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In these days when $3-a-gallon gas is the reality and $4 may be just around the corner, small cars are making a lot more sense for commuters. Park the big luxury SUV in the garage during the week, replace your second car with an efficient little four-banger for the commute, and you're likely to save a few thousand dollars on gas per year. That savings adds up quickly, leaving you more money to spend on weekend spa getaways, heirloom tomatoes at the local Whole Foods, or online poker games…however you're inclined.
Automakers are getting ready for resurging small-car popularity, and this time they're really taking advantage of the lessons learned in other regions of the world, where the price of gas is higher but, as small cars are often only cars, comfort is needed, too. Chalk in the long hauls that Americans routinely drive, and you can be sure their frugal and more comfortable small cars will be well received.
The latest of the recent small-car brigade is the Versa (as in versatile). To be eventually available in two four-door body styles, hatchback and sedan, the Versa is built on Nissan's new Global B Platform, which the smaller Nissan Micra shares, along with Renault 's Clio - both cars successful in Europe. But the Versa isn't really that tiny. At about 169 inches long for the hatchback and 176 inches long for the sedan, with a long wheelbase of 102.4 inches, it impresses as a direct replacement for the Sentra. The new Sentra that comes out this fall will move more upscale in terms of appointments and equipment while keeping its price in the same range as the current car.
Of all the new small cars introduced over the past year - Honda Fit, Toyota Yaris, Hyundai Accent, Kia Rio - the Versa's non-quirky styling, generous equipment, and upscale feel inside makes it staged to appeal to the widest range of buyers. Nissan is hoping especially to draw sales from Echo Boomers, the offspring of Baby Boomers, although the company admitted that buyers will come from all age groups.
Thanks in part to economies of scale and global design-sharing, the Versa promises to be a bargain, and it's a standout for a number of reasons. While other competitors in this class are snazzed-up versions of eco-boxes that are more modestly equipped (and powered) in other parts of the world, the Versa is already sold as the Tiida in Japan, where it's marketed as a near-luxury car, with options like leather seating and a navigation system; and it's also already sold in China and Mexico . Here in the U.S. , you won't find leather seats and a nav system on the options list, but it promises some generous equipment and competitive performance, especially considering that it will be bargain-priced at around $12,000.
The 1.8-liter DOHC four-cylinder engine used in the Versa, termed MR18 within Nissan, is an all-new aluminum unit, designed particularly for the new platform and for compactness and high thermal efficiency. This engine has the intake manifold in front and the exhaust manifold in back - the opposite of Nissan fours in recent history - allowing smaller catalytic converters to be used. Its rating of 122 horsepower and 127 lb-ft of torque puts it near the top of the list in its class. The Sentra that's on the way for this fall will have a 2.0-liter version of this same engine.
Nissan is offering the Versa with three transmissions, either a standard six-speed manual, a conventional four-speed automatic, or an "Xtronic" CVT automatic transmission. The four-speed automatic will only be optional on S models, while the CVT will be optional on better-equipped SL models. According to Nissan officials, eventually all Versas will have either the manual gearbox or the CVT, and the four-speed is offered as a stop-gap solution while production of the Jatco-supplied CVT ramps up - part of Nissan's plan to sell one million CVT-equipped vehicles worldwide by 2007. The same CVT unit will also be supplied to Nissan for the Sentra, and also to DaimlerChrysler for the Caliber. With the CVT, the Versa is rated 30 mpg city and 36 highway - actually better than with the six-speed manual (30 city, 34 highway), but not the best in its class.
The Versa we tested, over undulating backroads in Tennessee, was a well-equipped SL model with the optional CVT. Performance with the CVT is quite impressive, except from a standing start. Stomp the gas pedal from a stoplight, and the Versa doesn't exactly leap forward; it gathers revs first and then from 10 mph or so accelerates very impressively up to speed. CVTs suffer from a rubber-band effect - the tendency for a delay from the time you press on the gas and the real passing power happens - and this is no exception. We also found it a bit difficult to keep a steady speed out on the open road. With the gas pedal floored, the revs would go up to about 5600 rpm and stay there, all the way to 80 mph and beyond. Shifting the lever to the S mode, which allows more engine braking and more revs under acceleration, the revs would go to about 5800 rpm on full throttle.
