
The activity so far was a reported agreement to terms with free-agent catcher Dioner Navarro, which led to the Jays non-tendering J.P. Arencibia on Monday night after they were unable to trade him to another team. But then the Blue Jays don't have as many needs this winter.
Yes, last season went wrong for the Blue Jays, who finished in last place in the AL East for the third time since 1981. However, they also have to be realistic in what went wrong this year, which included season-shortening injuries to J.A. Happ, Johnson and Brandon Morrow. The three combined to make only 44 starts and work only 228 1/3 innings.
Only three of the nine position players appeared in 120 games, including Cabrera, who was limited to 88 games, and Reyes, who appeared in 93 games.
"Some things didn't go as planned," admitted Anthopoulos. "Having 67 percent of your rotation on the shelf is not part of the expectation. And when you lose key position players, it's not just the offense, but the defense that is impacted."
Things didn't go as planned for the Royals either, but they had a more tangible sign of hope than the Blue Jays. Kansas City finished third in the AL Central, behind Detroit and Cleveland, but it went 88-76, giving the Royals their second winning season in 19 years.
"We had the best record in the American League in the second half of last season," said Moore of the Royals' 43-27 second-half surge. "What's that mean? It means we played well for 2 1/2 months. There's no prize for that."
Going 8-20 in May "was a disaster," added Moore. "We did rebound from that. We did play well in the second half. We have to play better than everyone else for 162 games, not nine or 10 weeks."
The Royals, like the Blue Jays and Angels, feel they have the foundation to play better in 2014 than they did a year ago without having to undergo a major offseason makeover this time around.
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But even though a year has passed since the July 6 disaster, the emotional scars still run deep in the Quebec town, just like the physical damage apparent on the local landscape.
This weekend, townsfolk are paying homage to the 47 people who died when a runaway train hauling crude oil crashed and exploded — turning their downtown core into an inferno.
The centre of the community remains off-limits behind metal fences, in a zone where work crews continue decontamination efforts and a giant crater has replaced buildings destroyed in the disaster.
"One year has already passed since this terrible tragedy," Mayor Colette Roy Laroche told more than 100 citizens who attended a ceremony Saturday to release 5,000 young trout into the lake that shares the town's name.
The event symbolized the resilience and recovery of the lake, which was contaminated with crude oil that spewed from the smashed rail cars.
"For all of us, life has changed, it will never be the same," Roy Laroche said. "The heart of our little peaceful town was truly, literally wounded."
Children laughed as they helped wild life officials scoop fish out of nets and slip them into the lake.
But as the collective healing process moves forward, many in town say that terrible emotional wounds have yet to heal for some.
The pain remains so raw in this community that many people said they planned to avoid the anniversary ceremonies, which include church services, concerts, social events and a 47-minute candlelight walk.
The commemorations will be highlighted Sunday by a Roman Catholic mass at the local church.
Louisette Nadeau, who attended a flower-planting ceremony near the railroad Saturday, doubts her daughter, who narrowly escaped the explosions, will be able to find the strength to participate in any of the activities.
Nadeau said her daughter Nathalie had just left the Musi-Cafe bar, where dozens died after the derailment, when the train exploded.
She said the first blast knocked Nathalie off her feet and the intense heat of the fireball inflicted second-degree burns on her arm. Then, the massive flames rushed toward her.
"Luckily, her spouse lifted her up off the ground ... because if not she probably would have burned right there," said Nadeau, whose daughter lost many friends that night.
"It's been a year, but it's like it happened yesterday. She's having a very hard time dealing with this . . .
"She always says, 'Why me? Why not them?' "
Nadeau said she took part in the ceremony to help give strength to those who lost loved ones. She fears, however, that the town may never be the same.
"I hope that one day life will be different," Nadeau, a resident of Lac-Megantic for 30 years, said as she struggled to hold back tears.
"We try to move on, but it's impossible."
Later Saturday, hundreds of people released 460 butterflies at another event near the crash site.
Children giggled as some butterflies refused to immediately leave their fingertips. The moment brought smiles to hundreds of faces.
A midnight mass followed by the candlelight march were to complete Saturday's activities.
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Luc Cyr, the archbishop of Sherbrooke, said the region's parishes have been asked to observe a moment of silence for Lac-Megantic.
"The people in Lac-Megantic are not alone," he said. "We are there and we will be for a long time."
Linda Gendreau, a Lac-Megantic resident who watched as children helped release trout into the lake Saturday, said the community has yet to break free from the grip of the catastrophe.
She said the commemorative events are important steps in the town's recovery.
"It's an intense life moment that we're living through in Lac-Megantic," said Gendreau, who lost a work colleague in the disaster and several acquaintances.
"We are very much in the presence of the consequences of the tragedy, so it's a process."
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Stampeders edge Roughriders in wild West semifinal
Calgary moves on to division final against B.C. Lions
Quarterback Drew Tate recovered from getting his "bell rung" to marshall the Calgary Stampeders to their first CFL playoff win over the Saskatchewan Roughriders since 1994.
Calgary's 36-30 victory over Saskatchewan in Sunday's West Division semifinal propels the Stampeders to the division final against the B.C. Lions. The victor in Vancouver next Sunday advances to the Grey Cup Nov. 25 in Toronto.
Tate hit Romby Bryant on a 68-yard touchdown pass with 20 seconds remaining in the semifinal. A two-point convert attempt failed, Stampeder kicker Rene Paredes booted the subsequent kickoff 90 yards and the visitors conceded a single point.
"I knew no one was going to catch him," Tate said. "I was just hoping the ball was going to be a good ball."
The Roughriders had taken a 30-29 lead just 32 seconds before Bryant's heroics on a Darian Durant 24-yard throw to Gregg Carr.
Tate says he didn't remember much after taking a late helmet-to-helmet hit from Saskatchewan's Tearrius George early in the second quarter.
"I don't even remember the first half," Tate said. "I got my bell rung. All I remember is the second half."
Tate rose to his feet slowly after the George hit. He was flattened later on the same drive by Shomari Williams, who was called for roughing the passer as George was.
Calgary's starting quarterback remained in the game and completed 22 of 36 pass attempts for 363 yards and two touchdown throws.
In his post-game comments, Stampeder coach and general manager John Hufnagel said he unaware of Tate's mental state after the George hit. Tate insisted after the game that he wasn't concussed.
In the East Division, the Toronto Argonauts head to Montreal and meet the Alouettes in the division final Sunday. The Argos were 42-26 winners over the Edmonton Eskimos in the semifinal.
