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Since then, I've used orange where I can in decorating our condo in our artwork and a few throw pillows. Mr. S doesn't quite understand my love for orange, and won't compromise on brining in an orange piece of furniture to our small space right now. So sad, perhaps one day when I have an office it can be all orange?! I've also added some orange accents to my closet by way of scarves, socks, and jewelry.
Here are a few ways to translate Tangerine Tango into key pieces of your wardrobe, and some clever ways orange can add a bit of "umph" to your home.
Color of the year- Tangerine Tango by simplesurber featuring a shift dress
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Hazmat leaves Washington Regional after ricin scare ends
Hazmat crews were sent to the Washington Regional Medical Center at about 5:30 a.m. Wednesday after a patient claimed he had been poisoned by ricin.
The man bought some castor beans online in August. He intended to plant them, but never did. He found them in his drawer Tuesday, Nov. 21, and planned to throw them away. But Wednesday morning he felt sick and was worried the castor beans had somehow given him ricin poisoning.
The man then took the beans to the hospital to get checked out.
The Fayetteville Fire Department told 40/29 the public was never in any danger. The beans have been disposed of.
The hazmat team responded to the initial call, before officials were able to determine if the substance was ricin or not. The waiting room area was closed down.
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The leader of Northern Ireland's newest unionist party has branded the Assembly "useless" and unable to deliver.
Basil McCrea's unbridled attack came as Assembly Members voted to retain the controversial petitions of concern mechanism that allows unionists to veto nationalists and vice versa.
The committee which drew up a report on the issue, and its deliberations, came under strong attack from several MLAs.
Mr McCrea claimed it was a useless report by a useless committee – and then told MLAs: "There was no consensus on how to restrict petitions of concern. There was no consensus on how petitions of concern on legislation should be brought.
"No consensus, no consensus, no consensus. You can agree on nothing, not a thing.
"There is no consensus on anything. Do you know what? That is what is wrong with this place. There is not a single thing that you can agree on.
"You sit here in this sham fight and pretend that you are working together in Government and that you will come up with something for the common good – you will not."
Refusing to accept any interventions, including from the DUP, the NI21 leader argued that Sinn Fein did not need the Assembly to work, but unionism did.
"Unionism needs to start working out how to make the chamber accountable and democratic because the people looking in are saying that this place is dysfunctional, this place does not work, this place does not deliver and this place is useless – just as useless as the committee and its report," he added.
The DUP's Stephen Moutray, who chaired the committee which drew up the report, said: "Although there was some support in committee for the use of the alternative mechanism of a weighted majority vote for matters subject to petition of concern, again there was no consensus on the issue."
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Do you stare enviously at people with great hair, wondering what their secret is? While you might think those people with great hair are lucky, you'd be surprised to find that they use tips that you can use, too. These paragraphs contain tips you can use to have hair that you have always been jealous of.
If you notice your hair looking dry, there is a home conditioning treatment you can try. Once you have washed your hair and wrung out some of the wetness, apply your conditioner and then pop on a shower cap for a few minutes. Your body heat will activate and allow your conditioner to penetrate the hair.
You should not ever tug or rub your hair using a towel when you are drying your hair. This can damage your hair, causing frizz and breakage. The best ways to dry your hair using a towel are to gently pat or press out the excess moisture, or simply wrap it in a loose fitting towel. In addition, you shouldn't comb or brush your hair when wet unless you are using a wide-toothed comb.
When purchasing hair care products, look for those which contain natural ingredients. Additionally, find shampoos and conditioners that are formulated for your specific hair type, such as fine, limp, oily or dry. Do not wait to try other products to find the one that works best for you!
During autumn and winter months, avoid being in cold weather for long periods of time. Cold weather may dry your hair out and cut down on the nutrients and oils that you need for optimal health. If you must stay out for a long period of time, be sure to bundle up.
Those with curly hair should use satin pillowcases for sleeping. Cotton pillowcases dry your hair by absorbing all the moisture and oils. Satin pillowcases protect your hair making you wake up having the same types of curls when you slept. You can also use a satin bonnet or scarf as well.
Always wait at least 48 hours before shampooing color-treated hair. Your hair's cuticle needs time in order to seal itself so that the color will stay true and last longer. It doesn't take much to re-open the cuticle. Exposure to water can be enough to do this. If you are patient and don't jump the gun, your hair will look fantastic.
Brushing or combing untangled hair is a safe and easy way to massage the scalp and stimulate new growth. Clogged pores are also broken up, making it easier for hair to grow. Make an effort to stroke your hair 100 times to get that hair growing.
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The project includes the replacement of pathway lighting along a 0.575 km section of the shared pathway on the Esplanade at Hervey Bay, between Pier Park and Pulgul Street – referred to as Phase 1 in the drawings.
The works include the following activities:
- Removal and disposal of all existing lights, cables and foundations (existing conduits and pits are to remain intact for future use as communications conduits).
- Supply and installation of new electrical conduits and cables.
- Supply and installation of new electrical pits, switchboard, switchgear and isolating switches.
- Installation of all light fittings, columns and column footings.
- Reinstatement of previously vegetated areas.
- Reinstatement of segmental pavers
Tenderers should note the principal supplied components as indicated (Principal Supplied) in the Bill of Quantities. Tenderers are required to price the installation of the principal supplied components in the relevant activity of the project.
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Huawei improves upon earlier efforts with a glass-backed chassis, redesigned software and new camera tricks
At an event in Paris, France today, Huawei officially unveiled its new high-end flagship phone, the Ascend P7. It's the latest in the Chinese manufacturer's premium "P" range, building on last year's P6, which the company says sold 4 million units across the glove. The P7's design heritage is plain to see — from the metal trim around the top and sides to the curved edge down below, this year's Huawei flagship looks an awful lot like last year's.
The biggest external change can be seen when you flip it over — the back panel is now made of glass, and sports a reflective pattern not unlike LG's "crystal reflection process," seen on the Optimus G. This effect comes to life through a combination of seven layers, Huawei says, and if you look close enough you can make some of them out — one forms concentric circles leading out from the "Huawei" logo, for instance, another is a checkered pattern. By any standard, the P7 is a good-looking phone. It's also extremely light, much less heavy than most 5-inch smartphones we've used.
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Have you perhaps recently allowed yourself a few dietary indulgences, the effects of which you're now hoping to shed? To help you reach your goal, following is a routine made up of 4 exercises which will help you lose body fat and increase your muscle tone.
Perform each of these 4 exercises for 30 seconds at a sustained pace. Allow 30 seconds of recovery between each exercise. So, each set should last a total of 4 minutes. When first starting out, do three sets in a row with a 2 minute rest between each set. Gradually increase the number of sets to 8, roughly equivalent to a 45 minute workout. Repeat three times a week.
Enjoy your workout!
Exercise no. 1: crunches
Targeted muscles: rectus abdominis muscle
Performing the exercise: lie down on the ground, legs bent (bring your feet as close to your glutes as possible) feet hip width apart. Your hands are at your temples, (do not put them behind your head). Roll your upper body forward, tucking in your chin at the same time. Contract the abdominals and keep your lower back in contact with the ground. Smoothly return to the starting position.
Breathing: inhale at the beginning of the exercise, exhale as you roll the upper body upwards.
Safety instructions: do not let your lower back lift up during the contraction.
Reps: 40 reps
Exercise no. 2: squats with dumbbells
Targeted muscles: quads, glutes.
Performing the exercise: standing, feet turned slightly outward, just over shoulder width apart. Place the arms along the body, a dumbbell in each hand (3 to 10 kg max load). Bend your legs pushing the buttocks backward, look far ahead, the back is slightly leaning forward. Contract the abdominals, buttocks, and push on the legs to return to the starting position.
Breathing: inhale deeply in the low position and exhale as you go up.
Safety instructions: look ahead of you. Do not arch your back and keep your shoulders low throughout the exercise.
Reps: 40 reps
Exercise no. 3: jumping jacks
Targeted muscles: thigh muscles
Performing the exercise: standing, feet together, arms along the sides of the body. Jump spreading legs and bringing the arms straight above the head. Then return to the starting position and repeat the movement.
Breathing: inhale in the starting position and exhale as you spread your legs.
Safety instructions: look ahead of you. Remember to tense your core muscles throughout the exercise.
Reps: Repeat the same movement at a steady pace for 30 seconds.
Exercise no. 4: mountain climber
Targeted muscles: abs
Performing the exercise: Get into plank position. Hands are in line with the shoulders, arms stretched. Bring your right leg forward, knee to the chest, toes on the ground. Return to starting position and repeat the same movement with the left leg. Move from one leg to the other going forwards as if climbing a mountain.
Breathing: inhale in the starting position and exhale when you bring the knee towards the chest.
Safety instructions: do not arch your back in the plank position. Keep your core muscles taught for proper alignment.
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Stunning 6117 sq ft post & beam constructed country home perched on 65 acre and very private peninsula fronting on crystal-clear Lake Kashagawigimog, located 8 mins to Minden and 12 mins to Haliburton. Open-concept design with breathtaking panoramic views over tree tops to the lake. This grand all-season home has 6 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms and is a perfect place to entertain or just get away from it all. Features include a soaring floor-to-ceiling granite fireplace in the great room, huge deck, 2 screened three season rooms including a BBQ & dining area, geothermal heat, 2 outbuildings a garage and a workshop both with electricity. 5 km of groomed hiking trails & miles of boating as Lake Kashagawigimog is part of a five lake chain.