Refinement, especially powertrain refinement, is one of the Versa's strong suits. The new engine has a silky-smooth, quiet idle that's hard to notice, but rev it up and you'll start hearing it. Compared to the Fit or Yaris, the Versa felt quieter inside with respect to both engine and road noise.
Wind noise, however, was an issue on our test vehicle. It seemed to be coming from the area of the front pillar and the side mirror. Admittedly, our test car was a pre-production example, so the trim and door seals might not have been quite up to par.
One of the reasons why the Versa just isn't as sprightly as we expected is that it weighs more than much of the competition. Our test SL weighed in at 2779 pounds, which puts it at the top of the scales compared to competitors ranging from the Honda Fit and Toyota Yaris to the Ford Focus.
You can feel that weight in the way the Versa handles as well; it translates to good stability at highway speeds, but it doesn't handle as crisply at low speeds as the Honda Fit, nor does it have much feel of the road transmitted through the steering wheel via the electric-assist power steering. Handling at the limit is remarkably neutral, with less of the heavy understeer that's so common in budget-priced small cars that don't have worlds of grip. In general, the ride was comfortable, soaking up severe bumps but a little jittery on the small ones. Braking, as handling, is perfectly adequate but not overtly sporting. There are discs in front, drums in back, as is typical for a car in this price class.
Standard and Optional
In order to meet a low price point, Nissan left anti-lock brakes a stand-alone option, which allowed the budget to put side airbags and roof mounted side-curtain bags on the standard-equipment list. Active head restraints for the front seats and a tire-pressure monitoring system are also standard on all Versas.
Those seats are some of the most comfortable ones among small cars. With their style and passing inspired by those in the Maxima, they're generously contoured and padded. In back, the very wide-opening doors make entry and exit easy, without ducking or contorting, and the seat itself is well contoured and rather comfortable. Nissan says that the size of the interior approaches that of mid-size cars, with a 72.3-inch-long cabin that has 94.4 cubic feet of interior volume and 17.8 cubic feet of cargo volume with the seats up (they fold forward easily, as with any good hatchback). Overall, the dash, instrument panel, and switchgear feel like they were lifted from Nissan's more expensive offerings.
Standard equipment on the entry-model 1.8 S includes air-conditioning with filtration, a 120-watt AM/FM/CD sound system with four speakers, tilt-adjustable steering column, rear defroster, and body-colored mirrors, handles, and accents. The 1.8 SL upgrades to a 180-watt system with built-in six-disc changer, six speakers and aux input, plus cruise control, alloy wheels, height-adjustable seats, a rear center armrest with cupholders, keyless entry, power locks, windows, and mirrors, and an overhead console. Options include XM or Sirius satellite radio, an Intelligent Key entry system, Bluetooth hands-free phone compatibility, steering-wheel audio controls, leather trimmed steering wheel, a power sunroof, and a Rockford Fosgate subwoofer. There's also a Sport Package available on the SL, which adds a rear roof spoiler, chin and side sill spoilers, and fog lights. Some larger wheels would complete the package. Nissan hinted that a NISMO version is already in the works.
Assembled in Aguascalientes, Mexico, the Versa hatchback will go on sale this July, while a sedan version won't reach dealerships until next January. Nissan hasn't announced prices yet, but officials hinted that a well-optioned SL model will be in the $16,000 range.
Overall, those who enjoy driving will probably find that the Versa doesn't feel quite as zippy and sporty as they might hope. But with the six-speed, some suspension tweaks, and a little more power, the Versa could be a pocket rocket on a tight budget.
And those looking for the comfortable, frugal commuter car won't be disappointed, the Versa is a straightforward little car that defies the quirkiness of the Yaris and Fit, and feels roomy and refined beyond its bargain price.


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A broadcaster doing it on the air is making a sexist attack on a professional colleagueI think it's worth stating this overtly: not a one of these comments, piss-poor though they are, were ever uttered on air. Nor into the only mics they were using, which were off at the time.
These men have so completely misapprehended the nature of humanity that they should be pitied.David Mitchell in the Guardian.