Calgary receiver Jabari Arthur scored his first career playoff touchdown and Calgary third-string quarterback Bo Levi Mitchell finished short-yardage plays for a pair of touchdowns. Paredes was good on attempts from 50 and 40 yards.
Stampeder running back Jon Cornish, a finalist for the CFL's most outstanding player award, finished with 109 rushing yards on 18 carries.
'Phenomenal game'
Kory Sheets and Carr each collected a pair of touchdown catches and Sandro DeAngelis added a field goal for the Roughriders.
Saskatchewan's Durant was 24-for-37 for 435 yards, four touchdown throws and two interceptions.
"Darian had a phenomenal game," Saskatchewan head coach Corey Chamblin said. "He gave us a chance to win that game.
"At the end we just had a defensive breakdown. We handed it away and that should never happen."
Saskatchewan was a post-season stumbling block for the Stampeders in recent years, with four playoff wins over Calgary in five seasons between 2006 and 2010, and another back in 1997.
"If they were banking on history, they had another thing coming," Calgary defensive back Keon Raymond said. "It also feels good because out here, they beat us in 2009 and 2010. I was a part of that team and it's heartbreaking.
"It's always good to know we can win against them at home. If we can get that monkey off our back, try and make a run, that's who you want to go through."
It was looking like another Roughrider post-season win at McMahon Stadium until Tate aired the ball out to Bryant.
The temperature at kickoff at McMahon was -2 C. Attendance was announced at 30,027.
The first and second halves ended with bunches of points — 14 with 52 seconds remaining in the second and 13 with 12 seconds to go in the first.
In the wild conclusion to the first half, Calgary's Fred Bennett ran 96 yards back for a rare defensive two-point convert after Raymond blocked a Saskatchewan convert attempt. A 50-yard field goal from Paredes on the last play of the half gave the hosts a 19-16 lead.
Hufnagel announced earlier in the week that Tate would be his playoff starter, even though the Baytown, Texas, quarterback was sidelined 14 regular-season games with a shoulder dislocation and subsequent surgery on his non-throwing arm.
Foggy mental state
Backup Kevin Glenn went 9-5 in Tate's absence. Hufnagel went with Tate because of his athleticism.
Despite his foggy mental state, he scrambled out of trouble to make plays, including a 17-yard pass to Maurice Price in the third quarter when Tate was surrounded by green and white jerseys.
The University of Iowa product went 5-for-5 in passing for 68 yards on that scoring drive in the third quarter to make it 26-16.
"He managed the game well," Hufnagel said. "You saw some things he can do, making some plays out of nothing. We all need to play better that week and Drew is one of them."
Calgary won some tight games this season en route to a 12-6 record and second in the division. Three ended with the opposition missing field goals on the last play. The Stampeders won another in overtime in Regina.
"How many games have we won within the last minute, clutch field goals and things like that?" Raymond asked. "That's the kind of team we are. A team of character.
"If there's time on the clock, we still have an opportunity and we showed that tonight."
The Roughrider season was one of high highs and low lows. They opened this season 3-0, lost five in a row, went 5-1 and then finished on a four-game losing streak to finish 8-10.
"It's a young team. We have to come back stronger next year," Chamblin said. "Sometimes those lessons turn you into a veteran team."


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Madison Cortland ARC guardianship forum Monday
ONEIDA -- Madison Cortland ARC will be hosting a guardianship forum concerning people with intellectual and other developmental disabilities on Monday, Oct. 29 from 5-7 p.m. at 701 Lenox Ave.
The forum will be presented by Karen Stace and Aaron Hammond, guardianship coordinators at Madison Cortland ARC.
The presentation will run through the 17-A Legal Guardianship process start to finish. Discussion will occur on what makes a good guardian, who is appropriate for guardianship, and what are standby and alternate standby guardians.
This training will be helpful for families who want to pursue legal guardianship of their family member who has an intellectual or other developmental disabilities and who is about to turn 18 or is over the age of 18.
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Time for some airplane porn: Lockheed Martin has completed high angle of attack testing for the F-35A Lightning II. The aircraft was able to get to its 50 degree limit with ease:
F-35A test aircraft are limited to AOAs of 20 degrees until their controllability is proven at a higher AOA limit of 50 degrees. The ability to rapidly progress to the maximum AOA indicates a sound aerodynamic and flight control system design. High AOA testing will continue on the F-35A for several months testing the capabilities of all design loadings and the flight control system.
Being able to fly at a high angle of attack increases the airplane's maneuvering abilities, which is crucial for dog fighting. One extreme example is the cobra maneuver (also known as Pugachev's Cobra), in which the plane suddenly lifts its nose up while maintaining altitude. This reduces its speed considerably, which could make a pursuing enemy to overshoot, giving the pilot a window of opportunity to fire at it.


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Dark Horse has partnered with HBO Global Licensing to provide the Game of Thrones audience with a line of collectibles from the hit series. Building on a collection of highly anticipated figures, three new Game of Thrones characters are making their worldwide debut this week: Tyrion Lannister, Ned Stark, and Khal Drogo.
After public display at New York Comic Con, all three will appear in Diamond's Previews catalog later this month for retailer and collector advance orders. They join the already-solicited figures of Jon Snow and Daenerys Targaryen, unveiled this summer at Comic-Con International: San Diego, in Dark Horse's growing Game of Thrones figure line. The non-articulated figures measure from 6.25 to 8.75 inches in height and are based on the likenesses of the respective actors, all of whom have approved the sculptures. The paint application reproduces the nuances of each character's overall appearance.
The figures will be presented in deluxe window-box packaging, further underscoring the aesthetic of the HBO series with their graphic design. These figures arrive on shelves in April.


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Good News From Yahoo Webmail Services….
Accessing Yahoo email via their webmail portal has always been a somewhat insecure affair. This was because while logging on to Yahoo was always SSL encrypted there was no encryption for actually accessing your emails in the browser. This left sessions vulnerable to potential snooping attacks and perhaps worse, especially if the user was accessing it from a public Wi-Fi hotspot. However, users on Google's or Microsoft's email services had no such problems, because those sessions have been SSL protected for a long time.
However, full SSL protection has now finally been implemented by Yahoo, so to turn it on, simply tick the option "Turn on SSL" in the General settings. Instructions for how to go about this are provided by Yahoo, here.


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The New York Police Department's self-professed "car geek" usually spends his days tracking stolen vehicles and the occasional carjacking, but his skills at identifying models based on a hubcap led to the arrest of an 8-year-old's killer.