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Research, development and trades concerning the powerful Proxmark3 device.
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Haven't posted on here in quite some time. My gated neighborhood has started using long-range RFID tags placed on the right headlight to operate the gate in lieu of Linear MegaCode transmitters. Specifically, Alien squiggle tags (which are serialized. not sure if there is any correlation with the SN and the info on the tag) are being used as well as TagMaster NA1100 hangtags for those who switch vehicles frequently. (AKA restricted to car dealership owners that are friendly with those on the HOA board) The reader being used is a TagMaster XT-1 or XT-3. I'm not sure which one, as it is now held in an enclosure. I currently have a Proxmark 3, although the antennae available for it will not be capable of reading UHF frequencies such as those used with these tags unless something has changed in the time I've been gone.
I am willing to pay if someone can either find me a source that I can order these tags from (preferred option) or can copy them themselves. The HOA has refused to program the pre-programmed ones I bought off of eBay, so the info on them must be able to match the info on my already-in-the-system tags. They must be able to be moved between cars, as I often drive or come home in different cars. Additionally, I would prefer that they be operable from the interior of the car. Tag theft has been an issue twice for me in the roughly three months this system has been in effect. Unbeknownst to the thieves, the tags are somewhat tamper-resistant. I'm happy to PM the serials on my current tags if they'd be of help.
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Here's the thing that I hate about a lot of nerd fandoms, they're overly entitled, demanding and selfish. They want a programme to heavily cater to them, even at the expense of not only casual audiences but also other fans who don't want anything to do with what they want.
Arrow is a case of fan pandering gone wrong where some fans kept on demanding and harassing the staff to make their fanfiction couple come true to the point of sacrificing storytelling quality, destroying real character development and viewership for this. The Flash is better off at this point but it too will succumb to the same problems Arrow faced if the former is going to include Wendy.
A much more infamous example would be the Bronies. The Bronies weren't the first overly entitled fanbase, as there were many others before them. Either that the show staff back then didn't give a damn about their preferences or even willingly insulted them in the actual story. The Bronies are undoubtedly an infamous example, going so far to publicise their antics for the world to see.
Then the 100th episode came and it included many of the things common in Brony fan fiction. Some of the Bronies didn't like it though as what others say, that episode was for fun. But one might wonder how far these programmes have come to heavily court diehard fans. If the programme was aimed at a much wider audience, Arrow and Flash could start out big and healthy and when they choose to pander to fans, their viewership declines considerably.
Pretty soon, nobody would want to watch them without associating themselves with those fans. Not all Bronies are like that but I think a lot more people who watch MLP don't want to have anything to do with the Bronies. I think that's why fan pandering not only leads to bad storytelling but also bad viewership and bad business as well.


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PBGYAA Basketball
($15 Non-Resident Fee)
Registration October 1st
Season: November– February
You will receive a team jersey!
You will need to provide black basketball shorts and basketball shoes.
For more information contact: [email protected]
The youth basketball division is part of the PBGYAA, a non-profit organization. Our goals are to teach the game of basketball in a positive environment with an emphasis on teamwork and good sportsmanship.
Our leagues are set up by grade level:
Training League – 1st and 2nd grade COED:
This is a non-competitive league where the players learn the basics of the game while having fun. THERE IS NO EVALUATIONS FOR THIS AGE GROUP.
Elementary League – 3rd and 4th graders BOYS and GIRLS DIVISIONS:
Has rules to help control the game and allow the players to improve their game.
Intermediate League – 5th and 6th graders BOYS and GIRLS DIVISIONS:
Some rules to control the competitiveness of the teams
Middle School League – 7th and 8th graders BOYS and GIRLS DIVISIONS
One of our main goals for our basketball board is to create a league that is competitive and fair for all our teams. We have incorporated procedures to accomplish this goal by making all players go through a skills evaluation process (except for training league) and limiting special requests (players & coaches) that would impact the competitiveness of the league. We also feel that players whose skill levels exceed their grade level are better suited to play up against more experienced players and thus may be asked to play up a level. This benefits both the player and league.
Remember this is recreational basketball and our goal is for the girls and boys to have fun in a competitive atmosphere. The more balanced the league usually the more fun the season will be.
Volunteers Needed!
The PBGYAA is an ALL-VOLUNTEER organization. Running the program takes many hours, many people and a great deal of effort to make it successful and financially viable.
We think that teaching girls and boys about the value of competition and teamwork is a valuable life lesson and they will remember their participation through their whole life. That's why we volunteer our time. We want it to be the best it can be.
So, please consider putting some time back into the program to compensate for what you and your children gain from the program. Together, we can continue to build the program for ourselves and for others to come. Positions we are currently looking for:
- League Directors
- Coaches – Head & Assistants
- Team Parents
- Picture Takers
- End of Year Party Help
We appreciate your effort, support and participation to make this another successful season.
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2020 Calendar in press
The 2020 Solidarity Forever Labor History Calendar is on the press, and begins shipping in the next few days.
This year we recall the 50th anniversary of the 1970 postal workers wildcat strike, and of public sector workers' struggles more generally. Sixteen photos mark struggles from South Africa to California, including strikes by Chicago teachers relegated to second-class teaching positions in segregated schools in the 1960s, a cross-border rally by Mexican and US workers against NAFTA, one of the last strikes by unionized foremen before they lost their collective bargaining rights under the infamous Taft-Hartley act, a protest by unemployed workers demanding the 6-hour day, and striking agricultural workers in California from 1913 to the lettuce strikes of the 1970s. These strikes won union rights, challenged segregation and discrimination, called for international labor solidarity, and asserted our dignity and our right to control the conditions of our labor. They were concrete manifestations of workers' power, and of the possibilities of building a new world based on solidarity.
We invite you to remember these struggles, and to reflect on the possibilities for reviving a labor movement committed to solidarity, and to a vision of justice and workplace democracy. The Solidarity Forever Labor History Calendar has been published by the Hungarian Literature Fund since 1985 to inspire greater labor solidarity and preserve the memory of workers' struggles around the world.
The 2020 calendar is 11 by 17 inches (open, folds to 8 1/2 by 11), with a color cover and black and white insides. It is union-printed. Copies are $12.95 each, post-paid, in the U.S. and Canada ($14.95 in the rest of the world); a bundle of 5 to the same address is $38.95. Please inquire for bulk rates.
Copies can be ordered at http://joehill100.com (where we also list a variety of Joe Hill- and other Wobbly-related books, t-shirts, buttons, CDs, and other items), or by sending a check to IWW Hungarian Literature Fund, PO Box 42531, Philadelphia PA 19101.