I find it fascinating that the first person to use the word "offense" or "offended" in nearly any thread on Metafilter is generally anti-feminism, or anti-anti-racism, or what have you. It seems to me that very few people who are actually affected by sexist language talk about their "feelings" being hurt - we talk about how this language has a specific and damaging impact on our lives and careers. And yet our concerns are often dismissed as "the practise of taking offense at most things."Wow, what strong language! How shrewish of me!
to find fault with or reproach severely; censureYou have accused me of taking your comments out of proportion to their meaning, and yet you do the same with my comments. I pointed out a common rhetorical tactic on Metafilter, and you accused me of severely finding fault with you, of censuring you. This was presented as evidence of how your feelings are oppressed by this thread (although I did no such thing), while at the same time you diminished and ignored the thoughts and feelings of others. When confronted with this fact, instead of engaging you have chosen to sign off. Farewell.
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Halep reaches semis on home soil
Bucharest, Romania (SportsNetwork.com) - Romanian crowd favorite Simona Halep was an easy quarterfinal winner Friday at the inaugural Bucharest Open tennis tournament.
The top-seeded French Open runner-up leveled Spaniard Lara Arruabarrena 6-3, 6-1 on the red clay at Arenele BNR.
The world No. 3 Halep, who was a Wimbledon semifinalist last week, will meet fellow Romanian Monica Niculescu in Saturday's semifinals. The 26-year-old Niculescu upset eighth-seeded Slovenian Polona Hercog 6-2, 2-6, 7-6 (7-3) on Day 5.
The other semi will pit second-seeded Italian Roberta Vinci against Slovak Kristina Kucova. Vinci vaulted past seventh-seeded Czech Petra Cetkovska 7-5, 6-3, while Kucova clipped Montenegro's Danka Kovinic 6-4, 1-6, 6-3.
The maiden Bucharest champion will pocket $43,000.
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The World Championships just got more interesting. Defending champ Sam Hill [30], who has missed the past four World Cup races with a shoulder injury, says his doctor has given him the green light to race next weekend in Champery, Switzerland.
Hill posted the news on his Specialized blog [32]: "I have been given the green light from my doctor to start riding again," he wrote. "I have been told to try not crash though, which I can't promise anything, but I'm stoked to be able to ride my bike. The last 2 days I have ridden some mellow cross-country on my [Specialized] Stumpy. I have been loving it and can't keep the smile off my face. My shoulder is still very weak and I have nearly been over the bars a couple times because I have hit some unexpected bumps and not had much strength there….I'm still heading to the World Champs though looking to back up my title."
Hill has been off the bike since June, when he crashed in a training run between races and tore the ligaments from the bone in his shoulder. He had surgery to repair the damage and spent six weeks off the bike. Only this week did he return to riding, and it appears he could still be pretty weak headed into the World Championships next week. Hill's announcement is reminiscent of last year, when the Australian missed several races with a knee injury, before returning at the end of the season to claim his third world title at Monte-Sainte-Anne.
The location of this year's World Championships is also fortuitous for Hill. The race will be contested at Champery, Switzerland, on a steep, technical course that Hill has ridden extremely well in the past. In 2007, it was the site of perhaps his most memorable race. After qualifying first, Hill was the last rider to start in the finals. The skies had opened and the course had deteriorated so badly that the top riders had all finished 20 to 30 seconds slower than riders who started in the dry. But hill scorched the course, setting the fastest split time. A crash lower on the track relegated him to third, but many racers consider it one of the most impressive performances they've ever seen.
Will Hill be able to deliver another magical run this year? If he is to win a fourth world title, he'll have to beat a red hot Aaron Gwin [33], who has won five of seven World Cup races this season, and has performed well in all conditions. A new crop of young riders—including Danny Hart, Cameron Cole and Hill's teammate Troy Brosnan—has also been turning up the heat this year. Hill has proven he can step it up for the Worlds, however, so we'll have to wait until next week to see just how well that shoulder will hold up.
