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Bryan Hansel
Bryan Hansel is an outdoor photographer, writer and guide. His work appears in national and regional magazines and newspapers, in both print and broadcast advertisement, on numerous websites, and on the walls of many homes. He lives in Grand Marais, MN. Learn more about Bryan on his website or...Read more
David Brislance
David passed away in February 2018. David and his wife Mary had lived in Lutsen since 2003. In his former life, he was an educator in the art and civics field for 30 years. He photographed primarily wildlife, which made up 90% of his work. He spent hours each day in the field chronicling in photos the birds and animals of Cook County.
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David Johnson
David Johnson is a photographer from Grand Marais. He is a 4th generation cook county resident, who has spent most of his life in the forests, lakes, and streams of cook county. He started taking photos with his brownie instamatic as a little kid and continued to adult life. Now with some better equipment, his photos have been on TV, along with being published in magazines and...Read more
David L. Grinstead
David Grinstead has studied photography since the day his older brother Bob loaned him a Nikon F1 camera in 1966. That first experience prompted him to shoot black and white photography for his college paper. Grinstead was more interested in frogs and sunrises than the politics and personalities of academia and soon began concentrating on nature and natural landscape photography. Grinstead...Read more
Dennis Chick
I was first introduced to photography through my parents' 8mm family films and photos in the 1950's. I've now been shooting photos for over 20 years, and have progressed from film cameras, to digital "point and shoot', to digital SLR. I'm continually learning the many different aspects of photography....including composition, editing and...Read more
Don Davison
Don Davison has lived in Cook County since 1976. He enjoys nature photography and says, "I'm that guy you see out there on the beach getting soaked by the waves. I take my camera everywhere." Don lives with his wife Ivy on Devil Track Lake. Learn more about Don's photography on his blog....Read more
Ellen Stubbs
Ellen Stubbs has enjoyed exploring photography since getting her first 35mm camera at age 18. "I find photography helps me see things I otherwise would miss." Nature and landscapes are special loves, but her tastes are eclectic and sometimes quirky. Cook County has been a favorite haunt since 1973, and she spends much of her time in Lutsen with her spouse, Karen.Read more
Gary Siesennop
Gary Siesennop has been a Cook County resident since March 1980. He has enjoyed photographing birds, other wildlife species and scenery in the western half of the United States since 1971. He purchased his first 35mm SLR film camera and telephoto lenses in 1976 when he lived in Ely, MN. The very first images he captured with that camera were of a wolf he observed hunting along a woodland...Read more
WTIP's i2i project uses video to document our community and way of life. i2i is administered by Patrick Knight and is made possible through the Minnesota Intelligent Rural Communities initiative, a Blandin Foundation-administered project funded in large part through an American Recovery and Reinvestment Act grant. The work of the coalition focuses on bringing the full promise of...Read more
Joe Friedrichs
Joe joined WTIP in October of 2015. He holds a degree in journalism from the University of Montana, where he graduated in 2005. He has previously worked along the North Shore as a freelance journalist and up the Gunflint Trail as a canoe outfitter. Joe covers the local happenings along the North Shore for WTIP. When he's not reporting news, Joe can be found at one of his favorite fishing...Read more
Liftoff Aerials
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Patrick Knight
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Peg Little
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Radio Waves 2017: Photos by Ellen Stubbs
Many, MANY thanks to WTIP listener-member and fan Ellen Stubbs for sharing her time and talent by capturing the 2017 Radio Waves Music Festival through her photography.
Ellen has enjoyed exploring photography since getting her first 35mm camera at age 18. "I find photography helps me see things I otherwise would miss." Nature and landscapes are...Read more
Scott Herrly
Bio and picture to come!Read more
Stephan Hoglund
Stephan Hoglund is a photographer and jewelry maker based in Grand Marais, MN. He submits photos to WTIP of the North Shore, its people, and happenings on a regular basis. Learn more about Stephan's photography.
The Cook County Historical Society
The Cook County Historical Society, in Grand Marais, Minnesota, works to collect, preserve and share knowledge about the history of Cook County, and relate it to the history of the State of Minnesota.
Learn more at www.cookcountyhistory.orgRead more
Thomas Spence
Thomas Spence is a 25-year resident of Minnesota's Lake Superior North Shore. A carpenter by trade, Tom spends most of his free time in the woods of Superior National Forest, canoeing the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness and on the lakes and trails in the surrounding area, always with a camera nearby.
He is a published landscape and wildlife photographer. His photos can be...Read more
Tim Young
Tim Young was born in Detroit, Michigan. The son of a missionary doctor, Tim grew up in Liberia, West Africa before returning to Detroit where he attended the Center For Creative Studies, majoring in photography. Tim has been passionate about art since early childhood, but Grand Marais is the place where his passion and artistic identity developed. Tim is...Read more
Travis Novitsky
Travis Novitsky is a life-long resident of the north shore of Lake Superior. He was born in Grand Marais and resides in Grand Portage, where he has lived his entire life. He is an enrolled member of the Grand Portage Band of Lake Superior Chippewa. Travis works for the Minnesota State Parks system at Grand Portage State Park and is also a photographer who loves photographing...Read more
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Ubisoft has come under quite a bit of fire for its PC ports, including the recent delayed, DRM-laden version of From Dust. Driver: San Francisco, published by Ubisoft and developed by Ubisoft Reflections (formerly Reflections Interactive), was originally slated to carry the same always-on DRM, but has since been changed so that online verification is only required at launch. Even still, the developers behind the game believe that this type of DRM is a necessity for PC games.
"You have to do something," Ubi Reflections founder Martin Edmonson told Eurogamer. "It's just, simply, PC piracy is at the most incredible rates. This game cost a huge amount of money to develop, and it has to be, quite rightly—quite morally correctly—protected.