Earlier this month, NYPD Det. Tom Burke was called in as police were searching for Leiby Kletzky, an 8-year-old Brooklyn boy who went missing as he was walking home from school. Police had few leads, but they did have grainy video of a tan-colored car they suspected was driven by Kletzky's abductor.
According to the New York Daily News, it took Burke just seconds to narrow down the possible models via the hubcap and a few more minutes to figure out what street patrols needed to look for: a gold 1990 Honda Accord sedan. Forty-five minutes later, police spotted that model outside the home of Levi Aron. Kletzky was already dead, and Aron has been charged with his murder and abduction.


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What is the physics behind a normal human jump ?
when a normal human wants to jump.
- First, some energy is stored in their thighs and The elastic tendons Just like a spring. In mechanics and physics, Hooke's law of elasticity is an approximation that states that the extension of a spring is in direct proportion with the load applied to it. Many materials obey this law as long as the load does not exceed the material's elastic limit
$$F=-k.x$$ where x is the displacement of the spring's end from its equilibrium position (a distance, in SI units: metres); F is the restoring force exerted by the spring on that end (in SI units: N or kg·m/s^2); and k is a constant called the rate or spring constant (in SI units: N/ m
what is human rate constant k?


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State of Alaska,Dept. of Health & Social Services,Finance & Management ServicesInformation Technology Services 350 Main Street, Room #19 P.O. Box 110650 Juneau, AK 99811-0650
Telephone(907) 465-8200Toll free:(888) 484-5763Fax:(907) 465-8150
Telephone:(907) 269-3444Fax:(907) 561-0141
Telephone:(907) 451-3125
Mission: The mission of ITS is to provide reliable and stable technology platforms in support of the Department's service delivery programs in as cost-effective and efficient a manner as possible.
Structure: Information Technology Services (ITS) is a department-wide service organization that provides computing and communication resources in support of the mission of the Department of Health and Social Services.
ITS maintains complex information systems to support the department's administrative and programmatic activities and offers a variety of technology support services to assist department staff and stakeholders in using resources and services that ITS is responsible for providing.
ITS provides a broad computing, communication and network infrastructure, supports enterprise-level software, and offers a range of technology support services for department offices throughout Alaska.
Information Technology Services Manager: Scott McCutcheon
Security Office: DHSS has designated the Department Security Office (DSO) as the single point of authority responsible for establishing the Information Security Management System including information security strategy, policies, controls, and implementing standards and procedures in support of those policies. The DSO coordinates risk assessment, training, and awareness activities, as well as auditing and monitoring information security and legal compliance
Chief Security Officer Thor Ryan
Business Applications: This group is responsible for maintaining the current HSS applications portfolio. Business Applications works closely with all HSS divisions and program offices to ensure that system changes meet customer business needs. BA receives requests from customers that may result in changes and additions to existing systems or initiation of a new development or acquisition. Support is also provided for end-user application development and related requirements.
Business Applications Manager: Rob Johnson
Customer Services: The Customer Service group is the primary interface to HSS employees, partners, and other customers. The group includes the Help Desk and the Desktop Support Technicians who receive and resolve customer issues. It also serves an information triage function: customer inquiries not resolved by the Help Desk are routed to appropriate resources and then tracked to ensure complete resolution.
Customer Services Manager: Myria Shakespeare
Network Services: Network Services is responsible for managing the hardware and software that make up the major computing devices and network infrastructure for the Department, including IT inventory and tracking. The NS group is also responsible for ensuring that HSS employees and partners have the connectivity between computing devices needed to complete daily work.
Network Services Manager: Vacant
Strategic Planning: The ITS Strategic Planning Office collaborates and coordinates with the various ITS units and Department Divisions to oversee the Department IT Portfolio and IT planning and prioritization. This office includes the IT Project Management Office (PMO) to provide mentoring to Department IT Project Managers and to ensure optimal and relevant project management best practices and that project progress reporting is being adhered to. The Strategic Planning office also includes the coordination, collaboration, planning, and monitoring of IT initiatives; and the administration of IT Quality Assurance.
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You know how birds perch on powerlines without getting electrocuted? What if by some chance that I find myself falling and I grab on one of them? Let's say both of my hands are on the same line, would i get electrocuted?
I am thinking I won't because the current won't rush through me and I won't be part of the circuit - me - powerline.
How does the ground play a role in this? I've heard people say that the ground creates a potential difference, but how? There is only voltage across the powerlines, the pole connecting to the ground is wood, an insulator?


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Events Calendar
Bounce It Out with SAB
Remember back to the good old days when you bounced around and played games in an inflatable bouncer? Well, welcome back to your childhood!
Date: April 7, 2019 - April 7, 2019
Time: 3 p.m. - 5 p.m.
Location: Growney Stadium (Rain Location is Fieldhouse)
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Actor Michael Nouri has been arrested on suspicion of domestic violence.
Police responded to an emergency call from a residence in Beverly Hills where they were told a verbal altercation between the "Flashdance" star and his girlfriend had become physical.
Nouri was arrested on the spot, according to showbiz news website TMZ.com.
He was held on a $50,000 bond and was released in the early hours of Friday morning.


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View Love Story Collection here.
When purchasing you will be prompted for your invitation text at checkout (alternatively, you can email firstname.lastname@example.com).
Note: All text can be changed to your wording. We will adjust the layout accordingly. Our content is purely illustrative.
If you would like to order a sample, you can do so here.
What happens next? We will enter your text into the design and email you a digital proof. Once you have reviewed and we have made any minor changes, we start the printing process and package and post to you.
Please check spelling and grammar carefully before submitting your content.
Main invitation: A5 (148 x 210mm/ 5.83 x 8.23inches)
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Why have you been directed to this page?
What documents require to be certified for each person mentioned on the remortgage offer?
Instructions for the person certifying the ID
Frequently Answered Questions for Brokers
I have already dealt with ID requirements for my customers, the borrowers. Why is this required at this stage?
I have recently introduced a remortgage to the same lender but these requirements were not identified previously by you or other solicitors on the lender panel. Why is this?
I have already carried out ID but I notice that sometimes that is not included in the acceptable list. Why?
I am not happy with the position and I want it reviewed. What do I do?
Accord Mortgages Remortgage ID Criteria
Why have you been directed to this page?
There are regulations imposed separately by our regulator, Law Society of Scotland, in relation to Money Laundering and other offences and, in addition, lenders have their own specific variable requirements when they instruct us to act on their behalf in the remortgage. We need to comply with these regulations and requirements and we do not have any discretion.