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Synopsis: Max Manus co-directors Espen Sanberg and Joachim Rønning reteam for this sweeping adventure detailing Thor Heyerdahl's daring attempt to prove that early settlers from South America once populated Polynesia by sailing across the Pacific on a simple balsa wood raft. Rejected by every publisher he approaches to print his unusual thesis, Heyerdahl (Pål Sverre Hagen) eventually decides that the only way to prove it is to make the journey himself as the entire world watches. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi


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So recently YAR has had introductions from the The Reluctant Christian and The Impossible Anabaptist. So in the spirit of things, allow me to introduce myself as The Unexpected Pastor (To Be). I say "unexpected" because I never expected that I eventually would work on my MDiv at Eastern Mennonite Seminary. I never expected that I would want to be pastor. And in the darkest days of my disbelief and disorientation, I never thought I would want to be a Christian. However, since I graduated from Goshen College six years ago, I've had these quiet tugs pull me into this direction. Is this God? Is this insanity? Is this proof that God has a sense of humor?
I live with my wife Maegan and the expected Baby Yoder in Baltimore. We attend North Baltimore Mennonite Church, which currently is experiencing a lot of change since our pastor retired at the end of December. I feel change is a good thing — we needed to shake up status quo. There are good people in this community, but there are a lot of problems and divisions as well. Like a lot of urban Mennonite churches, there is broad theological/political diversity in the congregation and we have to somehow find a way to get along together.
What else? I grew up in Berlin, Germany and Evanston, IL. I am an alum of Reba Place Church and was there from 1988 to 1995. Reba's has had a significant impact on me and what I feel churches should strive for. We attended Reba's 50th Anniversary last summer and I it felt good to reconnect with Reba's vision.
I can be ornery and contrary. One of the things that I struggle with at EMS are the subtle pressures to conform to particular views on faith and the broader Christian church. I find that the seminary tends to underplay some of the "yucky" parts of Christian history — historical developments in faith movements and Church politics are taken on as face value. There is little attempt to problematize the checkered Christian legacy.
For example, my prof in my missions class, acknowledges the role that missions played in Western Imperialism, but I am not sure how it informs the material we are working through.
I find that the basic assumption at seminary is that the Church is "good" and the Bible is "good." While I believe that aspects of the Church and Bible are "good," they are also complicated and contradictory. The Church has hurt and abused; the Bible is not a perfect text. We need to find ways to acknowledge the bad or destructive aspects of both and hold them in tension with the "good." I am concerned about power dynamics and hope that my ministry can help serve as a corrective to historical abuses of religious power.
Finally, according to my Meyers-Briggs personality test, I have a "fascination with the profane." You've been warned.
I look forward to the future discussions.
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I look forward to reading about your journey at seminary. Good questions make good beginnings.
Jeremy is a horrible pastor to be and I hope to never hear one of his sermons again.
(Of course, I'm kidding)
Watching Jeremy and his wife grow into ministry is pretty cool. He can be challenging, wanting people to perhaps look and live outside the box. He challenges both mennonite culture and evangelical norms.
He'll probably lead an awesome ministry someday after he splits the congregation into warring factions.
Good for him.
I was a bit thrown by your post — it seems like you know me. But I figured out who you are and thanks for your comments. I think you're joking about splitting the church, but I really hope not!
Of course I'm joking. The splitting the church thing is kinda iffy.
You're a good guy and I recommended to the church that we choose you as our next pastor but someone in the church said the Yoders as a family we're stingy and smelled like fried cod oil.
I won't mention any names but let's just say the Grabers think they are real mennonites and you are not.
(You know, of course, that I'm kidding)
See ya in the morning.
I'd say you are asking good questions and challenging sacred cows which are unsteady on their feet (and should be). If we inside the church cannot be honestly critical of our history and our book, others will do it for us, and with far less patience or compassion than we have. The way I see it, Jesus was, above all things, an inside critic of his faith tradition. I don't know how you could follow him without being and doing the same.
I apologize (just joking) for not being young, and presuming to poke into this list. You all carry on, and make some waves.
Welcome to YAR! It's great to have you posting here. Please don't apologize for not being young, you've got plenty of anabaptism and radicalness to make up for whatever lack of lack of experience you may have. I hope you'll comment here regularly!