"If there was very little trouble with piracy then we wouldn't need it."
Driver: San Francisco will also be the first game to utilize Ubisoft's Uplay Passport system, which gives players a registration code to access additional online content. Since the code is one-time use, those who buy the game pre-owned—whether on PC or console—will have to pay an additional fee to access that content. This, too, is something that Edmonson agrees with, even though he explained that these decisions are actually out of the developer's hands.
"If people don't buy the game when it first comes out and wait and pay for rental or for second-hand usage, then the publisher sees absolutely nothing of that," he explained. "It's one of those things that we just have to get used to."
The Xbox 360 and PS3 versions of the game are due out on September 6, while the PC version will be released on September 27.


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Gun instructor swamped after offer to train teachers
Missouri lawmakers to consider bill allowing armed teachers
A weapons instructor who offers teachers a discount to learn how to fire a gun said he's been swamped by the response.
Bruce Luedeman said he's been getting lots of calls since announcing his promotion to help Missouri teachers and other educators obtain concealed-carry permits in Missouri.
Heather Jochens, 19, visited Luedeman's range for the first time on Wednesday. She said she's not sure she wants a concealed weapon, but she thinks the idea of teachers with guns should be explored.
"If teachers are capable and can handle a weapon, I think they should be," she said.
"We have enough people who are trained. We need to protect our next generation," said gun instructor Joe Moran.
Luedeman said the teachers who have been taking his classes were not willing to do any on-camera interviews about it.
"Teachers are concerned about losing their jobs or being censured if they talk about guns at school," he said.
A bill permitting teachers and other educators to bring their guns to school may get a committee hearing in the Missouri Legislature soon.


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Our faces go white when we scan the inside of the beat-up eight-seater plane. Its propellers protest loudly as the young pilot makes himself comfortable in the miniscule cockpit which carries a dusty manual entitled, How to operate a plane.
It appears that we are flying to the ends of the earth. Once we arrive on the secluded Bahamian island of Andros, it is confirmed that we indeed have entered the outer edges of tourist civilization. The tiny Andros airport, complete with two employees and an entrance door that leads to the exit door, does not offer lounge drinks, tour options or rides to lavish five-star hotels. That's because there aren't any of these things on Andros.
We are destined for Small Hope Bay Lodge, one of just a handful of private tourist lodges and resorts on the largest and least developed of the 700 islands of the Bahamas.
Small Hope is as rustic and rural a resort as you'll find in the Bahamas. There are no swans formed out of your bathroom towels, no coconut daiquiris on demand and certainly no water slides for the kids. But what the all-inclusive lodge offers in spades is a true taste of the islands and Bahamian culture. Here, one cannot be called a tourist, you have entered the domain of the traveller.
As my 11-year-old son and I scan the breathtaking marine-blue ocean before us, and observe the main lodge and guest cabins perched on its shores, it's like we have arrived for our first day of summer camp. These campers, however, are adult sized with lifetimes of adult-inspired adventures that make for the most tantalizing dinner conversations. With local staff cooking up divine Bahamian fare like conch fritters, corn beef and grits and breaded grouper, Small Hope offers a genuine experience that no touristy dolphin swim can.
Diving in the third largest reef in the world and feeding Small Hope's famous 'chumsicles' (frozen fish food on a stick) to ravenous sharks is the main attraction for many of the lodge's guests. However, Andros offers many 'on-shore' adventures that are equally as entertaining.
Our day-long adventure with a Small Hope chef and three Canadian travellers takes us to a secluded cove near Nichols Town at the northern-most tip of this 160-km-long and 64-km-wide island. Here we set up camp on the ocean shore, play in the sand as the tide recedes and get to know the culture from a true Bahamian.
Along the way we visit Morgan's bluffs, which provides a breathtaking view of the powerful waves of the Atlantic Ocean. Uncle Charlie's blue hole (a fresh water-filled cave system reputedly first explored by Jacques Cousteau) and Captain Morgan's caves (where the infamous pirate is rumoured to have hid out) are fascinating. However, the chance to see the real Bahamian countryside via car, complete with stops at quaint corner stores, walks on pristine empty beaches and visits with the friendly and humble people who call Andros home, is the stuff of which an authentic vacation experience is made. This is a place where you come to be a traveler, not a tourist.
The Exumas ...
Our next island adventure promises to be radically different, right from the get-go. Another eight-seater plane picks us up; however, its leather seats, Florida pilot and well-heeled passengers foretell of a vastly different experience.
Our first encounter of the trip to the Staniel Cay Yacht Club comes in the form of an invitation to the club's 'Casino Royale' evening -- an annual event inspired by the fact that a James Bond movie (Thunderball, 1965), was filmed on this tiny Bahamian island. Our first evening on one of the Exumas's 360 small islands features tuxedoed Americans, blond-haired James Bond girls and dance music wafting out over the ocean until the wee hours of the morning.
And just when we think that life at Staniel Cay couldn't possibly be this intriguing all of the time, the multi-million-dollar yachts begin to pull in and adventurers from around the world spill out. The interactions at the club's modest bar/restaurant are fascinating, whether they be with the Spanish sailor who has navigated his yacht half-way around the world, or the Bahamian captain who waits dock-side for a job guiding foreign yachts through local waters, or the Florida couple who sold all their belongings to live in their sailboat.
Each day plays out this way, with sail boats, yachts and speed boats taking to the pristine Caribbean sea for the day and returning at supper time with fantastic catches of snapper, lobster and grouper. We experience the captivating scene from the top balcony of our colourful two-storey cottage that is perched on stilts right above the clear Caribbean waters. Each evening we marvel at the stingrays and nurse sharks that begin to circle right below our cottage in anticipation of the fish filleting that provides their daily meal.