Your remortgage falls within one of the categories where we require to obtain a higher level of identity checking often called "Certified ID". We know that for many borrowers there is a close relationship with the broker who is arranging the remortgage. If, you are discussing this with your broker please send them this link and we also include below Frequently Asked Questions for brokers. Hopefully, this will answer any queries that they have avoiding the need to contact us.
If either you or your broker does wish to contact us on this point it is much the best course of action to email us on firstname.lastname@example.com quoting our reference number from your email.
Any of the following can certify your ID as part of you remortgage with Accord Mortgages:
McVey & Murricane
Any other solicitor
Broker (provided she/he is on the FSA register and can produce his/hers FCA Individual Reference Number. Failing that she/he should produce evidence that she/he is authorised to certify the documents on behalf of the business).
What documents require to be certified for each person mentioned on the remortgage offer?
Your passport and/or driving licence
A utility bill or bank statement dated within the last three months showing your current address. The following are acceptable items:
Bank statement (current account or savings account only, NOT a credit card or mortgage statement). We can accept copy or picture of online bank statement provided it shows both the name and address
Gas/electricity bill
Phone bill
HMRC or DWP letter
Instructions for the person certifying the ID
Please provide the person who is certifying ID with the instructions you can find here. You may require to email or print out for the person certifying the ID
You may be charged a small fee by the solicitor or justice of the peace.
Frequently Answered Questions for Brokers
I have already dealt with ID requirements for my customers, the borrowers. Why is this required at this stage?
Since the financial crisis, the requirements from lenders of the solicitors dealing with the remortgage process have become much more onerous. At the same time, our regulator the Law Society of Scotland has greatly emphasised with firms of solicitors under its regulation, the full extent of the money laundering regulations. These include a much wider definition of potential offences of which solicitors are to consider.
There is no doubt that the process for remortgaging is not completely "joined up". Different lenders have different approaches but there is no single standard. That seems some way off and for the meantime we have to deal with the detail of the lender's requirements and our interpretation of our regulator's requirements.
I have recently introduced a remortgage to the same lender but these requirements were not identified previously by you or other solicitors on the lender panel. Why is this?
Good point! There are two reasons. The first is that different remortgages trigger different responses. Broadly speaking remortgages involving properties that are currently mortgage free, circumstances where large capital sums are being released and expensive properties will trigger the need for Certified ID. The second aspect is that different solicitors interpret the requirements from regulators in different ways. The problem is that if a remortgage should ultimately result in a repossession, solicitors acting on behalf of the lender are forensic in considering whether the solicitor who dealt with the remortgage should have identified a problem. In that environment, there is a need for McVey and Murricane to adopt a sensibly cautious position. As in other areas, if there was a clearly agreed an objective standard it would make life a lot easier. However, such a standard does not exist.
I have already carried out ID but I notice that sometimes that is not included in the acceptable list. Why?
Some lenders do not allow certified ID from a broker as part of their own underwriting requirements. Where certified ID from a broker is required it is essential that the broker is an appointed representative of an institution authorised by the FCA.
I am not happy with the position and I want it reviewed. What do I do?
Ultimately, the lender requires us to carry out checks that satisfy their requirements and our regulator requires us to carry out checks that suit their requirements. As you can imagine in a very competitive fixed fee environment, we wish to deal with the remortgage as efficiently as possible so we are not carrying out any more work than we need to do. But the sanctions upon us are very considerable. If we do not meet the requirements of the lender we face a claim and potentially being removed from their panel. If we do not meet the requirements of our regulator then we potentially face disciplinary action. In any case we face severe legal consequences including consequences if we do not do this part of the job properly and there should be a subsequent issue.
We recognise that in many ways the authorities are focusing upon the wrong group of people when imposing these regulations and requirements. As is often the case, it is the individual requires to "jump through hoops" rather than the tax dodger or major fraudster. The direction of travel in this area is not good. Provided that it still applies after Brexit the next version of Money Laundering Regulations due in 2018 is much more imposing and extremely onerous.


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I hadn't heard of it until yesterday.
I'd finished ages before the others.
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I had been working for a couple of years before I did my Master's degree.
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NBC's schedule is out, and though I know the notion of "musical competition fatigue" is popular among our readers, I still like the idea of NBC putting The Voice in the fall. It gives NBC a couple of things it didn't have last year: a promotional vehicle outside of Sunday Night Football for its fall shows as well as a decent lead-in for a new 10pm show. It also sets up a nice X Factor vs Voice; Christina vs. Britney (assuming reports of her joining X Factor are correct).
The expansion to four nights of comedies seems like a bit of a stretch given the three hours of relatively low-rated comedies they'd been running with, but it will be interesting to see how it develops. I won't be surprised to see the new comedies outperform the older ones, though that doesn't necessarily mean they will perform well. Either way, there's no denying Community on Friday nights is good news for TV by the Numbers.
Interesting to me to see NBC just throw in the towel on Thursdays at 10pm by scheduling Rock Center with Brian Williams. Somewhere, Jay Leno smiles.
Also of note, NBC insists that despite earlier reports, it isn't necessarily the final season of either The Office or 30 Rock.


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A Conversation With Philip Wynne
- By David Savona
- | From Kurt Russell, May/June 2006
Philip Wynne, the owner of Felipe Gregorio Cigars, entered the industry long before premium cigars were in vogue. From a humble start contracting high—priced, full—bodied cigars with a small Honduran factory, Wynne expanded the number and taste range of his cigars in facilities in the Dominican Republic and Nicaragua during the cigar boom, only to encounter growing pains after orders diminished in the late 1990s. He survived by making inexpensive cigars for the catalog market. Now as Wynne, at 48 years old, prepares to belatedly celebrate 15 years in the cigar business, his premium cigar production is once again becoming a priority.
In February, senior editor David Savona sat down with Wynne in Coral Gables, Florida, not far from where he is creating a new factory/headquarters, to talk about how he entered the business and weathered some tough times.
David Savona: Tell us a bit about your background, and how you got into the
cigar business.
Philip Wynne: I started smoking cigars at 16. I grew up in Europe, and was used to smoking full—bodied cigars. My dad was a U.S. diplomat, and when I was 18 he told me I needed to come back to the United States. I went to American University in Georgetown and I studied international relations, and when I graduated, I opened up a security company with a retired Air Force general, and we did counterterrorism training in 1982. One of my partners was the son of a helicopter manufacturer, and I started working for him, selling military helicopters in the Middle East, from '82 to '88.