As far as your Jesus as insider critic, I think it's amazing how few people seem to realize or remember that when Jesus railed against the Pharisees, he was talking to the leaders of his own church. And unfortunately, much of his critique translates all to easily into today's church. Luke 11:33-57 comes to mind as a good example. Of course there's always the log in our own eye to keep in mind.
Hey, John, old people aer welcome here too so long as they don't smell like mothballs or demand us to play scrabble.
Yo yo Jeremy,
You know what the fun thing about skewering sacred cows at seminary is? Folks won't leave forever, because they're paying for the classes.
Skewer away.
From the guy who sits behind you in the study room.
Mark Nielsen from Reba here. Glad to see you around lately.
I've been telling and re-telling the story of you refusing to say the Pledge of Allegiance as a Menno kid in public school for YEARS now. It was just a great, hilarious, instructive moment in time for me, when you (or was it your Dad… I think it was you, though…) re-told the story during open-mike time at church. I told my non-Menno parents that story once. They didn't get it. Surprise surprise.
I can't recall if we said hi at the reunion, but it's so great to hear you're at EMS now. Work hard, procrastinate much, deconstruct whatever you come across, and you'll do just fine.
Greetings also to you, Ric H. I see you lurking there in the shadows, pretending to be "young" like me. (That's *pretending* like me, not *young* like me… I'm old too. So now John can take that to the bank as well.)
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Comcast SportsNet Northwest, the team's primary broadcast partner, plans to announce that it will be available over Charter Communications for the first time starting Sept. 17 -- just in time for the new NBA season. Charter is the dominant cable-TV provider on much of the Oregon coast and in swaths of southern, central and eastern Oregon, as well as parts of Washington.
Fans will have to pay for premium cable packages in those areas to get Comcast SportsNet, and satellite and other cable providers still remain blacked out from the network.
A Charter official said rates would not increase as a result of the agreement. Expanded digital basic service starts at $59 a month, a Charter spokesman said. Charter's customer service phone number is 888-438-2427.
Vancouver, Wash. – August 15, 2013 – Charter and Comcast SportsNet Northwest (CSNNW) today announced the completion of a distribution agreement for Charter to launch CSNNW to Charter customers throughout the Pacific Northwest.
CSNNW, home of the NBA Portland Trail Blazers, and provider of extensive coverage of the University of Oregon Ducks and Oregon State Beavers, as well as other popular northwest sports programming, will be available to Charter's customers on Expanded Basic Digital service beginning September 17 on digital channel 427 and in HD on channel 827.
Frank Antonovich, vice president and general manager for Charter's operations in the northwest said, "As the exclusive cable provider in most areas for Comcast SportsNet Northwest in Charter's Oregon and Washington service areas, we're pleased that our customers will now enjoy watching the Blazers games, and all the other quality sports programming the network provides."
"We are delighted that Comcast SportsNet Northwest will be available to Charter customers," said Larry Eldridge, general manager of Comcast SportsNet Northwest. "This comes just as we ramp up our Trail Blazers and Ducks and Beavers collegiate programming into the fall."
"This is terrific news for our fan base," said Trail Blazers President & CEO Chris McGowan. "Some of our biggest fans are Charter customers and we're thrilled that they'll be able to watch much more Trail Blazers basketball beginning this season."
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Victoria Beckham might have A-list taste in handbags and shoes, but the ex-Spice Girl has revealed how loves a bargain when it comes to toiletries for new baby girl Harper Seven Beckham.
Victoria has revealed she's a big fan of ever popular baby brand Johnson's, specifically the brand's take along pack.The pack contains mini versions of Johnson's favourite including Baby Shampoo, Baby Wash and Baby Lotion
" Ideal for short trips with baby!!! Baby size!! X vb" was Victoria's glowing review. Unfortunately the pack isn't available in the UK.
Ever since she found out she was expecting baby no 4, Victoria has been keen to share her best buys with other mums. While at London Fashion Week she tweeted her secret to keeping little Harper's nose clean and during her pregnancy she couldn't wait to talk about her favourite product for keeping stretchmarks at bay. Could there be a mummy book in the offing?