We venture down to where the action is, with my son bravely standing ankle-deep in the ocean as the rays and sharks roil within a foot or two of his feet.
"My dad wanted to offer an experience that wasn't the norm and that took advantage of this amazing setting, so he supplied every cottage with a whaler (boat) and snorkel gear that allowed people to experience the ocean first-hand," says Staniel Cay Yacht Club owner David Hocher, the son of Florida businessman Joe Hocher, who established the Yacht Club in the 1950s.
The tale of the Hochers could be a script for any James Bond movie, with the senior Hocher building up the yacht club with his business partner throughout the '60s and '70s, followed by a partner falling-out and legal battle in the 1980s. In 2003, with Joe's son David now involved in the yacht club business, Joe disappears.
"He got up early one morning and got in his plane," says the 30-something David, explaining that his dad was a pilot and it was not uncommon for him to take solo flights. "We never heard from him again."
David, who resides largely in Florida and runs the Hocher water purification business, has made it his mission to turn the Staniel Cay Yacht Club into a full-service resort destination that still maintains its rustic charm and Caribbean feel.
He has succeeded as the club feels like your average small-town bar. With only 80 residents living on Staniel Cay, everyone knows everyone. And with few cars (everyone travels by golf cart), the island has only one road sign that reads, 'This Way' for one direction, and 'That Way' for the other. Our golf cart adventure, complete with a picnic lunch packed by the yacht club kitchen, takes us around the entire six-kilometre island in an afternoon. It also takes us to white-sand beaches that take away our breaths and instantly transport us to the cover of a travel magazine. Here, we are not tourists. On this lone beach, with the actual set of a James Bond movie in the distance and Staniel Cay Yacht Club owner David Hocher as the main character, we are 'travellers'.
Paradise Island ...
But if you want to be a tourist in the Bahamas, complete with cocktails by the pool, an outrageous $1-billion water park at your disposal and a live version of 'Kokomo' being performed in the distance, the indulgent Atlantis Resort on Paradise Island is the place to be.
This 140-acre tourist's playground features an 11-million gallon aquarium stocked with 50,000 sea creatures, a glass waterslide that takes you right through a shark tank and a 30,000-square-foot spa. Don't forget the dolphin swim attraction, the 20 restaurants that serve everything from sushi to burgers; and the 17 swimming pools sprinkled throughout the property.
If being entertained within the comforts of a North American cultural experience is what you're after, complete with towels folded to resemble seashells, a Starbuck's for your morning coffee and a Baskin Robins for your evening ice cream fix, then the Atlantis should be on your list. But set aside $500 to $1,500 a night for a room, or perhaps even $25,000 a night if you'd like to stay in the opulent Bridge Suite that has hosted celebrities such as Michael Jackson, Oprah Winfrey and Celine Dion.
If you want to be a tourist, book a room at the Atlantis, one of the world's most decadent hotels. But if you want to be a traveller, hop aboard an eight-seater plane and head to the 'Out Islands' of the Bahamas.
For more information, visit www.bahamas.com


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To keep up with rivals in both the traditional fund and ETF sectors, Fidelity said Tuesday that it is lowering the investment minimums on 22 of its Spartan index funds and the expenses on eight Spartan index funds on Jan. 1.
"Over the past 18 months, Fidelity has aggressively enhanced its Spartan index mutual fund offering with reduced fees and new products," said J.S. Wynant, executive vice president of investment product management and research at Fidelity Investments, in a press release. "These latest moves are another example of our commitment to providing workplace retirement plan sponsors and individual investors access to a wide-array of high-quality index funds at some of the most competitive pricing in the industry."
Experts say that, like its fund-industry competitors, Fidelity had little choice but to take such measures.
"When dealing with commodity-like products, such as index-linked funds, price is paramount," said Ben Johnson, director of passive funds research for Morningstar, in an interview with AdvisorOne. "With funds that track, say, the S&P 500, competition along price is particularly intense."
Fidelity is dropping the expense of the Spartan S&P 500 Index Fund, for instance, by 0.01% to 0.05% for its Fidelity Advantage share class. Overall, expenses across eight funds and a variety of share classes will decline by 0.01 to 0.08%.
"Much of this [price pressure] has come from the emergence and success of ETFs," explained Johnson, "and what we're seeing here is a suite of tradition index-linked products looking to compete on price by lowering its headline expense ratio."
ETFs, the research analyst points out, still have a number of factors working in their favor–such as increased liquidity in some cases and intra-day trading.
"There's the liquidity advantage in an ETF wrapper vs. that of a fund wrapper, which many investors put a strong value–both those that buy and hold and look at their rebalancing costs and those that trade positions more frequently," he noted.
The Vanguard S&P 500 ETF (VOO) has about $117 billion in assets vs. $48.5 billion in the Fidelity Spartan S&P 500 Index (FUSEX).
Minimum-Investment Shift
For 14 of its Spartan index funds, Fidelity is lowering the investment minimum for Investor Class shares from $10,000 to $2,500, while the minimum of its Advantage Class shares will drop from $100,000 to $10,000. Investment minimums also were lowered across eight other Fidelity funds from $10,000 to $2,500.
"This is a dramatic reduction, from $100,000 to $10,000 in some cases," said Johnson, "but it's still high measured against ETFs."
Over the past few months, many industry players have lowered expense ratios for their ETFs. In November, for instance, Invesco PowerShares decreased the expense ratios of six PowerShares ETF portfolios from 31 to 36 basis points.
BlackRock and Vanguard also have cut costs and adjusted their ETF lineups. And, in September, Charles Schwab cut ETF fees, some by as much as 59%.