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We returned from Chicago late Sunday night/ Monday morning, and three days later we've finally chiseled our tired, groggy selves off the floor.
Thanks so much to everybody who joined us in Chicago last week. We were stunned by the sheer number of people interested in taking the workshops, and we're eager to continue this learning opportunity and expand all aspects for Make it U! with Cloth Paper Scissors in Houston. People often waited in long lines to get the opportunity to take these workshops, and given the level of enthusiasm and eagerness to learn new mixed-media techniques, we're planning on making the workshops in Houston even more accessible for everyone. If you either took a workshop or two, have feedback, or ideas on what you'd like to see more of, please email us at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Everyone who participated or observed this unique area of the show was mezmerized by the beautiful work that you, our readers, created for the "Do With Me What You Will," ATC, and Creative Self-portrait Exhibits. Thanks again for sharing your artistic talents with the greater world!
I wish I had the opportunity to take more photographs but unfortunately I was tied up the entire time. Sally and I did, however, sneak out of the booth to take a few of these Saturday afternoon.
ATCs submitted for the Chicago show. I have some extras that I made so if you missed out and you'd like to trade with me (two ATC limit per person please), send your ATC(s) to QUILTING ARTS LLC attn: Patricia Bolton, PO Box 685, Stow, MA, 01775, and I'll send up to two ATC's back to you. (Trade Deadline is May 15th.)
Before the show opened on Saturday morning.The crowds were mind boggling.
No quilt show is complete without Marie Osmond! Ms. Osmond is collaborating with both OESD and Bernina, and on Saturday afternoon she was signing autographs and taking pictures in the OESD booth. Security was very tight and the lines were rather long.
Shelley Stokes, author of Paintstiks on Fabric, teaching one of her Make It U! workshops. Here, students got a sample of hand-dyed fabric, a rubbing plate, and a Shiva Paintstik.
Four-year-old Emma McCoy proudly displays her ATCs she made in Jill Haglund's of Tweety Jill Publications ATC class.
Here I am teaching the brag book class with Peltex Saturday night. I was surprised the class filled; I thought on a Saturday night after walking the show all day, most everybody would be heading out for a much-needed margarita!
And lastly, my TV appearance on local ABC news to promote the show. Here I brought a lot of art work, including several of Beryl Taylor's mixed-media pieces from the Make It U! section. The anchor was blown away by all of the intricate embellishments.
Tomorrow we'll be posting the 2007 Quilting Arts Calendar Contest finalists both on the web site and on this blog, so stay tuned.


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Chef's Table Event at the Table Bay, Cape Town
Posted on October 11, 2011 by Nina Timm in cooking competitions
Eating at any Chef's Table is a treat, period! For a passionate foodie like me, it is like walking through an art gallery if your were to be an artist. I look, sniff, smell and marvel at every single morsel plated so skillfully by the chef and his team. This time the event was somewhat different, somewhat better……
The invitation to this prize event was already different! Any invitation that states "bring an overnight bag" gets my attention immediately. So after a long and tiresome morning cooking for a fundraiser, hubby and I sat in the lounge, tapping our feet as we eagerly awaited the arrival of our own private chauffeur. Needless to say, all the men, went crazy when this baby rocked up!
On arrival at the Table Bay Hotel, the camera crews were waiting and clicking away. Silly me thought: "Wow, there must be someone famous coming to this place tonight!" To my surprise, we were the famous people and that pretty much set the scene for the rest of the afternoon and evening.
After meeting all the other bloggers, Jason Bagley, Harry Haddon, Neil Tosefsky and The Bearded Wiseman, we were escorted to the oh-so-elegant presidential suite. Oh my word, what luxury! My husband was content to know that Charlize Theron stays there when she visits Cape Town. After some refreshments we got the keys to our own rooms "to freshen up!" Half an hour later we all met in the lobby to be taken to the chamber of horrors, our own Masterchef-Style Cookoff.
After the initial shock of having only fish as a choice, the cooking was a breeze and although hubs cut his finger in the first three minutes of our allotted 45 minutes, we made a mean team and walked off with the prize for Best Presented Food. (guess all the food blogging paid off!)
After that stressful episode, we left for some much needed R&R; and joined up with the rest of the crew for a wine tasting of note. Although I do not drink, I learned a lot about food and wine pairing.
Dinner at the chef's table followed and we could see how the professionals do it, I feel kind of flattered to know that these professionals chose my dish for Best Presentation!
The winners for the night were: @ninatimm best presentation, @blindcripple most online mentions and @JBagley won best dish.
The highlight of the night of course was dessert and the prize-giving in the Presidential Suite after which we were told that we could all stay for the night. Bliss!
Thank you Sun International and the whole team at the Table Bay for making our stay there so memorable. Every member of staff that we met, were warm, friendly and committed and made us feel most welcome and comfortable.
As a last word, before I end off, Capetonians and those who visit here for holidays, the Atlantic Restaurant is one of the best restaurants I have eaten at in a long time. Although the dinner was superb, not every one would have the opportunity to eat at the Chef's Table, but the Breakfast Buffet is available to everybody and it is simply out of this world. Everything I would expect of a five star hotel and more……
Thank you Sun International!
4 Responses to "Chef's Table Event at the Table Bay, Cape Town"
Nice one Nina! Nina for Master Chef, I say!
Oh Nina what a fab experience! Sounds like you and hubby had a great time! Well deserved! Have a great day xxx jan
This experience is so much more than a "Chef's Table"
Wow,great, Nins!!!


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We took a long walk tonight: out of our neighborhood and past a park and an elementary school, down a dirt path and through a neighborhood with mature trees that lisped in the evening breeze. We, my wife and I, talked about how we liked that neighborhood. We liked the houses and the way they didn't all look alike. We liked the trees.
I asked my wife if she would like the neighborhood if it only had small trees. Trees, like in new developments, with pale green leaves and burlap around their base from being planted so recently.
Of course, she said no.
I remarked, with the rare lucidity that an evening's walk can bring, how interesting it is that we are so pulled to nature. We desire it near us, and we desire it in its fullness and splendor. There is such a difference between mature trees and the sad saplings that spring forth in new housing developments.
Thus, I wonder: why are our lives so removed from nature?