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It looks like we'll get a much better picture of Nortel's financial health in a couple months. The company said yesterday it will be able to release its 2003 and 2004 first and second-quarter numbers by the end of August, as well as updates on how much its financial statements will be affected after an independent audit committee completes its work. The question is whether/if Nortel will provide information about why CEO Frank Dunn, chief financial officer Doug Beatty and controller Michael Gollogly were fired "with cause" in April. It has become clear the audit committee – headed by ex-Royal Bank of Canada CEO John Cleghorn – had done a fair bit of work before it came to the conclusion that Dunn, Beatty and Gollogly had to be shoved out the door. If the magnitude of Nortel's accounting problems are relatively minor, it wil be interesting to see how Nortel paints its decision to clean house.
CRTC's future
In the wake of Canada's federal election, the folks at the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission must be relieved the Conservative Party came up disappointingly short of seats. If the Conservatives had won the most seats in the House of Parliament, they would have gutted the CRTC, while introducing more U.S. programming and allowing U.S. satellite providers to operate north of the border. For anyone in favour of protecting Canada's culture and identity, the Conservative's plans were heresy. It was just another one of the Conservative's flawed ideas that clearly caused many Canadians to pause when they got to the polls yesterday. For the telecom industry, the election means regulation will remain an important element under the leadership of Charles Dalfen. As a result, competition will be encouraged but the incumbents carriers will be closely supervised.
Mitel Networks: Terry Matthews Next Success Story?
Mitel Networks filed a 6-K earlier this week with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission with some interesting numbers. While revenue dropped 15% in the year ended April 30, 2004 to $461-million,a growing amount of the company's sales are coming from IP equipment rather than older PBX technology. To a large extent, Mitel's success depends on how aggressively corporate customers move to IP technology. There is good momentum in the PBX market as older PBX equipment is replaced by IP-PBX technology. It is more difficult, however, to find strong growth in other sectors. In a recent meeting, Avaya Canada president Mario Belanger said much of the IP action is happening at the edge rather than the core. Many companies, he said, are looking to leverage what they already have with some new IP technology. It is supplement rather than rip and replace. If this trend continues the IP revolution could be a very quiet evolution – rather than a revolution. Based on the SuperComm show last week in Chicago, IP is really happening in the network core as carriers move to make their systems more efficient. As carriers such as Bell Canada and Telus moved to offer managed service, the corporate market could slowly move along in parallel. IP is where it's at, but it's a long-term development.
So what does Darren Entwistle do today about Microcell, which refuses to play nice with Telus' hostile $1.1 billion takeover offer. A likely scenario is Telus maintains its $29 a share bid, thereby forcing Microcell's hand. Microcell would then have to search for a white knight or begrudgingly accept Telus' entreaties. The wildcard could be Craig McCaw, who is launching a national fixed wireless network in the U.S. McCaw also has a stake in a fixed wireless initiative in Canada through Microcell's participation in a joint venture with Allstream and N2 Communications. It could be that McCaw will do a deal with Microcell or talk to Telus about splitting off the fixed wireless entity. Despite Microcell's claims it has been talking with other bidders, the reality is CEO Andre Tremblay appears to have come up short in his efforts to keep the company independent.
2004 Canadian Telecom Summit
The 2004 Canadian Telecom Summit lived up to lofty expectations as the who's who gathered in Toronto last week at a time when the industry is poised to go through massive changes.
The highlight was Cisco's John Chambers' statement his company would be interested in a partnership with Nortel. It is tough to tell whether Chambers was ambushed during a post-keynote speech by the ROB-TV's Michael Vaughan or whether the politically-savvy Chambers saw an opportunity to deliver a very public message to Nortel CEO Bill Owens. Chambers controls the agenda and given he did met with Owens at the conference, you have to believe Chambers was well aware of what he was doing. Still, it made for great theatre.
As for the show itself, there was a heavy regulatory theme – not surprisingly given the uncertainty about how the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission is dithering about whether or not to regulate VOIP. Telus CEO Darren Entwistle launched a rocket across the bow of the CRTC by demanding it change its ways. His speech, he later protested, was not an attack but constructuve criticism because it also included "pragmatic" recommendations". Call it what you want, Mr. Entwistle but you have have joined BCE Inc.'s Michael Sabia in the pound as an attack dog.