Fidelity Investments waived trading commissions in 2010 and 2011 on a group of its ETFs. Its index funds have about $100 billion in assets, and its total assets under management is $1.6 trillion.
"We've seen a flurry of these types of announcements, largely in the ETF space," said Johnson. "This is one of the more notable announcements in the tradition fund space to come out recently along these lines."
How it well impact Fidelity, of course, remains to be seen. "But any time expenses come down, it's more money in investors' pockets and less in the fund providers' pockets," the analyst noted.


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My friend Svetlana lives in a small apartment with two roommates. She's a regular practitioner of zazen. So she asked me about a situation she'd encountered a few days ago.
Right at the time she'd set aside for her zazen practice, her roommates decided to start watching episodes of Family Guy in the adjacent room. There was no way to escape the noise. And to add even more misery, Svetlana is a fan of Family Guy and they were watching episodes she hadn't seen.
Still, she decided to do her zazen anyway. But she wanted to ask me what I thought of that.
I can totally relate! I used to have to do my zazen with the Zen Luv Assassins rehearsing with all amplifiers turned to 11 in the basement -- trying to work out a version of "She Said, She Said" without taking into account that the middle section is in 3/4 time. They just kept falling apart every time they got to the "When I was a boy" section. As the pirate with the steering wheel sticking out of his crotch said, "Arrrr, it was driving me nuts!"
Yet I kept on sitting, not just through that, but through countless other distraction -- noisy roommate arguments, noisy roommate sex, buses, trains and aeroplanes, you name it, I have probably done zazen through it!
At one of my stops on my recent tour some guy kept asking me about, like, if you're sitting and a plane flies overhead you lose your concentration. I kept telling him it didn't matter. He kept pressing the question. I don't know if I ever managed to convince him that zazen was still zazen even if you got distracted.
We are not trying to "establish one-pointed concentration" or whatever else some meditation teachers in other religions try and go for. It's still zazen even if you're doing it on a noisy playground at recess time.
Of course you should try and find the quietest spot possible. If you can wait for your roommates to finish watching Family Guy or talk them into using headphones that would always be better. And, to answer another F.A.Q., no, you cannot "do zazen to music." Meaning, you should not deliberately introduce distractions or entertainment into your practice. But sometimes the quietest spot you can find isn't very quiet. That doesn't mean you should neglect the practice. There is still some benefit to be had even if you have to do your zazen among all sorts of noise and distractions.
One of the strangest distractions I've had to deal with comes from Zen teachers who think it's necessary to provide entertainment for people who are sitting. There's a tradition called "kusen" in which the teacher gives a dharma talk during sitting. I hate that! I also hate it when they beat drums and ring bells unnecessarily during practice in a misguided attempt to ape certain misguided traditions present in misguided temples in Japan.
But you deal with what you gotta deal with.
OK. That's my sermon for the day. Now it's off to the salt mines to try and write some material for my next book. See ya!
P.S. By the way, I guess it wasn't the Jerry Rubin who came to that rally the other day. There is a politician here in Santa Monica named Jerry Rubin who is just about the right age, right "look" and right political affiliation (he lists himself on ballots as "Peace Activist Jerry Rubin") to be the Jerry Rubin and really seems to make no great effort to let people know he's not the Jerry Rubin.


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It's time to take some time out to relax with that naughty girl Dominika C!
So why not climb into the bathtub and share a red hot bath with this gorgeous girl? Not one to hold back, Dominika just loves the sensation of running water caressing and stimulating those, now infamous, pussy lips!
And prepare to be left speechless when she turns around and lets you admire the view from behind!
Seriously hot and oh so sexy – bath-time has never been so much fun!
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Posted 23 June 2008 - 05:53 PM
Posted 27 June 2008 - 07:10 PM
My favorite bits by him were football & baseball, 7 words you couldn't say on television, and any of his wildly funny anecdotes he threw in for good measure.
Last I heard, the Kennedy Center is still going to go ahead with the awards ceremony and award him posthumously. I am so glad that they're going to do that.
I miss Carlin!!
Posted 28 June 2008 - 08:58 PM
Posted 29 June 2008 - 07:32 PM
I hope he found a place for his stuff!
Good one, Axman!
That was another great bit he did.
The world is a much less funny place without George Carlin in it.
Posted 30 June 2008 - 05:36 PM
I hope he found a place for his stuff!
Good one, Axman!
That was another great bit he did.
The world is a much less funny place without George Carlin in it.
That's my favorite Carlin routine. He was one of the innovators in the world of observation comedy. I enjoy comedy most when it reflects real life and makes me think, "Hey, that's true!"
Posted 04 July 2008 - 04:51 PM
Larry Harmon wasn't the original Bozo the Clown, but he was the real one. Harmon, who portrayed the wing-haired clown for more than half a century, died Thursday of congestive heart failure, said his publicist, Jerry Digney. He was 83.
As an entrepreneur, Harmon licensed the character to others, particularly dozens of television stations around the country. The stations in turn hired actors to be their local Bozos.
"Bozo is a combination of the wonderful wisdom of the adult and the childlike ways in all of us," Harmon told The Associated Press in a 1996 interview.
Pinto Colvig, who provided the voice for Walt Disney's Goofy, was the first Bozo the Clown, a character created by writer-producer Alan W. Livingston for a series of children's records in 1946. Livingston said he came up with the name Bozo after polling several people at Capitol Records.
Harmon would later meet his alter ego while answering a casting call to make personal appearances as a clown to promote the records.
He got that job and eventually bought the rights to Bozo. Along the way, he embellished Bozo's distinctive look: the orange-tufted hair, the bulbous nose, the outlandish red, white and blue costume.