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PALO ALTO, Calif. – March 6, 2018 — /BackupReview.info/ — Rubrik, the Cloud Data Management Company, today announced that CarePoint Health, a leading New Jersey healthcare group, has deployed Rubrik's Cloud Data Management platform and Microsoft Azure to modernize and simplify its IT operations. The solution has helped CarePoint Health increase backup speed by 700%, reduce total cost of ownership (TCO) by 50%, and achieve near-zero recovery time objectives (RTOs).
Founded in 2013 to help rebuild Hudson County, New Jersey's aging healthcare system, CarePoint Health combines the resources of three area hospitals, Bayonne Medical Center, Christ Hospital in Jersey City, and Hoboken University Medical Center, to provide 360-degree coordinated care to residents. As part of a strategic initiative to integrate the three hospitals' separate IT environments, CarePoint Health wanted to move to a hybrid cloud model leveraging Microsoft Azure. However, CarePoint Health found that its complex legacy backup systems presented a challenge to achieving its hybrid cloud vision.
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Crosby's hat trick leads Pens past Senators
Crosby scores Pittsburgh's final 3 goals
Sidney Crosby scored three straight goals for his first natural hat trick in more than five years, and the Pittsburgh Penguins opened the second half of the season with a 6-5 win over the Ottawa Senators on Tuesday night.
The two-time NHL MVP pushed his goal total to 20 and has scored at least one in Pittsburgh's last eight home games. The Penguins have won four straight and lost in regulation just once since Jan. 6.
Chris Kunitz had a goal and two assists. Kris Letang added a goal and an assist, and Matt Cullen also scored for Pittsburgh. The Penguins' six goals were a season high. Marc-Andre Fleury settled down after a shaky start and finished with 18 saves.
Jean-Gabriel Pageau, Mark Stone, Cody Ceci, Chris Wideman and Dave Dziurzynski scored for the Senators. Craig Anderson made 38 stops.
The Penguins began the second half stressing the need to play with the intensity that carried them through a resurgent January, when they went 6-2-3 to move back into playoff position. They were fueled by a streaking Crosby, who has taken new coach Mike Sullivan's advice to get to the front of the net.
Crosby tied for the NHL lead with eight goals in January and wasted little time getting back to work following an All-Star snub, one he likely deserved after a sluggish opening three months of the season. His three scores against the Senators came from close range, including a pair from right on the doorstep.
The hat trick was the ninth of Crosby's career and first since Oct. 12, 2013, against Tampa Bay. It was his first natural hat trick since doing it against the Atlanta Thrashers on Dec. 2, 2010.
Pittsburgh dominated the Senators for long stretches, taking a 2-0 lead on goals by Cullen and Letang before Ottawa recorded its first shot, but a shaky performance by the typically solid Fleury allowed the Senators to get back in it.
Ottawa ripped off three straight to jump in front 4-3, including a pair in a 24-second span of the second period with both teams playing 4-on-4. Pageau tipped in Erik Karlsson's rebound. Shortly thereafter, Fleury was unable to freeze a rebound from Zack Smith, and Ceci darted in to poke the puck between Fleury's pads to put the Senators up 3:25 into the second.
The 403rd consecutive sellout at Consol Energy Center let out a sarcastic roar when Fleury managed to stop Ottawa's next rush, Fleury's two shutouts last month apparently a distant memory.
Fleury finally settled down, giving Crosby and Pittsburgh's scorching power play a chance to go to work. Crosby tied it at 4 with a wrist shot from the left circle 6:10 into the second and gave the Penguins the lead for good just more than 10 minutes later when he parked himself right in front and had little trouble pushing a perfect centering pass from Evgeni Malkin by Anderson.
Crosby increased Pittsburgh's advantage to 6-4 early in the third period, converting what looked like a potential turnover by Kunitz into a goal when he sprinted to the crease and redirected the puck into the net.
The Penguins needed the cushion. Dziurzynski's first goal with 4:10 to go brought Ottawa within one, and twice the Senators clanged shots off the crossbar.
NOTES: Penguins forward Eric Fehr left late in the second period with a lower-body injury and did not return. ... Pittsburgh assistant coach Jacques Martin was not on the bench after feeling ill shortly before the game. ... Ottawa begins a three-game homestand on Thursday against Edmonton. The Penguins play at Florida on Friday. ... Pittsburgh went 2 for 5 on the power play. The Senators were 0 for 1.


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Whether moving across town or across the country, realizing just how much stuff you have is the worst thing about packing up your belongings. For a lot of people, the solution to having too much stuff is to either donate all the things they no longer need or have a moving sale to help pay for the move. Holding a moving sale is a great option if you want to minimize the cost of the move.
Choosing An Online or Garage Sale Prior To Moving
Try to decide early in the process if you are planning a moving sale because it can affect many parts of the moving process. The first decision you face is whether to have a garage sale or if you want to have a online moving sale.
An online sale can be done on online ad sites such as Craigslist. Online sites allow you to list high price items and groups of items individually or in one inclusive listing.
A traditional way of getting rid of belongings before a move is a garage sale. With the internet, however, what is becoming more common is a combination of a garage sale and an online sale. For example, after a garage sale, remaining big ticket items can be sold online. Other items not worth the time and effort can easily be donated to thrift stores or charities.
Planning A Moving Sale In Madison WI
With moving sales, it is important to be sure to complete them far enough in advance of your move so the details do not interfere with the moving process. A good moving checklist for Madison WI homeowners should include the following steps –
- Set your moving sale date as early in your moving process as possible (garage and/or online)
- Create the marketing as soon as that date is set (ads, fliers, email or social media, etc.)
- Designate where you will store your moving sale items (self-storage facilities)
- Designate a corner of your garage, spare bedroom, etc., for storage and staging – make sure your family knows to put moving sale items there
- Start sorting. This is an extremely important part of any move. Whether you're having a moving sale or not, your belongings will be split by what is moving with you and what is left behind
- Be sure to have boxes ready for packing, selling, donating, and bags for trash
- Number One Rule – every item should be immediately designated as one of those categories and dealt with appropriately – never handle any items twice
IMPORTANT – before moving, remember the more items you leave behind, the lower the moving costs and the less personal time, energy and patience you will expend.
Organize Moving – Or Not Moving – Your Belongings
To help focus your moving efforts, consider limiting the number of boxes you are willing to move. With a limit set, prioritizing your belongings will have more focus and decisions will become clearer.
As you prepare for your moving sale, try to organize categories of items. General categories include clothing, kitchenware, books, sports equipment, tools, and so on. At the end of each day, dust, clean, polish and sort items for the moving sale. This will help you avoid staying up late the night before your moving sale prepping for sale. If possible, pricing while cleaning will help save time as well.
Holding Your Moving Sale
In the week leading up to your moving sale, you will need to complete a few more tasks for a successful sale. An online moving sale is different than a garage sale, so adapt the steps below as needed.
- Get your family excited about helping out with the sale — commissions on items sold, dinner at their favorite restaurants, etc.
- Have enough tables to display all sale items
- Put up signs at intersections leading to your moving sale
- Publish online advertising/announcements
- Post pictures of sale items on social media to interest of friends, family, and co-workers
- Be sure prices are clearly marked
- Be able to make change for buyers – have cash on hand
- Have bags and boxes for sold items
- Know what you will do with unsold items
As you prepare for your moving sale, you may need storage for extra items. At A+ Storage we have a variety of traditional self-storage units and climate controlled storage units in our Madison WI storage facilities. There are also new climate controlled storage units at the Sun Prairie location. Our standard self storage facilities in Madison, Sun Prairie and DeForest are convenient for Dane County residents in Waunakee, Middleton, Verona, Fitchburg, Oregon, McFarland, Monona and Cottage Grove.
Call A+ Storage at 608-837-5113 or email us for details on our self storage units in Madison WI, Sun Prairie and Deforest can be a part of your moving sale plans.