Another interesting development was Allstream COO John Macdonald talking about his company's willingness to do business with cable companies. This took place a day after he vehemently denied a story I wrote in the Financial Post that Rogers was in talks with Allstream about rolling out local telephone service. At first, I thought I had misinterpreted comments by an Allstream executive but now I think there's something there given the enthusiasm of their objections.
Ex-Nortel Execs Hung out to Dry
By Mark Evans
National Post, June 17, 2004
It was nice to see Bill Owens, Nortel Networks Corp.'s newly minted chief executive, give a keynote speech yesterday at the 2004 Canadian Telecom Summit in Toronto. Given Nortel's accounting, regulatory and, possibly, criminal woes, Mr. Owens deserves credit for stepping up the plate to talk publicly about one of Canada's most-followed companies. But what about the senior Nortel executives Frank Dunn, Doug Beatty and Michael Gollogly, who were placed on paid leave in March and fired "for cause" six weeks later? In the past three months, they have been publicly skewered amid speculation they cooked the books to jump-start a lucrative bonus program or, at least, failed to provide adequate supervision of Nortel's financial systems. Amid all the talk about Nortel having to restate its financial statements since 2000, the company has been silent about Mr. Dunn, Mr. Beatty and Mr. Gollogly. Why were they terminated "for cause"? Did they engage in fraud? Were they negligent in their duties? Did they violate securities regulations? If Nortel knows anything, they are not letting the world know about it. This is unfair to Mr. Dunn, Mr. Beatty and Mr. Gollogly. Their personal and professional reputations are in tatters and it could be a challenge for them to find new jobs For all anybody knows, they have done nothing wrong other than failing to ensure Nortel had the proper financial systems to run a US$10-billion a year enterprise. If this is the case, Nortel has let the three executives blow in the wind for the past three months. By all accounts, Mr. Dunn, Mr. Beatty and Mr. Gollogly are hard-working, good-intentioned people who worked at Nortel for a long time. While prickly, demanding and short tempered, Mr. Dunn did a commendable job reviving Nortel after it imploded during the telecom industry's downturn. Upon replacing John Roth as CEO in late 2001, Mr. Dunn did the grunt work by closing or selling plants, laying off thousands of employees and selling non-core assets. Mr. Beatty, who had worked with Mr. Dunn for many years, is known as a honest, straight-up individual. What did these executives do wrong? What kind of egregious decisions did they make that would prompt Nortel's board to cast them adrift? This is a management team that admitted last October its financial statements had errors they were trying to correct. They did not try to pull of a WorldCom-like magic trick by attempting to hide accounting problems. For the most part, the market accepted this explanation. It was not until the trio were placed on paid leave in March that anyone started to panic. If Mr. Dunn, Mr. Beatty and Mr. Gollogly did something illegal or terribly wrong, Nortel should come clean soon. Sure, there are investigations being conducted by an independent audit committee, the Ontario Securities Commission and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission but Nortel should provide investors with some information about its decision to fire them. It should be made perfectly clear when Nortel cut loose Mr. Dunn, Mr. Beatty and Mr. Gollogly, they left them to their own financial devices. They no longer, for example, have corporate indemnification from class-action lawsuits. They are going to have to spend their own money — and probably plenty of it — to defend themselves legally. In the absence of Nortel's silence and the mystery surrounding what Mr. Dunn, Mr. Beatty and Mr. Gollogly did or did not do, here is a theory for you: the board of directors is trying to make scapegoats of the former executives to protect their own backsides. The independent review is taking so much time to complete perhaps because they don't have enough evidence yet to show evidence of "cause" in the termination of Mr. Dunn, Mr. Beatty and Mr. Gollogly. It is about time the actions of Nortel's board, which includes Mr. Owens, started to be more carefully scrutinized. It is this group of people who approved the executive and employee bonus packages that have become so controversial. These are the people who are charged with protecting investors. Where have they been for the past four years? What were they doing during the telecom boom when Mr. Roth was making multi-billion dollar acquisitions of companies with barely any technology and no revenue. What was the board's audit committee doing when it looked at Nortel's books? Why is no one looking at the board and suggesting perhaps some of them be fired as well? Until it is disclosed what Mr. Dunn, Mr. Beatty and Mr. Gollogly did, it is impossible to know whether the books were cooked or whether systemic problems existed that no senior executive could have known about and/or corrected. Maybe Mr. Dunn, Mr. Beatty and Mr. Gollogly are guilty of breaking securities regulations or criminal laws. Then again, maybe not. If these guys are innocent, Nortel is leaving itself wide open for huge wrongful dismissal suits. This may explain why Mr. Dunn, Mr. Beatty and Mr. Gollogly have declined to comment on what has gone down.