"You might say, in a way, I was cloning BTC (Bozo the Clown) before anybody else out there got around to cloning DNA," Harmon said in the 1996 interview. "I felt if I could plant my size 83AAA shoes on this planet, (people) would never be able to forget those footprints."
Susan Harmon, his wife of 29 years, indicated Harmon was the perfect fit for Bozo.
"He was the most optimistic man I ever met. He always saw a bright side; he always had something good to say about everybody. He was the love of my life," she said Thursday.
The business combining animation, licensing of the character and personal appearances made millions, as Harmon trained more than 200 Bozos over the years to represent him in local markets.
"I'm looking for that sparkle in the eyes, that emotion, feeling, directness, warmth. That is so important," he said of his criteria for becoming a Bozo.
The Chicago version of Bozo ran on WGN-TV in Chicago for 40 years and was seen in many other cities after cable television transformed WGN into a superstation.
Bozo portrayed in Chicago for many years by Bob Bell was so popular that the waiting list for tickets to a TV show eventually stretched to a decade, prompting the station to stop taking reservations for 10 years. On the day in 1990 when WGN started taking reservations again, it took just five hours to book the show for five more years. The phone company reported more than 27 million phone call attempts had been made.
By the time the show bowed out in Chicago, in 2001, it was the last locally produced version. Harmon said at the time that he hoped to develop a new cable or network show, as well as a Bozo feature film.
He became caught up in a minor controversy in 2004 when the International Clown Hall of Fame in Milwaukee took down a plaque honoring him as Bozo and formally endorsed Colvig as the first. Harmon denied ever misrepresenting Bozo's history.
He said he was claiming credit only for what he added to the character "What I sound like, what I look like, what I walk like" and what he did to popularize Bozo.
"Isn't it a shame the credit that was given to me for the work I have done, they arbitrarily take it down, like I didn't do anything for the last 52 years," he told the AP at the time.
Harmon protected Bozo's reputation with a vengeance, while embracing those who poked good-natured fun at the clown.
As Bozo's influence spread through popular culture, his very name became a synonym for clownish behavior.
"It takes a lot of effort and energy to keep a character that old fresh so kids today still know about him and want to buy the products," Karen Raugust, executive editor of The Licensing Letter, a New York-based trade publication, said in 1996.
A normal character runs its course in three to five years, Raugust said. "Harmon's is a classic character. It's been around 50 years."
On New Year's Day 1996, Harmon dressed up as Bozo for the first time in 10 years, appearing in the Rose Parade in Pasadena.
The crowd reaction, he recalled, "was deafening."
"They kept yelling, `Bozo, Bozo, love you, love you.' I shed more crocodile tears for five miles in four hours than I realized I had," he said. "I still get goose bumps."
Born in Toledo, Ohio, Harmon became interested in theater while studying at the University of Southern California.
"Bozo is a star, an entertainer, bigger than life," Harmon once said. "People see him as Mr. Bozo, somebody you can relate to, touch and laugh with."
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"...a little song, a little dance, a little seltzer down your pants..."
Alright, I'm sorry...but it's the first thing I thought about when I read the news...
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That was a shock to here. He was soo funny, I loved his type of comedy.
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Among recent enforcement actions taken by the SEC were charges against Allianz for violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act that resulted in penalties of more than $12.3 million; against a Connecticut-based advisor for telling clients it was investing in the same collateralized debt obligations it recommended for them; against TheStreet Inc. and three executives for accounting fraud; against a Toronto-based brokerage firm and two executives for allowing layering; and against two investment advisory firms and two portfolio managers in the collapse of a mutual fund.
FINRA, meanwhile, imposed censures and fines for a Toronto firm that inappropriately shared transaction-based commissions with non-FINRA entities, and censures and fines for a Chicago-based firm after it was found to be an introducing broker-dealer established to facilitate U.S. market access for a single large entity and it had failed to design or implement an anti-money-laundering program to track possible violations.
Allianz SE Agrees to Pay Penalty of $12.3 million-plus on FCPA Violations
The SEC charged German-based insurance and asset management company Allianz SE with violating the books and records and internal controls provisions of the FCPA for improper payments to government officials in Indonesia during a seven-year period.
In its investigation, the SEC found 295 insurance contracts on large government projects that were obtained or retained by improper payments of $650,626 by Allianz's subsidiary in Indonesia to employees of state-owned entities. Allianz made more than $5.3 million in profits as a result of the improper payments.
According to the SEC's order instituting settled administrative proceedings against Allianz, the misconduct occurred from 2001 to 2008 while the company's shares and bonds were registered with the SEC and traded on the New York Stock Exchange. Two complaints brought the misconduct to Allianz's attention. The first complaint, submitted in 2005, reported unsupported payments to agents, and a subsequent audit of accounting records at Allianz's subsidiary in Indonesia uncovered that managers were using "special purpose accounts" to make illegal payments to government officials in order to secure business in Indonesia. Despite the audit, the payments continued.
According to the SEC's order, the second complaint was made to Allianz's external auditor in 2009. Allianz failed to properly account for certain payments in its books and records. The improper payments were disguised in invoices as an "overriding commission" for an agent that was not associated with the government insurance contract. In other instances, the improper payments were structured as an overpayment by the government insurance contract holder, who was later "reimbursed" for the overpayment. Excess funds were then paid to foreign officials who were responsible for procuring the government insurance contracts. Allianz lacked sufficient internal controls to detect and prevent the wrongful payments and improper accounting.
Without admitting or denying the findings, Allianz agreed to cease and desist from further violations and pay disgorgement of $5,315,649, prejudgment interest of $1,765,125, and a penalty of $5,315,649 for a total of $12,396,423.