Q: Which countries?
A: Oman. There was a war going on. They needed a lot of things. [Later,] business was dying down and I visited these friends of mine in Honduras, and since I was a cigar smoker I went to see a cigar factory, and I was totally fascinated. In 1989, the most expensive cigar on the market was the Zino Veritas, and it sold at $6. And the bulk of cigars sold for under $1. I said, maybe there is a market for a cigar at around $2.50—a nice, decent cigar, well packaged. So I asked these friends of mine to introduce me to the people who made the Zino, led by Jorge Bueso, from La Flor de Copan, and in 1990 I started making cigars with them. My first brand was Petrus, and I sold mainly to Europe.
Q: Did you have to license the name with the winery?
A: No, because Petrus means Peter in Latin.
Q: Now, Petrus wasn't a typical cigar for the time, was it?
A: No, it was full bodied. I failed. I fell on my face in the States. I had a veiny Havana wrapper, with a full—bodied taste.
Q: So the cigar was strong, the wrapper was ugly…
A: But it was good.
Q: And what cigars were most popular then?
A: They were mild cigars. I failed completely, and I came back and I put Ecuadoran Connecticut on the cigar. Completely changed the blend. And then I made a maduro cigar, also in the Petrus line, and that's how I basically started here. I realized, that by '92 or '93, people wanted a face behind the brand. So I created Felipe Gregorio, which are my first two names in Spanish. I Latinized myself, because I didn't think "Philip Gregory" would sell any cigars. And I wanted to make a more Cuban—like, tasty cigar, from what I remembered smoking. I designed the Don Melo Centenario as a full—bodied cigar. I had enough tobacco for 250,000 cigars and sold them all. That really catapulted me. It really was an exceptional product. By '93, '94, I saw that full [bodied] was working.
Q: You started going to Honduras in the late 1980s. What were the conditions
A: There was one hotel in Santa Rosa. It had cold—water showers. I remember one of my first nights there I was being infested by mosquitoes. There were no windows. I couldn't take it anymore. I found a guy and said, "I have a mosquito problem." He came back to my room with one of those, remember from the cartoons, those DDT sprayers? He fumigated my room so bad, I had powder all over my clothes for the next five days.
Q: So it's not all romance being a cigarmaker. Tell us about the creation of the
Felipe Gregorio brand.
A: I was on the perennial quest for a dark, silky wrapper. Bueso's son was growing wrapper in the south of Honduras, which we were using on the Don Melo cigar, but it had burning problems, it was very coarse, and not very refined to the eye. I wanted something for Felipe that would be different. So I went down to see Julio Eiroa [the maker of Camacho cigars], and he was growing some nice wrapper in Jamastran [Honduras]. Julio started making the first Felipe Gregorios, and I learned a lot from Julio.
Then Altadis came in and bought a percentage of La Flor de Copan, with an option to buy it all. The moment they came in, they had full control of the tobacco, and I saw that the tobacco they wanted was not the tobacco I wanted. They were bringing a boutique factory to an industrial level, which was great for the factory, great for the town, but wasn't necessarily great for me. We used to buy tobacco from a cooperative of growers in Jalapa. The guy we were buying the tobacco from was Omar Ortez. I said, Let's do a factory in Nicaragua. He was from Condega, and he wanted to put the factory in Condega.
Q: Now, Condega is not known for making cigars, but for growing tobacco.
A: Right, I think we're the only factory there. It's a heavily Sandinista area. There's murals of Che Guevara, and there's Sandinista flags flying.
Q: Is that intimidating?
A: I've noticed in all my travels that everyone loves Americans and hates our government. There's a big separation. So we started there in 1994, '95.
Q: So you've figured out your time in Copan is ended, and it's time to move on
to somewhere else?
A: Yes. Then the boom came. I remember the Cincinnati RTDA [Retail Tobacco Dealers of America trade show, in 1996]. I took $1 million in orders on the floor.
Q: Compare that with earlier RTDAs.
A: In 1991, I took $30,000.
Q: So this is beyond your wildest dreams.
A: And it was a dream, because I didn't have $1 million worth of cigars. I had all these orders, and no cigars. So like everyone else, I rushed to produce these cigars. I had a bit of popularity going, and when we made the cigars, the boom was over, and I had a slew of cigars and no one to buy them (laughs). But during the boom, Frank Sinatra approaches me via a gentleman named Eliot Weisman. Sinatra wants a superpremium cigar, top of the top. He told Eliot he wants to work with a Sicilian, and I'm half Sicilian. He wanted the most expensive wrapper, he wanted this, he wanted that. We sit down, agree on everything, I'm about to leave the room, and Sinatra says, "Kid, by the way, I want a Dominican cigar. This Central American stuff don't sell for shit. Everyone wants Dominican." I said, "I don't have a Dominican factory." He said, "Now you do." So I threw out a number, and he said, "Do you want a check, or do you want it wired?"
So now I have to make cigars in the Dominican Republic. I had bought tobacco there before. We started this crummy little factory with three benches and we start rolling cigars. Next to us, there's this farm that's for sale, 40 acres. I have this vision: we'll make a farm and a hotel. We buy it, $300,000. We build a building, $200,000. Now I'm in debt to the banks. End of the boom, Sinatra not reordering. Here I am, in debt. Trying to find a way to sell cigars. And we are paying usurers' rates, because nontraditional people are lending us the money and they're charging two percent interest a month. So I don't know what to do. Then by some miracle, Bob Franzblau [the owner of Thompson Cigars] calls and says, I want you to make me cigars.
Q: Up to this point, had you any relationship with a catalog retailer?
A: No, no one at all.
Q: So this is a big call for you.
A: Big call for me. I had a brand that I had created called Iguana, with candela wrapper. I said, Well, let me create something a bit different here. I couldn't sell it.
Q: No one was really making candela at this point. What made you want to do
A: It was different. Also, I read that in the 1960s the bulk of cigars sold in the United States were made with candela, and I believe there are cycles in life, so maybe a candela cigar might be something new smokers might like. So I told Bob, I have this brand called Iguana, I can give it to you exclusively. And he liked it. It became their No. 1—selling cigar. So we had this great relationship, because the first one out of the gate he's a winner with me with a cigar that was so out of left field. I'm basically making now about 2.5 million cigars a year for him out of the Dominican Republic.
Q: Did Bob Franzblau and Thompson pull you out of your debt?