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Today is the eve of the last game of the season. You don't want to play those this early in bowl season but it's better than missing bowl season altogether.
While you're reading this from the warm confines of your home or office, or your home office (me), the team is preparing like it always does the day before a game.
Also more on Anthony Cook and D'Shawn Jamison in the Scoop Part II.
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From Brad Melton…
I knew they were out there, but I didn't know where. I knew they were close, but I didn't know how near. I knew they were out of sight, but I didn't know it was only because I wasn't looking.
We began early at 05:30 on this cold Friday morning in Northwest Arkansas, well before the day shelters, libraries, and handful of services would open. My good friend Ryan Riley and I carpooled from the Bentonville/Rogers area and arrived down South at the Seven Hills Homeless Day Shelter near the University of Arkansas campus in Fayetteville. There, we met up with our friends Jon Woodward, Michael Drager, Scott Page, Dr. Kevin Fitzpatrick, four Fayetteville police officers, and a local newspaper reporter. We divided up census forms, checked our flashlights, split into two groups, and proceeded to the first of many campsites.
They were among trees and weeds, alongside railroad tracks and drainage ditches, behind parks and dark alleys, and beside residences and commerce. All were within city limits of this thriving Northwest Arkansas community. The largest camp was on a caring gentleman's property, behind his place of business. There were over a half dozen tents and a camper van. It reminded me of vacation campgrounds that my family had enjoyed. Except, for them, this was no vacation. There was no tourist destination to escape to and no time of rest and recreation to return from. For them, this was home.
Many of the "campers" we saw this early morning had modern tents. And many had a hodge-podge of extra reinforcement to insulate them from the cold and wet. Tarps were spread over many of the tents and twigs, leaves, and garbage pressed up to the sides in an attempt to block the wind. But one man's campsite was strikingly simple. Old tarps draped over some kind of structure that framed a barely 3 feet tall homemade pup tent. (It seems odd calling such a thing homemade when it was made in such a "home" as this.); Some kind of makeshift flooring on cinder blocks separated the man from the cold hard ground. His site was inside a tree line, butted up to a tall chain link fence overgrown with vine. On the other side, a drainage ditch and dark back alley separated his home from local businesses. A few yards to the West, the hustle and bustle of early morning South Fayetteville traffic buzzed by.
A couple thoughts struck me as Jon proceeded to interview this man. It was not the location or condition of his campsite that made me pause. Although, I will remember both well. No, the sobering reality that I will not soon forget, was that this gentleman was pushing 70 years old and had lived the last 10 of those years on this very spot -on the cold hard ground, between a chain link fence and drainage ditch, behind local business, and near the unknowing daily commuters of South Fayetteville.
Even though the temperature would later rise to an unseasonably warm day, it was still what I considered to be very cold in the pre-dawn hours of this Friday morning. At each campsite, after we had finished our search and interviews, we would be welcomed by the warmth of a waiting Fayetteville police cruiser. But our friends in the trees were afforded no such luxury. I image more than a few of them would have coveted my hard plastic seat behind the cage and shield in our toasty warm patrol car. Fortunately, we learned that many campers on this cold morning were taking advantage of warmer temporary shelter. Emphasis on the word "temporary".
After we made our rounds, we headed back to Seven Hills where we met up with our friends in the other group. The day shelter had just opened and guests were being served hot coffee and donated pastries and hard boiled eggs. Dr. Fitzpatrick, the officers, and reporter got on with the rest of their day. While Jon and Mike took care of some business inside the shelter, Scott, Ryan, and I interviewed the guests while they filled their insides and warmed their outsides.
After our last interview, Jon and Mike invited Scott, Ryan, and me to breakfast at the Razor's Edge, a local Razorback fan hotspot just off the University of Arkansas campus, only a few blocks from the shelter and a couple of the camps we had just visited. At breakfast we shared beautiful conversation among like-minded souls. It was a great meal and great time with great friends. A too rare opportunity for a group of guys who share a bit of faith, passion, and purpose. If the first meal of the day is named to designate the breaking of a fast, then we sure broke it this morning. But as we sat feasting on our plates of hotcakes, biscuits and gravy, hash browns, grits, eggs, bacon, sausage, and sweet rolls, I couldn't help but think of hard chairs, weathered faces, dirty hands, donated coffee, hard-boiled eggs, and leftover pastries. Our feast and fellowship now over, with my belly full and goodbyes given, I stepped into my nice warm car and drove North, among the hustle and bustle of unknowing commuters, toward my well-paid white-collar job, comfortable home with full pantries and closets, extra beds, and a loving family.
It has been said that we are given what we've been given to share with those who have not. That if we have more than we need and we know of someone lacking, but do not share, then we are guilty of stealing what was not meant for us to keep. No better and no different, than the thief who would break in and steal from me. This day I saw their faces, I shook their hands, I shared kind words, and I wished them well. Then I returned to "my" world. I returned with the knowledge of now that I saw their struggle, now that I heard their voice, now that I know they are there, I can no longer deny it – I am that thief.
"I saw what I saw and I can't forget it,
I heard what I heard and I can't go back,
I know what I know and I can't deny it.
Something on the road, cut me to the soul."
— Sara Groves


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Halfway to the Grave
A Night Huntress NovelBook - 2007
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Mix some women of the otherworld, some not grosso laurell k. hamilton and throw in some buffy and you get this wonderfully cheesy, hilarious fun to read book with characters you want to hear more from.
I can't understand why this book got such good reviews. I'm a huge fan of urban fantasy - Patricia Briggs, Ilona Andrews, for example, but this book was so cheesy and predictable. Ugh. I actually hated it.
Fun, witty and humorous, Halfway to the Grave features a half-vampire heroine who hunts vampires for revenge and her growing desire for the British master vampire who is training her to be a better hunter. The book was good for a paranormal romance, but it was too cheesy for me to take too seriously.
My only complaint is that the books should be read in order and are not clearly numbered. Jeanine Frost is one of my favorite paranormal adventure writers. Interesting characters, fast pace, good plot twists, a page turner. Warning: You may lose sleep reading.
Could not put this book down! It is a great read that I have read over and over. Love this whole series. Jeaniene Frost is an amazing author!
I laughed, I cried, I lusted! This book took my breath away, and I started the second in this series straight away, this is a story I don't want to put down or put away!
Hard to decide between a 3 or 4 star because it's in between imho. I really enjoyed the fun action but it was an easy read. Satisfying plot for a 1st in the series. I enjoyed Cat and Bones and will continue with the series.
Loved this book, couldn't put it down. Lots of steamy romance, nicely written characters and well written fight scenes
This book/series is an absolute must read! Each book ended up being on of those "I just can't put it down" types and I absolutely love Cat and Bones!! Great read, lots of detail and leaves you wanting more at the end.
Sweet young protegee falls for seductive master vampire. They have lots of adventures and sex.
The novel strives for fun and action, but doesn't quite hit the mark.
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No one believes in vampires... but Cat Crawfield knows better. She's been hunting them for the last 6 years, ever since learning her father is a vampire, a monster who raped her mother. Cat hunts partially to appease her mother, who fears Cat's unusual abilities. But then Cat meets Bones....
Bones isn't like the other vampires. Although he is a master vampire, he doesn't want to kill Cat or even stop her from killing other vampires. Instead, he has a proposition for Cat: work with him to kill specific vampires and he'll teach her all he knows. Will Cat be able to overcome her prejudices long enough to work with Bones?
Cat is a spunky heroine, dedicated to avenging her mother. She doesn't want to like Bones, or any other vampire for that matter. After all, her mother has drilled into her head just how evil vampires are... and just how evil the vampire half of Cat is. Killing vampires is the only way she can redeem herself, or is it?
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Scanning ISIS: What has been going on in the past year and a half?
In light of recent events, GIMUN's blog has decided to publish a special series on the theme of terrorism. This first article will be followed by different perspectives on this subject over the next few weeks, presented to you by various journalists.


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This was a repeat breeding of Darla and Solomon, and produced our Sunshine, who went on to produce many working dogs, several of them donated to their handlers. This pairing produced amazingly people oriented dogs, that were perfect for the needs of medical service work. Amazing pigment and coat color and exquisite conformation.