Connecticut Advisor Charged for 'Skin in the Game' Lies to Clients
Connecticut-based Aladdin Capital Management was charged by the SEC with falsely telling clients to whom it recommended two different CDOs that it had "skin in the game" and was investing in the CDOs along with them.
The SEC's investigation found that Aladdin Capital Management's co-investment representation was a key feature and selling point for its Multiple Asset Securitized Tranche advisory program involving CDOs and collateralized loan obligations.
For example, Aladdin Capital Management asked in one marketing piece, "Why is an investor better off just investing in Aladdin sponsored CLOs and CDOs?" It then emphasized that the "most powerful response I can give to your question is that Aladdin co-invests alongside MAST investors in every program. Putting meaningful 'skin in the game' as we do means our financial interests are aligned with those of our MAST investors."
Aladdin Capital Management in fact made no such investments in either CDO, and its affiliated broker-dealer Aladdin Capital collected placement fees from the CDO underwriters.
According to the SEC's order against one of the firms' former executives, Joseph Schlim, he was significantly involved in the MAST program on a day-to-day basis. He made sales calls to potential clients and negotiated with CDO and CLO underwriters about the amount of equity in those securities that Aladdin Capital could place with customers or purchase for itself. Schlim also negotiated the placement fees to be received by Aladdin Capital for securing MAST investments in equity tranches of each CDO or CLO.
The SEC found that Schlim knew that Aladdin used the co-investment representation as a significant marketing feature in its pitches to clients, but he failed to take any action to ensure that such representations were accurate when they were made. As the CFO of Aladdin, Schlim was responsible for reserving funds for Aladdin to co-invest alongside its MAST clients, yet he failed to ensure that funds were reserved or allocated for any co-investments alongside clients in either CDO.
Aladdin Capital Management and Schlim agreed to cease-and-desist orders without admitting or denying the SEC's allegations. The Aladdin entities agreed to jointly pay $900,000 in disgorgement, $268,831 in prejudgment interest, and a $450,000 penalty. Schlim agreed to pay a $50,000 penalty to settle charges against him for his role in the misrepresentations.
TheStreet Inc. Charged by SEC with Accounting Fraud
The SEC charged digital financial media company TheStreet Inc. and three executives for their roles in an accounting fraud that artificially inflated company revenues and misstated operating income to investors.
The SEC alleges that TheStreet Inc., which operates the website TheStreet.com, filed false financial reports throughout 2008 by reporting revenue from fraudulent transactions at a subsidiary it had acquired the previous year.
The SEC says the co-presidents of the subsidiary, Gregg Alwine and David Barnett, entered into sham transactions with friendly counterparties that had little or no economic substance. They also fabricated and backdated contracts and other documents to facilitate the fraudulent accounting. Barnett is additionally charged with misleading TheStreet's auditor to believe that the subsidiary had performed services to earn revenue on a specific transaction when in fact it did not perform the services. The SEC also alleges that TheStreet's former chief financial officer, Eric Ashman, caused the company to report revenue before it had been earned.
According to the SEC's complaints filed in federal court in Manhattan, the subsidiary acquired by TheStreet specializes in online promotions such as sweepstakes. After the acquisition, TheStreet failed to implement a system of internal controls at the subsidiary, which enabled the accounting fraud.
The SEC alleges that through the actions of Ashman, Alwine, and Barnett, TheStreet improperly recognized revenue based on sham transactions. It also is alleged to have used the percentage-of-completion method of revenue recognition without meeting fundamental prerequisites to do so, including reliably estimating and documenting progress toward the completion of relevant contracts. In addition, it prematurely recognized revenue when the subsidiary had not performed actual work and therefore had not really earned the revenue.
According to the SEC's complaint, when the subsidiary's financial results were consolidated with TheStreet's financial results for financial reporting purposes, the improper revenue on the subsidiary's books resulted in material misstatements in the company's quarterly and annual reports for fiscal year 2008. On Feb. 8, 2010, TheStreet restated its 2008 Form 10-K and disclosed a number of improprieties related to revenue recognition at its subsidiary, including transactions that lacked economic substance, internal control deficiencies, and improper accounting for certain contracts.
Ashman agreed to pay a $125,000 penalty and reimburse TheStreet $34,240.40 under the clawback provision of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, and he will be barred from acting as a director or officer of a public company for three years. Barnett and Alwine agreed to pay penalties of $130,000 and $120,000, respectively, and to be barred from serving as officers or directors of a public company for 10 years. Without admitting or denying the allegations, the three executives and TheStreet agreed to be permanently enjoined from future violations of the federal securities laws.
SEC Charges Toronto Firm, Execs With Allowing Layering
A Toronto-based brokerage firm, Biremis, saw its license revoked and its two co-founders, Peter Beck and Charles Kim, permanently banned from the U.S. securities industry; all were charged with allowing layering.
In layering, a trader places orders with no intention of having them executed but rather to trick others into buying or selling a stock at an artificial price driven by the orders, which the trader later cancels. The SEC's investigation found that Biremis–whose worldwide day trading business enabled up to 5,000 traders on as many 200 trading floors in 30 countries to gain access to U.S. markets–failed to address repeated instances of layering by many of the overseas day traders using its system. Beck and Kim ignored repeated red flags indicating that overseas traders were engaging in layering manipulations. Biremis served as the broker-dealer for an affiliated Canadian day trading firm, Swift Trade Inc.
The SEC's order found that many of the Biremis-affiliated overseas day traders engaged in repeated instances of layering from January 2007 to mid-2010. Beck and Kim learned from numerous sources, including three U.S. broker-dealers and a Biremis employee, that layering was occurring, yet they failed to take any steps to prevent it. For example, in spring 2008, representatives of one U.S. broker-dealer warned Beck and Kim that certain overseas traders were "gaming" U.S. stocks by altering those stocks' bid and offer prices in order to buy or sell the stock at the altered price. Beck and Kim failed to act on this information.