A: Yes. I owe him. He saved my Dominican factory—100 percent.
Q: So this allows you to continue with your premier brands?
A: Yes, but it also opened up my eyes. I said, I've been busting my ass and going to these countries for 10 years, and the Dominican is fantastic. It was accessible, you could eat well, there were beaches, nice hotels. I said, What the hell am I doing struggling? I wanted to bring more of my type of production to the D.R., but we couldn't because we were basically mass—making cigars for Thompson, and not really any blends, but just working on price quality, good construction, Sumatra wrapper, Connecticut. So as I started building up reserves and started making some money, I started bringing in better tobaccos, started doing things in the Dominican different, because I want to make Dominican my flagship factory.
I created Felipe Dominican there, I created Petrus Fortus there, I made the Excellence there. You see the notches going up every time, I'm bringing the bar a bit higher—not exactly where I want to be, but I'm getting there. I had to change the mindset of my partner, who said, Listen, I don't give a shit about making good cigars, we have to pay bills here. Valid point. So we took the dream of making a hotel and cigar factory, we sold off half the lot and made houses, we financed ourselves and we became financially sound. So we have no debt.
Q: When was this?
A: Between '98 to about 2001.
Q: So during this time you're paying down debt, making lots of cigars for
Thompson and getting back on your feet?
A: Now we have money, we owe no money—we're always short of money in this business, everyone is—but since I've concentrated a lot on making cigars for other people, my personal cigar sales have dwindled. So now I have to bring those up.
I started doing a lot of stuff for Cigars International, too, so now we have two big mail—order houses we're making product for. But we're making an inexpensive cigar, which I don't want to do. I don't want these mail—order houses to take more than 30 percent of our business, so gradually we're changing. I'm making some more private—label cigars for some people in Europe, I make a cigar for a friend of mine who has a jewelry chain, and then I make cigars for a diamond broker.
Q: What's your distribution like?
A: At my height I had 500 or 600 shops that I sold to on a regular basis, and maybe now I'm at 300. In 2002, 2003, a German manufacturer called Poeschl that makes snuff approached me to do a joint venture in the United States to distribute their snuff. It did not work out, but it gave me a lot of exposure to my brands again, and I managed to get into shops that didn't traditionally carry my cigars.
Now I'm saying that I want to come out with great cigars, so I'm looking for tobacco. That brings me to Felipe Power, where I had stockpiled some of the original Centenario tobacco—the filler—plus I have some old Dominican piloto Cubano. We put a Nicaraguan binder on it, but what was missing was the wrapper. [I found this] Costa Rica Havana seed, and this wrapper was like, "Wow." This did it. Now I'm in the process of making this cigar.
Q: This is your 15th anniversary smoke?
A: Yes. [Offers a cigar.] This is blended to be very full bodied. It's a very much in—your—face cigar. Eventually I would like to bring all of my production over to the Dominican Republic. I'm seeing that it's about time to start going my own way.
Q: You talked about the Iguana, which is unusual. Recently, you brought out
double—barreled "shotgun" cigars called Three Tierras. Where did you get that
A: When I look for blends, I smoke a very small—ring—gauge cigar made entirely of that one tobacco, for me to get the full effect of that tobacco. So I was smoking that and I said, Let's educate the consumer by putting two cigars—one pure Nicaragua, one pure Dominican—[inside the same wrapper], and when they smoke it, they're getting a pure delivery of each cigar, and it mixes on the palate.
Q: Let's talk about your Miami factory. What inspired that?
A: When I moved down here [to Florida], I said to myself, "I'm an outsider." I'm not Cuban, I'm not Latin. Since I'm in Miami, I need to identify myself as a cigarmaker. What better way than to put myself right in Calle Ocho [the city's Cuban heart] and I can roll a blend right here. When people come here, they can come to the shop and enjoy a cigar with me.
Q: When does it open?
A: [September.]
Q: This is an expensive proposition, isn't it?
A: It's near my house, I have a great spot with a covered walkway where people can smoke, and I'm thinking of putting in a wine bar, so people can smoke a cigar, have some wine and have a coffee.
Q: So you're putting down roots.
A: I'm settled. I'm not nervous anymore. I'm not worried. I just want to make a good cigar and enjoy my life. And as long as I can pay the bills, I'm happy. I'm not looking at this as a business to sell. Hopefully my kids can go into it and grow it.
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Deconstructed Caesar Salad with Caesar Cream Dip
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Mary..We had it CONSTRUCTED for dinner just last night with the onion soup....But while I was making it..I ate some deconstructed.That's how much I love this.ReplyDelete
Your presentation looks so pretty..Good idea the book there also.
Yet again, another wonderful food idea! My daughter's favorite food is Caesar salad. This would be so easy to pack for her lunch.ReplyDelete
What a clever and fun way to serve a Caesar. Fondue is a family favorite and I'm looking forward to preparing this salad variation next time I make it. Everybody love to dip so I know this will be a hit.ReplyDelete
Carrot and celery sticks would be excellent dippers too.
That's a great idea, and it looks beautiful too.ReplyDelete
What an excellent idea - your presentation is beautiful as always :-)ReplyDelete
Beautiful presentation of some delicious eats! This dip sounds so good and I'm going to try it with an assortment of veggies!ReplyDelete
It is my lunch time and I want to go in and grab a piece and take a big bite...
This is my idea of a perfect lunch. ClariceReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 8, 2009 at 9:02 PM
Wow, what a great presentation, Mary!ReplyDelete
Love the presentation!ReplyDelete
looks so fresh and tasty, love the ease of prep too!ReplyDelete
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Animation, Comedy, Musical
Running Time: 114 min.
Release Date: December 12, 1980
Current rating:
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Cast: Robin Williams, Shelley Duvall
Based on the long-running comic strip created by E.C. Segar (and less on the animated cartoons created by Max Fleischer, which were decidedly different in tone and approach), Popeye follows the sailor man with the mighty arms (played by Robin Williams in his first major film role) as he arrives in the seaside community of Sweethaven in search of his long-lost father.
Popeye meets and quickly falls for the slender Olive Oyl (Shelley Duvall, in the role she was born to play), but Olive's hand has already been promised to the hulking Bluto (Paul Smith), of whom Olive can say little except, well, he's large.
Eventually, Popeye and Olive are brought together by Swee' Pea (Wesley Ivan Hurt), an adorable foundling, and Popeye finally meets his dad, Poopdeck Pappy (Ray Walston).
Director Robert Altman in no way tempered his trademark style for this big-budget family opus, crowding the screen with a variety of characters and allowing his cast to overlap as much dialogue as they want.