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Vans Showdown to Hit Huntington Beach
Coming to Huntington Beach during the 2019 Vans US Open of Surfing, the Vans Showdown is a concept created for skateboarding by skateboarders. This brand-new invitational street contest will give a nod to the iconic contests of the past, inviting some of the world's best skateboarders to compete in a premium street course design on August 2-4. The Vans Showdown contest aims to celebrate style and creativity. Far removed from the usual format of any other current skateboarding competition, this event will take place on a new course where Vans partnered with hard good brands Quasi, Toy Machine, Girl, and Baker to create something truly unique.
Keep an eye on vansusopenofsurfing.com for all the latest updates, and perhaps get a sneak peek of what you can expect from the very first Vans Showdown ever.
Confirmed Skaters As Of Today: Kyle Walker, Beatrice Domond, Kader Sylla, Breanna Geering, Pedro Delfino, Etienne Gagne, Dick Rizzo, Josh Wilson, Justin Figeroa, Riley Hawk, Austyn Gillette, Collin Provost, Tyler Pacheco, Blake Carpenter, Johan Stuckey, Mason Silva, Cyril Jackson, Axel Cruysbergh, Miles Willard, Yonnie Cruz, Annie Guglia, Austin Kanfoush, Andrew Wilson, Caleb Barnett, Chima Ferguson, Cyrus Bennett, Dane Barker, Diego Todd, Donovan Piscopo, Elijah Berle, Fabiana Delfino, Gilbert Crockett, Rowan Zorilla, Shari White and more!
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Kilo is an energetic male dog who is believed to be between 1 – 2 years old. Unfortunately he has had little to no training so would need a strong dedicated owner but he is willing to learn (we have been working on the sit command which he seems to have picked up). Despite his lack of training he has got a lovely personality that just needs boundaries to enable him to truly shine. He is not suited to a rural life as there's too much going on that he's not used to & he's a very strong boy. Not good with cats & is unfortunately too full on for our dogs. Please don't be put off with these things – with time & training he'd be a lovely loyal friend for someone – he just craves love & attention. He has been desexed, microchipped & is up to date with his vaccinations.
Kilo is fostered in Warkworth.
Enquire now to meet this beautiful boy!


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Source: Globe and Mail - GREG KEENAN
The Chrysler entrant in the North American muscle car wars will roar out of Brampton, Ont.,
DaimlerChrysler Canada Inc. announced Tuesday that the Dodge Challenger will be assembled in its Brampton plant about a year from now.
"Quickly bringing desirable new products such as the Dodge Challenger to market is critical to keeping our plants humming and our dealerships busy," Reid Bigland, president of DaimlerChrysler Canada Inc., said in a statement.
The Challenger made its re-entry to the Chrysler world at the 2006 North American International Auto Show in Detroit, but it was overshadowed by the return of a rival, the Chevrolet Camaro from General Motors Corp.
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A prospective study of outcome of boomerang-shaped chondroperichondrial graft in Type i tympanoplasty
Yogendra Kumar Pareek, Digvijay Singh Rawat, Yogesh Aseri, Manish Kumar Tailor, Praveen Chandra Verma, Bhuvenesh K Singh
Department of ENT, JLN Medical College and Hospital, Ajmer, Rajasthan, India
Correspondence Address:Dr. Digvijay Singh RawatDepartment of ENT, JLN Medical College and Hospital, Ajmer, Rajasthan IndiaSource of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: NoneCheckDOI: 10.4103/indianjotol.INDIANJOTOL_31_18
Source of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: None
DOI: 10.4103/indianjotol.INDIANJOTOL_31_18
Context: Cartilage has proven to be an excellent graft material inside the middle ear. The use of cartilage for tympanic membrane grafting may provide additional benefits in some difficult situations. Aims: The study was planned to evaluate the graft uptake and hearing after placement of "boomerang-shaped chondroperichondrial graft" in Type I tympanoplasty. Settings and Design: The prospective study was conducted on 40 patients having chronic suppurative otitis media with no active disease at least for last 6 weeks in a tertiary care center of North India. Patients having cholesteatoma and ossicular erosion/or necrosis were excluded from the study.Subjects and Methods: Those patients underwent tympanoplasty Type I by postaural approach and underlay grafting using "boomerang-shaped chondroperichondrial graft" from tragal cartilage and were followed up for 3 months. Hearing evaluation was performed preoperatively and postoperatively after 3 months. Statistical Analysis Used: The mean, range, and standard deviation of air conduction and air-bone gap were calculated and compared with preoperative findings. Results: The mean age of study group was 26.23 ± 12.46 years. Ear discharge (100%) and hearing impairment (87.5%) were the chief presenting complaints. The mean duration of ear discharge was 6.67 ± 6.75 years. Type I tympanoplasty was performed in all cases using "boomerang-shaped chondroperichondrial graft" harvested from tragal cartilage. Graft was taken up at the 3rd month in all patients. The preoperative mean air conduction was 43.21 ± 7.17 dB, which at the 3rd month improved to 36.49 ± 6.60 (P = 0.00004). Preoperative mean air-bone gap was 25.45 ± 8.44 dB which was improved to 19.31 ± 8.18 dB postoperatively at the 3rd month (P = 0.0014). Conclusions: Boomerang-shaped chondroperichondrial graft has excellent "take rate" in Type I tympanoplasty.
Keywords: Boomerang-shaped chondroperichondrial graft, cartilage tympanoplasty, chondroperichondrial graft