According to the SEC's order, Biremis also failed to retain virtually all of its instant messages related to its broker-dealer business, and failed to file any suspicious activity reports related to the manipulative trading.
In addition to the license revocation and bans on Beck and Kim, the two executives agreed to pay penalties of $250,000 each. Biremis, Beck, and Kim neither admitted nor denied the findings contained in the SEC's order.
Advisory Firms, Investment Managers Charged by SEC in Fund Collapse
Claymore Advisors and Fiduciary Asset Management, as well as two investment managers, were charged by the SEC in the collapse of a Midwest-based closed-end mutual fund.
According to the SEC's investigation, the Fiduciary/Claymore Dynamic Equity Fund attempted two strategies to enhance returns: writing out-of-the money put options and shorting variance swaps. This exposed HCE to additional undisclosed risks and caused the fund to lose more than $45 million–approximately 45% of its net assets–in September and October 2008. The fund liquidated in 2009.
Fund advisor and administrator Claymore Advisors, located in Lisle, Ill., and the subadvisor responsible for managing HCE's portfolio, St. Louis-based FAMCO, as well as the portfolio managers responsible for managing the fund, were charged for their roles in the failure to adequately inform investors about the fund's risky derivative strategies that contributed to its collapse during the financial crisis.
According to the SEC's orders instituting settled and unsettled administrative proceedings, FAMCO managed HCE in a manner that was inconsistent with the fund's registration statement. Through the portfolio managers, FAMCO made misleading statements about HCE's performance, omitting discussion of contributions from the put-writing and variance swap strategies. FAMCO also made misleading statements about HCE's exposure to downside risk. Investors in HCE lost $45,396,878 as a result of this riskier trading, and the fund lost $70 million altogether (72.4% of its net asset value) during this period of general market decline.
Without admitting or denying the charges, Claymore has established a distribution plan to fully reimburse shareholders for up to $45,396,878 in losses from these derivative transactions. Also without admitting or denying the charges, FAMCO has agreed to pay disgorgement of $644,951, prejudgment interest of $134,978, and a penalty of $1.3 million.
The SEC's case continues against former FAMCO employees Mohammed Riad of Clayton, Mo., and Kevin Timothy Swanson of St. Louis, the co-portfolio managers who allegedly made misleading statements in HCE's periodic reports about the two strategies' contribution to HCE's performance and about HCE's exposure to downside risk.
Toronto Firm, Principal Fined, Censured by FINRA on Shared Commissions
Toronto-based Mercator Associates and Fabrizio David Lentini were fined and censured by FINRA over findings that that the firm, acting through Lentini, its head trader, improperly shared transaction-based commissions totaling approximately $4,277,740 with entities that were not FINRA member firms.
Without admitting or denying the allegations, the firm and Lentini consented to the sanctions, which included a fine of $150,000 for the firm and $75,000 for Lentini, and to the entry of findings that the firm, acting through Lentini, sent a series of wire transfers to the bank accounts of non-FINRA entities. The wire transfers were initiated when Lentini received a Letter of Authorization with wire instructions and amounts from the firm's main customer. Lentini would then take steps to ensure that the requested funds were wired from the firm's bank account according to the instructions reflected on the LOAs.
The wired funds were generated from trading in some or all of the firm accounts in the names of the non-FINRA entities. Lentini was the firm registered representative assigned to each of those accounts.
The findings also stated that the firm, acting through Lentini, charged excessive commissions that ranged from 5.02% to 31.25% on trades placed in accounts. Lentini was the firm registered representative assigned to those accounts and the firm trader responsible for the execution of the subject transactions. Each of the subject trades was part of the commission-sharing arrangement.
FINRA also found that the firm failed to establish and maintain a supervisory system and establish, maintain and enforce WSPs reasonably designed to achieve compliance with applicable securities laws and regulations; in fact, its supervisory system and WSPs failed entirely to address the commission-sharing arrangement and provide guidance or structure regarding the supervision of securities pricing and commissions.
Numerous other violations, including failure to implement portions of the firm's AML Compliance Program, failure to obtain the identifying information its Customer Identification Program required about some of the customers that opened accounts with the firm, and to verify that information through documentary or nondocumentary methods, failure to maintain transmittal orders for wire transfers in excess of $3,000, including the name, address and account number of the recipient, and the identity of the recipient's financial institution and failure to provide any AML training to its personnel for two years, were also found.
Title Securities Fined, Censured on AML Failures, More
Title Securities Inc. of Chicago was censured and fined $150,000 by FINRA on findings that the firm, an introducing broker-dealer established to facilitate direct market access to U.S. markets to a single particularly large customer, failed to implement AML policies, procedures and internal controls that adequately supervised the customer's transactions.
The firm's large customer, according to the findings, is a corporation in Cyprus that utilizes the services of an unregistered third-party trading organization to trade its capital. The customer account does a large volume of high frequency trading through the firm, averaging trades of as many as 3 billion shares per month.
The findings stated that the firm failed to develop and implement an AML program tailored to its business model, so its AML policies, procedures and internal controls could not reasonably be expected to monitor, detect and cause the reporting of suspicious or manipulative trading activity. The AML procedures also did not include red flags for the firm to monitor for in connection with suspicious trading activity.
The firm also did not make reasonable efforts to ensure that each trader was only issued one trader ID or to terminate inactive IDs, so traders were able to use multiple trader IDs to bypass the wash sale filters, to circumvent surveillance monitoring, to have access to higher trading limits through the use of multiple IDs and to potentially continue trading under a different trader ID.