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You will remember that just under a year ago Microsoft launched a takeover bid of around £22 billion for the internet company Yahoo, which after a lengthy three month debacle resulted in the deal falling through and making many shareholders pretty unhappy. But less than a year on, and a new person in charge at Yahoo, they have started talking again.
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A high school principal in the Boston Public Schools from 2004 to 2007, Dr. Ferrer returned to the Commission in 2007 after having previously served as the Deputy Director for six years. During that time she spearheaded a broad-based and comprehensive campaign to reduce racial and ethnic health disparities.Dr. Ferrer has more than 25 years of experience working in healthcare. Prior to joining the Boston Public Health Commission, she spent five years at the Massachusetts Department of Public Health - first as Director of Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention and later as Director of the Division of Maternal and Child Health.
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The term "living legend" is often overused, but it's arguable accurate when you're talking about Blues icon B.B. King.
The famous Mississippian, born Riley B. King, began his entertainment journey more than 60-years-ago. His signature style has influenced the likes of rock legends Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton.
The man who folks in Memphis called the Beale Street Blues Boy, then shortened to "B. B.," evolved to thrill audiences all over the world, audiences that include royalty and presidents. In 2012, President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama hosted a celebration of Blues. B.B. King was a featured performer, even encouraging the president to sing along.
B.B. King continues to rub elbows with the rich and powerful. He and his beloved guitar, Lucille, keep up a performance schedule that would probably challenge the mettle of much younger artists. Yet, the King of Blues always carves time out of his busy schedule to come home to his beloved Mississippi.
"If it wasn't for B.B. King, we wouldn't be able to do what we do. They actually paved the way for us to keep the blues alive," award-winning young blues artist Grady Champion said.
For 33 years now, Indianola has hosted the B.B. King homecoming event and the ambassador of Blues never disappoints his adoring fans, friends and family.
He's 87 now, diabetes has him spending more time in a wheelchair than he'd like, and despite his fame and fortune, B.B. King remains kind, gracious and humble.
"This is home, my home," states King. "Well, I come back because, to me, some of the best people in the world is right here."
Blues history is rich because of B.B. King.
"He's been my friend for about 60 years and I'm proud to have him as my friend. I'm proud to know him. He did a lot for me and with me," said blues great Bobby Rush.
And the present and future of this Mississippi born music called Blues is guaranteed thanks to a Mississippian named B.B. King.
If you've ever wondered why B.B. King's guitar is named Lucille, the story goes that King was playing at an Arkansas dance hall when the building caught fire. King went in to retrieve his beloved first guitar only to learn the next day two men died in the fire, fighting over a woman named Lucille.
So, as a reminder never to do something as stupid as run into a burning building or fight over women, all of his guitars since then have been named "Lucille."
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Paul is now part of the fourth generation in America that is involved in farming and hopes the next generation will be involved also. Through his blog he provides analysis and insight to farmer tax questions.
Many of our readers will ask us questions about starting a farm, however, when discussing it with them, many of them are talking about a hobby farm and not a real farm. For tax purposes, a hobby farm has some very unfavorable consequences to the farmer. Net income is always reported, however, a net loss is limited in zero.
Therefore, how do you make sure that your farm is a farm and not a hobby. Here are several items to keep in mind:
Remember, the key point to ask yourself, is this truly a operation operated like a farm business, or is it merely intended to create a tax loss. If it is the latter, then it is more difficult to not treat as a hobby.
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