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4:45 p.m.
It's over, at least for the United States markets, and in some ways the day was the biggest decline since Sept. 17, 2001, the day the markets reopened after the terrorist attacks. It was the first 500-point down day for the Dow since then, and the first 4.7 percent drop for the S.&P. 500 since then.
At least Lehman knows that its bankruptcy is deemed alarming by investors, even if neither the government nor its peers were willing to save it.
We did breach the July 15 lows on major indexes, although not on the index of financial shares in the S.&P. 500. That index fell more than 10 percent for the day, but perhaps the fact it is still above the July low is a signal that worries are not as bad as they were then.
Here is the breakdown of S.&P. sectors for today and since July 15, showing where the worries are, and are not.
Since July 15 (S.&P. down 1.8%)
Consumer discretionary, up 12.6%
Financials, up 9.1%
Consumer staples, up 6.2%
Health Care, up 0.7%
Industrials, down 0.2%
Information technology, down 5.7%
Telecom, down 6.7%
Materials, down 9.6%
Utilities, down 12.0%
Energy, down 17.5%
Today (S.&P. down 4.7%)
Consumer staples, down 1.5%
Health care, down 2.0%
Consumer discretionary, down 2.8%
Utilities, down 3.2%
Information technology, down 3.6%
Industrials, down 4.3%
Telecom, down 4.6%
Materials, down 5.2%
Energy, down 6.9%
Financials, down 10.4%
Those numbers tell us that the biggest falls over the past two months, and among the largest declines today, came in the energy and materials stocks that had benefited from rising commodity prices and inflation worries. Now recession is the concern, and they are doing badly.
And that is it for today. Thanks for reading.
4:27 p.m.
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Richard Fuld dominated Lehman for many years. I once met with him and a number of other top executives, and none of them seemed to have anything to say, unless Mr. Fuld asked them to speak, in which case they hastened to agree with him.
But judging by this poster outside Lehman headquarters today, there was some resentment. Among the comments: "Lehman is well capitalized," something Mr. Fuld insisted to the end; "I hope his villa is safe," "The Fed can't help everyone," and "Greed and ego it was."
3:45 p.m.
The bulls must have gone to sleep at lunch. Or perhaps all the optimists were in Europe, and the slide started when they went to dinner.
Or maybe it was the briefing at the White House by Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr., which started at 1:30 p.m.
He suggested we focus on how "our financial system came together, those institutional leaders coming together to do things to support the markets."
Did I miss something? They came together, and they played a game of chicken. Nobody bluffed, and Lehman went under. But he seems very impressed by the decision of the big banks to put up money that they — and no one else — might be able to use if things get bad for one of them.
Mr. Paulson blamed past actions for the problems, pointing to a depression era regulatory system. But he ducked an opportunity to address whether decisions made in Washington during the Bush administration played a role. "I'll leave history to the historians."
He also said the "long-term economic fundamentals" of the United States were as good or better than any other large developed country's fundamentals. There is a rule of thumb that when the government proclaims the fundamentals are good, you should sell.
And if they praise only the "long-term" fundamentals, implying that the short-term ones are not so great, that does not sound encouraging at all.
Mr. Paulson, whose performance has been impressive this year, made it clear that it would take a while — years, in fact — to get over the current housing and mortgage mess.
"I believe there is a reasonable chance that the biggest part of that housing crisis can be behind us in a number of months. I'm not saying two or three months, but in months as opposed to years. I think we will have housing issues and mortgage issues for years."
And it looks like the market will close near its lows for the day, and below the July 15 levels.
2:45 p.m.
The S.& P. 500 is challenging the lows it made exactly two months ago today. (Beware the ides of July, and September.)
So I looked to see what were some of the best and worst investments within the index over that period.
The answer surprised me. Some of the best were financial stocks. The panic over regional banks has ebbed dramatically.
Here are some of the gains, from the July 15 close to mid-afternoon today:
First Horizon, up 97%
Zions Bancorp, up 89%
Regions Financial, up 68%
Wells Fargo, up 65%
Bank of America, uo 50%, even with today's decline
US Bancorp, up 49%
Even Pulte Homes is up 75%.
The losers, aside from the obvious ones, such as Lehman and A.I.G., include a bunch of energy companies. And there was one high-flying internet company, Akamai Technologies, which cut its profit forecasts. Now there is a trip down memory lane.
You may remember Akamai as one of the hot initial public offerings of 1999. It went public at $26 a share, and closed the first day at $145.19. It peaked at $345.50 on the first trading day of 2000. By October of 2002, the shares traded for less than $1. Now it is at about $17, down 45% over two months.
I saved the best for last. The single best performing stock in the S.&P. 500 over those two months is (drum roll please) MBIA, the bond insurance company. It is up 183%. (It is still down 34% for the year, but if your timing was perfect . . . )
2:30 p.m.
At last, we know who to blame. Matt Saltmarsh reports from Europe:
It must have been Prime Minister Gordon Brown of Britain who put the hex on Lehman Brothers – at least according to a whimsical e-mail that is circulating the trading desks in the City, as the financial district of London is known.
Mr. Brown's popularity has plummeted since he took over as leader from Tony Blair in June 2007. It seems that almost everything he attempts to do turns toxic — from tax breaks to energy saving initiatives and European summits. He now faces calls to resign from within his Labor Party, which is running about 20 points behind the opposition Conservatives in the latest opinion polls.
Now, traders have found a way to blame Mr. Brown for the collapse the Lehman. In April 2004, when he was still chancellor of the Exchequer and responsible for the economy, Mr. Brown officially opened Lehman Brothers' European headquarters building in Canary Wharf, in the Docklands area of east London.
"I would like to pay tribute to the contribution you and your company make to the prosperity of Britain,'' Mr. Brown said at the time. "During its one hundred and fifty year history, Lehman Brothers has always been an innovator, financing new ideas and inventions before many others even began to realize their potential."
"And it is part of the greatness not just of Lehman Brothers but of the City of London, that as the world economy has opened up, you have succeeded not by sheltering your share of a small protected national market but always by striving for a greater and greater share of the growing global market."
Bloggers and traders are now joking that Lehman was doomed from that day.
2:15 p.m.
Back from lunch, to find that Standard & Poor's has issued a news release saying they have downgraded Lehman Brothers, which previously had a Single-A rating.
It took all morning to get that decision made?
1:15 p.m.
A.I.G. shares have bounced from their lows on news that New York State wants to help. The governor says the state insurance department is going to let A.I.G. take $20 billion from insurance subsidiaries and lend it to the parent.
A.I.G. was always said to be a politically connected company, and this seems to confirm that. The announcement, you will note, did not come from the insurance regulator.
Governor David Paterson says this is "not a government bailout," and he will be right . . . if A.I.G. can meet its obligations. If not, the insurance subsidiaries will have that much less cash to meet their obligations, and then a state insurance fund could be hit to pay claims.
But don't worry. Governor Paterson says A.I.G. is "extraordinarily solvent." If he explained why a company that is not only solvent, but extraordinarily solvent, can't borrow money elsewhere, I did not see it in the wire accounts.
In any case, A.I.G. is back to $6.90, almost double the low of $3.50 hit this morning.
1 p.m.
Share prices are broadly stable again, with the Dow down less than 300 points.
One good thing about the financial crisis is that it overshadows other things. The industrial production report this morning seems to have been almost ignored. But the most interesting part to me is that production of consumer goods in August was down 3 percent from a year earlier. The last time such production fell that much was in 1980.
To be sure, that is due largely to a slump in auto production, but even production of nondurable consumer goods is down.
Could it be that consumers really are pulling back?
12:15 p.m.
Vikas Bajaj reports:
The spread between three-month Libor and 3-month T-bills blew out to 200 basis points from 134 on Friday and 111 last Monday. We are now widest since March when we hit 203.
To translate from the finance, this indicates continued worry about bank credit. It is not a good sign, but given the fact that we've learned some big banks are not too big to fail, it is not a big surprise.
11:55 a.m.
What does a central banker do when everything goes wrong?
Joachim Fels, a Morgan Stanley economist, answers that question today:
"This weekend's events raise the probability of one or several major central banks cutting interest rates, possibly as early as this week, and perhaps in a concerted action.
Depending on market developments in the next couple of days, even bold action on rates can no longer be ruled out. China's surprise rate cut today may be a taste of things to come, even though our China economist Qing Wang believes that it was motivated by the desire to cushion the economic downturn.
Clearly, the first line of defense is an even more generous provision of funding liquidity. However, IF financial markets become disorderly, with severe price action and a seizing up of market liquidity, central banks may want to counter the implied tightening of financial conditions and cut rates in order to stabilize confidence and prevent a negative feedback loop between falling asset prices and the real economy."
11:50 a.m.
It looks as if prices are slipping. The financials are testing their lows of the day.
One of the few stocks that is up today is McDonald's. Do investors figure it will drain customers from fancier restaurants?
11:15 a.m.
Is someone not confident that B of A will close on the Merrill deal?
Merrill is trading, as I write this, at $21.47 per share. That is a 14 percent discount to the value of the Bank of America stock that is being offered. Each Merrill share will be exchanged for 0.8595 shares of B of A, now trading at $29.01 and putting the value of the offer at $24.93 per share.
11:05 a.m.
Regulator bashing is in. But what would they do about it?
From Brian Knowlton of The International Herald Tribune:
WASHINGTON: Both major-party presidential candidates reacted quickly Monday to the latest financial-market turmoil, agreeing on one thing: to blame ineffective regulatory oversight and regulation, and vow to do
Senator John McCain, the Republican candidate, said he was "glad to see that the Federal Reserve and the Treasury Department have said no to using taxpayer money to bail out Lehman Brothers." Lehman's problems,
he said, were "the latest reminder of ineffective regulation and management." That reaction was consistent with his earlier aversion to taxpayer-funded bailouts.
Senator Barack Obama, his Democratic rival, side-stepped the bailout question but faulted "eight years of policies that have shredded consumer protections, loosened oversight and regulation and encouraged outsized bonuses to C.E.O.'s while ignoring middle-class Americans."
10:55 a.m.
It was a couple of years ago that we learned A.I.G. had sold, and bought, so-called finite insurance to manipulate financial statements. At the time, the predominant reaction among Wall Streeters was amazement that Hank Greenberg would do that when A.I.G. was so strong without it.
I thought, but don't think I ever wrote, that perhaps we should wonder if the strength we thought we saw reflected other games that we had not recognized.
Lesson: If you find out management is willing to cut corners in the financial statements, you should flee.
An Australian money manager writes, in part:
"A.I.G. was not a conceiveable bankruptcy in my mind. Sure I knew about the fake accounting with finite insurance and the mortgage insurer. I even knew they owned $20 billion in "super-senior" so they were clearly stupid. But I never knew enough."
10:40 a.m.
Barry Ritholtz, whose blog is often worth reading, weighs in with his lessons of this fiasco.
They are all worth reading, but these three are my favorites:
Go Big: Don't just risk your company, risk the entire world of Finance. Modest incompetence is insufficient — if you merely destroy your own company, you won't get rescued. You have to threaten to bring down the entire global financial system. The fear and disruption caused by a Bear collapse is why it was saved. (A.I.G. has the right idea on this)
Balance Sheets Matter: Focus on the media, complain about short sellers, obsess about PR. These are the hallmarks of a failing strategy — and a grand waste of time. Why? Its call insolvency. ALL THAT MATTERS IS THE FIRMS' BALANCE SHEET. Lehman's liabilities exceed its assets, and they are now toast. Merrill Lynch got a lot of the junk off of its books, and got a takeover at 70% premium to its closing price. And Credit Suisse, who dumped much of its bad paper many quarters ago, is in a better tactical position than most of its peers.
Unintended Consequences lurk everywhere: When the Fed opened up the liquidity spigots via its alphabet soup of lending facilities, the fear was of the inflationary impacts. But the bigger issue should have been Complacency. The Dick Fulds of the world said after Bear, these new facilities "put the liquidity issue to rest." Lehman got complacent once liquidity was no longer an issue — perhaps they acted too slowly to resolve their insolvency issue in time.
10:35 a.m.
One hour into U.S. trading, the markets seem stable, trading in a relatively narrow band. It isn't good news, but it isn't 1987 either.
10:25 a.m.
Latest news of the decline of America as the world financial center:
NEW YORK (Sept. 15, 2008) ― Dow Jones Indexes, a leading global index provider, today announced component changes in the Dow Jones Financial Services Titans 30 Index.
Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. (United States, Financial Services, LEH) will be removed from the Dow Jones Financial Services Titans 30 Index and replaced by Mega Financial Holding Co. Ltd. (Taiwan, Financial Services, 2886.TW). Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. is being removed because it filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
10:20 a.m.
Robert Bruner, the dean of the Business School at the University of Virginia, is one who did see this coming. His book on the Panic of 1907, published last year, saw parallels between then and now.
When I checked in with him this morning, he sounded like he wanted to be optimistic.
"What we have seen in all previous crises is that the bottom is marked by the collapse or rescue of major institutions that were thought to be beyond the reach of the crisis.
"If this crises follows that, the events of the past 10 days may mark the nadir."
Yes, but will it follow that pattern? He's not confident.
"I'll give you 50-50 odds that this is the bottom. I am concerned about the spread of the crisis offshore, and to other markets. If the crisis is contained, then I think the odds are dramatically improved that this is the bottom.
"But if Russia fails to refinance the debts coming due by the end of the year, if consumers dramatically pull back on their spending, and if corporate investing really pulls back, we're in for more heavy weather."
10:10 a.m.
It may sound foolish to see an encouraging sign in the fact financial stocks are only down about 3.5 percent so far today. But it is encouraging.
The decline in the S&P. financial index is not close to approaching the lows hit in July, while the S.&P. 500 is approaching those levels.
9:40 a.m.
The U.S. market opened, with indexes down 3 percent or so. At least that is better than the 4 percent or 5 percent declines in most European markets.
Usually when one company buys another, there is fulsome praise of the company being acquired. But these are not usual times.
Louise Story reports that Ken Lewis of Bank of America, on a conference call this morning, said he believed Merrill Lynch was "more likely than not" to survive the current turmoil. Now there's an endorsement.
Of course, this is the same guy who stepped up to rescue Countrywide Financial, not once but twice. So it would be understandable if he has lost a little confidence in his judgment.
Louise adds:
Mr. Lewis has long been ambiguous about investment banking and cut thousands of jobs in that area after a large string of losses last year. Asked by an analyst back then if he had a desire to pursue a deal with Bear Stearns, Mr. Lewis shot back: "I've had all the fun I can stand in investment banking."
Now Mr. Lewis is singing a different tune.
"Maybe in some ways we were in no man's land," he said about his past efforts in investment banking. "It has been frustrating, frankly, and we have had some stops and goes obviously. But this solves that. This creates the company instantly that would have taken a decade to build."
8:50 a.m.
There are sharp falls in markets in Europe, and the U.S. stock futures are also down, but that may not be the most interesting news of the day.
China has decided to cut interest rates. Never mind fighting inflation. Now it fears recession. And oil prices are tumbling. That is good news for inflation, but it probably reflects more worries about a sharp downturn in global growth.
5:55 a.m.
When the year began, the Securities and Exchange Commission was the primary regulator for five big financial firms.
Then Bear Stearns went down, despite reassurances from all involved that it was well capitalized.
Now Lehman is in bankruptcy. It was less than a week ago that it claimed to have ample capital and liquidity.
And Merrill Lynch has agreed to be taken over by Bank of America. It evidently feared being next in line.
The remaining two are Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley.
It is too early to draw all the lessons; as I write this the Dow futures are down 300 points, and the S.&P. futures are close to the July lows that I thought would hold.
But there are a few available.
1. The capital rules were far too lax, and they still are. They may have made sense if you assumed perfectly liquid and smoothly functioning markets, but that is like saying a roof does not leak when it is sunny and mild.
2. The end of the rules separating commercial banks from investment banks — Gramm Leach Bliley — is one reason the government is much more deeply involved now. Bank of America and J.P. Morgan Chase, the fire-sale buyers of Merrill and Bear, have government guaranteed deposits. That amounts to a subsidy, and when times get tough the subsidized firm has a big advantage over the unsubsidized one. To keep the others going, the Fed now will lend them money secured by almost anything they can find, including common stocks.
3. Those who were complaining, only months ago, that excessive regulation was making American markets uncompetitive, had it exactly wrong. It was a lack of regulation of the shadow financial system and its players that allowed this to happen. The regulators might not have gotten it right if they had tried to put limits on leverage, or assure that it was clear what risks were being taken, in the world of derivatives and securitizations. But deciding not to even try, and assuming that risks traded secretly would somehow end up in the hands of those most able to bear them, reflected ideology, not analysis.