FINRA also found that the firm received numerous inquiries from its clearing firm, as well as from FINRA, BATS, NYSE ARCA and NASDAQ concerning wash trading, odd lots and layering in the customer account. Despite being placed on repeated notice of potentially manipulative trading in the customer account, the firm failed to establish meaningful controls.
Without admitting or denying the findings, the firm consented to the fine, which will be paid jointly to FINRA, The NASDAQ Stock Market, BATS Exchange Inc. and NYSE ARCA Inc., and to the entry of the findings.


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The Electronic Frontier Foundation, security expert Bruce Schneier, and 23 others have called on antivirus providers around the world to protect their users against malware spawned by the National Security Agency and other groups that carry out government surveillance.
The move comes amid revelations that the NSA has a wide-ranging menu of software exploits at its disposal that have been used to identify users of the Tor anonymity service, track iPhone users, and monitor the communications of surveillance targets. Schneier has said that the NSA only relies on these methods when analysts have a high degree of confidence that the malware won't be noticed. That means detection by AV programs could make the difference between such attacks succeeding, failing, or being used at all.
"As a manufacturer of antivirus software, your company has a vital position in providing security and maintaining the trust of internet users as they engage in sensitive activities such as electronic banking," the 25 signatories wrote in an open letter sent on Thursday to AV companies. "Consequently, there should be no doubt that your company's software provides the security needed to maintain this trust."
The letter went on to ask each company to reply to a list of questions about their cooperation with spy agencies. The questions included:
- Have you ever detected the use of software by any government (or state actor) for the purpose of surveillance?
- Have you ever been approached with a request by a government, requesting that the presence of specific software is not detected, or if detected, not notified to the user of your software? And if so, could you provide information on the legal basis of this request, the specific kind of software you were supposed to allow and the period of time which you were supposed to allow this use?
- Have you ever granted such a request? If so, could you provide the same information as in the point mentioned above and the considerations which led to the decision to comply with the request from the government?
- Could you clarify how you would respond to such a request in the future?
Those drafting the letter appeared to be aware of the case of Lavabit, the encrypted e-mail service that shut down rather than comply with a secret court order that demanded the private encryption key protecting users' communications.
"Please let us know if you feel that you cannot, or cannot fully, answer any of the above questions because of legal constraints imposed upon you by any government," the letter stated. "If you feel you cannot answer any of the questions above, please reply 'no response' to this question."
In recent years, competing AV products have largely been in a dead heat when it comes to their effectiveness at detecting threats. The responses or lack thereof to this letter could provide a key differentiator for consumers about which product is right for them. The letter asked that companies respond by November 15.


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CBA (Collective Baller Agreement):
- Standard Yahoo league scoring
- 15 man roster (PG, SG, G, SF, PF, F, C, C, Util, Util, BN, BN, BN, BN, BN)
- Year 1 draft will be a live auction featuring both veterans and rookies
- Year 2 draft and there after will be a live standard draft featuring only rookies.
- Draft order to be determined later.
- Draft picks can be traded,
- Salary cap will be based on years and the cap will be 40 years. After the draft is complete you will assign years to your players. The total of all players combined on your roster cannot be greater than 40 at this point in the off-season.
- After this point free agency begins. Teams may sign players to multi-season contracts if they have the cap space. If they do not have cap space than can sign players to one year deals; such a player cannot be extended in the off-season.
- Free agency will use a money system. Each team is given equal FA dollars which they can use to place secret bids on FA's who are currently on waivers. When a player is signed the team must immediately post on the league page or the league thread if it is a multi-season signing. If no mention is made within a one week window of the signing then the signing is deemed a one year deal regardless of cap space.
- Released players' contracts will continue count against a team's cap.
- Exception: Each team has a one time amnesty clause available for use. This will allow you to cut one player in the off-season without any salary cap implications.
- At the end of the year you are allowed to two sign players on your roster to an extension for as many years as you want provided you remain under cap. This decision must be made prior to the draft.
- Exception: You will be allowed to additionally re-sign or extend one player on your roster who you drafted as a rookie. [Effective 2013 draft]


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Remember slap bracelets? Remember how they could become deadly flesh-slicing machines if you removed the outer layer? Apple may be planning for the so-called "iWatch" to sport similar properties—hopefully without the flesh-slicing. A recently published patent application, discovered by AppleInsider and Patently Apple, shows that Apple has put some serious thought into the design of a wearable device—this one in particular resembling the slap bracelets that children of the late '80s came to know and love.
The patent describes a device with a flexible, multitouch display that can display things like text messages or other notifications. This largely matches the basic functionality described in recent iWatch rumors, though the patent goes a step further to describe a possible solar panel underneath the display for power, as well as a "kinetic energy gathering component, wherein the battery can be trickle charged."
Some observers thought Apple might simply build upon the iPod-nano-as-a-watch concept from 2011, but the slap bracelet concept from this patent application is what has people buzzing Thursday morning.
"The most recent widespread use of such a device was the slap bracelet, also called the slap wrap. The slap bracelet consists of layered flexible steel bands sealed within a fabric cover," wrote Apple. "Typical slap bracelets are roughly one inch in width by nine inches in length. In a first equilibrium position they can be flat. The second equilibrium is typically reached by slapping the flat embodiment across the wrist, at which point the bracelet curls around the wrist and stays relatively secure in a roughly circular position."
We can only imagine the build quality and durability that must be taken into account if Apple wants to actually manufacture a device that can be slapped—or at least gently flexed—onto the wrist repeatedly every day. It's important to remember, though, that Apple patents rarely end up becoming reality—at least not in their patent-described form. Then again, one recent iWatch rumor claimed there were multiple wearable experiments going on at Apple, so it's possible there could be several iterations of the same concept being developed.
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