Robert Altman, Genndy Tartakovsky
Studio: Paramount Pictures
Screenplay: Jules Feiffer


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Not My Job: How Much Does A Former Hedge Fund Manager Know About Hedges?
And now the game where we ask successful people about things that really shouldn't matter to successful people. It's called Not My Job.
So "Mad Money," the daily show about the stock market on CNBC, is not your typical financial advice show. The host shouts, he throws things around, he pushes buttons to make funny noises to underline his point. But he's rich, so he's not crazy; he's eccentric.
SAGAL: Jim Cramer, host of "Mad Money," joins us now. Jim Cramer, welcome to WAIT WAIT.
JIM CRAMER: (Unintelligible).
SAGAL: So I just naturally assumed - I guess seeing your style I should've known this, but I just assumed you'd be one of those guys who got out of college and went right to work on Wall Street, but that wasn't your background, right?
CRAMER: No, I went right to work as a sportswriter in Tallahassee and a homicide reporter in California.
SAGAL: Really?
CRAMER: Yes.
SAGAL: You were a homicide reporter?
CRAMER: Oh yeah, I covered everybody who died violently in the Los Angeles area for about a year.
SAGAL: And did your career covering murderers and victims of terrible crimes prepare you in any way for a career in Wall Street?
CRAMER: You know, at the time I was still a sophist when I was out there because these were real people with real lives, and then you get to Wall Street, and it's really kind of - it's tawdry. It's about making money and nothing really else. And I think that that's difficult for a younger person who was idealistic before I went in there.
SAGAL: Really? So I mean, you went from covering murderers to covering - to talking to bankers, and you found that, like, terrifying and disillusioning?
CRAMER: You know, I thought there would be some soul to it, but there was no soul to it.
SAGAL: So why then did you devote your career to it?
CRAMER: Because I was living in my car before I went to it, and I really wanted to be able to make some money.
SAGAL: So you were living in your car?
CRAMER: Yeah, my second year out of college, I was living in a tough neighborhood. Someone stole everything from me over a period of three days, and I was evicted. All I had was my Ford Fairmont and came back and ended up living with my sister in her studio apartment in Greenwich Village, got my life back together, went to law school and then got a job on Wall Street and stuck it out for a while.
SAGAL: So when did you start giving out investment advice, as you do now?
CRAMER: I started in 1981, and there I used to give it out frankly on my answering machine. I used to say I'm not here right now, but I think you should go buy (unintelligible)...
SAGAL: Wait a minute, wait a minute. What were you doing at the time? What was your job?
CRAMER: I was at law school.
SAGAL: You were at law school, and you would like - I mean, you write about this in your new book, "Get Rich Carefully," and you say that you'd be sitting in, like, law school class and reading the Wall Street Journal in the back of the room.
CRAMER: Right, and the professor - some of the professors didn't like it. Other professors would call me up and say, well, why are you doing this. And I'd say because I want to run money. That's what I kind of - I want to manage money. And I was running a couple of the professors' money by the time I graduated.
SAGAL: Really? So they would like call on you and, like, what are you doing reading the Wall Street Journal in my class, and by the end of the year, they're like yeah, could you invest some money for me?
CRAMER: Absolutely. They were some of my initial investors in my hedge fund.
SAGAL: And you would - you said you left stock tips on your answering machine, so if anybody happened to call you for whatever reason, they would get a stock tip?
CRAMER: Absolutely, and that's how, again, how I got to large investors. I didn't think I would, but my largest investor gave me a half-a-million dollars after listening to three stock tips in a row and making a lot of money.
SAGAL: So they would just call you up, and on your answering machine, you know, buy Acme Amalgamated, and they would and make a lot of money, and they'd just keep calling you?
CRAMER: Yes, and I had some great hits, and a very wealthy investor said that he had made more money off the answering machine than he had in 20 years with money managers.
BRIAN BABYLON: So that's this pre-Internet stuff. I guess that's...
SAGAL: That's amazing.
CRAMER: Yeah, and then he gave me a half-a-million dollars, a check for half-a-million dollars. I had never seen anything like it. And he said look, I owe it to you. I've been using your answering machine tips, and I feel badly, and here's $500,000. Go run with it.
SAGAL: Wow, and was that - that was the start of your career because you famously ran very successfully a hedge fund for many years.
CRAMER: Yes, that was how it got started, off the answering machine.
SAGAL: Right. Now, I'm going to make an observation here. I've been talking to you for a little while. You seem quite sane.
CRAMER: Well, I'm not the guy - there's a guy on "Mad Money," and he's me, but I have to amp it up, and in reality you've got me in Summit, New Jersey, where I'm a dad, and I'm a regular guy.
SAGAL: So you are not like that in real life, you are not totally amped up to 11 shouting - you're not talking all right, kids, time to have dinner, cowuga, that's not you at all?
CRAMER: No, and I know it's funny because in town I have a persona, and it's not the guy on TV. Look, I try to be true to my words of what I say on TV, but there is an entertainment component and a coaching, teaching component, and I try to make it come alive. But I'm a real (unintelligible) around town.
SAGAL: Do you think that there are people who watch your show who don't care at all about finance or investment but just like you jumping around the set and hitting the sound effects and throwing your books?
CRAMER: Definitely, definitely.
SAGAL: Really?
CRAMER: Well, there's, like, little kids who like the show. I mean they just - you know, it's kind of like - they like the sound effects. They like the drama of it and even though it is about stocks.
JESSI KLEIN: There are times when it's like a Japanese game show.
BABYLON: I like to watch it because I think you look like Louis C.K., and it's sort of funny. It's sort of like Louis C.K. acting crazy, giving financial advice.
CRAMER: I'm often confused with him and with Vladimir Lenin.
SAGAL: You're confused with Vladimir Lenin?
BABYLON: And Louis C.K. That's hilarious.
CRAMER: I've been stopped several times in New York in the last, say, two years with people who have said you look familiar. Is it possible that you were related to Lenin?
SAGAL: Oh, the irony.
CRAMER: I know. I mean, he was certainly not the great capitalist. And then Louis C.K., whom I think is incredibly funny but also he has a drearier show, obviously...
CRAMER: You know, if we can call it that. But a lot of people have said that - they've compared him to me much more than they have, say, "Mad Men" and Jon Hamm.
SAGAL: Yes, that doesn't - that would be lovely. Well, all I know is that you're a bald Jew from Jersey making good for yourself. So I'm pleased to see you.