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August has been a thrilling month. People visiting, grad school orientation, and grad school classes start tomorrow. Here's what I loved in August!
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Drag Me Down by One Direction
Workday Jams playlist on Spotify
Welcome To Cam Country – EP by Cam
Reading – Books
A Triple Knot – Emma Campion
Written in My Own Heart's Blood: A Novel (Outlander) – Diana Gabaldon
Reading – Blog Posts
5 Ways To Expose Your Blog To New Readers
19 Tricks For Planning and Creating Shareable Content
How To Start a Profitable And Magnificent Business with $50 in 3 Months
Wearing – Clothes, etc.
J. Crew toothpick skinny jeans
V-neck tees (Madewell and Victoria's Secret PINK)
Wearing – Beauty
Criminal Minds
Lie To Me
What did you love in August?


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MONSTERS SCARE YOU!: 'Shut Up Our Song Is On' Video Released
Seattle's post-hardcore/electro band MONSTERS SCARE YOU! has teamed up with AbsolutePunk.net to premiere the music video for the track "Shut Up Our Song Is On". The song will be featured on the group's Century Media debut, due out in early 2013.
MONSTERS SCARE YOU! was formed in 2008, and in their short existence, has created an enthusiastic fan base with the combination of pop, metal and electronica.
In 2010, MONSTERS SCARE YOU! went into the studio to work with engineer/producer Joel "Casey Jones" on the "Teratophobia" EP. The CD's release was followed by a West Coast tour consisting of 23 shows in 25 days. With increasing crowds and buzz, MONSTERS SCARE YOU! became one of the top unsigned bands in Alternative Press magazine.
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Ribbon Cutting for Edward Jones Financial Advisor, Office of Vic Bernstein
Posted on Thursday, January 8, 2015
We were happy to celebrate the Grand Opening of Edward Jones Financial Advisor, Office of Vic Bernstein. Vic relocated his office to 622 Loudon Rd., Suite 202 and celebrated his grand opening yesterday with a ribbon cutting ceremony. An active member with the Chamber, we know Vic will have even more success in his new location.