CRAMER: Bingo.
SAGAL: Absolutely. All right, Jim Cramer, we have invited you here to play a game we're calling: 2
CARL KASELL: Look at my beautiful shrub.
SAGAL: That's right, you, as we've discussed, former successful hedge fund manager, but what do you know about actual hedges? We're going to ask you three questions about the world of topiary, get just two right - topiary, of course, sculpted hedges, yes. Just get two of these questions right, you'll win Carl's voice for one of our listeners. Carl, who is Jim Cramer playing for?
KASELL: Jim is playing for Kathy Pecora of Homer Glen, Illinois.
SAGAL: All right, you ready to play, Jim?
CRAMER: You bet I am.
SAGAL: All right, here is your first question. In 2002, a Santa Cruz, California, resident's artful topiary, in front of her home, made the news when what happened? A, a neighbor called the cops complaining that the 20-foot-tall shrub was far too phallic for her tastes; B, they woman burned down half the neighborhood when she tried to make her Moses and the burning bush scene, quote, super-realistic; or C, she sculpted the words free candy here, children, out of poison ivy.
CRAMER: I think this is definitely B, Moses and the burning bush.
SAGAL: Really? So you think she made a little sort of scene of Moses in front of a bush, and she lit the bush on fire, and it caused a problem?
CRAMER: Yes, definitely that.
SAGAL: Actually it was A, it was the incredibly phallic - yeah, she did this very large sort of cylindrical thing and with some rounder things next to it, and...
KLEIN: I thought it looked cool.
SAGAL: OK. That's OK, you still have two more chances here, Jim.
SAGAL: Next topiary question. One group in Seattle in Seattle has actually come out to advocate against topiary. What's their reasoning? A, sculpting plants to look like animals makes them no longer safe for vegetarians; B, bad topiary is, quote, the senseless torture of shrubs, unquote; or C, extra leaves are the mustaches of the plant world, and mustaches are really cool right now.
CRAMER: Wow, I don't know about the sensitivity to plant life. I'm going to eliminate B.
SAGAL: Now wait a minute. I just want to point out to you: It's Seattle.
CRAMER: Oh, I'll go with B then.
SAGAL: You're right.
SAGAL: The group is called Plant Amnesty, and they do not seem to be joking. All right, this is going to be - you've gotten one right with one to go. You get this one right, you win all the marbles.
In 2008 in Liverpool, England, a topiary tribute to the Beatles made news when what happened: A, it was mobbed by screaming teenage girl plants; B, Pete Best snuck in and tried to grow a Pete Best bush next to it; or C, someone beheaded Ringo?
CRAMER: I think that it sounds like it would be C.
SAGAL: You're right. Somebody beheaded Ringo.
CRAMER: Yes.
SAGAL: Yes, that was a little bit of the Jim Cramer we know and love from TV, Just a little bit. It was exciting to hear. Carl, how did Jim Cramer do on our quiz?
KASELL: He had two correct answers, Peter, and that's enough to win for Kathy Pecora.
CRAMER: Thank you.
SAGAL: Oh, it's exciting. Jim Cramer is the host of "Mad Money" on CNBC. He's part of thestreet.com. And his new book is "Get Rich Carefully," in bookstores now. Jim Cramer, thank you so much for joining us on WAIT WAIT...DON'T TELL ME!
CRAMER: Thank you, Jim, bye-bye.
SAGAL: In just a minute, Carl catches some Z's in our listener limerick challenge. Call 1-888-WAIT-WAIT, to join us on air.
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Nine out of ten reviewers will enjoy today's Speak-Up on Kotaku, in which commenter Wocalax wonders if review aggregate sites like Metacritic make it easier or harder to decide which games to buy.
Kotaku, I haven't asked you a question in a while, but I think I have a decent one: Have sites that collate reviews(Metacritic, Rotten Tomatoes) changed what you see as a worthy purchase?
They have for me.
Back in the day you either read a few reviews, or you tried it out for yourself. Now I can get my opinion of a game or movie from a one to three digit number.
Is this good? Sometimes. I was on the fence about seeing The Lincoln Lawyer, but after seeing its solid 83% from critics, 85% from the audience, I definitely want to check it out.
But, what about movies closer to the 50% range? That sounds bad as a percentage, but that means 1 in 2 people liked it. I could be one of those people! But I don't know, it did just get a 50%...
Games are different, but the basics still apply. When I see a game get a 70 or 60 that's a turnoff. Even if that game looked like the most amazing game in the world to me, it's still a mar on its image.
What about you lads and ladies? Do these numbers grant you power, or do they just make the decision process more convoluted for you?
About Speak-Up on Kotaku: Our readers have a lot to say, and sometimes what they have to say has nothing to do with the stories we run. That's why we have a forum on Kotaku called Speak-Up. That's the place to post anecdotes, photos, game tips and hints, and anything you want to share with Kotaku at large. Every weekday we'll pull one of the best Speak-Up posts we can find and highlight it here.


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Robb Young necesitaba un nuevo diseño de impreso o envases y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 141 diseños de 58 diseñadores freelance.
Your chance to have your design in 500+ stores this summer as Bulgari relaunches AQVA Por Homme Marine.
Bulgari and http://www.xperiencedays.com
This summer Bulgari, one of the world's most respected brands, is relaunching AQVA Por Homme Marine and giving in-store customers an Xperience Days gift card with purchase. What we need is a retail poster to stand alongside the existing Bulgari image (which will be provided). The poster is to promote the offer of a $30 Xperience Days gift card with every purchase of Bvlgari AQVA. Your design will be the right hand side of a retail stand, with the left hand side being Bulgaris existing image.
- The visual will need to include the following wording:
- BVLGARI and Xperience Days invite you to an exciting adventure of your choice.as well as
- Xperience Days provides a range of Experience Gifts nationwide from a relaxing day at a spa to an exciting drive in a racecar; from a chartered sail to a breathtaking aerobatic bi-plane rideThe Xperience Days log which can be found here:
Needs to include 3 or 4 images from our website http://www.xperiencedays.com preferably some exciting ones. I can provide high resolution images if needed
- Clean clear very high end design. Something worthy of BVLGARI
- Something that you would be proud of showing in over 500 stores across the US
- AQVA is obviously water themed so preferably blue/green colors for the water theme
- A design that flows from the Bulgari image provided. Please make sure you refer to http://www.xperiencedays.com/prodim…Design.png before you start to get an idea off the overall look
- Too many square images...the whole piece needs to flow.